Spot on my friend

Damn.

The assault in North Hollywood shootout back in 1997, criminals was inspired in that film. So damnn creepy.

@@holeefok3158 Oh my, I totally remember that incident. I didn't know they were inspired by the movie though.

@@writer46m72 They weren't inspired by the movie. They'd been robbing banks long before Heat came out.

The beginning part was based off point break

And ive also read that the whole movie is a remake of an 80's movie "LA Takedown"...​@@coled5391

Rockstar has copied heat many times. The vice city hesit and the gta 5 heist too.

No. It IS the best ever...

Check out the new novel, Heat 2. Absolute quality.

This was based on real characters who actually bumped into each other in a coffee house

Is it me or do he look JUST LIKE De Niro?? Like everything!!

Yea a couple of sas guys were involved

I always turn the volume right up. Like you say best shoot out ever.

@@gennerobootz6490 Wow 😮 I didn’t know that!! 🙋‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️🇬🇧

Andy mcnab the bullshiter of Iraq..he tells some lies in his book.. proven lies

Yeah mick gould was the other. You can tell how much range time de niro and kilmer put in, kilmers use of the car15 is top notch

Actually it is not "understandable" to think the movie "inspired" the North Hollywood shootout. And no, "everyone" were NOT thinking of 'Heat'.

That's brilliant info. And yes he is like DeNiro how he carries himself isn't he haha. My grandfather was actually very alike to him too. You'd swear they were brother's. And my grandfather was also a very well known robber too. Strange world.

@@roymunson1 hi roy loved you in the movie kingpin

Well for me, the action is the juice.

He wasn't even mentioned at the Oscars last year in the list of actors that died. Shame..

Yes if I am not mistaken the cops actually had to go to a local gun shop and get the weapons they needed as this was happening in real time because they were out gunned.

@@xlxl9440 ya something like tht cause at the time law enforcement only carried pistols and shotguns.

@@danielcampbell9457 I reall loved how Michael Mann depicted the Stagard Column formation for the forward suppression fire to escape. Very skillfully done and from what I understand about military tactics very realistic.

@@xlxl9440 yup back when most movies were actually good.

It isn't based on the Hollywood shootout ... unless someonee invented time travel. The Hollywood shootout was in 1997, HEAT was released in 1995. They didn't have light machine guns with 200-250 rd box magazines. They had AK pattern rifles illegally converted to fire in fun mode, with some drum magazines as well as regular mags. You are correct in that the robbers were heavily armed and had aquired, or constructed, (I heard that they had constructed the body armour, but I may be mis-remembering that information), body armour. The police that responded were armed typically at the time with revolvers, self loading pistols and shotguns, which while effective if they hit an unarmoured part of the robbers, were all but useless against the armoured bits There is a story attached to this shootout that the police sent someone to local gun store/s to 'borrow' some AR-15 rifles in order to get the extra punch required to defeat the body armour worn by the robbers, but I can't recall if that story has ever been confirmed as true ... there is also a photo floating around out there of an LAPD SWAT officer in a t-shirt, shorts, vest and weapon who was supposedly responsible for killing one of the robbers. It wasn't just headline news in the US, I was 20 at the time and living in New Zealand on the other side of the world, and the shootout was being broadcast almost live on CNN (that we could get) as well as our own local TV stations.

No it was NOT. It's stupid to claim that.

@@NotMykl Thank you for the thoughtful comment. 👍

This kind of thing is relatively rare, it is a surprise it doesn't happen more often.

There was also the 1980 Narco Shootout.

I was gonna say the same thing! Heat dropped in ‘96. The North Hollywood shootout went down in ‘97. Afterwards the cops even found a copy of Heat in a VCR owned by one of the robbers. I seem to recall that some of the characters (Neal, at least) were based loosely on actual people.

Think i saw a docu here on youtube that said those robbers had Heat in there vhs player when the cops raided their place

Anything to the "Coppola's" in the business?

Jackie Brown? Ronin? The Irishman?

@@jnicholls21Irishman was terrible. As someone who’s loved DeNiro and Scorsese since I’ve been a kid, I walked out of the theater- that’s how bad it was. Awful.

@@Kyle-ys3cv I watched the whole Criterion edition of it. I enjoyed it to a point, but it wasn't great, of course. Just not up to a Goodfellas level. I still enjoyed it for the ground it covered and history, etc.

@@thiscorrosion900 no- it was terrible. A blemish on Marty’s ouvre.

@@Kyle-ys3cv Well, it certainly wasn't even in the realm of his best movies, that's for sure. I thought Killers of the Flower Moon was ok, but far too long.

and if you look in the credits it was Andy McNab of the infamous "story" Bravo Two Zero who did the choreography for the firefight, with traditional British Army fire and manoeuvre tactics.

That's an incredibly underrated movie and the guys it was based on are the real deal.

Yes the shea brothers from Charlestown they are still alive

There was a made for TV movie based on the North Hollywood Shootout that aired on FX in June of 2003, and it was actually named 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shootout. The most notable impact of that film was that it funded a number of Michael Madsen’s mortgage payments, and later inspired a song by Megadeth that was also named “44 Minutes.” The actual incident was historically significant for a number of reasons. One of those being the length of time the actual shootout lasted before the suspects were finally taken down by the police. Obviously the reason it lasted so long was because it was the first police shootout where the suspects were both equipped with tactical rigs and Type IIIA body armor reinforced with ballistic plates to protect vital organs, as well as homemade armor for their limbs-which was far more substantial than what the police had at that time. It wasn’t the first time that suspects had used high powered rifles against police, because there had been multiple shootouts in the 70’s and 80’s preceding the incident, but these guys were the first to use semi-automatic rifles that were illegally converted to fully automatic, and loaded with 100-round drum magazines. For perspective, when you hear the media use words like “high capacity magazine” in their description of a firearm, depending on the jurisdiction, that could mean anything that holds more than 10-rounds. The most commonly available sizes being in the range of 15 to 30-rounds-which means that they could fire 3-10x the number of rounds before they needed to reload. Most importantly, that was also an inflection point in modern policing policies, government spending, and tactics, because when police realized they were outgunned and unable to penetrate their armor, they raided a local gun shop in order to get their hands on similar rifles that could actually take them down. From that point on, police departments have been militarized from coast to coast to prevent that from ever happening again. The events that actually inspired the film Heat took place between 1961 and 1964, and they were far less action-packed than what made it into the film-so most of the screenplay was either purely fictional or an amalgamation of a variety of different sources. The mostly true-to-life aspects of the story that actually made it into the film were the name of Robert De Niro’s character, Neil McCauley, the scene where he met with the detective for coffee which was based on an actual conversation they had, and the basic outline of the plot being about a crew of guys led by McCauley that successfully committed a number of armed robberies/heists until they were tracked down by a detective who kept tabs on them until he was finally able to spring a trap that ended in a shootout where most of them died in a hail of gunfire, except for one guy (that Val Kilmer’s character was very loosely based on) who survived the initial ambush by shooting his way out, but that only lasted a couple of days before he was arrested. Anyways, my point is that Heat was an amazing film based on a fairly mediocre heist with a quirky story, that ultimately ended up inspiring the craziest heist in American history, which forever changed the fundamental nature of policing, and it turned even the smallest rural departments into the militarized police forces we know today. So, just remember that whenever you see over policing, where cops are brutalizing and/or executing unarmed civilians in the streets-you can indirectly thank Michael Mann, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Val Kilmer for being the catalyst behind all of that unchecked authoritarian violence.

Yeah although the video footage of the robbery is a bit ropey (from helicopter) the police audio is around on youtube and that is quite something. That was in north hollywood in 1997, so two years after Heat.

@@kernelpickle they were a good team and had successfully taken several armoured trucks leading up to this one, apparently the truck was late and they decide funk it - we'll hit the bank which was probably their downfall because of the time difference. The one certainty is that a copy of HEAT was in their video player in the apartment. I don't know much about the robberies impact on policing so can't comment. I do think policing has become almost military nowadays but that could be gangs or cartels etc, but like I said I don't really know. It's to be expected I suppose that the cops need to be better armed than the crooks but how they employ those weapons is what's causing concern. Be honest cops are killing people without using guns, first George Floyd and lately that Tyrell guy both by use of force, neither by firearm. Even a long time ago there were numerous deaths caused by using choke holds which got banned in every department. It's bad actors within the cops, most are doing their job as best they can, it's just a shame the damage the bad ones do, not only to yh cops but to the communities who feel they can't trust them or are unsafe engaging with them and they're supposed to protect the public first and foremost.

He was a heart-breaking character, and so well-played. Thank goodness he got a job selling insurance after he died at the wheel.

@@dingfeldersmurfalot4560 You're trying too hard, bruh. I don't care what you say about anything. Good luck with your attention seeking. 👍