Michael Mann

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q270097: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Miami Vice, which Miami Vice - Pilot Episode credits them on.

Counted as writer. The films the hosts said they wrote, which the two lists below run through too: Straight Time (1978); Heat (1995); The Insider (1999). Count them as director (17 films), producer (1 film) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Thief (1981): 3 lines

lineage (lineage) · through Heat (1995), which they wrote: Thief ⇒ Heat (the maker said so: the Siegel piece, Caan telling Pacino). Caan said scenes cut from Thief went to Heat.
“All the scenes that weren't used in our picture came over to you guys.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:15:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft) · through Heat (1995), which they wrote: Thief ⇒ Heat (the host's read). The diner scene's wide shot echoes Heat's, which never shows both guys.
“Wide shot, some heat DNA, although in heat, they don't have, you never see the 2 guys”
The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:36:13 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage) · through Heat (1995), which they wrote: Thief ⇒ Heat (the host's read). Thief is the notebook sketch for Mann's later work, with Heat sharing DNA.
“the building blocks for what you wind up seeing in heat and collateral and Miami Vice in so many of his films to come.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:02:54 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

All the President's Men (1976): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through The Insider (1999), which they wrote: All the President's Men ⇒ The Insider (the host's read). The Insider is hoped to capture the same wave of reaction that All the President's Men did.
“they're hoping to capture that same kind of that wave that people have when they saw all the president's men.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:21:08 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)

Heat (1995): 1 line, within their own work

lineage (lineage) · them, directly: Heat ⇒ Michael Mann (the maker said so: Mann publicly talking about it). Mann has said he wants to adapt his Heat novel as a sequel and prequel to Heat.
“he's been publicly talking about his desire to find a way to adapt his novel of heat to the sequel and prequel to heat.”
The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:08:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Mike Wallace Is Here (2019): 1 line

industry (industry) · through The Insider (1999), which they wrote: Mike Wallace Is Here ⇒ The Insider (the host's read). The documentary on Wallace informs the Plummer scenes.
“And I think it actually informs this scene a lot”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:37:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Ambulance (2022): 1 line

lineage (homage) · through Heat (1995), which they wrote: Heat ⇒ Ambulance (the host's read). Chris says the first half of Ambulance is Michael Bay trying to make Heat, before the second half becomes a great chase movie.
“The 1st half of this movie is basically like Michael Bay being like, I want to make heat.”
The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:06:53 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)

Michael Mann: 1 line, within their own work

lineage (lineage) · through Heat (1995), which they wrote: Heat ⇒ Michael Mann (the maker said so: Mann publicly talking about it). Mann has said he wants to adapt his Heat novel as a sequel and prequel to Heat.
“he's been publicly talking about his desire to find a way to adapt his novel of heat to the sequel and prequel to heat.”
The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:08:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Producing (1) everyone in producing

executive producer, showrunner (first 2 seasons), writer of one episode (Golden Triangle), Miami Vice (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Miami Vice - Pilot Episode)

What was said about them, by kind

career (7)

career (career): Michael Mann → Miami Vice. Mann was the de facto showrunner for roughly the first two seasons though credited only as executive producer.
“He's kind of the showrunner, I think, for the 1st 2 seasons.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:14:34 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): Michael Mann → Thief. Mann's path: The Jericho Mile, then Thief, then The Keep, then back to TV with Miami Vice.
“He makes the Jericho Mile and he goes off, he makes thief.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:18:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Michael Mann → The Keep. Before Miami Vice he had a well-regarded debut and a disastrous horror film taken away from him.
“he's made a disastrous horror film that was taken away from him.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:19:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): 60 Minutes → Michael Mann. 60 Minutes, third highest that night, later became a crucial part of Mann's filmography.
“But it would later become a very crucial part of his homography.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:18:14 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): Manhunter → Michael Mann. Manhunter is the beginning of the man-staring-at-the-ocean phase of Mann.
“this is kind of the beginning of the man staring at the ocean, wondering about the universe phase of Michael Mann.”
The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:49:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
career (career): Miami Vice → Michael Mann. Miami Vice is the apex of Mann's digital filmmaking and hugely influential on newer filmmakers.
“is obviously just been a hugely influential movie for a lot of, uh, newer filmmakers.”
The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:58:12 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)
career (career): The Last of the Mohicans → Michael Mann. Mohicans becomes an outlier in Mann's filmography because of the direction he took afterward.
“it winds up becoming more of an outlier because of the direction he went in afterwards.”
The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 1:02:29 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

contrast (4)

contrast (authorship contrast): Michael Mann → Marvel Cinematic Universe. Ben Hosley's line quoted from a Reddit comment contrasts a one-person Michael Mann film with Marvel's committee films.
“when I watch a Michael Mann movie, I can tell this was made by one person, Marvel movies aren't made by one person”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:48:56 · Ben Hosley (0.60 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Lawrence Kasdan → Michael Mann. Kasdan never released the cut Costner scene; Mann is doing recuts of Black Hat.
“who's doing recuts of Michael Mann?”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:40:01 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Michael Mann → Paul Thomas Anderson. Anderson reinvents his visual language each film; Mann makes one movie in variations.
“With Michael Mann, I feel like it's all one movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:05:27 · Chris Ryan (0.55 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Steven Spielberg → Michael Mann. Mann is fastidious and obsessed; Spielberg is all over the place, childlike wonder one film, Oscar bait the next.
“And Spielberg's just kind of all over the place and it's like, oh, the wonder, the childish wonder.”
The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:53:19 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)

craft (5)

craft (craft): Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) → Michael Mann. Mann brought his neon sensibility to TV; the no-earth-tones rule.
“And he's bringing those kind of neon sensibilities.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:18:56 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) → Michael Mann. The script lacks Mann's polished dialogue but carries his pet themes.
“It doesn't have the same sort of like diamond cut dialogue of man's best work.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:51:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) → Michael Mann. The Phil Collins drive is the most remembered Miami Vice scene and shows Mann's magic.
“And that is, that does feel like the Michael Mann magic where he's like, you're allowed to do this.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:03:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Michael Mann → The Insider. Nobody likes a wide shot of water like Mann, first the Gulf with Crowe, then the ocean with Pacino.
“So good. Nobody likes to wide shadow water like Michael Mann.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:36:55 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Blue Steel → Michael Mann. The supermarket scene's look is so good Michael Mann could do no better.
“Michael Mann could do no better.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:32:41 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

industry (4)

industry (industry): Miami Vice → Michael Mann. Simmons and Ryan joke that their persistence made the Miami Vice movie beloved.
“made the Miami Vice, the movie, um, more powerful than the TV show”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:24:35 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Michael Mann → Jerry Bruckheimer. Mann used Bruckheimer here, who became a major producer.
“Michael Mann uses Jerry Bruckheimer in this movie, who goes on to become such an important producer”
The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:08:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Michael Mann → Martin Scorsese. Mann is not getting the Viking funeral Scorsese is getting.
“it just doesn't seem like he's getting the Viking funeral that Scorsese is getting”
The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:36:56 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Collateral → Michael Mann. Collateral was the first digital experiment, and many lesser directors have tried to copy it.
“so many shitty directors have tried to do what this movie does”
The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:43:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (2)

lineage (lineage): Michael Mann → Heat. Mann has said he wants to adapt his Heat novel as a sequel and prequel to Heat.
“he's been publicly talking about his desire to find a way to adapt his novel of heat to the sequel and prequel to heat.”
The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:08:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
lineage (genre riff): The Killer → Michael Mann. Fincher is doing a Michael Mann riff: a man with one feeling he will not admit.
“this is also Fincher doing a man, Michael Mann type riff”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 1:30:07 · unknown (host) (0.30 sure it was them)

people (8)

people (people): Michael Mann → Collateral. Mann loves a ham, someone just going for it, as in Collateral's Tom Cruise.
“He loves a ham.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:08:26 · Chris Ryan (0.35 sure it was them)
people (people): Michael Mann → Public Enemies. Mann loves people going for it across Ali and Public Enemies.
“And Ali, there's people just going for left and right, public enemies.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:08:30 · Chris Ryan (0.35 sure it was them)
people (people): James Caan → Michael Mann. The two difficult talents made one film and never again.
“made one movie together and decided, yeah, we're good.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:17:11 · Chris Ryan (0.55 sure it was them)
people (people): The Last of the Mohicans → Michael Mann. Mohicans was a rare Western that felt like Michael Mann meets MTV.
“That's why Last of the Mohicans was so interesting when it came out because it was like Michael Mann meets MTV.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:09:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
people (director identity): Ferrari → Michael Mann. An Italian-set film by 'the most American of directors', with Cruz as a more known international actress.
“Ferrari, which is an Italian based film made by Michael Mann, the most American of directors.”
The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:19:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people): Michael Mann → Adam Driver. Mann has begun a love affair with Driver like many auteurs in the last ten years.
“He's obviously begun a love affair, like so many Otours in the last 10 years have with Adam Driver”
The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:08:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
people (auteur credit): Collateral → Michael Mann. Without Michael Mann the movie would be a goofy VOD thriller.
“if this isn't a Michael Mann movie,”
The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:13:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
people (first-choice director): Michael Mann → Shame (The Motels video). Martha Davis first wanted Michael Mann (after The Keep); he was unavailable and her agent suggested Fincher.
“originally expressed interest in working with Michael Mann after seeing his 1983 film The Keep.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:13:44 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (1)

theme (theme): Michael Mann → Ferrari. Enzo Ferrari, with his department heads and team who report to him, reads as a stand-in for Michael Mann the filmmaker.
“Enzo Ferrari is Michael Mann.”
The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:17:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

unmapped (hired a lighting mind): Michael Mann → Erik Messerschmidt. Mann told the speaker he likes Messerschmidt because he was a gaffer and cinematography is lighting.
“And he was like, you know why I like that guy because he was a gaffer. And to me, cinematography is all lighting and no one understands lighting anymore.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 2:43:43 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (look): Shame (The Motels video) → Michael Mann. A host says the video's look screams Michael Mann.
“This screams Michael Mann.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:13:55 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

verdict (5)

verdict (verdict): Thief → Michael Mann. Thief is the speaker's top Mann film, a perfect distillation of what he does well.
“it is also such a perfect distillation of everything he does well.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:09:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): The Insider → Michael Mann. The Insider might be a speaker's number one if not for a bad wife character.
“If not for how bad the wife character is.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:09:33 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Ali → Michael Mann. Ali ranks high for a personal reason, playing the Ali game as a kid.
“Uh, Ali, I feel like I like more than most.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:09:55 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Michael Mann → Tangerine Dream. A speaker is not into Mann's Tangerine Dream soundtracks and thinks his pop-abstract music choices rarely work.
“It's one of the only things in his movies that I'm not like I'm not into those tangerine dream soundtracks.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:52:21 · Chris Ryan or Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Public Enemies → Michael Mann. Public Enemies is a disappointment; digital shooting and Johnny Depp did not work for the speaker.
“one of the more disappointing movie experiences I've had in the last 15 years is public enemies”
The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:37:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

what-if (5)

what-if (what-if): Michael Mann → Miami Vice. A joke: Michael Mann could redo the kills with more money, as he did Miami Vice.
“Michael Mann do it when he's redoing Miami Vice.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:09:56 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Michael Mann → Jon Voight. Frank could have become Voight's role in Heat, setting up scores years later.
“it would have been amazing if Voight was frank.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:16:11 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (recut): Black Hat → Michael Mann. Arrow's Black Hat 4K includes a recut that moves a significant sequence to the front, making it more coherent.
“there's a recut version of the movie.”
The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:38:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (recut): Miami Vice → Michael Mann. The theatrical cut throws you into the club; Mann's Blu-ray version adds earlier scenes.
“really kind of loves the theatrical cut of Miami Vice because he just throws you into the club.”
The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:41:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Munich → Michael Mann. Munich should have been shot like a vintage Michael Mann thriller.
“It should have been like a Michael Mann movie.”
The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:50:45 · Bill Simmons (0.65 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

fun, about Michael Mann: His color rule: no earth tones, no red, no brown, just neon blue, pink, purple.
“No earth tones.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:16:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Michael Mann: Mann shot the Mississippi, Louisville and the Middle East on location, taking Christopher Plummer to Israel for a 10 minute sequence.
“it's important for this 10 minute sequence that I take Christopher Plummer to Israel.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:48 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Michael Mann: Gulf scene: Wigand staring at the water; joke that Joe Roth asked Mann to lose five minutes of golf and Mann refused.
“You think maybe we could just lose like 5 minutes of golf?”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:36:42 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Michael Mann: Mann's slow-motion ending with Pacino walking down the street strikes Bill as tacky.
“The slow motion, Pacino leaving the going down the street and it slows down, like all of a sudden we're making a movie in 1981.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:51:16 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Michael Mann: Mann loves a ham: someone going for it, as in Ali, Public Enemies and Collateral's Cruise performance.
“He loves somebody just going for it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:08:29 · Chris Ryan (0.35 sure it was them)
fun, about Michael Mann: Mann drives around looking at bridges and water.
“I would drive around and I would look at things.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:03:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)