Daily Dialogue — November 14, 2011
Vincent Hanna: What are you, a monk?
Neil McCauley: I have a woman.
Vincent Hanna: What do you tell her?
Neil McCauley: I tell her I’m a salesman.
Vincent Hanna: So then, if you spot me coming around that corner… you just gonna walk out on this woman? Not say good bye?
Neil McCauley: That’s the discipline.
Vincent Hanna: That’s pretty vacant, you know.
Neil McCauley: Yeah, it is what it is. It’s that or we both better go do something else, pal.
Vincent Hanna: I don’t know how to do anything else.
Neil McCauley: Neither do I.
Vincent Hanna: I don’t much want to either.
Neil McCauley: Neither do I.
Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino), Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro), Heat (1995), written by Michael Mann
For the actual scene, go here.
The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is cop meets crook, suggested by Désirée, who also suggested by Heat.
Trivia: The meeting between Robert De Niro and Al Pacino over coffee was shot at Kate Mantilini on Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills. The L.A. mainstay is a noted top spot for a stylish late supper. The restaurant now has “heat” spelled in neon above the door and a large poster of the actors in the now famous scene. Diners may request the very table featured in the scene, table #71, which wait staff are familiar with as “The Table”, and are happy to seat De Niro Pacino fans at their famous meeting place.
Dialogue On Dialogue: So many great aspects to this interchange and here we see one of them: The clash of two world views.
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