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‘The Bear’ Channels Michael Mann in Its Final Season. It Sticks the Landing.

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FX 5 min read The following story contains spoilers for The Bear season 5. IN THE MORE than 30 years since Michael Mann’s Heat hit theaters, the crime epic has inspired scores of impersonators, in varying degrees of quality. In trying to capture the magic of Mann’s film, a familiar formula is often rounded up: a cop vs. criminal story, filled with action, eccentric characters, and extravagant heist sequences. What these impersonators don’t tend to get, however, is that it’s not the action or the eccentricities that make Heat— or any Michael Mann movie for that matter—special. No: What makes a Michael Mann movie special is the way he’s willing to sit in a moment of silence, letting moments of raw, oozing pensiveness breathe through the screen and into someone’s head, never to leave. “I’m alone, but I’m not lonely,” Robert De Niro’s Neil McCauley says in Heat, from a balcony overlooking Los Angeles as the film’s moody score plays while shots of the skyline fill the screen.…

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