Film Genre Research: Heat

The movie starts with a sequence of production credits with somber incidental music. The cast credits fade in and out on a black screen. The title fades in the same manner but with bigger and bolder font. A nighttime scene of a subway fades in. More cast credits fade in and out on the right of the screen, while a long take of a subway slowly approaches on the left. The train gets louder and closer before the camera switches to the opposite direction to show the train rolling away. The train is now on the right and the credits are on the left. The train stops and the camera cuts to a close up of a man walking out of it. He walks closer to the camera before an over the shot angle shows him descend down an escalator. He is wearing a boiler suit with a hospital badge. The credits are still on the left side. A crane shot is angled directly down at him walking. A low angle shot shows his shoes as he walks by, then angles up at a statue in front of a building. The scene cuts to inside the building. The man pushes the metal door open and walks through the hospital. Several close up shots of the man walking are mixed with shots of patients and hospital equipment. Each shot is only about a second long. There is atmospheric noises from the hospital and there are beeping sound effects. People can be heard saying medical jargon. The man exits the hospital and approaches an ambulance van. He gets in it and starts the engine.
Budget: 60 million
Box Office: 187.4 million
Nominations: Best Cinematography, Best Action-Adventure Film, Best Stunt Ensemble, Best Picture, and several others.