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2. The Dark Knight's Best Moments Are Also In Heat
The Dark Knight is everyone’s favorite Batman movie. Heat is that 90s action movie your film buff friend keeps telling you to watch, but you just never get around it to it, mostly to spite the fact everyone keeps telling you to watch it. If you like The Dark Knight, though, you will also like Heat, as they are almost the same movie.
Christopher Nolan has said Heat director Michael Mann was a major inspiration while making The Dark Knight. As we all know by this point, if something was an inspiration to a filmmaker then that means they stole from it a lot.
The bank robbery in both movies follows the same beats, the iconic meeting between two rivals are present in both films and a lot of random shots in Heat were redone in The Dark Knight.
This video breaks down many of The Dark Knight's inspirations. Boy, is it heavy on scenes taken from Heat and other motion pictures directed by Mann.