Film magnifique de Michael Mann (1995) avec Robert de Niro, le voleur (Neil McCauley) et Al Pacino, le flic (Vincent Hanna).
Ils ont 2 scènes ensemble.
La première ci-dessous, ils échangent des mots.
La deuxième, seulement des balles.
EXT. FOOD STAND - HANNA + NEIL – NIGHT
At a table.
Headlights stream by to and from the airport: business people, families going on vacations…
HANNA
Seven years in San Quentin. In the hole for three. McNeil before that.
NEIL
Yeah.
HANNA
Was McNeil as tough as they say?
NEIL
You looking to become a penologist?
HANNA
You looking to go back? I chased some crews, the guys were lookin' to fuck up and get busted back.
NEIL
You must have worked some dipshit crews.
HANNA
I worked all kinds.
NEIL
You see me doing thrill-seeker liquor store holdups with a "Born to Lose" tattoo on my chest?
HANNA
No, I do not.
NEIL
Right. And I am never going back.
The adversarial intensity is eye-to-eye.
HANNA
Then don't take down scores.
NEIL
I do what I do best. I take scores. You do what you do best: trying to stop guys like me.
HANNA
You never wanted a normal-type life?
NEIL
What the fuck is that? Barbecues and ballgames?
HANNA
That's part of it.
NEIL
That's nice. That your life?
HANNA
No. My wife spends half her time on the couch. My stepdaughter's got problems 'cause her real father's a world class asshole. And every moment I got, I'm chasing guys like you.
NEIL
A man told me once: you want to make moves? Don't keep anything in your life you're not willing
to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.
…
So if you're chasing me and you gotta move when I move, how do you expect to keep a family?
HANNA
What are you, a monk?
NEIL
No.
…
I got a woman.
HANNA
What do you tell her?
NEIL
She thinks I sell swimming pools.
HANNA
And if you spot me around the corner. You gonna walk out on her? Leave her flat? Like that?
Not even say goodbye?
NEIL
That's the discipline.
HANNA
What you're left with is pretty empty.
NEIL
Yeah?
Then maybe you and me, we should both go do somethin' else, pal.
HANNA
I don't know how to do anything else.
NEIL
...neither do I.
HANNA
And I don't much want to.
NEIL
Neither do I.
Both of these guys look at each other and recognize the mutuality of their condition.
HANNA
We're sitting here like a couple of regular fellas. You do what you do. I do what I gotta do. What happens if I am there and I got to put you away?
…
I won't like it. But, if it's between you and some poor bastard whose wife you're going to make into a widow, brother, you are gonna go down. 'Cause you don't have to be there. You coulda gone and been a... a mailman.
NEIL
There's a flip side to that coin. What if you got me boxed in and I gotta put you down?
Cause no matter what, you will not get in my way.
But now that we been face to face, I would not feel good about that. But I won't hesitate.
Not for one second.
HANNA
(smiles)
Maybe it'll happen that way. Or who knows ...
NEIL
...maybe we'll never see each other again.
They look at each other for a moment.
HANNA
(to waitress)
Can we have the bill