“It’s also set in Chicago. Where are you? This is Thief by Michael Mann. And I’m going to grab another movie… that I think has to be in conversation with this. All right, so this is Thief by the great Michael Mann. And this is Following by Christopher Nolan, who’s a mentor of mine. And I do think that, in observing Chris’s movies, I think that Michael Mann is a big influence. And you can feel it quite a bit when you look at this film. If you haven’t seen this movie, holy fucking shit, this movie. What I heard– A rumor about this film is this is the movie that made wetdowns a thing. A wetdown, if y’all don’t know, is when you got enough money to– I mean, this is probably, like, a waste of water. But when you got enough money to have a truck wet your streets down. And what it does is it makes the… for nighttime photography, it makes the streets reflective. And the performance of the villain in this, and how the performance is captured – you’re slowly peeling back the onion about how dangerous and how evil this dude is. Michael Mann just did a brilliant job.”
