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Michael Mann: Insider
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In 1986, Mann brought Thomas Harris’ enigmatic serial killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, to the screen in “Manhunter,” which Mann wrote and directed. In 1991, he directed the first of a succession of four films. He brought Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeleine Stowe together in “The Last of the Mohicans,” which he directed, co-wrote and produced. Next, he directed and produced the crime story “Heat,” starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight and Ashley Judd. The third film was “The Insider,” with Russell Crowe and Al Pacino, followed by “Ali,” played by Will Smith. He ... recently executive produced Mario Van Peebles’ “Baadasssss!”
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When it comes to telling the expose story of The insider in sounds and images, Mann portrays two men whose relationships to the construction of images couldn't be more different. As a reporter for Sixty minutes, Lowell Bergman is in the business of telling stories with images. The mise-en-scene of his work-place is littered with monitors, and questions about the truth of those images are raised on a number of occasions. A pointed example is the footage of the 7 CEOs of tobacco corporations and the public broadcast of their deceptive declarations on television. Lowell's struggle to have Jeffrey Jeffrey's story told is tied up with his idealistic notions about the truth power of images. For Jeffrey... his desire to have his story told and broadcast is a desire to be seen and heard, to have his story publicly acknowledged, particularly to his children.
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Mann has re-edited every single one of his feature films for home video. With the exception of Warner Home Video's Region 2 release and the Fox NTSC laserdisc release of The Last of the Mohicans, none of his films are available on video or DVD in their theatrical versions. The alterations vary from using alternate takes and lines in Heat and The Insider to adding and deleting scenes: he has re-edited Manhunter at least three times.
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His co-star, Jamie Foxx, doesn't have the clout he had on his other Michael Mann-directed blockbuster, "Collateral." Even after winning the Best Actor Oscar for "Ray," Foxx has been unable to "change his lines and make them more natural" as he did in "Collateral," an insider said.
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