Collateral (2004, dir. Michael Mann)

This is one of the movies I’ve seen most, I own the DVD, I wrote a paper about it for a class in college (the importance of its digital camerawork).  Two interesting facts on Wikipedia, Stuart Beattie, the screenwriter, wanted Robert De Niro to play Jamie Foxx’s character to make it a revisionist Taxi Driver — remake potential.  Also, it was originally titled “The Last Domino;” anything is better than that but “Collateral” never really made sense to me, I think of it as just the word I use to refer it, not a word with a meaning that is relevant to the movie.  I guess it is the basic meaning of the word that they mean — besides, accompanying, parallel — referring to the entangling of Max and Vincent’s fates.  Also, in the sense of “collateral damage,” the unintended casualties.  Still, I think there’s a better title out there.