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Michael Cimino, 'Deer Hunter' and 'Heaven's Gate' Director, Dies at 77
Variety ^
| July 2, 2016
| Tim Gray
Posted on 07/02/2016 7:28:22 PM PDT by EveningStar
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Heaven's Gate has recently earned new respect in some quarters, it was originally trashed unmercifully.
From
Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide: Writer-director Cimino's now-notorious spectacle is missing just one thing: a story.
From Vincent Canby in The New York Times: "Heaven's Gate," ... fails so completely that you might suspect Mr. Cimino sold his soul to the Devil to obtain the success of "The Deer Hunter," and the Devil has just come around to collect... Mr. Cimino's approach to his subject is so predictable that watching the film is like a forced, four-hour walking tour of one's own living room.
To: Borges; DollyCali; Perdogg
To: EveningStar
The Deer Hunter was horrible. It started out with the characters in PA and jumped them to the far west. Then, in Nam they started out serving in the military and were mysteriously discharged while in Nam. That’s not what I heard while serving stateside in’68 and ‘69. The process was to ship the troops home on troop transports and release them for active service once they were stateside.
To: libstripper
The deviants in Hollywood have a standing “right” to ignore the truth. Never let the truth get in the way of the agenda.
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posted on
07/02/2016 7:48:14 PM PDT
by
Fungi
(Make America America again.)
To: Fungi
What are you talking about?
To: EveningStar
There is a tremendous book called “Final Cut” by Steven Bach, the executive producer on “Heaven’s Gate” whose job it was to keep Cimino within the budget. Bach noted that Cimino, while already shooting in beautiful Wyoming valleys, insisted the grass wasn’t green enough and installed a massive underground irrigation system. He constantly was over budget.
My favorite part of the book is where Bach goes to Paris to meet Cimino to discuss the leading lady. Cimino says he wants Isabelle Huppert. Bach says “Isabelle Huppert has a face like a potato” and the other executive director kicked him under the table, because obviously Cimino and Hupper had a “thing.”
It’s a fantastic read. Cimino individually drove United Artists-—the company founded by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin-—into bankruptcy with that movie.
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posted on
07/02/2016 7:53:51 PM PDT
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: EveningStar; DollyCali; Perdogg
See my post above. I should add that Cimino’s interim film-—between “Deer Hunter” and “Heaven’s Gate”-—was “Year of the Dragon,” a darn good movie about cops and Chinese criminals featuring Mickey Roarke before plastic surgery.
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posted on
07/02/2016 7:55:40 PM PDT
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: libstripper
That’s a pretty trivial objection.
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posted on
07/02/2016 7:56:31 PM PDT
by
Borges
To: Fungi
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posted on
07/02/2016 7:56:58 PM PDT
by
Borges
To: LS
Dragon was made well after both films.
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posted on
07/02/2016 7:57:56 PM PDT
by
Borges
To: libstripper
I agree. Deer Hunter was not all that.
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posted on
07/02/2016 7:58:57 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: LS
Apocylpse Now didn’t help either.
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posted on
07/02/2016 8:00:22 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: Borges
Right. 85, and Gate was 80. But Gate still broke UA.
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posted on
07/02/2016 8:03:56 PM PDT
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: EveningStar
To: LS
Read it once several years ago. I enjoyed it but don’t remember a lot of the details.
Nowadays I’m not even sure UA exists except as an owned imprint of MGM, which itself barely exists anymore as a viable entity.
To: libstripper
Sorry for the loss but both of those movies were Blech!
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posted on
07/02/2016 8:42:26 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(Blame others for your failures? Take credits where none are do? Who made you Pharaoh?)
To: EveningStar
Deer Hunter was hard for me to watch when it first came out; but I’m more settled with it now. What a cast!
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posted on
07/02/2016 8:43:15 PM PDT
by
Migraine
(Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU.)
To: EveningStar
I thought “Heaven’s Gate” was a pretty good film.
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posted on
07/02/2016 9:26:12 PM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: libstripper
The Deer Hunter was horrible.
...
I’ve never seen it. I recently read about it, which made me glad I’ve never seen it.
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posted on
07/02/2016 9:51:41 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Make America Great Again!)
To: EveningStar
The original true story would have done so much better. I don't understand why they thought they had to tinker with it.
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posted on
07/02/2016 9:56:45 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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