Posted on 07/02/2016 7:28:22 PM PDT by EveningStar
Michael Cimino, who won Oscars as director and a producer of "The Deer Hunter" before "Heaven's Gate" destroyed his career and sped up the demise of 60-year-old United Artists, has died. He was believed to be 77.
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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.
The deviants in Hollywood have a standing “right” to ignore the truth. Never let the truth get in the way of the agenda.
What are you talking about?
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.
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.
That’s a pretty trivial objection.
Huh?
Dragon was made well after both films.
I agree. Deer Hunter was not all that.
Apocylpse Now didn’t help either.
Right. 85, and Gate was 80. But Gate still broke UA.
RIP.
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.
Sorry for the loss but both of those movies were Blech!
Deer Hunter was hard for me to watch when it first came out; but I’m more settled with it now. What a cast!
I thought “Heaven’s Gate” was a pretty good film.
The Deer Hunter was horrible.
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I’ve never seen it. I recently read about it, which made me glad I’ve never seen it.
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