James Averill: You're not my class, Canton, and you never will be. You'd have to die first and be born again.
John L. Bridges: It's gettin' dangerous to be poor in this country.

James Averill: It always was.
Captain Minardi: Do you know what I really dislike about you, Jim? You're a rich man with a good name. You only pretend to be poor.
Ella Watson: I never cheated on you. I always made Nate pay.
Ella Watson: Do you think a woman can love two men?

James Averill: Sure you can. Why not three? But it sure as hell isn't convenient.
Frank Canton: Mr. Champion, my grandfather was the Secretary of War to Harrison. His brother was the governor of the state of New York. My brother-in-law is Secretary of State. And to you, I represent the full authority of the government of the United States and the President.

Nathan D. Champion: Fuck him too.

Billy Irvine: Bravo, sir!
Wolcott: They're an ignorant, degraded gang of paupers. Their only stock in trade consists of having large numbers of ragged kids.
Nathan D. Champion: Why don't you come in for a while? You haven't been here for a long time. I fixed the place up inside.

Ella Watson: What have you done to it?

Nathan D. Champion: [whispers] Wallpaper.
Billy Irvine: James, do you remember the good gone days?

James Averill: Clearer and better, every day I get older.
Frank Canton: If we fail, the flag of the United States will fail.
Ella Watson: Pie? I think it's the best one I ever did.

James Averill: It's beautiful. It belongs in a museum.
Nick Ray: Now, you know that I am not gonna believe that a man can fight a wolf bare-handed. It ain't possible

Trapper Fred: Is.

Ella Watson: How?

Trapper Fred: First, ya let the critter attack ya.

Nick Ray: Attack?

Trapper Fred: Yessir. You don't do a thing. You just have to stay real calm.

Nick Ray: Then what?

Trapper Fred: As soon as that sonofabitch opens his jaws to take your fool head off - you reach right into his mouth, fast as lightning, and grab his tongue.

Nick Ray: Grab his tongue! What in the hell good does that do?

Trapper Fred: He can't bite ya if ya got hold of his tongue.

Nick Ray: I don't see that.

Trapper Fred: Stick out your tongue, I'll show ya.

Ella Watson: Come on, Nick. Stick out your tongue.

Nathan D. Champion: Yeah, Nick, show us what ya got in there.

Nick Ray: Aw, hell. Here!

[Nick sticks out tongue. Trapper Fred grabs it, immobilizing him. Everyone laughs]

Trapper Fred: Try to git me, come on!

[Nick struggles but he can't get loose. His eyes tear up. Finally, Trapper Fred lets go]

Nick Ray: Sonofabitch! He was right! What happens when you let go?

Trapper Fred: He kills ya.

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Heaven's Gate short comments

Maxwell 2022-03-25 09:01:23

The cons and pros are all too obvious, I hate movies that make me tangled, but I give it four stars anyway. At one point I thought it was a heroic movie about history, immigration, survival, law, human rights, justice and equality, after all it was a three and a half hour western, but it turned out to be a love triangle that made all the big scenes Lost a lot. Don't a group of people who are drunk now and who don't cry without seeing the coffin deserve more description? Slightly misaligned. This film made United Arts go bankrupt and not only hit Michael Cimino's personal directing career, but also seriously affected the director's right to speak in film production. Since then, we have seen less and less a XXX (director's name)' s film is more of the name of the film production company, but the influence of the film is extremely disastrous in this perspective. Aunt Huppert is so pretty. Shocked to see the cast after watching the movie, there are Joseph Cotton, Mickey Rourke and Willem Dafoe?
Camryn 2022-03-26 09:01:14

Finally got this in theaters, 216-minute version; "Xenophobia" is probably an eternal trait of human beings; the lineup was stunned, but why didn't they notice Joseph Cotton and Willem Dafoe; the budget was very rich, with hundreds of thousands of people of all kinds The big scene, Cimino's romantic blood can't be contained once it is spilled, all kinds of long paragraphs without any plots advancing only the video "exhibition"; the bridge of the cockfight reminds me of the Russian roulette in [The Deer Hunter] bet