In fact, the failure case of "Heaven's Gate" is somewhat similar to the later "Water World". Before directing "Water World", Kevin Costner directed an epic movie "And Dances With Wolves", but it ushered in a fiasco when people hoped to present the epic of the future. The director of "Heaven's Gate", Michael Cimino, was also a remarkable figure at the time. A "Deer Hunter" won the Oscars in 1979. It was also included in the classic altar of Vietnam War movies. Similarly, he also took advantage of the situation. Intend to present a western epic, pull up the star lineup, and prepare to show the friendship, love and tragedies between Wyoming farmers and European immigrants in a bloody storm in 1892. The result was the same fiasco, with a loss of more than $40 million, which was disastrous enough in the early 1980s.
Watching this film again, I feel that it may not be that bad, but it does not reach the classic height that Michael Cimino tried to achieve, and it is not in the same class as the later Western classic "Dances with Wolves". When Michael Cimino filmed "The Deer Hunter", he created a depressing atmosphere, but at that time the Americans didn't feel too far from the Vietnam War, but he chose to move this model to "Heaven's Gate". The result is that the rhythm of the whole film is slow to the point of dragging, and there are not many literary flavors or intriguing bridges in it. They are all ordinary parts of Western movies, but Michael Cimino has to make a lot of things in detail. It took a long time to shoot just a passionate love between the hero and the heroine, but it was nothing more than some ordinary scenes. Isn't this crazy? To be honest, Chris Christopherson, Christopher Walken, and Isabelle Huppert have performed a triangular relationship of friendship, love and entanglement of interests, and the performances are still of high quality, especially Christopherson and Waugh Ken's feeling of fighting and sympathy between men is very flavorful. It's a pity that these performances are also scattered in the rough and drifting plot and scenery of the film, which cannot make people concentrate and appreciate and experience better. And Jeff Bridges, Mickey Rourke, and Willem Dafoe, who were on the road at the time, also appeared in the film one after another, which became a special pleasure for me to watch this film. Counting the stars and supporting me not to follow the plot sleepy. However, the film also has exciting climaxes, such as a decisive battle between farmers and immigrants at the end. The scenes and scheduling finally see a taste of epic, and the intertwined sadness and heroism are also full of contagion. Unfortunately, I really Doubt that when the film was released, how many people held up the long foreshadowing before Cimino to the last climax?
In fact, the film has become a disaster, and the final conclusion always finds a similar context, which is nothing more than repeated budget increases, repeated chaotic shooting, repeated delays in schedules, and repeated infighting. There are already many historical materials and summaries about the shooting process and inside story of "Heaven's Gate". In general, Michael Cimino's overconfidence and arrogance, as well as his own mistakes in positioning and scheduling the film should be the main reasons. More than 30 years have passed, and when we look at this film again, we can still feel the sighing part. If Cimino focused more on the main line of the film, the plot would not be so fragmented, and those irrelevant bridges would be removed, so The distribution of the climax of the film is more balanced and may have different results. After more than 30 years, if you are used to watching slow-paced films, especially from the perspective of understanding a historical fact of the American West, it is also a pleasure and gain to taste some of the customs at that time.
Although they all suffered from Waterloo, Kevin Costner at least still has an actor career to continue, and his subsequent actor and director works, although they have never reached the level of "Dancing With Wolves", they still have some success. 's excellent works. And Michael Cimino is much weaker. He not only lost the box office when he filmed "Heaven's Gate", but also lost his character because of the interpersonal relationship problems in the process, and his personal confidence was also hit a lot. After 1996, there was no feature film, only a 3-minute video was presented again in the short film "Everyone Has His Own Movie" on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival in 2007. Yes, everyone has his own movie, Michael Cimino's "Heaven's Gate" may be such a movie, but it failed after all, and Cimino later became more and more bitter about it. The voice, but until there are no outstanding works that can be watched, perhaps, not too many people will pay attention to his voice, and "Heaven's Gate" will continue to be an embarrassingly forgotten " disaster".
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