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Lädt ... Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Visionvon Charles Elton
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"The director Michael Cimino (1939-2016) is famous for two films: the intense, powerful, and enduring Vietnam movie The Deer Hunter, which won Best Picture at the Academy Awards in 1979 and also won Cimino Best Director, and Heaven's Gate, the most notorious bomb of all time. Originally budgeted at $11 million, Cimino's sprawling western went off the rails in Montana. The picture grew longer and longer, and the budget ballooned to over $40 million. When it was finally released, Heaven's Gate failed so completely with reviewers and at the box office that it put legendary studio United Artists out of business and marked the end of Hollywood's auteur era. Or so the conventional wisdom goes. Charles Elton delves deeply into the making and aftermath of the movie and presents a surprisingly different view to that of Steven Bach, one of the executives responsible for Heaven's Gate, who wrote a scathing book about the film and solidified the widely held view that Cimino wounded the movie industry beyond repair. Elton's Cimino is a richly detailed biography that offers a revisionist history of a lightning rod filmmaker. Based on extensive interviews with Cimino's peers and collaborators and enemies and friends, most of whom have never spoken before, it unravels the enigmas and falsehoods, many perpetrated by the director himself, which surround his life, and sheds new light on his extraordinary career. This is a story of the making of art, the business of Hollywood, and the costs of ambition, both financial and personal"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Elton does a phenomenal job of not just doing a great deal of research but also presenting Cimino in as balanced a light as possible. His positives are highlighted along with his encyclopedic list of negatives. One of the main things is that this book helps to change the narrative that Cimino was responsible, singlehandedly, for a studio's collapse as well as salvaging the reputation of Heaven's Gate.
I loved The Deer Hunter and still watch it every couple of years. I never liked Heaven's Gate but I am not a fair judge of it because westerns aren't my favorite genre, so it needs to be special to appeal to me, and it wasn't. Beautifully shot though!
What for me made this an exceptional biography, particularly of an entertainment figure, for me was the intricate weaving of what facts of Cimino's life are known, the myths he and others created, and the tumultuous roller coaster that was his professional life. These weren't just mentioned in the same descriptions but the influences between them are shown to be pivotal. We have as intimate a view of Cimino as possible as well as a detailed glimpse of filmmaking during that period.
For those who want to claim that artistic vision trumps how an artist is allowed to treat both individuals and the organizations with which he deals, there is plenty to support that here. If, like me, you don't think artistic vision gives one free rein to lie, cheat, steal, and generally be an arrogant man child, there is plenty to support that as well.
I would highly recommend this to those who read biographies and also anyone interested in the business of filmmaking, particularly over the last quarter or so of last century. There are some interesting anecdotes I would have readily pulled out to share in courses I taught to illustrate both what is common and what passes for business in the movie industry.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley. (