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mike1964180 (Saturday 22nd of November 2008 11:30:25 PM)

Saw Kristofferson on tv saying the film was assasinated and unfairly treated. Tell that to the united artists employees (not the bosses) who okeyd a 7million dollar film and wound up with a 40 mil turkey that cost all of them their jobs and most their careers

yes55 (Thursday 6th of November 2008 11:57:00 PM)

Yes, later, we see an actual small band obviously playing the "Blue Danube" music, as if to correct the narrative problem mentioned earlier. It might have made more sense to use this band all along - and to have used less immediately familiar music! First time I saw this I thought "When filming this in Oxford did they just put on a tape of the 2001 soundtrack? Did they have people waltzing with no music?" Weird problems like this made almost the most expensive movie ever seem cheap throughout.

yes55 (Thursday 6th of November 2008 11:36:54 PM)

Most film-goers already associated this Strauss waltz with 2001, which had used a fairly long sampling of it... so Cimino seems to want to outdo that by making this dancing go on and on and on... it doesn't work. Also: where is the music coming from? It sounds recorded in a modern day studio, but they are obviously dancing to it, the "dance" isn't in our heads like the ships in 2001... so is there some live orchestra playing it somewhere to such perfection which we cannot see? It makes no sense.

8data (Friday 10th of October 2008 04:24:54 PM)

its a masterpiece!

hubleywhip (Friday 5th of September 2008 03:15:57 PM)

what a wonderful mix of choreography and photography. like my fair lady crossed with barry lyndon.

procommenter (Tuesday 22nd of July 2008 04:53:33 PM)

Extensive plastic surgery will make Kristofferson appear youthful!

Tripp1993 (Wednesday 9th of July 2008 01:55:25 PM)

United Artists died in 1980. CAUSE OF DEATH: Michael Cimino's "Heaven's Gate", the worst star-studded picture in history. RESURRECTION: 1981, when MGM bought UA, almost died again in 2005, and was resurrected in 2006 by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner.

NotHomelessAnymore (Thursday 5th of June 2008 10:36:45 PM)

Lol, this scene is awkward on so many levels. Even if you like Heaven's Gate, at least try to appreciate how it sunk United Artists into bankrupcy. Cimino was notorious for bullying producers into extending his budget and schedule and famously blew millions of dollars destroying a set (a whole town) and reconstructing it a few yards along. Creative freedom in Hollywood was no more in the 80's thanks to dumb, expensive projects like this.

Onaryc59 (Wednesday 9th of July 2008 03:34:43 AM)

"Creative freedom in Hollywood was no more in the 80's thanks to dumb, expensive projects like this." The trouble is, you can't have creative freedom without dumb projects like this sometimes. If all creative freedom was successful, the studios would let it happen all the time. You want creative freedom, you have to accept its failures. Can't have it both ways.

SinAutor (Friday 17th of October 2008 10:36:58 AM)

this scene contains a masterful display of choreography and photography. the producers even stated " it looks like david lean decided to make a western" fair enuf it bombed at the box office, but that is no way to gauge how good a film is. the imagery in the film and mise en scene is astounding.