, Cimino didn’t grow up as a cinephile. He wasn’t a film critic, didn’t go to film school, and came to movies nearly by accident. Born in New York City and raised in a middle-class Italian American family in Westbury, Long Island, Cimino was a gifted artist. He graduated from Michigan State with a degree in graphic arts and, in 1963, got his M.F.A. in painting from Yale, where he “would hang around” the drama school and would find his calling in narrative and spectacle.
“The Deer Hunter” was financed by an upstart studio, the U.S. division of EMI. Its producers were hungry for a prestigious hit, but, Elton says, “for tax reasons,” the production had to start quickly. In the mad rush to get the shoot up and running by March, 1977, the studio placed fewer checks on Cimino than were customary for a big-budget film. He brought in another writer, Deric Washburn, with whom he’d previously worked, and, again, removed his collaborator’s name from the script.
By that point, the studio was run by two new heads of production, Steven Bach and David Field, whose teamwork often ran at cross purposes, and whom Cimino outmaneuvered, strong-armed, insulted, and defied in order to get his way. For this film, “Heaven’s Gate,” there was, again, a rush to production and to completion , and Cimino leveraged the studio’s impatience into more than final cut: he won contractual exoneration from budget overages.
Did Cimino direct any movie worth watching after Deer Hunter?
This is pure speculation on my part but I suspect that 1970s film critics would be big fans of the MCU and the works of Shawn Levy. Who agrees? 😎
Gigli would like a word. And incidentally, the unedited version of HG which came out after the debacle is quite watchable.
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