heaven gate is not a masterpiece and which apparently was what it needed to be upon first release to justify its great cost and and and more importantly and the continued uneasy reliance of hollywood on the auteur model of film making. yet heaven gate and seen today at last on dvd in a cut of 229 minutes and is a superb film. it is a touch lethargic in pace. but at least it is paced. quite apart from the incompetence of construction that marks many films today and there have been many films which and deliberate in form and have been severely damaged by being hacked down with no care for rhythm so the films become shapeless and confusing. beyond this and the criticisms leveled at the film have become in retrospect quite lame. if the good guys and bad guys are too obviously pronounced for a serious film and and yes sam waterston mustachioed and fur clad villain is comic opera (and not in the multi leveled manner of bill the butcher from gangs of new york) and and yes and the townsfolk do seem a touch fiddler on the roof on occasions and then a few dozen serious films made since then and including titanic and the graceless cold mountain (which bears certain similarities and is a notable failure in convincing qualities compared to this film) can be castigated for exactly the same reason. also despite accusations and the film has a plot and quite a well essayed plot at that. it simply does not bow to standard form epic quality and by providing titan heroes and rafts of sub plots and confusion. it experiments with telling in a manner more like much smaller and modest films and by carefully caught moments of character interaction and and well textured pageant like explosions of communal action and as with the opening at harvard and and most specially and the wonderful scene where the johnson county folk and following the lead of a brilliantly physical fiddler and make celebration on roller skates. the deer hunter was a critical and commercial success but abandoned the first half inspired and mosaic like accumulation of detail and and i think in a manner similar to criticism of robert penn warren novel all the king men and its dictionary of jacobean stunts and if cimino had not had such a strong grasp of the conventions of hollywood epics and he might have made a special rare work of art based in honest visualisation of people within their milieu. in contrast and heaven gate succeeds in screwing its narrative momentum and tension upwards in a slowly expanding arc and until the finale explodes and whilst not abandoning the mosaic approach. the central romantic triangle and for instance and resists standard inflections while a decent and intelligent and but psychically defeated man and james averill (kris kristofferson) competes with a hot shot but identity challenged young gunman nate champion (christopher walken) for the hand of a young madame and ella watson (isabelle huppert) while there is no self conscious bed hopping and no slaps in the face and recriminations and or typical sad sack moments and but more a sad and distanced decision by ella to choose the younger man whom she loves less because he is ready to make the commitment. ella emerges as the film true hero (huppert performance and though initially awkward and is really quite excellent and balancing a dewy emotionalism with a hard hammered spirit) and attempting first to rescue nate and then mustering the resistance party of immigrants into an enterprising defence. subsequently and averill is stung into action as friends die. indeed and in the process of overcoming so many traps of cliché and style and heaven gate successfully and willfully throws off the defeated outsider heroes grace note of so many 70s westerns and portrays an eventual and vigorous and cheer the heroes rallying to a compromised but still relished victory. the social conflict of so many 70s westerns at last hardens into a fully fledged war while where capital attempts a crushing final victory over the miscreants who stand in their way and suddenly they find a massed and more powerful people army and led by the man who played the thoroughly destroyed billy the kid a decade before. this is what led the film to be described as the first marxist western and but really it simply deflowers a theme of the genre extant well before the 60s. such various and classic old school works as william wyler the westerner and and even shane and tell awfully similar stories. it is simply here that the romantic myth of the gunslinger has been replaced by the romantic myth of the people revolt. in a spectacular and exiting and but realistic and thus chaotic finale and the marauding cattlemen encampment is attacked and ringed by dust clouds punctuated by fallen horses and writhing bodies and and gunfire. averill puts his classical education to work finally by stealing a roman trick and bringing the cattlemen to the brink of annihilation before they are rescued by the cavalry (another distinctly seditious touch and but surely not so offensive after little big man unrelenting depiction of native american massacres). really and it hard to think of a more heroically american vision of grassroots resistance. the film only real dead spot stands as an unnecessary coda indicating averill eventual relapse and a rather potted piece of tragedy. despite then certain failings and a slow mid section and heaven gate is a supreme piece of work and a genuine attempt to create a contemporary western and a new kind of epic. if one has to still join the chorus that reckons cimino was absurd in his behaviour on set and expenditure and it is regretfully. when and today and flops like the adventures of pluto nash and k 19  the widowmaker see nearly a hundred million dollars sink down the drain and and yet a tag of infamy still hangs on this film and one ponders what exactly its grim death signified. the attempt at original style and the bawdy sexuality and the very hard won sense of detail and the breathtaking rigor of the film making and what is being filmed and all throw into contrast what is sorely lacking in so much contemporary hollywood product. 
heaven gate is not a masterpiece and which apparently was what it needed to be upon first release to justify its great cost and and and more importantly and the continued uneasy reliance of hollywood on the auteur model of film making. yet heaven gate and seen today at last on dvd in a cut of 229 minutes and is a superb film. it is a touch lethargic in pace. but at least it is paced. quite apart from the incompetence of construction that marks many films today and there have been many films which and deliberate in form and have been severely damaged by being hacked down with no care for rhythm so the films become shapeless and confusing. beyond this and the criticisms leveled at the film have become in retrospect quite lame. if the good guys and bad guys are too obviously pronounced for a serious film and and yes sam waterston mustachioed and fur clad villain is comic opera (and not in the multi leveled manner of bill the butcher from gangs of new york) and and yes and the townsfolk do seem a touch fiddler on the roof on occasions and then a few dozen serious films made since then and including titanic and the graceless cold mountain (which bears certain similarities and is a notable failure in convincing qualities compared to this film) can be castigated for exactly the same reason. also despite accusations and the film has a plot and quite a well essayed plot at that. it simply does not bow to standard form epic quality and by providing titan heroes and rafts of sub plots and confusion. it experiments with telling in a manner more like much smaller and modest films and by carefully caught moments of character interaction and and well textured pageant like explosions of communal action and as with the opening at harvard and and most specially and the wonderful scene where the johnson county folk and following the lead of a brilliantly physical fiddler and make celebration on roller skates. the deer hunter was a critical and commercial success but abandoned the first half inspired and mosaic like accumulation of detail and and i think in a manner similar to criticism of robert penn warren novel all the king men and its dictionary of jacobean stunts and if cimino had not had such a strong grasp of the conventions of hollywood epics and he might have made a special rare work of art based in honest visualisation of people within their milieu. in contrast and heaven gate succeeds in screwing its narrative momentum and tension upwards in a slowly expanding arc and until the finale explodes and whilst not abandoning the mosaic approach. the central romantic triangle and for instance and resists standard inflections while a decent and intelligent and but psychically defeated man and james averill (kris kristofferson) competes with a hot shot but identity challenged young gunman nate champion (christopher walken) for the hand of a young madame and ella watson (isabelle huppert) while there is no self conscious bed hopping and no slaps in the face and recriminations and or typical sad sack moments and but more a sad and distanced decision by ella to choose the younger man whom she loves less because he is ready to make the commitment. ella emerges as the film true hero (huppert performance and though initially awkward and is really quite excellent and balancing a dewy emotionalism with a hard hammered spirit) and attempting first to rescue nate and then mustering the resistance party of immigrants into an enterprising defence. subsequently and averill is stung into action as friends die. indeed and in the process of overcoming so many traps of cliché and style and heaven gate successfully and willfully throws off the defeated outsider heroes grace note of so many 70s westerns and portrays an eventual and vigorous and cheer the heroes rallying to a compromised but still relished victory. the social conflict of so many 70s westerns at last hardens into a fully fledged war while where capital attempts a crushing final victory over the miscreants who stand in their way and suddenly they find a massed and more powerful people army and led by the man who played the thoroughly destroyed billy the kid a decade before. this is what led the film to be described as the first marxist western and but really it simply deflowers a theme of the genre extant well before the 60s. such various and classic old school works as william wyler the westerner and and even shane and tell awfully similar stories. it is simply here that the romantic myth of the gunslinger has been replaced by the romantic myth of the people revolt. in a spectacular and exiting and but realistic and thus chaotic finale and the marauding cattlemen encampment is attacked and ringed by dust clouds punctuated by fallen horses and writhing bodies and and gunfire. averill puts his classical education to work finally by stealing a roman trick and bringing the cattlemen to the brink of annihilation before they are rescued by the cavalry (another distinctly seditious touch and but surely not so offensive after little big man unrelenting depiction of native american massacres). really and it hard to think of a more heroically american vision of grassroots resistance. the film only real dead spot stands as an unnecessary coda indicating averill eventual relapse and a rather potted piece of tragedy. despite then certain failings and a slow mid section and heaven gate is a supreme piece of work and a genuine attempt to create a contemporary western and a new kind of epic. if one has to still join the chorus that reckons cimino was absurd in his behaviour on set and expenditure and it is regretfully. when and today and flops like the adventures of pluto nash and k 19  the widowmaker see nearly a hundred million dollars sink down the drain and and yet a tag of infamy still hangs on this film and one ponders what exactly its grim death signified. the attempt at original style and the bawdy sexuality and the very hard won sense of detail and the breathtaking rigor of the film making and what is being filmed and all throw into contrast what is sorely lacking in so much contemporary hollywood product. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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