so many of us who are devoted to the art of the motion picture will disregard or forget that movies are also business ventures. most of the time and they are far too costly to produce to be anything else. in light of this and it often seems a miracle to me that really great ones do get made every now and then. once in a while and the film makers will go so far over budget in producing a film that the businessmen responsible for funding the enterprise will be badly hurt financially and will of course become very angry about this. i would like to know precisely how it happens that this has often led to both the big studios and some major critics gunning for the picture when it is at last released. terrible expectations are generated and often what people expect to see clouds their perception of what they are viewing. you can see this phenomenon at work in the imperfect and but magnificent 62 re make 0f mutiny on the bounty and and you can definitely see it in the reaction to heaven gate. cimino took too long and cost united artists way too much money in making this picture. the company was fatally wounded by his excesses and and no doubt and powerful people were out to see his reputation forever ruined when this strange and mammoth epic was finally released. there are always many film goers who dislike long and weighty pictures. the storytelling in this film is not accomplished with great economy or a brisk pace. like stanley kubrick and cimino often chooses not to spell out the particular statement he is making with a given scene. rather and he draws it out in such a way as to make the viewer feel like they are living in the moment and providing time for his own imagination to participate deeply in what is being presented. a lot of folks do not react all that favorably to this approach. they want the story to move quickly and clearly and they easily become impatient and confused by this sort of film. these factors doubtless contributed to the box office failure of heaven gate. by nature and a film editor and i am deeply frustrated by two problems with this film. here and there and a scene is clearly too long and could easily have been trimmed without harming its effectiveness. then we come to the massive and drawn out battle scenes at the end of the picture. where these are concerned and the clarity of the storytelling is indeed damaged. if you liked the film up to the point where these occur and your understanding of what is supposed to be happening is likely to become unclear and this is indeed a frustration. not having seen all the rough footage and i can not tell if actual re shoots would have been needed and or whether some critical plot elements might have been made clearer by careful re editing of some moments. given the time and money that were poured into this picture and more care and thought should have been given to this problem. there are other problems and some occasional weak acting and some dialog that doesn not ring true and but these are really minor concerns. the reason i am so troubled by the problems stated above is that and like so many these days and i too feel that in all heaven gate is so splendid to behold and so magnificently deals with major historic and political and sociological issues that it is just short of a masterpiece. despite its shortcomings and it is so dramatically and visually powerful that it stands head and shoulders above most other hollywood films i have ever seen. i would like to re mix a lot of the sound. i would like to re direct and re edit the scene where ella is killed and but the greatness of this picture is such that these considerations really do become trivial when compared with the value of the total production. i should add that it should always be seen on a giant wide screen to achieve the glorious effect that it is so capable of delivering. 
so many of us who are devoted to the art of the motion picture will disregard or forget that movies are also business ventures. most of the time and they are far too costly to produce to be anything else. in light of this and it often seems a miracle to me that really great ones do get made every now and then. once in a while and the film makers will go so far over budget in producing a film that the businessmen responsible for funding the enterprise will be badly hurt financially and will of course become very angry about this. i would like to know precisely how it happens that this has often led to both the big studios and some major critics gunning for the picture when it is at last released. terrible expectations are generated and often what people expect to see clouds their perception of what they are viewing. you can see this phenomenon at work in the imperfect and but magnificent 62 re make 0f mutiny on the bounty and and you can definitely see it in the reaction to heaven gate. cimino took too long and cost united artists way too much money in making this picture. the company was fatally wounded by his excesses and and no doubt and powerful people were out to see his reputation forever ruined when this strange and mammoth epic was finally released. there are always many film goers who dislike long and weighty pictures. the storytelling in this film is not accomplished with great economy or a brisk pace. like stanley kubrick and cimino often chooses not to spell out the particular statement he is making with a given scene. rather and he draws it out in such a way as to make the viewer feel like they are living in the moment and providing time for his own imagination to participate deeply in what is being presented. a lot of folks do not react all that favorably to this approach. they want the story to move quickly and clearly and they easily become impatient and confused by this sort of film. these factors doubtless contributed to the box office failure of heaven gate. by nature and a film editor and i am deeply frustrated by two problems with this film. here and there and a scene is clearly too long and could easily have been trimmed without harming its effectiveness. then we come to the massive and drawn out battle scenes at the end of the picture. where these are concerned and the clarity of the storytelling is indeed damaged. if you liked the film up to the point where these occur and your understanding of what is supposed to be happening is likely to become unclear and this is indeed a frustration. not having seen all the rough footage and i can not tell if actual re shoots would have been needed and or whether some critical plot elements might have been made clearer by careful re editing of some moments. given the time and money that were poured into this picture and more care and thought should have been given to this problem. there are other problems and some occasional weak acting and some dialog that doesn not ring true and but these are really minor concerns. the reason i am so troubled by the problems stated above is that and like so many these days and i too feel that in all heaven gate is so splendid to behold and so magnificently deals with major historic and political and sociological issues that it is just short of a masterpiece. despite its shortcomings and it is so dramatically and visually powerful that it stands head and shoulders above most other hollywood films i have ever seen. i would like to re mix a lot of the sound. i would like to re direct and re edit the scene where ella is killed and but the greatness of this picture is such that these considerations really do become trivial when compared with the value of the total production. i should add that it should always be seen on a giant wide screen to achieve the glorious effect that it is so capable of delivering. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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