Michael Cimino

There's a lot of stories going on in the background around the characters he crafts for this.

Um, uh, so it's ve- we definitely wanna go into that, and it says quite a lot about how Coen sees his career versus the careers of a Bogdanovich or a Michael Cimino, et cetera.

We'll get into that, but why is it coming in at number eight for you before we do?

Uh, just one, when I watched it initially, I was like, "All right.

We, it's, it's, it's, again, like a lot of Coen's films, it is entertaining in its own right, but the story behind it, again, is what makes it so rich to discuss and kind of break down.

A- and it certainly heightens the viewing when you realize the kind of context behind it.

So the, the contentious part of this film, the main character, the director who murders a young woman, is based on filmmakers Michael Cimino and Peter Bogdanovich, both of whom experienced, uh, highly publicized career declines in the early 1980s after, uh, majorly expensive box office fl- failures and flops.

Now, to be clear, they've not killed anyone.

One of them is Heaven's Gate, so that was a movie that was released in 1980.

It was directed by Michael Cimino, who won an Oscar two years before for directing The Deer Hunter-

Yeah.

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Yeah.

Um, Michael Cimino directed it.

But, yes, I, some people have gone back and said, "I, you know, I absolutely love Heaven's Gate." It, it, you, you can think it sort of-

Yeah.

Who look too similar if you ask me, uh, to be in the same movie, especially when they were young.

Um, but Michael Cimino, his, his, so his, his follow-up was Heaven's Gate.

Did you ever see that?

that?I must have.

Okay.

So, Michael Cimino, thank you.

No, thank you.

That was an interesting little side rabbit hole.

Yes.

And it, it became a punchline, and it was like, uh, whoever made Heaven- uh, Michael Cimino, who made H- uh, uh, what was the, what was the-

Kevin Can Wait

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Yes.

Heaven's Gate was a Western directed by Michael Cimino released in nineteen eighty.

Okay.

Cimino had just won Best Picture for The Deer Hunter, so United Artists basically gave him total creative control.

break in the news, this is a good time to kind of like...

And what's funny is I just recorded with Jay Bird and we did a review of Michael Cimino's 1985 movie, The Year of the Dragon.

Nice.

Yeah.