{"id":12003,"date":"2022-03-19T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12003"},"modified":"2022-04-04T12:43:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T19:43:38","slug":"ellis-on-cimino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/03\/19\/ellis-on-cimino\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellis on Cimino"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2022\/03\/how-hollywood-destroyed-michael-cimino\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from UnHerd<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Hollywood destroyed Michael Cimino<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Talent alone couldn&#8217;t keep the lights on<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/author\/bret-eastellis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BRET EASTON ELLIS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Deer Hunter | Russian Roulette\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ytg80HJWLlY?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Of all the downfalls in Hollywood history, Michael Cimino\u2019s haunts me the most, destroyed by his artistic ambitions in a corporate town whose rules he didn\u2019t want to play by. Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich may come close, but they never ruined an entire movement or destroyed a film studio. In a single stroke of hubris and artistic obsession, Cimino burnt down the New Hollywood that created him with just one movie:&nbsp;<em>Heaven\u2019s Gate<\/em>&nbsp;(1980).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Filmmakers had made massive bombs before\u00a0<em>Heaven\u2019s Gate<\/em>\u00a0and they have made massive bombs since. Three or four were released last year, including Steven Spielberg\u2019s\u00a0<em>West Side Story<\/em>\u00a0and Guillermo Del Toro\u2019s\u00a0<em>Nightmare Alley<\/em>, which is by far the best film Del Toro has created. Both of these films are nominated for Best Picture Oscars this year and have probably lost far more money for their studios than<em>\u00a0Heaven\u2019s Gate<\/em>. How is it that Cimino became so famous and was able to create two towering works of art in the space of three years? And then become a pariah?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2022\/03\/how-hollywood-destroyed-michael-cimino\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at UnHerd<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from UnHerd How Hollywood destroyed Michael Cimino Talent alone couldn&#8217;t keep the lights on BY\u00a0BRET EASTON ELLIS Of all the downfalls in Hollywood history, Michael Cimino\u2019s haunts me the most, destroyed by his artistic ambitions in a corporate town whose rules he didn\u2019t want to play by. Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich may come close, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}