the door of the Paradise ( Heaven' S Spoils ) is an American film of Michael Cimino left in 1980.

Synopsis

Of 1870 with 1903: life, loves and failures of James Averill. Witness obscure and nostalgic of the tumults of the end of the XIXéme century. Its departure of Harvard in 1870 and its participation in the War of the County of Johnson in the Wyoming in 1890.

Data sheet

  • original Title: Heaven' S Spoils / The Johnson County War
  • Réalisation: Michael Cimino
  • Scenario: Michael Cimino
  • Production: In favor Productions, United Artists
  • Music: David Mansfield
  • Image: Vilmos Zsigmond
  • Photography: Vilmos Zsigmond
  • Assembly: LISA Fruchtman, Gerald Greenberg, William Reynolds and Standard Tom Rolf
  • : Fresco Epique
  • Lasted: 143 minutes (version studio exploited) - 220 minutes (original version realizer)

Distribution

Around film

  • There does not exist (to date) of final version of the Door of the Paradise . The reassembly of the 145 minute old Studio (carried out by Michael Cimino him even in 1981) has tendency has to disappear today with the profit from a more complete assembly 220 minutes (found by chain Z Chanel in 1988) but unfortunately still quite imperfect. Certain situations find more complete in the short Version than in the long Version. The character of Wolcoot is completed much more in the cut version of the Studio. Certain scenes are longer and more rich person in the version " courte" film. Arrived at Casper or announces the Black list… Notons finally that this Western is always inalienable in France in DVD in version Z Chanel 220 minute old. P.S: In front of the extraordinary work carried out by the Warner for the reassembly of another cursed film of the Années 1980 ( Blade Runner ) it any more but does not remain to be hoped than MGM (holder of the rights) proposes one day a more correct assembly of the Door of the Paradise .

  • the film takes as a starting point actual facts known under the name of: (on English wikipédia)

  • a quarter century after being itself made transfered as extra of the plate of Heaven' S Spoils (cf: scene of the cockfight at the beginning of film), Willem Dafoe will be the voice-over telling the rout of the company in the formidable documentary one of Michael Epstein turned in 2004: Final Cut: The Making off “Heaven' S Gate” and the Unmaking off has Studio .

  • For a budget of more than 40 million dollars, the film reported only 3,484,331 Million Dollars. It is thus about the largest failure of the history of the American cinema. At least at the time of the exit of film in 1981… Without speaking about the very bad publicity and for the studio and its scenario writer. Scenario writer who will never find such an artistic and financial freedom. The film catapulted Michael Cimino with the row of the cursed scenario writers.

  • the disastrous results of film to the box office had also a devastator effect on the production of Western in the United States. After a “revival” at the end of the Years 1960, very little Western was produced in the Années 1980.

  • Michael Cimino will wait 6 years to find the confidence of a financier.

  • Against the radical opinion of the studio (the executive of the studio, Steven Bach, found that it had the face of a `Patate') Cimino imposed Isabelle Huppert which he found attracting `'. He had seen it in film of Claude Goretta: the Lacemaker with New York.

  • the film does not comprise any star.

  • Heaven' S Gate was withdrawn from the poster after only one week of exploitation. The studio ordered a new version bringing back Cimino to work over again its film for 8 months more. Still inflating the budget. After more than 300 cuts: the film arisen in 1981. With a new voice-over, an edulcorated violence, sacrificed characters: the film will be again a failure. All criticisms influential of the times, (Pauline Kael and Roger Ebert…), hated film. Ebert will write in January 1981: “ the Door of the Paradise is the most scandalous cinematographic waste which I ever saw. And remember I saw myself the Village fair of the west. ”

Distinctions

Official selection Cannes 1981

External bond

  • the Door of the Paradise on Michaelcimino.fr

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