Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film That Sank United Artists by Steven Bach

Author:Steven Bach [Bach, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781557043740
Google: _Hp6mcW_9i0C
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1999-08-15T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH

Nobody really controls a production now; the director is on his own, even if he's insecure, careless or nuts. There has always been a megalomaniac potential in moviemaking, and in this period of stupor, when values have been so thoroughly undermined that even the finest directors and the ones with the most freedom aren't sure what they want to do, they often become obsessive and grandiloquent—like mad royalty. Perpetually dissatisfied with the footage they're compulsively piling up, they keep shooting— adding rooms to the palace. Megalomania and art become the same thing to them.

But the disorder isn't just in their heads, and a lot of people around them are deeply impressed by megalomania.

—Pauline Kael, "Why Are Movies So Bad? or The- numbers, The New Yorker, June 25, 1980

If you don't get it right, what's the point?

—Michael Clmino, in an ad for Eastman Kodak (1980)

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