Michael Cimino Quotes
There's a need to dig up the past and analyze it.
Elton, Charles. Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Epic Crash of Hollywood. Abrams Press, 2022.
While this statement is logically correct, there are many efforts at revisionist history for reasons other than conveying more accuracy. Most societies have some people who try to recast history, especially about themselves. The Russian Communists are famous for “changing history to reflect a Lennists-Marxist view of the world. The Turks have rewritten their history and text books to eliminate the Armenian Genocide. The Arabs have done the same with respect to the role and presence of Jews in Israel and Jerusalem. In America, during the latter part of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, apologists for Slavery and the South rewrote many texts and media to reflect a fantasy era when slaves were well cared for and happy, the Civil War was fought for reasons other than slavery, and the KKK and other terrorists and murderers were upholding law, order and morality.
He was discussing his unprecedented steps that as Federal Reserve Chairman he took to cope with the Great Recession after the Meltdown of 2008. He had, as a graduate doctoral student, studied the economic history of the Great Depression of 1929 and the government attempts to ameliorate some of the effects. He was one of the few people in government who had this historical perspective.
Michael Cimino was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and author. He achieved fame as the director of The Deer Hunter (1978), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and earned him Best Director. However, Cimino's reputation would be tarnished by his follow-up Heaven's Gate (1980), a critical failure that became one of the biggest box-office bombs of all time.
