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That again? Artists and conartists have spent the past decade replaying and reworking "the Viet Nam experience," reporting it and satirizing it, sending it up an apocalyptic river, holding it to our conscience like The Deer Hunter's revolver. It's over, already. We've heard that song, memorized it, sung it in our sleep, are sick unto bloody death...
...eulogy to the Old West but never, until that moment, seen it in its final form, were scurrying to anxious meetings, acting out the rearranging-of-the-deck-chairs scene from The Titanic. Cimino must have wished he were in Airport-any airport. After all, his previous film, The Deer Hunter, won the Academy Award for Best Picture. This time out, he could only bite the bullet and petition his patrons "to temporarily withdraw [Heaven's Gate] from distribution to allow me to present to the public a finished film with the same care and thoughtfulness with which...
...glacial pace toward degradation and death: when the cavalry rides to the rescue, it saves the bad guys. The movie's narrative is as incoherent, its plot points as contradictory, its characters as inarticulate (and, through the wonders of Dolby Stereo, often as unintelligible) as those of The Deer Hunter, but without the Viet Nam film's claim of political significance. With its repetitions and ellipses, Heaven's Gate resembles random sequences from some lost eight-hour masterwork. As of this week, though, it is something sadder: a four-hour fiasco...
...then do you get close to such a man? The objects in the exhibition are merely touchstones: a helmet he might have worn, the color of a shallow sea; a silver rhyton, or drinking horn, in the shape of a deer's head, from which he might have drunk; coins that his father had minted in 356 B.C., the year of his birth, commemorating Philip's entering a race horse in the Olympic Games (a sign of acceptance by the Greeks). Heads, Zeus; tails, a jockey. Alexander might have handled those coins...
...right to life in any society on earth today, nor has there been at any former time (with a few rare exceptions, such as among the Jains of India). We raise farm animals for slaughter; destroy forests; pollute rivers and lakes until no fish can live there; hunt deer and elk for sport . . . All these beasts and vegetables are as alive...