Word: walken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With Christopher Walken, John Hurt and Jeff Bridges in other major roles, shooting started April 15, just after the Academy Awards. "It was apparent within a few weeks that Cimino was going to go over budget," says Field. "It wasn't apparent until the summer that he was going to go seriously over...
...also set up an academy of frontier skills. Hundreds of extras were made to practice skating for weeks. There were also courses in waltzing, horse and buggy handling, bullwhipping, and music for a band using instruments of the time. Kristofferson and Walken took handgun lessons from a former Green Beret weapons specialist. French Actress Isabelle Huppert (The Lacemaker) was installed in Wallace's real-life whorehouse for three days to learn the rituals over which she would preside in the film...
...extra, grip and gaffer on Heaven's Gate. Cimino, a short (5 ft. 6 in.), shy, plump New Yorker, gets the most out of his cast and crew. A scene in which Kristofferson lashes out at a crowd with a bullwhip had to be shot 53 times. Says Walken, who won an Oscar for The Deer Hunter: "There are extraordinary moments with him. He takes you to places that make the whole event special...
Last Embrace is a film in which a stylish director and a superb cast (even the small parts are played by well-known and expert players, including Sam Levene, Charles Napier and Academy Award Winner Christopher Walken) do their best to triumph over a script that lacks witty writing and genuinely suspenseful substance. The result is a pleasant movie to watch, if your idea of a good time is an unelevated pulse, but one that leaves no lasting impression...
There can be no quarrel about the acting. De Niro, Walken, John Savage, as an other Clairton pal who goes to war, and Meryl Streep, as a woman left behind, are all top actors in extraordinary form...