{"id":21681,"date":"2019-02-23T13:54:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T17:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=21681"},"modified":"2019-02-23T13:54:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T17:54:27","slug":"year-of-the-dragon-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=21681","title":{"rendered":"“Year of the Dragon” Trivia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rob Hunter and Film School Rejects present 28 Things We Learned from Michael Cimino’s Year of the Dragon<\/em> Commentary<\/a>.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n

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8. While set primarily in New York City, much of the film was shot in North Carolina including the sequences on the streets of Chinatown. They recreated streets with attention to detail up to and including the angled grade of their Mott Street \u2014 the \u201cmain\u201d street in NYC\u2019s Chinatown \u2014 which is not actually flat. They took plaster casts of curbstones and recreated the grade for authenticity, something he says most NYC reproductions on film don\u2019t achieve. \u201cIf you look at Ragtime, it\u2019s flat, and that\u2019s why it doesn\u2019t look like New York [City]. It\u2019s a very rocky little island.\u201d He\u2019s proud of their accomplishment as it even fooled Stanley Kubrick. The legendary director was given a screening in London where he told Cimino that \u201cChinatown looks so great.\u201d Cimino told him the truth, and after a little bit of back and forth Kubrick realized he\u2019d been duped. \u201cIf you can fool Kubrick, who had the best eye in the world, you can fool anyone.\u201d The sets have been reused in dozens of films in the years since.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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12. He feels Lone and Mickey Rourke compliment each other well and achieve his goal of confusing \u201cthe good, the bad, and the ugly.\u201d He says the bad guy is attractive and likable, the good guy is neither of those things, and viewers are ultimately forced to like the good guy because of what he does.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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18. He credits Clint Eastwood with his career. Cimino\u2019s debut as writer\/director, 1974\u2019s Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, only got made thanks to Eastwood\u2019s belief in him. The contract gave Eastwood the right to fire him after the first three days of shooting, and thankfully he never felt compelled to do so.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

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