THE AMERICAN DREAMER | Fighting Against The Wind Making Of | MUBI
MUBI is proud to present FIGHTING AGAINST THE WIND, a half-hour special which documents the making of THE AMERICAN DREAMER: https://mubi.io/2QY9rBn
It's tempting to approach THE AMERICAN DREAMER as piece of film history, a record of a thing that happened, an explanation for a directorial career only slightly less puzzling than that of fellow New Hollywood martyr Michael Cimino. But Schiller, who co-edited the film, chopped to bits the crew’s seemingly endless footage and assembled it into a vertiginous farce of American self-regard. Hopper willingly participates, full partner in a performance piece, but just as often seems like a genuine blithe spirit trying to actualize radical politics into a design for living. When the opening titles credit him for the actor he is ("Dennis Hopper as THE AMERICAN DREAMER"), his act seems unconstrained by cinema. Neither character study nor profile, we watch the development of a persona, assisted and motivated by the "power of film" that, for 81 minutes, supplies him with a bully pulpit and a stream of initiates into an inchoate, female-only (except for him) sex cult hosted in his den. The extremely long culminating orgy is a parodic, claustrophobic microcosm of celebrity and American abundance, but the film starts with a microcosm of itself.
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© 2015 Etiquette Pictures
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