Looks at own avatar and username Dagnabit.

"In that moment, I realized I was the son of two fathers: Elias and MegaWeapon."

From what I remember, it's the standard narrative (much reinforced by Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls), one I have more than a little trouble buying (especially as Biskind himself spends so much relish on how the filmmakers' own self-destructive habits, especially in the cases of Cimino and Ashby, did for…

Every time I see Max Wright as Floyd Dell in this movie I start to giggle, and then get sad when I remember what happened to him (or what he did, or whatever). Yes, Willie Tanner = "sad dog."

There was actually a debate on whether our book club group would actually recommend it to anyone. There… was a wide range of opinions, shall we say.