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1 day ago · Featuring a stacked ensemble cast led by Hollywood legends like Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and Meryl Streep, the 1978 epic war drama The Deer Hunter tells the powerful and poignant story ...
- Adam Linehan
- Michael Cimino’s career never recovered. In its initial review of “The Deer Hunter,” The New York Times declared that Cimino’s vision was “that of an original, major new film maker.”
- Cimino lied about his military service while making and promoting the film. According to Vanity Fair, a number of people who worked closely with Cimino during the film’s production wrongly assumed that Cimino had drawn from his own experiences as a soldier in Vietnam to make the film.
- Screenwriter Deric Washburn didn’t interview a single veteran to research the script. Washburn claims that he and Cimino hammered out the idea for the movie over three days in a hotel in Los Angeles.
- Actor John Cazale died shortly after filming. Cazale had already emerged as one of the dominant actors of his generation by the time he landed on the cast of “The Deer Hunter.”
Budget. $15 million [2] Box office. $49 million [2] The Deer Hunter is a 1978 American epic war drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of Slavic-American [3][4][5] steelworkers whose lives are upended after fighting in the Vietnam War. The three soldiers are played by Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Savage ...
- John Wayne’s final public appearance was to present the Best Picture Oscar to The Deer Hunter (1978) at The 51st Annual Academy Awards (1979) (TV). It was not a film Wayne was fond of, since it presented a very different view of the Vietnam War than his own movie, The Green Berets (1968), had a decade earlier.
- Michael Cimino convinced Christopher Walken to spit in Michael’s face. When Walken actually did it, Robert De Niro was completely shocked, as evidenced by his reaction.
- Robert De Niro recently explained that the scene where Michael visits Steve in the hospital for the first time was the most emotional scene that he was ever involved with.
- Robert De Niro, who prepared for his role by socializing with actual steelworkers, was introduced by his hosts and new friends as Bob, and no one recognized him.
The Deer Hunter: Directed by Michael Cimino. With Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Christopher Walken. An in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.
Apr 22, 2024 · Photo: Universal Pictures. Robert De Niro, John Savage, and Christopher Walken's lives were nearly lost while filming The Deer Hunter 's famous log scene. The three were holding onto loose logs as they floated down the River Kwai, but eventually, the water's choppiness trapped Savage behind a massive tree trunk.
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Feb 24, 2018 · One of the earliest attempts by Hollywood to process the traumatic memories of the Vietnam war was ‘The Deer Hunter’, directed by Michael Cimino in 1978. The film was one of the first, and most controversial, major theatrical films to be critical of the American involvement in Vietnam following 1975 when the war officially ended.
