{"id":71838,"date":"2021-05-12T09:51:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T16:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=71838"},"modified":"2021-05-12T09:51:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T16:51:26","slug":"deer-hunter-the-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=71838","title":{"rendered":"Deer Hunter, The (1978)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;What did you do &#8212; win the war all by yourself?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Poster-198x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-71844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Poster-198x300.png 198w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Poster-676x1024.png 676w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Poster-84x128.png 84w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Poster-768x1163.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Poster-178x270.png 178w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Poster.png 773w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nThree steel mill workers &#8212; Michael (Robert De Niro), Steven (John Savage), and Nick (Christopher Walken) &#8212; head to Vietnam shortly after Steven&#8217;s marriage to Angela (Rutanya Alda), with Nick promising to marry his girlfriend (Meryl Streep) once he returns; but the extreme trauma they each experience as prisoners-of-war changes them forever.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christopher Walken Films<\/li>\n<li>Friendship<\/li>\n<li>Meryl Streep Films<\/li>\n<li>Prisoners of War<\/li>\n<li>Robert De Niro Films<\/li>\n<li>Veterans<\/li>\n<li>Vietnam War<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary\u2019s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary describes this Best Picture winner by writer\/director Michael Cimino as &#8220;infuriating,&#8221; noting that it&#8217;s &#8220;condescending to its white characters (we&#8217;re supposed to understand what happened to the three solders better than they or their equally naive friends do)&#8221; and &#8220;its view of Vietnamese (all are presented as <em>beasts<\/em>) is decidedly racist (remember how the Japanese were portrayed in American films made <em>during<\/em> WWII?).&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Beasts.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Beasts-1024x435.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"272\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-71853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Beasts-1024x435.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Beasts-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Beasts-128x54.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Beasts-768x326.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Beasts-604x257.png 604w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Beasts.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He argues that Cimino&#8217;s use of &#8220;Russian roulette as a metaphor &#8212; probably for the insanity of Vietnam, where there is no logic to who lives and who dies&#8221; &#8212; makes &#8220;us believe that our POWs were subjected to such treatment as a matter of course, when in fact there have never been reports of &#8216;Russian roulette&#8217; during the war.&#8221; He concedes that the film has &#8220;visual power, a convincing performance by Walken (who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Walken2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Walken2-1024x435.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"272\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-71854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Walken2-1024x435.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Walken2-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Walken2-128x54.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Walken2-768x326.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Walken2-604x257.png 604w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Walken2.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and a couple of strong moments between De Niro and Meryl Streep&#8230; after De Niro returns home.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Streep-De-Niro.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Streep-De-Niro-1024x435.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"272\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-71851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Streep-De-Niro-1024x435.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Streep-De-Niro-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Streep-De-Niro-128x54.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Streep-De-Niro-768x326.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Streep-De-Niro-604x257.png 604w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Streep-De-Niro.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But he notes that the &#8220;prewar scenes, involving the three men who are about to go to war and their male buddies, are as self-consciously directed and self-indulgent as the worse sequences in John Cassavetes&#8217;s films&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Buddies.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Buddies-1024x435.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"272\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-71856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Buddies-1024x435.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Buddies-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Buddies-128x54.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Buddies-768x326.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Buddies-604x257.png 604w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Buddies.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and &#8220;the wedding, full of characters &#8216;acting natural&#8217; and being rude, stupid, and boring&#8230; is interminable.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Wedding.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Wedding-1024x435.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"272\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-71852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Wedding-1024x435.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Wedding-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Wedding-128x54.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Wedding-768x326.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Wedding-604x257.png 604w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Wedding.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In <em>Alternate Oscars<\/em>, Peary refers to this film as a &#8220;con job&#8221; (!), voting for <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=40251\"><em>Coming Home<\/em> (1978)<\/a> as the superior film from the same year on a similar topic, and giving a Best Picture nomination nod to the underrated <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=40275\"><em>Go Tell the Spartans<\/em> (1978)<\/a> as well. I&#8217;m essentially &#8212; though perhaps not as vehemently &#8212; in agreement with Peary&#8217;s review, and also appreciated reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/dvdsavant\/s1715deer.html\">DVD Savant&#8217;s critical take-down<\/a> of this much-lauded film, which he argues &#8220;slickly pushes the same old blather about honor and presents a story that grows increasingly pretentious.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Indeed, given the power of its imagery (Vilmos Zsigmond&#8217;s cinematography is consistently stunning) and the infamously harrowing Russian roulette sequences, it&#8217;s disappointing that &#8220;this &#8216;progressive&#8217; war movie&#8221; is really &#8220;the old BS in a different package,&#8221; in which &#8220;the tough survivors are the real men, and the others had unfortunate but fatal weaknesses.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s fair to reduce the three central characters to such descriptors, but it&#8217;s certainly true that De Niro&#8217;s stoic warrior emerges as the <em>de facto<\/em> hero of the piece, which is problematic. Film fanatics will likely be curious to check this film out once, but a &#8220;once-and-done&#8221; is plenty. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Powerful performances by the three male leads<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Walken.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Walken-1024x435.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"272\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-71839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Walken-1024x435.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Walken-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Walken-128x54.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Walken-768x326.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Walken-604x257.png 604w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Walken.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-De-Niro.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-De-Niro-1024x435.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"272\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-71843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-De-Niro-1024x435.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-De-Niro-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-De-Niro-128x54.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-De-Niro-768x326.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-De-Niro-604x257.png 604w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-De-Niro.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Savage.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Savage-1024x435.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"272\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-71845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Savage-1024x435.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Savage-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Savage-128x54.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Savage-768x326.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Savage-604x257.png 604w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Savage.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Vilmos Zsigmond&#8217;s cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Cinematography.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Cinematography-1024x435.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"272\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-71840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Cinematography-1024x435.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Cinematography-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Cinematography-128x54.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Cinematography-768x326.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Cinematography-604x257.png 604w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Cinematography.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Cinematography2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Cinematography2-1024x435.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"272\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-71841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Cinematography2-1024x435.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Cinematography2-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Cinematography2-128x54.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Cinematography2-768x326.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Cinematography2-604x257.png 604w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Cinematography2.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Cinematography3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Cinematography3-1024x435.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"272\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-71842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Cinematography3-1024x435.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Cinematography3-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Cinematography3-128x54.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Cinematography3-768x326.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Cinematography3-604x257.png 604w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Deer-Hunter-Cinematography3.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, once, simply for its historical and Oscar-winning status. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Historically Relevant<\/li>\n<li>Oscar Winner or Nominee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> (<span style=\"color:red;font-weight:bold;\">Listed in <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?page_id=1458\"><em>1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die<\/em><\/a><\/span>) <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0077416\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.nytimes.com\/www.nytimes.com\/packages\/html\/movies\/bestpictures\/deer-re.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/dvdsavant\/s1715deer.html\">DVD Savant Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=10592\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What did you do &#8212; win the war all by yourself?&#8221; Synopsis: Three steel mill workers &#8212; Michael (Robert De Niro), Steven (John Savage), and Nick (Christopher Walken) &#8212; head to Vietnam shortly after Steven&#8217;s marriage to Angela (Rutanya Alda), with Nick promising to marry his girlfriend (Meryl Streep) once he returns; but the extreme trauma they each experience as 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