The audience's sympathy with prisoners who (quite understandably) cracked thus completes the chain. [7], Upon its release, The Deer Hunter received acclaim from critics, who considered it as the best American epic since Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather. [97], In 1996, The Deer Hunter was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Those within Mike's circle who stayed at home seem to understand nothing of war, and the following days further prove his disorientation; he is unable to shoot a deer during a hunting trip, and in another trip, he sees one hunting partner, Stan, jokingly threatening another partner with a gun.
[21][22] Cimino was confident that he could further develop the principal characters of The Man Who Came to Play without losing the essence of the original. Additionally, director Cimino instructed the props department to fashion complete Pennsylvania IDs for each of them, including driver's licenses, medical cards, and various other pieces of paraphernalia, to enhance each actor's sense of his character.[19]. It was also suggested that De Niro, Christopher Walken, and John Savage were too old to have enlisted for Vietnam (Savage, the youngest of the three, was thirty). "[93], The Deer Hunter was among the early, and most controversial, major theatrical films to be critical of the American involvement in Viet Nam following 1975 when the war officially ended. They really didn't like the movie. [20] According to producer Michael Deeley, the standard response was "no American would want to see a picture about Vietnam".
Mike then visits Angela, who is now the mother of a child, but has slipped into catatonia following the return of Steven, who has been rendered an invalid. I got on the plane the next day, and I went back to Manhattan and my carpenter job. According to Deeley, he planted a friend of his in the Oscar press area behind the stage to ask Fonda if she had seen The Deer Hunter. "What really upset them was 'God Bless America'. ", This page was last edited on 22 October 2020, at 16:24. He was the second person to be cast in the film, after De Niro. Much of it, including some casting decisions, suggest inspiration by The Godfather. "[7] Deeley wasn't surprised by the Universal response: "The Deer Hunter was a United Artists sort of picture, whereas Convoy was more in the style of Universal.
[86][87], Cimino's next film, Heaven's Gate (1980), debuted to lacerating reviews and took in only $3 million in ticket sales, effectively leaving United Artists bankrupt. I mean, they had stuff that you wouldn't dream of seeing about Iraq." [7] Garfinkle and Redeker were given a shared "Story by" credit with Cimino and Washburn. "There was discussion about shooting the film on a back lot, but the material demanded more realism," says Spikings. The first 1998 issue was by Universal, with no extra features and a non-anamorphic transfer, and has since been discontinued. [7] According to producer Deeley, he only heard from office rumor that Washburn was contracted by Cimino to work on the script. Best Sound, Richard Portman, William L. McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, C. Darin Knight, Darin Knight, Jim Klinger and Richard Portman, Deric Washburn, Michael Cimino, Louis Garfinkle and Quinn K. Redeker. "Who got to keep all these wonderful offerings," wrote Deeley "is a mystery I never quite fathomed. Mike and Nick make a final deer hunt. "I sicked Verna on Cimino," Mount says. "[52], Executives from Universal, including Lew Wasserman and Sid Sheinberg, were not very enthusiastic. [8] Cimino and Washburn had previously collaborated with Stephen Bochco on the screenplay for Silent Running (1972). I'd been working 20 hours a day for a month. The Deer Hunter is a parable ... Men who fight and lose an unworthy war face some obvious and unpalatable choices. [39], According to producer Deeley, orchestrated lobbying against The Deer Hunter was led by Warren Beatty, whose own picture Heaven Can Wait had multiple nominations. "Whether Cimino hired Washburn as his sub-contractor or as a co-writer was constantly being obfuscated," wrote Deeley, "and there were some harsh words between them later on, or so I was told.
[22], Cimino worked for six weeks with Deric Washburn on the script.
"[7], Deeley felt the revised script, now called The Deer Hunter, broke fresh ground for the project. "[69], Cimino frequently referred to The Deer Hunter as a "personal" and "autobiographical" film, although later investigation by journalists like Tom Buckley of Harper's revealed inaccuracies in Cimino's accounts and reported background. At the 51st Academy Awards, it was nominated for nine Academy Awards, and won five: Best Picture, Best Director for Cimino, Best Supporting Actor for Walken, Best Sound, and Best Film Editing. "[38][a 1], In the final scene in the gambling den between Mike and Nick, Cimino had Walken and De Niro improvise in one take. "[6], Hiring De Niro turned out to be a casting coup because he knew so many actors in New York. [30][34] The stag that Michael lets escape was the same one later used on T.V. When Washburn was finished, he says, Cimino and Joann Carelli, an associate producer on The Deer Hunter who went on to produce two more of Cimino's later films, took him to dinner at a cheap restaurant off the Sunset Strip. [31][54] Zinner eventually won Best Editing Oscar for The Deer Hunter. The amateur extras lined up for the crowded wedding-dance sequences drank real liquor and beer. It was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 1996, as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."[4][5]. "[25], The Deer Hunter was Cimino's first film to use Dolby noise-reduction system. The Deer Hunter unleashed a new, raw dynamic in combat and action, paving the way for Platoon, Saving Private Ryan and Clint Eastwood's Iwo Jima films. When they reach a suspension bridge, they are rescued by an American helicopter, but Steven is weak and falls into the water. [8] Washburn's response to Cimino's comments were, "It's all nonsense. "[7], In his Vanity Fair article "The Vietnam Oscars", Peter Biskind wrote that the political agenda of The Deer Hunter was something of a mystery: "It may have been more a by-product of Hollywood myopia, the demands of the war-film genre, garden-variety American parochialism, and simple ignorance than it was the pre-meditated right-wing road map it seemed to many. More or less before the late 1970s, the movies had lived by a Second World War code in which battle scenes might be fierce but always rigorously controlled. Regarding the clashes between him and Cimino, Zinner stated: "Michael Cimino and I had our differences at the end, but he kissed me when we both got Academy Awards. Other socialist states also voiced their solidarity with the "heroic people of Vietnam". The central metaphor of the movie is simply a bloody lie. It has been featured on lists of the best films ever made, such as being named the 53rd-greatest American film of all time by the American Film Institute in 2007 in their 10th Anniversary Edition of the AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list. However, Ebert incorrectly guessed that Robert De Niro would win for Best Actor for Deer Hunter and Jill Clayburgh would win for Best Actress for An Unmarried Woman while Siskel called the wins for Jon Voight as Best Actor and Jane Fonda as Best Actress, both for Coming Home. In his wandering, he hears gunshots emanating from a gambling den and attempts to leave, reminded of his previous torture experience. However, many critics, including David Thomson[73] and A. O. [62] The film eventually grossed $48.9 million at the US box office. Cimino confronted Washburn at the Sunset Marquis in LA about the draft, and Washburn supposedly replied that he couldn't take the pressure and had to go home. by arrangement with Rhino Records Inc. Good Hearted Woman… Once the unit unwrapped and the extras disappeared, the crew discovered to their amusement that the boxes weren't empty but filled with real presents, from china to silverware. [94] Producer Deeley made a deal with fellow producer David Puttnam, whose film Midnight Express was nominated, that each would take $500 to the ceremony so if one of them won, the winner would give the loser the $500 to "drown his sorrows in style. But all I had to do was watch TV. Pauline Kael of The New Yorker wrote a positive review with some reservations: "[It is] a small minded film with greatness in it ... with an enraptured view of common life ... [but] enraging, because, despite its ambitiousness and scale, it has no more moral intelligence than the Eastwood action pictures.
Inhumanity was the theme of The Deer Hunter's portrayal of the North Vietnamese prison guards forcing American POWs to play Russian roulette.
"In their Nazi wisdom," added Cimino, "[they] didn't give me the credit because I would be producer, director and writer. [74], Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four out of four stars and called it "one of the most emotionally shattering films ever made. [55], Both the long and short versions were previewed to Midwestern audiences, although there are differing accounts among Cimino, Deeley, and Spikings as to how the previews panned out. In the film's central "male love affair" Mike supposedly represents the powers of control and repression, whereas Nick stands for release and liberation. De Niro holds it together, but Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep and John Savage are unforgettable. "[58] Deeley added that Carr's promotion of the film was influential in positioning The Deer Hunter for Oscar nominations. Deeley felt the story credits for Garfinkle and Redeker "did them less than justice. "[7], Zinner eventually cut the film to 18,000 feet (3.4 mi; 5.5 km). They prepare to leave for military service in Vietnam.
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