#DEER HUNTER MOVIE MOVIE#

It's a film of striking and often startling contrasts, and Cimino doesnГt once flinch from an unpromising gear change. But, lest we forget that a ticket to heaven comes at a prix fixГЁ, Michael tracks and kills a beautiful stag, as if nature itself must pay his tithe. The weekly reward for the steelworkers is escape into the cool mountains, and Michael in particular is soon scampering across snow-capped peaks with a gazelle's grace.

We open in the hellish heat and sulphurous fumes of the Pennsylvania steel mills, where friends and co-workers Michael (Robert De Niro), Nick (Christopher Walken), Stan (John Cazale), Steven (John Savage) and Axel (Chuck Aspergen) endure inhuman conditions for meagre pay, night after night. The near three-hour narrative tracing the classic human parabola from wedding bliss to funeral blues.

#DEER HUNTER MOVIE MOVIE#

The Deer Hunter, Cimino's second movie following the pleasingly throwaway Thunderbolt And Lightfoot, can, and should, be read as an epic treatise on endurance, and, in particular, the indomitable spirit of the American male.

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