Every cinema student is also a continuation student. In other words, it is always informative not only to know what the film needs to say, but at what point it said it. For anyone who bothered both American history and the American cinema, the way the Vietnam war was discussed and showed over the years that is fascinating before and after the conflict. Most of us millennia and younger ones grew up during the era of people crying "too early!" When it comes to open political commentary in the media, and in some cases it feels like films related to national themes, they took them sweet time to appear. For example, despite being five years in the Kovid-19 pandemic, and excluding several films that have used the pandemic as a background, it still feels like a great point of view of our modern life.

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However, America used to be a place where artists felt freer to express their thoughts on the current theme in a great way, as several films about Vietnam prove. Moreover, these films were not only allowed to be made, but some of them ended up success in Oscar's box office and winners, ensuring their cultural heritage. The 1978 "The Deer Hunter" starring Robert de Niro and Christopher Wayken, who won the Oscar, is one of these films. Released just three years after the exit of the United States of the conflict, the film is one of the most composed views of the long -term effects of war in general, as well as the current effects that many modern people have suffered.

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It is clear that Michael Fimino's film was never intended as a movie for a cozy audience. Perhaps, if it was announced earlier in the decade, the "deer hunter" might have been easier to make it from script to screen. However, in the post-"jaws" and "Starvala War" Hollywood, Fimino found themselves to oppose studio directors who were thoroughly shocked by the film, so much that they almost used it to death.

One of the ingenious aspects of "The Deer Hunter" is that it is a masterpiece that has been missed by a completely different story, ironically making it one of the two films in the Vietnam War in the late 70's, to be adapted from other sources (the second is Francis Ford Coppola "Apocalypse". Life as a scenario written by Louis A. As the work of Peter Biscind for 2008 for Ellen Hunter and "Coming Home" at the Oscars in the Oscars in 1979 in detail about Vanity FairProducer Barry Spikings bought "the man who came to play" for Emmy and could not understand how to do it until he met Zimino. According to Spackings's memory, the Director has solved that problem:

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"You know why you are obsessed with (that scenario)? It's because Russian roulette is a metaphor for what America did with its young people, sending them to war in a foreign place, when there was no justification for it. I know something about Vietnam, and I've always wanted to make a movie about it. Are you about it?"

Spackings's response was a huge yes, and the "deer hunter" on Timino started. However, the story increased, and so did the recording schedule and the budget, so much that there was controversy over the film before the decline was completed. After there was a version of the finished film, it was shown as directors of Universal Pictures, who owned the rights of the film's home distribution. When Lev Wasserman (head of the then parenting company of Universal McA) and Sid Shinberg saw the film, their reception was particularly bad. According to Spackings:

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"I think they were shocked ... they didn't really want the movie. And they certainly didn't want it for three hours for two minutes."

Despite the controversy over the political content of the film (more on it per second), the directors subscribed to what has become a popular notion, that Fimino's film is too long, especially the first half, where the main characters attend the wedding of one of their friendsImmediately before many of them were sent to Vietnam. While the other movie affairs and I find this criticism to be wrong, it was something that almost prevented the "deer hunter" being released at all. As Spackings recalled, Jainberg gave the ciminum an ultimatum:

"You have to take out an hour of this movie - then we may consider freeing it."

Although universal executions have hired one of their editors, Verna Shields (who worked on Jaws), to try to cut the "deer hunter" to their size, the final selection that dropped to publish Emmy's CEO Bernard Delphont, who ended with a decrease. However, directors had no problem with the length of the film. Much more about them, according to Spackings, was his comment on America:

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"What really upset them was" God bless America. " Shinberg considered to be an anti -American.

The moment "God bless America" ​​is Finishing the filmWhere the broken, however, surviving characters, they sing the anthem while sitting at a meal. Indeed, as Shinberg said, she became a flash scene for discourse of trying to say about Vietnam and America in general, whether the song was intended for ironic, satirical or real patriotic. Fortunately, although it is unclear whether the Shields' reduction has removed or softened the end, the moment remained unchanged thanks to a Delphon, preferring the reduction of the film to Fimino.

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Timino remains one of the various figures in the American film, and while the "deer hunter" is generally considered his master His merit and shortcomings are still arguing to this day -today. Some of these deficiencies aside (including Playing fast and loosely with its policy), one of the advantages of the film is how it gives the viewer the opportunity to draw his own conclusions while there is still a point of view. The Vietnam war was too fresh in the heads of Americans in 1978, so much that of course the film was just as bold as the "deer hunter" would be shocking. In 2025 Being able to love and criticize our country at the same time is one of the biggest freedoms we enjoy - so far.