The story takes place in Clairton, Pennsylvania a small working class town on the Monongahela River south of Pittsburgh, and in Vietnam. Redeker, about Las Vegas and Russian roulette. The scenes depicting Russian roulette were highly controversial after the film's release. In , 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".
Contents 1 Plot 1. Mike is the no-nonsense, serious but unassuming leader; Steven the loving, groom-to-be, pecked-at by his mother for not wearing a scarf with his tuxedo; and Nick the quiet, introspective man who loves deer hunting because, he likes "…the trees…the way the trees are". The recurring theme of hunting a deer with "one shot", which is how Mike prefers to take down a deer, is introduced. Before the trio ships out, Steven and his girlfriend Angela Rutanya Alda , who is pregnant by another man, but loved by Steven nonetheless, marry in a Russian Orthodox wedding.
At the wedding reception held at the local VFW hall, the guys drink, dance, sing, and enjoy the festivities, but then notice a soldier in a U. Army Special Forces uniform.
Mike buys him a drink and attempts to start a conversation to learn what Vietnam is like, but the soldier ignores him. After Mike explains that he, Steven, and Nick are going to Vietnam, the Green Beret raises his glass and says "fuck it".
The soldier again toasts them with "fuck it". After being restrained by the others from starting a fight, Mike goes back to the bar and, in a mocking jest to the soldier, raises his glass and toasts him with "fuck it". The soldier then glances over at Mike and grins. Later, Steven and Angela drink from conjoined goblets, a traditional part of the Orthodox wedding ceremony.
It is believed that if they drink without spilling any wine, they will have good luck for life. Two drops of blood-red wine unknowingly spill on her wedding gown. After Linda catches the bride's bouquet, Nick asks her to marry him, and she agrees. Later that night, a drunken Mike runs through the town, stripping himself naked along the way. After Nick chases him down, he begs Mike not to leave him "over there" if anything happens in combat. Mike is exasperated by his friends, especially Stanley, who drinks and clowns, showing little respect for the ritual of hunting, which to Mike is a nearly sacred experience.
Only Nick understands Mike's attitude, but he is more indulgent toward his friends. Mike again kills a deer with one, clean shot. Act one finishes with the friends arriving back at Welsh's bar, with Michael's deer strapped to the hood of the car.
They enter rambunctiously, spraying beers over each other and singing loudly. Welsh then makes his way to a piano and begins playing methodically as the others sit quietly. They sit in silence, strewn all over the bar, as their friend plays Chopin's Nocturne No. The film then jumps abruptly to war-torn Vietnam, where U. A North Vietnamese soldier throws a stick grenade into a hiding place full of civilians.
An unconscious Mike now a Staff Sergeant in the U. Mike kills him with a flame thrower. Meanwhile, a unit of UH-1 "Huey" helicopters drops off several U. Mike, Steven, and Nick unexpectedly find each other just before they are captured and held together in a riverside prisoner of war camp with other U.
Army and ARVN prisoners. For entertainment, the sadistic guards force their prisoners to play Russian roulette and gamble on the outcome. All three friends are forced to play. Steven plays against Mike, who offers moral support, but Steven breaks down and loses control of the gun, grazing himself with the bullet when it discharges.
As punishment, the guards put him into an underwater cage full of rats and the bodies of others who earlier faced the same fate. Mike and Nick end up playing against each other, and Mike convinces the guards to let them play roulette with three bullets in the gun.
After a tense match, they kill their captors and escape. Mike earlier argued with Nick about whether or not Steven could be saved, but after killing their captors, he rescues Steven.
The three float downriver on a tree branch. An American helicopter finds them, but only Nick is able to climb aboard. The weakened Steven falls back into the water, and Mike plunges in the water to rescue him.
Mike helps Steven to reach the river bank, but Steven's legs are broken, so Mike carries him through the jungle to friendly lines. Approaching a caravan of locals escaping the war zone, Mike stops a South Vietnamese military truck and places the wounded Steven on it, asking the soldiers to take care of him. Nick, who is psychologically damaged, recuperates in a military hospital in Saigon with no knowledge on the status of his friends.
After being released, he goes AWOL and aimlessly stumbles through the red-light district at night. At one point, he encounters Julien Grinda, a champagne-drinking, friendly Frenchman, outside a gambling den where men play Russian roulette for money. Grinda entices the reluctant Nick to participate and leads him into the den.
Mike is present in the den, watching the game, but the two friends do not notice each other at first. When Mike does see Nick, he is unable to get his attention. When Nick is introduced into the game, he grabs the gun, fires it at the current contestant, and then again at his own temple, causing the audience to riot in protest.
Grinda hustles Nick outside to his car to escape the angry mob. Mike cannot catch up with Nick and Grinda as they speed away. Back in the U. While en route home, he tells a cab driver to drive past the house where all his friends are assembled with a large banner outside, as he is embarrassed by the fuss Linda and the others have made.
He visits Linda the following day and grows close to her, but only because of the friend they both think they have lost. Mike eventually learns about Angela, whom he goes to visit at the home of Steven's mother.
Angela is apathetic and barely responsive. When asked by Mike about Steven's whereabouts, she writes a phone number on a scrap of paper, which leads Mike to the local veterans' hospital where Steven has been for several months.
Mike goes hunting with Axel, John, and Stan one more time, and after tracking a deer across the woods, takes his one shot but pulls the rifle up and fires into the air. He then sits on a rock escarpment and yells out, "OK?
He also berates Stan for carrying around a small revolver and waving it around, not realizing it is still loaded. Mike visits Steven, who has lost both of his legs and is partially paralyzed. Steven reveals that someone in Saigon has been mailing large amounts of money to him, and Mike is convinced that it is Nick. Mike brings a reluctant Steven home to Angela and then travels to Saigon just before its fall in He tracks down Grinda, who has made a lot of money from the Russian roulette-playing Nick.
He finds Nick in a crowded gambling club, but Nick appears to have no recollection of his friends or his home in Pennsylvania. Mike enters himself in a game of Russian roulette against Nick, hoping to jog Nick's memory and persuade him to come home, but Nick's mind is gone.
To keep him from taking another turn, Mike grabs Nick's arms, which are covered in scars implied to be heroin tracks. At the last moment, after Mike reminds Nick of their hunting trips together, he finally breaks through, and Nick recognizes Mike and smiles.
Nick then tells Mike, "one shot", raises the gun to his temple, and pulls the trigger. The round is in the gun's top chamber, and Nick kills himself. Horrified, Mike tries reviving him, but to no avail. Back home in , the friends have gathered for Nick's funeral, whom Mike brought home, staying good to his promise.
The film ends with everyone at John's bar, singing "God Bless America". Mike toasts in Nick's honor. Michael "Mike" Vronsky.
Producer Deeley pursued De Niro for The Deer Hunter because he felt that he needed De Niro's star power to sell a film with a "gruesome-sounding storyline and a barely known director". Cimino introduced De Niro as his agent, Harry Ufland. No one recognized him. He explained that the scene where Mike visits Steven in the hospital for the first time was the most emotional scene that he was ever involved with. Nikanor "Nick" Chevotarevich.
John Savage as Cpl. Steven Pushkov. John Cazale as Stan "Stosh". All scenes involving Cazale, who had terminal cancer, were filmed first. Because of his illness, the studio initially wanted to fire him, but Streep, with whom he was in a relationship, and Cimino threatened to walk away if they did.
This was Cazale's last film, as he died shortly after filming wrapped. Cazale never saw the finished film. Aspegren was not an actor; he was the foreman at an East Chicago steelworks visited early in pre-production by De Niro and Cimino. They were so impressed with him that they offered him the role. Watch trailer. You might also like.
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View All Videos 8. View All Photos Movie Info. In , Michael Robert De Niro , Nick Christopher Walken and Steven John Savage , lifelong friends from a working-class Pennsylvania steel town, prepare to ship out overseas following Steven's elaborate wedding and one final group hunting trip.
In Vietnam, their dreams of military honor are quickly shattered by the inhumanities of war; even those who survive are haunted by the experience, as is Nick's hometown sweetheart, Linda Meryl Streep. War, Drama. Michael Cimino. Michael Cimino , Deric Washburn. Mar 31, Robert De Niro Michael Vronsky. Christopher Walken Nick. John Savage Steven. John Cazale Stanley "Stosh". Meryl Streep Linda. George Dzundza John. Chuck Aspegren Axel.
See more at IMDbPro. Top rated movie Trailer The Deer Hunter. Clip Who Are the "Hunters"? Video Photos Top cast Edit. Robert De Niro Michael as Michael. Christopher Walken Nick as Nick. John Cazale Stan as Stan. John Savage Steven as Steven.
Meryl Streep Linda as Linda. George Dzundza John as John. Chuck Aspegren Axel as Axel. Rutanya Alda Angela as Angela. Pierre Segui Julien as Julien.
Amy Wright Bridesmaid as Bridesmaid. Joe Grifasi Bandleader as Bandleader. Christopher Colombi Jr. Wedding Man as Wedding Man. The story takes place in Clairton, Pennsylvania, a small working-class town on Monongahela River south of Pittsburgh, and then in Vietnam, somewhere in woodland and in Ho Saigon, during the Vietnam War.
The opening scenes set the character traits of the three main actors. Michael is the no-nonsense, serious but unassuming leader of the three, Steven the loving, near-groom, pecked at by his mother for not wearing a scarf with his tuxedo, and Nick as the quiet, introspective man who loves hunting because, "I like the trees Michael tells Nick that if it wasn't for him, he'd hunt alone, because the other three guys are "assholes..
I love 'em but they're assholes He states his intent to get a deer with just one bullet. The deer has to be taken with one shot.
I try to tell people that, they don't listen. Before the trio shipped out, Steven and his girlfriend who is pregnant by another man but loved by Steven nonetheless get married in an elaborate Russian Orthodox wedding. In the meantime, Michael struggles with his feelings for Nick's lovely but pensive girlfriend Linda Meryl Streep who has just moved out of her abusive father's house. At the wedding reception held at the local VFW , the guys all get drunk, dance, sing and have the usual good time, but then notice an Army Ranger in full dress uniform sitting at the end of the bar.
Michael buys the soldier a drink and tries to strike up a conversation with him to find out what Vietnam is like, but the soldier ignores Michael. After Michael confronts him to explain that he, Steven and Nick are going to Vietnam, the Ranger raises his glass and says "fuck it" to everyone's shock and amazement.
Obviously disturbed and under mental anguish, the Ranger again toasts them with "fuck it". After being restrained by the others from starting a fight with the Ranger, Michael goes back to the bar with the others and in a mocking jest to the Ranger, raises his glass and toasts him with "fuck it". The Ranger then glances over at Michael and grins smugly, knowing exactly what Michael and the others will be faced with. Later, during the wedding toast to Steven and Angela, a drop of blood-red wine unknowingly spills on her wedding gown, again foreshadowing the coming events.
Near the end of the reception, Nick asks Linda to marry him, and she agrees. Later that night after a drunk and naked Michael runs through the streets of town, Nick chases him down, and in a solemn and prophetic end to the first act, begs Michael not to leave him "over there" if anything happens. The next morning finds all the friends minus Steven going deer hunting.
After a confrontation during a rest stop with Stanley who has forgotten his boots Nick remonstrates with him for denying Stanley his extra pair. Michael angrily fires a shot in to the air as an expression of his feelings. After the hunt, Michael gets his deer with one bullet, but the other guys are more interested in drinking and goofing off. They return home, and the second act ends with a poignant, dialog-less scene in the tavern with a Chopin nocturne played by John.
The men look around at each other, knowing that life will never be the same after tomorrow's enlistment. The film then jumps to a war-torn village. An unconscious Mike a staff sergeant in the US Army Special Forces wakes up to see a North Vietnamese Regular throw a stick grenade into a hiding place full of civilians.
During the infantry combat the three Michael, Steven, and Nick unexpectedly find each other just before they are captured and held in a riverside prisoner of war camp along with other US Army and ARVN prisoners.
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