The Deer Hunter

A 1978 war drama directed by Michael Cimino, following three Pennsylvania steelworkers whose lives are transformed by the Vietnam War.

Russian roulette: A lethal game of chance involving a revolver with one loaded chamber and a rotating cylinder. The film uses coerced games of Russian roulette to embody terror and psychological control.
Michael Cimino: An American film director and screenwriter whose films include The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate. Cimino directed and co-wrote the film, shaping its expansive structure and visual style.
Robert De Niro: An American actor and producer whose films include Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Deer Hunter. De Niro plays Michael, the disciplined hunter whose return exposes the limits of control.
Academy Award for Best Picture: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' annual award for the year's best feature film. The Deer Hunter won this award at the 51st Academy Awards.
The Deer Hunter wedding sequence: The extended wedding celebration in The Deer Hunter, set in the friends' Pennsylvania community. Its rituals and duration establish the bonds later strained by the war.
Nonlinear narrative: A narrative that presents events out of chronological order or delays their sequence. The long wedding and hunting sections make the abrupt Vietnam captivity especially disruptive.
Vietnam War in film: The body of cinema depicting the Vietnam War, its combatants, and its consequences. The Deer Hunter became one of the defining American feature films about the war.
Christopher Walken: An American actor whose film roles include The Deer Hunter and The Dead Zone. Walken's performance as Nick earned the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Academy Award for Best Director: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' annual award recognizing a film's director. Cimino won for The Deer Hunter, his only directing Oscar.
The Deer Hunter Russian roulette scenes: The film's scenes in which American prisoners are forced to play Russian roulette. These scenes became the film's most debated and widely remembered depiction of captivity.

Linked from 6 pages