Nominees:
Coming Home
The Deer Hunter
Heaven Can Wait
Midnight Express
An Unmarried Woman
Winner:
The Deer Hunter
Coming Home
The Deer Hunter
Heaven Can Wait
Midnight Express
An Unmarried Woman
Winner:
The Deer Hunter
Story: Michael (Robert De Niro), Nick (Christopher Walken), and Steven (John Savage) are three buddies from the steel mill town of Clairton, Penn. They are like schoolmates, hanging out in a local bar and enjoying weekends of deer-hunting. Michael and Nick are also both in love with Linda (Meryl Streep), who seems to juggle both of the men. But their placid life is soon to be changed after they are enlisted in the airborne infantry of Vietnam. So they all celebrate a goodbye at Steven's wedding and they leave to Vietnam, where they are captured by the enemy and forced to play a game of Russian Roulette. They escape and return home, but their lives are forever changed. Nick stays in Vietnam, Michael returns to Linda, and Steven is handicapped after losing a leg in the war. Hilarity ensues.Trivia: The deer which Michael allows to get away was actually an elk - the same one often used on commercials for Hartford Insurance. The crew had a very difficult time trying to get the elk to look at them, as it was apparently used to various noises; it finally looked at them when someone in the crew yawned.
So, tell me what you think? Did you like The Deer Hunter? Would you have picked another movie as Best Picture? Why?
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4 comments:
I have seen The Deer Hunter, but it has been a long time. I don't remembr much of it. I do remember the russian roulette scene. Very gripping.
I think I would have to say that I would pick The Deer Hunter simply based on the fact that the only other movie I saw was Heaven Can Wait.
Coming Home, another Jane Fonda movie. Never saw it.
Midnight Express, a true story about a guy in a turkish prison. Sounds depressing.
An Unmarried Woman, the story of a woman surviving a divorce. Also sounds depressing.
Deer Hunter. Was depressing. However, it did deserve to win.
Everytime I drink a Rolling Rock I think of the Deer Hunter.
Out of all the movies listed, I've only heard of The Deer Hunter and Heaven Can Wait. So, considering which movie should have won, I can't tell you since I've only seen Heaven Can Wait and I'm not too sure it should have been nominated. So, I'm going to try to find The Deer Hunter so I can get in with the times.
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