The Lincoln Center Cinema will host a De Niro film review in April in preparation for the upcoming Chaplin Awards. Looking at the schedule, it is estimated that De Palma and De Niro's "Oh, Mom" will not be able to catch up (De Palma later recommended De Niro to Scorsese, which became a good story), it is better to watch the 3-hour masterpiece "The Deer Hunter" is a bit daunting just on the set, but let's take the opportunity to watch it, or will I really stand up to watch it? Just in time for the 30th anniversary of its release. Lincoln Center is quite luxurious, almost luxurious; although it should be a modern building, it is designed with the momentum of an ancient opera house. This building is located among the bustling streets, like proudly saying: I am New York. The small hall next to the screening hall is a photo exhibition of Italian movie stars, which seems to have been filmed by Mastroianni. Also sells a film review magazine, the price is more realistic.
Michael Cimino is supposed to be a "geek", even though he doesn't make a lot of movies. "The Deer Hunter" is the second feature film, but it swept the Oscars and won awards for best picture, male supporting, editing, sound effects, etc. But he is more famous for his masterpiece "The Gate of Heaven". What he remembers is not the video, but the huge failure, which brought down United Art Company, which was so lenient and laissez-faire for artists, and will no longer be such a bold company in the future. As the "New York Times" film review commented: "'Heaven's Gate' failed so thoroughly that it is almost doubtful that Mr. Cimino sold his soul to the devil to achieve the success of 'The Deer Hunter', and now the devil is coming. Settled with him."
"The Vietnam War tore the United States" The 1970s were a time of confusion for Americans; although the leaders clamored: "There must be light at the end of the tunnel", the war still pulled Americans, especially young people, into the abyss, "not to mention them What did they do in Vietnam, they really just wanted to get out of the Vietnam War as soon as possible.” The returning lads were bewildered and helpless, “because what they actually had was broken before they went home.” (Cormac McCarthy ). Presumably, therefore, "American soldiers are often portrayed in a negative way in Vietnam War movies. They have either split personalities or are committing atrocities." (Nguyen Thanh Viet)
"The Deer Hunter" tells the story of a group of ordinary steel workers in the Vietnam War, and the destruction of their lives. The film is clearly divided into three parts: before the war, during the war and after the war. In the 3-hour set, the narrative is loose and slow, and some paragraphs are even more "happy", showing the "author's style", which seems to herald the future defeat. , United Art also swallowed the bitter fruit of overindulgence. But the picture of the movie is very beautiful, as if it is slowly unfolding like an oil painting, and it expresses the tranquility of a small town in the United States and the heat and humidity of Vietnam like poetry, which is "poetic beauty".
How happy a few friends were before the war, drinking and playing billiards together after get off work (very extravagantly expressed in a famous song of the four seasons), and going out to hunt deer together; they would fight with children over trivial matters, and would not hesitate to face the deer Pull the trigger and come home full of rewards; at the wedding, they dance (very arbitrary, ignoring the length of the film), everyone is proud of the soldiers who practice, and no one knows what's ahead - except for an officer who breaks in temporarily, He was dressed in military uniforms and medals, but he was arrogant, hoping to use alcohol to forget the trauma of the battlefield; these Russian-Americans even sent off with a song "Katyusha". The world has gradually become beautiful and fragile.
The battlefield footage doesn't show much head-to-head combat; the Vietnamese are equally arrogant, attacking their own countrymen, unarmed civilians (civil war, after all), imprisoning the US military and forcing them to play roulette. This scene is very rough and violent, it can be said to be a kind of mental torture. Soldiers who got away with it already knew the world had changed and that the roulette wheel of war had ravaged them both physically and mentally.
After the war, De Niro, who was strong and full of honors, was "more timid when he was close to the nostalgia" and did not dare to directly participate in the celebration banquet, preferring to avoid it; he resumed hunting deer, but could not pull the trigger. On the battlefield, he and the eyes of an innocent and pure deer are like deer, but the prey and the good life before the war have been vanished. One brother is disabled, and the other is living in a foreign country. Returning to Vietnam again, he finds that Vietnam is still chaotic and disorderly, his friend Walken has been lost, and he only looks like a living creature when he plays roulette in an underground casino. He's lost his soul, like a walking dead, with only one life left to gamble - Graham Greene was deep into roulette too, presumably to fill the void - De Niro ventured into gambling to awaken Vulcan, in The cold-blooded gambler pulled the trigger again and again. But he didn't win, or Vulcan lost. Returning to my hometown again and reuniting in a small bar that used to be happy, there is no laughter anymore, only solemnity, everyone is suffering from the pain of war, this is the epitome of American society.
Cimino's images have some disrespect for Vietnamese, and it is estimated that he cannot escape the accusation of racial discrimination, but he shows his skills and thinking in the images, which is unique in the era of reflecting on the trauma after the war. But Hollywood, who speaks at the box office, also accepts Waterloo; De Niro has created a tough guy image, but Walken is better, his eyes are full of animalism and emptiness, so De Niro is nominated, Walken is the best supporting actor .
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