The Deer Hunter

It won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director (Michael Cimino), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Christopher Walken), Best Film Editing, and Best Sound. Although the action takes place only sixteen years prior to the date the film was made (i.e., as though someone today made a film set in 1990 or thereabouts), the intervening time span had seen much more dramatic change in styles, technological development, politics and social attitudes. Filming locations include:. Surprisingly, the censors allowed through a scene that clearly implies statutory rape, or at least the possibility of it. Redeker and Deric Washburn, and directed by Cimino. Commander Worf on Star Trek: The Next Generation. The movie was written by Michael Cimino, Louis Garfinkle, Quinn K. Bluto then hands him a splintered piece and says "Sorry." This sight gag has been imitated on TV several times, most memorably by Lt.

Inspired by German First World War soldier and author Erich Maria Remarque's 1937 novel Drei Kameraden (Three Comrades) depicting the lives of a trio of disillusioned World War I veterans in 1920s Weimar Germany, this film attempts to explore the meaning of violence, predation and survival, the often ghastly misuses of patriotism as well as illustrating the concepts of ethnicity, family, friendship and community ties and how they complement as well as clash with one another. In one party scene, John Belushi's character, Bluto Blutarsky, smashes an acoustic guitar belonging to a folk singer who is seranading some girls with the song I Gave My Love a Cherry That Had No Stone. De Niro, Savage and Walken portray American factory workers and avid deer hunters of Russian ancestry who serve in combat in Vietnam, returning to a significantly-changed country as significantly-changed men. The motto of Faber College, supposedly uttered by its eponymous founder, Eberhard Faber (the supposed inventor of the pencil) was "Knowledge is Good.". It stars Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep and George Dzundza. The film also inspired a short-lived half-hour television sitcom, Delta House, in which the late John Vernon reprised his role as the long-suffering, malevolent Dean Wormer. The Deer Hunter is a 1978 film which tells the story of how the Vietnam War affects the people in the industrial town of Clairton, Pennsylvania just south of Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River (although it was actually filmed in Cleveland and Mingo Junction, Ohio). This movie was filmed at the University of Oregon, in Eugene, and features numerous buildings from that campus and the surrounding area; however, the idea for script of the movie derived from Miller's experience at his own fraternity at Dartmouth College, one of the Ivy League colleges, in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand.
. In the film, it is portrayed as a part of Saigon. Before the movie's release, toga parties were apparently quite rare, but after 1978 many campuses experienced a massive upsurge of them. Patpong, in Bangkok, Thailand - the area was rented during 2 days for the film. In addition, the film is notable for having introduced the toga party to popular college culture. Saint Theodosius Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Cleveland. Quoting liberally from the film is a popular leisure activity, particularly at social events.

Tom Madden - Steelworker (uncredited). Despite having been born well after the film was released, students--especially men--on Amercan campuses can often be seen wearing shirts emulating the Belushi character's generic "College" model. Chok Chai Mahasoke - Viet Cong guard. Twenty-seven years after its release, Animal House still exerts a powerful influence on today's college students. Ot Palapoo - Viet Cong guard. The film has become known as the ultimate fraternity film; for better or worse, it has promoted many stereotypes and formed a distinct image of fraternities in American culture. Krieng Chaiyapuk - Viet Cong guard. Other characters of importance include: Professor Dave Jennings, who is bored with his job as English teacher; Marion Wormer, the Dean's wife, who becomes the object of Otter's charms; Clorette DePasto, the mayor's underaged daughter, who (possibly) sleeps with Larry; Otis Day, a local singer who is a campus favorite; Mandy Pepperidge, who dates Gregg but secretly loves Otter; and Babs Jansen, a proper southern belle who is turned off by crude Deltas.

Ding Santos - Viet Cong guard. The main Omegas include: Gregg Marmalard, the president of Omega House who dates Mandy Pepperidge and suffers from impotence; Sargeant-at-Arms Doug Niedermeyer, who is the head of the ROTC and hates the Deltas with unbridled passion; and Chip Diller, the Omegas newest pledge. Phip Manee - Woman in village. Dean Vernon Wormer, in cahoots with the Omegas, is constantly intriguing to revoke the Deltas' charter and drive them off campus permanently. Sombot Jumpanoi - South Vietnamese prisoner. At the other end of Fraternity Row, both literally and figuratively, stands the Delta House, a repository for every campus misfit: Eric 'Otter' Stratton, the Playboy-style sex maniac (whose room is an uncannily pristine oasis within the sheer filth of the house); Donald 'Boon' Schoenstein, Otter's best friend who is always deciding between his pals at the Delta House and his girlfriend, Katy; 'Bluto' Blutarsky, an abject, drunken degenerate; Robert Hoover, the affable, reasonably clean-cut president of the fraternity, who desperately struggles to maintain a façade of normalcy for the Dean; D-Day, a tough biker with a penchant for riding up the stairs; Stork, probably borderline autistic; and the two new pledges, Larry 'Pinto' Kroger, a shy but normal fellow, and Kent 'Flounder' Dorfman, a hopelessly fat, clumsy loser--a "total zero", even by Delta standards. Mana Hansa - South Vietnamese prisoner. A 1950s mentality prevails on campus, typified by the Omegas--the "nice boy" frat, dominated by Greg Marmalard and Douglas Niedermeyer, the nefarious, strutting head of the ROTC program.

Chai Peyawan - South Vietnamese prisoner. Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement are but the faintest blips on the horizon. Jiam Gongtongsmoot - Chinese man at door. Faber college, 1962. Charan Nusvanon - Chinese boss. Produced on a scanty $3 million budget, the film has turned out to be one of the most profitable of all time; since its initial release, Animal House has garnered an estimated return of more than $200 million in the form of video and DVDs, not to mention merchandising. Somsak Sengvilai - Viet Cong referee. In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.

Vitoon Winwitoon - NVA officer. It was directed by John Landis. Sapox Colisium - Chinese man. The movie was adapted by Douglas Kenney, Christopher Miller and Harold Ramis from stories that had originally been written by Miller and published in National Lampoon magazine. Samui Muang-Intata - Chinese bodyguard. National Lampoon's Animal House (also called Animal House) is a 1978 comedy film in which a misfit group of Delta fraternity boys takes on the system at their college. It stars John Belushi, Tim Matheson, Karen Allen, John Vernon, Thomas Hulce, Cesare Danova, Peter Riegert, Mary Louise Weller, Stephen Furst, James Daughton, Bruce McGill, Mark Metcalf, James Widdoes, Martha Smith, Kevin Bacon (in his film debut) and Donald Sutherland. Parris Hicks - Sergeant. No grade-point average.

Dale Burroughs - Embassy guard. .zero-point-zero. Po Pao Pee - Chinese referee. Blutarsky. Nongnuj Timruang - Bargirl. Wormer: (to Bluto) Mr. Lynn Kongkham - Nurse. Bluto: I'm a zit! Get it?.

Tom Becker - Doctor. You didn't throw up in front of Dean Wormer, you threw up on Dean Wormer. Frank Devore - Barman. Otter: Face it, Flounder. John F. Buchmelter III - Bar patron. .vegetables are sensuous. Father Stephen Kopestonsky - Priest. Wormer: People are sensual.

Joe Dzizmba - World War II veteran. Mrs. Robert Beard - World War II veteran. Mandy: Gregg, is it supposed to be this soft?. Michael Wollet - Stockboy. Niedermeyer: A pledge pin?! On your uniform?!. Jane-Colette Disko - Girl checker. .explode.