10/12/2023 0 Comments Deer hunter![]() Three hours before it won the Academy Award for Best Picture, 13 members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, protesting against the film’s wildly inaccurate “interpretation” of history, were arrested outside the Los Angeles Music Centre. Jane Fonda, in her Hanoi Jane heyday, denounced the picture as racist, even though she admitted to not having seen it. He might have been talking about Michael Cimino’s powerful, sprawling, politically murky 1978 film, The Deer Hunter, which is reissued this week in a restored version for its 40th anniversary. ![]() ![]() ![]() John Milius, screenwriter of Apocalypse Now and director of Conan the Barbarian, once claimed that “the Vietnam veteran – because he lost the most, because he did it seemingly for nothing – will become the most romanticised war hero in American history”.
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