Epic Film Quest: Bobby DeNiro and One Crazy Walken in ‘The Deer Hunter’
In 1978’s American war drama The Deer Hunter, three friends portrayed by Bobby DeNiro (we’re tight), Christopher Walken, and John Savage enter the Vietnam War as cheerful, vivacious jokesters only to return damaged and half-full. (So basically, it’s like almost every single war movie ever made.) But what Michael Cimino’s film really offers here is some dynamite…