Starring:
John Cazale ... Stan
John Savage ... Steven
Christopher Walken ...Nick
Meryl Streep ... Linda
George Dzundza... John
Now this is an Academy Award winning movie that trly deserved it.Can I just say that what the hell is Meryl Streep doing that everything she touches turns to gold? She is a true actress! I had never seen her in anything before 1990 and then there was “The Deer Hunter”. Omg she is specatacular, but enough about her, lets get to the big man. “DeNiro what a man he busts on to the screen and you lose all sense of time and space. Then there’s the big man Walken, I mean walking in, Chistopher Walken, he is so dashing as the young romeo. Well this is a war movie. Much like everything else I’ve sadly come across these days. This is about the Vietnam War and three best friends who have grown up together, work together, and now they shall fight together. Now everything is going good, until they leave. When in Vietnam they are captured by the enemy. The Vietnamese like to play a little game similar to Russian Roulette, one bullet in the chamber, two men, and six chances to die. The soldiers bet against the two Americans pitted against one another. It is during this game that Stevie loses it. I don't want to give away any endings but suffice it to say that after they play the game Nicky (Walken) is losing it. He also loses it when they are about to be rescued. He is sent to a hospital and thats where he begins to lose all his memories, because the war has been to hard and he is sentenced to nothing but the hellish memory of seeing and being part of the atrocities of war. Mike (Deniro) on the other hand is still with Stevie (Savage) who lost his head a long time ago, during the escape however not only did he take a scrape to the head form the bullet, but he also fell from the helicopter and landed on rocks, therefore breaking his legs and his left arm, he is now a cripple. Mike carries him to safety. Afterward Mike comes back, Nick is gone in a race to lose himself. He makes money by playing the Russian roulette game. Steve was sent back before Mike but he does not know. While he's back he falls in love with Nick's longtime girlfriend, Linda (Streep) , they fall in love because Nick is gone and well the heart wants what it cannot have. Meanwhile Mike finds out that Stevie is alive and his wife upon hearing the news has gone pretty much mute and bed-ridden he goes looking for her and all she gives him is a number, he calls and Stevie is in a convalescent home of sorts, his legs and left arm amputated. Mike goes to see him and Steve tells him he receives money from Saigon but doesn't know from whom. Mike immediately knows this means Nick is the one sending the money, so he flies to Saigon and finds Nick, but Nick has a death wish and can hardly remember who he is. The end is tragic and beautiful is all I shall say. I liked this movie and Salinger was a witness, I couldn't stay in my seat. I recommend this movie, but I don't think I’d see it again too sad.
It also won awards for:
Best Director (Michael Cimino)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Christopher Walken)
Best Film Editing
Best Sound (Richard Portman, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, Darin Knight)
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