De Niro playing his part full of defiant rage with Walken being more like any of us would be in this situation. The leader of the guards was legitimately slapping De Niro and Walken which added to the agitation of both actors. No background noise or music to drown out the slaps and yelling. What an incredibly tense and nerve-racking scene. While Nick and Michael are held in a watery prison, we witness the guards forcing the POWs to play Russian Roulette. As soon as we get to see the group of friends in the war, they are captured by the Viet Cong. A group of friends from a small industrial town in Pennsylvania prepares to go off to war as one gets married (The Russian Orthodox Wedding could a ‘That Scene’ by itself), one gets engaged and one is apparently an excellent deer hunter. The Deer Hunter is one of the earliest films to examine the post-traumatic stress on soldiers who survived the horrors of the Vietnam War.
Scene: Russian Roulette (Viet Cong Prison)Ĭharacters: Micahel (Robert De Niro), Nick (Christopher Walken), a number of V.C. Let us know your impression of the scene and the impact it left on you the first time you watched it down below in the comments. Some of these scenes may be frightening, weird, iconic, controversial, hilarious and everything in between.
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We will take a scene from a movie and discuss its impact on us. “Hey, have you seen this movie? What did you think about THAT SCENE?!” We have all used that phrase at one point during our discussions of movies with the other person’s eyebrows raising, “Oh yea, THAT SCENE!” You go on to pick that memorable scene apart by listing what you loved or didn’t like, how it made you feel and the impression it left on you.