Word: cimino
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...time hunting seemed heroic: a test of manliness, a mythic pageant, a recreational surrogate for war. Ernest Hemingway was savagely, sometimes childishly competitive for trophy animals. The '60s brought a shift, and Vietnam a sort of anti-Hemingway revulsion. Michael Cimino's 1978 movie The Deer Hunter ended with the hero lowering his rifle, declining to kill a good-looking buck that, before Vietnam, he would happily have slaughtered...
...over. These are the people who brought you the Big Mac, and in the last twelve years I can't think of a classic they've made." Coppolla's sideswipe struck some as ironic, since he heads the judging system that will consider the new film "Sunchaser" from Michael Cimino, who produced "Heaven's Gate." -->