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...ready to grieve over its tarnished honor and indomitable spirit. Despite its relentlessly bland directorial style, its contrived, overdone script, its torturous three-hour length, The Deer Hunter moved audiences with its sheer emotional power. The movie got all its force from an amazing cast that included Robert DeNiro, Meryl Streep, and Christopher Walken, Cimino, though, was a talented, but unimaginative, amateur: it was obvious in every frame. Yet the movie "touched a chord." While the socially conscious called it narrow-minded and racist--declaiming it as a disgusting, reactionary lie--most critics drooled over it. One critic...
...Hasty Pudding awards "The Man of the Year" annually to "that performer who has made the most outstanding contribution to the performing arts." Recent recipients have included Paul Newman, Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman, and Johnny Carson...
Scorsese underscores this by keeping the direction flat, or at least flat for Scorsese. Camera angles are straightforward and conventional, and the only "cinematic effects" are subtle ones: the way he almost always has DeNiro in the frame, ever when he's not talking; marvelous chiaroscuro effects with the black-and-white film; remarkably restrained glimpses from subjective angles. This approach not only fits the material--flat, quotidian life--but it allows Scorsese a creative contrast in technique in filming the boxing sequences...
...RAGING BULL is, as the advertisements would indicate, Robert DeNiro's movie. DeNiro combines all the wit and spontaneity and genuineness of a Method actor like Brando with all the craft and attention to detail of an Olivier. You become oblivious to the devices he's using: the way he takes the windmill motion of bodypunching, for example, and turns it into LaMotta's leitmotif. Things that DeNiro did to prepare for the movie--learning boxing well enough to become a good club fighter, for example, or gaining 60 pounds or whatever to play LaMotta in later life--have almost...
...Ohio valley town, while remaining largely true to actual events. This ground-level view is contrived at first--for instance, the actors are awkward and reckless with their guns, and they talk a little like displaced New Yorkers--but the emotional strength of the story wins the audience. Robert DeNiro carries the movie with the intensity of that inner distance he has copyrighted, and the supporting cast crystallizes and meshes perfectly around him. In the end, it doesn't matter that this film refuses to deal with Vietnam, because small-town America has refused, too. The Deer Hunter is nothing...