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Mar 19, 2023 · The most realistic part of the scene came at De Niro’s suggestion, asking for a live round of bullets to be put in the gun. So when the audience is looking at two boyhood friends holding a gun up to their heads, De Niro was using a real bullet and could have easily shot himself had the crew not paid special attention to make sure that the ...
Dec 13, 2021 · Cimino's famous Russian roulette scene frames the enemy as babbling and guffawing creatures routinely slapping their prisoners and forcing them to play a barbarous game by holding guns to...
Nov 5, 2021 · Robert De Niro insisted that a live round was used during ‘The Deer Hunter’ Russian roulette scene. Calum Russell @Russellisation. Fri 5 November 2021 14:00, UK.
Released back in 1978, “The Deer Hunter” contains harrowing scenes in which the main characters, American POWs played by Robert DeNiro, Jon Savage and Christpher Walken are forced by their...