“The Deer Hunter” was, oddly enough, roughly based on a screenplay called “The Man Who Came to Play,” about a group of men playing Russian roulette — not in Vietnam, but in Las Vega ...

I just watched The Deer Hunter (after it was recommended in the Meryl Streep thread). It was good, but I am somewhat confused about the 'russian roulette gambling den'. These weren't prisoners ...

[The New York Times, 1981] A 23-year-old man [Daniel Bouley] shot himself in the head in a game of Russian roulette apparently inspired by watching the movie The Deer Hunter on television ...

Michael Cimino's seminal 1978 drama The Deer Hunter may feature mesmerising ... Walken and John Savage's characters are forced to play Russian Roulette in a Vietnamese prison camp.

He might have been talking about Michael Cimino's powerful, sprawling, politically murky 1978 film, The Deer Hunter ... years after its release, the Russian roulette scenes – arguably Cimino ...

A Robert De Niro fanatic blew his own head off trying to recreate the actor's famous Russian Roulette scene in The Deer Hunter, it has been claimed. Bryan Javier Soto Aguilera was visiting pal ...

It’s tough to remember more than those Russian roulette sequences ... and limiting to call this great work of art a film about Vietnam. The Deer Hunter is a film about friendship, about the ...

Potentially lethal, it is a game played when a single bullet is put in the chamber of a revolver, the chamber is spun and participants blindly pull the trigger. There are two variations to the game.

Few cultural inventions carry as much weight as the game of Russian ... of Russian Roulette.” Its cultural reach extended ...

A movie buff shot himself to death while reenacting the Russian roulette scene from Robert De Niro’s film “The Deer Hunter,” his friend said. Bryan Javier Soto Aguilera, a 20-year-old from ...

When Michael (Robert De Niro) and Nick (Christopher Walken) are forced to play Russian Roulette with three bullets ... Cimino's epic second feature The Deer Hunter was both renowned for its ...