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  • These kind of films are the ones that should be seen by the new generation.

  • Did anyone notice how Meryl Streep stopped singing at 1:01?

  • Meryl Streep in this film he looks beautiful.

  • I love this scene. I'm not seeing actors like Robert DeNiro or Meryl Streep playing a role, I see the inhabitants of this town that has been torn apart by the Vietnam War.

  • When I think of the September 11 terrorist attacks, I always think of this last scene from "The Deer Hunter".

  • @Inkan1969 This scene from "The Deer Hunter" is so beautiful because they are singing this in memory of a friend who killed himself in Vietnam.

    However, when Herman Cain releases a video where he has a singer sing "God Bless America" with the same sentiment of sing it in memory of those who lost their lives on 9/11, it is horrible and disgusting. Why?

  • @MrConservative608 I had more in mind the congressmen singing "God Bless America" right after the attacks.  Or that policeman with his memorable rendition, at least before he got too commercial.

  • "To Nick"

  • RIP John Cazale

    All the movies he starred in were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture

  • my all time best film!!! no 1 say no more!!!

  • The scene is worthless unless you show the entire scene.

  • If you're not emotionally wrecked when Dzundsa cries at the end, go fuck yourself because you have a bankrupt soul.  Great scene.

  • banned - watch?v=IqiWhswgmR8&feature=re­lated

  • I still watch it on VHS.

  • Here's to Nick.

  • @dicekpapi18

    Well said!  I can'tstand it when important parts are just slashed off.

  • One of the best endings for one of the all time greats..

  • GOD BLESS AMERICA MY HOME SWEET HOME! i love how everyone bashes us. guess what WE'RE STILL THE BEST NATION ON THIS PLANET

  • @bri343 There is no atmosphere of offense towards America in this video's comments, so there is no reason for you to ruin this touching scene with unargumented ignorant comments. I was scrolling through the comment section happily as i saw that no one was acting defensive or offensive in their comments. Everyone was simply commenting the beauty of the movie.... except you. You make me sad:-(

  • @pineapple123321 hey go get a gun kill your family then yourself

  • This spiel from the back cover of my copy of the film sums it up for me: "At the end of the film, all characters spared the Vietnam War to return home drift unsentimentally, but movingly, into a rendering of God Bless America. It's more than a requiem for their dead comrade: it's an anthem for a living American tradition of making mistakes, rueing them and starting afresh."

  • @freelanceoz yes, this movie is not a anti nor pro war vietnam.......its just the hell from war no matter what country you are fighting for

  • when ever i watch the roulette scene i get physically angry when the guys slaps them knowing just how much it hurts it could bring a grown man to tears.

  • Me and my dad watched this together. I'm only 16 and none of my friends have ever died. Nearly all my dads friends were killed. He cried at this scene. This film truly en captures what war and death does to normal men. To normal people. To normal society. It's possibly the saddest and truest tale ever captured on film

  • America look at the shit you've done is what this scene says

  • This movie is even sadder knowing one of the actors is really dying the whole time

  • @pvcaseyg true that john cazale is so under-appreciated. love him

  • The Deer Hunter is one of the greatest movies of all time

  • Very poigant especially when you consider one of the greatest actors of our time John Casale passed soon after this release.

  • God bless americans!I love them.

  • It's a real cap too on the glorious films of the 1970s...it stands as a fitting end chapter in a way to that great decade and era in cinema history...

  • Rest in peace John Cazale. He was an amazing actor.

  • god bless America...this movie is simply chef-d'oeuvre

  • GOD BLESS AMERICA Land that I love.

    Stand beside her, and guide her

    Through the night with a light from above.

  • Stand up Americans !!! Let's regain our PRIDE !!

  • Yeah -------- '' HERES TO NICK '' ----------- and BTY, - maybe if we voted a little smarter and MORE OFTEN -, we wouldn't get it in the ass every decade or so.

  • one thing i remember well is when the movie was over there was just quiet,no one speaking.

  • "Here's to Nick"

  • @cagekicker18 --- This clip cuts at the end of the song. If I'm not mistaken they then lift their glasses and toast '' here's to Nick ''. I'm very greatful to Greenbearbeer that we have it here. I'd be even moreso if it was there. Also.-- HERE"S TO YOU TOO

  • Here's to Nick!! Man what an absolute masterpiece...one of Hollywood's greatest ever. When Mr. De Niro recalled several of his films during his lifetime achievement award acceptance back in '03, The Deer Hunter was the ONE film whose emotion was so overwhelming that he literally could not speak upon remembering it..

  • In the ONLY decade where the quality of movies was completely OFF THE HOOK and never to be matched ever again, DH has gotta be one of the last great ones of the 70s.

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  • @Hes512 What best part?

  • Meryl Streep, John Cazale, Robert Deniro, fuckin aye

  • When I typed in God Bless America, several choices popped up to watch, including the Flyers version, but I chose this one....

  • I have to admit some of the best war films are anti-war films like this one. 

  • @pijoe7752 hate to contradict- but It's not and anti war film.It's an anti Make'amistake War and then deceive the trusting and oppress the desent and even if you hav'to shoot college students and destroy the faith of generations to come who will have to somehow swallow betrayal and choose between blind obedience or a kind of paranoic estrangement that saps the strength of a nation cause'ya not willin to tell the truth or handle the consequence in an honorable way kinda movie.[you is collective]

  • i like the scene b4,when the fat guy breakes down and cries...over the dead and the guy in the wheelchair..this was a great movie.about the backbone of america ,

  • "This is not a war film is a film about a group of friends" - Michael Cimino words

  • you disabled this what a pussy

  • This movie will make you cry your eyes out, so sad, so powerful

  • There's something rather wet about this scene, and I'm not talking about the eggs.

  • what a creepy and spine-chilling conclusion.

  • @MrPonko Ooooooooooo K...

  • @phlizmo Lame comeback. Shameful. No wonder your a fan of this boring plotless film.

  • @MrPonko "Lame"? I thought it was pretty appropriate considering you called what is considered by many film critics, (not youtube commentators), to be one of the best films of all times featuring some of the greatest actors in the history of film giving their best performances, "gay" and compared it to something you may have produced as a 14 year old. Why HAVENT you made your stories into films if they are better? Prove it to the world.. Dont just talk about it.

  • @phlizmo Some people don't get it.... Fuck them... At least you do...

  • stop Iraq and Afghanistan occupations

    please search this in google

    "One in 40 Iraqis 'killed since invasion"

    "'655,000 Iraqis killed since invasion'"

    END illegal Iraq and Afghanistan occupation NO WMD were found in Iraq !!

    government allowed 9/11 to happen on purpose

    to convince public and troops to invade Iraq and Afghanistan

    WAR for oil, based on lies!!

  • Beautiful ending to a beautiful film!

  • Ok that ending wouldn't of been nearly as good. This ending is controversial and strong mainly because of walken's death. The main theme of the movie is that war ruins peoples lives including the family's of the men going to war. with walken's death it displayed that theme much better. Also the ending wouldn't have been nearly as ironic and talked about. It is perfect how it is, there are very very few elements in the deer hunter that i can imagine someone would want to change.

  • Sure it could have been ironic,when you realize walken is a ticking time bomb,and deniro saving him would show to be futile.Ok,so maybe its because i always laugh at how over the top deniro shakes his head,and goes into his new york italian delievery...''..nicky?nick?...­NOOOOoooo!''That scene is so powerful up until then,just bothers me.

  • @TheGatorfan93

    god bless this unhappy ending! I' m italian and we call the happy, boring ending (you know, the one that makes everyone happy and can ruin a film) "Americanata". At least this is different!!

  • I think it's all about the following:

    even thoug the war was terribly wrong and stupid, they are human beings we're talking about. they all do mistakes. even america. god bless them all. it's not about being a patriotic or religious.

  • I didn't interpret it that way at all - I think it's an ironic statement.

  • I love this scene because it shows that even though you disagree with the war your country is in. You can still love your country.

  • for all the POWs over seas and elsewhere

  • American's draw strength from this song when all seems to be lost.

    God Bless America.

    In America, that applies to whatever God you worship.

  • Does it apply to people who don't worship any God?

  • I know a few "non-worshipers", and I suppose I should have asked some of them how they felt when congress sang the song after 911. I dunno. :-(

  • Science Bless America.

  • I never knew how to take this scene.

    Was the insinuation that the words rang hollow in light of the hell De Niro had been through? Or was it that in spite of everything, they could still muster the love of country to sing that song?

    In either case, an excellent, touching ending.

  • I think here it's used ironically. In the beginning, the town, the friends, and the family of the three men who left were proud that they were going to "serve their country". When, in fact, all that happened was absolute destruction; destruction of land (Vietnam), destruction of body (John Savage), and destruction of mind (Christopher Walken). All of which has to be borne by the surviving soldier (Robert De Niro)

  • @rwltwo

    I agree. It is, however, both beautiful and pathetic that they end up singing "God Bless America" after having had their lives destroyed for good by the government ... only good people can do so after such a sacrifice.

    All the best from Spain.

  • @clustergarde -- We've learned how to come together and heal -- we're learning on the get smart and vote thing -- -- --  -- Viva Sangria !

  • I love this extraordinary scene.

  • One of the best films ever, and one of the best endings

  • ditto

  • "Here's to Nick"

  • Grand !!!!!!!!!

  • May I add that I am not american, neither religious, so this video was not posted here with a patriotic or religious purpose, but feel yourself free to think whatever you feel good with :)

  • @greenbearbeer

    hmmmm, I was thinking of 1 million innocent Iraqis who were slaughtered by America since 2003...

  • @mnytaful INNOCENT Iraqis? Are you stupid or what? We liberated that country from the clutches of a monstrous dictator, and if you're referring to the civilians a massive percentage of that was due to terrorists. Fuck you're dumb.

  • @greenbearbeer -- Very very grateful to you for this posting. I'm new at this but I'm pretty sure what you've done is not so easy - nonetheless, I'm asking, just asking if you could somehow include the toast to Nick. I could be wrong, but i think it's important to a lot of people. I sincerly thank you either way.

  • Seen on Youtube, stripped of context and seen in isolation this may be hard to understand, but coming at the end of such a powerful film, this is one of the most moving scenes I've ever seen in cinema, and had me in floods of tears.

  • Exactly :) That scene is just beautiful.

  • @andrewdavid68 The Deer Hunter was a masterpiece, it presents a piece of American life by ethnic group, and there are many. Here we see hard working folks in PA or OH with Russian heritage, among others. I love the USA for all the mixes of peoples, beautiful. I am of Russian heritage identify with this film absolutely, love the USA forever, and ever !!!

  • @oom10 agreed. Lame film and boring. Nothing happens.

  • America is great no Doubt, but lets face it; we're fucked up.

  • triplerules: if you're serious, America needs to repent of its wars of agression, its pollution, and its violence in the world.

    Were you referring to that? Or merely allowing gays to live?

  • God bless America

    God bless America

    Land that I love

    Stand beside her, and guide her

    Thru the night with a light from above

    From the mountains, to the prairies

    To the oceans, white with foam

    God bless America

    My home sweet home..

    God bless America...

  • AMERICA KICKS ASS

  • Not enough room here to say how much I love America and American people, but also to express my lack on confidence in most American and non-American governments I have known.

    How can politicians make poverty, hunger and war BIG BUSINESS for too many? Grrr!

  • Do you people realize how many want to live in peace and just how much OUR GOVERNMENTS America and others make it impossible to do because of lies they tell us, to be able to kill, And the people who have nothing but bad to say are the ones they get to do the job.

    HOWEVER<<< IGNORENCE IS NO EXCUSE PEOPLE

    LEARN TO SHARE LIFE!

  • I'm sorry for them, who things this ending is a patriotic one. It's perhaps the best anti-war film ever made and not a film that glorifies America or the Vietnam-war... think 'bout it

  • Cannot disagree with that ^^

  • @mrblonde117

    I agree.

    On the same level as Born on the Fourth of July imho.

  • @mrblonde117 Not what Cimino said. Though any war movie can be labelled "anti-war" because it shows wars kill people, I suppose.

  • @mrblonde117 Maybe but war is never a pretty thing. It's ugly that's why it is called war. In it's own way this film did glorify certain aspects of our human frailty. Glorification is for those who served and not the war or America. The flag is but a symbol of the sacrifice that is made to be free. Historians make our the fight for freedom look so romantic. What do you think it was like?

  • Happy Birthday America, Keep up the Fire ! Pro Patria doughboy

    11B All the Way Everyday ah ha....

  • Too bad the clip cut off the toast: "To Nickie".

  • I only wanted to upload this beautiful interpreatation of the song (the only correct one I saw, actually, the song is rather ugly otherwise). All the movie is great ;-)

  • First off, and this is for an audience to think and believe, but judging from Cimino's other films (Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Heaven's Gate), this ending is a rather ambivalent conclusion to a war that ended with much loss and regret. Them singing "God Bless America" isn't necessarily meant to be taken as a patriotic hymn of their spirit.

  • I cannot believe there are not more comments on this flick. It's incredibly moving, we should still feel this way as a nation.

  • such a great film i ever have seen

  • hey lets meet in open battle on a real battlefield, match our intelligence and technology versus yours, and see who wins you superstitious coward little bitch muslim

  • it's a 4chan joke ladies... no reason to get so edgy.  What's wrong with being a Muslim anyways?

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