Yes...i know this song from " the deer hunter " really a beautiful song ,but i could never really get away from that movie and always felt the theme of friendship,humanity and loyalty
It sounds to me as if the guitar is trying to talk to me & if I'd listen just a little bit harder I can actually get the words. It's extremely sad piece but totally relieving at the same time, it moves you inside & makes you feel better about yourself & the others... an absolute masterpiece imo.
This is being played at my memorial service. Wayne you are right. It is breathtakingly beautiful. I have my own classical guitarist to play it for me, even.
im still learning this breathtaking, heart touching piece of music, i just keep coming back to listen to it, it really touches me along with the movie and has done since it first came out, i also keep reading all you comments, there really is something so special about this music
zing how the actors could express the sufferfing of others when they were suffering so much themselves. The horror scenes of this film are accurate: I was trained by those whom endured them
Never watched the film. Too young. But I've known this song for years, even played it on the piano. Still touches me after all this time. Guess I have a heart after all.
This was an earth shattering film for me. I wanted to cry throughout most of it but couldn't. Not because it was bad or "not quite emotional enough" to open the flood gates but because each time I thought I might finally sob the urge was cauterized by something amazing or intense. I think I might have a bit at the end but since the ending hadn't been "ruined" for me I was in total shock and found myself unable to (again). Wasn't until later where everything worked out slowly. Powerful film.
Perfection. My earliest memory of this song was as it was playin on the Tony Hart(?) art show on BBC children's programmes showing the different drawings sent in by kids. This was always the song that played. Then you grow up and love it all over agian in another kind of art. The Deer Hunter by Cimino.
I am a person who tends to keep a stiff upper lip, but this song just totally brings out emotion I hardly know I have. I remember as a boy even in the seventies that it did it to me. Incidentally, I have a very different take on the Deer Hunter than most people. Yes, it certainly highlighted the tragedy of The Vietnam War, but I didn't think it was totally one sided anti American. The vietcong if you remember was certainly shown in a negative light when the civiians hiding were blown to bits.
When ever life kicks me down so hard and I feel I can't rise above, this gives me peace. It is my most solemn wish, that for anyone else that feels so bereft and so defeated, to take a moment and breathe. Do that for me, cause life's hard.
@starquant You don't imagine how much your words could be mine...Life is so hard...at least we have Music...and Music like this Track is just beyonds words...
Something I'll always remember about the Deer Hunter. The music...this song made the film, definitely reflected the emotion of the 3 friends who grew up together and fought together in Vietnam. Even once they had been sent back Mike did his upmost to track them all down, especially when he went back to Saigon to find Nicky...beautiful song and film.
War is usually bullshit. Not always, but usually. At the end of the day, it's usually very powerful, rich people looking to get more powerful and more rich by using naive kids as pawns, and promising them glory and security in return. The least they could do is keep up the lie and give the veterans proper healthcare, but they can't even do that, because at that point the job is done and they don't mind a little bad PR if it means saving money.
The vietnam war was an just cause run ruined by a bunch of idiot left wing nuts in the offices of washington tying the hands of us forces and pilots. If given an honest chance we would have won the war within one year. South vietnam was an US ally just like other allies we have a mutual obligation and desire to help one another, in this case communist over running south vietnam. Too much propaganda covering the war as well as the bias against the confederate south
Well--so you see how I am torn--being German, American--it's difficult--my first love was Iranian--and I learned a lot from him--my first boss was Iranian--and I learned a lot from him--I have always been exposed to soo many different cultures my entire life that maybe I can be more tolerant than some others can--be glad for the good things
This makes me think of John Cazale. He was one of the finest actors who has ever lived. He was diagnosed with cancer, and they had to film all of his scenes first as he was very ill. He was to marry Meryl Streep but he passed away before they finished filming The Deerhunter, one of the greatest cinematic feats ever put on film. Haunting rendition, thank you. " I knew it was you "
@Longhammer37214 When you know that and see the film, you can understand the sadness in their hearts. They were suffering as they portrayed the suffering of others.
i love the song - the movie i dont like - it portrays the americans as the good guys and the vietnamese as the bad guys when it was the other way round
@cardigan3000 It doesn't really portray Americans as anything. It portrays one group of friends, three of which go to Vietnam without having any idea what was in store for them. And while yes, they do demonize the Vietnamese in some scenes, some pretty fucked up things happened to prisoners of war.
@lacieduke interesting you should mention that - what the americans did in vietnam and more particularly laos and cambodia could be compared to the actions of the germans in ww22
@cardigan3000 What fuckin planet do you live on dude? There is no similarity between the Germans in WWII & American forces in Vietnam,Laos & Cambodia. Unlike the Communist/marxist who murdered tens of thousands of innocent villagers in the area, American forces brought aid & a sense of independence to the remote people of that region. .
@cardigan3000 don't think so--it's always in the eye of the beholder--war is hell--no matter what 'side' you are on--we know Americans aren't always the good guys
One of the finest cinematic works ever, with the finest cast ever assembled for any movie at any time in my opinion. I must have seen this movie at least 20 times, it draws me in and completely devours me every time. The notorious, unbearable Russian Roulette scene still leaves my heart pounding. I feel haunted and drained after watching it, I cry inconsoleably too, but it doesn´t stop me. I´ve known someone like Nicky. We all have.
such a beautiful piece of music. in my opinion, this wasn't a movie about war, it was one about friendship. after mike was running around through the street in his boxers after stevie's wedding, nick made mike promise not to leave him "over there," should anything happen. and mike flew thousands of miles back to vietnam to get nick, and he did bring him back home. that says more than anything i've ever heard of before in my life about friendship.
@teamguido555 deniros char did leave him behind. When he was in vietnam he shouldve taken him back with no straight away but he was selfish and went back alone to take his woman, only after finding out she would never truly be his he went back for his friend to make her happy, but he was fked up by then and therefore that is not real friendship.
@AyesThatsme dude that's not why he went back--he was the MAN in their little group of friends--don't u remember at the wedding reception when Mike ran out and was taking all of his clothes off--he and Nike were talking and Nike said--hey Mike whatever happens 'Don't leave me there' man whatever you do don't leave me there--he made Mike promise--and that's what Mike did--not so much to do with the girl--they were buddys
They could seriously not have picked a better song for the theme of The Deer Hunter. It was such a remarkable movie with such a great meaning. Whats up with people now a days they see Transformers or some lame Flick and they go all Gaga over how Amazing it is and how the actors are brilliant. If they really want to see a good movie they need to watch this or anything with Robert De Niro and then see the difference. Actors these days don't have a clue to what acting is.
I have no words to expressed myself how I feel about the movie and the music... just brings tears from my heart!
The movie is so touching and so true about the war, soldiers, inocent people...
the actors, great, amazing! I fell in love with every actor playing this tragic but so true story. What a shame we have wars everywhere and nothing can´t stop it. So many soldiers lost, so many lives ... SHAME!
un capolavoro-uno dei migliori film mai visti-robert de niro e anche l'amico che muore e meryll strip in questo film sono insuperabili-insuperabile questa musica malinconica e triste ma poi arriva in cielo-uno dei migliori brani mai ascoltati
yeah, so seven people must be retarded, or haven't seen the movie, or just don't contain a heart in their chest cavity. only one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever composed...
It's safe to assume with a beautiful song like this that the 7 dislikes were all accidental, because it's just impossible not to like this music. So that means about 1% of people accidentally hit the dislike button instead of the like button on YouTube videos.
@Alkhir69 maybe you misunderstood me....i love this music....it's wonderful, so intense and passionate....Stanley Myers is hige artist...... i really could listen to it every day, it makes me feel relaxed and quiet.
"The Deer Hunter" is the ONE movie that you see ONCE in your lifetime whereby the realm of unconditional and unyielding friendship is thoroughly chiseled into stone. From the haunting opening theme song right down to the final funeral scene, Cimino captured the pure essence of each actor's God-given talent and created what can only be described as a true cinema icon. Deniro, Streep. Walken, Savage, Cazale. That's a winning line up that will never be equalled in our future. "Here's to Nick".
Wow - a great movie for a great song - and a great song for a great movie! Robert Deniro and Meryl Streep were rarely better, and Christopher Walken was at his very best. 5 Oscar wins ( Best Picture), and 4 more Oscar nominations. In real life, John Cazale (Stanley) was engaged to Meryl Streep during filming of the Deer Hunter. John Cazale had played Fredo in Godfather - and Sal, in Dog Day Afternoon alongside his childhood friend Al Pacino. Sadly, John Cazale died 1 week after filming ended....
this film has scenes that are so sad I find it difficult to watch. I think the more you have suffered in this life the more difficult it becomes to watch this film.
@emperorles Care to cite yourself? I'm no fan of the Vietnam war, but to my knowledge no one has ever "admitted" such a thing, much less the US government.
awesome movie/ soundtrack combo. 70's movies....many critics will say it was the best decade of american movie cinema! @ flanissimo.. ur words speak the truth. their friendship in this movie (and in reality to many vets), will never be the same.
I have never seen a movie with such integrity...even with Axle yelling "fuckin' a" all of the time. I don't know how Cimino did it. The characters...so every day...so believable. The music... so beautiful. So tragic but uplifting. By far, my favorite movie of all time.
This is so fucking beautiful...One of the best themes for a movie. I'm doing Cavatina on piano for my piano exam, but the guitar version is just so amazing!
sadly Cazale died a week after last scene was shot. . wasn't the film attacked by US critics on it's release as being a flag-waving vindication of US policy? very odd, i saw it here in London as a young teeneager and thought it was (and still is) one of hte greatest anti-war films ever made. it's hard to pick out an outstanding scene or peformance...where do you start? what a cast. wonderful music. Streep so so beautiful.....thank you Michael Cimino...r.i.p John Cazale
John Cazale, who was dying of bone cancer, looks much healthier in the scenes after De Niro's character comes back from the war than the scenes earlier in the film. I read that all of his scenes were filmed first. Were they also filmed out of sequence? He looks awful in the earlier scenes, not so much later.
Now the communist state of Vietnam, makes Nike shoes for the imperial west, and profits from it! So what was this war all about for the US and the French?
@dennisrrhodes It was all about the golden triangle of the drug trade. Think about it: after the Vietnamese government kick Russia out, the Soviet Union invaded Afganastan. Why do you think they did that, b/c of heroin! Throughout the 60's and the seventies, heroin was a major problem in the US, but in the 80's it seem to disappear. Cocaine was the big deal; not until the mid 90's did heroin reappear as a major proplem. And where was the heroin coming from: South America!
My father was in Vietnam.....lets end the wars....the globalists think of armed service men as robots to carry out there agenda of colonialism and eugenics.
@MortenTheMartian Music works particularly well at stirring emotion if it's associated with the right images or memories ore preferably both. This is a great piece of music but it works on a different level because of its association with the film. Ennio Morricone and Sergio Leone did much the same.
This movie hit close to home for some of us; this could have been my cousin Pammy's wedding, my older cousins and younger uncles racing down Second Avenue from J&L Steel in Pittsburgh, getting tanked and running off to the Allegheny National Forest to h
Damn it! I HATE still being alive!
SueStraka 5 days ago
RIP, dear Stanley. Glad I knew you.
silvanusslaughter 1 week ago
RIP John Cazale
rubiconyoufag 1 week ago
thks for this wonderful gift !
snookie60100 1 week ago
Many films have become classics in particular thanks to the wonderful music.......
vojkanE30 3 weeks ago
Yes...i know this song from " the deer hunter " really a beautiful song ,but i could never really get away from that movie and always felt the theme of friendship,humanity and loyalty
penontonsajah 3 weeks ago
It sounds to me as if the guitar is trying to talk to me & if I'd listen just a little bit harder I can actually get the words. It's extremely sad piece but totally relieving at the same time, it moves you inside & makes you feel better about yourself & the others... an absolute masterpiece imo.
Kazanskoe57 1 month ago
This is being played at my memorial service. Wayne you are right. It is breathtakingly beautiful. I have my own classical guitarist to play it for me, even.
SueStraka 1 month ago
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- Nicky, do you remember the trees? Do you remember all the different way of the trees? Remember that? Huh?
- The Mountains! Can you remember that?
- One Shot.
- One Shot! One Shot!
- Hahaha...
- Hey
- Yeah...
Nick Shoots himself in the head.
:'(
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Moonrunner17 1 month ago
I love this song!
GilliedFPM 1 month ago
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
TheFunkArea 1 month ago
Cavatina adds so much to The Deer Hunter, in a bad way. It makes the film so sad and depressing. I can't bear to watch The Deer Hunter because of it.
StraightFashionMan 1 month ago
im still learning this breathtaking, heart touching piece of music, i just keep coming back to listen to it, it really touches me along with the movie and has done since it first came out, i also keep reading all you comments, there really is something so special about this music
wayneburne 1 month ago in playlist my favorites 4
"I'll tell you, Nick. You're the only guy I go hunting with, you know. I like a guy with quick moves and speed. I ain't gonna hunt with no assholes."
Such a great masterpiece from Cimino.
shane13233 1 month ago 3
10 people are heartless .
crassazell 1 month ago 2
Gives you goosebumps every time...especially after seeing the movie. A Beautiful song.
johnbinhack 2 months ago 2
This is a masterpiece! Both the film and the "Cavatina". I cry when i see the move...one of the best i`ve ever seen!
helge543 2 months ago 2
10 people are deaf !
metalsoldier71 2 months ago 2
Well done, thank you!
bmurraygroove 2 months ago
I loved the film. But this song made it memorable.
England3r 2 months ago
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Greatest movie of all time.
Murreh 2 months ago
The first Viet-Nam movie I saw after coming home. This song fit the movie perfecly. The melody stayed with me.
623pogo 2 months ago
oh wow
mariahrocks12345 2 months ago
Truly a classic vietnam war movie...lifelong friendship and patrotism.
TheBenj2011 2 months ago
great movie true friends
athcom51 2 months ago
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL & SAD THEME SONG. , rip jOHN CAZALE
jkmj999 3 months ago
xxx. heaven is close 2 us all...xxx
MrMpvincent69 3 months ago
It is ama!
zing how the actors could express the sufferfing of others when they were suffering so much themselves. The horror scenes of this film are accurate: I was trained by those whom endured them
stjack279 3 months ago
flashback
jeffersonberba 3 months ago
Never watched the film. Too young. But I've known this song for years, even played it on the piano. Still touches me after all this time. Guess I have a heart after all.
scheepalicious 3 months ago
...unforgetable movie
oloscience 3 months ago 16
Nice job, thanks.
pascal7414 3 months ago
This was an earth shattering film for me. I wanted to cry throughout most of it but couldn't. Not because it was bad or "not quite emotional enough" to open the flood gates but because each time I thought I might finally sob the urge was cauterized by something amazing or intense. I think I might have a bit at the end but since the ending hadn't been "ruined" for me I was in total shock and found myself unable to (again). Wasn't until later where everything worked out slowly. Powerful film.
bananaPLEASE 4 months ago
anch'io ho avuto il mio vietnam.
TheStefano2000 4 months ago
@TheStefano2000 haha perché?
kjh1991x 2 months ago
ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!
LuzRomero11 4 months ago
Perfection. My earliest memory of this song was as it was playin on the Tony Hart(?) art show on BBC children's programmes showing the different drawings sent in by kids. This was always the song that played. Then you grow up and love it all over agian in another kind of art. The Deer Hunter by Cimino.
Nautilus1972 4 months ago 2
9 dislikes,don't understand what people find here to dislike!!?
sasahammer 4 months ago
USMC REYES NJ
sawsqdldr 5 months ago
my guitar is tuned to an electric tuner but its no were near this?
idalgleish87 5 months ago
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每次聆聽這首美好的旋律，都會讓我有一種失落感。即是一種淡淡的憂傷，又是一種濃濃的感念。年歲大了，似乎每年都有老友走了的消息，但回憶總是那麼的美好！願跟你分享。阿汕
sampsonwei 5 months ago
So peaceful..so beautiful......
Beautyinlife2011 5 months ago
So peaceful..so beautiful
Beautyinlife2011 5 months ago
sungha jung brings me back here
junpingt 5 months ago 2
ｽﾀﾝﾘｰ･ﾏｲﾔｰｽﾞの感動の"ｶヴｧﾃｨｰﾅ"の調べが切なかった!～チミノ監督"ﾃﾞｨｱ･ﾊﾝﾀｰ"の様々なｼｰﾝを思い起こす! #eiga
blackandtanful 5 months ago
I am a person who tends to keep a stiff upper lip, but this song just totally brings out emotion I hardly know I have. I remember as a boy even in the seventies that it did it to me. Incidentally, I have a very different take on the Deer Hunter than most people. Yes, it certainly highlighted the tragedy of The Vietnam War, but I didn't think it was totally one sided anti American. The vietcong if you remember was certainly shown in a negative light when the civiians hiding were blown to bits.
DRebele1 6 months ago
When ever life kicks me down so hard and I feel I can't rise above, this gives me peace. It is my most solemn wish, that for anyone else that feels so bereft and so defeated, to take a moment and breathe. Do that for me, cause life's hard.
starquant 6 months ago 2
@starquant You don't imagine how much your words could be mine...Life is so hard...at least we have Music...and Music like this Track is just beyonds words...
slysystem 6 months ago
beautiful film..one of the best...
010bobby 6 months ago
banned - watch?v=IqiWhswgmR8&feature=related
XXXTVQ8IPLUS 6 months ago
@XXXTVQ8IPLUS why is it banned?
alexbeathaloreach 3 months ago
NICKY REMEMBER.. ONE SHOT
somenoobz 6 months ago
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one of the most emotional stirring movies ever made ,ever
zakiboyo123 6 months ago
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one of the most emotional stirring movies ever made ,ever
zakiboyo123 6 months ago
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one of the most emotional stirring movies ever made ,ever
zakiboyo123 6 months ago
Im live from Hungary.....Im a man.....but this film.......Im see this.....and my soul crying....no word is it....Respect.....
Rawenhun 6 months ago
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Good movie ,great music sad but beautiful!!!
tochtlitacallan 6 months ago
che musica meravigliosa!
lorlen1980 7 months ago
piękne, kojarzy się z innym, lepszym, nieosiągalnym światem
piotrg2 7 months ago
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The best movie ever made.
avenueone1 7 months ago
how the hell do 8 people dislike this? you are certainly going to hell
BrokenBoneStudios 7 months ago
Bco 1/1 2nd plt. USMC
sawsqdldr 8 months ago
the greatest piece of instremental guitar ever
MyKnopfler 8 months ago
Respect....
modette69er 8 months ago 2
Blessuð Sé minning þín Einar við kvöddum þig með þessu lagi Vonandi hitumst við hinumeginn
Haffikaff1 8 months ago
I play the classical guitar and currently uploaded to youtube.
Please visit my account and listen to my cavatina.
TheNisssy 8 months ago
Something I'll always remember about the Deer Hunter. The music...this song made the film, definitely reflected the emotion of the 3 friends who grew up together and fought together in Vietnam. Even once they had been sent back Mike did his upmost to track them all down, especially when he went back to Saigon to find Nicky...beautiful song and film.
wikiactivist 8 months ago
this was also in 'Unforgiven'
luigiperso 9 months ago
@luigiperso noooo... Claudias theme was in Unforgiven.
Bluesguitar247 9 months ago
Beautiful song and a very powerful movie. I've never forgotten it.
226billy 9 months ago
@226billy Well said . Its true , The Deer Hunter is a haunting story .
Smudgeroon74 9 months ago
War is usually bullshit. Not always, but usually. At the end of the day, it's usually very powerful, rich people looking to get more powerful and more rich by using naive kids as pawns, and promising them glory and security in return. The least they could do is keep up the lie and give the veterans proper healthcare, but they can't even do that, because at that point the job is done and they don't mind a little bad PR if it means saving money.
superman11978 9 months ago 2
Sometimes you can try so hard and it just turns to shit. what then! Go on.....
ramjamflimflam 9 months ago
just listen to the music !
paulbarraza 9 months ago
The vietnam war was an just cause run ruined by a bunch of idiot left wing nuts in the offices of washington tying the hands of us forces and pilots. If given an honest chance we would have won the war within one year. South vietnam was an US ally just like other allies we have a mutual obligation and desire to help one another, in this case communist over running south vietnam. Too much propaganda covering the war as well as the bias against the confederate south
milton44100 9 months ago
Seriously, you need to know what you are talking about!
stjack279 10 months ago
Lets start w/ some fundamentals: what was the mission German Army in Russia, and what was the purpose of the US forces in Vietnam?
stjack279 10 months ago
Needs more cowbell!
Longhammer37214 10 months ago 5
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BEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME
trilobite3339 10 months ago
This version of Cavatina is rearranged from the original that John Williams played. I prefer this one. Where can you get the score for this?
teddykan1 10 months ago
R.I.P John Cazale
justacondom 10 months ago 52
just sayin...
lacieduke 10 months ago
Well--so you see how I am torn--being German, American--it's difficult--my first love was Iranian--and I learned a lot from him--my first boss was Iranian--and I learned a lot from him--I have always been exposed to soo many different cultures my entire life that maybe I can be more tolerant than some others can--be glad for the good things
lacieduke 10 months ago
properly, maybe, defiantly, the greatest soundtrack... of all time!!!
but I don't know, there is some good soundtracks out there but none as good as this.
personally!
RougeMongoose 10 months ago
This makes me think of John Cazale. He was one of the finest actors who has ever lived. He was diagnosed with cancer, and they had to film all of his scenes first as he was very ill. He was to marry Meryl Streep but he passed away before they finished filming The Deerhunter, one of the greatest cinematic feats ever put on film. Haunting rendition, thank you. " I knew it was you "
Longhammer37214 11 months ago 22
@Longhammer37214 When you know that and see the film, you can understand the sadness in their hearts. They were suffering as they portrayed the suffering of others.
stjack279 6 months ago
i love the song - the movie i dont like - it portrays the americans as the good guys and the vietnamese as the bad guys when it was the other way round
cardigan3000 11 months ago
@cardigan3000 It doesn't really portray Americans as anything. It portrays one group of friends, three of which go to Vietnam without having any idea what was in store for them. And while yes, they do demonize the Vietnamese in some scenes, some pretty fucked up things happened to prisoners of war.
atomicaleb 11 months ago
@cardigan3000 depends on your perspective -- take a look at WWII
lacieduke 10 months ago
@lacieduke interesting you should mention that - what the americans did in vietnam and more particularly laos and cambodia could be compared to the actions of the germans in ww22
cardigan3000 10 months ago
@cardigan3000 What fuckin planet do you live on dude? There is no similarity between the Germans in WWII & American forces in Vietnam,Laos & Cambodia. Unlike the Communist/marxist who murdered tens of thousands of innocent villagers in the area, American forces brought aid & a sense of independence to the remote people of that region. .
stjack279 10 months ago
@stjack279 I hate to argue on a video like this, but you are soooo wrong. I detect some bias.
blablaidontcarewhour 10 months ago
@stjack279 VERY TRUE THE LEFT WILL ALWAYS SAY IT AMERICA FAULT ..
mryellowcrown 7 months ago
@mryellowcrown Oh go fuck yourself... PLEASE. Do us all - including America - a favor and go fuck yourself.
GrigoriSom 7 months ago
@GrigoriSom LIBERAL ALWAYS SAYING BAD WORDS ..THIS FOR YOU GREG PEACE MY FRIEND ..
mryellowcrown 7 months ago
@cardigan3000 don't think so--it's always in the eye of the beholder--war is hell--no matter what 'side' you are on--we know Americans aren't always the good guys
lacieduke 10 months ago
mmmmm
AyesThatsme 11 months ago
Needs no words
Mr2000HD 11 months ago
One of the finest cinematic works ever, with the finest cast ever assembled for any movie at any time in my opinion. I must have seen this movie at least 20 times, it draws me in and completely devours me every time. The notorious, unbearable Russian Roulette scene still leaves my heart pounding. I feel haunted and drained after watching it, I cry inconsoleably too, but it doesn´t stop me. I´ve known someone like Nicky. We all have.
francescatucker 11 months ago 2
Nice Job....I have done my version of Cavatina...check it out.... Pipixcan69
Pipixcan69 11 months ago
I got a ear orgasme first time i heard this!
nisogfrederik 1 year ago
One of the best movie and composition so unbelievably integral and unseparable ever! Thank you for posting!
deligh13lah 1 year ago
such a beautiful piece of music. in my opinion, this wasn't a movie about war, it was one about friendship. after mike was running around through the street in his boxers after stevie's wedding, nick made mike promise not to leave him "over there," should anything happen. and mike flew thousands of miles back to vietnam to get nick, and he did bring him back home. that says more than anything i've ever heard of before in my life about friendship.
teamguido555 1 year ago 2
@teamguido555 deniros char did leave him behind. When he was in vietnam he shouldve taken him back with no straight away but he was selfish and went back alone to take his woman, only after finding out she would never truly be his he went back for his friend to make her happy, but he was fked up by then and therefore that is not real friendship.
AyesThatsme 11 months ago
@AyesThatsme dude that's not why he went back--he was the MAN in their little group of friends--don't u remember at the wedding reception when Mike ran out and was taking all of his clothes off--he and Nike were talking and Nike said--hey Mike whatever happens 'Don't leave me there' man whatever you do don't leave me there--he made Mike promise--and that's what Mike did--not so much to do with the girl--they were buddys
lacieduke 10 months ago
war is good for the soul............
scotmax69 1 year ago
They could seriously not have picked a better song for the theme of The Deer Hunter. It was such a remarkable movie with such a great meaning. Whats up with people now a days they see Transformers or some lame Flick and they go all Gaga over how Amazing it is and how the actors are brilliant. If they really want to see a good movie they need to watch this or anything with Robert De Niro and then see the difference. Actors these days don't have a clue to what acting is.
mchelepyan 1 year ago
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mchelepyan 1 year ago
This is my all time favorite film song-score it matches the film so well I even want it played at my Memorial Service when I pass away
springsteen1949 1 year ago
"we HAVE to finish the war in Afghanistan" I do agree but with far less troops and step up the predator drone aircraft war.
ja01975 1 year ago
What it all boils down to is "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". The US did not want the USSR to have a shortcut to the Middle East Oil.
ja01975 1 year ago
I have no words to expressed myself how I feel about the movie and the music... just brings tears from my heart!
The movie is so touching and so true about the war, soldiers, inocent people...
the actors, great, amazing! I fell in love with every actor playing this tragic but so true story. What a shame we have wars everywhere and nothing can´t stop it. So many soldiers lost, so many lives ... SHAME!
ogui120152 1 year ago
@ogui120152 Tell that to Osama...
ja01975 1 year ago
poetry
antonietto1 1 year ago
un capolavoro-uno dei migliori film mai visti-robert de niro e anche l'amico che muore e meryll strip in questo film sono insuperabili-insuperabile questa musica malinconica e triste ma poi arriva in cielo-uno dei migliori brani mai ascoltati
massimo9741 1 year ago
@massimo9741 vero!
ogui120152 1 year ago
yeah, so seven people must be retarded, or haven't seen the movie, or just don't contain a heart in their chest cavity. only one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever composed...
Bradaighbunch 1 year ago
beautiful!
f03b39 1 year ago
A timeless masterpiece ,this film :)
schumannlover1 1 year ago
It's safe to assume with a beautiful song like this that the 7 dislikes were all accidental, because it's just impossible not to like this music. So that means about 1% of people accidentally hit the dislike button instead of the like button on YouTube videos.
superman11978 1 year ago
How could 7 people dislike such a beautiful piece of music?!
chocoholicchic92 1 year ago 3
@chocoholicchic92 Trolls & retards.
Donnatella624 1 year ago
Meryl Streep is beautiful
antonietto1 1 year ago
love
GERMANOBULGARIKUS 1 year ago
i want this music for my funeral.
antonietto1 1 year ago
@antonietto1 - You drama queen!
Alkhir69 1 year ago
@Alkhir69 maybe you misunderstood me....i love this music....it's wonderful, so intense and passionate....Stanley Myers is hige artist...... i really could listen to it every day, it makes me feel relaxed and quiet.
Goodbye
antonietto1 1 year ago
"The Deer Hunter" is the ONE movie that you see ONCE in your lifetime whereby the realm of unconditional and unyielding friendship is thoroughly chiseled into stone. From the haunting opening theme song right down to the final funeral scene, Cimino captured the pure essence of each actor's God-given talent and created what can only be described as a true cinema icon. Deniro, Streep. Walken, Savage, Cazale. That's a winning line up that will never be equalled in our future. "Here's to Nick".
cagekicker18 1 year ago 3
Wow - a great movie for a great song - and a great song for a great movie! Robert Deniro and Meryl Streep were rarely better, and Christopher Walken was at his very best. 5 Oscar wins ( Best Picture), and 4 more Oscar nominations. In real life, John Cazale (Stanley) was engaged to Meryl Streep during filming of the Deer Hunter. John Cazale had played Fredo in Godfather - and Sal, in Dog Day Afternoon alongside his childhood friend Al Pacino. Sadly, John Cazale died 1 week after filming ended....
007MrSecretAgentMan 1 year ago
Enjoy the music, enough of the politics.
peterthomson13 1 year ago 58
this film has scenes that are so sad I find it difficult to watch. I think the more you have suffered in this life the more difficult it becomes to watch this film.
s14man 1 year ago
im learning this on guitar, I can play it but i can never memorize it, does anyone know how I can remember more of it?
EyeHawk777 1 year ago
@EyeHawk777 Don't worry about that, be happy that you can play it with the sheet in front of you. That's already an achievement.
tasteism 1 year ago
Absolutely agree.. one of the BEST movies ever made. This song is so definitive of the characters and the entire film.
theheadz75 1 year ago
@emperorles Care to cite yourself? I'm no fan of the Vietnam war, but to my knowledge no one has ever "admitted" such a thing, much less the US government.
coltharpnicholas 1 year ago 4
special..., very special music for many people
oidor1 1 year ago
awesome movie/ soundtrack combo. 70's movies....many critics will say it was the best decade of american movie cinema! @ flanissimo.. ur words speak the truth. their friendship in this movie (and in reality to many vets), will never be the same.
fabes76 1 year ago
Beautiful. Who is the person at the start of this clip, please?
Johnathonq51 1 year ago
@Johnathonq51 actor Christopher Walken
fisherking79 1 year ago
This movie still touch my heart! It's one of the very few about Vietnam war that I like.
It'l all about LOVE &FRIENDSHIP!
Stemih40 1 year ago
Beautifully done, thank you!
bmurraygroove 1 year ago
What's happened to great movies like this that don't rely on technical gimmicks and cartoonery?
winrx 1 year ago
CLASS
coocher2009 1 year ago
great video thanks
carlotta306 1 year ago
I have never seen a movie with such integrity...even with Axle yelling "fuckin' a" all of the time. I don't know how Cimino did it. The characters...so every day...so believable. The music... so beautiful. So tragic but uplifting. By far, my favorite movie of all time.
iggyjuana 1 year ago 97
This is so fucking beautiful...One of the best themes for a movie. I'm doing Cavatina on piano for my piano exam, but the guitar version is just so amazing!
dozzaskebab 1 year ago
@iggyjuana I agree 100% with you. I've never felt so much emotion watching a film as with The Deer Hunter. An absolute genius piece of work.
Murreh 1 year ago
@iggyjuana And my too.I think that s only movie who remind me why I love people.
Anatolij2010 1 year ago
Saw this when it was first shown in the UK. Nothing has ever shocked me as much. Brilliant film, so long ago now.
ukalpine 1 year ago
@iggyjuana you would like Deniro in Awakenings
jerbear54 1 year ago
@iggyjuana You're right, the characters are very believable
N330AA 1 year ago
MIne too....been watching every year or so since the late 70's :)
never tire of it...haunting and hypnotic...De Niro at his peak and at his best...
dessert57 11 months ago
@iggyjuana yeah agree with you--I always get hit, and beaten for listening to Freddie Mercury so thanks for something I dont get beat about
lacieduke 10 months ago
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Words cant describe how much i love this movie.
irishhellsangel 1 year ago
sadly Cazale died a week after last scene was shot. . wasn't the film attacked by US critics on it's release as being a flag-waving vindication of US policy? very odd, i saw it here in London as a young teeneager and thought it was (and still is) one of hte greatest anti-war films ever made. it's hard to pick out an outstanding scene or peformance...where do you start? what a cast. wonderful music. Streep so so beautiful.....thank you Michael Cimino...r.i.p John Cazale
LionRock08 1 year ago
John Cazale, who was dying of bone cancer, looks much healthier in the scenes after De Niro's character comes back from the war than the scenes earlier in the film. I read that all of his scenes were filmed first. Were they also filmed out of sequence? He looks awful in the earlier scenes, not so much later.
MIKESOWELL 1 year ago
How ironic!
Now the communist state of Vietnam, makes Nike shoes for the imperial west, and profits from it! So what was this war all about for the US and the French?
dennisrrhodes 1 year ago
@dennisrrhodes It was all about the golden triangle of the drug trade. Think about it: after the Vietnamese government kick Russia out, the Soviet Union invaded Afganastan. Why do you think they did that, b/c of heroin! Throughout the 60's and the seventies, heroin was a major problem in the US, but in the 80's it seem to disappear. Cocaine was the big deal; not until the mid 90's did heroin reappear as a major proplem. And where was the heroin coming from: South America!
stjack279 1 year ago
i love this song
music6461 1 year ago
My father was in Vietnam.....lets end the wars....the globalists think of armed service men as robots to carry out there agenda of colonialism and eugenics.
God bless the world
craigalan100 1 year ago
@craigalan100
well said
LionRock08 1 year ago
@LionRock08
thanks....usually someone just insults me when I speak the truth on youtube.
craigalan100 1 year ago
@craigalan100 Please stop w/ the rhetoric and deal w/ the real problem: thanks!
stjack279 1 year ago
@stjack279 ....Whats the real problem...???......the fact that your sucking globalist banking cock..?????
craigalan100 1 year ago
@craigalan100 What an angry little leftist DORK you are! You remind me of a leftist version of Cliff Claven from Cheers: LOL@U!
stjack279 1 year ago
Thanks Men of the Armed Forces,for my freedom and my kids freedom to come.
Without your loyal duty,I could not enjoy my life and my Family's lives today.
You are the best God has to offer in this world.
Great movie and music,in my top three.
janlovespete 1 year ago
@janlovespete AMEN!!
musik2die4 1 year ago
One of my favourite films, beautiful music, strong cast.
MrMichaels49 1 year ago
there is my favourite movie!
thaiman1987 1 year ago
This piece confirms that music is emotion
MortenTheMartian 1 year ago
@MortenTheMartian Music works particularly well at stirring emotion if it's associated with the right images or memories ore preferably both. This is a great piece of music but it works on a different level because of its association with the film. Ennio Morricone and Sergio Leone did much the same.
thegranddilligaf 1 year ago
Dedicated to my old buddies from youth. Even if we crossed bad times, good times are here to remind us friendship and hope.
God bless you , Michael and Philip, Henrique too.
xxx
raymas72 1 year ago
My father was in there.This film reflect me of him even I don't know much bout him.
rclinnard 1 year ago 2
Christopher Parkening - Cavatina
watch?v=r7iSNFPPIPA
regards to all
classicvinylbiz 1 year ago 2
it gives me a window to look out to of a tragedy we all have related too in life. God bless America!
spacemofo 1 year ago 2
This movie hit close to home for some of us; this could have been my cousin Pammy's wedding, my older cousins and younger uncles racing down Second Avenue from J&L Steel in Pittsburgh, getting tanked and running off to the Allegheny National Forest to h