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The Deer Hunter

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.55K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2019

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Paul & Amy take aim at Michael Cimino's 1978 Vietnam War epic The Deer Hunter! They investigate the film's controversial use of Russian Roulette, ask whether Robert De Niro's character is too perfect, and try Unspooled's first ever film-inspired food tasting segment. Plus: Rutanya Alda, who plays Angela in the film, talks about her journey from Latvia to Hollywood. For Gone With The Wind week, fill in the blank: "Frankly my dead, I don't give a ___." Call the Unspooled voicemail line at 747-666-5824 with your answer! Follow us on Twitter @Unspooled, get more info at unspooledpod.com and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts. Photo credit: Kim Troxall This episode is brought to you by Betterhelp (www.betterhelp.com/unspooled). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The year 1978 and even Russians didn't play this much roulette movie

0:25.6

Hey everybody welcome to unspooled I am Paul Sheer a

0:28.7

Mini-Klossin and I are both on vacation this week, which is why it sounds like I am recording this on a phone because I am I am actually in a closet in North Carolina

0:38.1

Amy is in a film festival in Korea

0:42.5

But we did not want to stop the podcast from getting into your ear holes on this fourth of July week

0:48.7

We're gonna be talking about the deer hunter a movie in which Amy and I had

0:52.4

Some interesting thoughts about but before we get into that I want to talk about do the right thing a lot of you brought up

0:58.8

That you were disappointed in both Amy and I and we take that very personally that we didn't bring up that radio or hems love and hate speech was actually of reference to

1:09.2

The Robert Mitchum film night of the hunter

1:12.1

I have never seen that I want to see that. I'm sorry. I didn't recognize that Amy. I'm sure has seen it

1:17.8

But you know we got into such an intense confrontation that it may have just alluded to her

1:22.4

We'll get into it a little bit more when she is back in town

1:25.6

But let's talk about what Kenman 8943 brought up

1:30.8

Kenman says as you predicted Futurama did reference do the right thing during the Mother's Day episode

1:35.5

There's a robot uprising and riot and a trash can robot throws himself through cells p3 or window

1:40.8

There we go win one fifth future Rama if we don't get in Simpsons

1:45.1

Futurama is there to save the day also sound the Scally writes my biggest criticism of do the right thing is that Danny

1:52.6

A. L.O. doesn't know how to make a pizza

1:55.2

I know a lot of people brought that up that Danny didn't look like he was actually making a good pizza

2:01.0

But Danny did train he sitting learned how to make a pizza also just a shout out to Kate Lidleton who's running our

2:07.8

Facebook group

2:08.5

She is doing an unspooled scavenger hunt go to our Facebook page right now to check that out and find out what that all entails

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