This was highly evocative! I grew up near steel mills. At night, the sky was illuminated by the fire from the blast furnaces, suggestive of some kind of industrial Dantean Inferno. Mountains of cooling slag heaps grew to dizzying heights, the outpourings of the Industrial Age, that is no more. The skies and the waters of those towns in Ohio and Pennsylvania are dark and quiet now. The rivers flow silently and clean, but a way of life, a culture has vanished.

@thegreatindoorswithedandmi7880

Жыл бұрын

That was beautiful thank you

@curtandoscar

6 ай бұрын

Yes, very beautifully put. May I ask what steel mill/town you grew up near?

What strikes me is how economically depressed the areas still are. The Rust Belt has not been treated kindly by time. A great video by you and your wife. Thank you for doing this homage to simply one of the very best movies ever made.

@thegreatindoorswithedandmi7880

9 ай бұрын

Thankyou Paul. I appreciate your support. Have a great everything.

Thank you for sharing your video project Ed! 👏 This is one of my favorite movies and I believe culturally very significant! I was just in Tremont sitting outside of a cafe facing Lemko Hall. I grew up in Akron just south of Cleveland. I have been inside that church for a Mass service. It's stunning! The backstory of this film is just incredible!

Everyone remembers the Russian Roulette scene buts it's Nikki's breakdown that still gives me chills and makes me stand in awe.

@thegreatindoorswithedandmi7880

5 күн бұрын

That scene at the hospital when Nick is being questioned wow that was heartbreaking.

Thank you so much. It's like a time travel. So many memories of a fabulous movie.

Brilliant. Never have I wanted to visit the locations of a film more than The Deer Hunter.

@thegreatindoorswithedandmi7880

2 жыл бұрын

I made multiple trips to mingo Junction making that video it was fun but alot of work. I happy you enjoyed it.

@agathachristieisntanauthor

2 жыл бұрын

@@thegreatindoorswithedandmi7880 It's fab. I'm always amazed how distant the locations were from each other, considering it's just set in a pretty nondescript small town. You'd have thought they could have found somewhere with the right bar, bowling alley, , church etc in one locality.

@MrCarltonv

10 ай бұрын

I agree. I would love to know where that russian-roulette bar was / is!

Thank you,this was a fun visit.

Thanks for the great video! It was very interesting to look at the locations from the film in our time. It's a little sad to see the destruction and desolation where life was in full swing in the film. I really love this movie! I watched it for the first time about 20 years ago, and then it struck me precisely because it showed the life of ordinary American steel mill workers. I'm from Russia

@thegreatindoorswithedandmi7880

7 күн бұрын

I'm a blue collar worker as well. The movie reminds me of all the different sacrifices people make that may go unnoticed. Thanks for watching.

Great show,

Thanks, the filming locations of the Deer Hunter are spot on locations.

@thegreatindoorswithedandmi7880

2 жыл бұрын

I was very excited when I found Michael house area.

Really enjoyed this. I spent a bit of time finding Deer Hunter site locations in Thailand. You can see them on my channel.

COOL

Chuck was a general foreman at the #2 Q-BOP shop at Gary Works for U.S.Steel. He was considered as an actor in the film after meeting a couple of the actors and sharing beer(s) with them at the local bar, Tobys, on Virginia Street.

@thegreatindoorswithedandmi7880

10 ай бұрын

Thankyou very much!

@slavisavukosavljevic3131

9 ай бұрын

Chuck had a lot more scenes. After the movie, he did the same or a similar job in California. Unfortunately, he died last year in a nursing home. I think he only had a sister, Karen, unless his wife was also named Karen. It is possible since it says that she passed away in 2008, and his sister published his obituary. 7:03 The way he drew a man dying of cancer seems really scary. Fortunately, they say that Chuck did not have any repeated scenes. John Cazale is the only actor whose films were all nominated for an Oscar. All the scenes with Casale were shot first. Everything seems poor, they could have used the fame of the film to develop tourism, but they didn't.

Crazy. I thought a lot more of the movie was filmed in Tremont. Honestly, there were steel mills all over the area and most of the scenes could have been filmed there. Good job hunting all these places down.

@thegreatindoorswithedandmi7880

Жыл бұрын

The steel mills that they worked in were all torn down. Very sad

Hi Ed and Michelle, love your videos. Great detective work. I just wanted to let you know, that you also uncovered another movie location that you may not be aware of. When you went to the location of Michael's house, at Avenue A and 2nd Street, you were also right near the basketball court where Michael's post-reception streaking incident ended, and he and Nicky had a conversation. That basketball court was right on the corner of Avenue A and 4th Street. You can screen-match the factory and that big steel scaffolding-type thing in the background. Perfect match.

@thegreatindoorswithedandmi7880

10 ай бұрын

I new it was in weirton but I couldn't pin it down Wow that's awesome. I want to get down there and do a follow-up

@MrCarltonv

10 ай бұрын

Fully drunk and naked of course haha. @@thegreatindoorswithedandmi7880

@MrCarltonv

10 ай бұрын

I would never have known, but I watched your video, then I went to Google maps to mark the location, and I saw the factory in the background. Then I decided to re-watch The Deer Hunter, and I saw the same factory when DeNiro was streaking. I went back to Google maps, and sure enough, there on the corner is a paved lot with no overgrowth or grass at all. Clearly it was a basketball, and apparently also a shuffleboard, court. When DeNiro was sprawled out, I saw some shuffleboard markings on the ground. When you go there, check in the grass to see if you can find some shuffleboard discs in the bushes!

@MrCarltonv

10 ай бұрын

Oh: and the correct angle for Michael's house is from further up on 2nd street. His house was between the 2nd and 3rd telephone poles on 2nd Street. And in the movie, you can see that building in the background that is still there today. It has 5 windows across the 2nd floor, with a skinny window in the middle. So go up 2nd street a little further, and you'll have the perfect angle.

Great job. I ts my favourite movie.Greetings from Poland

@thegreatindoorswithedandmi7880

2 жыл бұрын

I'm part Polish. That means alot coming from you.

Merci beaucoup, très émouvant

@thegreatindoorswithedandmi7880

2 жыл бұрын

Votre accueil

What is the background music at the beginning? Is it from the movie Out of Africa ? It is beautiful.

Thanks!

@thegreatindoorswithedandmi7880

2 жыл бұрын

Your welcome 😀

Thank you very much for the video! Have you got any idea about the location of the basketball field when Michael lies down naked?

@thegreatindoorswithedandmi7880

7 ай бұрын

I believe is in Weirton WV. That may be in another video

The location where you went to Michael's house. All that blue drywall is probably Michael's house Whats left of it anyway.

@thegreatindoorswithedandmi7880

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I thought so. That was exciting when I saw that.

@finnagler107

11 ай бұрын

It's more likely to have been from Ferguson Tire Service which can be seen in Google Street View 2012, but seems to have been demolished by the time of your video. That building can be seen in the background of Michael/Nick's trailer, which was up the hill a bit. @@thegreatindoorswithedandmi7880

Thank you for putting this together. Can I ask where did you find the behind the scenes pictures? Thank you

@thegreatindoorswithedandmi7880

2 жыл бұрын

Everything is available online. I just kept digging.

Where were the scenes where they were in Vietnam filmed at?

@thegreatindoorswithedandmi7880

2 жыл бұрын

The KZread channel Swim coach Asia made a video of deer hunter filming locations in Thailand. Check it out its awesome.

@MrCarltonv

10 ай бұрын

I saw another website indicating that they were filmed in / around Bangkok, Thailand?

What about the actual deer 🦌 hunting locations?!?

@thegreatindoorswithedandmi7880

Жыл бұрын

Sorry I'm not going to Thailand

@maxpower7130

11 ай бұрын

​@@thegreatindoorswithedandmi7880 I think he means the mountains , where they actually Hunt a deer .

@MrCarltonv

10 ай бұрын

Those were in Mount Baker, Washington state.

Wheres Thailand ??

@thegreatindoorswithedandmi7880

7 ай бұрын

On the other side of the world. Pay for the flight and part 3 will happen. Lol

Why they never kept Michael's house or the bar as legendary landmarks is beyond me.😢

@thegreatindoorswithedandmi7880

11 ай бұрын

The bar burned down that was covered in part 1