Ep 20 - The Deer Hunter

Raquel takes us on a trip back to her youth with 1978’s THE DEER HUNTER. She relates the film to her life growing up in a steel town in the Vietnam era. Raphael finds the movie to be a bit racist & dehumanizing to all non-white, Western characters. The two relate their experiences at VFW halls, & Raphael finally learns where his parents got married. Is this another American Vietnam movie where Americans are the poor victims, or is the backdrop of the Vietnam War secondary to the character analysis? The debate about the morality of making up the Russian roulette scene for the sake of the film gets heated. Is Raphael taking too much of a media studies stance on it? Raquel gets very personal & nostalgic in this episode. The Generation Splice is film podcast where retired psychologist Dr. Raquel Martinez, a Baby Boomer through and through, and her son Raphael Jose Martinez, a cranky Millenial punk rocker, former music journalist, and current film writer, discuss various films through the lens of their generation & personal experiences. Every week one host picks a film for the two of them to dissect and see if they can splice together the generation gap via their love of the movies. Feel free to write to us! Give us some film suggestions at [email protected] or @gensplicepod on Twitter. Raphael is on Twitter at @citycelluloid. You can find his film writing at cinefile.info and film-cred.com The show is produced by The Martinez Family & the show’s theme song was written, performed, & produced by Raphael.