Russian roulette
Film director/screenwriter Quentin Tarantino has also expressed great admiration and praise for Cimino's "The Deer Hunter", especially with regards to the Vietnamese POW Russian roulette sequence: "The Russian roulette sequence is just out and out one of the best pieces of film ever made, ever shot, ever edited, ever performed. ... Anybody can go off about Michael Cimino all they want but when you get to that sequence you just have to shut up." Tarantino also loved Cimino's "Year of the Dragon" and listed its climax as his favorite killer movie moment in 2004.