The Deer Hunter : How did Steven lose his legs?

How did Steven lose his legs?

In the last war scene with Steven he has a compound fracture in his right shin but he's more or less intact. Was there an explanation of where his legs went? Because it seems they would have sent him home with an injury like that given the amount of time it would have taken for it to heal and for him to be rehabilitated and redeployed.

Re: How did Steven lose his legs?

Steven did say "I can't feel my legs" as Michael was pulling him out of the water after they both dropped from the helicopter, suggesting a spinal injury as well as the fracture, so maybe complications from that..

On the other hand, you could say how did they go from meeting up with Michael in the flame thrower scene, straight to being captive and in the water pit.....Many things are left unexplained in the movie, and it's over 3 hours as it is....Maybe Cimino chose to explore the emotional impact of events, rather than walking us through the back-story of every event...That could have made it 6 hours... :-D

Re: How did Steven lose his legs?

they were with Michael in the flamethrower scene and then the VC were charging towards them.

it's pretty obvious that they got captured in that moment.

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