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Movies in the 1970s came in a wide variety, as the socially-conscious young directors that emerged in the late '60s grew in different directions, influenced by music, literature, and the nature of crime and war. The early part of the decade focused on increasingly realistic, gritty movies, including Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather pictures and Robert Altman's M*A*S*H. A trend that lasted through the decade was the popularity of disaster movies, starting with Airport in 1970. Another trend was the birth of the big-budget horror film, initiated by William Friedkin's The Exorcist which spawned numerous imitators. A pivotal moment in movies was the 1975 release of Steven Spielberg's first major hit, Jaws, widely regarded as the birth of the blockbuster motion picture (a trend sealed two years later with the release of Star Wars. The end of the decade saw the first Vietnam War movies, from directors Michael CiminoMichael Cimino (born February 3, 1939) is an American film director. Cimino's biography is an example of one of the meteoric rises and falls that were seen in Hollywood in the 1970s. With two writing credits on his record (the science fiction film Silent ( The Deer HunterThe Deer Hunter is a 1978 film which tells the story of how the Vietnam War affects the people of a small town in Pennsylvania, although it was actually filmed in Mingo Junction, Ohio. It stars Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Christopher Walken,) and Coppola ( Apocalypse NowApocalypse Now is a film by Francis Ford Coppola, based loosely on Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness but set in the Vietnam War, in which a taciturn American soldier is sent to kill (or rather "terminate with extreme prejudice") a rogue US special).

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