Posted: 8/4/2009 7:05:42 PM EDT
I found some good Apocalypse Now clips. That was a great movie.   |
I love this movie, both versions.|
Colonel Kurtz is what we need in Afghanistan.
I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that... but you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for Polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters. These were men... trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love... but they had the strength... the strength... to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without passion... without judgment... without judgment. Because it's judgment that defeats us.
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I watched "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse" from netflix.
IMDb " Documents the sensational events surrounding the making of 'Apocalypse Now' and Francis Ford Coppola's struggle with nature, governments, actors, and self-doubt. Includes footage and sound secretly recorded by Elanor Coppola, wife of Francis." If you liked Apocalypse Now you need to see this movie. It's amazing it ever got finished with all the problems they had. There is a lot of behind the scenes footage. |
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I saw the premiere of "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse" at the AFI.
Followed by a screening of APN. I love the scene where in the middle of the village attack, Marcos call off the Hueys to go fight rebels. Coppola is left standing there holding his bullhorn with a dozen cameras rolling. He says something like, "Where are they going with my fucking helicopters?" He dumped a lot of his own money into finishing the film. |
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I was in wal-mart today and picked up 'Apocalypse Now - The Complete Dossier ' for only 10 bucks.
It has both the original version and the redux. Apocalypse Now - The Complete Dossier It is 10.86 online, but was 10 even in the store. Good deal. 
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Bunch of bullshit. Disservice to the American servicemen of the Vietnam war. Sure it's a rather anti-war film but it's generally accepted as one of the greatest movies of all time. Film students study it with the likes of Citizen Kane. You don't have to like it but it's so far opposite of a bullshit film. I don't think it's a disservice to our troops in Vietnam, but I'd think those who actually fought there can weigh in on that better than me. For those who like the movie, read Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, it's required reading and is what the movie is loosely based off of. |