re: Apocalypse now

I only ever watch redux, one of my favorite movies

Never get out of the Boat!!!!!!!!!!!

hi Tiger, Bye Tiger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have seen each 6 or 7 times and I prefer Redux, solely due to the French Plantation scene. That "chapter" really centers the whole movie, injects political/historical reality into what is otherwise just existentialism, and gives it a message.

Where the Redux version goes wrong is the Playboy Bunny rain/helicopter scence. Boring, pointless, redundant - rightfully cut from the theatrical release - and Redux suffers from it.

Whereas the French Plantation scene is absolutely necessary and it's a real shame that it was originally cut, the rain/helicopter Bunny scene is 180 degrees the opposite and you can 100% see why it was dropped.

Every time this movie comes up here, I post the same thing.

You watch it when you are in your teens, 20s, 30s, 40s, and it's a different movie every time you see it as you grow older.

When you are young, you identify with the young soldiers on the boat, then, as you grow up and start to get a little disillusioned with life, you start to identify with Sheen. Then you really start to identify with Sheen(The best line in the whole movie is the first one: "Saigon. shite!"). As you get even older and realize the futility of the rat race, you start to wonder what it would be like to just get the frick away from it all, and you start identifying with Kurtz, because frick everybody and everything.

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(The best line in the whole movie is the first one: "Saigon. shite!").

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I saw something somewhere that said the entire opening scene was improved by Sheen and he was drunk while he did it.

I've always thought the movie wasn't really a war movie as much as it was a character study that happened to be set during a war. The theatrical cut almost seemed like 2 completely different movies, sorta like Full Metal Jacket. Apocalypse Now before the bridge scene and Apocalypse Now after the bridge scene. The beginning was about Sheen then it flipped to being about Brando.

I like the French Plantation scene for two reasons

1. It gives real overview of the whole war effort.
2. I think it foreshadows where Willard goes afte the movie and he leaves. She's thee only one who understands him. I bet he went back to her when he got out.

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So strange and surreal but visually amazing and always kept me interested in what would happen next and how it would end.

You have to appreciate the ambition and scope of the movie and the cinematography is beautiful.

I can see why people would think its one of the greatest movies ever made.

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This.

Also, reading and analyzing "Heart of Darkness" is required prior to viewing.

The whole movie is a tour DE force with incredible performances by everyone in the movie including 14 year old Lawrence fishburne as Mr. Clean. Sheen was incredible. The shot of him coming out the water after breathing through the reed was freaking iconic. The whole movie is just plain bad as and will never be topped for me. If you understand Joseph Conrad and heart of darkness it's even better and deeper once you understand the mythology

Lucked out my AP Lit teacher made us read Heart Of Darkness first.

Made the movie totally badass.

Lance is an awesome character.

AN is in my top 10. I own the theatrical cut and redux and watch either one about 2 times a year