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Apocalypse Now question
Posted on 8/10/20 at 9:49 pm
Posted on 8/10/20 at 9:49 pm
Just finished this movie and dang, what a brutal movie. Especially the water buffalo slaying that is actually real. My question is the writing in Kurtz typed pages that says drop the bomb on them all. So is it assumed he wanted the army to kill all the villagers that worshipped him?
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Posted on 8/10/20 at 10:06 pm to Civildawg
Kurtz wanted to win the war. He knew the US was not going about it the right way and was holding back. They had to get more brutal and forget the past rules. The bomb kills em all.
Kurtz ultimately didn't care about anyone... His guys, the enemy, nonone. He liked Willard because he saw himself in him. He become a crazed maniac who didn't even want to live himself. He only loved death and despair.
Kurtz ultimately didn't care about anyone... His guys, the enemy, nonone. He liked Willard because he saw himself in him. He become a crazed maniac who didn't even want to live himself. He only loved death and despair.
Posted on 8/10/20 at 10:12 pm to Civildawg
You might be interested in reading Heart of Darkness
Posted on 8/10/20 at 10:14 pm to Jack Ruby
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He only loved death and despair.
And tons of Pho with dumplings.
Posted on 8/10/20 at 10:29 pm to Civildawg
Rare stills of Harvey Keitel as Willard. He was replaced by Martin Sheen three weeks into shooting.
Posted on 8/10/20 at 10:29 pm to Civildawg
They were gonna make me a major for this and I wasn't even in their fricking army anymore.
Posted on 8/10/20 at 11:22 pm to kciDAtaE
I read heart of Darkness and high school and didn’t get it.
I had To read it in college and got all the background and history. It’s an amazing book.
I had To read it in college and got all the background and history. It’s an amazing book.
Posted on 8/10/20 at 11:36 pm to Civildawg
LINK ]Orson Welles/Mercury Theater On The Air - "Heart of Darkness" (November 6, 1938)
Welles produced this radio version of Conrad's story the week after his infamous "War Of The Worlds" broadcast. It's especially significant as "HoD" was the property he went to Hollywood intending to film.
Welles with a model of the paddleboat he planned to use for his never-made film of Heart Of Darkness.
Welles produced this radio version of Conrad's story the week after his infamous "War Of The Worlds" broadcast. It's especially significant as "HoD" was the property he went to Hollywood intending to film.
Welles with a model of the paddleboat he planned to use for his never-made film of Heart Of Darkness.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 3:28 am to Kafka
There's a great interview with Milius and Coppola about the writing of Apocalypse Now. LINK
Milius was so motivated by the fact that Welles couldn't figure it out or get it made for the screen.
He used Vietnam War stories of his buddies to flesh out the bizarre nature of it all. He then infused his own surfing culture into it.
He also completely came up with the Air Cav scenes. It's genius stuff. It's why I always say the Apocalypse Now script is one of the best ever... Well, except the ending. Once he gets to Kurtz, the film takes a nosedive.
Milius was so motivated by the fact that Welles couldn't figure it out or get it made for the screen.
He used Vietnam War stories of his buddies to flesh out the bizarre nature of it all. He then infused his own surfing culture into it.
He also completely came up with the Air Cav scenes. It's genius stuff. It's why I always say the Apocalypse Now script is one of the best ever... Well, except the ending. Once he gets to Kurtz, the film takes a nosedive.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 7:52 am to Jack Ruby
I dunno. Hopper saves the Kurtz scenes.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 10:42 am to Jack Ruby
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It's why I always say the Apocalypse Now script is one of the best ever... Well, except the ending. Once he gets to Kurtz, the film takes a nosedive.
In fairness, they had to basically rewrite the ending on the fly when Brando showed up looking like fricking Butterbean.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:57 am to Jack Ruby
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Kurtz wanted to win the war. He knew the US was not going about it the right way and was holding back. They had to get more brutal and forget the past rules. The bomb kills em all. Kurtz ultimately didn't care about anyone... His guys, the enemy, nonone. He liked Willard because he saw himself in him. He become a crazed maniac who didn't even want to live himself. He only loved death and despair.
All of this plus I always assumed that the tribal folks around Kurtz were supposed to portray the Montagnard tribe that the US special forces fought with against the NVA and Viet Cong.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 1:20 pm to Civildawg
The horror! The horror!
Posted on 8/11/20 at 2:06 pm to Jack Ruby
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except the ending. Once he gets to Kurtz, the film takes a nosedive.
I disagree. The ending takes it from a decent war movie to a deeply psychotic epic.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 3:16 pm to Civildawg
I think he abhorred their worship of him as coming from the dark side of humanity.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 3:42 pm to Civildawg
You want to see a nice take on this, check out a short called "Porklips Now". It was made sometime in the 70's and is a direct takeoff of "Apocalypse Now" starring Billy Gray.
Gray got his start in TV in the early 60's playing Bud on the show "Father Knows Best" and was Patricia Neal's kid in the 1951 movie "The Day The Earth Stood Still" with Michael Rennie as the alien.
Gray got his start in TV in the early 60's playing Bud on the show "Father Knows Best" and was Patricia Neal's kid in the 1951 movie "The Day The Earth Stood Still" with Michael Rennie as the alien.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 9:13 pm to gumbo2176
Found it on YouTube; never seen that one before.
Posted on 8/19/20 at 7:34 pm to Civildawg
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