Movielines///Apocalypse Now...PLUS other movielines..and pictures from the movie 'Apocalypse Now'
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Apocalypse Now*
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never get out of the boat... Capt.Willard(Martin Sheen)
going to the worst place...Willard
terminate....Col.Lucas(Harrison Ford)
how many...Willard
make me a major...Willard
balls...combat infantryman
i love the smell...Col.Kilgore(Robert Duval)
charlie don't surf...Kilgore
assassin...Col.Kurtz(Marlin Brando)
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John Wayne*
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Full Metal Jacket*
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Man Of La Mancha*
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life...Errol Flynn
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On The Waterfront*
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Taxi Driver*
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talkin'...Robert De Niro
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Holy Grail*
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Top Gun*
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The Right Stuff*
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Apocalypse Now(1979)(Francis Ford Coppola/director)...did not c it, but heard the redux version did not work well.
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This is info on the basis of the movie script for 'Apocolypse Now'...
Heart of Darkness(novel) written by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) - Jósef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
It was based on a four-month command of a Congo River steamboat. In the novel the experience becomes a story of the quest for inner truth. It was published in 1902...Hollywood took an interst in the story and later authors and scriptwriters based a few storylines on Conrad's book. It was from these adaptations that Francis Ford Coppola based the movie script for 'Apocalypse Now'.
Marlow is the main character in the book. He tells his friends a story about his travel in Africa, where he becomes interested in a man named 'Kurtz'. At the time Africa was not well explored...as won person described Africa....'... everywhere death, barbarity and blood, and smells that it hardly seems right for human beings to smell and yet live!' Marlow works for an ivory trading company. Kurtz is a trading agent and reputed to be a 'universal genius'. When Marlow arrives at the trading station , where Kurtz is located, he meets a Russian who idolizes Kurtz, thinking him to be a true genius. Kurtz has assumed the proportions of a 'god' to the natives and has gone as far as placing human skulls on the posts of his hut. He is basically an intelligent civilized man gone insane. Kurtz becomes sick(the illness contracted in the jungle he 'rules') and Marlow tries to take him for help, but Kurtz dies. His last words were 'The Horror! The Horror!'(a man with great human potential has wasted it) ....(in the opinion of one analyst)The movie is an attempt to show how a 'Western Colonial mentality' can translate into a nightmare for those who adopt such a mentality. Myself, I just got into the action of the movie. I took no deeper meaning. Thought the movie was entertaining, a bit unusual but worth the price of admission. And the point here is, it had some good movielines.
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Apocalypse Now (1979) Won Oscars for Best Cinematography ,Best Sound...Nominated For Best Actor in a Supporting Role(Robert Duvall)...Best Director....Best Picture....
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Capt. Willard(Martin Sheen)(main character) is given a mission to locate Col. Kurtz(Marlin Brando) and 'terminate him with extreme predjudice. Kurtz has become a renegade and 'gone native'. The US military will not allow this to continue.***
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Willard: [voiceover] Saigon... shit; I'm still only in Saigon... Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle. When I was home after my first tour, it was worse. I'd wake up and there'd be nothing. I hardly said a word to my wife, until I said "yes" to a divorce. When I was here, I wanted to be there; when I was there, all I could think of was getting back into the jungle. I'm here a week now... waiting for a mission... getting softer; every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker, and every minute Charlie squats in the bush, he gets stronger. Each time I looked around, the walls moved in a little tighter.
Willard:[voice over] Charlie didn't get much USO. He was dug in too deep or moving too fast. His idea of great R&R was cold rice and a little rat meat. He had only two ways home: death, or victory.
Willard:[voice over] Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service. It was a real choice mission, and when it was over, I never wanted another.
Col. Lucas(Harrison Ford): Your report specifies intelligence, counter-intelligence, with ComSec I-Corps.
Willard: I'm not presently disposed to discuss these operations, sir.
Colonel Lucas: Did you not work for the CIA in I-Corps?
Willard: No, sir.
Colonel Lucas: Did you not assassinate a government tax collector in Quang Tri province, June 19th, 1968?... Captain?
Willard: Sir, I am unaware of any such activity or operation - nor would I be disposed to discuss such an operation if it did in fact exist, sir.
Col Lucas: Your mission is to proceed up the Nung River in a Navy patrol boat. Pick up Colonel Kurtz's path at Nu Mung Ba, follow it and learn what you can along the way. When you find the Colonel, infiltrate his team by whatever means available and terminate the Colonel's command.
Willard: Terminate the Colonel?
General Corman: He's out there operating without any decent restraint, totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct. And he is still in the field commanding troops.
Civilian: Terminate with extreme prejudice.
Colonel Lucas: You understand Captain that this mission does not exist, nor will it ever exist.
Willard:[voice over] I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable - plugged straight into Kurtz. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory - any more than being back in Saigon was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine.
Willard:[voice over] How many people had I already killed? There was those six that I know about for sure. Close enough to blow their last breath in my face. But this time it was an American and an officer. That wasn't supposed to make any difference to me, but it did. Shit... charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets in the Indy 500. I took the mission. What the hell else was I gonna do?
Chief Quartermaster (QMC) Phillips(Albert Hall): My orders say I'm not supposed to know where I'm taking this boat, so I don't. But one look at you, and I know it's gonna be hot.
Willard: I'm going 75 clicks above the Do Lung bridge.
Chief Quartermaster (QMC) Phillips: That's Cambodia captain.
Willard: That's classified.
Willard(talking about the crew of the boat that took him upriver to locate Kurtz):[voice over] The machinist, the one they called Chef, was from New Orleans. He was wrapped too tight for Vietnam, probably wrapped too tight for New Orleans. Lance on the forward 50's was a famous surfer from the beaches south of LA. You look at him and you wouldn't believe he ever fired a weapon in his whole life. Clean, Mr. Clean, was from some South Bronx shithole. Light and space of Vietnam really put the zap on his head. Then there was Phillips, the Chief. It might have been my mission, but it sure as shit was Chief's boat.
Willard: My mission is to make it up into Cambodia. There's a Green Beret Colonel up there who's gone insane. I'm supposed to kill him.
Chef(Frederic Forrest)(boat crewmember): What? Oh, that's typical! Shit! Fuckin' Vietnam mission! I'm short, and we gotta go up there so you can kill one of our own guys? That's fuckin' great! That's just fuckin' great. Shit. That's fuckin' crazy. I thought you were going in there to blow up a bridge, or some fucking railroad tracks or somethin'.
Willard:[voice over] Someday this war's gonna end. That'd be just fine with the boys on the boat. They weren't looking for anything more than a way home. Trouble is, I'd been back there, and I knew that it just didn't exist anymore.
Willard:[voice over] Never get out of the boat. Absolutely goddamn right. Unless you were goin' all the way. Kurtz got off the boat. He split from the whole fuckin' program.
Willard:[voice over] No wonder Kurtz put a weed up Command's ass. The war was being run by a bunch of four star clowns who were gonna end up giving the whole circus away.
Willard: Could we, uh... talk to Colonel Kurtz?
Photojournalist(Dennis Hopper): Hey, man, you don't talk to the Colonel. You listen to him. The man's enlarged my mind. He's a poet-warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes he'll... uh... well, you'll say "hello" to him, right? And he'll just walk right by you. He won't even notice you. And suddenly he'll grab you, and he'll throw you in a corner, and he'll say, "do you know that 'if' is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you"... I mean I'm no, I can't... I'm a little man, I'm a little man, he's... he's a great man. I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas...
Kurtz(Marlin Brando): 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.
Kurtz: Have you ever considered any real freedoms? Freedoms from the opinion of others... even the opinions of yourself?
Kurtz: Did they say why, Willard, why they want to terminate my command?
Willard: I was sent on a classified mission, sir.
Kurtz: It's no longer classified, is it? Did they tell you?
Willard: They told me that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound.
Kurtz: Are my methods unsound?
Willard: I don't see any method at all, sir.
Kurtz: I expected someone like you. What did you expect? Are you an assassin?
Willard: I'm a soldier.
Kurtz: You're neither. You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill.
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Willard(speaking of Col. Kilgore's{Robert Duvall}unit):[voice over] The 1st of the 9th was a old calvary division that traded in their horses for helicopters, and went tear-assing around 'Nam looking for the shit...
Willard(speaking about Kilgore):[voice over] He was one of those guys that had that weird light around him. You just knew he wasn't going to get so much as a scratch here.
Kilgore: How're you feeling, Jimmy?
Door Gunner: Like a mean motherfucker, sir!
Willard: Are you crazy God damnit? Don't you think its a little risky for some R&R?
Kilgore: If I say its safe to surf this beach Captain, then its safe to surf this beach. I mean I'm not afraid to surf this place, I'll surf this whole fucking place!
Kilgore: Charlie don't surf!
Kilgore: You either surf or you fight!
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Willard: Hey soldier, do you know whose in command here?
Soldier: Ain't you?
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I enjoyed the movie alot. I suspended any disbelief and saw it as entertaining with an unusual engrossing atmosphere(entertainment). Great actors, great score, great cinematography...I think it is accurate to say that the Vietnam War, from the soldier's perspective, was unlike any war before that time or since. The American men who fought in Vietnam were part of the most lethal army, that had ever existed. They were that good. We did not lose the war in Vietnam, we withdrew. The American men who fought in Vietnam could have ruled the world, but the cost would have been heavy and there was as usual, no f'ing political will.. Still and all it was doable. If you call what the Vietnamese achieved, 'Victory', check the definition of the word. It can be said, though, that there was never a braver man than a Vietnamese patriot.
Did not take the movie for the anti-war message. My take on war is that it will always be necessary, as human beings will never change. Throughout history(this never changes also) people will go along with war if progress towards victory is seen...if the war approaches a stalemate, the general population loses support for the war...the same thing happened in our own American Civil War....as a perspective on war casualties....[[[...The casualties sustained by the British army on the opening day of the Battle of Somme WW I totalled 57,470, of which 19,240 were fatal....]]]....in war one must think the following way, as the country is already committed...as Gen. Patton said...' It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.' ..... War is/has/and always will be hell. The economic and religious causes of war will realistically, always, be with us. And obviously only a country with a strong military, will survive longterm. The only war ever won was total war, anything else cannot really be called war..more like a political abortion of the art and practice of war.
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