4) Kilgore:
"Someday this wars gonna end": Wav
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5) Willard:
"He was close...he was real close...": Wav
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6) Colonel
Walter E. Kurtz ... "Horror, the horror." Wav
7) Kurtz:
"What 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." Wav
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8) Dennis
Hopper: "You know something, man, I know something that you don't
know. That's right, jack. The man is clear in his mind, but his soul
is mad. Oh yeah. He's dying, I think. He hates all this, he hates it!
But ... the man's ... uh ... he reads poetry out loud, alright? ...
And a voice! A voice. ... He likes you because you're still alive. He's
got plans for you. Nah, nah, I'm not going to help you, you're going
to help him, man. You're going to help him. I mean, what are they going
to say, man, when he's gone, huh? Because he dies, when it dies, man,
when it dies, he dies. What are they going to say about him? What, are
they going to say, he was a kind man, he was a wise man, he had plans,
he had wisdom? Bullshit, man! Am I going to be the one, that's going
to set them straight? Look at me: wrong! ... You!" Wav
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Review:Francis
Ford Coppolas masterpiece, Apocalypse Now, ranks as my all-time
favorite movie. The passion that Coppola put into this movie is evident
on every frame of film. The film transports the viewer into the depths
of the Vietnam War and jungle, and into all of it's insanity & horror.
Based on Joseph Conrad's novel, Heart of Darkness, the story
follows Willard, (Martin Sheen -Wall Street,
Badlands) a young soldier assigned to the mission of locating
Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando - On The Waterfront, A
Streetcar Named Desire) and of terminating his command because his
methods have become unsound. Sheens narration as he wanders up the river
is essential to the story as we are as intrigued by the Colonels demise
as he is. Brando only appears on screen briefly, but his every word
and movement command your attention. Dennis Hopper is lightning on the
screen in clearly his best role. The film has a haunting score and the
Doors song, The End, only adds to the dark and unsettling
mood of the films finale. As my brother pointed out below, I highly
recommend renting the documentary, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmakers
Apocalypse, which Coppolas wife filmed while they were making the
movie.
Review:
Based on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, this movie seeks to unravel
the faults of convention and shows war as what it is, chaos created
by arbitrary rules. Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront, A
Streetcar Named Desire) is a Nietzchian superman in a world
unfit for his genius and madness. If this movie moves you then you might
try watching the making of it titled Hearts of Darkness. -Reviewed by
Mark Caldwell
