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The line from Kurtz about the "pile of little arms" allegedly came from a former Green Beret named Fred Rexer (who was the advisor and played a Russian paratrooper in Red Dawn) who saw something like that happen. One nightmarish aspect of that scene is how Kurtz comes to the realization that this monstrous act was not committed by people who were monsters, but ordinary people who were no different than he was, people who were capable of love as he described them but capable of disconnecting their fear of judgement to do what they did. In one of the redo scenes they show Willard in a sweatbox with children playing around it and Kurtz is with the children watching Willard. And when Kurtz is reading the articles about Vietnam the children as still playing around him, which is perhaps no different than kids playing around the adults while they're talking. In some ways Kurtz is the banality of evil personified; someone who is cultured, educated, loves classical poetry, but ready to sink to the lowest acts a human is capable of going in order to win the war.
My favourite element in Apocalypse Now is how well it conveys the feeling of civilization going backwards. The further up the river Willard goes, the more messed up everything gets, brilliantly building up to meeting Kurtz himself. Given the film's huge production problems, it's mad that the film came together as well as it did.
It's loosely based on Heart of Darkness, itself a critique/commentary on imperialism and colonial rule in Africa. You could argue to a degree that King Kong has themes and elements from the book too. Kurtz/Kong - They think he is a savage but the further up the river/into their mission they display nothing but savagery and barbarism. Also, in Redux it's obvious that the river is actually a metaphor for the insanity of the war but also a timeline of Vietnam's conflicts (the long scene at the French plantation mirrors France's real life involvement in Indochina).
I am a Viet Nam era veteran, from the safe side of the war (in the Med. -3 yes) but several close friends KIA. When the film is released, I am working as a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor with a mental health/ substance abuse caseload. The day the film opens in Philadelphia I am interviewing a young veteran with PTSD, I ask if he is going to see the film? Total deadpan response, “I don’t have to, I see it every night when I close my eyes!”
Brilliantly written film mostly by John Milius but Coppola added some modifications. One of the lines by Cpt. Willard at the hotel was haunting and clued you in for what you were in for. " I wanted a mission and for my sins they gave me one. Brought it up like room service. It was a real choice mission, and when it was over I'd never want another." Sheen's voice made it all the more unforgettably chilling.
Interesting trivia: Martin Sheen suffered a heart attack during filming, so his brother Joe Estevez was hired to be a body double. During the years(!) of editing, more of Willard's narration was needed, but Sheen was unavailable at the time so once again Estevez stepped in.
I went to a director's cut, 4K restored screening of Apocalypse Now a few months ago, and for the whole showing you could've heard a pin drop - it's almost more of a horror movie in the costume of a war movie, in my view; and utterly, horribly enchanting.
The first time I saw Apocalypse Now was in 1980 or '81. I lived in my hometown of Milwaukee WI. One day, I took LSD and walked five miles through a blizzard to a theater to see this movie. I ask you to imagine what it was like sitting in a dark theater with Marlon Brando staring at you saying "You must make a friend of horror and moral terror, otherwise they are enemies to be feared" with a head full of acid. The thing I got from the movie was that Kurtz was a warrior. He could be nothing else. But he was trapped in an impossible situation where he had to take his orders from people he knew to be liars, cowards, and hypocrites. After he snapped, he realized the only way he could be true to his nature was to break off from everything and do it his way. For all his insanity he was, at least, true to himself. He embraced his fate without compromise or regret. And in the end, Willard realized what he'd always suspected; he had more in common with Kurtz than with his fellow soldiers who were "only looking for a way home, and they didn't know it didn't exist anymore." In the end, he escaped replacing Kurtz as the cult leader. But at the same time, he took up the torch that Kurtz released when Willard hacked him to pieces with that machete. What happened changed Willard, and he was taking that with him wherever he went - "They were gonna make me a Major, and I wasn't even in their fucking army anymore."
My Dad took all the boys (three) to a drive in and my friend's mother would check the Catholic Digest Bulletin for every movie he saw so my father lied and said he was taking him to Bambi! Back when you could actually have fun and be a boy.
Bro how do you do it. I am a massive scifi fan. I have been my whole life but I just can't get past like 10 minutes of 2001. Do I just need to suffer it or what lol. My #1 is apocalypse now but your saying there is a potential better one. Motivate me yo. Sell it to me cause I have tried multiple times
@@84superninjabummed there’s no reply because I could use the same pitch haha. I did rewatch it on a big screen in the dark and enjoyed it more but still not to this level. I think before my next rewatch I will read some articles and watch some videos about what it means and why it’s awesome. I think there’s stuff going on that I’m not understanding or appreciating
“Sir, I am unaware of any such activity or operation…nor would I be disposed to discuss, uh, any such activity…if it did in fact…exist…sir”. When asked *by* the CIA if he worked [as an assassin] *for* CIA (MACVSOG). Kilgore (Duvall) is like Kurtz in almost every way. Goddamn this film is good. Thank for you the analysis. Kilgore [over radio] “Put on psywarop, make it loud. Romeo Foxtrot, shall we dance?”
Morbid Angel is an extreme metal band who wrote a song called “Piles of Little Arms”, based on Colonel Kurtz tale of inoculating the children just to see them dismembered later. I find it a lyrically intelligent song told from the point of view of the men who cut children’s arms off. Death Metal may not be your musical taste, but it’s worth a listen and read if you’re a fan of Apocalypse Now. Another fantastic metal song based on the movie is “Heart of Darkness” by Iron Maiden. Featuring lyrics that are taken right from the film, “Heart of Darkness” is told from Captain Willard’s point of view, and is a dark, brooding metal song recorded while Blaze Bayley was singer of Iron Maiden.
So many layers of meaning to this movie…been watching and rewatching it for about 40 years now, and every moment is an axis around which its own world rotates. Consider Kilgore’s line, “You either fight, or surf.” Does that not crystallize the reality of America during this era? Many surfed while many others fought. Did they fight so that the endless American surf-party could go on with more beer?
It’s telling how, on the surface Kilgore and Kurtz look identical, but at their core, they couldn’t be any more different. Kilgore and his troops spend the entire war trying to make it as much like home as possible. He chooses his campaigns based on good tides for surfing. He has cookouts in the evenings like a testosterone-fueled block party. He abandons a man in dire need of water upon learning he was in the presence of a celebrity. He does nothing to quell the conflict of the chaos, but instead joins his boys, tossing cards on their fallen foes, almost like a twisted frat party where you draw dicks on your passed out frat bro’s face with a sharpie. For all of his talk of loving Napalm and Victory, for the melancholy he projects when musing on the war’s ending… he fights for R&R first and foremost. He’s creating a twisted, perverted American paradise so that he and his boys can forget exactly where they are. They indulge in war and violence to ESCAPE the horrors of war and violence. Kurtz, on the other hand, has become a God of war in and of himself. Unlike Kilgore, he partakes in horror to escape the horror around him, Kilgore partakes in horror because it is, in his mind, a soldier’s duty. He recounts the story about the pit of children’s arms, and he sees perfection. He sees exactly what a soldier SHOULD be if they’re to prevail in war. He’s able to separate compassion, love, and judgement from everything he’s done. His little ramshackle kingdom is almost an oneiric manifestation of the Vietnam War. It is Hell on Earth, where Kurtz lives as a self-imposed Lucifer, complete with the fall from grace; a man groomed for greatness, cast into Hell itself. Funnily enough, I’m not sure Kurtz would ever acknowledge someone like Kilgore. Sure, Kilgore and talk the talk, and can dish out violence with the best of them. But at the end of the day, Kilgore represents something wholly antithetical to Kurtz.
The best observations that i have with this film is that the idea of Kurtz. Kurtz represents what war turns us into. Its really about Willards turning to instantly. On a side note, the best advice in the film is "Never get out of the boat"
That photograph of Kurtz Willard is given as part of the dossier is chilling in of itself because it reminds me of the Shadow People who are associate with sleep paralysis. Another breakneck and phenomenal video, you should try sucking every once in a while for something different! 🤣
The Vietnam War was such a hammer to the face for America as a whole. Disillusioned with the powers that kept the war going. Disillusioned with American optimism. It's legacy still haunts us today considering the aftermath of the US leaving the Afghan War.
Kurtz isn’t evil. The institution and business of war is and he understands this. He’s a tragic character. He wants to get it done as quick as possible with the right men. The whole film is the opposite of this, the war is being dragged out, they draft anyone for the war including inexperienced kids, they use napalm on a enemy that is specialised in guerrilla warfare, some scenes depict anarchy rather than order and command, people kill with passion and judgement. We see this all through Martin Sheens eyes so he begins to understand Kurtz who is misunderstood. Kurtz said we don’t need all these men but a hundred highly trained good men and we can end and win this war. Instead it drags on and on because of incompetence....and money. He’s more moral than most of them in the hell of war.
Been hanging for your guys review this film! Great analysis of an epic film one of a kind descent into a nightmare! 40 years later and it's now drunk British on holiday in Vietnam 2023 that is The Horror The Horror!
Yep, would recommend playing through Spec Ops The Line if you like this movie, pretty similar story and mission goal, in the second half of the game even the loading screens change too to fit with the narrative of the story in the game, it’s pretty cool and an underrated game
Several parts of this movie are my favorites. The napalm in the morning comment by Kilgore. Another is when Capt Willard makes a stop at Do Lon bridge. A brother is hammering away at the enemy with a 50 BMG. Willard asks what you shooting at? What The F do u think im shooting at? Then realizes hes a officer apologizes. He asks him ,whos in charge here? Ain't You? As a army veteran of most of the 1980s ,to me thats hilarious... Ain't You? The very next scene with Roach lobbing a rifle grenade and taking out the enermy. Never blinking once,a glassy look to his eyes , Willard asks him if ge knows whos in charge here? Yeah! And then walks Away.😂 I saw this movie in 1980 during basic training when we had a rare weekend off. Probably my all time favorite war movie.
When I first watched I was traumatized and shocked and even Willard voice was creepy when he read his story this ultimately was the insane film I’ve ever seen
Never get out of the boat.. Unless you're going all the way. Saw this for the first time in a high school English class, after reading Hearts of Darkness, and have been in love since then.
Not only did the Water Buffalo die in the making of the film, there was also a bug. Though it didn't make the screen, it was in the Behind The Scenes movie Heart Of Darkness. During the shooting of his monologue he swallowed it.
The look on Willard's face sold it. The Redux version ruins it with the extension. God bless the editors with the original theatrical cut, they did it right. Redux just don't hit the same as the original.
This is the only 'war' movie I've ever seen and want to see. As someone who wants to make a film someday, I think it is almost mockery to film scripted war where real people died and actors get to go home, if that makes sense. No matter how many times I watch the movie, Chefs head still makes me squirm and it took me ages to realize who he was in other films without the mustache 😆
I might sound like an absolute nutter, but this is my most favourite movie ever. So crazy, so dense in it's atmosphere, so well shot, so psychedelic... and believe it or not, many stories are not too far from the completely insane reality of the Vietnam War. Read "Dispatches" by Micheal Herr if you don't believe me. I couldn't believe it either...
Amazing commentary on an amazing film! “Apocalypse Now” is definitely a classic film outside and inside of its genre. A must see for any cinephile! /I would like to give a recommendation except this particular film is a HEAVY one to ask you to watch and/or review…but curiosity has me begging to bring up the infamous masterpiece of a war film “Come and See.” I will be frank here; When I say that this film is similar to the French extreme movie “Martyrs” in that it can only be consumed once by many people please believe me because this film is no joke, but I truly believe (at this point in time anyway) that it’s the best war film ever made./ Hope you make more of this kind of content going forward!! EDIT: I just finished watching your review of “Come and See.” I sure feel dumb right now 🙃
Come & See is the loss of innocence in the worst way possible. Apocalypse Now is the loss of attachment to the human condition by being glued to humanity, & the ones that set the rules...
The production behind this movie was fucking insane. They had to halt filming when they found out the set designers were using real cadavers which they got from grave robbing lmao
"We train young men to drop fire on people, but we won't allow them to write fuck on their airplane because it's obscene." --moral of the story & the relation of citizen to state. Just one example of what I consider the most honest movie ever to be made by Hollywood...
I dont believe the briefing scene is intended to portray Captain Willard as having his confidentiality broken by some higher power and his faith in the system shaken. Rather, i think it serves as a test of character for Willard to the agency men. He's an assassin, and they need to know he's up to the task of doing something extremely unseemly (asssinating a US field grade officer) to prevent severe national embarassment as he has gone rogue, started a cult, and begun fighting the Viet Cong on his terms rather than those of politicians in Washington. What's worse (from their perspective), he's doing well. He's showing the system an effective but brutal way to win an insurgency; one that the American people, so far removed from warfare, could never stomach. The military-political complex cannot abide Kurtz to carry on as he is, nor word of his exploits to spread. So the System wants him removed from the equation of the war, and all traces of it to disappear. They need not just a cold killer to take him out, but one who will keep his mouth shut.
We went to Vietnam without enough patients or committment. We spent millions and tens of thousands of human lives. Kurtz is not the villain nor is the Duvall Character, they are examples of what is needed to win. Read the prince, Kurtz has become a part of the place, he is not an outsider who will come for a tour and go home.
My uncle was there he never talked about it and he was always quiet he would drink every day but even then it didn't change him much it made him more social but he still didn't say much. He told his son he was worried he was gonna go down south for shooting Vietnamese women and young boys but always when being shot at by the women and the young boys. He's gone now but he was a good dude he was a kid sent to kill other kids 18 or even 21 is still a kid there are exceptions to the rule but most are still in kid mode. Anyway wanted to share that sorry if it makes someone angry but that's war and it's not pretty. Anyway, y'all have a great weekend and one love oh he was a Marine btw.
Well, you mentioned the evil cow killing that only served the blood lust of the director and actors without any purpose at all but you forgot to mention the blatant racism portrayed in this "movie". Not a single black Vietcong our female Asian U.S. soldier - despicable! :) Clearly a case to be cancelled - I'll just have to find my new X-password! :p
It's one of the best movies of all time. Just a warning to all the people who never saw the movie and want to see it for the first time. Do not start with the 2001 redux version. It's god awful. Old Coppola completely destroyed his own masterpiece for money. The pacing and sense of direction are completely broken by the added material. There was a reason Coppola cut it out in the first place (when he was still a great director). Just find a theatrical version and watch it first. Then you can watch the Redux, if you are curious about the added scenes, but honestly it's unnecessary.
Odd man out I guess. I saw it as a series of unrelated short stories tethered together by a monotonous trip up a river culminating at a leftover Indiana Jones archeological dig site. Glad I watched it but no need to watch it again. I found it tedious to watch. Surfing during a village raid? USO show in the middle of nowhere? Fancy plantation replete with gourmet food, fine dinnerware and servants? Come on!!!! I feel Platoon is far better by a large margin.
8:41...yeah...just put a card on a enemies soldier's body. The same soldiers who already fighting the French, or will stand there ground and shooting at ARVN and USA with their AK and actually inflicted heavier casualty for the "helicopter air assault" war theory during the battle of Ap Bac. Yeah...totally gonna made them "scared" and not at all hate y'all wayy more and will fight way more ferociously...nope...sooo scared.
This movie felt like I was on an acid trip and I constantly wanted to keep watching it when I was 16. In recent years, I don’t really watch it anymore. But I won’t say no to friends who want to watch it with me (if I had any 🥲) and to reaction videos! Speaking of acid trips, that last tab of acid Lance dropped must have been something if it lasted as long as it did! 😅
Nah, go all the freaking way! Watch Redux, it is the ultimate, raw and deep experience... Just as it was intended from the start. WARNING: When I first watched the Redux version in cinema at age 16 after watching the theatrical cut several times already, I felt physically sick. Then it became my most favourite movie of all time. 🙃
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Where do you think APOCALYPSE NOW ranks amongst Vietnam War movies?
Best.
Shared with "Platoon", which is the most realistic.
the best by far
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The line from Kurtz about the "pile of little arms" allegedly came from a former Green Beret named Fred Rexer (who was the advisor and played a Russian paratrooper in Red Dawn) who saw something like that happen. One nightmarish aspect of that scene is how Kurtz comes to the realization that this monstrous act was not committed by people who were monsters, but ordinary people who were no different than he was, people who were capable of love as he described them but capable of disconnecting their fear of judgement to do what they did. In one of the redo scenes they show Willard in a sweatbox with children playing around it and Kurtz is with the children watching Willard. And when Kurtz is reading the articles about Vietnam the children as still playing around him, which is perhaps no different than kids playing around the adults while they're talking. In some ways Kurtz is the banality of evil personified; someone who is cultured, educated, loves classical poetry, but ready to sink to the lowest acts a human is capable of going in order to win the war.
My favourite element in Apocalypse Now is how well it conveys the feeling of civilization going backwards.
The further up the river Willard goes, the more messed up everything gets, brilliantly building up to meeting Kurtz himself. Given the film's huge production problems, it's mad that the film came together as well as it did.
It's truly a miracle of things looking bleak but turning out as a masterpiece
It's loosely based on Heart of Darkness, itself a critique/commentary on imperialism and colonial rule in Africa. You could argue to a degree that King Kong has themes and elements from the book too. Kurtz/Kong - They think he is a savage but the further up the river/into their mission they display nothing but savagery and barbarism. Also, in Redux it's obvious that the river is actually a metaphor for the insanity of the war but also a timeline of Vietnam's conflicts (the long scene at the French plantation mirrors France's real life involvement in Indochina).
This movie, and the game "Spec Ops: The Line" are two of the greatest pieces of story telling I've ever seen, or played through.
Agree...Scarface and Children of Men as well.
And they're both based off of Heart of Darkness.
@@WrathOfGrapesN7 Which is a great book.
Call of duty World at war aswell since that game shows the horrors of World War 2
I am a Viet Nam era veteran, from the safe side of the war (in the Med. -3 yes) but several close friends KIA. When the film is released, I am working as a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor with a mental health/ substance abuse caseload. The day the film opens in Philadelphia I am interviewing a young veteran with PTSD, I ask if he is going to see the film? Total deadpan response, “I don’t have to, I see it every night when I close my eyes!”
Brilliantly written film mostly by John Milius but Coppola added some modifications. One of the lines by Cpt. Willard at the hotel was haunting and clued you in for what you were in for. " I wanted a mission and for my sins they gave me one. Brought it up like room service. It was a real choice mission, and when it was over I'd never want another." Sheen's voice made it all the more unforgettably chilling.
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Interesting trivia: Martin Sheen suffered a heart attack during filming, so his brother Joe Estevez was hired to be a body double. During the years(!) of editing, more of Willard's narration was needed, but Sheen was unavailable at the time so once again Estevez stepped in.
I went to a director's cut, 4K restored screening of Apocalypse Now a few months ago, and for the whole showing you could've heard a pin drop - it's almost more of a horror movie in the costume of a war movie, in my view; and utterly, horribly enchanting.
It is. First time I watched the Redux-Version I felt physically sick when leaving the cinema.
Still, it became my most favourite movie of all time. 🤪🙃
Did u have to take a dump during the film?
The first time I saw Apocalypse Now was in 1980 or '81. I lived in my hometown of Milwaukee WI. One day, I took LSD and walked five miles through a blizzard to a theater to see this movie. I ask you to imagine what it was like sitting in a dark theater with Marlon Brando staring at you saying "You must make a friend of horror and moral terror, otherwise they are enemies to be feared" with a head full of acid.
The thing I got from the movie was that Kurtz was a warrior. He could be nothing else. But he was trapped in an impossible situation where he had to take his orders from people he knew to be liars, cowards, and hypocrites. After he snapped, he realized the only way he could be true to his nature was to break off from everything and do it his way. For all his insanity he was, at least, true to himself. He embraced his fate without compromise or regret. And in the end, Willard realized what he'd always suspected; he had more in common with Kurtz than with his fellow soldiers who were "only looking for a way home, and they didn't know it didn't exist anymore." In the end, he escaped replacing Kurtz as the cult leader. But at the same time, he took up the torch that Kurtz released when Willard hacked him to pieces with that machete. What happened changed Willard, and he was taking that with him wherever he went - "They were gonna make me a Major, and I wasn't even in their fucking army anymore."
My Dad took all the boys (three) to a drive in and my friend's mother would check the Catholic Digest Bulletin for every movie he saw so my father lied and said he was taking him to Bambi! Back when you could actually have fun and be a boy.
This film is an epic, and #2 on my all-time list (after 2001). Everyone should watch it at least twice in their life.
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Bro how do you do it. I am a massive scifi fan. I have been my whole life but I just can't get past like 10 minutes of 2001. Do I just need to suffer it or what lol. My #1 is apocalypse now but your saying there is a potential better one. Motivate me yo. Sell it to me cause I have tried multiple times
@@84superninja 2001 is a very slow-paced film, don't watch It like any other movie - EXPERIENCE It instead. Its worth it
@@84superninjabummed there’s no reply because I could use the same pitch haha. I did rewatch it on a big screen in the dark and enjoyed it more but still not to this level. I think before my next rewatch I will read some articles and watch some videos about what it means and why it’s awesome. I think there’s stuff going on that I’m not understanding or appreciating
@@84superninja >> “2001” is just too slow.
“Sir, I am unaware of any such activity or operation…nor would I be disposed to discuss, uh, any such activity…if it did in fact…exist…sir”.
When asked *by* the CIA if he worked [as an assassin] *for* CIA (MACVSOG).
Kilgore (Duvall) is like Kurtz in almost every way. Goddamn this film is good. Thank for you the analysis.
Kilgore [over radio]
“Put on psywarop, make it loud. Romeo Foxtrot, shall we dance?”
Morbid Angel is an extreme metal band who wrote a song called “Piles of Little Arms”, based on Colonel Kurtz tale of inoculating the children just to see them dismembered later. I find it a lyrically intelligent song told from the point of view of the men who cut children’s arms off. Death Metal may not be your musical taste, but it’s worth a listen and read if you’re a fan of Apocalypse Now.
Another fantastic metal song based on the movie is “Heart of Darkness” by Iron Maiden. Featuring lyrics that are taken right from the film, “Heart of Darkness” is told from Captain Willard’s point of view, and is a dark, brooding metal song recorded while Blaze Bayley was singer of Iron Maiden.
So many layers of meaning to this movie…been watching and rewatching it for about 40 years now, and every moment is an axis around which its own world rotates. Consider Kilgore’s line, “You either fight, or surf.” Does that not crystallize the reality of America during this era? Many surfed while many others fought. Did they fight so that the endless American surf-party could go on with more beer?
It’s telling how, on the surface Kilgore and Kurtz look identical, but at their core, they couldn’t be any more different.
Kilgore and his troops spend the entire war trying to make it as much like home as possible. He chooses his campaigns based on good tides for surfing. He has cookouts in the evenings like a testosterone-fueled block party. He abandons a man in dire need of water upon learning he was in the presence of a celebrity. He does nothing to quell the conflict of the chaos, but instead joins his boys, tossing cards on their fallen foes, almost like a twisted frat party where you draw dicks on your passed out frat bro’s face with a sharpie.
For all of his talk of loving Napalm and Victory, for the melancholy he projects when musing on the war’s ending… he fights for R&R first and foremost. He’s creating a twisted, perverted American paradise so that he and his boys can forget exactly where they are. They indulge in war and violence to ESCAPE the horrors of war and violence.
Kurtz, on the other hand, has become a God of war in and of himself. Unlike Kilgore, he partakes in horror to escape the horror around him, Kilgore partakes in horror because it is, in his mind, a soldier’s duty. He recounts the story about the pit of children’s arms, and he sees perfection. He sees exactly what a soldier SHOULD be if they’re to prevail in war. He’s able to separate compassion, love, and judgement from everything he’s done. His little ramshackle kingdom is almost an oneiric manifestation of the Vietnam War. It is Hell on Earth, where Kurtz lives as a self-imposed Lucifer, complete with the fall from grace; a man groomed for greatness, cast into Hell itself.
Funnily enough, I’m not sure Kurtz would ever acknowledge someone like Kilgore. Sure, Kilgore and talk the talk, and can dish out violence with the best of them. But at the end of the day, Kilgore represents something wholly antithetical to Kurtz.
The best observations that i have with this film is that the idea of Kurtz. Kurtz represents what war turns us into. Its really about Willards turning to instantly.
On a side note, the best advice in the film is "Never get out of the boat"
That photograph of Kurtz Willard is given as part of the dossier is chilling in of itself because it reminds me of the Shadow People who are associate with sleep paralysis. Another breakneck and phenomenal video, you should try sucking every once in a while for something different! 🤣
I'll take this as a compliment! Thank you leadvendor! I'll try throw some clangers in the mix for a quality balance!
The Vietnam War was such a hammer to the face for America as a whole. Disillusioned with the powers that kept the war going. Disillusioned with American optimism. It's legacy still haunts us today considering the aftermath of the US leaving the Afghan War.
Nah minds are changing
Nixon's War it was.
One could argue Apcolypse Now is the greatest horror film ever made
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Thank you for covering this, Apocalypse Now is one of my favourite films of all time
You're very welcome Cage! It's a great one!
For me, the greatest movie of all time.
Kurtz isn’t evil. The institution and business of war is and he understands this. He’s a tragic character. He wants to get it done as quick as possible with the right men. The whole film is the opposite of this, the war is being dragged out, they draft anyone for the war including inexperienced kids, they use napalm on a enemy that is specialised in guerrilla warfare, some scenes depict anarchy rather than order and command, people kill with passion and judgement. We see this all through Martin Sheens eyes so he begins to understand Kurtz who is misunderstood. Kurtz said we don’t need all these men but a hundred highly trained good men and we can end and win this war. Instead it drags on and on because of incompetence....and money. He’s more moral than most of them in the hell of war.
so amazingly done and this is what i needed today such a great video
Thank you Kassy! Delighted we've made your day a little better!
This and 2001 are the two best films of all time
nice review!! another one i need to check out.. keep em coming conner
Thank you Christian! Will keep em coming!
Been hanging for your guys review this film! Great analysis of an epic film one of a kind descent into a nightmare! 40 years later and it's now drunk British on holiday in Vietnam 2023 that is The Horror The Horror!
Hope this one was worth the wait mate! Thank you for the support!
@@UnleashTheGhouls Certainly was, loved it!
Yep, would recommend playing through Spec Ops The Line if you like this movie, pretty similar story and mission goal, in the second half of the game even the loading screens change too to fit with the narrative of the story in the game, it’s pretty cool and an underrated game
Several parts of this movie are my favorites. The napalm in the morning comment by Kilgore. Another is when Capt Willard makes a stop at Do Lon bridge. A brother is hammering away at the enemy with a 50 BMG. Willard asks what you shooting at? What The F do u think im shooting at? Then realizes hes a officer apologizes. He asks him ,whos in charge here? Ain't You? As a army veteran of most of the 1980s ,to me thats hilarious... Ain't You? The very next scene with Roach lobbing a rifle grenade and taking out the enermy. Never blinking once,a glassy look to his eyes , Willard asks him if ge knows whos in charge here? Yeah! And then walks Away.😂 I saw this movie in 1980 during basic training when we had a rare weekend off. Probably my all time favorite war movie.
So many GREAT moments
When I first watched I was traumatized and shocked and even Willard voice was creepy when he read his story this ultimately was the insane film I’ve ever seen
It's the most sane movie ever made, a testament to real humanity, not the shit that's sold to us in the form of fairytales.
Never get out of the boat.. Unless you're going all the way.
Saw this for the first time in a high school English class, after reading Hearts of Darkness, and have been in love since then.
@@TheBionicRectum And "never go full retard".
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Love from a RysnHollinger and Vaush fan!
one of my favourite movies ever
best movie ever made no competition
The Horror...the horror 😱
Not only did the Water Buffalo die in the making of the film, there was also a bug. Though it didn't make the screen, it was in the Behind The Scenes movie Heart Of Darkness. During the shooting of his monologue he swallowed it.
Kilgore's best(imho) and most telling line is stating with a clear air of wistfulness,
"This war is going to end someday."
He had no idea how right he was
The look on Willard's face sold it. The Redux version ruins it with the extension. God bless the editors with the original theatrical cut, they did it right. Redux just don't hit the same as the original.
It is a damn great movie but for me the best Vietnam War film is Hamburger Hill, 84C MoPic, and Causalities of War.
Its in Iplayer at the moment, havent watched it in years but will do soon
Liked and SUBBED!
Thank you Robzilla!
@UnleashTheGhouls my pleasure, great vid about a great movie!
This is the only 'war' movie I've ever seen and want to see. As someone who wants to make a film someday, I think it is almost mockery to film scripted war where real people died and actors get to go home, if that makes sense. No matter how many times I watch the movie, Chefs head still makes me squirm and it took me ages to realize who he was in other films without the mustache 😆
I love Platoon
Plot twist, the film is actually the beginnings of the Illusive man
Kurtz is alot like judge holden
Any particular reason why you picked the Redux over the Final Cut released in 2019?
I might sound like an absolute nutter, but this is my most favourite movie ever.
So crazy, so dense in it's atmosphere, so well shot, so psychedelic... and believe it or not, many stories are not too far from the completely insane reality of the Vietnam War.
Read "Dispatches" by Micheal Herr if you don't believe me.
I couldn't believe it either...
You’re our nutter 👍🏻
@@UnleashTheGhouls 😄👍
You forgot to mention Colby.....that was one of the creepiest scenes in the film....
Amazing commentary on an amazing film! “Apocalypse Now” is definitely a classic film outside and inside of its genre. A must see for any cinephile!
/I would like to give a recommendation except this particular film is a HEAVY one to ask you to watch and/or review…but curiosity has me begging to bring up the infamous masterpiece of a war film “Come and See.”
I will be frank here; When I say that this film is similar to the French extreme movie “Martyrs” in that it can only be consumed once by many people please believe me because this film is no joke, but I truly believe (at this point in time anyway) that it’s the best war film ever made./
Hope you make more of this kind of content going forward!!
EDIT: I just finished watching your review of “Come and See.” I sure feel dumb right now 🙃
Come & See is the loss of innocence in the worst way possible. Apocalypse Now is the loss of attachment to the human condition by being glued to humanity, & the ones that set the rules...
The opening scene was supposed to be dude trippin in hotel. Acid
Seriously? It works the way it is.
Apocalypse Now is one of my favorite movies but it's still a tough watch
The production behind this movie was fucking insane. They had to halt filming when they found out the set designers were using real cadavers which they got from grave robbing lmao
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So if the blood and drunkenness is real...is the err dark resin stuff he smokes at the plantation real too?
The opening scene is a depiction of Paul Gascoignes life for 20 years.
God Redux is terrible, placing the plantation scene AFTER they go under the Do Lung Bridge completely ruins the thematic flow of the film
I'm still yet to see The Final Cut but very much want to!
Best movie ever
Fun fact Martin sheen is Charlie sheens father and you can see the resemblance between Martin and Charlie!
"We train young men to drop fire on people, but we won't allow them to write fuck on their airplane because it's obscene." --moral of the story & the relation of citizen to state. Just one example of what I consider the most honest movie ever to be made by Hollywood...
One on my favorite films. That I've seen the least.
10:50 "...found a wounded woman on a fishing boat..." ....Are you paying attention to the film?
I dont believe the briefing scene is intended to portray Captain Willard as having his confidentiality broken by some higher power and his faith in the system shaken.
Rather, i think it serves as a test of character for Willard to the agency men. He's an assassin, and they need to know he's up to the task of doing something extremely unseemly (asssinating a US field grade officer) to prevent severe national embarassment as he has gone rogue, started a cult, and begun fighting the Viet Cong on his terms rather than those of politicians in Washington. What's worse (from their perspective), he's doing well. He's showing the system an effective but brutal way to win an insurgency; one that the American people, so far removed from warfare, could never stomach. The military-political complex cannot abide Kurtz to carry on as he is, nor word of his exploits to spread.
So the System wants him removed from the equation of the war, and all traces of it to disappear. They need not just a cold killer to take him out, but one who will keep his mouth shut.
Just one mistake: Laurence Fishburne was only 14 (not 17) when making this film.
He lied about his age to get the role of Mr. Clean. Talk about ambitious.
We went to Vietnam without enough patients or committment. We spent millions and tens of thousands of human lives. Kurtz is not the villain nor is the Duvall Character, they are examples of what is needed to win. Read the prince, Kurtz has become a part of the place, he is not an outsider who will come for a tour and go home.
I had watched this movie a dozen or so times before I finally remembered then realized that Kurtz was based off of me
I think The deer hunter is a harder film to watch..
Maybe.
I'm curious why does every other video say fundraiser?
We make every war-related video on the channel a fundraiser to provide help for those affected by the Ukrainian conflict
There's nothing on that other channel?
It's a top secret project, coming soon!
@Unleash The Ghouls ahhh ok, its just I saw the channel was created 2 years ago, I thought I may have missed it 😪😪
Just an old spare channel we made but never used......until very soon 😉
@@UnleashTheGhouls can't wait to see what's in store then 😏
My uncle was there he never talked about it and he was always quiet he would drink every day but even then it didn't change him much it made him more social but he still didn't say much. He told his son he was worried he was gonna go down south for shooting Vietnamese women and young boys but always when being shot at by the women and the young boys. He's gone now but he was a good dude he was a kid sent to kill other kids 18 or even 21 is still a kid there are exceptions to the rule but most are still in kid mode. Anyway wanted to share that sorry if it makes someone angry but that's war and it's not pretty. Anyway, y'all have a great weekend and one love oh he was a Marine btw.
Hit what G,I. On the dot with Willard Kurtz's
Did you say re-ducks? lmfao no way
My dad was there he said none of these movies are realistic
Well, you mentioned the evil cow killing that only served the blood lust of the director and actors without any purpose at all but you forgot to mention the blatant racism portrayed in this "movie".
Not a single black Vietcong our female Asian U.S. soldier - despicable! :)
Clearly a case to be cancelled - I'll just have to find my new X-password! :p
It's one of the best movies of all time. Just a warning to all the people who never saw the movie and want to see it for the first time. Do not start with the 2001 redux version. It's god awful. Old Coppola completely destroyed his own masterpiece for money. The pacing and sense of direction are completely broken by the added material. There was a reason Coppola cut it out in the first place (when he was still a great director). Just find a theatrical version and watch it first. Then you can watch the Redux, if you are curious about the added scenes, but honestly it's unnecessary.
Odd man out I guess. I saw it as a series of unrelated short stories tethered together by a monotonous trip up a river culminating at a leftover Indiana Jones archeological dig site. Glad I watched it but no need to watch it again. I found it tedious to watch. Surfing during a village raid? USO show in the middle of nowhere? Fancy plantation replete with gourmet food, fine dinnerware and servants? Come on!!!! I feel Platoon is far better by a large margin.
Nightmare Fuel: Casualties Of War. xoxo
Thank you for the recommendation Krissy!
AR 10
8:41...yeah...just put a card on a enemies soldier's body. The same soldiers who already fighting the French, or will stand there ground and shooting at ARVN and USA with their AK and actually inflicted heavier casualty for the "helicopter air assault" war theory during the battle of Ap Bac. Yeah...totally gonna made them "scared" and not at all hate y'all wayy more and will fight way more ferociously...nope...sooo scared.
Full Metal Jacket > Platoon. Platoon, really?
Authentic in theme yes but as to the actual story, no!
This movie felt like I was on an acid trip and I constantly wanted to keep watching it when I was 16. In recent years, I don’t really watch it anymore. But I won’t say no to friends who want to watch it with me (if I had any 🥲) and to reaction videos!
Speaking of acid trips, that last tab of acid Lance dropped must have been something if it lasted as long as it did! 😅
Cant find this movie anywhere anymore. Not for streaming at least.
Never seen either. Would you say the extended adds enough and is captivating enough to watch instead of the theatrical version?
I'd say theatrical for starters then the longer versions for rewatches!
Nah, go all the freaking way!
Watch Redux, it is the ultimate, raw and deep experience... Just as it was intended from the start.
WARNING: When I first watched the Redux version in cinema at age 16 after watching the theatrical cut several times already, I felt physically sick. Then it became my most favourite movie of all time. 🙃