In 'Bullitt', as a cabbie, "How do you know the phone call was long distance ?"" Duvall answers, " 'Cause he put in alot of change." Never forgot that.
charlie don't surf, the Philippine teens at the time collected the strange new boards left there and slowly learnt to surf, then one of them opened a surf shop near that beach called 'Charlie Does'
I watched this the second time (I only saw some of it as a child) on DVD as the redux version and hadn't realised that scene wasn't originally included! It does seem to important to leave out after seeing it in there. Just phenomenal though.
@clutchcrazy888 Definitely. I also loved the plantation scene in which the cross-over of US and French military legacies, the decay of social belonging and bonds between generation were well explored. Genius.
Totally awesome role as a U. S. Army Cavalry CO. Amazing. On a different note, had the movie "Firebirds" had ANY quality such as this (which it didn't - was entirely stupid), then perhaps they could've presented the Army in a positive light.
It's a good cut without the baby scene... Cuts directly from Kilgore saying "someday this war's gonna end" to Sheen repeating the same sentence. I prefer the original cut. The baby felt pretty pointless?
"We're going about forty clicks past the Do Long Bridge...." "That's Cambodia, sir" "We're not supposed to be IN Cambodia but that's where I'm going...."
I don't think that Mattin Sheen gets the credit he deserves. He's the main protagonist, the conscience of the film. He's brilliant, as are the others. Fredrick Forrest was impressive, as well. Sheen was great in Badlands, too.
Robert Duvall was most certainly a gifted artist in his profession. He played many characters and all of them well. Brought amazing skill to his craft.
Yeah this big division thing amongst people is a brand new thing, it's like people have regressed to like the 1800's. So I guess it's not totally brand new. I was brought up in the 70's and 80's and it was drilled into us to consider other people's outlooks, ideas, beliefs, that people are different in many different ways etc etc.
@@williamsherman1089 Well said...I reached adulthood during that time. Like another world when I look back on it....I long for those days...who would have thought.
@Keith No it was not perfect for sure....But some how we rose above it..maybe with some sense of humor...which is needed in tuff times..and which seems to be all but gone nowadays...
@Keith wow..you don't have to come down so hard..the 70s did have great shows. We did all sorts of things.we weren't so damed caught up in all the depressing garbage all time..so cool it.
This is what is so great about RUclips as you find interviews like this one that was probably never shown outside the USA that we in the UK can now watch and enjoy. I have always been a fan of Robert Duvall. He is an everyman but can play anything. He exudes talent from every pore. His presence on screen is palpable. My favorite's are 'The Killer Elite (1975)' 'Falling Down' 'The Natural' 'Open Range' and of course his performance in 'Apocalypse Now'.
Also the Godfather trilogy (1972, 1974 and 1990) and ‘The Eagle Has Landed’ (1976), Robert Duvall plays these characters especially well. He’s pretty much the only one in TEHL who actually uses a German accent.
If Robert Duvall has millions of fans, I am one of them. If Robert Duvall has ten fans, I am one of them. If Robert Duvall has only one fan, that's me. If Robert Duvall has no fans, that means I'm no longer alive. If the world against Robert Duvall, I am against the world.
Daniel Sutfin I believe you. I was an Eagle Dustoff medic based at Camp Eagle, just slightly north of Phu Bai. A night hoist in triple canopy had us with 8 to 10 inches clearance around the main rotor (we flew H models) and 10 to 12 inches clearance around the tail rotor. You can't do that stuff stoned.
@@iceberg4479 no one in the film flew and smoked...he was referring to Duvalls comment about talking to men who were there and the crazy things he was told abouy them he says "they were on dope etc"
This was around the time that Godfather 3 was in production. Duvall wanted so many millions for reprising Tom Hagen. Coppola refused to pay him, so I think that caused some of Duvall's animosity in this interview.
When I came home to the east coast in 1969 I came thru LaGuardia airport, nobody spit on me or called me baby killer, nobody was there, I was alone, unimportant, nothing I did seemed real or important, I had my uniform on but it didn't matter to anyone!
The first time I saw this movie it was the extended version. That scene was amazing. It's a shame it was cut from the original. It really rounded out the character.
The reason the scene is not there is that it would have a repeated concept. We see Kilgore letting a Vietnamese man drink from his water because he holding his guts in with the top of a pot. So his empathy is already shown. To show it twice is repetitive..
Jedediah Laub-Klein i think he ultimately cut the scene so slow ppl with lesser intelligence wouldnt get confused about the dehumanization of Kilgore's character which was the main objective that Coppola was trying to capture in the film!!!!!!!
THUGSologist Why would Coppola pander to less intelligent audience members? Why would an artist change his work to appeal to as many people as possible and in the process dumb it down?
Not much empathy becuase just before he drinks Kilgore lets the water dribble just out of reach - his attention distracted by a famous surfer on his battlefield
I find it interesting that I've never heard him discuss his own actual military service in an interview. He served in the Army for a couple years, not during any wars and he saw no combat, but he was an active duty Sailor. And his dad was an Admiral in the Navy. Just weird how that never comes up when he talks about this character in particular.
Because he didn't see any combat and knows it doesn't translate at all into such experience. Here's what he said about his experience in military: > "That's led to some confusion in the press," he explained in 1984, "Some stories have me shooting it out with the Commies from a foxhole over in Frozen Chosin. Pork Chop Hill stuff. Hell, I barely qualified with the M-1 rifle in basic training" Seems like answer of an honest man. There are too many cases of people who use their scarce military experience as a point in discussion, or making up dumb stories on how much they know about military, guns and war as if they were a general or a special forces guy, and then you find out that this dude was some clerk or a cook or a truck driver lol. I always call this "Andy Anderson syndrome"
He is so dedicated to that character. One, if not the greatest actor ever. They certainly don't make them like that anymore. 91 years and still kicking. God bless you Robert. *Charlie Don't Surf!!!* This interview should have lasted at least 6 hours.
I was one of those that was spit on and crap thrown at our taxi leaving Travis to SF international .one guy still in his fatigues with mud ,said. we be been killing the wrong sobs
Look, I served 23 years starting with Vietnam and ending shortly after Desert Storm. Duvall was the perfect size to play this role! In my time of service, it was always little officers strutting around like Kilgore like little bantam roosters.
Are there ANY actors who could give a comprehensive answer to ANYTHING like this? Now we have fat, ugly comedians (both sexes), chiseled guys and symmetrically beautiful women all over the place, but honest, intelligent people who are ALSO actors? Nah...
...Superb, S U P E R B interpretation > NOBODY could’ve done the LtCol role better than he did - but just NOBODY on the entire PLANET! Simply how it is...And the surfing scene is NOT madness, its as bizarre and as real as you can get - given the particular circumstance and things men and soldiers did, do, to keep going and EVERYTHING tugs on one’s sanity...but just craziness coming at you from each and every direction, and the ONLY sanity at hand is what you YOU right there can make of it, YOU, and the Guyz with you in combat or action, no-one else. Not a big thing, just simple, real, vivid and NOT to be explained rationally.
I like that the scene hes refering to is in the Redux version. However, the whole French plantation scenes are terrible. Its like all of a sudden the movie just stops for 20 mins
Exactly what I said when I saw the Redux about 15 years ago. It was like the movie stopped for 20 minutes. Same with the scene where they stop to get fuel and the playboy girls and promoter are there and they bargain fuel for sex. Strange fight scene with Chief and Chef I think. The Redux did not add to the movie much at all.
I like the scene Kilgore is referring to with the woman and kid which is in Redux. Shows how the war had brought out incongruity in Kilgore's personality. But the rest of the added scenes in Redux make me like the original a lot better. The French plantation and the downed helicopter scenes are dead space and not believable.
The cut scenes in Redux were all so beautiful though and they enhanced the bunny characters and introduced the female character at the Plantation. Its a bit of a different movie with female characters in it. But the Redux messes up the scene with Lance water-skiing. In the original version that scene was put right after the crew of "kids" was introduced and adds to the "rock-n'rollers" image. It's kind of a shcoking scene to see them all with such reckless abandonment in the middle of a war zone. But the Redux version puts the scene much later and it loses impact.
todtubetod was the french plantation in the original version at all? now im not sure what was in which because Clean is buried at the plantation. I'm trying to think if they completely skipped Cleans' funeral in the original. But I didnt really like added bunny scene it was kinda rapey. The plantation scene i guess was added to show the confusion of Vietnam and the motivations of the different factions but I couldnt understand half of what was being said. I'm assuming that was intentional cause you see Willard tyring to shield the sun from his eyes and figure out what's being said but I still didnt like the scene
Paul Cipollini Coppola cut the French Plantation scene completely out of the original. He explains this in the documentary "Heart of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse". He also cut Clean's funeral. I agree about the audio in the Plantation scene but I like the woman he meets there. The original movie had no female characters at all except the bunnies, but only when they perform.
Interesting interview. It doesn't matter what kind of character Robert Duvall plays, he's always really believable and convincing. Whether it's a cowboy, consigliere, cop, soldier, car mechanic, whatever. He can pull it off.
@dhsung91 I agree. So many people didn't like the redux, mostly because they claimed it was too long, too many stops on the river, etc. But for me the redux scenes added so much development to the characters that I can't watch the original anymore without being disappointed. In the redux, the central theme of the duality of man is truly brought to light, and I think that's why Duvall was so disappointed that this scene was removed and his character became one-dimensional.
Watching the FULL movie was much better than the original. I agree it would have been too long for theaters but you really have to see the full length (redux) version. One of the greatest War Movies ever made in my 56 years...
I love this interview. Duvall, Hopper, Dunaway, Brando, Finch..the list could go on. These weren't celebrities, they were actors, artists. Duvall's understanding of the random and "no black and white" is brilliant. I studied Dostoevsky in college and my professor, who I admire so much, taught me that no one is one thing all the time. Love this vid. Thanks, fivealex2010.
Lol during this film brando was a fucking diva refused to learn his lines or prepare showed up fat on set and refused to work with Dennis hopper . Hopper was a full fledged drug addict and said to Coppola that hes missing some motivation and "something" could help him act (cocaine) . Martin sheen was struggling very much with alcohol addiction and the first scene with him in his room was actually him having a breakdown ..so dont talk like that every generation has its share of responsible and careless actor . Duvall was probably the only sane actor on set
OMG the old VHS tracking problem, how I remember that. Duvalll was perfect for that role. Glad I saw the directors cut, it includes that scene that was cut.
Leaving that scene in would have changed the scope of the character from caricature to human. It would have been a distraction and upset the flow of the film.
If i'm not mistaken he also had a great line that he delivered perfectly when at one point he looked up like he was thinking something very deep, and sadly said, "Some day, this war is going to end." This guy if in the military would be destine for greatness.
To me that line shows he is delusional, especially given that the war ended with a defeat. Kilgore is the antithesis of Kurtz, whereas Kurtz realizes that the military were trying to make Vietnam seem like home it only emphasized that it wasn't. The enemy had only two ways home, victory or death, whereas the Americans could simply go home (as they did in the end). This disparity is meant as the undercurrent of the movie, that the war was being fought in a way that couldn't be won because the two forces had very different motivations. One was pure, fight or die, do whatever needed to be done to continue the fight and never stop. The other was less pure and almost murky, they were trying to make themselves comfortable in enemy territory by making enemy territory look or feel like home and it only served to make them more homesick. This is shown in Kilgore, his campfire cookouts and guitar playing, the surfing and later in the USO show with the playboy bunnies. That scene in particular is meant to show how the military were trying to bolster troop moral but it ends with the soldiers trying to climb onto the helicopter as the women flee, the harder they tried to make Vietnam home the more the troops wanted to just go home. Kurtz is meant to strike the viewer as a monster, insane and almost evil but he has abandoned the trappings of America and made enemy territory his home, literally and figuratively even reading the philosophy books of the enemy. The message was that the war was always doomed, because people like Kilgore thought all you had to do was use your advanced weaponry and keep killing the enemy until the war was won. Kurtz saw through this lie and realized the enemy embraced horror and was willing to do anything and everything it took to continue fighting the invaders. That the only way to win that war was to become like them and abandon the rules of war, become monsters committing atrocities. He recites the story which made this clear. When he had been working as a member of special forces he had helped vaccinate a village for polio, they left with the village happy they had come. When they returned they found the enemy had returned after they left and cut off the arms of everyone who had been vaccinated as a message, if you welcome the enemy (us troops) you are traitors and will be punished in a way that warns everyone else what the consequences will be. While the American forces did commit war crimes they were never going to go to the same lengths as the enemy, and in the end the war was lost. Kurtz knew this, Kilgore didn't. Kilgore believed that victory would eventually be achieved, in some ways the two men were written as very similar, emotionless and brutal, yet the difference is that Kurtz was willing to become a monster to win a war that was being lost while Kilgore believed himself a hero who was already winning the war, both were wrong just about different things. Kilgore was wrong to think the war could be won that way, Kurtz was wrong to think the ends justified the means. The entire movie plays this out in explicit detail, and if your takeaway is that Kilgore was destined for greatness you missed all the signs that he was just as evil as Kurtz, but worst also completely blind to the reality the war was being lost while they dreamed about returning home to surf and hold beach parties.
Thing is, North Vietnam attack the south first. Anyone pointing a gun at US troops was either a commie or a sympathizer. This movie often paints them as people defending their homes. It wasn't the case. The South Vietnamese didn't want to be commie (except the murderous Viet Cong) The Americans were not the bad guys in this conflict. Love from Strine
This always happens, for me when I was making films Id have actors playing a character getting really attached to random scenes of their characters and when you the director needed to cut it out because of one reason or another they get very upset and dwell on the scene they lost lol.
One of the purposes of the Kilgore character is to compare him to the Kurtz character. Both K names, both colonels, both cavalier and daring, both had a twisted benevolence that clung to their psyches simultaneously with their ruthlessness. However, one‘s methods were permitted, the other was considered hostile to the mission.
Kilgore was one of the great characters in film history, and Bobby Duvall played him to a tee. One of the greatest actors of our time. Just watch “Tender Mercies.” Five star acting. 🎬❤️🎬
To be honest, I think the cut we get in the film doesn't portray Kilgore as black or white, although I do disagree with Duvall over him not being crazy. Yes, it was a crazy situation no it was perhaps no crazier than some of the other stuff going on but that doesn't stop his actions from being crazy. Coppola got the pacing of the film right. I don't think the scene would have necessarily detracted and it may even have added another layer but as it stands I think the segment of the film with Kilgore in it is timed pretty much to perfection. It must be really difficult to call choices like that exactly because you throw one or two things too many in and it suddenly becomes laboured whereas what you want is what we got - a truly memorable performance. In a little over ten minutes they are able to provide the contrast to Kurtz. The sequence does its job and more. You can't really ask for more than that.
@dhsung91 Yah the Plantation scene was really badly received by most viewers, but I loved it. The comparison of 20th century American interventionalism to European colonialism, and as you mentioned the US-French military legacy connection, was brilliant and added alot of depth to the film. Also, in keeping with the duality of man idea, the dialogue between Willard and the French woman, "There are two of you... one that loves, and one that kills." Glad someone else appreciates these subtleties!
What a privilege and a pleasure to hear the thoughts of a master artist on one of his finest works. Glad the scene was included in later edit releases.
Ah, conservatives. Lazy, fearful, and always blaming others. Watching that scene both ways, it doesn't add much. Taking it out doesn't change much either since Duvall is so blasé about everything going there, though the camera pan is better with it in, but we're talking about a long movie anyways, and Coppola would be under pressure to cut the movie down.
Duvall is such a great actor, you see him in a movie and then in another: He's not the same. He's completely different, shame I didn't get to know him till this point of my life
Duvall, one of the true great screen actors of our time!
Clifford Bodine ... you wont know how good untill you watch the Great Santini and Tender Mercys back to back.
In 'Bullitt', as a cabbie, "How do you know the phone call was long distance ?"" Duvall answers, " 'Cause he put in alot of change." Never forgot that.
A great Actor!
charlie don't surf, the Philippine teens at the time collected the strange new boards left there and slowly learnt to surf, then one of them opened a surf shop near that beach called 'Charlie Does'
@Tom Vera Ya, I believe that.
that happened /s
Lol
Great story
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story
One of the best movies I have ever seen.
He’s one of my favorite actors of all time. He’s a damn good actor.
Duvall what an incredible inspiring actor and person 👌
I watched this the second time (I only saw some of it as a child) on DVD as the redux version and hadn't realised that scene wasn't originally included! It does seem to important to leave out after seeing it in there.
Just phenomenal though.
@clutchcrazy888 Definitely. I also loved the plantation scene in which the cross-over of US and French military legacies, the decay of social belonging and bonds between generation were well explored. Genius.
Totally awesome role as a U. S. Army Cavalry CO. Amazing. On a different note, had the movie "Firebirds" had ANY quality such as this (which it didn't - was entirely stupid), then perhaps they could've presented the Army in a positive light.
It's a good cut without the baby scene... Cuts directly from Kilgore saying "someday this war's gonna end" to Sheen repeating the same sentence. I prefer the original cut. The baby felt pretty pointless?
"Lance, we won't hurt you. Return the board and we'll leave you alone. It was a nice board, you know how hard it is to find a board you like"
ONLY Bobby Duvall could have played this part the way he did. Just perfect acting.
Duvall was perfect for this part.
Outstanding. Great cast, from top to bottom.
@@waynej2608 shame he just was in for 11 min
duvall is perfect for every roll he's ever done
@@rouleduke123 probably the most underrated actor ever. Same level of de niro, al pacino, hoffman
@@ram10sin70 second hand lions is my fav duvall role
"What do you know about surfing....you're from goddamn New Jersey!" LOL
"Hey 6 bucks for the camo,man!"
"Air Cavalry son, AIR MOBILE!"
(and in the background "Dum-Dum-Da-Da-Dum-Dum-Dum-Da-Dum-DA-Dum..." Ride of the Valkyries)
"Hey Soldier...do you know who you're Commanding Officer is?"
Long Pause
"Yeah...."
"We're going about forty clicks past the Do Long Bridge...."
"That's Cambodia, sir"
"We're not supposed to be IN Cambodia but that's where I'm going...."
"If I say it's safe to surf this beach , it's safe to surf this beach!"
Duvall, Hopper, Brando, and Sheen. Nuff said.
And Copolla
Facts
I don't think that Mattin Sheen gets the credit he deserves. He's the main protagonist, the conscience of the film. He's brilliant, as are the others. Fredrick Forrest was impressive, as well.
Sheen was great in Badlands, too.
Harrison Ford...
@@kamuelalee who
Robert Duvall is a legend
No he’s actually vey overrated
@@rupertpupkin5265Keep talking, we could all use the sleep
The scene where he decides to give water to a wounded vietnamese guy showed he wasn't a one-dimensional character.
And then he forgot about the guy, which was hilarious in a way.
Yeah, but as soon as he was told Lance Johnson was there, he immediately forgets about the VC and keeps pouring water on the guy and looks for Lance.
@@marianoclerici3986 he offered him water....then dropped the canteen when his attention was needed elsewhere ;)
Lol he found out it was ' lance the surfer' he just walked away.
He was jet fuel drankin, boomstick breakin, hoora makin, get some bacon, born bad no fakin, bad chokin no playin mean bad some a bitch! Hoorah!
You either Surf or Fight.........................Love that line....
Robert Duvall was most certainly a gifted artist in his profession. He played many characters and all of them well. Brought amazing skill to his craft.
Wes King Hey, don't bury him yet! He's still alive.
He's not dead yet.
92 is old but not as old as it used to be.
Maybe Bob has a movie or two left in him.
How old was Burns when he Did "Oh, God"?
"People aren't that black and white." People in 2017 need to remember that.
Yeah this big division thing amongst people is a brand new thing, it's like people have regressed to like the 1800's. So I guess it's not totally brand new. I was brought up in the 70's and 80's and it was drilled into us to consider other people's outlooks, ideas, beliefs, that people are different in many different ways etc etc.
@@williamsherman1089 Well said...I reached adulthood during that time. Like another world when I look back on it....I long for those days...who would have thought.
@Keith No it was not perfect for sure....But some how we rose above it..maybe with some sense of humor...which is needed in tuff times..and which seems to be all but gone nowadays...
@Keith Can't help it your world was that bad back then if you were even around then. Mine wasn't, and let me guess, it's because I'm white.
@Keith wow..you don't have to come down so hard..the 70s did have great shows. We did all sorts of things.we weren't so damed caught up in all the depressing garbage all time..so cool it.
This is what is so great about RUclips as you find interviews like this one that was probably never shown outside the USA that we in the UK can now watch and enjoy. I have always been a fan of Robert Duvall. He is an everyman but can play anything. He exudes talent from every pore. His presence on screen is palpable. My favorite's are 'The Killer Elite (1975)' 'Falling Down' 'The Natural' 'Open Range' and of course his performance in 'Apocalypse Now'.
Also the Godfather trilogy (1972, 1974 and 1990) and ‘The Eagle Has Landed’ (1976), Robert Duvall plays these characters especially well. He’s pretty much the only one in TEHL who actually uses a German accent.
If Robert Duvall has millions of fans, I am one of them. If Robert Duvall has ten fans, I am one of them. If Robert Duvall has only one fan, that's me. If Robert Duvall has no fans, that means I'm no longer alive. If the world against Robert Duvall, I am against the world.
Chris Henderson That last line gave me my best laugh of the day. Thanks.
I am a Fan!
Calm down you liberal fruit cake
He doesn't take prisoners, does he? The most honest actor I've ever come across. Maybe that's why he's such a fine actor.
As a guns pilot in the Air Cav believe me we didn't get stoned and fly.
Daniel Sutfin I believe you. I was an Eagle Dustoff medic based at Camp Eagle, just slightly north of Phu Bai. A night hoist in triple canopy had us with 8 to 10 inches clearance around the main rotor (we flew H models) and 10 to 12 inches clearance around the tail rotor. You can't do that stuff stoned.
Did you launch an attach with Ride of the Valkyries playing full blast?
Who got stone and flew in this movie ?
@@iceberg4479 no one in the film flew and smoked...he was referring to Duvalls comment about talking to men who were there and the crazy things he was told abouy them he says "they were on dope etc"
@@warborn_inc. I believe that.
My favorite character in the movie.
“Liberal friends in San Francisco” - hahaha. I love that he said this with just an ounce of spite. Duvall is the best.
I wonder if he realized what a liberal the guy he's talking to (Bob Costas) actually is.......
It was an ounce of homophobia, dated and not funny.
@@pointysidedown it was funny and based
@@pointysidedown WRONG
When you could actually say it as it is. Remember? Hilarious
This man is a class act not to mention a tremendous actor. Also, I always thought how cool he was for bald men the world over!😎🇨🇦
The Great Santini was outstanding!
There is one hugely talented man. I have enjoyed every role that I have seen him play.
glad that 'apocalypse now redux' added that scene back in! loved martin's look at duvall during his classic quotes!
Kilgore wasn't crazy. He was fearless.
Kurtz WAS crazy though.
Little crazy too
Yes theres a difference.
That's kind of fearless IS crazy!
And in wars soldiers often behave like crazy to break the seriousness and craziness of the war.
It keeps them sane in a way
Whoa!! .He'd been waiting a long time to let all that out. And boy did it show!
I dig Duvall's passion for his characters.
"Pressure from his liberal friends in San Francisco"
This was around the time that Godfather 3 was in production. Duvall wanted so many millions for reprising Tom Hagen. Coppola refused to pay him, so I think that caused some of Duvall's animosity in this interview.
When I came home to the east coast in 1969 I came thru LaGuardia airport, nobody spit on me or called me baby killer, nobody was there, I was alone, unimportant, nothing I did seemed real or important, I had my uniform on but it didn't matter to anyone!
dane vore Thanks for your service. It matters to me.
dane vore my father came home in 67,and there were the hating and support,I'm sorry u didn't get any support,ty for ur service, sir
dane vore sorry man .my dad was there 67.68. much respect..
+dane vore - Like others have noted, you and your military service matter to me, too. Welcome home, soldier. Thank you for serving.
dane vore someday this war is going to end
Kilgore line..." someday this war is going to end"
Best line in the movie. Showed the relish of combat action that some needed .
Yes! That never gets called out. It's a defining moment in the film.
The first time I saw this movie it was the extended version. That scene was amazing. It's a shame it was cut from the original. It really rounded out the character.
The reason the scene is not there is that it would have a repeated concept. We see Kilgore letting a Vietnamese man drink from his water because he holding his guts in with the top of a pot. So his empathy is already shown. To show it twice is repetitive..
Jedediah Laub-Klein i think he ultimately cut the scene so slow ppl with lesser intelligence wouldnt get confused about the dehumanization of Kilgore's character which was the main objective that Coppola was trying to capture in the film!!!!!!!
THUGSologist Why would Coppola pander to less intelligent audience members? Why would an artist change his work to appeal to as many people as possible and in the process dumb it down?
Jedediah Laub-Klein never thought about that .. true..
Not much empathy becuase just before he drinks Kilgore lets the water dribble just out of reach - his attention distracted by a famous surfer on his battlefield
Totally agree!
I find it interesting that I've never heard him discuss his own actual military service in an interview. He served in the Army for a couple years, not during any wars and he saw no combat, but he was an active duty Sailor. And his dad was an Admiral in the Navy. Just weird how that never comes up when he talks about this character in particular.
Probably embarrassed about never seeing combat and killing anyone...
Because a lot of veterans dont like to bring it up. To them it's not what defines them.
Because he didn't see any combat and knows it doesn't translate at all into such experience.
Here's what he said about his experience in military:
> "That's led to some confusion in the press," he explained in 1984, "Some stories have me shooting it out with the Commies from a foxhole over in Frozen Chosin. Pork Chop Hill stuff. Hell, I barely qualified with the M-1 rifle in basic training"
Seems like answer of an honest man. There are too many cases of people who use their scarce military experience as a point in discussion, or making up dumb stories on how much they know about military, guns and war as if they were a general or a special forces guy, and then you find out that this dude was some clerk or a cook or a truck driver lol. I always call this "Andy Anderson syndrome"
He is so dedicated to that character. One, if not the greatest actor ever.
They certainly don't make them like that anymore.
91 years and still kicking. God bless you Robert. *Charlie Don't Surf!!!*
This interview should have lasted at least 6 hours.
A great Actor!!
Robert Duvall is 1 of the most underrated actors out there!
Finnish 1980 Fake compliment alert! Bob Duvall is one of the most revered and honored actors out there!
Says who ,has won many awards and is loved by millions.
I was one of those that was spit on and crap thrown at our taxi leaving Travis to SF international .one guy still in his fatigues with mud ,said. we be been killing the wrong sobs
Johnny Mosley Thank you for your service. I'm sorry you heroes didn't get the love and respect you deserve from our country.
The nazis said the same thing.
Basically admitting that they were right and you were killing the wrong people. Should've been killing the people who sent you there.
One of the worst disgraces in US history.
Mr Johnny Mosley, THANK YOU and ALL OF YOUR BROTHERS & SISTERS and WELCOME HOME! 🇺🇲🇺🇸
Duvall is just bursting with wisdom
1st Air Cav are a wild bunch.....I am a Marine and we loved those guys
they cut alot of scenes the only rhyme behind it because the movie would be 8 days long if parts were not edited out
Yes, the editing was correct .The edited version is far superior to the redux version
Look, I served 23 years starting with Vietnam and ending shortly after Desert Storm. Duvall was the perfect size to play this role! In my time of service, it was always little officers strutting around like Kilgore like little bantam roosters.
Robert Duvall, a terrific actor, great on Apocalypse now, and The Great Santini, just terrific!
Apocyl Doomer He was also in the original Twilight Zone.
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@@twilliamsusmc That was Michael Duglass
@@panhead55 Charlie don’t surf!!
@@panhead55 Didn’t know that, thanks
What an intelligent, articulate individual. I miss those kind of actor.
Are there ANY actors who could give a comprehensive answer to ANYTHING like this?
Now we have fat, ugly comedians (both sexes), chiseled guys and symmetrically beautiful women all over the place, but honest, intelligent people who are ALSO actors? Nah...
And that was like 15 years after filming! And still so passionate and articulate about it! What an incredible artist...Duvall rules!
1:55 Ironically I just watched that clip here. It was an important thing to keep in.
3:00 Duvall is a man's man - a dead breed in Hollywood.
August 15th Final Cut in IMAX!
...Superb, S U P E R B interpretation > NOBODY could’ve done the LtCol role better than he did - but just NOBODY on the entire PLANET! Simply how it is...And the surfing scene is NOT madness, its as bizarre and as real as you can get - given the particular circumstance and things men and soldiers did, do, to keep going and EVERYTHING tugs on one’s sanity...but just craziness coming at you from each and every direction, and the ONLY sanity at hand is what you YOU right there can make of it, YOU, and the Guyz with you in combat or action, no-one else. Not a big thing, just simple, real, vivid and NOT to be explained rationally.
I was AIR CAV and this was told CORRECT in this interview!
"Scouts OUT!"
That is how you do an interview 💯💯💯💯
One of the best scenes- “ you either surf or fight!”
I like that the scene hes refering to is in the Redux version. However, the whole French plantation scenes are terrible. Its like all of a sudden the movie just stops for 20 mins
Exactly what I said when I saw the Redux about 15 years ago. It was like the movie stopped for 20 minutes. Same with the scene where they stop to get fuel and the playboy girls and promoter are there and they bargain fuel for sex. Strange fight scene with Chief and Chef I think. The Redux did not add to the movie much at all.
I like the scene Kilgore is referring to with the woman and kid which is in Redux. Shows how the war had brought out incongruity in Kilgore's personality. But the rest of the added scenes in Redux make me like the original a lot better. The French plantation and the downed helicopter scenes are dead space and not believable.
The cut scenes in Redux were all so beautiful though and they enhanced the bunny characters and introduced the female character at the Plantation. Its a bit of a different movie with female characters in it. But the Redux messes up the scene with Lance water-skiing. In the original version that scene was put right after the crew of "kids" was introduced and adds to the "rock-n'rollers" image. It's kind of a shcoking scene to see them all with such reckless abandonment in the middle of a war zone. But the Redux version puts the scene much later and it loses impact.
todtubetod was the french plantation in the original version at all? now im not sure what was in which because Clean is buried at the plantation. I'm trying to think if they completely skipped Cleans' funeral in the original. But I didnt really like added bunny scene it was kinda rapey. The plantation scene i guess was added to show the confusion of Vietnam and the motivations of the different factions but I couldnt understand half of what was being said. I'm assuming that was intentional cause you see Willard tyring to shield the sun from his eyes and figure out what's being said but I still didnt like the scene
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Coppola cut the French Plantation scene completely out of the original. He explains this in the documentary "Heart of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse". He also cut Clean's funeral. I agree about the audio in the Plantation scene but I like the woman he meets there. The original movie had no female characters at all except the bunnies, but only when they perform.
Interesting interview. It doesn't matter what kind of character Robert Duvall plays, he's always really believable and convincing. Whether it's a cowboy, consigliere, cop, soldier, car mechanic, whatever. He can pull it off.
@dhsung91 I agree. So many people didn't like the redux, mostly because they claimed it was too long, too many stops on the river, etc. But for me the redux scenes added so much development to the characters that I can't watch the original anymore without being disappointed. In the redux, the central theme of the duality of man is truly brought to light, and I think that's why Duvall was so disappointed that this scene was removed and his character became one-dimensional.
Nobody could have done that role better .
Watching the FULL movie was much better than the original. I agree it would have been too long for theaters but you really have to see the full length (redux) version. One of the greatest War Movies ever made in my 56 years...
redux was shown in theaters. There is no such thing as a good movie that's too long, only a bad movie that's too long.
I love this interview. Duvall, Hopper, Dunaway, Brando, Finch..the list could go on. These weren't celebrities, they were actors, artists. Duvall's understanding of the random and "no black and white" is brilliant. I studied Dostoevsky in college and my professor, who I admire so much, taught me that no one is one thing all the time. Love this vid. Thanks, fivealex2010.
Lol during this film brando was a fucking diva refused to learn his lines or prepare showed up fat on set and refused to work with Dennis hopper . Hopper was a full fledged drug addict and said to Coppola that hes missing some motivation and "something" could help him act (cocaine) . Martin sheen was struggling very much with alcohol addiction and the first scene with him in his room was actually him having a breakdown ..so dont talk like that every generation has its share of responsible and careless actor . Duvall was probably the only sane actor on set
People seem to not see what Duvall is talking about. Times of war brings out the extremes in people. Please be careful.
Such a talented actor! And a great guy.
Robert Duvall is the best actor in history IMHO. He can play any role.
Duvall is a great actor no doubt but he's nowhere close to Brando.
7d7e7f7 ----"...Mr. Corleone is a man who insists on hearing bad news immediately.."
His depiction of a First Cav. C.O. is spot on. He even had the "Deluxe Stetson".
Duvall is right in that we Americans did horrible unnecessary things constantly. I flew helicopters there in 1969.
Duvall mentioned that he wasn't the first choice to be Kilgore. Does anyone know who was, I'm curious?
Jane Fonda.
@@beatonthedonis lol
Fred Gwinn.
OMG the old VHS tracking problem, how I remember that. Duvalll was perfect for that role. Glad I saw the directors cut, it includes that scene that was cut.
What a fantastic human being & actor!
I see his point about the baby scene but after watching Redux (with the scene added) it really does seem out of place.
Duval is immortalised in both celluloid and vinyl...the clash's Charlie don't surf
nobody else could’ve played that character but Bobby Duvall
The best scene and my favorite actor of all time. Just awesome interview especially the detail about the Air Cavalry mentality.
Is he talking about MG Casey, after whom the FT Hood Library is named, whose son was CG in Iraq and, later, the US Army CofS?
Nobody else could have played Kilgore other than Mr Robert Duvall, absolutely nobody on this planet : my two cents!.
Leaving that scene in would have changed the scope of the character from caricature to human. It would have been a distraction and upset the flow of the film.
Brilliant actor
"You either surf or fight"; gotta love the writing
I love jow he grabs the gun quick and the guys just run
Why does he look so green? Was it the napalm?
If i'm not mistaken he also had a great line that he delivered perfectly when at one point he looked up like he was thinking something very deep, and sadly said, "Some day, this war is going to end." This guy if in the military would be destine for greatness.
To me that line shows he is delusional, especially given that the war ended with a defeat.
Kilgore is the antithesis of Kurtz, whereas Kurtz realizes that the military were trying to make Vietnam seem like home it only emphasized that it wasn't. The enemy had only two ways home, victory or death, whereas the Americans could simply go home (as they did in the end).
This disparity is meant as the undercurrent of the movie, that the war was being fought in a way that couldn't be won because the two forces had very different motivations. One was pure, fight or die, do whatever needed to be done to continue the fight and never stop. The other was less pure and almost murky, they were trying to make themselves comfortable in enemy territory by making enemy territory look or feel like home and it only served to make them more homesick. This is shown in Kilgore, his campfire cookouts and guitar playing, the surfing and later in the USO show with the playboy bunnies. That scene in particular is meant to show how the military were trying to bolster troop moral but it ends with the soldiers trying to climb onto the helicopter as the women flee, the harder they tried to make Vietnam home the more the troops wanted to just go home.
Kurtz is meant to strike the viewer as a monster, insane and almost evil but he has abandoned the trappings of America and made enemy territory his home, literally and figuratively even reading the philosophy books of the enemy.
The message was that the war was always doomed, because people like Kilgore thought all you had to do was use your advanced weaponry and keep killing the enemy until the war was won. Kurtz saw through this lie and realized the enemy embraced horror and was willing to do anything and everything it took to continue fighting the invaders. That the only way to win that war was to become like them and abandon the rules of war, become monsters committing atrocities.
He recites the story which made this clear. When he had been working as a member of special forces he had helped vaccinate a village for polio, they left with the village happy they had come. When they returned they found the enemy had returned after they left and cut off the arms of everyone who had been vaccinated as a message, if you welcome the enemy (us troops) you are traitors and will be punished in a way that warns everyone else what the consequences will be.
While the American forces did commit war crimes they were never going to go to the same lengths as the enemy, and in the end the war was lost. Kurtz knew this, Kilgore didn't. Kilgore believed that victory would eventually be achieved, in some ways the two men were written as very similar, emotionless and brutal, yet the difference is that Kurtz was willing to become a monster to win a war that was being lost while Kilgore believed himself a hero who was already winning the war, both were wrong just about different things.
Kilgore was wrong to think the war could be won that way, Kurtz was wrong to think the ends justified the means.
The entire movie plays this out in explicit detail, and if your takeaway is that Kilgore was destined for greatness you missed all the signs that he was just as evil as Kurtz, but worst also completely blind to the reality the war was being lost while they dreamed about returning home to surf and hold beach parties.
Worried soldier: "But that's Charlie's Point!" Lt. Col. Kilgore: "Charlie doesn't surf!" Great movie!
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What an amazing interview. Glad to see this.
If you ain't Cav, you ain't!!!
Thing is, North Vietnam attack the south first. Anyone pointing a gun at US troops was either a commie or a sympathizer. This movie often paints them as people defending their homes. It wasn't the case. The South Vietnamese didn't want to be commie (except the murderous Viet Cong)
The Americans were not the bad guys in this conflict.
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The Viet Cong was created, funded, and had their ranks filled by the NVA.
I love Robert Duvall.
A Great Actor. Love all his Movies!
This always happens, for me when I was making films Id have actors playing a character getting really attached to random scenes of their characters and when you the director needed to cut it out because of one reason or another they get very upset and dwell on the scene they lost lol.
Charlie don't surf!
Apocalypse Now ... Godfather ... Tender Mercies ... greatest actor of his generation. No offense to Pacino and De Niro.
Drove the cab in Steve MacQueen Bullit
yes please offense to niro duvall is a much more interesting actor niro is a fraud and pacino is ok but duvall totally underrated
One of the purposes of the Kilgore character is to compare him to the Kurtz character. Both K names, both colonels, both cavalier and daring, both had a twisted benevolence that clung to their psyches simultaneously with their ruthlessness. However, one‘s methods were permitted, the other was considered hostile to the mission.
Best movie ever. My favourite forever.
Duvall as Col Kilgore was magnificent🤘🤩
Kilgore was one of the great characters in film history, and Bobby Duvall played him to a tee. One of the greatest actors of our time. Just watch “Tender Mercies.” Five star acting. 🎬❤️🎬
" Air Cav son ... air mobile!"
To be honest, I think the cut we get in the film doesn't portray Kilgore as black or white, although I do disagree with Duvall over him not being crazy. Yes, it was a crazy situation no it was perhaps no crazier than some of the other stuff going on but that doesn't stop his actions from being crazy.
Coppola got the pacing of the film right. I don't think the scene would have necessarily detracted and it may even have added another layer but as it stands I think the segment of the film with Kilgore in it is timed pretty much to perfection.
It must be really difficult to call choices like that exactly because you throw one or two things too many in and it suddenly becomes laboured whereas what you want is what we got - a truly memorable performance. In a little over ten minutes they are able to provide the contrast to Kurtz. The sequence does its job and more. You can't really ask for more than that.
"I mean, its pretty hairy out there...its Charlie's point!"
"CHARLIE DON'T SURF!!!"
It was brilliant not crazy. He was saying, "I've got such a good control over this victory that I am going to act like it's already over!
What a terrific actor one of my favorites. Lonesome Dove
@dhsung91 Yah the Plantation scene was really badly received by most viewers, but I loved it. The comparison of 20th century American interventionalism to European colonialism, and as you mentioned the US-French military legacy connection, was brilliant and added alot of depth to the film. Also, in keeping with the duality of man idea, the dialogue between Willard and the French woman, "There are two of you... one that loves, and one that kills." Glad someone else appreciates these subtleties!
What a privilege and a pleasure to hear the thoughts of a master artist on one of his finest works. Glad the scene was included in later edit releases.
Ah, conservatives. Lazy, fearful, and always blaming others. Watching that scene both ways, it doesn't add much. Taking it out doesn't change much either since Duvall is so blasé about everything going there, though the camera pan is better with it in, but we're talking about a long movie anyways, and Coppola would be under pressure to cut the movie down.
Duvall's been in damn near everything, and did very well in each..
Duvall is such a great actor, you see him in a movie and then in another: He's not the same. He's completely different, shame I didn't get to know him till this point of my life