"I don't like seein men screamin in pain. Women do it all the time and it's no big deal." Holy cats, Dawn, that came out of nowhere and I blew soda out of my nose. I'm still giggling over that, and the review is over.
The main character and narrator was played by Martin Sheen, father to Charlie. There are at least 2 actors from The Godfather. Brando, who played Kurtz, the guy Sheen is sent to kill and Robert Duvall, who played the very calm Colonel who was concerned with surfing.
Robert Duvall played Brando's consigliere (advisor) in The Godfather. Catch him in OPEN RANGE (2003) with Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Annette Bening when you're ready for a good Western - no cows are killed.
Yes. If you want it to end, just imagine how the soldiers felt. That awful feeling you have of wishing it was over really helps put you in their shoes. Just 3 hrs on film is too much for a lot of people. It's hard to imagine that it was daily life for so many people, but it was and still is.
yes ...... and government involvement. I STRONGLY suggest you read "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. Francis Ford Coppola required all the members of the cast read the book before production of the movie started. I read the book over 50 years ago and it still sticks in my mind.
yeah, and because I had read the book "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad (required reading for all cast members), and was alive during US involvement in Vietnam, I COULD HARDLY WAIT FOR THE MOVIE TO COME OUT!!!
@@shawn6669aaah.... actually..... this was 'the original'! what I think you mean by 'the original' was added to the movie from the 'cutting room floor' and pieced together with the original!
I think his most impressive role was as Christian Slater's father in TRUE ROMANCE (1993) Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Gary Oldman et al. That scene with Christopher Walken was insane. I've recommended TRUE ROMANCE to Dawn Marie a couple of times - wild ride, but I'm pretty sure she'd like it. 'Hope she checks it out.
There was a lady that I worked with, whose husband was in Vietnam. When they came out of the movie, she asked him, "Was that really what it was like?" He replied, "Yeah, bu they left out the bad stuff." Other people I have talked to, who were there, also agreed with his statement. Incidentally, in the scene where they come ashore past the film crew and the guy is shouting ,"Just go on by like you're fighting!" - that was Francis Ford Coppola.
My dad was a Vietnam Veteran, and one of the few stories he told me was about a fellow Marine who had the overnight watch in a perimeter post. In the morning he was gone. No visible signs of a fight. They had to assume that he had either deserted or been captured and was a POW. Three days later he came walking back into camp, carrying his own orb that been ripped off him…by a tiger. It just pulled him out of the camp, and by the time he realized what had happened he had been dragged so far away that they never heard his rifle shooting the tiger. He passed out and it took him that long find his way back. Another thing he told me (both while watching this movie when it came out) was at the scary looking bridge scene, an extra walked past carrying the M79 grenade launcher (thumper). Dad looks at me and says that’s what he carried over there. I looked at him strangely and said I thought you carried a pencil. I only knew his career from after the war when he was in administration. He laughed and said no boy, I went out on patrols into “the shit”
Had a first cousin and his younger brother in Nam. Both helicopter pilots sent to pick up wounded from front lines. How BIG are your Stones to do that? ....to get to point = he was shot down and never recovered. His buddy swam and survived after crash. They pulled his brother out of front line duty training. Both Ballsy Marines!
The main character Martin Sheen is Charlie's father. Brando was suppose to be dying of malaria and so he should have been skinny, but when he showed up on the set he weighed 300 pounds so they kept him in the shadows. The young black man on the boat was a young Laurence Fishburne ( Morpheus from the Matrix).
Martin Sheen is his screen name. His name at birth was Ramon Estévez. Besides Charlie, Emilio Estevez, Renee Estevez, and Ramon Estevez are also actors.
This movie is about the insanity and chaos of war and how it drives people insane and make them do insane and chaotic things. That's why some scenes purposely have elements that are confusing and don't seem to make sense. The more the audience travels the river with Captain Willard to reach Colonel Kurtz, the more we discover the things that made Kurtz unbalanced.
I'll have to object to your use of the word 'unbalanced' to describe Kurtz. When a scale has tipped completely over and is laying on its side... one could hardly call it unbalanced.
The movie is based on a novel called "Heart of Darkness," which was about a trip down a river descending into madness as an allegory for the irrationality of colonial slavery. This movie is a descent into madness as an allegory about the irrationality of war. It's arguable whether Kurtz was insane, or whether the world around him was.
@@tomreichardt6044 It's arguable whether Kurtz was insane, or whether the entire world around him was and he just understood it better than everyone else.
@@charlize1253 Yes, people like to argue about what was up with Kurtz and ‘the horror’. A well-balanced person when faced with evil…will usually come out wiser if they get out at all. I like to think Kurtz was smart and accomplished, but not well balanced in the first place. He did not understand fundamental things…like human nature or the nature of evil. So, when he came face-to-face with the horror…it got the best of him, and he tipped over. In that regard, the story is a warning to us all. I don't think Kurtz every really understood anything. Which is tragic.
From IMDB trivia it says that when Laurence Fishburn gets KIA in the movie, the womans voice to be heared on the tape recorder, played at the same moment, is in fact Laurence Fishburn's real mother doing the voice over.
Yep. 14-year-old lied about his age to get the part of a 17-year-old who lied about his age to get into the Navy. Playboy Bunny who used to train the birds at Busch Gardens was played by a Playboy Bunny who used to train the birds at Busch Gardens. Surfer who took acid was played by a guy who took acid and quite a few other things while they were filming. Whole drunken hotel room scene was unscripted. Guy really was drunk, tried to fight the camera crew, cut his hand on the mirror, really did bleed on the sheets, really did cry about it. Scared the heck out of the camera crew but the director loved it and told them to keep recording. He had a heart attack while filming and they had to fly his brother out in secret to continue. They tried to make the film in Vietnam by pretending to be making a documentary, but got told to go make it in the Philippines. The reason the helicopter formations change from shot to shot is that the Philippines had their own insurgency going on and sometimes the helicopters acting in the film would get called away to go and do some real stuff and different ones would come back. The scene with the Bunnies in a camp destroyed by a storm was impromptu inspired by the crew's own camp being destroyed by a storm. Brando showed up overweight and out of shape without having even looked at the script, and demanded that his character be renamed to something more "American" than Kurtz. One of the directors or producers, possibly Harrison Ford, sat up and read _Heart of Darkness_ to him every night, and then he demanded that his character's name be changed back to Kurtz, so some of those lines are re-recorded later and dubbed over the footage of them saying something else. Oh, yeah, and everyone got malaria.
Saw Apocalypse Now on the night it opened in Shreveport in 1980 with a friend who was a Vietnam vet. When the tiger attacked, he leaped out of his seat and screamed, "Absolutely right! Never get out of the boat! Never get out of the boat!" Took me a moment to pull him back down into his seat. Out of all the Vietnam films, all the scenes set in Vietnam that was the one that hit him the closest.
Dawn, You DID understand this movie. The movie is about madness. You being disturbed by it is exactly what the filmmakers wanted. The filmmakers were trying to say that Vietnam was Madness and Let's not do that again.
I can tell ya one thing about this movie that's not in this movie a lot of these vietnam vets after it was over killed themselves. They were dropping like flys in my neighborhood.
@@will-vi9pk -- Yes, I remember when the hippies assassinated JFK and opened up the Vietnam War, sending scores of thousands of American GIs and millions of Southeast Asians to their graves over nothing.
I saw this in the theatre in Mobile Alabama in 1979. When the film was over, everyone walked out without a sound. Never experienced that before or since.
The same when I saw it at Osan AB, Korea in 1979. No chatter as the guys walked out, just straight down to the bowling alley which was the only place on base to buy beer. A lot of the senior guys had been there. Harrison Ford 's character was what was called a REMF, rear echelon mother fucker. Never got his hands dirty.
Half way thru production, Martin Sheen had a heart attack. The story of the making of the film is a great film in itself. Robert Duvalls character is so amazing, bombs going off all around him and he is just standing there enjoying the war!
@@dan_hitchman007 that and he's head of the 1st of the 9th, the 1st Air Cav's scouting regiment--if he's like some of the commanders I've read about he'd be utterly unflappable while seeking out the enemy. One of the troop commanders was a Major, who always flew a gunship, and got downed something like 15 times while commanding the troop. All this per a guy named Matthew Brennan, who was a 'Blue' (the infantry platoon attached to troop) for nearly 2 and a half years. The 'work' as either the scout chopper crewmen (white team) and the Blue team was dangerous as hell--like 'SOG-In-Laos' levels of danger, but did they ever inflict huge casualties on the NVA.
True story.. 1991, I was a couple days from visiting the MEPs station to pick my MOS for the Army. I caught Apocalypse now on TV. Watched some of it. Fast forward a couple days.. one of the Jobs they offered was "water craft engineer". The scene with the Tiger flashed in my mind and I passed on that MOS, lol.
You're right - you DON'T have to like every movie that everyone else likes. Not even if they (or we) tell you it's "a classic, one of the best movies of all time." Like what you like, dislike what you dislike. And you're right as well about the lead actor looking like Charlie Sheen. That's because the actor is Charlie Sheen's father, Martin Sheen. Happy Christmas, and a Merry New Year!
True. Nobody can like everything - and that would be totally boring anyway. And let's be real here, as much as a lot of people - me included - think Apocalypse Now is a masterpiece, this movie is a tough watch. Even I have to be in the right mood and mindset to enjoy a (re)-watch. This is nothing you watch just casually and enjoy it. Same goes for some other classics/masterpieces, like for example "2001- A Space Odyssey" . Those movies are just not for everybody, and not for any time or any mood.
Disliking it is fine. It showed that you experienced its phenomenal impact. It wasn't meant to be liked. You can like it for its cinematography, production values, tension and action, its horror. Heart of Darkness, the Joseph Conrad story on which it is based, has the main character, the man on whom Kurtz is based, murmuring "the horror, the horror."
"you're an absolute nutter" youve hit the nail on the head there that is Dennis Hopper an amazing actor and producer high as hell on coke, he played a lot of anti heroes and crazies. Roles he was born for because he was in fact an absolute mad man skating the fine line of genius and insanity.
In Kurtz's speech about the children's arms being hacked off, his U.S. unit went to a village and inoculated all of the children of the village against polio. When they returned to the village a few days later, they saw that the North Vietnamese had come through and hacked off the inoculated arms and threw them all into a pile in the middle of the village. This was done to punish the villagers for cooperating with the Americans. Upon seeing this, in Kurtz's eyes, you could not fight a war like that and maintain any moral compass whatsoever.
Fun fact: In 'Predators', Laurence Fishburne tells the group he rescued that he was "Air Cav", just before sounding -out 'The Ride of the Valkyries'. Nothing like those sneaky callbacks.
Based on two books. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. And Dispatchs written by Michael Herr who had been a war correspondent in Vietnam. Herr also did some writing on the script and some of the narration. As well many other Vietnam movies draw from Herr's experiences in Vietnam.
You are correct. The Do Long Bridge scene where The Roach is summoned to take out the VC on the wire and he is so good with the M-79 “thumper” that he can drop a round on the target by honing in on the sound of the VC alone is straight out of Herr’s Dispatches where he describes witnessing that. It is probably my favorite scene of the movie.
I was aware of the basis in Heart of Darkness, which is set in late 19th century Congo. The man they were looking for in that book was named Klein, which translates as small, while in the movie it's Kurtz, which translates as short. To quibble slightly with the way you said this, since Herr was directly involved in the screenplay, the movie is based partially on his experiences and related to the book, not based on the book.
A psychological horror movie set during the Vietnam War based on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and loaded with allegorical elements of Homer's Odyssey, comparative mythology and Jungian psychology. A lot to unpack and not everybody really wants to. There aren't many movies that depict the dark side of human nature this profoundly.
One of my favourite movies ever. Martin Sheenwas 36 and had a heart attack making this. During the bedroom scene when he was having a break down, he was drunk that scene it was his 36th birthday day and was having mental health issues as he was an alcoholic at the time. He was closer to the mirror than he thought broke it and cut his hand, so the blood is real. Also has one of the best sound tracks ever. And they used real bodies from a grave yard in some.of the scenes.
Too bad the reaction is done by someone who A) Has no idea who the actors are. B) Doesn't know what the movie is about. and 3) Confirms the low expectations of nose ringers.
I remember my dad taking me with him to see this movie when I was about 14. He loved war movies, and so did I, and he really wanted to see this. So, we had a father and son day at the movies. I don't think he really expected it to be this extreme war flick. It does have a bunch of huge actors in it such as the main character, Martin Sheen, Dennis Hopper (photographer at the end), Harrison Ford, and several others. I really couldn't believe, being 14 at the time, about all the hacking up of the cow and all the heads everywhere just tossed about on the ground. I'm sure my dad was pretty surprised also. But the soundtrack is incredible!! Have a great Christmas Dawn and an excellent New Years!! Love your reactions!!! BEST EVER!!!!
It's fine that you aren't a fan of a movie, Dawn! You not liking it doesn't mean it isn't a good movie nor does your liking a movie make it a great one. I, too, am not a huge fan of this one but I recognize that it had some incredible scenes!
Dawn: "That music would put the fear of God in ya!" Richard Wagner: "Danke!" I first saw this movie over 35 years ago and didn't much care for it at the time. Yet I could never forget it. I've watched it a number of times since then, and it only improves with each viewing. Not an easy movie to watch? Of course it isn't. But you appreciate it more and more, especially if you know your Joseph Conrad and hero mythology. And you also begin to see the film as an antiwar statement about the futility of war. So much death, and what for?
Yes, he makes a surprisingly good Nazi in that film. He has that great line about “ meeting a pretty girl a party..”. I always remember the detail of him adjusting his eyepatch as he waits to be executed by firing squad.
@@beardedsloth7805 never seen it - sounds interesting. I’ve heard his English accent when he played Dr Watson in “The Seven Per Cent Solution” and it wasn’t his finest hour.
That's Charlie sheen and Emilio Estevez's dad Martin Sheen. Now you need to watch Hot Shotz since you've seen the Rambo and apocalypse now. 90s parody comedy at its finest. Also can't forget to point out a teenage Morphious.
I got this notification earlier and freaked out because I had something I had to do!! You know family and Christmas time 😂 I need you to watch Platoon next.
Thanks for your reaction. Whether you realize it or not, you correctly defined one of the main themes of the movie, the "MADNESS" of war. Over 40 years later and I still can't believe Robert Duval didn't win Best Supporting Actor. His performance was perfect. The cow scene was real. It was a ceremony from an indigenous tribe that Coppo[a filmed and cut into the movie. Hope you give the movie another chance. Madness and horror.
You got it right early in the film "It's madness". That's exactly the point they were trying to get across. John Milius added a lot of the madness to the script. And it was great to see a young Laurence Fishburne again. Next to 'The Godfather' it's Coppola's best film. You deserve a good comedy after that.
"Why am I so confused?" Why would she even be reviewing a movie where she mistakes Sheen and Duvall for Brando? "He looks a bit like Charlie Sheen", Really? Thought she had redeemed herself when she said "I'm shocked not Morpheus was hit" @ 20:45 but on replay, she said "more of you's". And never even recognized Fishburne or Hopper. Guess it's what's to be expected from someone who's qualifications are a nose ring and mushroom tip lips.
The young kid in boat is now very well known. He was in the Matrix series and he was in the John Wick series. His initials are L.F. This is one of my all time favorite films. It's really hard to assign a genre' to it. It's such a crazy mix of what you're witnessing. Y'all be safe. Have a wonderful Christmas or holiday you celebrate.
Just starting this. My prediction: Dawn Marie will be confused, frustrated, sometimes bored, and confused. Yeah, I said it twice. I'm not picking on her. We all felt this way the first 5 or 6 times we watched this movie. I expect a "What did I just watch?" comment as soon as the credits roll, and maybe 3 or 4 times during the movie. This movie is powerful, but it's also powerfully confusing and powerfully disturbing. Edit: Times Dawn Marie said some variation of "What did I just watch?" 8:50 "Nothing's making sense." 19:22 "This is a million times more hectic than other Vietnam war movies." 20:00 "Does anyone know what's happening?" 27:27 "Why am I watching this movie?" 28:40 "Are you understanding what he's saying?" 31:15 "I'm ready for this one to end. It's been too much." That last one was right as the credits rolled, making my prediction spot on to the second. I'd say I win a prize for that, but some bot is going to tell me I won a prize about 3 times anyway, so there's that... "Strangest movie ever." Yeah, Dawn Marie, you might be right.
The night before I enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force , 1981 at the age of 16, my brother took me to the local cinema to take my mind off everything. We didn't know this was showing.....
US Special Forces Captain - Vietnam/Combat/SOG. 80's Australian Air Force enlisted. No disrespect but you two might as well have been from different planets.
@aocaoc9776 when someone says "no disrespect" they're about to be disrespectful. My service was not easy. We did the same infantry training as Army due to the policy of forward control bases being in enemy territory. I served in Malaysia. In my Squadron in 2 years one of my friends was decapitated, one was cut in half at the waist, one lost both legs above the knee. I had 3 emergency landings, I still have nightmares of working with detonators bouncing around my head in 50 degree Celsius temperatures in a tiny steel cavity. I have a cancer treatment in 3 days thanks to the chemical exposure. I was 16 when I saw this movie, I had no idea what was coming and the cold war was in full swing. F@#$ you captain.
i love your absolute willingness to watch movies regardless of the era it came out. i see lots of channels flirt with this idea. you actually live it. ffs you watch the marx bros. #respect
Everyone else just keeps doing Full Metal Jacket over and over. Which has to be one of the most overrated movies ever. Once Vincent D’Onofrio and the drill Sargent die, the rest of that movie is pretty worthless. Looking at this video, you see Apocalypse Now makes for so much more entertaining a reaction.
Now having given my view of the movie "overall"..... It is possibly one of the BEST directed movies ever filmed. The decisions on editing, sound effects and soundtrack, PLUS cinematography and characters overall, were simply AMAZING on nearly every aspect of film-making. Not just the "technical aspect" but on the way that a different director could ruin a movie, or too much studio interference, or a crew being lazy. So many "outside factors" could mess up a movie, but when it is firing on all cylinders like this movie does... it becomes something you STUDY to learn how movies SHOULD be made.
You have every right to be disturbed by this film: it took you on a tour of hell, Dawn Marie. The only other film that gave an equally disturbing look into hell is the film "Event Horizon."
The movie is based on a novel called "Heart of Darkness," which was about a trip down a river descending into madness as an allegory for colonial slavery. This movie is a descent into madness as an allegory about the irrationality of war. The journey starts with Willard eating roast beef, and ends with a cow being killed while he kills Kurtz.
Well, I didn’t expect u to say u were hungry after the cow scene. U won’t have dreams right away. Maybe in a month, 6 months or 5 yrs u’ll wake up one morning, very early (before sunrise) and u’ll b soaking wet from dreaming about this movie. It takes time for ur sub-conscious to catalogue and compartmentalize everything u saw. Then, one early morning, u’ll b reminded. Ur sub-conscious has its own time clock.
This movie is an absolute masterpiece. Not only because of how it is shot but because of how chaotic, overwhelming, unexpected and challenging it is. Definitely not an easy watch, particularly if you aren't aware of what it is about. Glad you made it through, this is actually an important movie.
There is nothing wrong with not liking a movie or some other work of art - and some art isn’t made to be liked or enjoyed, but to hold up a mirror to certain aspects of humanity - in this case, the insanity of the war in Vietnam.
@@mannyromero4511 I don’t understand what you’re disagreeing with? I didn’t say anything about the movie being good or bad, simply that it’s ok if Dawn didn’t like it and I further commented on the purpose of some works of art.
"Nothing's making sense" is the perfect encapsulation of the war. And yes, I enjoyed those games on Sega Genesis back in the day. There was Desert/Jungle/Urban/Soviet/Nuclear Strike. By the way, now you are going to have to watch Tropic Thunder! Also, the man who played the young gunner on the boat whose mother's recording was playing as he died is also the actor who played Morpheus in The Matrix. This movie was good but hard to watch for a lot of people. Thank you for being honest about not liking all movies that are recommended. Like what you like! Be yourself, please. It is why we watch!
Duval, was in hodgatjer, the first captain in Hunt for Red October. 1 of the chopper pilots was Hartman in Full Metal Jacket. Surfer kid in Outlaw Josey Wales!
LOL. I've never yelled at a screen so much in my life! Sweet heart, you keep asking questions about things that have already been explained but you keep missing them. Love you Dawn, but that's where too much commenting backfires. You miss a LOT.
I love your reaction videos Dawn. They are the Best!! Everyone else's videos we can pretty much predict how they are going to react but not you.. you can turn the most dramatic movie into a comedy and i love that because it shows you can find laughter and humor in just about any situation. You're a wonderful person and i wish you and your loved ones a very merry Christmas!!
This is still my fav war movie. Very few, save for "The Deer Hunter" go THIS deep into the psychological trauma of war or do it with such patience and brilliance.
Interesting that both these films are considered the original pivotal Vienam War films, but both are based on stories that had nothing to do with Vietnam. AN is based on a story set in the 1800's on the Congo River, and DH is based on a short story about a guy who gets addicted to playing Russian roulette in an underground gambling house. A story that captures emotion can be relevant in any setting or time.
The Deer Hunter Is Sesame Street Compared To This Movie. I Am Sorry 😔 But The Deer Hunter Movie Sucks. The Only Good Thing About The Deer Hunter 🦌 Is John Cazale ( In His Final Film!📽️🎟️🎟️🍿🍿🍫🍫🥤🥤)
Ive never seen anyone laugh so much at Apocolypse Now , thats why I love watching you. You've somehow brought joy to a harrowing film. Im glad you watched the theatrical cut You've now done 2 of the best vietnam films portraying the horrors of war (Apoc Now and Full Metal Jacket) Platoon and Hamburger Hill completes the best of them. Happy Christmas Dawn
@KrazyKat007 I was about half way through at the time, she kept a upbeat attitude longer than I thought she would. It's a tough film on first watch she did well
This was never meant to be a comfortable movie. War isn't a sane thing on the face of it and this dives into the total insanity that some aspects of war can reach. A good friend of mine started in the military in Viet Nam and was seconded to a three letter branch of the government for special ops outside the borders of Viet Nam. His team used to wear European clothes and carried Belgian weapons and no ID that could tie them to the US as they knew anybody captured would be summarily executed after questioning. His last mission involved the assassination of the commanding officer of what unexpectedly turned out to be a full army group in Cambodia. They did their stalk and managed to drop him with one shot but then they had to hump it in the jungle for 4 days while being chased by thousands of men. They couldn't make their extraction point and basically ran for 4 days and nights hoping to get their a$$es out alive. They finally got enough separation for the extraction and got back to base. It was the last mission he ever went on. About half of his medal wall back when I ran with him was still covered by the official secrets act and couldn't be discussed but he had multiples of almost every medal short of a CMH. He had earned 4 Purple Hearts as well. As crazy as this movie appears there is also a lot of truth in it. Some aspects of war are insane and any depiction in a movie just usually falls short of the truth. As fictional as this movie is, it often touches on truths that are rarely discussed let alone filmed. Did playboy playmates go and dance on stages at fire bases Yes. Were soldiers sent to useless places to draw in the enemy to fight Yes Were people assassinated yes. Did people have barbeques and go surfing while over there Yes. War is an act of insanity and many of those crazy things were the touches of home that kept them sane while in country.
Some men love war, and they're happy. Some men fall in love with war, and it destroys them. Most men hate war, and want peace, but still fight. They're why humans aren't extinct. Yet.
During the Vietnam War 58,000 American soldiers lost their lives. At the same time over half a million Americans lost their lives in road accidents. Fun fact.
The absolute scariest thing is when I was a teen I saw this movie in the Theatre sandwiched between my oldest brother and his friend Bobbi F , both Vietnam Vets . I was a nervous wreck. As for factual my Bro and friend gave it 60 % true 40% Hollywood
Nope. Not realistic at all except for the fact that people die in war. Growing up, my neighbor was a Green Beret advisor in Vietnam. Were there CIA and Special Forces missions that killed or captured important enemy officers and prominent figures? Yes. However, this movie was outrageous fiction.
One of my favorite scenes in cinema: when they get to the bridge and you hear mortar bombs and gunfire over distorted circus music. A perfect depiction of the absurdity of war.
I've never thought this was a great film. It IS an iconic film. This is the basis or inspiration for so many other great movies and video games. Now that you've seen this, look up some of the trivia to see why it was so chaotic. Then check out Tropic Thunder, and Hot Shots Part Deux. Both are much easier to watch.
"He looks like Charlie Sheen" yep he's his dad Martin Sheen, when you recover from this check out ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, another great anti-war film .
I saw this with a couple of mates on it's release in 79 - we were 19. After the film ended we headed back to the car and sat in it for a good 30 minutes without speaking and without starting the car - that's the effect it had on us. Incidentally, the version we saw - when the credits rolled at the end it was done against a backdrop of the jungle going up in flames - they'd called in the airstrike.
I was in a film class in 1978 ,,,maybe early 1979 and the instructor knew someone who knew someone so we all got to go to a prescreening at the cinerama dome in Hollywood....it was not quite done - there was no credits for instance (they handed out booklets)...and there were celebs in the audience...Gene Hackman was a couple rows in front and the movie ended with the explosion from the front (which was the called in air strike), and everyone laughed and applauded when francis ford was in the movie as the news director
In the theatrical version, the air strike opens the movie while the Doors song "This is the End" plays, which is a more artistic but more frequently misunderstood way of suggesting that Willard calls in the air strike after the events of the movie
i get that - but the ending i'm referring to is very different and commences at night with flares - it is much more apparent that this is Kurtz's compound than the opening credits which takes place in daylight on what looks like a beach rather than deep jungle. @@charlize1253
“He looks a bit like Charlie Sheen” 😆 He should, since he’s Charlie’s father, Martin Sheen. In the original theatrical release, Willard calls in the air strike to destroy Kurtz’s compound, but when it got released to video, the director decided to change it because he felt that Willard had changed and didn’t want to kill them.
Captain Willard is played by Martin Sheen, the father of actor Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estaves. the kid who plays mr Clean is played by Lawrence Fishburne, the guy who played Morpheus in the Matrix. Marlon Brando is the guy who played the Godfather in the first Godfather movie. he played Al Pachino’s dad’s character.
I'm glad you saw the theatric version. This is another movie (like "Bladerunner") that the director just couldn't stop messing with. The director's cut is a nightmare for someone like mw that saw this whn it first came out. Definitely a movie for those that can handle tough scenes, but it was supposed to show the utter horror and insanity of war. I grew up in the Air Force watching the war on the TV news every night at dinner time. Don't be shy about saying you didn't care for a movie, we all have different likes and dislikes.
Yeah, the final cut is just too long. Having seen this when it first came out and then another cut, having that one long extra scene before they get to Kurtz's compound where they come across the French family living in the jungle just stopped the momentum dead in its tracks and added at least 15 more minutes to the film. I still definitely prefer this original version, for sure.
I’m with you on the Apocalypse Now & Blade Runner takes. Way too much screwing around with the edits. The theatrical versions are the ones I prefer for both films.
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 - Well, with Blade Runner, I definitely don't like the original theatrical release cut with the awful noir private eye-style voiceover, which I wasn't thrilled with when I saw it opening night. But, then again, I will only ever watch "Blade Runner 2049" at this point anyway, so I don't need to worry about it.
I remember seeing this movie in the theater when it was first released. A buddy and I when to see another movie but it was sold out so we decided to buy tickets to different movie and then sneak into the one we wanted to see. We had never heard of Apocalypse Now and didn’t know or care what it was about. The movie we wanted to see (don’t even remember what it was anymore) was going to start in about 15 minutes so we watched the opening sequence of Apocalypse Now. Long story short, we never did see that other movie. LOL
Of Marlon Brando's early films the best is certainly _On the Waterfront_ (1954). Considered one of the greatest films ever made, it was nominated for twelve Oscars winning eight, including Best Actor for Brando. A great crime drama filled with great performances all round, _On the Waterfront_ is definitely "Best Movie Ever" material.
Nice photography. When the air mobile unit is attacking the Vietnamese base the song they were playing was "Ride of the Valkyries". Valkyries were Odin's angels of death and no one could see them except those who were about to die.
I had completely forgotten that Martin Sheen was in this movie, and now the fact that his son Charlie Sheen was in "Platoon", which I recommend you watch next, makes it all the more surreal.
Francis Ford Coppola has another film coming out some time in 2024, Megalopolis. He's been wanting to make this film since 1976-1977. It's gonna be a big sprawling epic sci-fi drama. It cost $100 million to make, a significant part of the money came from Coppola selling his winery to Delicato Family Wines back in 2021. The cast of the film is just incredible: Adam Driver, Forest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne (back again after playing Clean in Apocalypse Now), Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jason Schwartzman, Grace VanderWaal, Kathryn Hunter, Talia Shire (Connie from the Godfather Trilogy), Dustin Hoffman, D. B. Sweeney, and Giancarlo Esposito. So look out for that next year. ruclips.net/video/4av6Ba88hNM/видео.html the guy giving directions to Willard is Francis Ford Coppola.
I remember leaving the theater kind of stunned after the whole experience, but after several viewings it got much better, now it’s a classic one of the best ever, thanks
This movie had a huge impact on me as a child. It is basically part of my life and many memories of my childhood revolve around this film. I always love to see this film40 years later.
The guy playing the helicopter pilot that gets shot down was R. Lee Ermey in his first role. He was living in the Philippines at the time so was picked up as an extra. He later made lots of movies, including his role as Gunny Hartman in Full Metal Jacket since he’d been a drill instructor while in the Marines. He also had several TV shows based around his love of the military, especially Mail Call. Tyrone, the young Navy guy, was played by Laurence Fishburne so many people don’t recognize his youthful appearance. And the icon, Dennis Hopper who started in 1969 with Easy Rider and made 100’s of movies before his death. A great cast, and you also identified Harrison Ford. Some little-noticed “names” later in life who were in the cast were Samuel Bottoms (as the surfer Lance); Scott Glenn as the bearded S.F. Captain in Kurtz’s tribe, and G.D. Spradlin as the General. Harvey Keitel was originally cast as the Captain but it didn’t work so he was replaced by Sheen. The Philippines are a true jungle so the cast had plenty of sickness delays. For proof of craziness, look up My Lai and the court martial of LT William Calley, whose trial at Ft Benning Georgia was going on while I was there. Also the good of guys who put themselves in the line of fire to stop it - helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson for example.
Lawrence FIshburne was all of 14 years old when he auditioned for this movie. Coppola liked him but wasn't sure the audience would buy he was 18 so as a female assistant was walking out of the room he stopped her and asked " Do you think this kid looks 18?" .. She paused, looked at him and simply " yeah.." He got the role...
"I don't like seein men screamin in pain. Women do it all the time and it's no big deal." Holy cats, Dawn, that came out of nowhere and I blew soda out of my nose. I'm still giggling over that, and the review is over.
The main character and narrator was played by Martin Sheen, father to Charlie. There are at least 2 actors from The Godfather. Brando, who played Kurtz, the guy Sheen is sent to kill and Robert Duvall, who played the very calm Colonel who was concerned with surfing.
G. D. Spradlin also..who played the guy who sent the main character on the mission..was Senator Pat Geary in The Godfather Part II..
Robert Duvall played Brando's consigliere (advisor) in The Godfather.
Catch him in
OPEN RANGE (2003) with
Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Annette Bening
when you're ready for a good Western - no cows are killed.
@@Blue-qr7qe Duvall also played bit parts in To Kill a Mockingbird and Bullitt, a taxi driver in the latter. He's good even in bit roles.
@@Blue-qr7qe Morgan Freeman is not in Open Range.
@@cuerpo869 Oh yeah! Good eye.
Wanting a movie to end because "it's too much" isn't the same as wanting it to end because it's bad. Thanks for reacting to this.
Maybe that’s why the theme song is The End.
Yes. If you want it to end, just imagine how the soldiers felt. That awful feeling you have of wishing it was over really helps put you in their shoes. Just 3 hrs on film is too much for a lot of people. It's hard to imagine that it was daily life for so many people, but it was and still is.
She wanted it to end because it was a rubbish movie, and she was correct
@Maxiakt Thanks for announcing to the world how ignorant you are.
@@MaxiaktIt's okay to be wrong.
Some films aren’t for liking or disliking. Some films are just meant to make you think about the state of humanity.
BRANDO IS SUCH AN ICONIC ACTOR AND YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE MOVIE 🎥 THAT MADE HIM FAMOUS "ON THE WATERFRONT" ITS A CLASSIC OLD MOVIE.
yes ...... and government involvement. I STRONGLY suggest you read "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. Francis Ford Coppola required all the members of the cast read the book before production of the movie started. I read the book over 50 years ago and it still sticks in my mind.
But apocalypse now redox is a movie to like
@@astrodoops yeah, "now redox" is worth it!
And it seems like those are among the ones I do like.
Surreal, isn't it? When I first saw this in a movie theater in 1979, everybody walked out in stunned silence.
No sh!t? That most have been something!
I much prefer the original version.
I remember the opening scene from Full Metal Jacket, my Dad a Vietnam vet laughed out loud so hard I remember people staring.
yeah, and because I had read the book "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad (required reading for all cast members), and was alive during US involvement in Vietnam, I COULD HARDLY WAIT FOR THE MOVIE TO COME OUT!!!
@@shawn6669aaah.... actually..... this was 'the original'! what I think you mean by 'the original' was added to the movie from the 'cutting room floor' and pieced together with the original!
This is based on Joseph Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness." But this is sort of Vietnam on an acid trip.
The young sailor on the boat was a 14 year old Lawrence fishburne
Yep! Gets really hard to take him seriously in _The Matrix_ when you've seen him dancing on the boat, doesn't it?
At the time he was still known as Lawrence Fishfresh.
The looney reporter was played by Dennis Hopper at his most Dennis Hopper-y. He was also the villain in "Speed."
See Hopper in “Easy Rider”. Fantastic film from the 60’s.
Also the villain in Blue Velvet.
I think his most impressive role was as Christian Slater's father in TRUE ROMANCE (1993)
Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette,
Gary Oldman et al.
That scene with Christopher Walken was insane.
I've recommended TRUE ROMANCE to Dawn Marie a couple of times - wild ride, but I'm pretty sure she'd like it.
'Hope she checks it out.
And Waterworld
He's completely unhinged in White Star (called Let it Rock in America)
I like when movies like this wipe the smiles off from pretty little faces like yours
There was a lady that I worked with, whose husband was in Vietnam. When they came out of the movie, she asked him, "Was that really what it was like?" He replied, "Yeah, bu they left out the bad stuff." Other people I have talked to, who were there, also agreed with his statement. Incidentally, in the scene where they come ashore past the film crew and the guy is shouting ,"Just go on by like you're fighting!" - that was Francis Ford Coppola.
Somebody said, the movies can't replicate the heat, humidity, insects, and 'the stink': rotting corpses, burning excrement etc.
My dad was a Vietnam Veteran, and one of the few stories he told me was about a fellow Marine who had the overnight watch in a perimeter post. In the morning he was gone. No visible signs of a fight. They had to assume that he had either deserted or been captured and was a POW. Three days later he came walking back into camp, carrying his own orb that been ripped off him…by a tiger. It just pulled him out of the camp, and by the time he realized what had happened he had been dragged so far away that they never heard his rifle shooting the tiger. He passed out and it took him that long find his way back.
Another thing he told me (both while watching this movie when it came out) was at the scary looking bridge scene, an extra walked past carrying the M79 grenade launcher (thumper). Dad looks at me and says that’s what he carried over there. I looked at him strangely and said I thought you carried a pencil. I only knew his career from after the war when he was in administration. He laughed and said no boy, I went out on patrols into “the shit”
Had a first cousin and his younger brother in Nam.
Both helicopter pilots sent to pick up wounded from front lines.
How BIG are your Stones to do that?
....to get to point = he was shot down and never recovered. His buddy swam and survived after crash.
They pulled his brother out of front line duty training.
Both Ballsy Marines!
Wow that is incredible!
The main character Martin Sheen is Charlie's father. Brando was suppose to be dying of malaria and so he should have been skinny, but when he showed up on the set he weighed 300 pounds so they kept him in the shadows. The young black man on the boat was a young Laurence Fishburne ( Morpheus from the Matrix).
Martin Sheen is his screen name. His name at birth was Ramon Estévez. Besides Charlie, Emilio Estevez, Renee Estevez, and Ramon Estevez are also actors.
Vera young, like 14
This movie is about the insanity and chaos of war and how it drives people insane and make them do insane and chaotic things. That's why some scenes purposely have elements that are confusing and don't seem to make sense. The more the audience travels the river with Captain Willard to reach Colonel Kurtz, the more we discover the things that made Kurtz unbalanced.
I'll have to object to your use of the word 'unbalanced' to describe Kurtz. When a scale has tipped completely over and is laying on its side... one could hardly call it unbalanced.
👏👏👏 Agreed
Enjoy your adventures in Cinema 📽️ ✌️
The movie is based on a novel called "Heart of Darkness," which was about a trip down a river descending into madness as an allegory for the irrationality of colonial slavery. This movie is a descent into madness as an allegory about the irrationality of war. It's arguable whether Kurtz was insane, or whether the world around him was.
@@tomreichardt6044 It's arguable whether Kurtz was insane, or whether the entire world around him was and he just understood it better than everyone else.
@@charlize1253 Yes, people like to argue about what was up with Kurtz and ‘the horror’. A well-balanced person when faced with evil…will usually come out wiser if they get out at all. I like to think Kurtz was smart and accomplished, but not well balanced in the first place. He did not understand fundamental things…like human nature or the nature of evil. So, when he came face-to-face with the horror…it got the best of him, and he tipped over. In that regard, the story is a warning to us all.
I don't think Kurtz every really understood anything. Which is tragic.
From IMDB trivia it says that when Laurence Fishburn gets KIA in the movie, the womans voice to be heared on the tape recorder, played at the same moment, is in fact Laurence Fishburn's real mother doing the voice over.
dude was like 14 or something
Yep. 14-year-old lied about his age to get the part of a 17-year-old who lied about his age to get into the Navy.
Playboy Bunny who used to train the birds at Busch Gardens was played by a Playboy Bunny who used to train the birds at Busch Gardens.
Surfer who took acid was played by a guy who took acid and quite a few other things while they were filming.
Whole drunken hotel room scene was unscripted. Guy really was drunk, tried to fight the camera crew, cut his hand on the mirror, really did bleed on the sheets, really did cry about it. Scared the heck out of the camera crew but the director loved it and told them to keep recording. He had a heart attack while filming and they had to fly his brother out in secret to continue.
They tried to make the film in Vietnam by pretending to be making a documentary, but got told to go make it in the Philippines. The reason the helicopter formations change from shot to shot is that the Philippines had their own insurgency going on and sometimes the helicopters acting in the film would get called away to go and do some real stuff and different ones would come back.
The scene with the Bunnies in a camp destroyed by a storm was impromptu inspired by the crew's own camp being destroyed by a storm.
Brando showed up overweight and out of shape without having even looked at the script, and demanded that his character be renamed to something more "American" than Kurtz. One of the directors or producers, possibly Harrison Ford, sat up and read _Heart of Darkness_ to him every night, and then he demanded that his character's name be changed back to Kurtz, so some of those lines are re-recorded later and dubbed over the footage of them saying something else.
Oh, yeah, and everyone got malaria.
Saw Apocalypse Now on the night it opened in Shreveport in 1980 with a friend who was a Vietnam vet. When the tiger attacked, he leaped out of his seat and screamed, "Absolutely right! Never get out of the boat! Never get out of the boat!" Took me a moment to pull him back down into his seat. Out of all the Vietnam films, all the scenes set in Vietnam that was the one that hit him the closest.
Dawn, You DID understand this movie. The movie is about madness. You being disturbed by it is exactly what the filmmakers wanted.
The filmmakers were trying to say that Vietnam was Madness and Let's not do that again.
Being disturbed by something does not equate to understanding it.
@@davidpeters44 It does in this case.
I can tell ya one thing about this movie that's not in this movie a lot of these vietnam vets after it was over killed themselves. They were dropping like flys in my neighborhood.
That's one of the primary reasons i hate the hippies.
@@will-vi9pk -- Yes, I remember when the hippies assassinated JFK and opened up the Vietnam War, sending scores of thousands of American GIs and millions of Southeast Asians to their graves over nothing.
I saw this in the theatre in Mobile Alabama in 1979. When the film was over, everyone walked out without a sound. Never experienced that before or since.
It was the same thing in Southern California. Not a word was said..
The same when I saw it at Osan AB, Korea in 1979. No chatter as the guys walked out, just straight down to the bowling alley which was the only place on base to buy beer. A lot of the senior guys had been there. Harrison Ford 's character was what was called a REMF, rear echelon mother fucker. Never got his hands dirty.
Half way thru production, Martin Sheen had a heart attack. The story of the making of the film is a great film in itself. Robert Duvalls character is so amazing, bombs going off all around him and he is just standing there enjoying the war!
Because Charlie don't surf!
*"Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse"*
Look it up, seriously.
@@dan_hitchman007 that and he's head of the 1st of the 9th, the 1st Air Cav's scouting regiment--if he's like some of the commanders I've read about he'd be utterly unflappable while seeking out the enemy. One of the troop commanders was a Major, who always flew a gunship, and got downed something like 15 times while commanding the troop.
All this per a guy named Matthew Brennan, who was a 'Blue' (the infantry platoon attached to troop) for nearly 2 and a half years.
The 'work' as either the scout chopper crewmen (white team) and the Blue team was dangerous as hell--like 'SOG-In-Laos' levels of danger, but did they ever inflict huge casualties on the NVA.
You cut "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" the most iconic line of the film
Along with "Charlie don't surf"
Dawnie don't surf.
Keep the copyright away.
True story.. 1991, I was a couple days from visiting the MEPs station to pick my MOS for the Army. I caught Apocalypse now on TV. Watched some of it. Fast forward a couple days.. one of the Jobs they offered was "water craft engineer". The scene with the Tiger flashed in my mind and I passed on that MOS, lol.
This is the best movie EVER! The opening montage alone is amazing! The cinematography is wonderful! Just Wow!
You're right - you DON'T have to like every movie that everyone else likes. Not even if they (or we) tell you it's "a classic, one of the best movies of all time." Like what you like, dislike what you dislike.
And you're right as well about the lead actor looking like Charlie Sheen. That's because the actor is Charlie Sheen's father, Martin Sheen.
Happy Christmas, and a Merry New Year!
True. Nobody can like everything - and that would be totally boring anyway.
And let's be real here, as much as a lot of people - me included - think Apocalypse Now is a masterpiece, this movie is a tough watch. Even I have to be in the right mood and mindset to enjoy a (re)-watch. This is nothing you watch just casually and enjoy it. Same goes for some other classics/masterpieces, like for example "2001- A Space Odyssey" . Those movies are just not for everybody, and not for any time or any mood.
Indeed. Watch Hot Shots Part Deux for a great cameo scene !
Disliking it is fine. It showed that you experienced its phenomenal impact. It wasn't meant to be liked. You can like it for its cinematography, production values, tension and action, its horror. Heart of Darkness, the Joseph Conrad story on which it is based, has the main character, the man on whom Kurtz is based, murmuring "the horror, the horror."
"you're an absolute nutter" youve hit the nail on the head there that is Dennis Hopper an amazing actor and producer high as hell on coke, he played a lot of anti heroes and crazies. Roles he was born for because he was in fact an absolute mad man skating the fine line of genius and insanity.
In Kurtz's speech about the children's arms being hacked off, his U.S. unit went to a village and inoculated all of the children of the village against polio. When they returned to the village a few days later, they saw that the North Vietnamese had come through and hacked off the inoculated arms and threw them all into a pile in the middle of the village. This was done to punish the villagers for cooperating with the Americans. Upon seeing this, in Kurtz's eyes, you could not fight a war like that and maintain any moral compass whatsoever.
Fun fact:
In 'Predators', Laurence Fishburne tells the group he rescued that he was "Air Cav", just before sounding -out 'The Ride of the Valkyries'.
Nothing like those sneaky callbacks.
It’s such a neat & easily missed little callback; I wonder how much input Fishburne had in it?
Based on two books. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. And Dispatchs written by Michael Herr who had been a war correspondent in Vietnam. Herr also did some writing on the script and some of the narration. As well many other Vietnam movies draw from Herr's experiences in Vietnam.
There's a bit of The Odyssey mixed in.
You are correct. The Do Long Bridge scene where The Roach is summoned to take out the VC on the wire and he is so good with the M-79 “thumper” that he can drop a round on the target by honing in on the sound of the VC alone is straight out of Herr’s Dispatches where he describes witnessing that. It is probably my favorite scene of the movie.
After reading Heart of Darkness, I noticed only the most skeletal connections to Apocalypse Now. The Herr book I don't know.
I was aware of the basis in Heart of Darkness, which is set in late 19th century Congo. The man they were looking for in that book was named Klein, which translates as small, while in the movie it's Kurtz, which translates as short. To quibble slightly with the way you said this, since Herr was directly involved in the screenplay, the movie is based partially on his experiences and related to the book, not based on the book.
@@What_Makes_Climate_Tick In the redux cut, the travel back in time is more prevalent, since they run into French colonials still holding their ground
A psychological horror movie set during the Vietnam War based on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and loaded with allegorical elements of Homer's Odyssey, comparative mythology and Jungian psychology. A lot to unpack and not everybody really wants to. There aren't many movies that depict the dark side of human nature this profoundly.
Spot on!
This is in my top 10 of all time and I can say you have nothing to apologize for. I like your honest reactions. Keep 'em coming.
One of my favourite movies ever. Martin Sheenwas 36 and had a heart attack making this. During the bedroom scene when he was having a break down, he was drunk that scene it was his 36th birthday day and was having mental health issues as he was an alcoholic at the time. He was closer to the mirror than he thought broke it and cut his hand, so the blood is real. Also has one of the best sound tracks ever. And they used real bodies from a grave yard in some.of the scenes.
Before I watch your reaction, I want to say BRAVO for reacting to this movie. The movie is esoteric to say the least
Comment again when you’ve watched the whole video! LOL
You’re right though.
Dawn definitely was a trooper.
I love the smell of movie reactions in the morning. Great reaction.
Too bad the reaction is done by someone who A) Has no idea who the actors are. B) Doesn't know what the movie is about. and 3) Confirms the low expectations of nose ringers.
I remember my dad taking me with him to see this movie when I was about 14. He loved war movies, and so did I, and he really wanted to see this. So, we had a father and son day at the movies. I don't think he really expected it to be this extreme war flick. It does have a bunch of huge actors in it such as the main character, Martin Sheen, Dennis Hopper (photographer at the end), Harrison Ford, and several others. I really couldn't believe, being 14 at the time, about all the hacking up of the cow and all the heads everywhere just tossed about on the ground. I'm sure my dad was pretty surprised also. But the soundtrack is incredible!! Have a great Christmas Dawn and an excellent New Years!! Love your reactions!!! BEST EVER!!!!
It's fine that you aren't a fan of a movie, Dawn! You not liking it doesn't mean it isn't a good movie nor does your liking a movie make it a great one. I, too, am not a huge fan of this one but I recognize that it had some incredible scenes!
Dawn: "That music would put the fear of God in ya!"
Richard Wagner: "Danke!"
I first saw this movie over 35 years ago and didn't much care for it at the time. Yet I could never forget it. I've watched it a number of times since then, and it only improves with each viewing. Not an easy movie to watch? Of course it isn't. But you appreciate it more and more, especially if you know your Joseph Conrad and hero mythology. And you also begin to see the film as an antiwar statement about the futility of war. So much death, and what for?
10:30 Robert Duvall is the surfer officer - Also did a very good job in "The Eagle Has Landed" (1976)
Robert Duvall is almost unrecognizable in everything he's in.
Yes, he makes a surprisingly good Nazi in that film. He has that great line about “ meeting a pretty girl a party..”. I always remember the detail of him adjusting his eyepatch as he waits to be executed by firing squad.
You should hear his Scottish accent in A shot at glory , a football film with Ally McCoist
@@beardedsloth7805 never seen it - sounds interesting. I’ve heard his English accent when he played Dr Watson in “The Seven Per Cent Solution” and it wasn’t his finest hour.
It can't be worse than his Scottish , I don't know how they got him to do it , Michael Keaton is in it too
I wonder if you noticed one of the helicopter pilots was R Lee Ermey, the DI from Full Metal Jacket
Credited as Larry, Lawrence Fishburn, who you should know from The Matrix, played the young guy on the boat.
I think this movie is what Tropic Thunder was referencing with
"Tell everyone what happened here."
"...what did happen here?"
"I don't know."
That's Charlie sheen and Emilio Estevez's dad Martin Sheen. Now you need to watch Hot Shotz since you've seen the Rambo and apocalypse now. 90s parody comedy at its finest. Also can't forget to point out a teenage Morphious.
No she doesn’t need to see Hot Shots as she’s never seen
Top Gun.
Thank you for adding to the comment section. Your opinion has been noted. @@KrazyKat007
I got this notification earlier and freaked out because I had something I had to do!! You know family and Christmas time 😂 I need you to watch Platoon next.
Thanks for your reaction. Whether you realize it or not, you correctly defined one of the main themes of the movie, the "MADNESS" of war. Over 40 years later and I still can't believe Robert Duval didn't win Best Supporting Actor. His performance was perfect. The cow scene was real. It was a ceremony from an indigenous tribe that Coppo[a filmed and cut into the movie. Hope you give the movie another chance. Madness and horror.
Fun fact: the first draft of this movie was written by a guy named John Milius, who basically IS Walter Sobchak from "Big Lebowski".
Milius came up with the title as well.
You got it right early in the film "It's madness". That's exactly the point they were trying to get across. John Milius added a lot of the madness to the script. And it was great to see a young Laurence Fishburne again. Next to 'The Godfather' it's Coppola's best film. You deserve a good comedy after that.
"Why am I so confused?" Why would she even be reviewing a movie where she mistakes Sheen and Duvall for Brando? "He looks a bit like Charlie Sheen", Really? Thought she had redeemed herself when she said "I'm shocked not Morpheus was hit" @ 20:45 but on replay, she said "more of you's". And never even recognized Fishburne or Hopper. Guess it's what's to be expected from someone who's qualifications are a nose ring and mushroom tip lips.
The young kid in boat is now very well known. He was in the Matrix series and he was in the John Wick series. His initials are L.F.
This is one of my all time favorite films. It's really hard to assign a genre' to it. It's such a crazy mix of what you're witnessing.
Y'all be safe. Have a wonderful Christmas or holiday you celebrate.
Lawrence Fishburne was 15 when he did this film.
If Dawn recognized him at all, she'd probably say, "that don look like Keanu Reeves".
@@kkjhn41 Yeah, crazy.
Just starting this.
My prediction: Dawn Marie will be confused, frustrated, sometimes bored, and confused.
Yeah, I said it twice.
I'm not picking on her. We all felt this way the first 5 or 6 times we watched this movie.
I expect a "What did I just watch?" comment as soon as the credits roll, and maybe 3 or 4 times during the movie.
This movie is powerful, but it's also powerfully confusing and powerfully disturbing.
Edit:
Times Dawn Marie said some variation of "What did I just watch?"
8:50 "Nothing's making sense."
19:22 "This is a million times more hectic than other Vietnam war movies."
20:00 "Does anyone know what's happening?"
27:27 "Why am I watching this movie?"
28:40 "Are you understanding what he's saying?"
31:15 "I'm ready for this one to end. It's been too much."
That last one was right as the credits rolled, making my prediction spot on to the second.
I'd say I win a prize for that, but some bot is going to tell me I won a prize about 3 times anyway, so there's that...
"Strangest movie ever."
Yeah, Dawn Marie, you might be right.
Great comment, and spot on! For me I'd have to add: sick to my stomach while simultaneously feeling the adrenaline rush of excitement.
The night before I enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force , 1981 at the age of 16, my brother took me to the local cinema to take my mind off everything. We didn't know this was showing.....
US Special Forces Captain - Vietnam/Combat/SOG. 80's Australian Air Force enlisted. No disrespect but you two might as well have been from different planets.
@aocaoc9776 when someone says "no disrespect" they're about to be disrespectful. My service was not easy. We did the same infantry training as Army due to the policy of forward control bases being in enemy territory. I served in Malaysia. In my Squadron in 2 years one of my friends was decapitated, one was cut in half at the waist, one lost both legs above the knee. I had 3 emergency landings, I still have nightmares of working with detonators bouncing around my head in 50 degree Celsius temperatures in a tiny steel cavity. I have a cancer treatment in 3 days thanks to the chemical exposure. I was 16 when I saw this movie, I had no idea what was coming and the cold war was in full swing. F@#$ you captain.
As expected dawn you have some of the best video reactions and definitely one of the best groups of subscribers on RUclips. xxxx
i love your absolute willingness to watch movies regardless of the era it came out. i see lots of channels flirt with this idea. you actually live it. ffs you watch the marx bros. #respect
I STILL want to know... Why a duck? Why a no chicken?
Everyone else just keeps doing Full Metal Jacket over and over.
Which has to be one of the most overrated movies ever.
Once Vincent D’Onofrio and the drill Sargent die, the rest of that movie is pretty worthless.
Looking at this video, you see
Apocalypse Now makes for so much more entertaining a reaction.
"This movie is chaotic and mad". That was the goal.
When Martin Sheen punches the mirror in the beginning, he really cut his hand - the blood was real and they let it roll.
Now having given my view of the movie "overall"..... It is possibly one of the BEST directed movies ever filmed. The decisions on editing, sound effects and soundtrack, PLUS cinematography and characters overall, were simply AMAZING on nearly every aspect of film-making. Not just the "technical aspect" but on the way that a different director could ruin a movie, or too much studio interference, or a crew being lazy. So many "outside factors" could mess up a movie, but when it is firing on all cylinders like this movie does... it becomes something you STUDY to learn how movies SHOULD be made.
Only if you are talking about the theatrical cut. The other cuts bloat the story.
Robert Duvall, who plays Lt. Col Kilgore (I love the smell of napalm in the morning), stars in another good movie, "The Great Santini"
The reason he looks like Charlie Sheen is because he is Charlie Sheens father, Martin Sheen.
Surprised that she did Nit figure it out from the beginning!!!😮
In fact, when you see someone drunk or high in that movie, he was probably really drunk or high when filming his scenes!
You have every right to be disturbed by this film: it took you on a tour of hell, Dawn Marie. The only other film that gave an equally disturbing look into hell is the film "Event Horizon."
The movie is based on a novel called "Heart of Darkness," which was about a trip down a river descending into madness as an allegory for colonial slavery. This movie is a descent into madness as an allegory about the irrationality of war. The journey starts with Willard eating roast beef, and ends with a cow being killed while he kills Kurtz.
My dad took me to see this in the theater when I was 8. I fell asleep and woke up to see the Cambodians slaughter the bull. The 70s 👍
I hope he at least took you to movies with boobies in them too.
There’s got to be some trade off!
Well, I didn’t expect u to say u were hungry after the cow scene.
U won’t have dreams right away. Maybe in a month, 6 months or 5 yrs u’ll wake up one morning, very early (before sunrise) and u’ll b soaking wet from dreaming about this movie.
It takes time for ur sub-conscious to catalogue and compartmentalize everything u saw. Then, one early morning, u’ll b reminded.
Ur sub-conscious has its own time clock.
Dawn can not like a movie, yet still be immensely likeable
This movie is an absolute masterpiece. Not only because of how it is shot but because of how chaotic, overwhelming, unexpected and challenging it is. Definitely not an easy watch, particularly if you aren't aware of what it is about. Glad you made it through, this is actually an important movie.
There is nothing wrong with not liking a movie or some other work of art - and some art isn’t made to be liked or enjoyed, but to hold up a mirror to certain aspects of humanity - in this case, the insanity of the war in Vietnam.
No bruh....it's a truly bad, Road Runner/Wylie Coyote film.
@@mannyromero4511 I don’t understand what you’re disagreeing with? I didn’t say anything about the movie being good or bad, simply that it’s ok if Dawn didn’t like it and I further commented on the purpose of some works of art.
This film ideally needs to be seen projected in its 70mm blowup in a theater; it's very immersive that way.
"Nothing's making sense" is the perfect encapsulation of the war. And yes, I enjoyed those games on Sega Genesis back in the day. There was Desert/Jungle/Urban/Soviet/Nuclear Strike. By the way, now you are going to have to watch Tropic Thunder! Also, the man who played the young gunner on the boat whose mother's recording was playing as he died is also the actor who played Morpheus in The Matrix. This movie was good but hard to watch for a lot of people. Thank you for being honest about not liking all movies that are recommended. Like what you like! Be yourself, please. It is why we watch!
You felt exactly the way you were supposed to while watching the movie. Great reaction. The making of the movie is as strange as the movie itself.
“Nothing’s makin’ sense”.And that single quote encapsulates war.
In war...left is right ...right is left...day is night...night is day
Duval, was in hodgatjer, the first captain in Hunt for Red October. 1 of the chopper pilots was Hartman in Full Metal Jacket. Surfer kid in Outlaw Josey Wales!
LOL. I've never yelled at a screen so much in my life! Sweet heart, you keep asking questions about things that have already been explained but you keep missing them. Love you Dawn, but that's where too much commenting backfires. You miss a LOT.
I love your reaction videos Dawn. They are the Best!! Everyone else's videos we can pretty much predict how they are going to react but not you.. you can turn the most dramatic movie into a comedy and i love that because it shows you can find laughter and humor in just about any situation. You're a wonderful person and i wish you and your loved ones a very merry Christmas!!
This is still my fav war movie. Very few, save for "The Deer Hunter" go THIS deep into the psychological trauma of war or do it with such patience and brilliance.
Interesting that both these films are considered the original pivotal Vienam War films, but both are based on stories that had nothing to do with Vietnam. AN is based on a story set in the 1800's on the Congo River, and DH is based on a short story about a guy who gets addicted to playing Russian roulette in an underground gambling house. A story that captures emotion can be relevant in any setting or time.
I would put Casualties of War right up there with this one..
The Deer Hunter Is Sesame Street Compared To This Movie. I Am Sorry 😔 But The Deer Hunter Movie Sucks.
The Only Good Thing About The Deer Hunter 🦌 Is John Cazale ( In His Final Film!📽️🎟️🎟️🍿🍿🍫🍫🥤🥤)
Ive never seen anyone laugh so much at Apocolypse Now , thats why I love watching you. You've somehow brought joy to a harrowing film. Im glad you watched the theatrical cut
You've now done 2 of the best vietnam films portraying the horrors of war (Apoc Now and Full Metal Jacket) Platoon and Hamburger Hill completes the best of them.
Happy Christmas Dawn
You haven’t gotten to the end of the video have you? 😂
What about "The deer hunter"?
@KrazyKat007 I was about half way through at the time, she kept a upbeat attitude longer than I thought she would. It's a tough film on first watch she did well
@micscwisby7798 great film, I've not seen it in a while
This was never meant to be a comfortable movie. War isn't a sane thing on the face of it and this dives into the total insanity that some aspects of war can reach. A good friend of mine started in the military in Viet Nam and was seconded to a three letter branch of the government for special ops outside the borders of Viet Nam. His team used to wear European clothes and carried Belgian weapons and no ID that could tie them to the US as they knew anybody captured would be summarily executed after questioning. His last mission involved the assassination of the commanding officer of what unexpectedly turned out to be a full army group in Cambodia. They did their stalk and managed to drop him with one shot but then they had to hump it in the jungle for 4 days while being chased by thousands of men. They couldn't make their extraction point and basically ran for 4 days and nights hoping to get their a$$es out alive. They finally got enough separation for the extraction and got back to base. It was the last mission he ever went on. About half of his medal wall back when I ran with him was still covered by the official secrets act and couldn't be discussed but he had multiples of almost every medal short of a CMH. He had earned 4 Purple Hearts as well. As crazy as this movie appears there is also a lot of truth in it. Some aspects of war are insane and any depiction in a movie just usually falls short of the truth. As fictional as this movie is, it often touches on truths that are rarely discussed let alone filmed. Did playboy playmates go and dance on stages at fire bases Yes. Were soldiers sent to useless places to draw in the enemy to fight Yes Were people assassinated yes. Did people have barbeques and go surfing while over there Yes. War is an act of insanity and many of those crazy things were the touches of home that kept them sane while in country.
The more Willard reads as they go up river the more he becomes like Kurtz. I think Kurtz saw that in Willard.
Some men love war, and they're happy. Some men fall in love with war, and it destroys them.
Most men hate war, and want peace, but still fight. They're why humans aren't extinct.
Yet.
During the Vietnam War 58,000 American soldiers lost their lives. At the same time over half a million Americans lost their lives in road accidents. Fun fact.
Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed range from 970,000 to 3 million. Some 275,000-310,000 Cambodians, 20,000-62,000 Laotians. Fun fact.
The absolute scariest thing is when I was a teen I saw this movie in the Theatre sandwiched between my oldest brother and his friend Bobbi F , both Vietnam Vets . I was a nervous wreck. As for factual my Bro and friend gave it 60 % true 40% Hollywood
well it's not really supposed to be true, since it is inspired by a fictional novel.
I've had vets tell me it wasn't realistic EXCEPT for the bridge scene...which is wild
Nope. Not realistic at all except for the fact that people die in war. Growing up, my neighbor was a Green Beret advisor in Vietnam. Were there CIA and Special Forces missions that killed or captured important enemy officers and prominent figures? Yes. However, this movie was outrageous fiction.
One of my favorite scenes in cinema: when they get to the bridge and you hear mortar bombs and gunfire over distorted circus music. A perfect depiction of the absurdity of war.
How didn't you realize that the crazy surfing Lt Col Kilgore was Tom Hagen lol
Because she was too busy trying to figure out if the main character was Marlon Brando or not LOL
The movie is meant to press upon the viewer the realities of war. Mission Accomplished.
I've never thought this was a great film. It IS an iconic film. This is the basis or inspiration for so many other great movies and video games. Now that you've seen this, look up some of the trivia to see why it was so chaotic. Then check out Tropic Thunder, and Hot Shots Part Deux. Both are much easier to watch.
"He looks like Charlie Sheen" yep he's his dad Martin Sheen, when you recover from this check out ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, another great anti-war film .
I saw this with a couple of mates on it's release in 79 - we were 19. After the film ended we headed back to the car and sat in it for a good 30 minutes without speaking and without starting the car - that's the effect it had on us. Incidentally, the version we saw - when the credits rolled at the end it was done against a backdrop of the jungle going up in flames - they'd called in the airstrike.
I was in a film class in 1978 ,,,maybe early 1979 and the instructor knew someone who knew someone so we all got to go to a prescreening at the cinerama dome in Hollywood....it was not quite done - there was no credits for instance (they handed out booklets)...and there were celebs in the audience...Gene Hackman was a couple rows in front and the movie ended with the explosion from the front (which was the called in air strike), and everyone laughed and applauded when francis ford was in the movie as the news director
In the theatrical version, the air strike opens the movie while the Doors song "This is the End" plays, which is a more artistic but more frequently misunderstood way of suggesting that Willard calls in the air strike after the events of the movie
i get that - but the ending i'm referring to is very different and commences at night with flares - it is much more apparent that this is Kurtz's compound than the opening credits which takes place in daylight on what looks like a beach rather than deep jungle. @@charlize1253
“He looks a bit like Charlie Sheen” 😆 He should, since he’s Charlie’s father, Martin Sheen.
In the original theatrical release, Willard calls in the air strike to destroy Kurtz’s compound, but when it got released to video, the director decided to change it because he felt that Willard had changed and didn’t want to kill them.
This movie is a masterpiece. Very poignant. You're not suppose to like it. I love this film.
Captain Willard is played by Martin Sheen, the father of actor Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estaves. the kid who plays mr Clean is played by Lawrence Fishburne, the guy who played Morpheus in the Matrix. Marlon Brando is the guy who played the Godfather in the first Godfather movie. he played Al Pachino’s dad’s character.
I'm glad you saw the theatric version. This is another movie (like "Bladerunner") that the director just couldn't stop messing with. The director's cut is a nightmare for someone like mw that saw this whn it first came out. Definitely a movie for those that can handle tough scenes, but it was supposed to show the utter horror and insanity of war. I grew up in the Air Force watching the war on the TV news every night at dinner time. Don't be shy about saying you didn't care for a movie, we all have different likes and dislikes.
Yeah, the final cut is just too long. Having seen this when it first came out and then another cut, having that one long extra scene before they get to Kurtz's compound where they come across the French family living in the jungle just stopped the momentum dead in its tracks and added at least 15 more minutes to the film. I still definitely prefer this original version, for sure.
I’m with you on the Apocalypse Now & Blade Runner takes. Way too much screwing around with the edits. The theatrical versions are the ones I prefer for both films.
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 - Well, with Blade Runner, I definitely don't like the original theatrical release cut with the awful noir private eye-style voiceover, which I wasn't thrilled with when I saw it opening night. But, then again, I will only ever watch "Blade Runner 2049" at this point anyway, so I don't need to worry about it.
I remember seeing this movie in the theater when it was first released. A buddy and I when to see another movie but it was sold out so we decided to buy tickets to different movie and then sneak into the one we wanted to see. We had never heard of Apocalypse Now and didn’t know or care what it was about. The movie we wanted to see (don’t even remember what it was anymore) was going to start in about 15 minutes so we watched the opening sequence of Apocalypse Now. Long story short, we never did see that other movie. LOL
Of Marlon Brando's early films the best is certainly _On the Waterfront_ (1954). Considered one of the greatest films ever made, it was nominated for twelve Oscars winning eight, including Best Actor for Brando. A great crime drama filled with great performances all round, _On the Waterfront_ is definitely "Best Movie Ever" material.
Nice photography. When the air mobile unit is attacking the Vietnamese base the song they were playing was "Ride of the Valkyries". Valkyries were Odin's angels of death and no one could see them except those who were about to die.
I had completely forgotten that Martin Sheen was in this movie, and now the fact that his son Charlie Sheen was in "Platoon", which I recommend you watch next, makes it all the more surreal.
When one can't remember who the main character in their own life's story is, one becomes a Dawn Marie subscriber.
Francis Ford Coppola has another film coming out some time in 2024, Megalopolis. He's been wanting to make this film since 1976-1977. It's gonna be a big sprawling epic sci-fi drama. It cost $100 million to make, a significant part of the money came from Coppola selling his winery to Delicato Family Wines back in 2021. The cast of the film is just incredible: Adam Driver, Forest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne (back again after playing Clean in Apocalypse Now), Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jason Schwartzman, Grace VanderWaal, Kathryn Hunter, Talia Shire (Connie from the Godfather Trilogy), Dustin Hoffman, D. B. Sweeney, and Giancarlo Esposito. So look out for that next year. ruclips.net/video/4av6Ba88hNM/видео.html the guy giving directions to Willard is Francis Ford Coppola.
I remember leaving the theater kind of stunned after the whole experience, but after several viewings it got much better, now it’s a classic one of the best ever, thanks
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*""The guy that looks like Charlie Sheen"???*
You mean *Martin Sheen,* literally Charlie Sheen's dad?
You keep amazing me, girl.
It's arguable whether Kurtz was insane, or whether the entire world around him was and he just understood it better than everyone else.
Yeah i think that was one of the driving themes of the film and Willard ultimately understood at the end.
A officer on the FastTrack joining the Special Forces is a clear sign of insanely.
For a young Marlon Brando, I'd suggest either On the Waterfront or A Streetcar Named Desire.
This movie had a huge impact on me as a child. It is basically part of my life and many memories of my childhood revolve around this film. I always love to see this film40 years later.
The guy playing the helicopter pilot that gets shot down was R. Lee Ermey in his first role. He was living in the Philippines at the time so was picked up as an extra. He later made lots of movies, including his role as Gunny Hartman in Full Metal Jacket since he’d been a drill instructor while in the Marines. He also had several TV shows based around his love of the military, especially Mail Call. Tyrone, the young Navy guy, was played by Laurence Fishburne so many people don’t recognize his youthful appearance. And the icon, Dennis Hopper who started in 1969 with Easy Rider and made 100’s of movies before his death. A great cast, and you also identified Harrison Ford. Some little-noticed “names” later in life who were in the cast were Samuel Bottoms (as the surfer Lance); Scott Glenn as the bearded S.F. Captain in Kurtz’s tribe, and G.D. Spradlin as the General. Harvey Keitel was originally cast as the Captain but it didn’t work so he was replaced by Sheen. The Philippines are a true jungle so the cast had plenty of sickness delays. For proof of craziness, look up My Lai and the court martial of LT William Calley, whose trial at Ft Benning Georgia was going on while I was there. Also the good of guys who put themselves in the line of fire to stop it - helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson for example.
Lawrence FIshburne was all of 14 years old when he auditioned for this movie. Coppola liked him but wasn't sure the audience would buy he was 18 so as a female assistant was walking out of the room he stopped her and asked " Do you think this kid looks 18?" .. She paused, looked at him and simply " yeah.." He got the role...
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This movie is not about entertainment, it’s an experience that needs to be absorbed.