This is not a war film about the Vietnam War, but a road film about the growth of a person throughout his life.

Gregorio 2022-03-21 09:01:02

This is not a war film about the Vietnam War, but a road film about the growth of a person throughout his life.

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"Three kinds of people: Kurtz is the prophet, Willard knows the hindsight, and Lance is unconscious.

It is said that the most important scenes in the new version of "Apocalypse Now" are Kopra and Mashu Re-added three scenes that were discarded in the past into the film: huddling with Playboy's labor girls on an ambulance helicopter; funerals, dinners, and sex in a ghostly French rubber plantation; and a scene in the defector Colonel Kurtz's nest play."

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  • Chef: [after having encountered a tiger in the jungle, returning to the boat, and proceeding into a nervous breakdown] You can have the whole goddamn fuckin' shit, man! You can kiss my ass in the county square cause I'm fuckin' buggin' out! I didn't come here for this! I don't fuckin' need it, I don't want it! I didn't get out of the goddamn Eighth grade for this kinda shit! All I wanted to do was fuckin' cook! I just wanted to learn to fuckin' cook, man!

    [laughs manically]

  • Kilgore: All right, let's see what we have. Two of spades. Three of spades. Four of diamonds, six of clubs... there isn't one worth a jack in the whole bunch. Four of diamonds...