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Opening scene “The End,” The Doors. Melding of the wop-wop of rotors of the Hueys and the ceiling fan in Captain Willard’s hotel room. Foreshadowing of the insanity to come. My opinion of this movie changes a bit every time I watch it. Ļast time I watched Redux I thought it was great. _______________________________________________________ despite them | ||
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Just watched Redux on Paramount. Lt Colonel Kilgore is not only my favorite in the movie it’s one of my favorite characters of all time. The captain of the boat starts talking about how it’s too shallow to put his boat into this part of the river and Kilgore is all fuck that, this is air cav. We’ll pick that fucking boat up out of the river and helicopter wherever you want. Those scenes with Duvall are legendary for me. What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
Saigon...shit. ________________________________________________________ It is long past time for a Convention of States. The Founding Fathers gave us this tool to fix an out of control government and we need to use it. | |||
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| Legalize the Constitution |
Yeah, Duvall’s character is bigger than life. This time, closer attention to Martin Sheen’s, Captain Benjamin Willard, an alcoholic Green Beret headed up river to take out Brando’s Col. Kurtz, also SF. _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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| Legalize the Constitution |
At the incongruous dinner with the French ex-pats. “Why don’t you Americans learn from us, from our mistakes. Mon Dieu with your army, your strength, your power, you could win if you want to!” _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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Get Off My Lawn |
I have watched Apocalypse Now a couple of dozen times in all of its configurations, and it is one of my Top 10 films of all time, the 2nd Coppola movie on that list. In that hotel room scene, Martin Sheen had a real emotional breakdown while filming; it was his birthday and he got shit faced drunk, ab-libbing much of it. Another anecdote from the film; when Coppola asked Dennis Hopper what he needed for his role as the photo journalist, he replied "and ounce of cocaine" which he received from the production dept. "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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Watched it for the first time earlier this year, don't recall which version off the top of my head. Full Metal Jacket too, for the 3rd or 4th time. The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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| A man's got to know his limitations  |
Great fookin movie! "But, as luck would have it, he stood up. He caught that chunk of lead." Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock "If there's one thing this last week has taught me, it's better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it." Clarence Worley | |||
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was gonna post up a song by the Clash, but not sure if appropriate, watch this movie occassionally, like maybe 5 or more years apart, saw the release as a teen in the theater, the tiger in the jungle scene made me, and damn near every one in the theater, jump https://chandlersfirearms.com/chesterfield-armament/ | |||
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I learned about Raquel Welch because of chef | |||
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| Get Off My Lawn |
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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| No, not like Bill Clinton  |
I believe I had read that Lawrence Fishburn in that scene was underage, like 16 | |||
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