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Correct, Jim
I saw the movie "Apocalypse Now"many times before I visited the Philippines.
I still love the movie 40+ years later.
Hi to you also

The director, Francis Ford Coppola, wasn't always right:

"This film is a $20 million disaster - Why won't anyone believe me, I'm thinking of shooting myself."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now

Coppola's wife. Eleanor, made a documentary movie "Hearts of Darkness - A Filmmaker's Apocalypse" about the making of "Apocalypse Now" Very interesting documentary:

I went to Baler where the "Charlie don't surf" scenes were filmed

Wonderful band, album and track

Quotes From the movie "Apocalypse Now":

1. "I like the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like... victory."

- Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore,

2. "Trouble is, I'd been back there, and I knew that it just didn't exist anymore."

- Capt. Benjamin Willard.

3. "He likes you because you're still alive."

- Photojournalist,

4. "Do you know why you can never step into the same river twice?"

- Roxanne Sarrault,

5. "Charlie don't surf!"

- Kilgore.

6. "Hey, man, you don't talk to the Colonel. You listen to him. The man's enlarged my mind."

- Photojournalist.

7. "It was the way we had over here of living with ourselves. We’d cut them in half with a machine gun and give them a Band-Aid. It was a lie—and the more I saw of them, the more I hated lies."

- Capt. Benjamin Willard,

8. "There's mines over there, there's mines over there..."

- Photojournalist,

9. "Terminate... with extreme prejudice."

- Civilian,

10. "The crew were mostly kids; rock and rollers with one foot in their grave."

- Capt. Benjamin Willard,

11. "There are two of you. One that kills and one that loves."

- Roxanne,

12. "What the hell do you know about surfing, Major? You're from... New Jersey!"

- Kilgore,

13. "You are fighting for the biggest nothing in history."

- Hubert,

14. "You're in the ass of the world Captain."

- Lt. Carlsen,

15. "I asked for a mission and for my sins they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service."

- Kilgore,

16. "Every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker, and every minute Charlie squats in the bush, he gets stronger."

- Capt. Benjamin Willard,

17. "When I was here, I wanted to be there."

- Capt. Benjamin Willard,

18. "You can either surf, or you can fight!"

- Kilgore,

19. "Then you are like us; your home is here."

- Roxanne,

20. "When I was there all I could think of was getting back into the jungle."

- Capt. Benjamin Willard,

21. "Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets in the Indy 500. I took the mission. What the hell else was I gonna do?"

- Capt. Benjamin Willard,

22. "Not with a bang, but with a whimper."

- Photojournalist,

23. "Charlie didn't get much USO. He was dug in too deep or moving too fast."

- Capt. Benjamin Willard,

24. "Been here a week now, waiting for a mission, getting softer."

- Capt. Benjamin Willard,

25. "What are they gonna say about him? What are they gonna say? That he was a kind man? That he was a wise man? That he had plans? That he had wisdom?"

- Photojournalist,

26. "He's worse than crazy, he's evil!"

- Chef,

These are some 'Apocalypse Now' Marlon Brando quotes. Brando played the character Colonel Walter E. Kurtz.

27. "The horror. The horror."

- Colonel Kurtz,

28. "It’s judgment that defeats us."

- Colonel Kurtz,

29. "We must incinerate them. Pig after pig. Cow after cow. Village after village. Army after army."

- Colonel Kurtz,

30. "I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream; that's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor... and surviving."

- Colonel Kurtz,

31. "We train young men to drop fire on people!"

- Colonel Kurtz,

32. "What do you call it when the assassins accuse the assassin? A lie. A lie and we have to be merciful."

- Colonel Kurtz,

33. "Have you ever considered any real freedoms?"

- Colonel Kurtz,

34. "As long as cold beer, hot food, rock 'n' roll, and all the other amenities remain the expected norm, our conduct of the war will only gain impotence."

- Colonel Kurtz,

35. "Freedoms from the opinion of others... even the opinions of yourself?"

- Colonel Kurtz,

36. "You’re an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill."

- Colonel Kurtz,

37. "You have to have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without passion... without judgment."

- Colonel Kurtz,

Here are some famous war quotes from the war movie.

38. "With your Army, your strength, your power, you could win if you want to! You can win!"

- Francis de Marais,

39. "I used to think that if I died in an evil place then my soul wouldn't be able to make it to heaven."

- Chef,

40. "I'm still only in Saigon... Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle."

- Capt. Benjamin Willard,

41. "I don't care where it goes as long as it ain't here."

- Chef,

42. "Lieutenant, bomb that tree line about 100 yards back! Give me some room to breathe!"

- Kilgore,

43. "The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad."

- Photojournalist,

44. "Why don't you Americans learn from us - from our mistakes? Mon Dieux!"

- Francis de Marais,

45. "You understand, Captain, that this mission does not exist, nor will it ever exist..."

- Colonel Lucas,

These are some memorable quotes 'Apocalypse Now' fans will surely recognize.

46. "The heads. You're looking at the heads."

- Photojournalist,

47. "Any man brave enough to fight with his guts strapped to him can drink from my canteen any day."

- Kilgore,

48. "The war was being run by a bunch of four-star clowns who were gonna end up giving the whole circus away."

- Capt. Benjamin Willard,

49. "Sometimes he goes too far. He's the first one to admit it."

- Photojournalist,

50. "My orders say I'm not supposed to know where I'm taking this boat, so I don't."

- Chief Quartermaster,

51. "Never get out of the boat."

- Capt. Benjamin Willard,

52. "I’m a little man, I’m a little man, he’s… he’s a great man! I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas."

- Photojournalist,

53. "He had only two ways home: death or victory."

- Capt. Benjamin Willard,

54. "I hardly said a word to my wife until I said yes to a divorce."

- Capt. Benjamin Willard,

55. "They weren't looking for anything more than a way home."

- Capt. Benjamin Willard,

56. "I am beyond their timid lying morality, and so I am beyond caring.'

- Capt. Benjamin Willard,

57. "Someday this war's gonna end. That'd be just fine with the boys on the boat."

- Capt. Benjamin Willard,

Heart of darkness by Joseph conrad, decent book, wasn't some of sheen's acting ad-lib bed as he was drunk/high?

I posted a youtube clip of the helicopters attack playing valkyries but deleted it as might be a bit insensitive.to some readers.

Yes, Druk1, the scene of him drunk and punching the mirror was directed by FFC.

FFC wanted the madness of war to be represented in the movie, bigmac.
IMO, every war film shows scenes that could be insensitive to some.

That was the best part of the movie, I felt it insensitive NOT to post it