Smell The Napalm: The Story Behind This Incredible Scene | Ep11 | Making Apocalypse Now
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I love the smell of napalm in the morning…
In Episode 11 of Making Apocalypse Now, we take a look at the second half of Francis Ford Coppola’s enormous Valkyries Sequence that would involve even more dangerous helicopter stunts, a seemingly straightforward shot of a helicopter lifting the patrol boat that turned out to be insanely difficult, an extremely large and complicated napalm explosion sequence, as well as one of the most quoted lines in cinema history, This is the story behind these and many other great moments in the second half of the Valkyries Sequence.
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How no one was killed or seriously injured in that movie I will never understand, some of those scenes were just unbelievable, great video.
Vic morrow was killed.
@@Robert-nx3uy yeah… on the set of a completely different movie with a whole different crew in California. What does that have to do with Apocalypse Now?
Sheen's heart attack might just count...
@@adamtennant4936 i think the massive amount of recreational drugs he was taking probably had more to do with that than the process of filming the movie.
@@cres4928 Yeah, the whole cast were high as kites during filming and I'm sure that didn't help things be safer. 😆
"Someday this war's gonna end..." Without finishing the statement is so simply genius it's mind boggling.
The extended cut of that scene for AN Redux almost ruined it .
Yep. Summed up a lot there.
It may be a shitty war , but it’s the only one we got .
He said it remorsfully, he didn't want it to end.... Kind of like seniors in high school saying one day we're not going to be running these Halls anymore...
He says it with a melancholic tone. Like he’s going to miss the war
I've studied this film for decades. There's always something new to learn about how it was made. I can't imagine the level of stress Coppola was under, yet maintained his strength, creativity, and will to not only see it through, but make it a masterpiece.
The best film ever made.
@@bluegregory6239 Without any impact.
The most stressed was Marty (Martin Sheen) who got a heart attack while the movie was still under production.
Sadly it is also a profoundly racist film. I can't believe Milius has the nerve to say, all those years later, it's California culture v. "inscrutable Oriental mysticism." Inscrutable to WHOM?! That movie offers everyone's perspective EXCEPT actual Vietnamese. It's the most navel-gazing, white American movie ever made, and in that sense, it's the perfect repetition, and reinforcement, of U.S. imperialism. There's no critique at all. Coppola is himself the "California culture" come to invade, and speak for, the East.
the Best line, comes just a bit after the famous "I love the smell...." line.....he says, "Someday this war's going to end" with that tinge of regret
Brilliant
Also has, Charlie don’t surf!
@@samanthab1923 that takes place the night before.
Yes. He loves what he’s doing even though it’s hell. That sentiment is how certsin segment of US thought too
It’s regret and hope.
It’s the bittersweet reality of coming home from combat.
... 'Apocalypse Now' is a totally brilliant piece of cinematic history... possibly never to be repeated... makes me smile the whole time I watch it
I get what you mean but also a little ironic when you think about it that you’re describing a movie that depicts a bleak chaotic miserable war and that you smile the whole time watching it, even them slaughtering random people. But yeah brilliant movie
It's the only 40+ year old film I can think of that could be released today and not only be a major hit, but you wouldn't notice it's age, especially with the insane practical effects
@@BlyGuy Today Kurtz would be transgender. Could not be made today.
@@marknewton6984 Kurtz being transes kind of makes sense when you think about it.
Why couldn't it be made today? The DoD wouldn't allow it?
Hear Hear and Marlon Brando was a little "off the mark" regarding his character but he pulled it OFF like the sincere true Psycho he was and will always be , Amen.
23:34 When Kilgore says "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" the antenna on the radio kit carried by the soldier on the right gets a "hard on". There's no way that's not intentional.
NO WAY!! Good eye!
The fact that no one was killed during all the helo flights with Filipino pilots and language and noise. Remarkable. Nice job Tyler. Looking forward to Maverick in 25 years.
Was Alec Baldwin there
@@danielfritts854 I stand behind Alec Baldwin (just not in front of him)
@@eisleyism 😂
Most of the people watching this clip, never had a chance to see this in the theatre. It was a thing to behold. The "I love the smell of napalm in the morning..." line is always abbreviated, it shouldn't be. The whole scene is a tour de force...worth the price of admission.
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like victory!"
Which version of them film do you think is the best version? Please don’t say the original cinema cut because I can’t watch that one!
Oh, I was one of them and I remember from the time the film ended to when we walked out of the theater, it was total silence. Everyone was stunned by what we just watched. You don't experience that kind of thing anymore. I was just a kid myself but I knew what I saw was a masterpiece.
I could only imagine in the theater.
I was born 20 years after the films release but was fortunate enough to actually watch it in a theater last week. I've seen it for the first time, absolutely incredible, instant favorite
My friend was in Vietnam serving as a lead officer of a squad I think (sorry I don't know the organization). They were on a patrol in the jungle when the guy on point climbed over a huge fallen log and vanished on the other side. He had fallen into a hollow stump with a huge beehive in it. He came racing back towards them with the bees in pursuit. My friend had seen where beekeepers used smoke to calm bees so he shouted to his closest men to pull smoke and get under their rain ponchos. Several of them did and waited out the bees to leave. Then they climbed out and looked at each other: one purple guy, one yellow guy, one orange guy etc stood laughing hysterically at each other.
11:37. Yes, that smoke brought memories of my tour in VietNam. It was an all-expenses-paid vacation to VietNam. On one mission, we had to call in F-4 Phantoms. The pilot told us to pop smoke to mark our position. He said that he saw green smoke. I told him, "That's NOT our smoke. It's NVA smoke!"
So did he bomb the green smoke positions? Or was that a trap set by the VC?
Brilliant
thank you for telling that memory
Not really a trap. Throwing smoke the same color as ours set a trap for the enemy. The enemy would see the color of our smoke and throw a canaster the same color as ours. As our fighter started his attack run, we would toss a different color of smoke, which told the pilot our position and for him to bomb the other color of smoke. Our enemy was slick, but we were slicker. Sometimes.@@largol33t1
The best line in the whole movie comes just moments after this famous quote…
“Someday this war is gonna end”.. Meaning, get your fun in while you can, fellas..
My favourite was always "Never get out of the boat. Absolutely goddamn right. Unless you were goin' all the way..."
No, this is a remorseful line. When the war is over a man like Kilgore will have no meaning to his life.
@@joelcraig9803
Lol.. Kilgore is gonna be just fine, no matter what comes and goes.. And he doesn’t have a remorseful bone in his body, which is well established..
He’s clearly saying there’s only a short time left before these opportunities to be “men” pass, so don’t hesitate..
i always understood it as like, that he is aware of all the madness going on, but it is like it is, but one day is over, so no worries...this is the direction i always felt like this line in the end
Charlies don’t surf
I worked on Huey's in the Army in Germany. They were on their way out, but still powerful workhorses and a lot of fun to fly in with a good pilot. There is actually a visual phenomenon where people would walk into moving tail rotors and that is why there are white bars on the blades so that they are not invisible.
Also, it's pronounced Shih nook, like the Tribe.
Sea-Knight
Kanye North, incorrect. It’s pronounced SHinook, same pronunciation as the indigenous tribe and the salmon named after them.
There's about 1/2hr full helicopter scene out there somewhere that shows all the footage they shot for the scene. The choppers make several runs through the village blowing stuff up. It's quite a lot more than what made it into the movie. Obviously editing was needed and the scene is a lot tighter because of it, but to really appreciate how much work and coordination was needed to film the whole thing, you really need to see the unedited footage. It's quite incredible!!
I love the smell of new CinemaTyler in the morning
Some day this series is gonna end…..
One of things I really appreciate about this scene is how accurately they portray close air support, with the Cessna Skymaster identifying the mortars and relaying that information to the F-5 (which is often left out of many movies), the number of F-5 changing from shot to shot was one critism though.
The Americans love seeing their own torture and slaughter of others, even though they always lose....EVERY time, as they're inept and pathetic at fighting wars, the US always resorts to criminal acts before they get their asses handed to them time and time again.
You want to take on Russia? Hahahaha really? You mean the USA, that country that only ever talks like they have a military history like Great Britain, or something as funny, when that's so wrong it's hilarious seeing it. The TRUTH is, the United States has one of the very worst, and most cowardly military records/histories of any country on earth. Yet read what you all think, man? It's most bizarre!
The United States was founded in 1776, (even that's a lie). She has been at war for 226 out of her 246 calendar years of existence. In other words, there were only 20 calendar years, in which the U.S.A. did not wage any wars.
The Wars waged were never against a militarily capable country, but only countries considered the Third World. And any resistance from those countries?, always saw the USA lose! Pick any year since 1776, and there's about a 91% chance that America was involved in some war during that calendar year, and about 73% they lost it.
No U.S. president truly qualifies as a peacetime president. Instead, all U.S. presidents can technically be considered “war presidents.” The U.S. has never gone a decade without war. The only time the U.S. went five years without war (1937-42) was during the isolationist period (cowardly period) of the Great Depression.
Since the 2nd World War, the USA has started 201 armed conflicts, resulting with around 40-50 million (mostly civilian casualties). And usually based on false premises/lies. (And failed in most). This is more than 2 conflicts started, based on nothing more than lies and propaganda per year!
You sound AWESOME! Hahahaha! Oh, no! Wait!! What am I saying? Silly me! We all know the USA is the most powerful military country in the whole wide world today! Such a powerful force, they all claim. Hilarious.
Reminder...
Beaten and loses in Vietnam. After using chemical weapons, Napalm, and Agent Orange, burning down entire towns and villages, killing hundreds of thousands of women and children, while losing the war against a bunch of tunnel kids, they tried to burn alive! Such a powerful force, they all claim. Hilarious.
When a million Chinese ran over the hill in Korea?, they fled and got chased back behind the 38th parallel, then gets out of the War, with a ''face-saving'' armistice. Such a powerful force, they all claim. Hilarious.
Thought you'd force China to purchase your opium in the 2nd opium war, yet is the only one defeated by China, as both the British and French had won convincing victories, while the USA, humiliated, and well defeated, had to limp home, all alone. LOL, Such a powerful force they all claim. Hilarious.
Fought for a mere 28 months in WW2, and hilariously, for years, claimed it was because of the USA we won the War LOL. When we all know the facts say the exact opposite. It's not even up for debate. If Britain had not fought WW2?, the USA would no longer exist. Yet unbelievably they still try to say the same today?, with their propaganda history, they've all been spoon-fed from birth, as if a real part of their history. Such a powerful force, they all claim. Hilarious.
They claimed they forced the USSR to remove its Cuban missiles, or they had threatened War? While the truth is, that it was the USA that was forced to remove their missiles and close down their military base in Turkey, before the USSR would agree to remove their Cuban missiles. The complete opposite of what they all got taught. LOL. Such a powerful force, they all claim. Hilarious.
They claimed Japan surrendered after the second nuclear attack?, when we now know today, that was, guess what? You got it, just another American lie. Japan had ignored the first Nuclear attack, they also ignored the second Nuclear attack and Japan only surrendered after Stalin had kept his promise to Invade East Asia, and the Soviets crushed the Japanese.
That alone removed any hope the Japs had of getting Stalin to act as a mediator for a conditional surrender, and it was only then the Japanese surrendered (as we now can read from the people of the time).
The timing of the surrender Proves It, It was indeed just another American lie, and is still to this day, by far, the most cowardly act ever committed by anyone on earth. Such a powerful force, they all claim. Hilarious.
They thought they bossed Syria, with their bought and paid for terrorism?, only to then have to sit back and watch Russia kick their terrorist's asses over and over again, while the USA were helpless to even resist it?, and instead resorted to, once again, more lies, more criminal attacks on a legitimate leadership of a sovereign country?. Such a powerful force, they all claim. Hilarious.
They thought they'd show Russia! (as they supplied Georgia with their military assistance). LMAO, more like hindrance! Then had to watch Russia annihilate and destroy all the military equipment they'd just given away, every piece! PMSL. Such a powerful force, they all claim. Hilarious.
They destroyed and ruined the lives of an entire country, Ukraine, with once again, more of their? Yep, you've guessed it, more lies, more supplying weapons to criminals, and are basically working against the interests of the Ukrainian people, and still are, while pathetically trying to blame it on Russia?, such a powerful force they all claim. Hilarious.
They claimed they'd kick the Taliban's ass (inside 3 months)?.
The USA = A trillion dollars worth of military hardware.
The Taliban = A dollars worth of military hardware.
20 years (after), the USA were going to kick their asses inside three months, the Taliban hold more ground today than they ever have, and the Yankee boys, as always, got sent home! LMAO!! Such a powerful force, they all claim. Hilarious.
The USA struggles against the Taliban and other non-militarily capable countries!, they've never met a fully militarily capable country. Personally, I give the USA precisely zero chance against any of them, let alone both Russia and China as allies? Who are these yanks fooling apart from themselves? Your military is only as good as your MEN!
LOL @ the Yanks!
The American 2022 = We're stronger today than we've ever been!!... Like that would be difficult? LOL.
I'm not sure that the Skymaster was used for forward air control during Vietnam but I'm pretty sure that the F-5s didn't do napalm strikes.
@@ADAPTATION7the O-2 skymaster was often used as a FAC aircraft
Tremendous as usual! I can't believe no one got killed or more seriously hurt in this sequence.
Still my favourite movie of all time. It took so long to make, movie bosses back in L.A. dubbed it "Apocalypse When"? Haha! Well worth the wait.
Howard Hughes atmosphere?
All those extreme helicopter stunts take on a whole other level of difficulty when you remember what happened during the filming of "Twilight Zone: The Movie " just a few years later. Coppola got away with near murder in the Philippines.
Coppola loved taking risks...it paid off this time.
Landis' ego, thought he could emulate his hero Coppola.
@@Lethgar_Smith Regardless of whether or not that's true, it has fuck all to do with the accident
thats all i could think about watching the making of these scenes. amazing no one was hurt or killed.
@Jamal Crocker Look up Vic Morrow.
Another great retrospective. So much work for a small amount of screen time, as well as how the scene evolved. Can't wait for part 12
I love these videos. Seeing just how hectic production was makes the film even better.
You need to screen Hearts Of Darkness:A Filmmaker's Apocalypse-1992 documentary done by Francis's wife Eleanor-it's as epic as AN:)
This was such a great video, I learned so much from this. Awesome movie, awesome video, great job dude!
YES!!
Thanks for covering my favorite movie again and again, Tyler.
This all makes me appreciate the iconic film all that more!
Great actor. Assassination Tango is a rarely aired movie from this superb actor, and Apostle.
I saw this film several times at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. These were the screenings with no titles at all, and a theatrical program(which I still have) was handed out as we came into the theater. I saw it the first time with my sister. We went to movies together a lot back then.They had a special sound system installed just for Apocalypse Now, and you really could "feel" the difference.
When the film hard cuts from Willard dumped into the shower to that first chopper landing at the general's headquarters, the film literally pressed you into your seat, with the wrap-around screen of the Dome and the exceptional sound. The napalm explosion was so powerful I could feel it in my chest, the bass channel was _that_ powerful. I have a nice 4K TV and an OK Atmos sound system but it still can't compare to being in the theater with an audience. At the beginning of the attack sequence where the helicopters are coming in low over the waves and the film cuts back and forth between the shots looking forward and back, as I found myself leaning forward in my seat, I heard off to my right in the theater, a scream of "Yeehaw!" as the first rockets were launched. My sister heard it too.
When Kilgore says "Any soldier brave enough to fight in this war can drink from my canteen any day!" and then walks away from the dying VC soldier as soon as he learns Lance Johnson is there, the scene gets a laugh from the audience, not because it's funny, but because of that dichotomy again, a moment of humanity amid the slaughter of war. It's a laugh of horror that the audience shares together, part of the experience of seeing it on the real "Big Screen." This is a film that was made for the biggest of screens, before home video even existed. If you ever get an opportunity to see it theatrically, don't think, just go.
The one mistake I think Coppola made with the re-releases was _not_ including the destruction of the Kurtz compound over the closing credits. I think it should absolutely be a part of the experience when you see it. At the time, when Apocalypse Now went into general release, with 35mm prints, and that coda sequence attached to the film, some critics apparently thought that Coppola was glorifying war and reducing it to just big explosions, and Coppola took those negative comments to heart and removed it from the Redux release of the film, just leaving the titles over black. Personally, I think it was the wrong choice. He followed his instincts to make the film the masterpiece it is, and should have stuck to his guns. Either way, though, it's a film that will last forever.
What a masterpiece of filmmaking. My favorite film ever.
What did you think about Platoon and full metal jacket
At Coppola's winery in Napa is Kilgore's surf board hanging on a wall. Also the most amazing large sketch of Kilgore's Huey helicopter. The design screamed death machine. Wine is great too 🍷
Robert Duvall...He's one of the GREATS in my opinion. Love his roles👍😀👍❤
Well known for being a bit of an asshole in Hollyweird.
I hope John Milius & Francis have seen some of your diligent,work Tyler,you crazy cinefile:)
Those shots of reconnaissance planes and jet fighters before the napalm shots always played a important part of the picture for me. Till then the morning assault in all it's chaotic grandeur seemed still quite isolated and personal. Like the action of the detached madman which could be disconnected from the rest of the war doing his stunts with a horde of faithful kids in uniforms. But when the camera reach the sky and we see the planes, the sound changes, camera shots get a different speed and continuity, we can hear the calm voices of pilots through radio (without ever seeing their faces) and we realise there's still some mechanism above that all, some kind of patient everpresent authority above the conflict which supporting the mayhem down below with an illusion of systematic approach.
but with all the chaos that one scene created it felt like a perfect mirror of what would be like in real life
I finally got around to watching Redux a couple of weeks ago & I had a different feeling at the end of the scene. I know exactly why they cut the child from it. That moment of humanity completely offsets the the canteen scene & changes Kilgore character too much.
Couldn't agree more. Like most of the clips stuffed back into Redux. It just wasn't worthy of a masterpiece.
Decimate is an old military term and it refers to the punitive execution of ten percent of a body of troops. It does not mean total destruction. Or at least it it didn't mean that when it was coined
One question about this movie that no one has been able to answer is, why haven't I been able to see a version of this movie that includes the ending that I saw half a dozen times at the theater when this movie first came out in 1979? The ending I saw was the entire sector of Kurtzs' compound being blown to bits as this crazy electric guitar was screaming and screeching in unison with the explosions as they rained down destroying all that ancient architecture and everyone in it. They also played some of that ritual cow slaughter tribal music too with the guitar. The "almighty", US command contact had to have been given for the US air force to bomb that area so did it come from Capt. Willard? Because if you recall, Kurtz had written in his manuscript Willard had flipped through and he stops at the one page which says in red marker ink, "drop the bomb, exterminate them all". The Redux version has the strange guitar music at the end but it's very muted and there's no bombing of Kurtz' compound whatsoever. So where is that ending version I saw in the theater when this movie first came out? I watched it half a dozen times at my local theater over the first 2 weeks when it came out.
You are probably never going to get an answer to that.
We can't thank u enough for making this series! Absolutely love it, pls keep doing amazing work
what a wonderful video you have created, as a fan of Apocalypse Now.......you have done it justice and a great service to we fans.....Thank you so much, Paul in Florida
RIP Larry. He was such an amazing man. Always to the point.
Definitely one of my favourite movies all time.
I worked on the Jon Landis portion of the Twilight Zone movie. I was present at the accident that took the lives of Vic Morrow and two Vietnamese children. When the accident occurred, a 5 gallon bucket lid was on or near a mortar with a gas implosion bomb, that when detonated sent the lid into the tail rotar of the helicopter knocking it off. The purpose of a tail rotar is to keep the fuselage of the helicopter from trying to catch up with main rotar. Just before the shot, I had eaten dinner with Dorsey Wingo who was the pilot. He had been in Vietnam, and he told me that he had never lost a chopper, but had emergency set downs. Dorsey when he realized that the tail rotar was gone, he did the most intelligent thing he could do under the circumstances. He just set the chopper down into the soft river bottom. This shot was totally illegal, the children were in a very dangerous situation at like 2 AM in the morning. Because it was illegal, they were trying to “steal” the shot, not taking time to rehearse to see if there were any problems. Vic Morrow grabbed the children in the Vietnamese village set, and attempted to carry both children to the other side of the river. But since there was no rehearsal, they didn’t know that the children were too heavy, causing Morrow to have to stop and recollect the children under his arms, and continue to cross. When Dorsey set the chopper down, it decapitated Morrow and the two children. It was the next to the last shot of the night, everybody and their dog was there, meaning other than just the crew. I was up the river on a floater, a scaffolding with wheels that had two wheels in the water, and was lashed to a tree to keep it from falling over. I was operating coal burning arcs. When the smoke began to clear, all you could hear was the wails of the Vietnamese mother for her children. All in the name of cinema…
jesus christ
This is the 2nd post of your's I've read where you talk about "coal burner arcs", for those of us who don't work in Hollywood how about explaining what they are.
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From the beginning of the film industry in Hollywood, until around the 1980s, all motion picture lighting was done with DC current. When you shoot a scene outside during the day, you actually need more light than at night. This is because you have to over power the shadows that the sun causes, or the shadows will be just black in contrast to the sunlit side of the subject.
The way this was done was using coal burning arcs. Even in theater - in the old days - follow spots where coal burning. There were less powerful arcs called “170s’, which I actually operated on my first day in the industry, working with the first actor I worked with - Richard Burton - on probably the worst movie he ever did - Exorcist 2; The Heretic. A real dog of a movie. But the majority of arcs were “Brutes” - made by the most often used lighting equipment company, Mole-Richardson. Brutes came in two versions, heavy head arcs and light head arcs. A heavy head was made of cast aluminum, a light head of sheet aluminum. Inside the lamp is a carriage, with a place to put two pieces of coal. One piece of coal - the negative - is maybe half inch around and maybe foot and a half or two feet long. The negative is parallel to the bottom of the lamp. The other piece of coal is called the positive, and it is copper clad with one end an exposed conical tip of coal. In the carriage it rides at maybe a 45 degree angle to the bottom of the lamp. The art of running an arc successfully is to move the lever controlling the gap between the negative and positive, where positive moves up to make contact with the negative. This must be done gently or you’ll damage the end of the negative. You just “kiss it”. This starts a tongue of flame as the positive falls back down to its operating position. The DC current used is around 120 volts, but there is a device called a “grid” inline that is essentially a large resistor that drops the current to around 68 volts, which is what the arc uses. The carriage advances the positive and negative - supposedly - to maintain the correct gap between them. If you don’t maintain the correct gap, the the arc will begin to flicker, at which point your name is mud. There was “French coal” that was harder than normal coal, so burnt longer. But it burnt so slow that the arcs advancing mechanism would advance too quickly, so you had to constantly back the negative off by hand. Pain in the ass. There was also an even bigger arc we sometimes used known as a “Titan”, that was so powerful the freznel was in three pieces to allow for expansion and contraction…
These were replaced by 12K and 18K HMIs. During the early 1990s, there was a bit of a power struggle over whether HMIs should have ballasts that were DC or AC. My uncle was one of the department heads that supported DC, but that eventually failed. DC is five times safer than AC. When something happens with DC, you may be splattered with molten copper, but you will be thrown back away from the source. But AC, you may get locked on and continually be shocked by the AC current. One of the things that also caused the industry to go to AC were the use of dimmer racks, that had originally only been used in stage and theater. This made my job so much heavier, since it involved much much more cable for 3 phase AC. It also made film production more expensive…
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So it's a light?
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A BFL (Big Fucking Light)
Another amazing and well done video! Thank you!
YESSSSS LETS GOOOOOO
"Too strange and long."
People always be going on about "Oh wow man, I got stoned and watch 'Another Brick in the Wall'. That's like the most surreal thing man." And I reply. I didn't get stoned, and watched "Apocalypse Now."
I've seen it enough times that it's pretty much gelled into a movie, but it took a few tries before I could pick the giraffes out from the fish.
huh?
Milius totally stole the "crush your enemies line".
Today, this entire scene would have been done in CGI.
And it would have sucked.
I always wondered what the local population and extras thought about this whole crazy production?
Probabaly thought, wow I can make some money.
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You do an outstanding job on these making of's. Far better than I've seen on most, if not all of the making of's on the DVD's themselves.
I was living in El Paso TX 1979 and went to see AN. You do realize they show the end of the movie at the beginning and The Doors come on with "The End". I told my wife at the time, I like this movie after watching maybe a minute. lol I would love to see it on the wide screen again and I mean a wide screen like we had in the 1960s.
These are excellent. Best movie ever made IMO. Nothing else like it.
Im a 81 year old combat veteran of the war. In my opinion this is the best most accurate description of the war.
Apocalypse Now is the type of movie that will never be done again... and thank God for that because if this time no one died next time everyone will, to balance the luck out...
The extra that dropped the rifle tried to act like nothing happened. And the Oscar goes to
I've seen this movie three times IIRC. I made it through the first time because that was theatre, the two second times I just fell asleep or found something better to watch. It just does not stay together or have any real plot or purpose; king of what the making of it was AFAIU.
Everything I learn about this film makes me revere it more and more
YES, SIR ! CHARLIE DO NOT SURF, SIR !
Robert Duvall,maybe the greatest American actor, living or dead
Yes better than Brando in this one!
5:50 Is that a Michael Meyers mask being used as an extra layer of fire protection!? Sick!!! :D
This movie was insane, and so, so well done
This in my opinion is one of Coppola 's great films because it teach us the horrors of war & how bad it can be under all circumstances !!! War is terrible thing !!! It's madness !!! & Here actor Duval is at his best as inspiring leader that carried out his orders !!! Because this is the way it is !!! When a combat officer gets his orders now fight right or wrong have to joined & do his duty to his country !!!there is no other way around !!! Period!!!
I agree with Coppola's reasons for cutting that scene @17:38
Tom Hagen looks great in these scenes
Love this series! Great job!
Absolutely fantastic, Tyler!
I prefer the theatrical cut so much more than the Redux. They were right to remove all that excess. It actually makes things a lot more coherent.
I agree! Keep the original. Tighter.
I was on some good acid when I saw it. Never moved during the entire movie. My hands gripped the theater seat. Best movie to trip to.
2001 AD: A Space Odyssey is a good choice for tripping out btw
@@thebagelsproductions I tripped watching 2001 during a school field trip. The wildest thing about Apocalypse Now was the end. I thought the movie was over when they were leaving the outlaw base. I took a few steps in the aisle and the whole theater erupted in flames I fell down and was crawling to get out. I know people were probably laughing because the acid was kicking my head.
Interesting stuff. I love this movie flat but i'd also love to see a 3D conversion so I could watch it in my quest 2.
P.s this video deserves way more views & thumbs up.
Immaculate Speical Effects
Thank God For All Those Coincidences Covering up The Incredible Amount of Flaws in These Scenes
The Collapsing Helicopter Stand Is Completely Inept
The Loach Tail Going Out Is Fairly Badly Cut But amazing Effects and Piloting
Some of the Structure Destructions Is Horrid
The Bridge Exploded In a Clean Row Is Pathetic
The Pots Explosion Scene Still Makes No Sense
But God
I Love Ride Of The Valkyries
When Coppola hit his head oh man I felt that.
6:20 I actually never really noticed that platform but now I can't unsee it...
And through all of the mortar fire, grenade explosions and small arms fire, Kilgore never so much as flinches while squatting on the beach. Duvall is a genius actor.
We wore the green back then..some colonel got people hurt or killed 'cause he wanted to surf....some of his guys would see to it he didn't surf again..
It's the standard M.O. of British officers to not flinch from incoming artillery fire.
The MU-2 is not a jet. It's a Turboprop.
A turboprop is still a type of jet engine
Yeah, attached to a propeller. @@imvandenh
I was in the Cav and got to wear one of those Stetsons. Every time I put it on I thought of that scene.
'Cav'.
'Cool'.
I like how the North Vietnamese only have bottle rockets to shoot from the trees at the helicopters as well as the patrol boat.
6:50 to put his response into perspective the helicopter that was destroyed was a" dust off" helicopter meaning one that's used primarily for medevac purposes. Earlier in the war thay actually were unarmed slick hueys with red crosses but after they quickly figured out that the red crosses mad exelnt aim points
Duvall should have pushed back on that. Kilgore was coping with the horrors of war his way. The act of War is madness. He wants to get this over with and back home.
In 1971 on China Beach in Danang I observed GIs surfing on some fantastic waves. No mortar explosions, but 20 to 30 sniper rounds hitting the water around them. The guys surfing never even knew they were being shot at. Can't make this sh1t up!
Pity it wasn't all filmed in 8mm, looks authentic.
As a Vietnam vet
Station with the
RIVERINE forces,in 68
This movie was strictly
Theatrical.
Well done job though"
Captain Willard killing the girl with his Colt Government .45 and then saying, "I told you not to stop", was the entire movie for me. Kilgore was an also ran.
Fascinating look!
Great video, I watched the original film quite a few times, but it feels even more mystical knowing more about the BTS shenannigans, great video indeed :D
I never could understand why the exploding bridge wasn't presented from more angles. It's spectacular yet it's on screen for barely a second and then it's gone. In contrast the napalm explosion gets multiple angles but only the first really looks great.
Your Bridge On The River Kwai got pulled!
Incredible deep dive. I saw Redux in theaters before any other version, for me that IS the movie.
We were in Fallujah we called Savages, go fight a war you’ll find out, Awesome videos!!!!!!!
13:30 people would be surprised how much the military and the government influence films in exactly this way
That "padding", at 6:32 is upside down, styrofoam cups, with a padded board over the top of them.
15:00 Walter Sobchack ladies and gentlemen
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To me, the genius of this scene is when he says, "Someday this war is going to end." and he is disappointed!
Spectacular.
Which means it's up to your usual standards.
'Hearts of Darkness' shows much more detail, along with chronic drug use by most of the cast. Martin Sheen had an OD and almost died. Ms. Coppola released all the info to make the doc including the rampant drug use.
martin sheen didnt OD lol he had a heart attack
FINALLYYY A NEW VID LETS GOOOO BOOOOOOOOYSSSS
Damnit really good work . Really good work.
Apocalypse Now was hardly a financial failure. It made what is the equivalent of over $400 million today plus another $12 million for the Redux cut that was released in 2001.
Cool pic of Steve McQueen at 25:39
Should of been "Agent Orange" and smells like a "War Crime".😂
The Philippines has a great military very brave men in WW2 they proved themselves tremendous courage.
There is such a contrast between Coronal Kilgore as opposed to Major Frank Burns.
"Some kind of padding." Coffee cups. That many coffee cups would provide some resistance. I wonder if they are filled with something. If they were right side up, you could use sand. But they ain't. And I'm not sure they are coffee cups. They don't look uniform enough. Hard to say off the quick 8mm shot.
Great episode!!
@CinemaTyler ...so are you all "Hype on Skype" or "Shuck and Jive" as well as being "ignorant" of history?
Back in 1989 a highly decorated U.S. Army Colonel who had done multiple tours of duty in both Korea and Vietnam published a book. (It was a title that remained on the New York Times Bestseller List for a surprising amount of time!!!) He was career military and won a battlefield commission in Korea. He would go onto some the highest military education available at a University and then War College back East.
The further the man moved up the ranks, he was told he was in line to be a General of some regard prior to retirement... BUT two things disturbed him; 1) the U.S. military POOR planning and overall political goals of Vietnam as well as 2) U.S. chemical and nuclear weapons policy overall.
This character WAS A HUGE SMEAR on Col. Hackworth NO JOKE. In the 1992 co-authored biography this retired officer relates that "this line" is way off base, but in the field, during lulls in action, the man tried to used humor to lighten a terribly brutal situation for draftee grunts who did not want to be there. Yes AT TIMES not all the time... he wore an old style calvary hat to get a laugh, YET HE TOOK CARE OF HIS MEN TO THE BEST OF HIS ABILITY!!
BY THE BOOK... In Vietnam by Pentagon facts and stats the Colonel had among the LOWEST MORTALITY RATES of any field commander for units under his command.
He took an early retirement moving up from Major to Lt. Col. ...shunning any hope of not only becoming a full bird Colonel, yet would no longer deny his need to shallow too much "stuff" to become a General. What led up to this were MANY of his academic papers on military science AGAINST U.S. policy in Vietnam that were NOT WELL RECEIVED by his superiors (while posted at the Pentagon)!!! He openly protested against the use of nuclear weapons AND CHEMICAL WARFARE in Vietnam!!!!
If the Colonel is still alive, he remains an active member of the ANTI-NUKE movement in Australia and New Zealand in retirement. He resides DOWN UNDER in no small fear of a nuclear winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
1989 title ABOUT FACE
by Ret. Lt. Colonel David H. Hackworth
...Google READ THINK LEARN
I live in Australia and I've always believed with the amount of US Military presence here and our close proximity to China that we aren't exactly Free from Nuclear Threat !!