Meet Kilgore: The Story Behind One of Coppola’s Most Complex Scenes | Ep9 | Making Apocalypse Now
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In episode 9 of Making Apocalypse Now, we take a look at Colonel Kilgore's introduction, the insane detail that went into the scene, the difficulties in shooting on location, and how the scene (and Kilgore's character) evolved during the production.
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My favorite part of the scene was how Kilgore made a huge deal out of giving the prisoner water until he sees the surfer and then completely stops giving the guy water
...and splashing some of the canteen water as he gets up to see, adds just a little comic touch to the shot. "You can cut the "sir" crap Lance...I'm Bill Kilgore..I'm a goofy foot." Thumb gesturing at Willard while talking to the obviously MUCH more important legendary surfer..."This guy with you?" Call me strange if you want, but I love Bill Kilgore. He's just one of the very best comic-serious characters of all time. Tell the truth....If you were in Vietnam, wouldn't you want to serve with him?
@@Russell_Huston lol the "this guy with you?" line was so damn funny and let's you know Kilgore doesn't give a flying F for Willard or his mission but he's with Lance so he'll put up with him. The dialog of every character is so well done
That always caught my eye even as a 12 year old when I saw it 1st.
Indeed. I grew up surfing. I get it.
He can drink the paddy water
'I wanted a mission. And for my sins they gave me one. Brought it up like room service. It was a real choice mission, and when it was over I'd never want another'. This still gives me chills. The greatest film of all time.
"CHARLIE DON'T SURF!"
Genius. Awesome.
Would hate to be a surfer named Charlie.
Irrelevant? How is it genius when it doesn't mean anything in context?
@@TheBigMclargehuge in context it means exactly what it says. read a book one day and find out who "charlie" is
@@soakupthesunman anybody who has ever seen of Vietnam war movie knows the word Charlie. let's put the discussion in simple English. someone points out that the enemy is currently attacking them while they attempt to surf. his response is to say that the enemy doesn't surf. those things don't go together in a normal conversation.
I love the smell of a CinemaTyler UA-cam notification in the morning.
Oh Yes !!! I agree !! It takes unfortunally so much time to make new episodes...
Smells like... film class.
Nothing else in the World smells like it.
Kilgore - "How are you feeling Jimmy?"
Door Gunner - "Like a mean motherfucker, sir!"
Wanna use for my 📲 ring- tone
The giving a drink to the wounded enemy soldier really happened. It appeared in a life magazine article during the war. The photojournalist was in the back of a truck with us and south Vietnamese soldiers taking a wounded enemy back for interrogation. The enemy had a cooking pot strapped to his abdomen as his intestines were falling out of his abdominal wound. The wounded enemy asked the interpreters for a drink of water and they had the truck stop next to a rice paddy for the wounded man to drink from(they were enemies). An American soldier found out what was going on an said... "any man that can fight for 3 days while holding his guts in a tea kettle can drink from my canteen anytime."
I was there, you believe that shit, shame on you. Superman isn't going to be in combat for 3 days holding in his guts, you can't be that gullible.
Yes, I have that issue of Life, amazing but true.
Wouldn't water kill him slowly from the damaged intestines? I think adrenaline gets you thirsty( in 2019 The Town, Jeremy Renner is shot dying behind garbage can, he sees soda cup on ground and takes a sip before getting up to try and take a FED bastard with him.)
If soldier had any respect he should've shot the communist in the brain stem for a instant off.
Scenes like this are why Apocalypse Now is hands-down THE greatest war movie ever, and arguably the alltime greatest movie, in general. Today, this scene would be 80% sterile CGI mush, making it feel like they'd spliced in shots from an MCU movie. And even Full Metal Jacket's "Vietnam" loses so much, from being shot on sets in England. But the authenticity of Apocalypse Now was nuts.
The movie is an unrealistic stylized fever dream designed solely to bash American soldiers. Rife with hack method acting and clumsy dialogue, this is far from the best Vietnam war film ever made. It's far from being a good film.
@@TheBigMclargehuge lol
@@TheBigMclargehuge real small brain opinion right there.
@@TheBigMclargehuge This is bait. Youre literally getting why its good above
There are some errors and questionable choices made in the film. It's still one of the best to come out of the "golden age" which was New Hollywood. What is "hack method acting?" And which dialogue is clumsy? It is stylized - yes, but it's art, not a reenactment
When i saw Apocalypse Now for the first time my jaw pretty much dropped. I saw it at the cinema when i was 16. I'm 48 now and it's still my favorite film ever. The idea of trip up river being an allegory for discovering one's deeply rooted dark side, stuck with me.
That river sequence was such a masterpiece of cinematography. FWIW, I had friends who were formerly grunts over there, and they *hated* the movie. Because it's not really about Vietnam as they expected. They felt no respect was given the actual people, being depicted in this fantasy. Doesn't mean it's a bad movie, just that it was a little bit misrepresented.
it was amazing!!!
when I first watched it..
when the tiger jumped out the entire theater i was in jumped, also almost everyone stayed till the end of credits, left and it wasn't till we got out on the street that people started talking!!
7:14 LTC William "Bill" Kilgore was modeled after LTC John "Bullwhip 6" Stockton.
The Stetson hat (black hat) was begun by Stockton commander of the 3-17th Cavalry Reg (11th Reg and 1-9th Cav), the Division command group was not apparently eager to approve of it's adoption within the 1st Cav Division, but Stockton persisted in wearing it after he first wore it reviewing a troop formation.
The timeline of the Stetson seems appropriate with the movie. Not sure the huey is black but has the anti glare black paint in front of the windshield.
Great details and contribution to what we are looking at in the scene @Eric Stevens!
The character was actually a composite of several real life characters, including several that Duvall personally knew.
I'm a former member of 3/5 Air Cav. Our Squadron CSM wore a black Stetson and spurs on his boots always.
I can’t even begin to express my admiration for the work you’ve done on this channel, your bravura coverage of Coppola’s masterpiece in particular. It’s simply more authoritative, interesting, and just plain fun than anything else I’ve read or watched on the subject - and believe me, that’s quite a lot.
You are too kind! Thanks so much!
Yeah I'm still appreciating this movie more because of these videos, and I've loved it for a long time already
Absolutely. Brilliant.
Please, you think he did this research, this is almost verbatim copy of the Copla documentary.
Thanks for all the hard work on this series. A genuine masterclass.
Thanks! Glad you like it!
you think he did this research, this is almost verbatim copy of the Copla documentary.
cinematyler = best content on youtube
With "eyebrow cinema"
If I could have been on the set of any movie - I think this would be it.
Back in 1982 I met a guy that was in the military stationed in the Philippines when Apocalypse Now was there. He off-handedly mentioned running into a film crew, but I don't think he had any idea who or what it was. Maybe he did, but he didn't seem all that impressed about it. I was like, "Tell me everything you saw!!"
Some day, this series is gonna end.
I sure hope not
@@DrMetPhD 😆
Nice one!
Outstanding, Cinema Tyler, outstanding ! Getcha a case of beer for that one.
Thanks!
@Slim Dim Nah, that's your job..
I always thought the LTC Kilgore was based on the real commander of 1/9 Cav when I was there, LTC John B. Stockton. He wore a Cavalry Stetson too and was a larger-than-life character. In fact, a little too larger-than-life. He was relieved of his command for being a little too aggressive and a little too outspoken about it.
I thought Kilgore evoked Custer.
@@lindaterrell5535 Without Sitting Bull.
10:26 I doubt that air cav officers wore their distinctive uniform items in combat, even in Vietnam. Looking unique is a terrific way to draw fire to yourself, spurs get hung on underbrush, Stetson offers no protection, etc. I think that the Kilgore character is written that way to emphasize his nonchalance and that "bulletproof" nature that Willard senses around him, not because it's the norm.
You smell that? YOU SMELL THAT?
That's Napalm, nothing else in the world like it.
It's that smell, that gasoline smell.
Smells like...............Victory!
Think I heard that . . . . 😬
@@paulsuprono7225 someday this war is going to end ☹
When you reach 250k subs ask Coppola for an interview.
Thanks for the video.
That would be so cool! Thanks!
I was once a staff officer for a general officer. I went to great efforts to make sure he had his daily can of Mountain Dew.
There will never be another Apocalypse.
It's Coppola's calling card in my eyes, even if Godfather I & II are better works; Apocalypse remains the biggest and boldest experimental indie film, and THAT is Coppola.
OK, so this will probably be a long post but I hope you'll read it. I am a bit a 1st of the 9th fan, I have dozens of books on the unit, and am proud to be friends with some of the members of said unit.
Kilgore is absolutely based on one Lt Col John B Stockton (google image search some pics to get an idea). Col Stockton was the original commander of the 1st Squadron 9th Cavalry, 1st Air Cavalry Division, also know as "1st of the 9th". Col Stockton was a brash cavalryman, who lead his unit to devastating effectiveness against the VC and NVA. He cared deeply about destroying the enemy and saving the lives of those caught in the crossfire. Col Stockton also very much cared for the men under his command. His training lead the 1st of the 9th to be one of the most successful fighting units ever.
A bit of a cross over to Kurtz happened with Col Stockton. As Willard is reading Kurtz' dossier, he mentions a mission called "Archangel". As Willard says, "The balls! He just thought it up and did it." and how command was going to crucify him, but the press found out it was a big success and that saved. That actually happened to Stockton. He commandeered some men of another unit for a mission. The mission went perfect, but he didnt have authority. He may have been court martialed, but the press got wind and he was "promoted". Promoted meaning he lost command of his unit. In the "Charlie dont surf!" scene when Kilgore says "Take a gunship back up to division", this is presumed to mean he is notifying the division of his mission to assault.
...but send a helicopter just to ferry a message? Why wouldn't he just notify them on the radio ?
@@robertmaybeth3434 Paperwork. Bureaucracy.
I love how they actually thought out a scene, not hire a digital art team to take their notes and imagine it for them, they made the scene what it is, beautiful
How does the same guy who directed Apocalypse Now go on to make Twixt?
He pretty much based it off a drunken dream, which makes sense.
I have a close friend who wanted to be a cameraman back in the 1990, he had a breakdown purely on how good the camerawork is in this movie, for two years he was in deep depression over how he would never be able to measure up, he's doing fine now by the way, won several rewards for his camera work.
Caesar wept with envy when first he gazed upon a statue of Alexander.
Great commentary. My parents housed and fed Vietnamese refuges that had escaped Saigon. One from the embassy roof by helicopter. America was helping Vietnamese refuges to escape and were sent to the Philippines to stay in camps. Then later unto military bases like Camp Pendleton. Mission organizations and churches helped the refuges get "adopted" by families. They would help them assimilate into the American way of life. My father was a WW2 refuge from Germany, so he knew what it was like and wanted to help. They lived with my family for a year.
Duvall was the best character in the movie. He looked like he could actually be that character. Step right out and start commanding troops.
While working on Bonfire of the Vanities, I was befriended by Doug Ryan, the camera operator. Doug had been in the first wave of troops that arrived in Vietnam after the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, spending 6 months. This qualified him to become the technical advisor on Apocalypse Now. Doug said that Francis asked him to write on one sheet of paper all the really weird things he had seen in the 6 months he was in country. Coppola then put all those things that Doug wrote into one scene, turning it into hyper-reality. It was on Apocalypse that Doug started to get into cinematography, first as an assistant to Francis' wife as she shot the documentary that became Hearts of Darkness. Then he did some 2nd Unit work, of which I remember that he said that he did the tiger scene...
The amount of work and dedication that goes into a series like this is unbelievable. You’ve covered so many amazing films in depth. I really respect and appreciate your commitment to cinema history. I don’t think anyone in the world knows more about apocalypse now, maybe not even Coppola.
Just watched a documentary on Desert Storm in which there is a first lieutenant Andy Kilgore in the 7th corps. Video: Battle of 73 Easting by Timeline - World History Documentaries
Psy Ops played Flight of the Valkyries when the first army led by the technology known as Global Positioning System crossed into Kuwait
I haven't heard the term "goofy foot" since the mid-80's. If I remember correctly, it means that you ride any kind of board with your LEFT foot forward, right?
Also used in the logging industry for when you're holding your chainsaw with switched hands (generally considered unsafe) ... ever seen a left handed chainsaw? :)
Still used in skating to this day, except it's just called goofy
Funny to me how Kilgore has a fair amount of hair for a soldier, but, except for his role in The Godfather where he was such a huge presence, he has almost no hair at all in so many of his memorable roles including that great classic To Kill A Mockingbird in which he played Boo Radley.
You're doing the highest level work here. I absolutely love it
You are too kind! Thanks!
Duvall as Kilgore & Robert Shaw as Quint in Jaws. 2 of the finest performances ever
Still Quotable almost 50 years later.... Charlie dont surf... epic
Yes,Duvall's buddy Hackman was originally supposedly play Kilgore.
This series just keeps getting better. I saw this movie in a theater half a dozen times or more, always been a favorite.
I was 19 when this movie changed me. I can now report I'm back down to beautiful Earth. Thank God. God Bless.
Fantastic, a joy to watch. I always thought that the camera crew was an after thought because the shadow of the actual camera crew being dollied can be seen just before Coppola plays his part. I figured that someone in the crew must have seen this and Coppola had to add the news crew to justify it.
I thought the same thing. Whether that was the reason for their inclusion or not it does make sense. Then again,it's such an obvious flub there's NO WAY the crew wasn't aware of it as it was happening.
Hello Tyler. Do you have any info on the famous “Martin Sheen coming out of the water” shot?
There’ so much I’ve noticed about this shot: it’s shown in reverse; it’s the only in-camera special effect in the film; it’s spacially incoherent; and why is his face not wet when he comes out of the water?
Thanks
I always suspected it’s in reverse! Its definitely one of the most memorable shots in the film because of how surreal it is.
It's in reverse?!?! Wow, that explains a lot! I always thought it had a weird, dreamy quality to it, but never thought that it was reversed. I thought his face was dry because of the camo makeup. I also thought that he was dry because that symbolized how he wasn't affected by the chaos and insanity around him.
@@scottplumer3668 I’m guessing that it’s reversed. I can’t validate it. The director and neither Martin Sheen have never mentioned it’s reversed. But it looks like it.
Sooo uhhh… when’s the next episode discussing the ride of the valkyries scene coming out???
$65,000 for this small part AND 1.5% of the film’s profits? Jeeeeeez they really just gave movies away back then.
You still remember that small part, don’t you?
Adjusted for inflation it's worth a hell of a lot more now.
Charlie dont surf
"Charlie don't surf" is from an interview with surfers in the early 1970's. A journalist was interviewing people at Huntington beach or one of the LA beaches. She asked a group of surfers what they thought about Charles Manson and one of them replied "Charlie don't surf". The snippet of the interview can be found. Proved perfect for the scene in Apocalypse Now.
I remember watching this when it came out in '79. A few years later I went into the Military. It was nothing like what's in the movie. There might have been a few similarities but for the most part not so much. We did still get to wear the green BDUs and the jungle boots. The Military was still making those small adjustments into today's Army. This was a weirdly awesome movie though.
But did you fight in any wars to begin with?
Like not to be insulting or anything.
But there is a huge difference between serving during peace times and war times.
I mean I bet the movie doesn't give a completely accurate depiction of the war.
But it is still able to portray the madness and contradictions of this war.
How war crimes clashed with honorability.
It is a very good depiction of that atrocity!!! How about grunts wearing ears as decoration.. The tomohawk was a favorite weapon... Used the "gooks" tied to trees for target practice...
2 million Vietnamese killed.. 2 million.. The movie is tame!!!
Thank goodness I was non combat!!!!!! But still a part of the atrocity... The second biggest mistake of my life... Allowing myself to be drafted... The real heroes went on the Merrikesh Express!! Just sayin'
Most fascinating and beautiful movie ever made, even on an objective level. Watched it probably 1000s of times by now because it has become part of me. I'm endlessly enamored with this piece of what I consider High Art. It's the only movie to make me consistently cry my eyes out haha Thanks for your analysis man!!
thank you for caring, the napalm scene always tears me up because it is so realistic as I saw a mass napalm attack carried out by 4 C-130s that killed 300 NVA. None of us cheered, we all felt sorry for the victims, who thought they were in a rest area. Just ghastly like the whole war, which tore America apart and for which America never apologized, neither to the Asians or to us veterans.
After watching Apocalypse Now on the big screen on a 35mm print screening, I’m obsessed with this film once again and your videos on this epic production have engaged and fascinated me. Eagerly anticipating the next part in this series.
Kilgore reminds me of my sergeant majors when I was in the armored cav.
Well he wasn't a bad officer I guess, he loved his boys and they felt safe around him...
Heart of Darkness might be the greatest piece of fiction ever written and Apocalypse Now definitely did it justice.
Willard was Marlowe. The Intended? War-- the horror?
In Bruce Browns documentary movie "Endless Summer II" which is of course about surfing and is the "sequal" to 1966's Endless Summer, Brown goes to Viet Nam to surf and finds there is not a decent surfable wave to be found.
That's why Charlie don't surf!?
If you think bringing surfboards to a war is strange you should see what is/was brought to Afghanistan and the Irak war.
Elaborate friend
we had world class stereos in Vietnam, and they were all over.
Who is downvoting this video? This is essential work.
Beyond Essential, Masterpiece.
The scene of the guy with the pot lid is based on an incident photographed by Philip Jones Griffiths.
I worked with Bill Neil, Eleanor (Neil) Coppola's brother and he had some interesting Apocalypse Now stories. Bill had joined his sister while shooting Apocalypse in the Philippines. Specifically, he was lending a hand as a camera operator on the "Hearts of Darkness" documentary. Bill recalled an end of week viewing party where the crew would review the preivious week's work. The house lights went down and the images came up on the screen for about ten minutes. After that, the house lights came back up and a rather confused crew asked the projectionist, "What about the rest"? The projectionist calmly shrugged and said, "That's everything that Technicolor sent, there's nothing more to screen". This sent the powers that be into a mild panic as they had shot way more than ten minutes the previous week! Vittorio called the lab in Rome and inquired why they hadn't sent all of the prints and the lab technician replied, they printed everything that was received... Uh, oh! There was a whole bunch of exposed negative missing... Somewhere but where exactly? Bill went on to explain, that once a week a plane ("Air Frances") left the Phillipines with the undeveloped negative and flew to Bombay. In Bombay the negative was transported by a cart and donkey to another plane that was bound for Rome. The negative in question had literally fallen off the donkey cart and was lying beside the tarmac, baking in the sun. The negative was found and promptly sent to Technicolor in Rome for processing. Fortunately. there was no perceptible damage. My mind reels to think what might have been on those rolls of negative. All that effort and expense that ultimately relied on a humble driver with a cart and a donkey. Mind blown!
I snuck into the Drive-In movie's exit on om my Schwinn bike with a new Hi Tech AM radio purchased with Paper Route money "Just" to watch this Movie!
I still remember how dark, disturbing and Real this work IS!
Thanks to all involved!
Late with my comment so it may be a duplication? However, the speaker didn't obviously know basic first aid, because you do NOT give a wounded man water if he has a stomach wound! It's a no, no. So he was hurting not helping the prisoner. We thought we were there to help, right?
Where is the next episode?
I had the honor to serve as an embedded criminal intelligence advisor with 1 CAV staff in Baghdad in 2009. Of course it was over a generation after Vietnam , but, many traditions were preserved. Regarding Stetsons (cowboy/cavalry wide brimmed hats), they were worn at special events.
This was a very complicated and complex production. So I do expect a few errors. I spent four years in the Army and eight years in the Airfare. I never saw a Squadron Commander in the army. As was painted on the Huey side by the door.
A buddy on mine in 1971 that had been in 7th Air Cav. told me wild stories about what they did. I being 19 at the time found it hard to believe. Everything he told me was shown in this movie. Sorry Ken you were right!
Admire, what you´re doing. "Apocalypse Now" is my personal best film of all time!! So keep on making another six or twenty episodes on this magic of film-making !!
Mine also I have the full version
Im glad the first version I watched was Redux... cant imagine it without the french scene and all the extras
Love this series, it's my favourite film and it's amazing how much info you find about it. Keep it up
You could watch movies for decades and not see a character pop off the screen like Duvall's Kilgore. One of the most memorable "small roles" ever.
wasn't he a Lieutenant colonel?
Amazing work, as usual, so enjoyable, thanks 😟👍
Love this series, can't wait for the next episode!
Maybe he covers it in another video but the line Kilgore has: “someday this war gonna end….” Said with regret. Some men might be made for war and in their element. After returning, have no sense of purpose. Amazing movie.
9th cavalry regiment.. my first unit when I joined the army.
A good time to ask: what is the explanation for the two different sets of insignia on Kilgore's Stetson? In the first introduction to Kilgore right up to the beach party, his Stetson sports a LTC's silver oakleaf and a smaller cross sabre cav badge. In the assault accompanied by Wagner, he just has a larger crossed sabre badge and no rank. This has always perplexed me. Having just watched this episode, I reckon it's just simple continuity seeing as how there was a 6 month gap between filming the 2 scenes. Still, for a perfectionist like Coppola, this seems unlikely.
I've always loved that bit with the canteen. One of my favourites.
The Valkyrie attack is a VC strong point, that as stated in the video, Kilgore initially refuses, until surfing is brought up. Since the enemy like to take out officers and this is a hairier to place attack, Kilgore may have decided to not wear his rank like he normally does.`
I happened to be working at a USA airbase in the UK there motto as we passed security Death from above !!
What a great instalment, thanks for making these!
Thanks!
The Losers is the movie Butch's girlfriend is watching in Pulp Fiction before he goes to get his watch. Of course, his father died in Nam.
Just realised I watched episodes 8 and 9 and missed 7. Guess I'll just have to go watch it. ...did that sound like a chore? BECAUSE IT SO ISN'T! This channel is amazing! Magnificent, thorough uploads.
LOLOL best comment I've read all day
I always thought Tom Hagen was brilliant in this scene.
I have been to Baler 3 times, Beautiful place.
The image at 5:20 is from Ermita Hill.
The Kilgore scene is at what is now called Charlies Point, Baler Aurora.
I just LOVE watching videos about Apocalypse Now. Fun fact, I watched the movie yesterday.
That's Good CinemaTyler,Cause You Can Either Upload,Or You Can Surf!!By the way Kilgore wants His Board Back!It Was A Good Board And He LIked It!!:)
Your up there with Hearts Of Darkness:A Filmmaker's Apocalypse,Now:)Well Played CinemaTyler:)
Fun Trivia Fact-Coppola's The Rain People was a big influence on Vincent Gallo's film work:)
Kilgore was one cool cube! Just like Hudson in CoDBO! CHARLIE DON'T SURF!!
I knew guys like that in the army in the 70s. It was a persona!
These videos are awesome man great job you make great shit
As a decorated Combat Veteran of the Vietnam War I watch Hollywood movies about the Vietnam War and after seeing Apocalypse Now back then my assessment of that movie was that it was a true blue "made up" entirely with zero facts of that war from start to the end, its as fake as a movie can get. It was good for a laugh.
are you really a VN vet?
Can we get a video about arriving at the camp and meeting Kurtz and the photographer? Love this series
Gimme some room to breathe!
Yes Sir, how much room?
Like the fuckin' Cyclops being able to smell Ulysses & his men sneakin' around on his island somewhere...
Like you're fighting!
I might be wrong but I think the film The Losers is the film that Fabienne is watching while Bruce Willis is sleeping in the motel in Pulp Fiction.
Interesting!
I know one of the first class of SEALs and he had a story from Vietnam that was exactly like the Valkyrie scene except it involved navy SEALs and the song was Arthur Brown- Fire. Pretty sure someone involved told Coppola about it.
An amazing series Tyler, it fills in so much detail and the little gaps I hadn't picked up on after watching this film more than a dozen times over thirty-five years. Of course I Liked and Subscribed to the channel Immediately when I first started watching this series, and can't wait to watch the other episodes I haven't seen yet!
Release Episodes 10!
Phenomenal job! Need more!
Very cool stuff OP! Great video. This is why I come to yT in the first place, for original videos like these quality
Thanks so much!
I was in a cav unit. Still wore spurs and Stetsons.
Kilgores sabers change on his Stetson.
wow this is brand new still , i was looking for #10 and getting pissed i could not find it ! i saw the movie when i was about 8 at a drive in movie . . it kinda put a "trip on my brain ".especially when the water buffalo meets tthe machette people. good work you guys are putting out btw liked it alot
For me the greatest Kilgore quote is not the "...smell of napalm in the morning" but "Someday this war gonna end".
Says so much about the character and his mindset and makes you to "get it" where is he coming from and how he sees the war.
Agreed
I suspect Wild Bill Kilgore may have been the inspiration for Belushi's role as Wild Bill Kelsoe in Spielberg's '1941.' Both characters are certifiable crazy.
Fantastic video as always! Well I saw Apocalypse Now when it came out, as a beautiful 70mm blow up, having watched The Deer Hunter just a few months earlier. If it wasn't for the earlier Michael Cimino film, this (hopefully) would have won the Acadmy award. I was baffled how making amovie this complex and authentic looking was possble. I found out through the years that production was just as "insane" as what the movie is trying to say. Definitely one of the greatest movies ever made.
Best Picture of 1979 was inexplicably awarded to 'Kramer Vs. Kramer'. Not a bad film, but how did it win over what is arguably the greatest film ever made? It's analogous to 'Forest Gump' winning over 'Pulp Fiction'.
@@bluegregory6239 Exactly. Kramer Vs. Kramer IMHO is a made-for-tv drama, elevated to a good movie by Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep. But it has almost no depth, as it should have, given the themes. I also don't think that Forest Gump is a great movie. Pulp Fiction is. Pulp Fiction doesn't even pretend to address the human condition or other deeply philosophical questions. It's good old fun and it was very fresh when it came out.
Dispatches - Dispatches - Dispatches !!
I have to say... I notice when Willard is calmly riding in Kilgore's chopper in one shot and panic firing his M-16 in a different shot, then calmly riding in the following shot. I don't think he should have been firing at all while riding with Kilgore to further communicate the leadership's detachment from the grunts.
Good to see my old division patch.1st Cav. all the way!
Please make one episode entirely dedicated to Nightmarish process of post production/Editing.
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
It's that "smell", that gasoline smell.
It smells like... victory".
Great episode :) Thank you!
Thanks!
Can’t wait for the next one! Wonderful work and analysis Tyler. It always brightens my day when you drop a new video!
Legendas em português por favor !!!
Glad you’re making these videos. Cause I can’t watch this film anymore. I watched it at 13, thought it was awesome, watched it at 17 and loved it. Watched it at 21 and it really broke me and I haven’t watched it since.