Apocalypse Now (1979) - Horror Has a Face - Colonel Kurtz's Monologue HD 1080P
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- Опубліковано 9 кві 2019
- Legendary scene from Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" (1979) - Colonel Kurtz's monologue "Horror has a face" (starring Marlon Brando).
Легендарная сцена из фильма Фрэнсиса Форда Копполы "Апокалипсис сегодня" (1979) - Монолог полковника Курца "У ужаса есть лицо". В роли полковника Курца - Марлон Брандо.
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The last 2 people at the party
Love this 😂
😂😂😂 bravo
The way Brando talks about that memory looks like he actually witnessed that.
he's talking about the einsatzgruppen
by the way, he's reading cue cards. he didnt memorize lines.
@@glassarthouse Wouldn't be surprised if he had of added dolphin sounds.
@Matien Azemy that's from the personalisation part of method acting (which he was a student of), he'll be drawing on a disturbing memory of his own behind the words
So there’s this thing called acting…
The irony of Brando insisting his scenes were shot in shadows bc he was self conscious about his weight only for it to intensify his performance tenfold.
IIRC this actually came from Coppola. Kurtz in the book is described as lean or even skinny, but when Brando arrived he was all but obese. So they hid his overweight by filming him in the shadows and also making him look like a giant.
@@fgdj2000in the book he’s described as basically a walking Skelton carved out of ivory due to severe sickness
@@gggallin8279 Right, thanks. I haven't actually read the book, but it's on my To Do list ;-)
@@fgdj2000 it’s a great read and pretty short compared to the movie. I think somewhere around 160 pages. Even though Marlon Brando doesn’t really look like Kurtz is described it’s still insane how he nails everything else. I can’t think of Kurtz in the Book without seeing Brando. I doubt anybody else could’ve played Kurtz
Kurtz is one of the saddest tragic characters - because he saw the insanity of war so clearly and in righteous moral defiance went totally rogue to remove himself from it - only to become morally insane himself
its the world not the war
@@idan4989 That's the thing. This is why this speech, and the movie has so much impact, and will have.
Apocalypse Now's theme is morality. Every decision we make in our lives is formed by the morality of the society we were raised by. We live by these morals. And this movie, specially this speech, challenges our moral, our way of thinking.
What's right? What's wrong? Our life is flipped and our moral compass is broken, at least for a few hours/minutes.
I think he saw the insanity of war and realised to conquer it we must become immersed in it. It’s why we need absolution from God to be able to live with our national pasts and our selves, because to defeat horror we must become of it. Those Vietnamese who cut those kids’ arms off committed acts of unspeakable violence for their cause, to make life better for subsequent generations, who live in the shadow of their horror and whose lives are built upon it. We may forgive those who commit horror in our name, for the lives they’ve enabled us to lead, but we cannot ever absolve them of their deeds, that’s up to God.
Many people say that The Godfather it's the best thing Coppola did for movies and art in general but I think this far superior
Agreed. And I love The Godfather
It shows you what kind of decade he had when you could argue for a film of his own being better than The Godfather.
100% Godfather is a lullaby comparing to this
@@bdgdog well said
I acknowledge it's a brilliant work of art but I never understood why are people looking at that movie as if it's the apes looking at the Monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey
P.S 2001> The Godfather
And I am not hating on The Godfather just because I am trying to appear ,,edgy" or ,,quirky" is just I am sick of people considering it to be the end all be all of the cinematic experience
@@bdgdog also The Conversation absolutely underrated
My god the genius of that.
2 most memorable lines from Capt. Benjamin Willard:
1. The bullshit piled up so fast in Vietnam, you needed wings to stay above it.
2. The war was being run by a bunch of four star clowns who were gonna end up giving the whole circus away.
“Never get off the boat… fuckin A”
They were going to make me a major for that, and I wasn't in their fucking army anymore
I spent '68 - '70 in that hellhole with the 5th Group ...😢
"even the jungle wanted him dead, and that's who he really took his orders from anyway"
@@PolishGod1234 i love that one
This film is remarkable. It deliberately sends us down a progression, bit-by-bit deeper into our own horror and madness.
no, not really, just the horror of existence and what is necessary to preserve 'civilization'
It's based on Heart of Darkness, so I think it might refer to darkness in the heart a least a little
Worse yet, it brings us further from lies and closer to the truth of war.
One of the best scenes ever made. So much depth.
I don’t know I’ve seen this episode of friends …
The contradiction of good people committing evil acts is what drove Kurtz mad. The idea that the rules of war, a conflict that must be won, could be used to restrict evil acts is in and of itself madness to Kurtz because as he shows here good people can commit horrible acts. So for Kurtz, the sane thing to do in an insane atmosphere like that of war is to not restrain oneself because that is the essence of the situation. Yet in doing what he did he made himself into a personification of the evil of war itself. A force that consumes all it comes into contact with.
If you want your tribe to survive you definitely have to kill rival tribe. All of them...
Too much monkeys to maintenance of civilisation.
Marlon Brando had the shortest screen time but was paid more than everyone. He was a brilliant brilliant actor
A lot of people praise Brando who gives a brilliant performance. As Al Pacino said there was before Brando and after Brando. But praise also has to go to Martin Sheen who also gives a brilliant performance.
Jack Nicholson said that, not Al Pacino.
@@razielvonwaig7572 watch the documentary about Brando where Pacino clearly says it.
"perfect genuine complete crystalline pure" absolutely perfect scene
He describes what went on inside his head the moment he snapped and gone mad. Chilling.
He didn’t go mad. Didn’t you listen to what he said? He had a revelation
@@cowboyschad5x778 that's the point. You don't experience going mad as "hey I went mad". For him, it was experienced as a revelation.
Think about it: the moment you recognise mutilating children as some sort of genius, you've fallen into the abyss and there is no going back.
The V. C. sent a message. Kurtz saw the value of the message. We are willing to go to these extremes to expel our invaders. Kurtz decided the V. C. were right. He employed their own tactics and more and got results. The V. C. got scared and complained to the U. S. Military Command about Kurtz's actions. Unfortunately for Kurtz, the U. S. Command was about business and not about winning the alleged War in South East Asia. The horror, the horror...
Brilliant monologue! Brando's immortal swan song!
Some are freakishly brilliant. Brando was among them.
What makes this scene so powerful, is the tragic truth to it.
Winning a war requires brutality.
This probably sounds dumb but when my husband passed away I saw this movie for the first time and this scene saved my life. It forced me to think about things in a different way and I chose to not commit.
I hope your doing well sister, tough times don't last only tough people Do, Stay Strong
@@Glory-Compass I'm still kicking! Thank you, my friend. 💚
It doesn't sound dumb at all. It actually makes a lot of sense. It really does ✌️
That is incredible. This movie transformed the way I look at life too. Really opened up my mind. Thanks for sharing. And sorry for your loss.
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I could watch this scene over and over and over again... If nothing else, it shows how remarkable Marlon Brando was, and I personally consider this scene showing his best act.
The greatest actor to ever live.
The scene is so great one time I had the monologue memorized entirely. One of my all time favorite acting pieces.
Very intense. What does it feel like from the inside?
Were you with the 5th group near A Shau Valley (Camp ...) in '68 - '70 (when I left)? Somehow you sound like a guy I knew who wanted to be an actor, but I had heard he was KIA on one of our SOG teams. I believe he was 1-0 of Team Adder? Anyway, all the best to you, sir.
And after that: "I worry that my son might not understand what I tried to be. And, if I were to be killed, Willard, I would want someone to go to my home and tell my son everything. Everything I did, everything you saw here. Because there is nothing I detest more than the stench of lies. And, if you understand me, Willard, you will do this for me."
If Judi Dench can get an Oscar for 6 minutes in Shakespeare In Love, then Marlon Brando should have got the best actor Oscar for this...
Absolutely agree….but Brando deserves the Oscar..Judy didn’t
Best. Monologue. Ever.
The enlightening recollection (portrayed) of Kurtz's turning point and his moment of core human behavior recognition portrayed as well. Such an enlightening and defining moment it would have been for him (if this had been a real life recollection by a non-actor). It could almost have been described as a spiritual moment.
“Without judgement, without judgement. Because it’s judgement that... defeats us..”
hands down the truth👌
More like "the truth" only a madman can see
@@Sizifus but still the truth
This part always reminds me of Erwin Rommel: "War without hate" / "Krieg ohne Hass" as well as "In an ideological war the people who kill each other don't know each other on orders of those who know each other but won't kill" „Im idiologischen Krieg töten sich die, die sich nicht kennen, auf Befehl derer, die sich kennen - aber nicht töten!“.
Kurtz: "You have to have men who are moral and the same time are able to use their primordial instincts to kill without feeling without passion, without judgement."
Quite simply the finest monologue in cinematic history. Like the famous Robert Shaw story in Jaws, they’re both 100% convincing, incredible. I’ve seen this like 30 times and I just cannot believe that this didn’t happen to him. RIP Marlon
You know what the darkest part of Kurtz' monologue is? He is not entirely wrong...
Not really, he says those soldiers were moral while hacking off kids arms. I mean... Unless that saved the lives of millions how could it ever be moral. Maybe they thought they were defending their way of life
yeah he’s right what he says tbh
@@systemicchaos3921 We avoided harming innocent civilians in the War. It served no tactical advantages and is simply barbaric. One soldier that killed and SAd civilians received a bullet in his head.😮 He harnessed his primal instincts? No, he was an evil POS!
@@systemicchaos3921they were brutally moral in not accepting the enemy's bribery and fake goodwill through the children.
That's the point.
@@systemicchaos3921 I believe they chopped off arms because they thought the enemy had done something bad to the children with those shots. Thus they had the 'moral strength' to do something very difficult but what they thought was the right thing to do - hurting children to save them - and this was the morality and strength that Kurtz admired.
I believe Kurtz is describing an impossible duality in this scene.
Every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker, and every minute Charlie squats in the bush, he gets stronger.
Brando dint follow the script and went to total improvisation, which makes it even more immense.
@Molecule Mind Lie.
@@Red-Brick-Dream it’s not, he’d refused to read the script so they crew just turned the cameras on for 20 minutes and put whatever fit into the final film
He also rewrote big parts of the script after he arrived on set. They had to halt production so he could read it and rewrite stuff with Coppola.
Brando actually decapitated several men on set. Sadly, only one could make it on film.
i think when he uses the term "crystalline" that may well be a memory from his father when he was a salesman, the term crystalline derives from the method of forming crystal structure from calcium carbide at room temperature, his father was a traveling salesman of calcium carbide.
One of the best movies ever. It is complicated movie to understand
The fact he acknowledges they were not monsters but men is something I've been trying to put into people's heads about nazism for years, mind you, I'm a history teacher: I always say that we tend to call people who do horrible things as "monsters" but what makes you realize how evil their acts were is the fact they are human beings just like you and me, THAT is what gives weight to those actions. Acknowleding that fact is what's needed to learn from the mistakes of the past: realize those aren't monsters distant from humanity, but the fact the darkness is present deep into every Man's heart everyday, everywhere right next to us, lurking beneath the veil
He explains the tenacity of the Vietnamese warior spirit so well. These are kind people, but god have mercy on your soul if you challenge them.
The south east asians as a whole are kind and a group of people full of love.
@@blastermaster5039 expat located
Yes and No. It's more complex than that.
All this craziness in the world happening right now… Ukraine, Covid,
This movie just makes more and more sense
Wow you been living under a rock? You brain washed sheep! And that 15 sheep's thumbed it up is a shame e
@@Dima-mc9uehow are you holding up bro are u still alive and well?
Brando nailed it :)
There's great acting and then there's Marlon Brando.
Greatest Acting by Brando Period !
A truly masterpiece in cinema history. I love Brando here!
Can't believe this was after Godfather
Outstanding
In my opinion the Best Film of all time.
Marlon Brando is sublime
😊🏴☠️🎈
4:41 the way Brando is distracted by that fly is brilliant
Yeah , there is something about that that is extraordinary
This monologue was fully improvised
Everytime i watch this scene, i feel its like eternity ,Marlon dialogue drives my mind into that state of mind and time passes so slowly
Brando just making up shit while the camera rolls really works because it displays Kurtz's total insanity.
When i start in the office on monday 09.00 i hear this dialogue in my head....
One of the great things the film did was set up Kurtz in the beginning with his dossier as "the best of the best" with a sterling academic background, including a Masters Degree in history from Harvard. This was an intelligent, educated man. But as Willard says, his record was almost "too perfect". You can see in that record the man's tragic flaw -- his desire for perfection, his obsessive drive, became what drove him to seek any method whatsoever to achieve his aims. His aims to win in Vietnam became his new object of obsession. And it mirrors the real history of Vietnam, the stubborn pride and obsession of so many to "stay the course", to "win at all costs".
Absolutely majestic..
Absolutely genius
One of the greatest actors ever, period.
I was shot between the eyes like a Diamond Bullet and struck by the genius of it. Brilliant line!
Prigozin exemplifies the same energy in all this.
That makes Putin the Captain Willard.
“I’ve seen horrors… horrors that you’ve seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that… but you have no right to judge me. It’s impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face… and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for Polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn’t see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember… I… I… I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn’t know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized… like I was shot… like I was shot with a diamond… a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God… the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters. These were men… trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love… but they had the strength… the strength… to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men our troubles here would be over very quickly. 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… without judgment. Because it’s judgment that defeats us.”
Nice work, can you remember the lotto numbers as well 😆
"To be free from the opinion of others.. Brando Rules as Kurtz !
Single greatest piece of acting I've ever scene
This reminds me of one of those iceberg memes. This made every war movie I've seen before this on the surface level
The pile of hacked off inoculated arms ....is what make him plunged into craziness .
It didn't halp 😕
Brando a legend acting superb
Chills.
From a historical standpoint, Kurtz’ extreme methods would ultimately fail since the North Vietnamese were willing to give up everything they had to win the war and believed they had nothing to lose except the independence of their nation. To quote Willard in the film, “Charlie had only two ways home: death or victory." This is the true tragedy behind Kurtz’ character because it means his descent into madness was all for nothing.
Kurtz was buliding an army not made from americans. As we could see these are almost only vietnamese or cambodians who also didn't have anything to lose and to who the war and horror has become a lifestyle
They had nothing to lose except South Vietnam, which they were invading
I am amazed at the way in which the most enlightened Americans try to catharsis of their most overwhelming war defeat. In that role they have produced the best books, the best songs, and the best movies. And Americans appear, suddenly and as if by magic, as a people who have learned a valuable lesson. But, at the same time, the true power of the throne continues to engage a nation that has the power to cure many of the evils of this world, in new imperialist adventures. And those enlightened Americans become part of a consumer industry, in which their powerful anti-war messages end up being another product. In short: they haven't learned a damn thing ...
I think it has to do with the American civilian experience of war. They have never know a "total war" in the way that other countries have, a total war that mobilised all the resources of the country in order to survive. They find it hard to empathise with a people who resent foreign troops on their streets and in their skies and find it odd that US soldiers are not welcomed. Inside their safe walls they fear what is beyond the walls.
Both good thought out comments. I'm an American and it's spooky when you discover how involved we had been/are in conflicts. We need to just relax and focus on our country. If some group is under attack then assist them in defense only.
Chaleman R I wonder if the American people’s response to Vietnam was different because of the draft. Could the intervention in Afghanistan be sustained under the draft with the consequent impact on “civilian” life? Is it only with professional forces that such foreign entanglements can be sustained?
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this is the best post of 2020
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Kurtz was the "Good guy" because he saw "truth".
I first heard this sampled in GWAR’s “Horror of Yig” off Scumdogs of the Universe.
The fly makes the scene 🪰
Kurtz live, canvio
This is why the Taliban won in Afghanistan. Same brutal logic.
Maybe.
Yknow, despite everything shoved down our throats, sometimes I think the taliban wasn’t the bad guys
@@thomasmorris4449 you are probably not an Afghan woman
@@thomasmorris4449 You've no idea what those people are like or capable of. You do not know hatred until you've seen their eyes.
@bLackstar Can they throw a nuclear bomb on a city or napalm a village?
Does anybody know where you can find the soundtrack piece to this scene?
kurtz describes nothing but the NS / SS ethos here. "be decent good guys with standards, but kill our enemies mercilessly and without any whatsoever empathy even to their weakest and youngest." and especially himmler and heydrich, the two top monsters of the holocaust did exactly that. at home they were the kind decent daddies who cared a lot for peace and quiet. as himmler himself said in his infamous posen speech: "the lot of you will know what it means to see 100 corpses, 500 or even 1000 corpses in front of you. but to have done that, and besides a few human exceptions, having stayed DECENT, that made us strong."
this was randomly in my bookmarks
absolut genius
He must have been waiting forever to tell that story to someone because only a consummate soldier just like him would truly understand.
My theory is the desk jockeys of the general staff we see in the beginning of the movie had been using Kurtz with his methods for their purposes - no questions asked - and when the political situation back home became such that they no longer had any use for him, they sent Capt. Willard to lend him an ear and finally put him out of his misery after all he'd seen and done.
*And the message of the movie is clear:* The truly ruthless monsters aren't those poor souls damned to risk their lives out in the wild loading their conscience with the most savage acts imaginable but it's those well-paid men in their star-spangled uniforms and airconditioned offices willing to have hundreds, thousands, even millions snuffed out to promote their own careers.
I saw this as a teen in the 80‘s to have it as an experience as a man in 2000‘s
That second “strength” is elite
Magnificence. Not acting; inhabiting a character and becoming that character. Brando IS Kurtz. He IS Kurtz..........
The type of warrior he is describing is what Willard is, or at least what he becomes.
This is all improvised. Brando was a maniac.
El horror tiene cara❤😊
Peculiar _ u can c Brando's tongue moving in most of the shots of him
The boys at 4 am
Apocalypse now is not just the best war movie ever it's one of the best movies ever
Top 3 imo
The irony of Kurt's is true x
Who is the uncredited actress in this scene?
I believe Lichtmann would have mentioned what happened to Thomas Eagleton. Mcgovern eventually dumped Eagleton and he himself got down
And Sheen uses the same dispassion to kill Kurtz.
Trying to impose limits on war is beyond insane. There is only one rule in war. To win. That's it. No different than football, checkers, or playing horseshoes. And it amazes me how so many people don't get that. They think combat is a high school play or a science fair. They have no idea what the military is or does. They sent Army units into Africa to teach them arts and crafts. That's how stupid these bureaucrats are today.
Yep, definitely no rules in football, checkers, or horseshoes
So twisted and fucked up. There's people there standing on ceremony to serve this man, he's not alone, he's the head of an organisation and so his ideas are powerful. Then he brings us into his ideas and they're twisted - he describes horror and tragedy and shows us a moment where it becomes something else. That's the genius of this scene, you're walked through the madness of the logic and it sounds like it makes sense because it might make sense in war, but not in normal life. The poor guy waiting to kill him just knows he's listening to someone who's gone mad and is probably pretty mad himself, but he's got a job to do and his eyes keep lighting up with the knowledge he has to kill. You can see he's ready to do it and what it looks like. It doesn't look like a big Hercules man, it just looks like a guy who will kill because it's his job. Amazing scene. War is hell and this is a window into it
This is like the Dark Knight interrogation.
my face is escucha gabrielito .no me basta con mearte ok . eso es para mixtos .
It is of course a minor complaint, but I don't really like that he already talks about "the horror" before the end. For me, it takes away a little bit of the impact and mystery of his last words.
👁El ojo
One thing I was always wondering... what is he eating? 😂
A leaf....😕
Look like some kind of nuts
Crazy to think the same brain is behind this movie and Godfather.
The documentary about the making of this film is somehow more entertaining than the film itself.
No madness or evil here IMHO
3:12
What does he mean by horror and moral terror? The feeling of guilt?
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The diamond bullet is what destroyed him
is it wrong that i understand what he means?
No. You understand war more than the flag waving idiots.
Yes. Now you are NOT NORMAL. Now you can understand what happened around.
DON'T SHOW IT ANYBODY ELSE...
In short he is describing john wick