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Apocalypse Now

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Apocalypse Now	comment	Apocalypse Now is a 1979 epic psychological war film directed by Francis Ford Coppola at the height of his career that very loosely adapts the classic Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness, transporting the events of that book from late 19th-century Africa to 1970 Vietnam and Cambodia.Special operations Captain Benjamin Willard (Martin Sheen) is sent to kill Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a Green Beret Colonel who has gone mad and formed a personality cult in Cambodia. After Colonel Bill Kilgore (Robert Duvall) clears off his initial path, Willard and his crew — including George "Chief" Phillips (Albert Hall), Jay "Chef" Hicks (Frederic Forrest), Lance Johnson (Sam Bottoms), and Tyrone "Mr. Clean" Miller (a 14-year-old Laurence Fishburne) — go up a river and into the recesses of humanity.Leading up to its release, Coppola workshopped an extensive number of cuts of the film that ran from 139 minutes to around 3 hours, the latter being its runtime when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, the first-ever instance of the festival showing an unfinished work in competitionnote a ballsy move even at the time that was only approved because Coppola's prior film The Conversation had won high honors at the festival and further awarding one the Palme d'Or. While it opened wide to mixed reviews, Apocalypse Now is now firmly considered one of the all-time greats. Packed to the gills with now-iconic scenes and quotes, it is a common choice for not only the definitive anti-war movie but the definitive cinematic depiction of war not as battle, or even as purgatory, but as an illogical fever dream.The film is also legendary for having what is considered to be one of the most troubled productions in Hollywood history. To describe all of the mishaps that occurred on set would require an entire page, to the point where the film's nightmarish production was documented by Coppola's wife Eleanor, who would later use footage she shot on set to make the 90-minute documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse. The highlights can be read on the Trivia section.In 2001, Coppola drastically Re-Cut the film once more, extending the running time by nearly an hour, adding scenes and re-shuffling some existing ones around. This new version was released as Apocalypse Now Redux to mixed reviews; some reviewers felt it was a beautiful expansion on the themes of the original, while others thought it diluted its impact and bloated its runtime. The film was recut again in 2019 as the "Final Cut", with a new runtime of just over three hours, nineteen minutes less than Redux.Not to be confused with Apocalypse How or Apocalypse Wow, which deal with destruction apocalypses.
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Apocalypse Now / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Apocalypse Now / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Coppola appears◊ as the Bearded Director making a Documentary and is aided by key crew members Dean Tavoularis and Vittorio Storaro.
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Apocalypse Now / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Apocalypse Now / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: The photographer shows up looking like Charles Manson, which is probably intentional, but the character is also based upon legendary (and eccentric) war photographer Tim Page, author of the photobook Nam. Chef reads a newspaper article about Charles Manson after they receive their mail. Kurtz's backstory resembles that of Colonel Robert B. Rheault, a Green Beret commander involved in the execution of Chu Van Thai Khac, a Vietnamese informant for the CIA in 1969. Rheault and several of his subordinates were arrested for murder, but the case was ultimately dismissed at the behest of military higher-ups. The phrase "terminate with extreme prejudice" entered the public discourse thanks to press coverage of this incident. Many things, such as Roach killing the Vietnamese soldier caught in the wire and the general atmosphere of the movie, come from "Dispatches," a book by reporter Michael Herr (a friend of Tim Page) describing his own experiences covering the war.
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Apocalypse Now / int_1397e10d	type	Rage Against the Reflection
Apocalypse Now / int_1397e10d	comment	Rage Against the Reflection: Yes, Martin Sheen really just punched a mirror, and it's not the kind made from Soft Glass. It wasn't staged as he was drunk at the time. Martin Sheen actually noted in later interviews about his involvement with the movie that he was struggling with personal demons at the time, so you could say that Willard's insanity/despair is actually Sheen's being imposed on the character. An unplanned Anger Montage is used for continuity issues because Sheen injured himself.
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Apocalypse Now / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
Apocalypse Now / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: "Never get off the boat! Never get off the boat!"
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Apocalypse Now / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Apocalypse Now / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Chef has one after the tiger incident.
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Apocalypse Now / int_19bec249	type	Pop-Cultural Osmosis
Apocalypse Now / int_19bec249	comment	Pop-Cultural Osmosis: Many lines of this movie are downright legendary, in particular the "I love the smell of napalm" speech, and "The horror, the horror...", the latter taken directly from Heart of Darkness.
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Apocalypse Now / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
Apocalypse Now / int_19d06ef7	comment	When he's not killing people or distracted by incredibly dangerous surfing, Kilgore cares for his men and for civilians; he is concerned about them receiving medical treatment as soon as possible.
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Apocalypse Now / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Apocalypse Now / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Aside from the scene where the Air Cav is assaulting a village, the Viet Cong aren't directly shown, often hiding in the bushes or the cover of darkness to occasionally attack American soldiers. It keeps the viewer on edge, never knowing when they might strike next.
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Apocalypse Now / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Apocalypse Now / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: Invoked by the young hot-blooded Frenchman in the plantation by breaking an egg: "The white leaves, the yellow stays."
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Apocalypse Now / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
Apocalypse Now / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: Behold. Kilgore orders and leads an attack by the Air-Cavalry and then a napalm strike on the jungle. The phrase is also seen written in the front of Kilgore's helicopter. Willard tells Chef to call an airstrike in case he doesn't make it. Coppola had to alter the end credits because the Stuff Blowing Up was interpreted by audiences as the air strike happening.
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Apocalypse Now / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
Apocalypse Now / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Chief, although even he cries when Clean is killed.
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Apocalypse Now / int_1cc527d7	type	Asskicking Leads to Leadership
Apocalypse Now / int_1cc527d7	comment	Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Willard's prowess is shown early on in Redux and Final Cut when he beats some sense into a military orderly who is red-taping fuel supplies. Kurtz gave up his life as a staff officer in order to join Special Forces as an active duty soldier. He graduated the grueling Airborne School at 38 years old, which Willard struggled to complete at 19. And despite his mental and physical decay after going rogue in the jungles of Cambodia, his army has a fanatical devotion to his leadership and view him as a god. Kilgore appears to be beloved by his men despite, or possibly because of, his willingness to send them into extremely dangerous combat zones. To Kilgore's credit, he leads from the front and does not appear the least bit concerned when shells explode right next to him.
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Apocalypse Now / int_1cd602ef	type	Calling Card
Apocalypse Now / int_1cd602ef	comment	Calling Card: Colonel Kilgore throws "Death cards" with the emblem of his Air Cavalry Regiment around corpses to let Charlie know who killed them.
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Apocalypse Now / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
Apocalypse Now / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: Jerry, the CIA officer who silently eats his meal as Willard is being briefed on his mission. He doesn't say anything the entire scene until the end when Willard is told what he must do once he finds Col. Kurtz:
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Apocalypse Now / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Apocalypse Now / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: Willard doing tai chi in the opening scene, as well as later in the boat prior to reaching Kurtz. It's unclear whether this is meant to inform how elite Willard is, showcasing his special forces martial arts training, or how mentally decadent has he become by this point, with many a reviewer having interpreted Willard doesn't actually know martial arts and is just absentmindedly goofing around (especially given that the opening scene has him drunk and grievously punching the mirror). It could be also meant to show both things, underlining that no amount of training could prepare him for the horrors of the war. Colby is shown doing much more orthodox tai chi himself in the background while Kurtz recounts his own horrors, but whether this is meant to have its own meaning remains equally obscure.
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Apocalypse Now / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Apocalypse Now / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: Discussed by Kurtz. Kurtz recommends that you find men of strong moral fiber and who are loving and kind to their friends and family, but when push comes to shove are capable of putting that aside and killing for the greater good. He believes a soldier has to realize his job is to win, and that once he has won then he can go back to being a good person. Kurtz praises the Vietcong for getting it right for they were willing to commit horrific atrocities to demoralize their enemies, yet were still normal men who loved their friends and family after all was said and done.
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Apocalypse Now / int_21bf4878	type	Decapitation Presentation
Apocalypse Now / int_21bf4878	comment	Decapitation Presentation: Marlow is tied up in a bamboo cage when Kurtz, done up in camouflage makeup for some reason, comes over and takes a look at him. He wordlessly leaves—then casually throws Chef's severed head at Willard's feet.
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Apocalypse Now / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Apocalypse Now / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Played with, in tandem with Dysfunction Junction. Colonel Kurtz believes himself to be this, and is a subversion. Chief and Willard could also count as this. The Photojournalist is hardly sane, but he understands Kurtz better than anyone else does, even (at first) Willard.
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Apocalypse Now / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Apocalypse Now / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Willard gives one to Kurtz in the climax while using a machete.
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Apocalypse Now / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Apocalypse Now / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: Commonly compared to Aguirre, the Wrath of God of seven years prior, another movie based on Heart of Darkness about the journey of white military conquerors in a journey down the River of Insanity and their eventual mental and physical self-destruction, and which, on a meta level, was almost as much of a nightmare to film as Apocalypse was.
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Apocalypse Now / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Apocalypse Now / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Apparently Cambodian street kids ask foreign soldiers for money in Filipino. Also, the scenes in the Redux version that take place on the French Plantation. None of the French dialogue is subtitled. The Vietcong soldier killed by Roach is wounded and begging for his comrades to not leave him behind in Vietnamese.
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Apocalypse Now / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Apocalypse Now / int_2a090d00	comment	Or rather, the puppy? The most asked question to all the actors from the film. Gets lampshaded at one point in the film. Given that it disappeared during the attack that killed Clean, it was most likely shot or jumped off the boat to escape the gunfire.
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Apocalypse Now / int_2ab79021	type	Emerging from the Shadows
Apocalypse Now / int_2ab79021	comment	Emerging from the Shadows: Colonel Kurtz. It goes a great deal into establishing an aura of mystery and subtle evil about Kurtz's character.
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Apocalypse Now / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Apocalypse Now / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Our first glimpses of "Walt" Kurtz come from second-hand accounts, grainy photographs, and a rambling, stream-of-consciousness cassette tape of Kurtz trying to document his delirium. When Willard is finally hauled off to see the Colonel, he's dragged into a blackened room, where the frame centers on a majestic, glowing doorway through which Kurtz is expected to pass through. However, Kurtz is already in the room with Willard, seated on the floor and rinsing his face, almost like a fellow prisoner.
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Apocalypse Now / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Apocalypse Now / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: The boat's machine guns exist to spray bullets everywhere. The Air Cav wields an incredible amount of firepower, as well as air support. Their Vietnamese opponents only have small arms and a few heavy machine guns.
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Apocalypse Now / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Apocalypse Now / int_2c1f1138	comment	By the end of the story, Willard views killing Kurtz as a mercy on his part. Willard realizes that the mission to kill Kurtz is bogus because the Colonel isn't really any more insane than the commanders that want him dead. However, Kurtz is a thorn in the side of the American war machine, and they will inevitably send someone else after Kurtz if he doesn't do the deed. Furthermore, Willard feels that Kurtz is very broken up over what the war has turned him into, and that he actually wants the death that he has been marked for, as he would rather go out like a warrior by the hand of someone who can understand him (Willard being that person) than by some faceless, passionless assassin.
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Apocalypse Now / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Apocalypse Now / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Kurtz's idea of embracing "the Horror" in himself is putting on camouflage paint and chopping men's head's off. Willard does the same in the end.
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Apocalypse Now / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Apocalypse Now / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Deconstructed with the playmates. Beneath the first impression of being a couple of pretty, braindead bimbos, one of them shows true enthusiasm for ornithology and the other has a deeply complicated and troubled personality...none of which the soldiers care about, as they're so tired, desperate, and horny they'd much rather let the playmates babble about their lives while they dispassionately have sex with them.
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Apocalypse Now / int_2de02182	type	Visual Title Drop
Apocalypse Now / int_2de02182	comment	Visual Title Drop: Textually. The words, "OUR MOTTO: APOCALYPSE NOW," can be seen painted on a wall behind the Montagnards in the scene outside Kurtz's temple when Chef tries to convince Willard to leave. Supposedly this was to satisfy copyright requirements, since the movie lacked opening credits.
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Apocalypse Now / int_2eb94abd	type	Deadly Euphemism
Apocalypse Now / int_2eb94abd	comment	"Terminate. With extreme prejudice."
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Apocalypse Now / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
Apocalypse Now / int_31a2a33c	comment	The theatrical cut ends with Stuff Blowing Up while the credits roll. This was widely misinterpreted as an air strike called in by Willard, so it was removed in other cuts.
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Apocalypse Now / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Apocalypse Now / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Kurtz gets one of these moments when he has Chef, arguably the most likable, relatable character in the film, ruthlessly decapitated to prevent him from radioing for help. Surely there were other methods that would have sufficed. Mr. Clean is a childish and carefree teenager who can barely comprehend the war going on around him. He ends up massacring a family of Vietnamese civilians after he is startled. Willard shoots the survivor of the Sampan massacre, instead of delaying the mission in order to evacuate her to a hospital. Its only then that the PBR crew realize just how ruthless and hardened their passenger is.
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Apocalypse Now / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Apocalypse Now / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: It is one of the very earliest films to have frequent usage of the F-word throughout its entire duration.
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Apocalypse Now / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Apocalypse Now / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: The picture of Kurtz in military uniform in the dossier is Marlon Brando in Reflections in a Golden Eye, for which Francis Ford Coppola had contributed to the screenplay. Dennis Hopper playing an unstable hippie photographer is quite fitting.
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Apocalypse Now / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Apocalypse Now / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: In his narration, Willard mentions that he's killed six different people, and all of them had been "close enough to blow their last breath in my face." No further details are given.note Although one of them may have been the "government tax collector in Quang Tri" that Colonel Lucas (Harrison Ford's character) asked Willard about in Nha Trang.
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Apocalypse Now / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Apocalypse Now / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: Colonel Kilgore is annoyed with Charlie (who don't surf) because the VC are occupying a terrific beach that should be used for surfing. His Death from Above air-strikes are meant to clear the zone so he can exercise his hobby, military importance of the zone not being the issue. In fact, Kilgore never would have escorted Willard and his crew there if he hadn't gotten word of a nice beach being there alongside Willard's destination. Kilgore is hardly the worst example. The US Military thought it was a great idea to send a small patrol boat deep into enemy territory so they could assassinate one of their own officers. This war is so god damned insane that the US military is pitting its own troops against each other, when those allocations of resources could easily be directed toward fighting the Vietnamese enemy. Even Kurtz gets in on it when he mocks the policy of what fighter pilots are allowed to put on their airplanes. He points out that the Air Force trains young men to drop fire on people, but they won't allow those same pilots to write the word "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene! One would think that murdering people with bombs is far more "obscene" than a simple curse word.
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Apocalypse Now / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Apocalypse Now / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: The Air Cavalry attack on the VC Village. Armed with only their AK-47s and a few 12.7mm machine gun nests against a swarm of attack choppers (armed with much deadlier armament), the VCs are quickly torn to shreds. Although not shown, it is implied in the Do Long Bridge scene that the Viet Cong attempted to charge a .50 cal machine gun and were massacred. One VC remains alive by hiding under all the corpses.
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Apocalypse Now / int_3f6d2c98	type	Cold Sniper
Apocalypse Now / int_3f6d2c98	comment	Cold Sniper: Roach is this with a grenade launcher.
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Apocalypse Now / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Apocalypse Now / int_40bb59d0	comment	Kurtz makes a point by showing Willard two almost identical and over-optimistic - if not Blatant Lies - reports in the media about the "improving" situation of the Vietnam War. The first one was written under LBJ and the second one years later, now with Nixon in power.
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Apocalypse Now / int_43f2f606	type	Annoying Arrows
Apocalypse Now / int_43f2f606	comment	Annoying Arrows: Subverted. Villagers (unseen at this point, as in Conrad's book) attack Willard's boat with arrows. Due to the 20th century setting, Willard does not take them seriously. He refers to them as "toy arrows," and in a shout out to Conrad, he says "they're just little sticks, they're trying to scare us!" After the sailors start shooting back, however, the villagers switch to spears, and one of the sailors dies as a result. Lance, at one point in the same scene, breaks an arrow in half and sticks the two halves in his hair.
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Apocalypse Now / int_44bd31e2	type	Trope Codifier
Apocalypse Now / int_44bd31e2	comment	Both Lt. Colonel Kilgore, and Colonel Kurtz. Probably can be considered a Trope Codifier. Kilgore loses some badassery in Redux and Final Cut; he's pitiful when Willard steals his surfboard and his attempts to retrieve it are mocked.
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Apocalypse Now / int_44cdd259	type	War Is Glorious
Apocalypse Now / int_44cdd259	comment	War Is Glorious: Colonel Kilgore's take on the subject. Willard and his men would probably disagree, given what they go through.
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Apocalypse Now / int_454b2f2b	type	Secretly Dying
Apocalypse Now / int_454b2f2b	comment	Secretly Dying: The photojournalist hints that this may be Kurtz's case, a nod to the original source left ambiguous in the film and discussed by Coppola during interviews.
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Apocalypse Now / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
Apocalypse Now / int_4583a262	comment	Shirtless Scene: Sheen spends a lot of time shirtless, and is naked in the beginning. Robert Duvall, too, right in the middle of a battle. Vietnam is hot.
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Apocalypse Now / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Apocalypse Now / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Kilgore praises a mortally wounded VC soldier who has killed a lot of American allies and declares that he will give him water despite opposition to his doing so. Played with in that Kilgore gets distracted by the surfing and forgets to actually give the man any water. Colonel Kurtz praises his Vietnamese enemy, saying that due to their unfettered resolve in doing whatever it takes to win, they're stronger than the Americans. He goes so far as to say if he had 10 divisions of men like his enemies, expressly the ones that were willing to butcher children to send a message, then he believes the Vietnam War could be won with alarming speed.
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Apocalypse Now / int_48ca7c29	type	Broken Ace
Apocalypse Now / int_48ca7c29	comment	Broken Ace: Kurtz was groomed to become a top military officer but something in him snapped after his first tour of 'Nam. Willard discovers by reading Kurtz's dossier that the Broken aspect was intentionally self inflicted by Kurtz. Kurtz was going to be a high ranking General in the "corporation" one day, but he was dissatisfied with being a desk jockey and decided to join the Special Forces. As a Lieutenant Colonel at the time Kurtz could have been anything he wanted, but being a Special Forces operative would put a nail in his career's coffin so deep that he would never go above Colonel. Willard is astonished that such a gifted officer would screw his own career over like that. Willard is one to an extent. While not as brilliant or accomplished as Kurtz, he's still a highly trained black ops agent and assassin who's well regarded for his skills and for the most part handles the chaos around him just fine. However he's also a combat junkie who can't function in civilian life and he's got a head full of broken glass.
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Apocalypse Now / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
Apocalypse Now / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: Mixed with Scenery Porn as well - the tiger in the jungle scene is something to behold.
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Apocalypse Now / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Apocalypse Now / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Colonel Kurtz praises the tenacity and dedication of the Vietnamese enemy who are willing to do whatever it takes to win, even going so far as to cross the Moral Event Horizon if that is what it takes.
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Apocalypse Now / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Apocalypse Now / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Chef, Clean and especially Lance do not appear to be hardened soldiers. Willard remarks that Lance looked like he'd never fired a weapon in his life. Clean ends up massacring a sampan full of civilians before being killed himself, Chef suffers several mental breakdowns and Lance ends up completely detached from reality.
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Apocalypse Now / int_4bca5b2e	type	We Have Become Complacent
Apocalypse Now / int_4bca5b2e	comment	We Have Become Complacent: Kurtz can be viewed as a rational, if brutal, character—he realizes how the war can be won, but his commanders refuse to see things the way he does. His job as a soldier is winning the war, not being nice. Naturally the film leaves plenty of room for other interpretations such as The Unfettered and Knight Templar.
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Apocalypse Now / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
Apocalypse Now / int_4d044580	comment	Motive Rant: Kurtz's monologue suggests he suffered a breakdown after Vietcong guerrillas came into a native village and hacked off the left arms of South Vietnamese children who had been inoculated against polio by Kurtz's special forces. This epitomized everything that was going wrong (in Kurtz's point of view) with the American war effort: over-reliance on science, cultural ignorance and blundering efforts at "humanitarianism" to win over the Vietnamese which have the exact opposite effect. Nothing short of total destruction will work.
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Apocalypse Now / int_4d2dd53c	type	Pan and Scan
Apocalypse Now / int_4d2dd53c	comment	Pan and Scan: Every home video release prior to the 2010 Blu-ray cropped the picture from 2.35:1 down to either 1.33:1 or 2.00:1.
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Apocalypse Now / int_4da6ac	type	Rated M for Manly
Apocalypse Now / int_4da6ac	comment	Rated M for Manly: Ends up being Deconstructed, as even the manliest and bravest of men aren't immune to the horrors of war.
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Apocalypse Now / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Apocalypse Now / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Similar to the vast majority of American soldiers who survived the Vietnam War, Willard leaves even more deeply disturbed than when we saw him, having seen how insane the war has become and watched three of his allies die and the only remaining one lose his sanity.
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Apocalypse Now / int_4e52a624	type	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Apocalypse Now / int_4e52a624	comment	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Kurtz was earmarked for a big promotion, possibly even to the Pentagon, but hit a wall when he slammed the U.S. Military's inefficient and counter-productive tactics in Asia. In protest, he transferred to the Green Berets and, later, launched a wildly successful counter-insurgency op without letting his superiors in on his plans. They were forced to make him a full Colonel out of embarrassment, but the White House was beginning to tire of him even then.
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Apocalypse Now / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
Apocalypse Now / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: When General Corman is relating how the brilliant Kurtz felt from grace, the tone of his voice and the sadness in his face indicate that they were close.
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Apocalypse Now / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Apocalypse Now / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends/Motif: "The End", performed by The Doors, is featured in the introduction and during Colonel Kurtz's murder to establish and reinforce the movie's underlying surreality.
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Apocalypse Now / int_54367e5d	type	Mathematician's Answer
Apocalypse Now / int_54367e5d	comment	Mathematician's Answer: Roach gives a simultaneously funny and creepy one when Willard asks him if he knows who's in command of the bridge outpost.
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Apocalypse Now / int_5521ed05	type	No Animals Were Harmed
Apocalypse Now / int_5521ed05	comment	No Animals Were Harmed: Shockingly averted with the ox. However, in that case it was a Real Life sacrifice that Copolla merely filmed and took no part in.
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Apocalypse Now / int_5532b579	type	Acoustic License
Apocalypse Now / int_5532b579	comment	Acoustic License: Kilgore has his air cavalry play "Ride of the Valkyries" from speakers attached to one of six helicopters as they ride in to bomb a Viet Cong base, saying his men use the music to psych themselves up and terrify the enemy. We hear the music from the perspective of the village as the choppers fly in. However, those speakers could not hope to break through the incredible noise that six attack choppers put out.
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Apocalypse Now / int_556a4863	type	Virtue Is Weakness
Apocalypse Now / int_556a4863	comment	Virtue Is Weakness: Kurtz gives a Motive Rant which basically amounts to him saying this. He talks about how he and his Special Forces group had inoculated a bunch of Vietnamese children, only for the VC to come in after him and chop off all the inoculated arms. Kurtz describes a moment of clarity in which he realizes that the VC were stronger than him because they were The Unfettered and would stop at nothing.
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Apocalypse Now / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Apocalypse Now / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: Historians generally agree that there's no evidence to suggest that North Vietnamese soldiers ever amputated arms of vaccinated Vietnamese children en masse. According to John Millius, it was recounted to him by Fred Rexer, who worked as a military consultant on the film and was a Green Beret in Laos who took part in the Phoenix Program. While much of what the French patriarch is absolute nonsense meant to portray him as bitter and deluded, his allegation that the United States created the Viet Minh is the only one taken seriously by Willard, and appears to be supported by the film as fact. As the even older Frenchman claims, either President Truman or Roosevelt (likely the latter) opposed French colonialism and created the Viet Cong in 1945 to oust the French from their Indochina possessions. However, the Viet Minh were created in 1945, with their American support being to oust the Japanese as part of World War II; once the Japanese left, and the Viet Minh began fighting the French, America very quickly backed the French instead.
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Apocalypse Now / int_590e1c70	type	Frontline General
Apocalypse Now / int_590e1c70	comment	Front Line Colonel: Kilgore not only personally flies the lead helicopter into the attack, it's shown he's a pretty darn good pilot and an excellent shot.
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Apocalypse Now / int_5aa60027	type	Tell Me About My Father
Apocalypse Now / int_5aa60027	comment	Tell Me About My Father: Inverted, as Kurtz asks Willard to tell the true story to the Colonel's son.
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Apocalypse Now / int_5ac47fa6	type	Erudite Stoner
Apocalypse Now / int_5ac47fa6	comment	Erudite Stoner: Appropriately for Dennis Hopper's character, a half-crazed, stoned, hyperactive ex-hippie. He can quote Rudyard Kipling and T. S. Eliot, but his riff on dialectics (and most everything else) is pure gibberish.
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Apocalypse Now / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Apocalypse Now / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Kil-gore.
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Apocalypse Now / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Apocalypse Now / int_61b8f9e2	comment	The photographer shows up looking like Charles Manson, which is probably intentional, but the character is also based upon legendary (and eccentric) war photographer Tim Page, author of the photobook Nam. Chef reads a newspaper article about Charles Manson after they receive their mail.
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Apocalypse Now / int_61c3ca7b	type	Panthera Awesome
Apocalypse Now / int_61c3ca7b	comment	Quite literally, but with a considerably larger-than-usual cat. Hell, even the actors were scared!
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Apocalypse Now / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Apocalypse Now / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: The horror of the Vietnam War churns out sociopaths. Combine it with the apparent lack of mental treatment given by the American military and it's a World Gone Mad. The boat crew pretty much goes through this the further it goes up the river, all going steadily crazy and traumatized in their own ways...with the exception of Clean, the first to be killed, and thus, killed before he can experience any lasting trauma.
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Apocalypse Now / int_635e1bff	type	Sycophantic Servant
Apocalypse Now / int_635e1bff	comment	Sycophantic Servant: Dennis Hopper's photojournalist character. He comes and goes with no rhyme or reason; apparently he was chronicling the Colonel's work for posterity, but even he knows the world won't listen to a burnout like him and demands that Willard return and tell everyone the truth.
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Apocalypse Now / int_6366f900	type	Old Soldier
Apocalypse Now / int_6366f900	comment	Old Soldier: Kurtz's backstory. He was able to hack it at airborne training. At 38 years old, he was twice the age of the next graduate. An impressive feat.
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Apocalypse Now / int_63be4131	type	Pretty Boy
Apocalypse Now / int_63be4131	comment	Pretty Boy: Lance, the blonde California surfer whom Willard describes as "Looking like he never held a gun in his life".
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Apocalypse Now / int_674fcb07	type	Signature Line
Apocalypse Now / int_674fcb07	comment	Signature Line: The film spawned quite a few: "Terminate. With extreme prejudice." "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." [...] "Smelled like...victory." "Charlie don't surf!" "The horror...the horror..."
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Apocalypse Now / int_68333a8b	type	Elite Army
Apocalypse Now / int_68333a8b	comment	Elite Army: Colonel Kurtz points out in his dossier that an Elite American Army could win the Vietnam War easily if the Commanders were willing to put in the resources to train them. He scoffs at the idea that the drug addicts, party animals, and soldiers that just plain don't want to be there are going to help attain an American victory. Kurtz recommends that the American military downsize to approximately 200,000 or 300,000 highly trained soldiers and turn them loose on the Vietnamese enemy so they could win with quality over quantity.
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Apocalypse Now / int_6b18b774	type	"What Now?" Ending
Apocalypse Now / int_6b18b774	comment	"What Now?" Ending: Right after Willard kills Kurtz, he has a Thousand-Yard Stare, he makes his way back to the Army, and the movie just...ends.
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Apocalypse Now / int_6b1caa93	type	Adipose Rex
Apocalypse Now / int_6b1caa93	comment	Adipose Rex: Kurtz, although this was absolutely not the original plan. Kurtz was supposed to be a robust and fit middle aged man, but Brando showed up for the role at least a hundred pounds overweight. Coppola compromised by keeping him in the shadows as much as possible, but it's often obvious how obese the man is. It actually works well as it highlights Kurtz has completely let himself go and his pretensions to being a proud soldier are so much wind, much like the Kurtz of the novel.
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Apocalypse Now / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Apocalypse Now / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: In the French plantation, during the opium scene.
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Apocalypse Now / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Apocalypse Now / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The entire crew of the PBR have them, especially when you consider the order they die in. Clean is the most innocent of the crew, and the first to die (right after killing the people on the sampan, no less). Next is Chief, the one who kept order, and finally Chef, the one who made their food. It might be seen as a metaphor for aspects of civilization slowly chipping away during their journey up the River of Insanity. And the only one who survives, to be led back into the world after the climactic meeting with Kurtz, is called Lance. The name “Lance B. Johnson” is very similar to the name “Lyndon B. Johnson,” the U.S. President under whom the war in Vietnam escalated. The name “Benjamin Willard” suggests two 1970s horror films featuring rats trained to kill: “Willard” (1971) and “Ben” (1972). Lt. Col. Kilgore's name is appropriate for a General Ripper who loves killing and gore.
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Apocalypse Now / int_6bf93fc7	type	FanService
Apocalypse Now / int_6bf93fc7	comment	Fanservice: The Redux version has a sequence where the Playmates, whose helicopter is grounded due to weather, are whored out to Willard's men in exchange for aviation fuel. Cynthia Wood and Colleen Camp appear topless. In the Redux and Final Cut, too, at the French plantation, Roxanne appears naked. Same as for the Playmates, it's weird, and tending slightly towards...
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Apocalypse Now / int_71268450	type	Adaptation Title Change
Apocalypse Now / int_71268450	comment	Adaptation Title Change: Apocalypse Now is based on Heart of Darkness.
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Apocalypse Now / int_72d31973	type	Surreal Horror
Apocalypse Now / int_72d31973	comment	Surreal Horror: The film's iconic depiction of war: not as battle, or even as purgatory, but as a nightmarish, illogical fever dream a la Aguirre, the Wrath of God, where the biggest threat to American soldiers is each other, commanding officers ignore the war they're fighting to film documentaries and go surfing, and the farther down the river they go, the crazier everyone gets. "The horror," indeed.
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Apocalypse Now / int_75e2bf23	type	Chiaroscuro
Apocalypse Now / int_75e2bf23	comment	Chiaroscuro: We get a lot of this, especially in the scenes with Kurtz.
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Apocalypse Now / int_76cbbc0b	type	George Lucas Altered Version
Apocalypse Now / int_76cbbc0b	comment	George Lucas Altered Version: Redux in 2001, ''The Final Cut" in 2019.
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Apocalypse Now / int_776c2ba4	type	Send in the Search Team
Apocalypse Now / int_776c2ba4	comment	Send in the Search Team: More like send in the assassination team. The American Command has decided that Colonel Kurtz's continued operations in Laos and Cambodia are a threat to the war effort and want Willard to terminate Kurtz's command by terminating Kurtz himself.
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Apocalypse Now / int_78255ad7	type	Passing the Torch
Apocalypse Now / int_78255ad7	comment	Passing the Torch: Kurtz to Willard, at the end.
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Apocalypse Now / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Apocalypse Now / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: Both in-universe, as well as the film production itself, where things just got worse and worse and worse.
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Apocalypse Now / int_7a2aba81	type	Exposition
Apocalypse Now / int_7a2aba81	comment	The Redux has no credits, adds almost an hour of footage, and alters the order or pace of some scenes. Notably it puts back the French plantation scene, a contextual encounter that Coppola grudgingly had to cut due to problems with the illumination.
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Apocalypse Now / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
Apocalypse Now / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: Kurtz reads aloud from The Hollow Men (1925), which contains an epigraph quoting from Heart of Darkness (i.e. the basis of the movie), written twenty years earlier. The paradox was not present in the original script, where Kurtz was originally called "Col. Leighley". A scene with Harrison Ford has the original name redubbed.
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Apocalypse Now / int_8163e2bb	type	Dramatic Drop
Apocalypse Now / int_8163e2bb	comment	Dramatic Drop: Willard dramatically drops his machete, as he climbs down the steps from the temple after killing Kurtz.
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Apocalypse Now / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Apocalypse Now / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Colonel Kilgore is not exactly low-key.
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Apocalypse Now / int_8560c16f	type	Fatal Family Photo
Apocalypse Now / int_8560c16f	comment	Fatal Family Photo: A recording concerning Mr. Clean's family, but it has the same effect.
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Apocalypse Now / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Apocalypse Now / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Or rather, the puppy? The most asked question to all the actors from the film. Gets lampshaded at one point in the film. Given that it disappeared during the attack that killed Clean, it was most likely shot or jumped off the boat to escape the gunfire. In the theatrical, Redux, and Final Cut versions, the photojournalist tells Willard that he's getting out of the compound and that's the last we see of him. In the workprint, he gets shot to death by Captain Colby, who was largely cut out of all released versions. Willard promptly kills him by throwing a knife into his chest.
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Apocalypse Now / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Apocalypse Now / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: There's a interesting example as much of the movie is about Willard reading about Kurtz and coming to believe they're not that different. Also, that Kurtz has a much clearer view of the Vietnam War than his superiors who are Mildly Military incompetents at best and Colonel Kilgore at worst (or maybe it's the other way around). By the time Willard actually reaches Kurtz, Willard finds Kurtz genuinely is insane and committing atrocities for flimsy excuses.
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Apocalypse Now / int_86968c96	type	Above Good and Evil
Apocalypse Now / int_86968c96	comment	Above Good and Evil: In a deleted scene Kurtz visits Willard while he is in captivity, bringing up the subject of how he thinks the Vietnam War could be won. A lecture ensues about how Americans care too much about their public image and how the rest of the world views them, it is a mistake to let public opinion prevent victory in a war. If war wasn't a popularity contest then America could do whatever was necessary to win. Willard calls Kurtz cruel and that his methods destroy all moral standards of right and wrong in appropriate conduct of warfare. Kurtz responds simply, "It is 'right' to win. And it is 'wrong' to lose."
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Apocalypse Now / int_89b8822f	type	Go Mad from the Revelation
Apocalypse Now / int_89b8822f	comment	Go Mad from the Revelation: Kurtz refers to it as "a diamond bullet right through [his] forehead," his epiphany that rules and morality had no place in war, and indeed, the fewer the better. Once he realized his special forces were no match for the VC killer instinct, he abandoned his principles and cobbled together his own unique "unit" out of the worst of the worst.
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Apocalypse Now / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Apocalypse Now / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: The scene where the crew boards the Vietnamese cargo boat. Calling in an airstrike with napalm to kill some VC hiding in the jungle, a staple of the Vietnam War.
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Apocalypse Now / int_8cd097d1	type	River of Insanity
Apocalypse Now / int_8cd097d1	comment	River of Insanity: Which was codified by Heart of Darkness. The river is also one of metaphorical time travel, as the soldiers experience the history of Vietnam backward.
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Apocalypse Now / int_8ef5ae81	type	Lethally Stupid
Apocalypse Now / int_8ef5ae81	comment	Lethally Stupid: Lance foolishly and pointlessly making smoke signals in a hostile zone immediately costs the life of Clean. Ironically Lance is the only grunt to survive the movie.
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Apocalypse Now / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Apocalypse Now / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: The sacrificial ritual of killing the water buffalo is intercut with Willard killing Kurtz, stressing the ritual nature of the assassination.
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Apocalypse Now / int_9182ea54	type	Crazy Cat Lady
Apocalypse Now / int_9182ea54	comment	Crazy Bird Lady: One of the playmates love birds a little too much.
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Apocalypse Now / int_924d0f71	type	Cavalry Officer
Apocalypse Now / int_924d0f71	comment	Cavalry Officer: Colonel Kilgore, the commander of an air cavalry unit.
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Apocalypse Now / int_952f8f26	type	Deadly Prank
Apocalypse Now / int_952f8f26	comment	Deadly Prank: The only time Chief's PBR comes across two other US patrol boats, the opposing crews taunt them...first by mooning and whipping up wake, and then by throwing an activated flare into the command deck, which could have easily, badly burned someone on Chief's PBR. Not that those other jerks cared. In the extended cut Willard steals Kilgore's surfboard and stows it on the PBR. Willard says that the Colonel would have shot him if he'd seen it happen.
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Apocalypse Now / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
Apocalypse Now / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: The mental state that many of the characters are in is deeply troubling. No mention is ever made of therapists, even in the off-hand, and the movie is filled with gung-ho, traumatized, and arguably sociopathic soldiers that could sorely use one. Upon seeing the unhinged Blood Knight insanity Kilgore lives by, Willard laughs at the notion that Kurtz is any sort of special evil if goons like him are fighting the war on a daily basis. Speaking of Colonel Kurtz, the events of the entire movie could have been avoided had someone sat down with Kurtz and helped him deal with the trauma of the deeply horrific things he had dealt with during the war. Even more troubling is that they send Willard, a recently divorced soldier and clearly traumatized veteran, to go out and kill Kurtz. All of these factors should give you an idea of how god-forsaken the field of therapy was in professional military settings back in that time period.
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Apocalypse Now / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
Apocalypse Now / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: A particularly cruel example in that both black crew members die before the others. Way before that, a black soldier dies in the helicopter explosion in the village.
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Apocalypse Now / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Apocalypse Now / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Plenty, with the "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" scene being the most memorable.
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Apocalypse Now / int_9e9203e1	type	Dramatically Missing the Point
Apocalypse Now / int_9e9203e1	comment	Dramatically Missing the Point: The French plantation owner poignantly accuses the Americans of this. He believes that North Vietnam is not fighting for Communism but for national independence, and the Vietnamese hate the Russians and the Chinese more than they hate the Americans.
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Apocalypse Now / int_9f7769a2	type	The Gunslinger
Apocalypse Now / int_9f7769a2	comment	The Gunslinger: Roach hits his mark on the other side of a wall with a small grenade launcher, at the first try, aiming only by sound and smell!
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Apocalypse Now / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Apocalypse Now / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Willard almost has a breakdown after sneaking in and murdering Kurtz.
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Apocalypse Now / int_a33b90b2	type	Improv
Apocalypse Now / int_a33b90b2	comment	Improv: Entire scenes rely on it: Coppola granted Brando a lot of creative liberty out of necessity. Brando had experience writing dialogues for films before but was skeptical about Coppola depending on him. He did write a lot of material for the film, basing it on his reading of Hannah Arendt and other authors, all of which Coppola put to good use. Similarly, Dennis Hopper was allowed to forget the script (in the odd case he had learned it) because his quirky character worked better that way.
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Apocalypse Now / int_a371a459	type	Fighting for a Homeland
Apocalypse Now / int_a371a459	comment	Fighting for a Homeland: It's why the Vietnamese are disciplined and committed while the American forces are falling apart. It's really hammered home in the Redux and Final Cut when Willard arrives at a vestigial French plantation who view their situation as this, because they arrived in Vietnam and set up a rubber plantation with the Vietnamese as labor, which they held for generations. As a result, they consider Indochina as their true home, as opposed to France.
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Apocalypse Now / int_a412cd2b	type	Lens Flare
Apocalypse Now / int_a412cd2b	comment	Lens Flare: Very common. When the Playboy Bunnies' helicopter arrives, we get horizontal flares over the whole width of the screen.
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Apocalypse Now / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Apocalypse Now / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: All over the place. The film's scenes interchange between: hedonistic merrymaking like getting high, joking around, oggling women, shooting off weapons randomly for fun, surfing, etc; horrific violence; sensual intimacy; a classy political discussion over a posh dinner; deep, dark introspection and social commentary; mystery; and so on.
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Apocalypse Now / int_a627a930	type	Gender Is No Object
Apocalypse Now / int_a627a930	comment	Gender Is No Object: During the Air Calvary Attack, several women are shown in the thick of the carnage, carrying ammo and stretchers. This is Truth in Television, as the Viet Cong frequently used women in combat. The Air Cav have no problem killing a female VC and her mother after the former throws a grenade into a medivac chopper.
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Apocalypse Now / int_a67b86a7	type	General Ripper
Apocalypse Now / int_a67b86a7	comment	Lt. Col. Kilgore's name is appropriate for a General Ripper who loves killing and gore.
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Apocalypse Now / int_a9eb984b	type	Warrior Poet
Apocalypse Now / int_a9eb984b	comment	Warrior Poet: Or so Kurtz's followers think he is (the photojournalist calls him "a poet warrior in the classic sense"). The reality is that, while he does have some poetic flair to his words and he is a good soldier, he has gone insane and has lost almost all decent sense of restraint.
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Apocalypse Now / int_abf4c466	type	The Paragon Always Rebels
Apocalypse Now / int_abf4c466	comment	The Paragon Always Rebels: Remarked with awe by Willard, who keeps poring through Kurtz's file in search of some sign of madness. Willard says that before he went off the reservation, Kurtz's record was flawless — a little too flawless, for his money.
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Apocalypse Now / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Apocalypse Now / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: There's a strong sense of tragedy regarding the death of Kurtz.
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Apocalypse Now / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Apocalypse Now / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Chef's francophone background comes in handy when the party comes across a plantation full of wary Frenchmen.
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Apocalypse Now / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
Apocalypse Now / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: Willard successfully kills Kurtz. But three out of four of his men are dead, he'll be forever scarred by what he's witnessed on his journey, and he'll eventually find that the entire war was fought for nothing. Colonel Kilgore clears out the Vietcong village with overwhelming firepower, climaxing with a massive napalm airstrike. The extreme heat ends up ruining the surf, which was the whole reason why Kilgore wanted to attack the beachhead.
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Apocalypse Now / int_ae372576	type	I Warned You
Apocalypse Now / int_ae372576	comment	I Warned You: Chief decides to stop and investigate a Vietnamese boat even though Willard asks him not to. Everything goes south and an entire innocent family ends up dead except for the mother, who's gravely wounded. Chief wants to take her to a doctor, but Willard, not wanting his mission delayed, shoots her in the head before reminding Chief that he (Willard) had asked him not to stop the boat in the first place.
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Apocalypse Now / int_b034d333	type	Film Noir
Apocalypse Now / int_b034d333	comment	Film Noir: In a sneaky case of Genre-Busting, the film follows the standard format of a film noir, with Willard as the Hardboiled Detective investigating a case (being sent on a mission). John Hellmann explains it all in "Vietnam and the Hollywood Genre Film: Inversions of American Mythology in the Deer Hunter and Apocalypse Now". It has the Chandleresque voiceover, the aloof superiors, the strange tangled plot...
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Apocalypse Now / int_b2c737e8	type	Klingon Promotion
Apocalypse Now / int_b2c737e8	comment	Klingon Promotion: Willard predicts he'll be fast-tracked to Major for offing the renegade Kurtz. For a brief moment, he sits at Kurtz's desk, contemplating the opportunity to take the Colonel's place as a new god-king. The throng of natives lay down their weapons and bow as he leaves the compound.
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Apocalypse Now / int_b4cbb37f	type	Good Morning, Crono
Apocalypse Now / int_b4cbb37f	comment	Good Morning, Crono: We first meet Willard in a dingy apartment in Saigon. He tidies himself up before meeting with the Generals who are operating out of Nha Trang.
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Apocalypse Now / int_b5c562be	type	Face Framed in Shadow
Apocalypse Now / int_b5c562be	comment	Face Framed in Shadow: Kurtz throughout his appearances. Brando himself wanted this for aesthetic effect, claiming that it suited the character of Kurtz because he's a person who is flirting with darkness and the primal instinctual fears of humanity. Brando wanted Kurtz to look like a man who is going to be consumed by the darkness, but he has enough mastery over it to (semi)safely dwell in it. (In the original theatrical cut Kurtz's face is always framed in shadow. The Redux breaks from this by adding a scene where Kurtz, in full sunlight, comes to an imprisoned Willard and reads to him TIME Magazine stories about the war.) There's also a shot of Martin Sheen with his face half-covered in shadow and half in light while another character is talking about how every man has both good and evil in them.
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Apocalypse Now / int_b5e63cc4	type	Shadow Archetype
Apocalypse Now / int_b5e63cc4	comment	Shadow Archetype: Is Willard, in the last analysis, any better than Kurtz? Probably not. Kurtz points this out during his haunting monologue to Willard. Can Willard judge Kurtz when he's basically the same as him? Much of Willard's ongoing monologue is echoed, in so many words, by the Colonel once they finally meet (and vice-versa).
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Apocalypse Now / int_b7bc7d28	type	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
Apocalypse Now / int_b7bc7d28	comment	Kilgore praises a mortally wounded VC soldier who has killed a lot of American allies and declares that he will give him water despite opposition to his doing so. Played with in that Kilgore gets distracted by the surfing and forgets to actually give the man any water.
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Apocalypse Now / int_ba5bbda5	type	Mirror Character
Apocalypse Now / int_ba5bbda5	comment	Mirror Character: Kurtz and Willard are more than a little similar, and both men pick up on it right away. While Willard may not have gone beyond the pale like Kurtz did, he does have some of the same big issues like becoming a Blood Knight junkie for combat, being fed up with the military command's bullshit, being deeply affected by the violence he's seen, and realizing that they are both screwed up in the head. Neither Kurtz nor Willard makes excuses for what he does and freely admits to his own reprehensible actions. This is one of the reasons why Kurtz takes special interest in Willard, who he sees as a kindred spirit and the only one who can understand without judgement just what Kurtz is going through.
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Apocalypse Now / int_bf110089	type	Break Them by Talking
Apocalypse Now / int_bf110089	comment	Break Them by Talking: When Willard is captured by Kurtz the Colonel asks a simple question, "Are you an assassin?" Willard's response is that he is a soldier. Kurtz mocks Willard by saying the following, "You're neither. You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks to collect the bill."
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Apocalypse Now / int_bf609406	type	New Meat
Apocalypse Now / int_bf609406	comment	New Meat: Willard comments that the members of the boat are "mostly just kids...rock 'n' rollers with one foot in their graves."
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Apocalypse Now / int_c10da874	type	The '80s
Apocalypse Now / int_c10da874	comment	The '80s: While Apocalypse Now is considered by many to be the ultimate '70s film, it inspired a very important '80s movie trope: synthesizer scores. Although synths had been used in Hollywood films before, Apocalypse Now started the trend of not just incorporating synths into the soundtrack but seamlessly integrating them as well, making them a "normal" part of the background instead of exploiting them as "science-fiction" gimmicks.
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Apocalypse Now / int_c18c22e8	type	Colonel Kilgore
Apocalypse Now / int_c18c22e8	comment	Colonel Kilgore: The Trope Namer is introduced casually Strolling Through the Chaos of a vicious battle. He later speaks poetically about his love of napalm, which "smells like victory." He seems to share equal enthusiasm for combat as he does for his hobby, surfing. He attempts to indulge both pastimes at once, ordering his men to surf in a warzone despite their discomfort (and the bullets whizzing past them into the water). He looks downright sad when he says to Captain Willard and Private Lance that "someday this war is gonna end." Kilgore loves war as much as he loves life itself.
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Apocalypse Now / int_c3ae004a	type	Re-Cut
Apocalypse Now / int_c3ae004a	comment	Re-Cut: There are at least four versions. The theatrical cut ends with Stuff Blowing Up while the credits roll. This was widely misinterpreted as an air strike called in by Willard, so it was removed in other cuts. A version shown by some streaming services removes the credits sequence entirely, but is otherwise identical to the theatrical cut. The Redux has no credits, adds almost an hour of footage, and alters the order or pace of some scenes. Notably it puts back the French plantation scene, a contextual encounter that Coppola grudgingly had to cut due to problems with the illumination. The Final Cut, Coppola's preferred version of the film, uses most scenes from the Redux cut, but is shorter than the Redux version due to the removal of two Redux scenes, including the outpost scene and the scene where Kurtz reads the Vietnam reports on Time Magazine while Willard is imprisoned. This cut was the only modern version of the film to add ending credits.
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Apocalypse Now / int_c4240537	type	Moral Event Horizon
Apocalypse Now / int_c4240537	comment	Moral Event Horizon:invoked While Willard refuses to disclose his mission with the PBR crew, he is relatively affable with them despite outranking all of them considerably. The crew realizes his true nature after he mercy kills the Vietnamese girl without hesitation or remorse. In his backstory, Kurtz goes over by killing four Vietnamese individuals he thought were spies, acting on his own. The military charges him with murder for that and later puts out a hit on him.
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Apocalypse Now / int_c49935fa	type	20 Minutes into the Past
Apocalypse Now / int_c49935fa	comment	20 Minutes into the Past: Released in 1979, set around 1970.
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Apocalypse Now / int_c601fc37	type	Professional Killer
Apocalypse Now / int_c601fc37	comment	Professional Killer: Willard's shtick in the military. He has a history of at least three assassinations, but is uneasy about having to terminate an American, an unprecedented task.
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Apocalypse Now / int_c64a7400	type	Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys
Apocalypse Now / int_c64a7400	comment	Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys/Vestigial Empire: In Redux and Final Cut, the declining might of the French Empire is discussed by the French plantation owner, who is ready to defy the defeat streak with a Last Stand at his home, if it comes to that.
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Apocalypse Now / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Apocalypse Now / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Colleen Camp's character appears just fine with the above, though her parrot's antics and Chef's request to have her wear a wig quickly makes the scene feel bizarre. Cynthia Wood's character, on the other hand, talks about her miserable life and failed dreams as Lance has sex with her...unaware of the dead soldier a foot away. Same for Roxanne. The characters are drawn back to war, with the Meaningful Echo reminding that she is a widow, and that after loving, Willard will go back to killing. There is much despair in both scenes, emphasized by the characters being doped.
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Apocalypse Now / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Apocalypse Now / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: There are several to the Werner Herzog movie Aguirre, the Wrath of God, also based on Heart of Darkness and which, oddly enough, had a similarly troubled production. One scene (of the natives attacking with arrows) is a shot-for-shot remake of Aguirre. John Milius, screenwriter of the film and a close friend of Coppola's (and one of the two directors Coppola tapped to finish the movie if he died - the other was George Lucas), makes a fairly convincing case for the film's plot being based on The Odyssey - the analogy works better for Redux than for the theatrical cut. General Corman's name is an homage to Roger Corman, Coppola's mentor. Colonel Lucas is named after George, Coppola's close friend. Clean sings a few lines of the titular Surfin' USA by The Beach Boys. The finale with Kurtz's murder intercut with the tribesmen slaughtering a buffalo is an homage to Sergei Eisenstein's Strike. Apocalypse Now in itself has been referenced and parodied many times. The Clash named one of their songs Charlie Don't Surf from Sandinista! after a famous quote from this movie.
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Apocalypse Now / int_c7f294da	comment	Large and in Charge: Kurtz, chieftain of the Montagnards, looks like a juggernaut. Angled camera shots and some body doubles reinforce this appearance. Brando weighed more than 300 pounds at the moment of filming.
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Apocalypse Now / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Apocalypse Now / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Chief gets impaled by a native spear as they near Kurtz's lair. He tries to kill Willard with it by pulling his face down onto it, but expires before he can finish doing so.
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Apocalypse Now / int_ca81eae7	comment	Hollywood Darkness: Averted — we get Chiaroscuro instead. When it's dark, it's dark.
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Apocalypse Now / int_caa28b82	comment	Happens metaphorically with Col. Kilgore. After firebombing a village, which results in a furious fight in which several Americans and countless Vietnamese are killed and a helicopter is lost, all for the sake of clearing up a beach to surf on (and after poetically professing his love for the napalm used to do so!), Kilgore discovers that the napalm fires have heated up the air so that the waves have died out. Of course, being himself, he's mostly pissed about not getting to surf.
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Apocalypse Now / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Apocalypse Now / int_caf89e54	comment	The boat crew are not entirely thrilled with the assignment of escorting Willard up river, Chief in particular. When Chief is dying with a spear through his chest, he tries to impale Willard's face on it before finally succumbing to his death.
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Apocalypse Now / int_cbdd9a55	type	We ARE Struggling Together
Apocalypse Now / int_cbdd9a55	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: Through stories told by Willard's escort, it's clear the South Vietnamese and the Americans are not getting along. The boat crew are not entirely thrilled with the assignment of escorting Willard up river, Chief in particular. When Chief is dying with a spear through his chest, he tries to impale Willard's face on it before finally succumbing to his death. Chef is appalled when he learns that the mission the entire time has been to kill an American officer. However, they are now so deep in the jungle that they have no choice but to stick together until the mission is complete. The troops at the USO show riot amongst themselves to try and get at the Playboy Bunnies. The U.S military is sending their own assassin to kill one of their own colonels gone rogue. The movie has Americans killing each other while trying to fight this damned war. It isn't like those resources couldn't be used fighting the Vietnamese enemy instead...talk about skewed priorities. Discipline and command have completely deserted the units at Do Lung Bridge. Half the soldiers are zonked out, and the other half are trying to desert.
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Apocalypse Now / int_cc8564b3	type	Playboy Bunny
Apocalypse Now / int_cc8564b3	comment	Playboy Bunny: Cynthia Wood (Miss February 1973, Playmate of the Year 1974) and Linda Carpenter (Miss August 1976). Possibly examples of As Herself, since Wood and Carpenter are both playing Playmates.
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Apocalypse Now / int_cd23ee7d	type	Colonel Badass
Apocalypse Now / int_cd23ee7d	comment	Colonel Badass: Both Lt. Colonel Kilgore, and Colonel Kurtz. Probably can be considered a Trope Codifier. Kilgore loses some badassery in Redux and Final Cut; he's pitiful when Willard steals his surfboard and his attempts to retrieve it are mocked. A notable aversion with Col. Lucas (played by perennial badass Harrison Ford), who is a meek Desk Jockey.
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Apocalypse Now / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Apocalypse Now / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: The story Kurtz tells of the fate of the children inoculated by American medics — having their inoculated arms cut off by the Viet Cong — is scarier and more disturbing than anything actually depicted onscreen.
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Apocalypse Now / int_ce70175b	type	Sociopathic Soldier
Apocalypse Now / int_ce70175b	comment	Sociopathic Soldier: Both Willard and Kurtz are Type 4, both broken by the insanity of the war, both consumed with completing their respective missions as they see them.
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Apocalypse Now / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Apocalypse Now / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: Kurtz tells a story about the time he was with the Special Forces and they inoculated children:
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Apocalypse Now / int_d2b18a18	type	Holiday in Cambodia
Apocalypse Now / int_d2b18a18	comment	Holiday in Cambodia: Southeast Asia is portrayed as a war torn badland, savage and wild. Justified in that it's set during the height of the Vietnam War; of course it would be a war torn badland. One of Kurtz's criticisms in his dossier is that the American soldiers behave like tourists. They are given short tours of duty and receive luxuries that only remind them more of what they're missing at home. They cannot hope to win against a Vietnamese enemy who can tolerate all amounts of hardship. This is demonstrated by Kilgore and his unit, who have little strategy and behave like a rampaging beach party. Kurtz's suggestion is that most of the Americans should be sent home and replaced by a much smaller force with proper training and motivation.
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Apocalypse Now / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Apocalypse Now / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Discussed in the plantation. The French patriarch accuses the Americans of creating the Viet Minh to undermine French imperialism, and now its offshoot, the Viet Cong, is giving the Americans hell. Happens metaphorically with Col. Kilgore. After firebombing a village, which results in a furious fight in which several Americans and countless Vietnamese are killed and a helicopter is lost, all for the sake of clearing up a beach to surf on (and after poetically professing his love for the napalm used to do so!), Kilgore discovers that the napalm fires have heated up the air so that the waves have died out. Of course, being himself, he's mostly pissed about not getting to surf.
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Apocalypse Now / int_d51263b9	type	Fake Shemp
Apocalypse Now / int_d51263b9	comment	Fake Shemp: While he was recovering from his heart attack, Martin Sheen was doubled by his brother Joe Estevez.
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Apocalypse Now / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Apocalypse Now / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Colonel Kilgore says that a dying Vietcong deserves to drink from his canteen for being brave enough to cling to life. He immediately forgets the dying soldier when he discovers that Lance, a celebrity surfer, is nearby. Colonel Kurtz goes out of his way to call the Commanders running the Vietnam War this. He detests how they refuse to do what is necessary to win and then lie to everyone about how everything they are doing is adequate. Multiple points in the movie have Willard reading excerpts from Kurtz's dossier where it's recorded that he had criticized the way the war was being run. Willard eventually comes to agree with Kurtz and wonders why the hell he is even meant to kill this man. This comes to a head in the ending where it is shown that Kurtz records his philosophy on war as a sort of auto-biography where he famously states this: Becomes a subversion as Colonel Kurtz abandons all restraint he has left in him with no real loyalty to his country or ability to wage the war effectively. Not that his superiors were right, mind you, but Kurtz wasn't, either. Willard realizes that his superiors are full of it when he's assigned the mission to terminate Kurtz:
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Apocalypse Now / int_d54b9eb3	comment	Interservice Rivalry: Between the Army and the Navy. Kilgore and his Air Cav soldiers tease Capt. Willard for being airborne.note Willard is from the 505th of 173rd Airborne Brigade assigned to MACV-SOG but spends the rest of the movie traveling in a Navy PBR, which is considered peculiar to most personnel from any branch. While he does travel in a utility helicopter, it is only shown briefly during the beginning of the film.
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Apocalypse Now / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Apocalypse Now / int_d5c7b415	comment	Elites Are More Glamorous: Willard is with the 505th of 173rd Airborne Brigade assigned to MACV-SOG, ordered to assassinate Colonel Kurtz, who was Operations officer of the 5th Special Forces Group, and is helped by a Patrol Boat, Riverine, crew, and is escorted up the Nung River by Colonel Kilgore of the 1st Squadron of the 9th Air Cavalry.
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Apocalypse Now / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Apocalypse Now / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Chief and Clean. They seem to be pretty close, despite bickering fairly often. Chief is extremely distraught when Clean is killed.
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Apocalypse Now / int_d839c530	type	The Unfettered
Apocalypse Now / int_d839c530	comment	The Unfettered: The movie's central concept: exactly how effective a person with no restrictions can be, and how much of a monster, are intrinsically tied.
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Apocalypse Now / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Apocalypse Now / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: The men sent to escort Willard to Nha Trang do not appear shocked when they find a 'wetwork' officer naked, hungover, and covered in blood.
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Apocalypse Now / int_dda12cb3	type	Cat Scare
Apocalypse Now / int_dda12cb3	comment	Cat Scare: Quite literally, but with a considerably larger-than-usual cat. Hell, even the actors were scared! One during an inspection of a local boat ends tragically when Clean reacts poorly to it.
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Apocalypse Now / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Apocalypse Now / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Kurtz is a war hero who resigned from the officer class to keep his boots on the ground. From the very beginning of his tour, he was intent on insubordination. He believed his ex-colleagues were impeding the war effort. Then he lost his marbles after seeing horrors like the VietCong mutilating and killing a group of children who were being treated by Western doctors.
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Apocalypse Now / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
Apocalypse Now / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: In the director's cut, a Playboy bunny complains that no one sees her as a real person or respects her for her mind...all while Lance, and the camera, is focused on her breasts.
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Apocalypse Now / int_e003c829	type	History Repeats
Apocalypse Now / int_e003c829	comment	History Repeats: It's discussed in Redux and Final Cut that the Americans are following the same path of the French, despite their superior might. Kurtz makes a point by showing Willard two almost identical and over-optimistic - if not Blatant Lies - reports in the media about the "improving" situation of the Vietnam War. The first one was written under LBJ and the second one years later, now with Nixon in power.
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Apocalypse Now / int_e11e88b6	type	Thousand-Yard Stare
Apocalypse Now / int_e11e88b6	comment	Thousand-Yard Stare: Willard sports one right at the end, after he completes his mission. "The Roach" is catatonic until the gunner shakes him out of it.
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Apocalypse Now / int_e3c20140	type	As Long as It Sounds Foreign
Apocalypse Now / int_e3c20140	comment	Apparently Cambodian street kids ask foreign soldiers for money in Filipino.
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Apocalypse Now / int_e9f79e23	type	Screw the War, We're Partying
Apocalypse Now / int_e9f79e23	comment	Screw the War, We're Partying: Willard concludes during a USO show that the Viet Cong will be victorious because, "Charlie's idea of great R&R was cold rice and a little rat meat." The scene in the Redux cut where the main characters trade their fuel for some private time with Playboy models. With his insistence on going surfing in the middle of a battle, the character of Kilgore definitely exemplifies this trope. Colonel Kurtz comments on this in his dossier. Kurtz expresses his concern to his commanders that having too many delinquent military personnel in Vietnam is going to compromise the war effort and that they should only utilize the very best trained men they can find.
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Apocalypse Now / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
Apocalypse Now / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: The climactic scene where Willard kills Kurtz is intercut with a scene of the Montagnards slaughtering a water buffalo, with a series of match cuts between Willard striking Kurtz and the Montagnards hacking at the water buffalo, then both Kurtz and the buffalo collapsing to the ground.
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Apocalypse Now / int_ed68bcc9	type	Dwindling Party
Apocalypse Now / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: As soon as the squad gets upriver near Kurtz, they start dropping like flies.
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Apocalypse Now / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Apocalypse Now / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: One of the most iconic examples ever. A surreal experience full of horrors that transform sane men into madmen.
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Apocalypse Now / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Apocalypse Now / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: A particularly brutal one when Willard shoots the wounded Vietnamese woman...not because she's dying, but because he doesn't want to take her along with them, most likely to prevent interfering with his real, but [still kept] secret, mission. Willard's justified his action from the hypocrisy of the crew that did this in the first place in his following monologue. By the end of the story, Willard views killing Kurtz as a mercy on his part. Willard realizes that the mission to kill Kurtz is bogus because the Colonel isn't really any more insane than the commanders that want him dead. However, Kurtz is a thorn in the side of the American war machine, and they will inevitably send someone else after Kurtz if he doesn't do the deed. Furthermore, Willard feels that Kurtz is very broken up over what the war has turned him into, and that he actually wants the death that he has been marked for, as he would rather go out like a warrior by the hand of someone who can understand him (Willard being that person) than by some faceless, passionless assassin.
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Apocalypse Now / int_f566c6dc	type	Why Isn't It Attacking?
Apocalypse Now / int_f566c6dc	comment	Why Isn't It Attacking?: "Why the fuck aren't they attacking?!"
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Apocalypse Now / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Apocalypse Now / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: The Redux and Final Cut has an interesting implication of a possible "new life" for Willard, with the French girl at the colony. They have a melodramatic romance scene, and for all Willard's concerns about how he's got nothing to "settle down" to in the beginning, the fact that he has the option open of living with the woman in question gives the Redux and Final Cut an air of hope that the original doesn't have.
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Apocalypse Now / int_f945dff4	type	Facepalm
Apocalypse Now / int_f945dff4	comment	Facepalm: Kurtz does an iconic one◊.
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Apocalypse Now / int_f9c17447	type	The Remnant
Apocalypse Now / int_f9c17447	comment	The Remnant: In Redux and Final Cut, Willard and the crew arrive at a plantation run by a large French family who have remained long after France abandoned Vietnam.
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Apocalypse Now / int_fb9e25e9	type	Team Mom
Apocalypse Now / int_fb9e25e9	comment	Team Mom: Chief. He runs the boat and keeps the crazy kids in his crew from killing each other half the time.
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Apocalypse Now / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Apocalypse Now / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Subverted. Lance, the blond surfer boy and arguably the handsomest man on Willard's strike team, smears lots of dark camouflage makeup on his face and leaves it on for the entire film.
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Apocalypse Now / int_fed07537	type	Mighty Whitey
Apocalypse Now / int_fed07537	comment	Mighty Whitey: Thoroughly and surgically deconstructed. Kurtz was sent to Vietnam to defend it from communism. His experiences have led him to believe that the way to do this is to build a cult of personality around himself and behave like a tyrant king. His superiors have lost all control of him to the point that they order another officer to assassinate him. The American military is depicted as largely ineffectual, with senior officers designating targets not for their strategic value but because they have great surfing potential, while private soldiers spend their time getting high and shooting uselessly into the darkness. (Roach is a rare exception in that he's an incredibly good shot, but he's not exactly a model soldier. He has to be roused from sleep to kill an unseen VC soldier, simply because the guy's continual screams of abuse are annoying everyone.) To a man, the Americans hate and fear the very people that they are ostensibly there to defend, and the one time an American serviceman shows the slightest concern for the well-being of a Vietnamese person, it passes almost instantly.note Kilgore admires the bravery of the wounded VC soldier and gets all gung-ho with the ARVN soldier who thinks the man should be given dirty water to drink, shouting about how any man brave enough etc. can drink from his own water bottle, but before he even lets the man have the water he gets distracted by the presence of famous surfer dude Lance, forgets all about the VC and walks away, leaving the guy flailing in agony on the ground. The whole incident is the entire movie condensed in microcosm. In the end, the only solution the Americans have to the whole mess they've got themselves into is to bomb the shit out of everything.
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Apocalypse Now / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Apocalypse Now / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: When he's not killing people or distracted by incredibly dangerous surfing, Kilgore cares for his men and for civilians; he is concerned about them receiving medical treatment as soon as possible. When leaving Kurtz's village Willard takes time to rescue Lance and bring him back to civilization. However he leaves Colby behind, considering him too far gone to save.
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Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Decapitation Presentation / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Dissonant Serenity / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	During the War / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Dyeing for Your Art / int_2149bc5
Earth2150	seeAlso	Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Elite Army / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Elites Are More Glamorous / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Emerging from the Shadows / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Epic Movie / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Erudite Stoner / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Evil Colonialist / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Face Framed in Shadow / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Fatal Family Photo / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Faux Horrific / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Fighting for a Homeland / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Films Noirs Index / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Forced Bath / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Frontline General / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	General Ripper / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Glamorous Wartime Singer / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Going Native / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Good Morning, Crono / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Grenade Launcher / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Hard-to-Adapt Work / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Hero Stole My Bike / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Hidden Depths / int_2149bc5
HistoryOfTheColdWar	seeAlso	Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Holiday in Cambodia / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Homage / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Hungry Jungle / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	I Love the Smell of X in the Morning / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Improved by the Re-Cut / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Inferred Holocaust / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Insane Admiral / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Interchangeable Asian Cultures / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Inter-Service Rivalry / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Kill It with Fire / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Klingon Promotion / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Let's Dance / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Limited Advancement Opportunities / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Making Use of the Twin / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Mathematician's Answer / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Mattress-Tag Gag / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Mildly Military / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Moby Schtick / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Motive Rant / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Mundane MacGuffin Person / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Music to Invade Poland to / int_2149bc5
New Hollywood	seeAlso	Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	New Meat / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Nose Art / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Nothing Personal / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Obligatory War Crime Scene / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Occupiers Out of Our Country / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Orchestral Bombing / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Private Eye Monologue / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Professional Killer / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Psycho Supporter / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Rage Against the Reflection / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Rated M for Manly / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Re-Cut / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Real Song Theme Tune / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Recursive Canon / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	River of Insanity / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Scenic Tour Level / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Screw the War, We're Partying / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Send in the Search Team / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Setting Update / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Slave to PR / int_2149bc5
Sliding Scale of Film Obscurity	seeAlso	Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Sophisticated as Hell / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Source Music / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Spared by the Cut / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Spiking the Camera / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Stay on the Path / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Stranger in a Familiar Land / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Strolling Through the Chaos / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Stunt Double / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Subhuman Surfacing Shot / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Surfer Dude / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Surreal Theme Tune / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Sympathy for the Devil / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Testosterone Poisoning / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	The '60s / int_2149bc5
TheAuteur	seeAlso	Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	The Igor / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	The Paragon Always Rebels / int_2149bc5
TheVietnamWar	seeAlso	Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	This Means Warpaint / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Thousand-Yard Stare / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Trash the Set / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Trouble Entendre / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Tuckerization / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	20 Minutes into the Past / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Vestigial Empire / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Visual Title Drop / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Wag the Director / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	War Is Glorious / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Warrior Poet / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Water Wake-up / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	"What Now?" Ending / int_2149bc5
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	Word Salad Philosophy / int_2149bc5
Spec Ops: The Line (Video Game)	seeAlso	Apocalypse Now
apocalypsenow	sameAs	Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now	hasFeature	AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies / int_2149bc5

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