Apocalypse Now is an effort to explore and dramatize that and everything that seems to be meandering from the main narrative (for better or worse) is meant to illustrate that. It was war without glamour or glory and it sustained itself without any reason or sense to the point where the tragedy was incomprehensible (and the victories debatable). No disrespect to any veterans or active Military officers reading this but Vietnam was chaos. but still needs Martin Sheen to kill Kurtz because he has the audacity to decry the American institution of war as hypocritical and insane? Is Kurtz crazy for not participating in the lie agreed upon? The Robert Duvall scene is in the story in microcosm. Now what's crazier, that that's who he is or that the Military enables it. "Someday this war's gonna end." You are right to hit on the ridiculousness of his character but this last part of the quote adds a tragic self-awareness to his fate - what is a surfing colonel, who not only revels but excels in the violence of combat, going to do after he is sent home? How can surfing in Maui have anything on surfing at the edge of the world while people are trying to kill you? How can life compete with the rush of danger? The battlefield is his home and whether it always was or has become that, he has no illusions about himself. Without looking, do you remember what he says? victory" without recognizing the part that comes after. And many people quote his line, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning, it smells like. If you cut it down to 2 hours I'm sure it would have been an entertaining movie, but I still don't understand the significance of 75% of the scenes. If someone can explain what I'm missing that would be appreciated.
I understand the scene with the french family and the playboy bunnies might have been extra scenes from the recut version, but why on earth did FFC think these served any purpose? Can someone explain the meaning of these scenes to me? Totally out of place, unless someone can explain it's significance to me. I felt like it was way too long and horribly paced, but even without the extra scenes that were added, I simply don't understand what the point of many scenes were.įirst off, a CO that demands his crew goes surfing together in the middle of a battle field, that seems ridiculous and not realistic at all, but even if this happened to be based on real life stories, what was the point of all of this? What was the point of Robert Duvall's character? What was the point of any of that? Very little of the first hour of the movie has anything to do with the main conflict of the movie between Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando. Disclaimer: I accidentally watched the 3 hour recut version which may explain why I HATED this movie.
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