Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore (Robert Duvall):
"You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours.
When it was all over, I walked up.
We didn't find one of 'em, not one of those stinkin' dink bodies.
But the smell, you know, that gasoline smell -- the whole hill.
Smells like -- victory.
{Kilgore pauses to reflect}
Someday this war's gonna end."
When it was all over, I walked up.
We didn't find one of 'em, not one of those stinkin' dink bodies.
But the smell, you know, that gasoline smell -- the whole hill.
Smells like -- victory.
{Kilgore pauses to reflect}
Someday this war's gonna end."
Director Francis Ford Coppola chooses The End by The Doors to open his Viet Nam war epic, Apocalypse Now Redux (1979, 2001). I can't think of a more powerful use of an existing song to set the mood for this reworking of a screenplay, originally titled "The Psychedelic Soldier", to a film interpretation -- set in the Viet Nam war -- of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1902).
But I'm open to suggestions. Take the dream sequence ride in the clip below; tell me what you think.
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It's not lost on me that I post this war-based piece on Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day in the U.S.
There may be better ways to remember the anniversary of this tragic day; this is mine, for what it's worth.
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