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Nov 6, 2020 · The epic napalm scene with the words of Robert Duvall as "Lieutenant Colonel William "Bill" Kilgore" from Francis Ford Coppola's classic masterpiece Apocalypse Now. What a brilliant cinematography...
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- Colonel Walter E. Kurtz
- Captain Benjamin L. Willard
- Lieutenant Colonel William "Bill" Kilgore
- Engineman 3rd Class Jay "Chef" Hicks
- Photojournalist
- Lieutenant General Corman
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I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare: crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving.
Saigon. Shit. I'm still only in Saigon. Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle. When I was home after my first tour, it was worse. I'd wake up and there'd be nothing. I hardly said...
You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed for 12 hours. When it...Charlie don't surf![after being given a "tour" of Kurtz's camp, which contained rows of human heads impaled on spikes and displayed around ancient temples, Chef is horrified] "This Colonel guy? He's wacko, man! He's...
This is dialectics. It's very simple dialectics: one through nine, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions. You can't travel in space, you can't go out into space, you know, without like, you know, wi...
Well, you see, Willard, in this war, things get confused out there: power, ideals, the old morality, practical military necessity. But out there with these natives, it must be a temptation to be Go...
Colonel G. Lucas: Your mission is to proceed up the Nung River in a Navy patrol boat. Pick up Colonel Kurtz's path at Nu Mung Ba, follow it, and learn what you can along the way. When you find the...Captain Benjamin L. Willard: Terminate the Colonel?General Corman: He's out there operating without any decent restraint, totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct. And he is still in the field commanding troops.Jerry: Terminate with extreme prejudice.Lucas: You understand, Captain, that this mission does not exist, nor will it ever exist.My film is not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. It’s what it was really like. It was crazy. And the way we made it was very much like the way the Americans were in Vietnam. We were in the jungle. Ther...
Marlon Brando - Colonel Walter E. KurtzMartin Sheen - Captain Benjamin L. WillardThe Horror. . . The Horror. . .To the victims go the spoils.MORNING SMELLS Some People Like Coffee. Some People Like Napalm.It is impossible to describe what is necessary, to those who do not know what horror means. You must make a friend of horror.CHARLIE DON'T SURF!Aug 1, 2007 · We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end... Kilgore: I love the...
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Mar 15, 2012 · Willard (Martin Sheen), already on the edge, is assigned to find and deal with AWOL Col. Kurtz (Marlon Brando), rumored to have set himself up in the Cambodian jungle as a local, lethal godhead.
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Kilgore: Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. 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 stinkin' dink body.
The quote also speaks to the idiosyncrasies of war by describing and even celebrating the unique smell of napalm. Kilgore also says the smell is like “victory.” In typically absurd fashion, the havoc-wreaking Kilgore follows up his napalm-glorifying remark by leaving the film on a bright note.
“I like the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like... victory.” Robert Duvall
