Apocalypse Now - Story Explanation and Analysis
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To obtain the Heart of Darkness, your toes must touch the deepest part of hell. For your troubles and tribulation, you may receive its gifts of power and knowledge. But the infinite expanse of human greed is not limited to one person, so any human being can come and take it from you. That is what Willard did to Kurtz. He killed Kurtz and perpetuated the Heart's cycle of death and destruction.
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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."
You know that " the snail crawling along the edge of the straight razor" is pure Gnosis.
Gnosis is a spiritually based faith and the snail/razor analogy is used to help illustrate the journey to liberate the Soul from the body and the intellectual prison of the mind.
Brando's soul goes mad as in all truth his mind.
The horror this Special Forces Colonel sees changes him forever.
The old late 19th Century predominantly Christian Protestant adage that evil and in fact "pure evil" dwelling in the deep, dark jungle.
Bizarrely enough, U.S. servicemen admit they were changed by their jungle experience. In the last decade Vietnam vets talk openly about the darkness.
These same vets apparently dismissed Apocalypse Now and its slowly but sure going mad journey.
The Spiritual journey is vastly different.
Why - spiritual awakening which is NOT religion is based on self observation. The observation becomes deeper and more accute. After much effort the Soul is liberated.
It means on how unbalanced the world is
Its ockhams razor. A simple solution is at hand?
@@michaelbrownlee9497 Occam's, and I don't really see how Occam's principle fits here.
@@FrostedSeagull I think the vets may have objected to a removal of Vietnam from its context and its abstract use in servicing a more philosophical journey - rather than a focus on the personal deprivations. I'm sure any vet that heard Coppola say (less than ten years removed from the war no less) that "...my film IS Vietnam. It's what it was really like" would be somewhere between skeptical and incredulous. In pursuing the themes that Apocalypse NOW pursues it successfully removes its context from just that of Vietnam and makes it not only about all conflict but about inner-conflict, that's terrific stuff but it still removes the context from specifically Vietnam. Most modern conflicts will roughly lead people to deal with the same privations and difficulties but it's the minutia that matters - the little differences. I think perhaps many wanted a film that told a seemingly-uncaring American what it was really like for them over there - instead we were all graced with a film that told us all what it's like inside all of us if only we were pressed.
Platoon received significantly more acclaim from Vietnam vets and if you look at the film it's ALL about those differences unique to an infantry platoon on patrol in Vietnam. I think that while Platoon is a fine film Apocalypse Now (particularly Redux) is superior, but it's not a superior Vietnam film. Vietnam was not an abstract dreamscape for the people there - it was an abstract dreamscape for people who saw the news every night on the television and much like how in the modern day we're left with a monolithic view of Africa as a continent thanks to overwhelmingly-negative TV coverage and media portrayal as a hazy world soaked in blood and sunlight so too was that the view of Vietnam as a war and as a place what 'Vietnam was like' for America as a whole - but no exactly the veterans or the Vietnamese. Apocalypse Now is a dream and a nightmare but the Vietnam War was all too real to the people who lived it, even if only ever more in their nightmares and dreams. I think that's why so many disliked it.
hmm want to know something funny? Spec Ops The Line went through the same development issues like Apocalypse Now, costing a lot of money, changes in script and titles, game that was supposed to be released sooner ended up taking a long time and both of them explore the heart of darkness, pretty interesting.
It's safe to assume that Heart of Darkness is a very complex story. It can't simply be made into a form of media, it has to be made very carefully and both Apocalypse Now and Spec Ops: The Line succeed at that.
Same with Far Cry 2 - which is likewise an impression of 'Heart of Darkness' - and likewise to Apocalypse Now is an impression of a specific place and time as portrayed from a distance.
Alternatively, there’s the assumption that the story is cursed.
Orson Welles tried to adapt it and failed so miserably that he had to use it in a CBS Radio Theatre episode.
While there have been lower profile adaptations for television, doing it on the necessary scale seems to be notoriously difficult and wrought with complications.
I think it's generally accepted that the generic title was part of the point; it is kind of unfortunate that it helped the game slip under the radar somewhat IIRC but it also helps surprise people who were expecting something more mainstream and underlines how it acts as a satire of Call of Duty etc.
@Thatshow ED yup, unfortunately.. i just now watched Max's spec ops video and realized that is not some "stupid call of duty clone" ... but more of senuas sacrafice dwelling into the mind of a person in extreme. ...and spoiled the game for myself as well.. eh.. they should named it "Heart in darkness" or something... this way it sounds like a dlc for a cod-like game ( i genuinely thought that spec ops is the game and the line is dlc or something that is quite popular in cod playing circles :P )
Man can become a monster, a monster of his own making, The journey into darkness is man's descent into a human hell where he chooses to become a monster, the horror is the realization that man can do anything at any time. When man confronts the horror he must choose either to deal with it or it will consume him.
Man can do anything at any time but thanks to shame and embarrassment it keeps most men from going crazy
horror has a face and you must make a friend of horror
Kurtz got off the Boat. Willard (Marlowe) made it back. Heart of Darkness
you didn't anything new
I saw this movie in 1979 and thought it was CRAZY and nonsensical. After 39 yrs and two Divorces NOW I understand the movie:. "the horror, the horror". . . .
Yeah, Chicks Man...
My dad joined the Marines in 65 at 16. He told me to watch the movie to understand how a good man can go bad. It shaped him for life and he couldn't transition back to the U.S. to be a husband and father.
@Daniel Vasconcelos Good
@Daniel Vasconcelos No you don't.
@Thatshow ED Or he just had really crappy spouses and it was out of his control.
There's one thing for sure, Coppola before Apocalypse Now. And Coppola after Apocalypse Now. Two different people as far as I'm concerned. The Coppola during making Apocalypse Now must of really met the duality of his personality.
Never liked Francis Ford Coppola really all that much, but this movie makes me respect for him more than any other director, dead or alive.
Why do you not like coppola?
Because he's a fat, spoilt, disgusting greaseball and a despot.
@@derekb8513 dude is best buddies and continues to support Victor Salva, a known convicted pedophile. Supports him financially and continuously defends him. Coppola is a scumbag and is most likely a predator himself.
Agreed.
Here's my take on the film (it's a bit long). Kurtz couldn't handle that truth (the horror) he had found in Vietnam, about both the war and himself (and all of us). Kurtz understood intellectually in his mind what he believed had to be done to win in Vietnam, but his soul couldn't accept it morally, and so went mad. That's what the photographer (Dennis Hopper) meant when he said: "Kurtz's mind is sane but his soul is mad." Then, Coppola uses the book "The Golden Bough" by Sir James George Frazer to explore the difference between Kurtz and Willard. This book is on Kurtz's desk when he is killed by Willard. Frazer's thesis was that "old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship and periodic sacrifice of a sacred king. Frazier proposed that mankind progresses from magic through religious belief to scientific thought". Coppola symbolizes the ritualistic death of the "king" (Kurtz) by inter-cutting with the ritualistic slaying of the calf, which echoes this idea by Frazer,
During the assassination, Willard arises from the water in the famous scene as if he is being metaphorically reborn from the primordial ooze, while The Doors "The End" plays on the soundtrack. The song makes reference to the myth of Oedipus (the son killing his father and sleeping with his mother), which has similarities to Frazer's myth of the sacrifice of the sacred king. Willard slays the mad "king" and metaphorically becomes the king himself. He drops his machete to the ground, and Kurtz's followers drop theirs, allowing him to leave the compound unharmed. This may echo the Biblical passage about beating swords into plowshares (if you want a somewhat more optimistic reading of the film), or, you could interpret it as Willard "winning the Heart of Darkness" and becoming the next Kurtz. Willard has faced the horror, survived, and stayed sane, unlike Kurtz who loses both his life and his reason, and unlike Lance, who survives but loses his reason.
On his way out of the compound on the PT boat, "Almighty" (the code word for Airforce HQ) asks him either for the coordinates of the compound or for confirmation to bomb the compound. I think this is left deliberately ambiguous in the film whether Chef had time to transmit the coordinates before being killed, if I recall correctly. In any case, instead of answering, Willard instead turns off the radio without responding. If you think of "Almighty" as God, then Willard is taking Kurtz's advice to kill but not to judge. He doesn't judge Kurtz or his followers, rather he leaves it up to "Almighty" to judge or to punish which is quite appropriate since the title of the film makes reference to the Apocalypse and Judgement Day. The song "The End" heard at the beginning and end also echoes the concept of the Apocalypse. In the original cut of the film (which I greatly prefer), we see the destruction of the compound over the credits. It is ambiguous whether this is the compound actually being bombed, or if it is meant to be symbolic of the concept of Apocalypse and Judgement, something happen "outside the time" of the film, just as the Apocalypse is referred to as the "End of Time". The question of whether such a God capable of (or willing to) judge or create order actually exists ("Who's the CO here?") is also left open to the viewer. When Willard asks the black soldier at the Nung River bridge the question of who is in charge, he merely gets an ambiguous answer: "Yeah."
As Willard leaves the compound in the PT boat, the stone head of the Khmer King from the ruined temple is superimposed next to his face on the screen. In the beginning of the film, we also see the stone head, but Willard's head is upside down. At the end his face and the King's face are both right-side up. Willard has faced and survived the horror and the darkness inside himself, maintained his sanity, and attains a higher level of understanding. So, Willard isn't a good man at the beginning of the film, and still isn't a good man at the end of the film, either. In the course of completing his mission many people are killed to get him to Kurtz. Willard himself kills the Vietnamese girl in the sampan because he doesn't want to lose time by taking her to a medic. The camouflage on Willard's face when he kills Kurtz makes him very like Kurtz in outward appearance, but is there an inner difference? I don't know. We can say for certain that Willard doesn't take Kurtz's place as the leader of the cult, so that's certainly a mark in his favor.
So although we have be careful about calling Willard a "hero" (he's the protagonist, certainly), it's clear he does eventually go back home to "the World", and that maybe, just maybe, after this ordeal he at least has a chance of reaching the next level of enlightenment. Actually, this is a much more optimistic ending than the one in Conrad's book "The Heart of Darkness", where Marlow (Willard) goes to Kurtz's widow and lies to her about the nature of her husbands last words. Instead of "the horror", Marlow tells her Kurtz was saying how much he loved her as his last words, so in a way he fails as well. In the film, Kurtz tells Willard how much he detests hypocrisy and lies, instructing Willard to tell his son the truth (the horror) about his father. However, we are not shown this in the film, so we don't know whether Willard tells the truth to the son or not. My guess is that Willard, unlike Marlow from the book, is more likely to tell Kurtz's son the truth, but there's no way to be sure.
Christopher MacIntyre /brilliant essay
Thanks. It did turn out to be an essay, didn't it? He, he.
@@BarbaraMerryGeng Centred around religion but really good analysis,cheers!
You sir get an A. For your fine report on "Apocalypse Now". Here is a history degree.
man thanks for this comment and time that went into it
So basically, this is Coppola's way of doing "method directing"
0:00 - 0:35
Wow. I wish I could make everyone I love and care about understand the power of those words.
know. knows no one like that
It hurts to set you free
But you'll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die
This is the end
The killer awoke before dawn...
It's a journey into the "shadow" in the Jungian sense, a truthful look at morality and the hypocrisy that so embodies the Vietnam War.
Like all martyrs, they become more in death. Kurtz wanted this rather than going out with a napalm. He couldn’t move forward any more than he had.. he’d reached the end of the river
mmmmmm my dad served in veitnam in 68 / 69 I remember waking up in the middle of the nights to his screams because of the nightmares I was told he was a changed man from his time in veitnam he was 18 love and miss you dad
I hope you are well France. Sharing something like this would NOT have been easy. I sincerely hope an inner piece comes into your life.
I've been waiting for this video for a while, and on a lark I checked the channel page. And here it is.
Strange, I thought that the comments would be flooded by now...
Thank you, by the way, for doing this.
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"He killed Kurtz and perpetuated the Heart's cycle of death and destruction" - from description. But didn't willard kill kurtz and then leave? he didn't want to replace kurtz' position even though all the villagers bowed down to him. we don't know what willard did post completing his mission, but seems to me he rejected the "heart of darkness" and allowed the villagers the path to de-brainwash themselves from kurtz' power.
He brought Kurtz’ writings with him when he left. It could prove a cautionary tale, or an instruction manual (or Bible, if you will) to madness. Kurtz managed to render numerous intelligent, moral individuals under his spell. It is essentially a “Create a Dangerous Cult For Dummies” if used improperly, especially given that so much was focused on the ineptitude and hypocrisy of the U.S. military. If he wanted to destroy that source of control and repudiate it, he would not have travelled back into civilization with it.
He left with Kurtz’ documentation for two reasons, to prove to command that he killed the man, as well as fulfilling Kurtz’ only request, that his son be given the complete truth.
Agreed
“Are you an assassin?” “I’m a soldier” “You’re neither” “You’re an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks”
All the major scenes are taken from Michael Herr's book Dispatches . A journalist who became addicted to the Vietnam War just like all the other LURPS and Grunts and Photographic journalists . It's the best read ever it's what Hunter S Thompson wanted to reach but never quite.
Hard sell, I'm going to have to purchase it. Explaining it as what Hunter Thompson tried to reach but couldn't grasp was it for me.
My Great Uncle Tom worked on a few Francis Ford Coppola films, including Apocalypse Now, I really wish I could’ve known more about his time and experiences.
*YES!*
I love your film analyses!
I've been looking forward to this one since you announced it!
The fact that Coppolla was able to weave together a genuine classic from the hellish and over-long production, is tribute to his genius. Most directors can't do it, which is why so many crappy movies get made. But the influences on the story from the multiple sources (Including the film "Aguirre Wrath of God" (1973) and Heart of Darkness) are used to maximum effect for the revision of the story. The toy arrow attack, and the photographer character (The russian" in Heart of Darkness) among others) are all elements lifted straight from the book and they advance the story quite well.
We are all Coppalla We are all Chef.......Never get off the boat, absolutely GD right.
Unless you're going all the way.
I know the phrase is open for interpretation but I feel like people don’t fully understand it.
HEART OF DARKNESS +BEOWULF = APOCALYPSE NOW.
I think the music really complimented the every entire moment, just a series of moments of exploding emotions
Possibly the greatest case study of The Ultra complexities of the human condition ever put on film
i finally understand how difficult was filming of this movie was, it was shot in the Philippines back around the 1970's, and the documentaries said the filming team was in danger of rebel ambush every single day... also took a lot of expenses back then with all the military equipment used...
What a one of the most fantastic movie of all time with a bunch of all star cast members.
Thanks Vincent for showing me this
I honestly can’t take the idea that we are instinctually “savage, primordial creatures” seriously anymore. People are social creatures. We have always been social creatures. What we think of as society now has existed in microcosm for hundreds of thousands of years. We buried our dead. We cared for our disabled. We shared amongst our brethren. Even across different bands, it was likely you would come across kin should two bands meet. There was no reason to compete for resources, there was nothing holding people back from just moving somewhere else. It’s a real galaxy brain idea we’d slugged ourselves with that somehow this invention of “polite society” is something we’ve plastered over our “true, native” selves, but in reality, we’ve had something like it from the very beginning of the hominid family. Many of the worst atrocities now occur due to the stresses put on by “polite society” or due to the purveyors of “polite society” exerting its will to control the masses for its own benefit. We’ve come a long way technologically speaking, but we’re functioning as we were intended from day one. And arguably, we’re not even doing that, since now things like caring for the disabled and resource distribution is a matter of policy rather than a simple matter of getting things you don’t need to the people who do so they can survive as well as you. So I do take a little umbrage with the idea of humanity at its core being brutish and violent because if we were, we wouldn’t all quite be here to pontificate on that, now would we.
We social beings also come together and organise the death of other people on occasion though. I think it's that co habitation between kindness and cruelty in people's minds that the filmakers tried to get at
Both aspects can coexist simultaneously. It isn't a completely black and white social construct.
Greatest darkness of acting of Marlon as Kurtz ever period !!
dude I just wanna say your story explainations and analysis are superb!!! you made me literally watch the documentary after watching this!! anyways dude why haven't you done any bioshock game yet??
I suppose I should. :D
You really should man your take on the trio would be really appreciated😀 P.S please keep this up bro, your work is incredible!!👌👌
All great directors are mad philosopher gurus who present their philosophy to the world through the cinema screen.
Apocalypse Now is a masterpiece.
The best summation of the core ideas of Apocalypse Now I’ve seen on CZcams. Short and to the point.
While we have heard about method acting, Apocalypse Now is unusual because it has what I’d describe as method directing. The method actor in some ways lives the life of his/her character.
- Sheen was supposed to have a breakdown & face his inner evils. Martin did that and had a breakdown.
- Francis pushed himself to the limits by filming in the Philippines & contemplated suicide.
- Lance & Fishburne were supposed to be stoners & they were stoned while acting in the film. Chef was freaked out by the tiger.
- Other top notch actors got to the core of their characters due to their great talent. Kilgore (Robert Duvall) routinely committed war crimes and was completely oblivious to that.
Brando brilliantly improvised dialogue which found the core of what the movie was about; the evil within all of us. The Heart of Darkness.
I kind of just realized how the Joker’s motivations from the Dark knight were him trying to prove the heart of darkness in everyone
Thatshow ED that’s why apocalypse now isn’t a war film and the dark knight isn’t a superhero film, they’re both excellent pieces of film literature. They’re more than genre films
@@Njbear7453 apocolypse now imo wasn’t a war film but was just set in a war
Recently watching this, and re reading heart of darkness, I had to rethink the monologue from Kurtz about the snail and the razor; the being is cleaving their conscious and shedding themselves of an “identity”
00:00 chills.... take my like sir
Thank-you for making this analysis, expands significantly upon what I think I knew before.
This was worthwhile. Nice job.
2.5 years through 238 days, rather than a scheduled 98, or 14 weeks, 84 miles of unused footage..? Home and Winery floated on getting it to screen. That's determination! I'm very glad he did.
"The Horror.. the horror."
Carl Jung (explore dark side, lest... I'm in over my head here!), Joseph Conrad (Author, Congo River.. it was a long time ago that I read that book), Francis Ford Coppola, actors, co-writers & producers "Etcetera, etcetera.." (Willard with 'The Dossier').
One of the greatest films ever made.
And I still get to watch Pt.2 of your analysis and explanation. Yayy!
Awesome. Great job.
Great, listened to the "intro" of the video seems like you will take an interesting approach im these vids. Im already hyped
Sup guts
Seen the whole movie once when it first came out through the years if im changing channels its always the part with Brando at the end now that I'm older I gotta watch the whole thing again.
I'm my own worst enemy. Man, so true...
The Message in the film is put *right in front of your eyes* in The Golden Bough (sir James Frazer )
Look at all the religious imagery ?
Kurtz is the sacrificial lamb (like the ox )
He is the Scapegoat / THE "bill" / the opposite of shiny brass buttons .....so he had to die .
The Golden Boughs main themes are Religion ,Superstition, deification ,and especially The Sacrificial King or SCAPEGOAT .
Its right there on Kurtz's desk !!!! And that doesnt happen by accident
"it is impossible to describe what the film means " without reading The Golden Bough .
And the Golden Bough is TEN volumes abridged into one , and VERY hard to read .
I don't every comment on videos but this is a must.. Thanks for making this video
Good job recommending channel criswells analysis of apocalypse now
Fantastic work and may I say (with no maliciousness whatsoever) you sound a helluva lot like John Malkovich
i watched the longest version of this film and still couldnt find the scene in the opening
Greatest movie ever made.
My favorite. Changed my life.
Just be "primordial "
Max: This video is excellent.
Indeed, it's important.
Most excellent, many thanks. T
12:52 this is so disturbing to watch. I’m very happy Martin Sheen has chosen a better path.
Fabulous work.
soooooo underrated this Movie!
When you go back and watch this film (which is what I did a few days ago) you realize how EPIC it is and everything about it is great. I personally don’t view apocalypse now as a “war film”, it’s more than that. I wouldn’t say it’s underrated at all everyone loves this movie. I’m more of a platoon and full metal jacket guy myself because I put apocalypse in a different category compared to them.
I'm addicted to your videos..just subbed
Excellent. Thank you for this.
I wanted to be a soldier when I grow up but after I watched this video I will never think to join
The Vietnam War was different to most. The war is an analogy if our own inner turmoil.
APOCALYPSE NOW is a movie about the Soul. Fight hard and you get to keep it. Fall 8nto the temptation of the jungle and you lose your Soul.
Kurtz lost his soul.
Willard fought hard and kept his to see a new spiritual day.
Good choice. War is hell.
Good choice. Even if you never go to cz you will gain some knowledge of well nature and first it giveth than it taketh. The pain of that is not easy to ease.
The “horror” of war made Kurtz kurtz. Remember he had been a decorated soldier for a LONG time and he had done and seen things most humans probably don’t ever want to do or see in their lifetime. Apocalypse now is a study on psychology and how the “horror” of war can make someone “break”. Kurtz gave in to the horror and became a monster, but was he a monster ? Or was he made into a monster ?
Apocalypse Now is the movie that made me realize just how brutal filmmaking can be.
Brando rules as the insane Kurtz !
Excellent vid but my autism is screaming every time i hear the word “partic-you-larry-lee”.
Hey Max, you should do a video of The Shining. Due to your fascination with the evil side of humanity, you'd have a lot to talk about with that movie. Stanley Kubrick loved to delve into the dark side of human nature.
Apocalypse Now echoes the way Thucydides in The Peloponnesian War makes Pericles sound like Hitler (“It is because your resolution is weak that my policy appears to be mistaken”). In one of the Rambo films, of all things, Richard Crenna tells it like it is to a Russian in Afghanistan. "It’s like us in Vietnam. You shouldn’t be here." In other words, get out.
Pericles like Hitler??
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@@olgaolga9852 " sound like", you daft 🤡
Analysis starts at 2:50
Martin Sheen, indescribably beautiful in that opening scene.
I always interpreted the dream like this:
The reason snails can survive crawling on the razor is because of the slime their body's make. It forms some kind of protective barrier so it doesn't get harmed by the razor. So the dream would be (in my interpretation) that Kurtz is the snail, the slime is the mental state which lets him survive and crawl in the harsh environment of the war (the razor). So, in other words, he dreamed of having the perfect mental state for the Vietnam war, which is his dream, but since he had to adapt to the insane war he would have to become "insane" and lose his humanity, which also was his nightmare.
I sometimes wonder if im a bit of a looney with the things I think of. I have felt for a long time most people are not good or great even though they may be praised that they are. What I mean by this is there are people that do good things of corse, but most of the time its for there own cause, to feel heroic, to be a good person but only as they want to get to heven, attention ect. People rarely do good for a pure cause. We are animals, built to survive no matter what its just society and the way we are bought up that hides this side of us, the real us, I feel thats why theres so much mental health aswell, the deeper we go into this manmade society the less real we become and that eats at us inside and we dont even know it. We all have the heart of darkness deep inside.
My mother naively thinks that most people are good. I think a good person is one who fights their inner evil. That doesn't mean the evil isn't there. Like Marlon Brando said, it takes bravery to face that inner evil, not to mention a considerable amount of self-awareness. Most people try to project their inner evil onto others and only those who are capable to introspection even realise they're doing it. Even some of the people who do examine the darkest sides of themselves will still project it onto others because they don't have the strength or courage to deal with it themselves.
i don't think we can conclude what sheen was actually feeling when he was drunk and smashed the mirror to break his hand. that's a lot to suggest that he actually was battling his personal struggle with his "heart of darkness." when people get drunk and become destructive, we don't assume this is their internal struggle. it could have been just as easily been he had been having a fight with a friend, rejection from a girl, or being passed up for his next big role. again, it's a lot to assume that sheen was having a legitimate mental breakdown upon having a few too many shots of whiskey. afterall, he did awake that week to continue shooting for his multi-ten thousand dollar pay for the role, no? can a person who experienced such a breakdown wake up to become a professional again the very next day?
I just finished reading by Joseph Conrad. I thought it was dark, but not nearly as dark as .
The word apocalypse does not mean death and destruction. It is from the Greek word meaning "uncovering or revealing." Similar to where it comes from, the Book of Revelation.
When did the meaning of apocalypse change? Also who changed it and why?
Is The Intended part of the Horror? Just asking.
As a Christian, I fought heavily with Lust, even going so far as to join Men’s Accountability groups and 12 step programs. Current events brought me out of my church, and after a mental breakdown experimenting with cannabis. The first couple tries were fine. But the third - I met my Shadow on the third. I was fine until my buddy played The End by The Doors. My Shadow introduced itself in force, that it was there, it was aroused, and it was PISSED that I tried to beat it back. I had nightmarish visions until I could finally fall asleep from psycho-spiritual exhaustion. Thanks for reminding me of that, Max, lol.
He "cut" his hand, didn't "break" it. Only his heart was broken.
Yes, but we get the idea. Martin hurt himself and smeared the blood on his face and then threatened Francis. Heavy duty method acting.
Gonna re watch this movie because the first time I watched it I didn’t understand it and I was like 14
August 15th? That's the same date that The Clone Wars movie was released in 2008. Considering George Lucas is friends with Francis Ford Coppola, I suspect he did that deliberately.
jeez man that video is lit
Thank you, sir
That intro music, is that Godspeed You! Black Emperor?
If so, what track?
Its the song voyage from the movie, godspeeds east hastings sounds inspired by it
So, I understand how the heart of darkness can be a location, or state of mind, but... How can it e a thing to obtain? Someone care to explain, please?
It is really more symbolic not literal Wilard metaphorically takes Kurts place as top bad guy and it his choice to stay like Kurts or live with the realization of his sins. Take it as if Wilard succesfully deposed a dictator and its his choice to be a replacement or leave the throne vacant.
Power, control, influence. Kurtz had them all, obtained by Willard upon death.
An unseen, unknown entity. The evil or sensibility of our own core. Kill or be killed. To be able to accept what is right or wrong and to continue on
Its a knowledge but knowing something intellectually is a theory and grasping it by flliving and feeling through it is different this is what gaining a heart of darkness means
I think someone would rather apocalypse now, over nirvana now, because through chaos, or in madness you can find truth, then comes nirvana
The first clip is very very interesting. How can we see it in it entirety? On the blueray’s ‘deleted scenes’ ?
This is the end... beautiful friend...
i adore everything and everyone about this movie, except Martin Sheen who is ironically the main character
We all have a little Kilgore in us as well
Listens to WASP the Horror before watching the movie. Perfect soundtrack.
Underrated album
If you conquer your demons you've technically conquered hell but if not they will always be able to haunt you, these nightmares will always have a piece of you, be apart of you, apart of you that you wishes that it wasn't you,, it'll always be you, you just have to accept that, accept that it is you and move on even if it feels like your dying inside you have to move forward unfortunately there is no going back there us only going forword
I find it funny that Spec Ops: The Line is in your description.
Great acting, great battle
When you think about it, Colonel Kurtz was the original mad lad
Autobiographical, - like the Doors Song - "Father I want to kill you", - teenager reaches manhood and realises he's as powerful (if not more powerful) than his parents - in a nutshell?
Thank you
SELL THE HOUSE
SELL THE CAR
SELL THE KIDS
That piece of music playing in the background in the end. Really spacey/trippy piece. For the life of me I can't remember what song it is - can anyone help?
Tripping on shrooms while watching Apocalypse Now. I nearly died. Literally. There are so many more layers to this onion than anyone could possibly imagine. It’s unexplainable. The only way to truely understand is to do it yourself.
Halfway through the 2nd martini...
Coppola was just trying to show the insanity of it all.
So what is the thing to obtain? Dominion over ones shadow self? Or is there an almost physical manifestation of this metaphysical concept. After watching this series I’m still desperate for an answer, what is the heart of darkness? “A solution to the bonds of obligation”
No analysis video can answer the questions you know/feel within
great!
“Heart attack from cigarettes and alcohol *”
* lots of cocaine
Its the struggle of the black man...take it in stride brother, take it in stride.
From where is the source of the Opening shot of this video where brando talks about the twisted mind?
God Martin sheen looks and sounds just like joe estevez
13:55
I would HIGHLY recommend you don't make medical judgements as shown by your assertion that Sheen survived his heart attack by "winning his inner battle". Unless you are or know a medical researcher with credentials related to how a person's psychology effects their physiology and have the appropriate studies, your assertion lacks a scientific basis.
Dalym You must be fun at parties.
Relax, Francis
Why is Willard Willard and not Marlowe instead whilst Kurtz remains Kurtz?
Artistic license. Its inspired by HoD, but not an adaptation.
Willard does make it back like Marlowe, who visits Kurtz's Intended at end. Crucial to book.
There can never be good without evil. They NEED each other.
Or else it is either subjective to your liking or everything is non chalant
That just another idea you were told to believe
Emptiness
Speech I wrote for one of my short stories;
"You know what I’ve always hated about Heart of Darkness? The Joseph Konrad book? It assumes that the wilderness is what brings out the worst of us. But I know better. The Heart of Darkness is not location-specific. We carry it with us everywhere we go, from the primordial swamps to the bustling metropolises. Why do you think they call it the concrete jungle? We are domesticated predators, gluttonous and lustful and craven, accustomed to a world where failure is death. We killed the monsters long ago, but we behave as if they’re still there. We chase wealth and pleasure like there’s no tomorrow, cower or lash out in desperation at the mere suggestion of losing what we have. We invent our own monsters."
Thank you lord for giving us marlon brando xx
Finally watched Apocalypse Now (redux) and, HO LEE SH IT...