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Caught this last night. Excellent film.
So many subtleties, morals, messages. It shocks, it envokes thought, it excites, it enraptures - personally, I really enjoyed it. The acting was spot on with many great performers (Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, to name a few) making short but very sweet appearances. Even Francis Ford Coppola had a brief cameo, but this didn't detract from the superb direction. Martin Sheen was excellent in the lead role.
I preferred it to Platoon which, much to my friends' disgust, I wasn't greatly impressed with.
What does everyone else think?
So many subtleties, morals, messages. It shocks, it envokes thought, it excites, it enraptures - personally, I really enjoyed it. The acting was spot on with many great performers (Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, to name a few) making short but very sweet appearances. Even Francis Ford Coppola had a brief cameo, but this didn't detract from the superb direction. Martin Sheen was excellent in the lead role.
I preferred it to Platoon which, much to my friends' disgust, I wasn't greatly impressed with.
What does everyone else think?
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So is Redux worthwhile?
I mean, I have seen the original so it won't hurt to get the Redux version.
I mean, I have seen the original so it won't hurt to get the Redux version.
Cyclone wrote:
> Hmm. The French plantation bit is kind of uneccessary in a way.
How can you say that?
It contrasts with the world the war take place in, all these french people still living thousands of miles from France yet believing they have the right to, whilst criticising America. There is a certain level of irony and hypocrisy in what they say. There's tons more to it as well, but that is, I feel, the basis of why it's important it is in there.
Whilst it is based on heart of darkness I think it's wrong to say that it is the main subject of it or mereley a modern retelling of it, it's the Vietnam War from a certain point of view.
> Hmm. The French plantation bit is kind of uneccessary in a way.
How can you say that?
It contrasts with the world the war take place in, all these french people still living thousands of miles from France yet believing they have the right to, whilst criticising America. There is a certain level of irony and hypocrisy in what they say. There's tons more to it as well, but that is, I feel, the basis of why it's important it is in there.
Whilst it is based on heart of darkness I think it's wrong to say that it is the main subject of it or mereley a modern retelling of it, it's the Vietnam War from a certain point of view.
I saw this movie in a Hangar at Duxford Imperial War Museum.
I was sinng beneath the wing of a plane.
It was a very odd experience.
I was sinng beneath the wing of a plane.
It was a very odd experience.
Hmm. The French plantation bit is kind of uneccessary in a way.
The playgirl bit is alright. Nipples and all.
The playgirl bit is alright. Nipples and all.
NoooO! Stay away from Redux, they just put back in all the stuff they originally cut because it doesn't suit the movie. I think they forgot why they cut it!
About an hour of French people talking rubbish for no reason, and Willard gets loads of scenes that make him look all happy and friendly, when he's supposed to be cracking up.
About an hour of French people talking rubbish for no reason, and Willard gets loads of scenes that make him look all happy and friendly, when he's supposed to be cracking up.
Will probably order the Redux version on DVD soon.
Cyclone wrote:
> Pfft, that's not the real subject. Heh.
>
> Based on Heart of Darkness, so it could really be set anywhere and
> still be turned into what it is, but Vietnam provided a similar
> location to the Congo. Excellent film, and I understand more bits of
> Conrad's story and the film itself each time I watch.
Basically a book written by Joseph Conrad. The same story, just in the Congo 70 years earlier, context changed etc. AN is based on it.
Difficult and needs reading several times. But brilliant, at least I think so.
> Pfft, that's not the real subject. Heh.
>
> Based on Heart of Darkness, so it could really be set anywhere and
> still be turned into what it is, but Vietnam provided a similar
> location to the Congo. Excellent film, and I understand more bits of
> Conrad's story and the film itself each time I watch.
Basically a book written by Joseph Conrad. The same story, just in the Congo 70 years earlier, context changed etc. AN is based on it.
Difficult and needs reading several times. But brilliant, at least I think so.
Cyclone wrote:
> Wonderful end to the film - almost directly Heart of Darkness
What's Heart of Darkness?
> Wonderful end to the film - almost directly Heart of Darkness
What's Heart of Darkness?
Maverick42 wrote:
> Martin Sheen is freed to walk about Kurtz's compound as he wishes.
> Realises Kurtz must want him to kill him. Sheen beats Kurtz to death.
> Goes home. Ending line:
>
> "The horror. The horror."
>
> Credits roll in silence with napalm explosions in background.
>
> Excellent.
Wonderful end to the film - almost directly Heart of Darkness, except no Pilgrims with rifles, just napalm.
And a butchered cow.
Kurtz is horribly clever.
'His mind is clear, his soul is mad'
> Martin Sheen is freed to walk about Kurtz's compound as he wishes.
> Realises Kurtz must want him to kill him. Sheen beats Kurtz to death.
> Goes home. Ending line:
>
> "The horror. The horror."
>
> Credits roll in silence with napalm explosions in background.
>
> Excellent.
Wonderful end to the film - almost directly Heart of Darkness, except no Pilgrims with rifles, just napalm.
And a butchered cow.
Kurtz is horribly clever.
'His mind is clear, his soul is mad'
Thanks, Maverick.
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