I bought "Apocalypse Now" on DVD. Woo!
I got the original version. I've seen the Redux version, but I thought the extra footage didn't do much for the movie. The whole French Plantation sequence really slowed down the movie to a crawl. It felt like it was suddenly a different movie.
The only extra footage that interested me was the extra scene with Willard and Kurtz, where Kurtz is reading a Time magazine article out loud while surrounded by those children. It was a good scene, but I like it better with Kurtz hidden in the shadows. It adds so much mystery. In the special features you can read the original program that was handed out to the audience during it's theatrical release. It says that Brando insisted on being filmed in the shadows! I didn't know it was his idea! Further proof he earned the million dollars he demanded for the role. You just can't beat his performance as Kurtz.
Though "Apocalypse Now" filed under "war films", I consider it to be more of a horror film. The atmosphere of dread and peril gets heaveier and heavier as Willard and his team proceed further up the river into classified Cambodia in search of Kurtz. Also, you can analyze SO MUCH in this film. It's so layered in every aspect, I love it!
A lot of musicians are into this flick too. I remember watching this for the first time two summers ago, while I was trying to start a band, and wanting badly to hit the stage, and seeing Willard freaking out in his apartment desperately wanting a mission, and thinking "damn, I'm starting to feel that spastic too". Well, not quite as much of course. Other musicians have identified with Willard in this matter such as Henry Rollins and Poison The Well guitarist Derek Miller. Speaking of PTW, if you own their second album "Tear From The Red" you can hear Kurtz' infamous "horror and moral terror" speech set to the churning instrumental "Karsey Street".
Well it's off to bed now.
Again, I want to thank everyone who reads my lengthy journal entries (particularly that last one). I haven't been writing much poetry recently and I need to WRITE SOMETHING, but I suck at fiction. I'm glad you enjoyed it and hope you got something out of it. I guess I just needed a cathartic release of some sort, along with an audience. Also, I hope you got something out of it/learned something. Another reason why I tell stories like that is in hopes that it will be beneficial and worthwhile for someone else.
Somewhere down the line I will tell you all a story about a different girl. This one won't be as tragic and graphic. However it will be about a woman whose presence in my life shook me to my very core.
Much love and thanks to you all, goodnight.
I got the original version. I've seen the Redux version, but I thought the extra footage didn't do much for the movie. The whole French Plantation sequence really slowed down the movie to a crawl. It felt like it was suddenly a different movie.
The only extra footage that interested me was the extra scene with Willard and Kurtz, where Kurtz is reading a Time magazine article out loud while surrounded by those children. It was a good scene, but I like it better with Kurtz hidden in the shadows. It adds so much mystery. In the special features you can read the original program that was handed out to the audience during it's theatrical release. It says that Brando insisted on being filmed in the shadows! I didn't know it was his idea! Further proof he earned the million dollars he demanded for the role. You just can't beat his performance as Kurtz.
Though "Apocalypse Now" filed under "war films", I consider it to be more of a horror film. The atmosphere of dread and peril gets heaveier and heavier as Willard and his team proceed further up the river into classified Cambodia in search of Kurtz. Also, you can analyze SO MUCH in this film. It's so layered in every aspect, I love it!
A lot of musicians are into this flick too. I remember watching this for the first time two summers ago, while I was trying to start a band, and wanting badly to hit the stage, and seeing Willard freaking out in his apartment desperately wanting a mission, and thinking "damn, I'm starting to feel that spastic too". Well, not quite as much of course. Other musicians have identified with Willard in this matter such as Henry Rollins and Poison The Well guitarist Derek Miller. Speaking of PTW, if you own their second album "Tear From The Red" you can hear Kurtz' infamous "horror and moral terror" speech set to the churning instrumental "Karsey Street".
Well it's off to bed now.
Again, I want to thank everyone who reads my lengthy journal entries (particularly that last one). I haven't been writing much poetry recently and I need to WRITE SOMETHING, but I suck at fiction. I'm glad you enjoyed it and hope you got something out of it. I guess I just needed a cathartic release of some sort, along with an audience. Also, I hope you got something out of it/learned something. Another reason why I tell stories like that is in hopes that it will be beneficial and worthwhile for someone else.
Somewhere down the line I will tell you all a story about a different girl. This one won't be as tragic and graphic. However it will be about a woman whose presence in my life shook me to my very core.
Much love and thanks to you all, goodnight.
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Hey bro, that was such an awesome testimonial. You really made my day with that. Thank you very much.
This thing with this guy reminds me of how i felt about that Scott guy... completely smitten
I dont mind though, ive felt very half assed about most of the guys ive gone out with since him. This is certainly a welcome change.