Apocalypse Now - You can't go out into space... (Dennis Hopper)

[manwithouthat44]

Why does he call him Jack?

[hanson666999]

If anyone likes this poem (the one Brando is reading at the begining of this video) search-marlon brando reading the hollow men by t.s elliot, to see him reading the whole poem in a scene that wasent shown in either the original or the directors cut. Its very deep, considered a classic of english literature, but seeing Brando reading it as Kurtz gives it alot more depth...check it out!

[askjiir]

"Do you know what he is saying? Do you?"

[45greyowl]

Note to booste30 - Kurtz left world 1 because its full of bullsh*t and lies. He wasn't the first or the last. Schopenhauer, Diogenes, Thoreau and Blake all dropped out in their own way. World 1 is basically Wonderland, and some capable minds need to get away from chess pieces that talk backwards and red queens who loose their heads..

[fvlak1]

Dennis is saying this is the way the fuckin world ends not with a bang, a whimper. And it's true.

[ZigZagRunner]

hoppers badass shame hes not half dead

[greatestfilms]

It's not "AT PEACE filled with straw...", but "HEADPIECE filled with straw...".

[tomblack2112]

I believe that you may have made a mistake in your subtitles. When DH says "This the way the world... " You have "is" but I think he actually says "ends" which would have more meaning to the next lines of context. "Not with a bang but with a whimper"

[GordonMorrice]

@tomblack2112 Hopper definitely says "ENDS" not "IS".

[manicniceguy]

I didn't know that was Dennis Hopper until now WOW...

it's not about fractions =) she might think so =)

[amazingdany]

A great director, talented actors, great script and a good theme make this movie a masterpiece.

The 70s were truly a decade where quality came first, making box office second. Now, it's the reverse and it's a damn fucking shame, man!

[Ultra44]

I like how he has to collect his 10 cameras before he picks himself up and leaves LOL!

[MaidenUtah1]

@Ultra44

those ten cameras are the rest of his eyes....

[alexgreenmann]

Dennis says"SPEED the DECLINE!!!!"

[eyeman2007]

RIP! Another brilliant mind gone...

[prod1gy3000]

This is the way the world ENDS...not is.

Hopper quotes T.S. Elliot a lot in this movie.

[onecelticwarrior]

RIP brother.

[adrianomarramirez]

Absolute amazing scene from a stunning movie

[isjonathan]

SSSSTTTTEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL­LLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!

[Catchthemouse85]

Dennis Hopper immortale!! RIP

[DrunkyMcLushLives]

Rest in Peace, Mr. Hopper.

[lakinsan]

Rest in Peace Dennis Hopper 5.29.10

[andypanda777]

Rest in Peace, Mr. Hopper...

[kashx5]

RIP great man. RIP.

[Nancysissypants]

RIP you crazy muthafacker

[deltatangofoxtot]

"Paralyzed Force"--R.I.P. Dennis Hopper--here in his element. Wild man, genius...bad boy. "Not with a bang, but a whimper..." Thanks for the post...

[hanniballecter3]

RIP Mr. Hopper, this was one of my favorites of your work

[nt109]

RIP great actor one of the best!

[Npowell01]

Goodbye, hopper.

[mmcclain66613]

God if you coulda heard him yesterday man. You gonna call him crazy?

[titorojo1]

RIP Dennis Hopper

[loveisthelaw20042004]

RIP Dennis Hopper.

[nekf]

RIP Hopper. 

[edklong]

Every clip I see is his "best role." R.I.P. Mr. Hopper. We have lost another of the best and brightest.

[dakelhdenes]

Sad Day In Movie History !!!

[thomasthought]

R.I.P. - Great scene from two men who are no longer with us...

[jlsmsu12]

"This is the way the fucking world ends. Look at this fucking shit we're in man!"

RIP my favorite actor

[AvEryBadApPLe]

thank you mr. hopper

[cherrymaryx]

R.I.P. Dennis Hopper.

[vanfree56]

RIP dennis



[mrwulf07]

rip den

[SentMe]

RIP Dennis....

[xnmerry]

RIP

[twsimon2001]

We will miss you Dennis

[PhilosophyLeckie3]

"I'm fucking spitting Jack"

R.I.P

[bloodonthesnow]

he says "this is the way the world ENDS" not the way the world "is"

[dgl1962]

Dennis Hopper has termianl cancer so...Man,you got to enjoy his stuff while you can man!,you can't cure cancer and fly to the moon man,wrong!

[morningsweet666]

FUCKING SUBTITLES ARE WRONG

The photographer, also known as the Harlequin, does not say "This is the way the world is" He says "This is the way the world ends"

It's a quote from Hollow men-- the poem Kurtz is reading.

This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper

fucking most epic ending ever.

the opening to it:

"mistah kurtz. he dead"

"A penny for the old guy"

[SiegfriedRatel]

Dennis will be gone soon.... he was in great in AN.

[Nautilus1972]

This wasn't in the movie, what's going on ? The Dialectics speech was outside, where did this come from ?

[SiegfriedRatel]

Redux version...

[glimmerman108]

Directors Redux. Longer...maybe better. Yes, I think so.

[tekren6]

"We train young men to drop fire on people. But we won't allow them to write"FUCK" on their airplanes. Why? Because it's obscene"

[dontleademsomuch]

they got brando in shadows cos he was a fat bastard, some special forces soldier

[yuppyguitar1]

@dontleademsomuch Its better that way. Suppose we was skinny and fully lighted, it wouldn't have given his character the shroud of mystery and aura of darkness (evil) that he has in this movie.

[dontleademsomuch]

@yuppyguitar1 yeah it gives kurtz a mythic quality but it was unintentional. just another amazing part of this film. my favourite of all time!

[hanson666999]

If anyones interested the words he is speaking (Brando) its from a poem called The Hollow Men.

[THEGUVNOR91]

@hanson666999

Thanks for the tip pal.

[Superkirkby]

@hanson666999

Yes from a poem by T.S Elliot

[uzzaname1]

@hanson666999 Thanks!!

[hanson666999]

@uzzaname1 No problem uzzaname. The poem was written by T.S. Elliot.

[Willrobert92]

@hanson666999 Yeah which is inspired By Heart of Darkness the book. So the book inspired the poem, and then the book and poem inspired the movie. You probably already know that but I just felt like putting it out there.

[henik9]

This is the way the world ends .. .

[6Ott7]

I love it when they first meat this guy. He goes:

" IM AN AMERICAN! HEHEHAHA"

LOL

[gigisdad]

You love when they first "meat" this guy? Why? Do they pummel him with steaks or something?

[UKNOWIT88]

lol

[SRQpromotion]

@gigisdad I get it like.. He should have typed Meet? I like the part about the pummeling with steaks. What if they had thrown imitation meat... maybe like a veggie burger, or how about some kind of tofu?

Do you like tofu? I had some tofu turkey for Thanksgiving and it is pretty good. If you try it and you like it.. let us know, because its worth giving it a "whirl" as my granny would say.

[verdigris1]

This is the way the fucking world is...

Look at this fucking shit we're in man!

Not with a bang, but a whimper.

And with a whimper,

I'm splitting Jack...

-Dennis Hopper

-'Apocolypse Now Redux'

Ha...

[larrykoopa67]

this is the way the fucking world is!!! lol

[alec00618]

APOCALYPSE NOW is a masterpiece.... big was a movie with tom hanks as a young new moviestar....

apocalypse now,... you have, harrison ford, you have marlon brando, you have martin sheen, you have laurence fishburne you have robert duvall , and on top you have francis ford coppola who directed godfather.... that what makes it a masterpiece

[booste30]

Characters like Kurtz fascinate me. All forms of despair due to societal collapse/insustainability fascinate me...

[IdleKen]

Me too!

[Theargoytimecompany]

@booste30 like Travis Bickle from "Taxi Driver"

[booste30]

lol the journalist degrading that poem, I can see how it pissed off Kurtz. I'd be the same.

[UKNOWIT88]

"im splitting jack..." is that the last time he's in the movie? where does he go?

[BCCButters711]

There is a deleted scene where he is killed by Colby for taking another picture of Kurtz. You can see it on the Dossier DVD.

[UKNOWIT88]

really wow. I'll have to go pick that up.

[30mikemikevulcan]

Why did somebody translate English to English? They don't think we can understand ENGLISH?

[WoodysStation]

It's "UK" English by the spelling. I figure it's the same reason we don't always understand what the English say when they flap their gums.

[alec00618]

the man is australian ....

[Delta0prative]

The thing I like most about this movie is that it's not really a "war movie" like you would think. It's more of a psychological venture into the dark nature of man SET in the Vietnam War. The war itself serves as more of a backdrop to the story.

I've met several people who were highly disappointed with this film because of the lack of blood and action they would expect from a generic war film. If you want a movie like that, then watch Platoon or Saving Private Ryan. But not this film.

[Jackson1010]

i read that the photo journalist was shot and killed by captain colby because he tried to leave with Kurtz's pictures in his camera something he was warned about but does it show it or talk about it ever

[SpockOfRock]

"MUTT!"

"YOU MUTT!"

xD

[Oscar301]

Doesn't the Hollow Men begin with a tagline from Conrad's Heart of Darkness: "Mistah Kurtz, He Dead" ?? makes the reading of this poem in the context of the film doubly poignant and beautiful

[JeanCocteau777]

Yes, it does.

[donaldTfox]

Great movie; however, the subtitles misquote several times. 00:10 should read, "...leaning together, HEADPIECE filled with straw".

1:12 should read, "This is the way the $#&*! world ENDS"; this references the poem Kurtz is reading,"The Hollow Men" by American poet T.S. Eliot.

It's uncertain whether the poster has any control over the subtitles. Either way, hope this helped. Good day...

[killzonerome]

correct!!!!!!

[Minfire]

This is one of the first movies to question the Vietnam war.

[elvisghost100]

A very brilliant and humorous scene.

[mac112man]

This movie had no no coherence or script. The script was badly ad-libbed and horribly constructed. All the improvisation was bullshit. Even Brando thought it was bullshit! The only praise I give for this movie is the cinematography, editing, and its soundtrack. The story, though, totally incoherence. Makes no sense. You want to see a good Vietnam war film? Watch Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket. Let's see how many thumbs down I get. A don't give me this bullshit about "brilliant acting".

[insaneterrain]

seriously? the first half of FMJ (a good hour) isnt even about vietnam. you picked a real odd couple to compare.

[mac112man]

Yes, but the boot camp sequence sets up the plot very well. FMJ isn't just about the Vietnam War but the degeneration of human values, which largely illustrated in the first hour by Lee Ermey's character, Gunnery Sergeant Hartman.

[skumringbegravelse]

Apocalypse Now isn't at all about the Vietnam War: it's an adaptation of Heart of Darkness; it's about the capability of man to collapse outside of the constraints of society.

[mac112man]

More like very LOOSELY based.

[rainbowghostsplinter]

Read the novella, you'll be surprised.

[mac112man]

I have, actually. Very loosely based.

[elvisghost100]

mac, everything you say is neutralized by one line, "The Horror...the horror."

[butheadVSbevus]

You know I think the script was very unrealistic and that this is a highly over rated movie. I mean this guy (Brando's character) goes nuts and becomes a cult leader in vietnam. It just doesn't sound like what would really happen In war I mean their not even like going against the vietgong . Stupid movie in my opinion.

[mac112man]

Thank you for understanding!

[zigzagbigbag]

whew, man are you dumb.

[butheadVSbevus]

why because I don't like this movie Im entitled to my own opinion deal with it this is America.

[zigzagbigbag]

no, this is the internet...proving my point. you are dumb. and you dont like the movie because you dont understand it again proving my point...you are dumb...deal with it.

[Kashadoo2]

agreed, little kids like to "have their own opinion" what is so shitty they only can tell about it in the internet

[replicantrunaway]

What else is the internet for... to do research and share your opinion and stuff like that.

[Lazarus171]

This movie isn't supposed to be about Vietnam. It's about the horrors and darkness in man's heart. It's adapted from a book about the horrors of the Congo Basin written by Joseph Conrad.

[mac112man]

Very loosely based, my friend.

[Lazarus171]

Eh, I could argue the point but regardless I was just saying that that guy has no reason to criticize it for not being a good 'Nam movie when its not even really about that.

[mac112man]

But that's what everyone keeps callin' it!

Cheers!

[mac112man]

Alright, you all have it your way. Besides the comments are months old and I'm through with this.

[SadusAttack]

If you wanted to recommend a great vietnam war movie, you could recommend Oliver Stone's Platoon, is a million of times better than FMJ. It could have been a great point for you, but you didn't.....

[mac112man]

I've seen Platoon, and I don't think it's a million times better than Full Metal Jacket. It's good, but not a million times better. I think that Full Metal Jacket is better than Platoon, but that's just my opinion.

[billyoldshoe]

Oliver Stone's Platoon is not better than FMJ.. Unless you really believe that Willem Dafoe's knee-dance reaching-for-god death scene is higher drama than Vincent D'Onofrio being in a "world of shit".

[SadusAttack]

That Dafoe's scene is taken from a real picture in the Vietnam War, about a real soldier who died in the same position.

pd: Both films are in my list of favourites films, but, I consider Platoon is more related with real facts, and real feelings that happened in the Vietnam War than FMJ.

[senorcupcake]

Hopper is amazing in this movie. I love every one of his scenes.

Eliot is also an amazing poet. I will always love this films use of Eliot as a foil, as much as I love Blade Runner's use of William Blake for the same.

[yearling37]

Unbelievable scene; full of depth; and inspired me to research Elliot. Bang and whimper A really great script

[FlattusMaximusD]

best movie.

[SundayMorninEveryDay]

Im splitting Jack

[palonejr]

You cant land on the moon with a fraction!

You need whole numbers!

Bobby.........

[Klownius]

Hopper is amazing in this film, as is everyone really. The film was made in a mess and came at a masterpiece. Such an achievement in film has never previously been seen.

[radio187]

Yeah, the making of this film really was like Heart of Darkness. After FFC's tremendous success with Godfather I and II and The Conversation, everyone in Hollywood was waiting for this film to come out from about 1976. Coppola ended up having to put a bunch of his own money in this and it went about two years in total limbo. I think they recut the film three times. People just kept hearing all these weird rumors about the movie during the late 70s.

[Eldritchard]

Yup, he sure was out there, he walked around wearing the clothes he had on playing Billy i Easy Rider, for months, fucking became billy...........Acids not really that good for the brain eh?

[LTopomcFly]

sure it is. but dennis unfortunately abused drugs and alcohol and had a crazy ego trip. the man was shattered, but put all of that pain into his best roles from the 60s - 80s. "out of the blue" is the result of an artist really cutting himself open and finding dark humanity. now he hates drugs and is conservative, but i'll always respect him.

[alexyhcrana]

out of the blue is a good movie

[Bens39]

I recall someone saying Dennis Hopper wasnt acting, or following a script, in most of his scenes in this movie. He spend most of the 70's eating sheets of acid and living recluse in the mountains.

[norwegiangangster]

lmao fuckin hell

[starlionblue]

If you watch Heart of Darkness (the making of Apocalypse Now) his talk about "going out into space" was totally ad-libbed. In the Heart of darkness: a filmmaker's apocalypse, Coppola demanded that Hopper ad-lib the part. Interesting demand by Coppola and brilliant move by Hopper.

[Bens39]

Thanks for the info. Hopper was definately among the avant-garde of the era. Alot of Easy Rider (starring and directed by Hopper) was largely ad-libbed also, especially in the scenes with Jack Nicholson - ironically where they are discussing space aliens, and UFO's. Could be a connection? Maybe Hopper is into that stuff in a big way.

[kiadimudi93]

you should all see coppola's wife's documentary on the making of this film, its very interesting. the story almost parallels heart of darkness, Copolla basically has a breakdown and nothing is heard from them besides we need more money for it! and so on.i think its called hearts of darkness, a directors apocolypse or something.

[Sardoniscorn]

I love this scene

[zeepman]

hahaha I remember quoting hopper as I fled from a LDoN on EQ.

[OnTheLibraryComputer]

You mean the 'you can't go out into space' etc, heh heh, i like that!

[dubzy81]

I would be.,....Lance!

[dubzy81]

you will never get a studio with big enough balls to make a film like this again. Instead we are stuck with franchises

[zachflame123]

dubzy81 you are speaking truth. This movie is a jem and nothing like it, at least not in this day and age, will be made again. Film producers and directors don't have the balls to go out on a limb anymore, it's all commercialism and publicity. But more importantly the American people couldn't handle a film like this today, let alone understand it.

[dubzy81]

the perfect film is HUGE budget with HUGE story. If God directed a movie it would be Apocalypse Now.

[zachflame123]

true. The making of this film is an epic on its own. The things these guys where able to do with a camera is astounding.

[ludwigvan17]

If I was in the war, I would have been Dennis Hopper's character.

[mymindisapieceofwax]

We are the hollow men,

We are the stuffed men,

Leaning together,

Headpiece filled with straw.

[mymindisapieceofwax]

Alas!

Our dried voices, when

We whisper together,

Are quiet and meaningless,

As wind in dry grass,

Or rats' feet over broken glass,

In our dry cellar,

[mymindisapieceofwax]

Shape without form, shade without colour,

Paralysed force, gesture without motion

[mymindisapieceofwax]

Shape without form, shade without colour,

Paralysed force, gesture without motion

[mymindisapieceofwax]

Alas!

Our dried voices, when

We whisper together,

Are quiet and meaningless,

As wind in dry grass,

Or rats' feet over broken glass,

In our dry cellar,

[mymindisapieceofwax]

We are the hollow men,

We are the stuffed men,

Leaning together,

Headpiece filled with straw.

[alexyhcrana]

The worst that can be said of most our malefactors, from statesmen to thieves, is that they are not men enough to be damned.- T.S. Eliot

[malmswax]

Ahhhhhh...at last...someone who reads and understands...well done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"I think we are in Rats Alley...where the dead men leave their bones". T.S Elliot

[mymindisapieceofwax]

do you want my objective opinion......?

[paulski5]

It's "This is the way the fucking world ENDS"...

...not "is."

It doesn't make sense the way it's subtitled here.

[w6257]

Thank you! :)

[paulski5]

O no problem. Hell of a scene...hell of a movie.

[somnambulistyes]

ahhh dennis hoppa alway makes me feel so safe... always talking....gee he was talking about that space stuff in easy rider...an he still is here??hmmmmm

[DGog224]

hopper is so great at playing a burn out haha. Brando's voice is incredible as well.

[GJWHITEHOUSE]

absolutely right but it is unfinished - whether you love or hate someone you have to go to the extream so that the emotion is unqualified - it is total without alloy or dilution. Anything else is a dilution of the dialectic

[ken145]

I like saying "you can't travel in space. You can't go out into space, you know...without like, you know fractions. What you gonna to land on? One-quarter? Three-eighths?

what are you going to do when you go to

Venus?."

[anthony537]

Top ten movie of all time.....

[pwgroh]

I used the "one quarter three eighths" line on my math teacher when she was toting the importance of fractions. She didn't get the refference.

[papakeetee]

dennis was funny is speed when he goes hahaha...hugh?

[kosaPL]

this scene is classic , and the movie is genious

[tereristmell]

dennis hopper rules

[slavamiay]

good

[bruceda59]

I still can't comprehend the film being made in 1976. Truly way ahead of it's time in terms of the way it's shot, the style and quality of the footage itself!

[mrwrestling7]

I feel, based on the comments made here about this film, that this serves to illustrate exactly why this movie is so great. You can watch this movie a million times and still find new things to discuss and debate about. An amazing work of REAL film as an art form.

[sharkboy85]

he's kind of an embodiment about how the media romanticizes war

[ramsuz]

No, he's an embodiment of ppl who mindlessly follow persons who they think are better, adopting to them without really knowing the purpouse

[sharkboy85]

exactly, just like the media does with just about anybody

[ramsuz]

Naaa... I dunno. Media is a lot of criticism too. I've never experienced media romanticizing war, only romanticizing themselves and the freedom of speech, but never war. But on the other hand: Sweden hasn't been in a war since Napoleon...

[sharkboy85]

I meant our (American) media, y'all have sanity over there. Every problem and international incident amounts to war. See: "War on Terror", "War on drugs", "Showdown: Iran", and my fav, "War on Christmas", they gotta fight to defend a holiday they stole from the pagans and re stamped as monotheistic. Our media has a hard-on for war.

[ramsuz]

Is it true that, during the first months of the war in Iraq, there was news anchors in the US who expressed their personal standpoints (pro-war mainly) live, on air?

[fineali]

he goes off because he is also insane ( his mind is clear but his soul is mad) You either love someone or you hate em, is of the same quality as " we are the hollow men, we are the stuffed men" both a identifying there is no middle ground between opposites.

[DCBadger]

I've never understood why Dennis Hopper's character went off about dialectics here... that's not what T.S. Eliot meant by those lines, is it? I mean, the lines from the first stanza of "The Hollow Men" which Brando was reciting when Hopper went off about it. Right? Unless I'm wrong... someone fill me in?

[epprecht]

DC, you are not wrong. Seems a few lines from Eliot, Kipling,Golden Bough, Heart of Darkness and From Ritual to Romance were ad libed

to simply enhance the movie, and to relate to the war. Great movie.

[LeonidasIII300]

the quote at the beginning of the Hollow Men is 'Kurtz is dead', every reference to T.S. Eliot and The Golden Bough is interlinked to the Heart of Darkness, the novella that this movie is based on.

[tubulus3]

HEADPIECE filled with straw, friggin subtitles!

[catbird007]

Brando had to really put forth a effort during this film cause Hopper could steal a scene in a second  great movie

[windblownjack]

Theres alot of truth here & wanders out of the shadows like always .

[killamonkey]

Thats a great line, not a bang, but a whimper. Isn't that the opposite of , " It's better to burn out than to fade away."