Apocalypse Now: Brando as Kurtz" you're an Errand boy for grocery store clerks!

[funpow5566]

I would be scared shitless if I were Willard. Kurtz just looks satanic. And his voice is terrifying. Best war movie ever?

[Tigerlily21]

I just love the way he delivers the line. Always stayed with me.

[aptspire]

Greatest adaptation from a novel to a movie? I think so :)

[QMPhilosophe]

One of my favorite lines from any film.

[DRawKiD13]

Seinfeld

[soberchimera61]

I bet he says the same thing to the pizza guy.

[GrisGrisOnUrDoorStep]

You know hes a good actor when your disturbed just by the tone of his voice

[kingcaesar5]

just saw this in sex, lies and videotape

[GrendelDaze]

I think he is literally addressing Sheen & Coppola personally, here - given that he had no respect for Hollywood, yet alone actors and the movie business at this stage of his life - that is if he ever really did before. I can totally see him, kind of enjoying this little dig at the whole process that was paying him a $ million a day to go eat bugs for half a week. I'd say coolest actor I've ever heard of, but he wouldn't like that, so "coolest dude," will suffice.

[tickyul]

Brando played that role to the T, could not have done better.

[kingcaesar5]

@tickyul except it wasn't exactly the role coppola had in mind

[tickyul]

@kingcaesar5 Well, I read that Coppola was mad when Brando showed up for filming all fat and bloated. But I think that his strange looks just made his role all the more compelling. Brando was a genius and it really showed in this movie, his screen command was just amazing. Everybody in this movie just hit their roles perfectly.

[ganymedesisme]

@tickyul That's BS. Brando was already fat by the time Coppola filmed The Godfather. There is no way he thought Brando was losing weight. What Coppola did was hide Brando in the shadows to conceal his weight. I consider it Brando's greatest performance. Coppola knew what he had. He had the the greatest actor of all time with which he had he a good relationship with. It was troubled but almost no one got along with Brando. A actor that great is as powerful as any director.

[tickyul]

@ganymedesisme Yeah, his surly personality fit the Kurtz character to a T. I think that the great talent they had in this movie makes it one of the all time greats.....easily in the top 5. Martin Sheen and all the other actors were cast perfectly......must have took so much work to get this movie just right.

[UberKrispy]

@ganymedesisme I agree that it was Brando's best performance in limited screen time. We don't even see him until the last half hour of the movie and he's even creepier/more fascinating than we or Willard imagined. What a great movie, with great performances all around.

[rgwinful]

And it was as if I had been shot by a diamond. A diamond bullet. Pure... Genuine... Absolute, Complete.

[76BLADERUNNER]

"No...Im A Soldier." Capt Benjamin L. Willard (Martin Sheen)

[OroborusFMA]

The greatest movie of the last quarter of the 20th century . . . in it's original release, at any rate. If only directors would not tinker with their creations; they often get it right the first time.

[Keith459001]

he scares me...

[EGarrett01]

Fuck, I'm an errand boy!

[severrnijKGU]

its freaky, its like he's looking right at me and telling me that.

[MrFerdell]

Epic, CLASSIC...TRUE GOD OF ACTING.

[Vash1286]

he looks like a snake!!!

[benguich]

No...He says "You're an errand boy SENT by grocery clerks!!"

[Vash1286]

he looks like a lizard!

[Vykkdraygo713]

his dead stare makes your heart jump. fucking amazing

[pioneer96]

I cant wait to see this film and Brandos drug-addled performance

[SupaPepsi]

what ever happens to that puppy in this movie?

[metalgear418]

Brando is the only person to be paid $75,000 to say four words.

[kingcaesar5]

@metalgear418 celebrities nowadays, get paid shitloads and they don't even have to say anything, look at all those perfume ads

[metalgear418]

@kingcaesar5 75,000 was a lot more than it is now. Brando was paid when our money was actually worth something. Now celebrities get paid for practically nothing, they're getting paid with the theory of wealth

[metalgear418]

Brando single handedly changed acting forever.

[jaxblade07]

NC jus referenced this so I had to check it haha

[92af]

Marlon Brando was very scary in this movie

[paznut]

i loved the bit in seinfeld after peterman sees the urban sombrero- 'the horror'.

fun fact: the actor peterman now co-owns the peterman catalogue

[zoso1234]

I had a commander who was eventually relieved of his command and sent back to Germany for psychological evaluation because he began to act like this during our patrols into dirka dirka territory, he slowly began to disregard ROE and kill these taliwogs with extreme prejudice and without mercy. We need more commanders like this, but some how have to 'turn off' the "KILL SWITCH" when they return home.

[laughorcry7]

If Matthew McConaughey isn't imbedded in Brando's face, I don't know who is.

[amazingdany]

I can do a pretty good impression of Brando with that line...

[fazehead]

Read the Golden Bough by Frazier explains=Everything!!!

[ryanshaunkelly]

We cut 'em in half with a machine gun and give 'em a Band-Aid.

[negator365]

used in forums net-wide

[amazingdany]

I can do a pretty good impression of that line.

[papaclanc]

Thanks for posting JUST this line. Perfect!

[iloveclassics50]

stupid trivia-----seinfeld did this remember ? lol

[DukeofConDao]

no I wasn't aware of Seinfeld doing this.... I didn't see all his shows. one show I can't watch in its entirety is Soup Nazi only because I was talking that story in a routine in Dec-Mar 1993 and then dropped it. creds for them coming up with catchy title.

[goopman360]

@DukeofConDao

Does anyone remember when Buffy the Vampire Slayer did this?

[filterguy2525]

@iloveclassics50 I remember! It was Mr. Peterman to Elaine...

[iloveclassics50]

yep ! :)  lol

you speak bermeese?

oh elaine - that was jibberish

[Esteban2000]

@iloveclassics50 yes, when j. peterman goes to Burma (Myanmar)

[5tonyvvvv]

Brando was fuckin sick in this...great film!!

[ELREndLondonRule]

@5tonyvvvv On set he acted like a total arsehole, though.