Apocalypse Now Redux: America created the Viet Mihn Part 2

Apocalypse Now Redux: America created the Viet Mihn Part 2

The French Dinner scene deleted from the original movie.

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[arsenicafe]

to me, this whole french scene fits good with the journey of willard. after all, he doesnt really know what to do when he meets kurtz as a soldier (and after all he`s a soldier). this scene shakes his obligation as a soldier since he cant be a pinhead the more he travels closer to kurtz.

[Zobor111]

The war was useless, all it did was wreck our country, create lots of disabled and dead and enemies. All for some rich bastards who made money from it.

[dhsung91]

@Tazz77 I see a bit of a satire there actually.

[dhsung91]

@MidnightReaper100 It is indeed on the OST : D Quite a fitting music for subtle moments. Thumbs up.

[MidnightReaper100]

whats the music at that starts playing 5:26-5:50? it is very faint (& short but i hope it is extended) in this video but when heard properly it is very beautiful yet subtle. i wonder if it is on the OST?

[Nickohlson]

This French plantation episode totally makes sense in the whole movie. The more he advances up the river, the more madness he finds. In the minds of Americans, the French colonial way of thinking is madness.

Apart from that, being French myself and greatly interested in History, I can say that yes, they tell the truth when they say that the Americans "created" the Viet Mihn. The USA were behind the whole destruction of the French Colonial Empire. That was the price to pay for our "liberation".

[MrFreekbrother]

Love the gentleman's recant of the French drop at Bien Dien Phu. He sounds understandably frustrated, as I imagine a good many French do when reflecting upon Indochine or WWII...

One of the more remarkable scenes in the movie; one I myself did not take in until 31 years following the movie's release, when I checked out the Director's Cut.

[gabriel94220]

That's pretty weird for me to hear french,my own language, in this film. Funny actually. The content of the scene is interesting but it shows the real purpose of the movie explicitely wich doesn't fit with the whole movie in my opinion. And it breaks somehow the journey along the river. I don't understand the revelance of the scene. Anyway "soit gentil de relever le pauvre...". Bonsoir

[AbsurdBrane]

AND i wore the patch of the American in the scene!! MACV. the A was for "assistance".

[AbsurdBrane]

"..while you American are fighting for the biggest Nothing....(3:59..)

That's kind of how I feel about it all these years later as an American who fought there in 1967 and 1968 near Hue.

[IrishClaudius]

It does not work because Coppola stuck to Milnius's idea of the of wanderer he man on a quest so that he could destroy it from within - who needs an accordion player when you have Hendrix exploding the star spangled banner at the end over the destruction of Kurtz's compound

[guardsatonramps]

Is her last line "If you like we can have some cognac"?