Re-Cut of Sheen's Opening Scene in Apocalypse Now... (additional material)
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I just dont know where to start here...u added basically a crappy bit of copter footage and a jungle jpeg?!
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WTF was that?
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@t8trtot I agree. Trite, obvious and hackneyed.
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I love all the arm chair quarter backs, helo here helo there cambodia fat brando you gotta love it
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i love martin sheen gijoe989.
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this is fucking terrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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its amazing to consider that charlie sheen was in this movie as well, swimming in his papa's balls. its also amazing that the sheen brothers own a korean corner store on 10 and B.
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This was bullshit. Two pics of a jungle doesn't make it any better, only worse.
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"When Charlie squats in the bush he gets stronger". That's because he has Tiger Blood!!!
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fishing on R&R
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You ever fall asleep with nothing but a ceiling for "back-ground" noise... a helicopter would be the last of your problems!
Or, the beginning.
Does anyone remember when Arnold and everybody else wanted to be as "BAD ASS" as "Martin Sheen"?
Martin still rules... chain Charlie... forget Emilio... I am dead.
Also, why is there a Sea Knight helo in the shot? That does not say Nam the way a Heuy says Nam. And the edit between the fan and the helo seems trite. We get it, the fan makes us think of a helo...why show it? It's called "closure" let the audience do a little of the work...your giving them what amounts to "visual exposition"...why not show the flies buzzing in the room and the bedsprings that are squeaking, too. Jeunet can do that because he's a master. Re-cut one of his films, pal.
t8trtot 9 months ago
@t8trtot
excuse me. that helicopter is a Sea Knight? I don't think so. It belongs to the Vietnamese military. I agree the edit of the fan and copter is a bit silly. I'm sure fans of Boccaccio were pissed when Shakespeare butchered his masterworks. ;) as for the inserts of the jungle that's the real deal, pal, not the friggin' Philippines playing stand-in or for that matter lazy, fat bottomed Filipinos playing Khmers. hey pal, unlike you I've lived in Preah Veng...
DukeofConDao 9 months ago
@t8trtot
@t8trtot
excuse me. that helicopter is a Sea Knight? I don't think so. It belongs to the Vietnamese military. I agree the edit of the fan and copter is a bit silly. I'm sure fans of Boccaccio were pissed when Shakespeare butchered his masterworks. ;) as for the inserts of the jungle that's the real deal, pal, not the friggin' Philippines playing stand-in or for that matter lazy, fat bottomed Filipinos playing Khmers. hey pal, unlike you I've lived in Preah Veng...
DukeofConDao 9 months ago
Why do this? Why take something that is a masterwork and try to "improve" it? Is this for some class or something? And why bash the fact that FFC chose poor locations for his shoot? I'm sure tat he would have had a difficult time explaining to the studio and insurance underwriters how he actually intends to take an entire movie production into CAMBODIA in the mid-late 1970's... Sure dangermouse made the gray album...that means you HAVE TO RECUT this entire film. Entire. Film.
t8trtot 9 months ago
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I wish Coppola did take an entire production into Cambodia in the late 70s. He would have made history instead of a flawed masterpiece. (although, he might not have made it out alive). Perhaps he would have made for the Khmer Rouge something on the order of Battleship Potemkin like Eisenstein did for the Leninist regime. I did not re-cut entire film.
DukeofConDao 9 months ago
Kurtz was supposed to be thin and tall, but marlon brando was obese when he howed up for filming so they kept him in the shadows to try to cover this up slightly. the helicopters they used in apocalypse now were philipene because the americans wouldn't let coppola use them, the film (as well as platoon) was shot in the philipenes because the vietnemese don't allow them to film there.
imissthe90s1 1 year ago 4
@imissthe90s1
great points...
I spent almost a month last year in Cambodia jungle. It's not possible to be a fat fu*k out there. plus, Khmers don't have fat bottoms like his jungle warriors did.
DukeofConDao 1 year ago