Ironically the Marines love Full Metal Jacket unironically. Both it and All Quiet were written semi-autobiographically by veterans, and FMJ (The Short-Timers) was even written by a Southern guy who hated the USA, love-hated the USMC, and loved the Confederacy.
Yeah it's pretty funny how even though FMJ is an anti-war polemic, lots of people are like MURICA FUCK YEAH with it.
It has characters in it like this I LOVE THE SMELL OF NAPALM IN THE MORNING who the audience is clearly intended to hate, but which people actually think is a badass. (it's a AN scene but same thing, I forget most of the details of what happens in FMJ except the dude shooting civilians from a helicopter and joking about it lol)
That's why in later movies, every "bad" character is portrayed as an extremely exaggerated cartoon villain in order to try to prevent people from the same kind of reaction. It's one of the reasons Left shit kept getting worse over time.
Not really, he's very eccentric but an excellent and fearless officer. (Did you see Colonel Kilgore's entry in "Villains Wiki"? These guys clearly watched some other movie.)
NOW, the whole movie is entirely misunderstood. Because you see, even, and rather especially, Colonel Kurtz is a hero. Marlon Brando's casting badly damaged his character, because in the script he's looking like a long haired blonde Adonis while also being like Mars incarnated. The original ending had him dying heroically after manning a ground mounted minigun (from a long disabled helicopter) to mow down a horde of North Vietnamese invading his temple. (I'm not making it up.) Brando was already hardly mobile, besides bald.
You're right. The character should have been more like (a less crazy) Homelander or Ozymandias from the Watchmen, as opposed to Brando, who came across as a strange drugged out creepy weirdo.
They stagger and fall, shattered and bleeding, save one who's merely lost his weapon. Kurtz looks at him, his gun empty. He drops it and flips open the flap of his holster. The Viet soldier goes for his pistol. Kurtz beats him to the draw and blows him into the night. He moves over to pick up the NVA light machine gun. Holding it at his hip, he stands atop one of the ruined walls and FIRES into the masses. His native men see him and rush for the chance to die beside him. They are quickly encircled by onrushing Viets and are being overrun. The machine gun jams and Kurtz grabs a rifle. When it's empty and the bayonet is off he wields it as a club.
274 MED. SHOT - LOW ANGLE - KURTZ
taking swings with his rifle, standing atop the wall and battering the oncoming enemy like Davy Crockett at the Alamo.
275 FULL VIEW - THE FORTRESS
The air strike hits with all its force. Balls and rain of fire sweeps down on the temple, the enemy, everything. It is the biggest firework show in history.
The wall Kurtz was standing on, and he falls with it. Willard sees this and makes his way toward him as the air strike continues. All around us is a spectacle of MUSIC and light and fire and overwhelming color.
Ironically the Marines love Full Metal Jacket unironically. Both it and All Quiet were written semi-autobiographically by veterans, and FMJ (The Short-Timers) was even written by a Southern guy who hated the USA, love-hated the USMC, and loved the Confederacy.
https://www.101soundboards.com/sounds/378858-all-fucking-ns-must-fucking-hang
Yeah it's pretty funny how even though FMJ is an anti-war polemic, lots of people are like MURICA FUCK YEAH with it.
It has characters in it like this I LOVE THE SMELL OF NAPALM IN THE MORNING who the audience is clearly intended to hate, but which people actually think is a badass. (it's a AN scene but same thing, I forget most of the details of what happens in FMJ except the dude shooting civilians from a helicopter and joking about it lol)
That's why in later movies, every "bad" character is portrayed as an extremely exaggerated cartoon villain in order to try to prevent people from the same kind of reaction. It's one of the reasons Left shit kept getting worse over time.
Not really, he's very eccentric but an excellent and fearless officer. (Did you see Colonel Kilgore's entry in "Villains Wiki"? These guys clearly watched some other movie.)
NOW, the whole movie is entirely misunderstood. Because you see, even, and rather especially, Colonel Kurtz is a hero. Marlon Brando's casting badly damaged his character, because in the script he's looking like a long haired blonde Adonis while also being like Mars incarnated. The original ending had him dying heroically after manning a ground mounted minigun (from a long disabled helicopter) to mow down a horde of North Vietnamese invading his temple. (I'm not making it up.) Brando was already hardly mobile, besides bald.
You're right. The character should have been more like (a less crazy) Homelander or Ozymandias from the Watchmen, as opposed to Brando, who came across as a strange drugged out creepy weirdo.
Here it is, a really good great:
https://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/apocolypse.html
Apocalypse Now had an infamously hard production, and casting Brando was just one of the mistakes.
And incredible movie anyway. https://youtu.be/yafLm-ByQWo
"Civilians"
yeah the joke was that he was just shooting everyone lol
Cunts for eyes? It dies.