RoughingthePasser
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Re: OT:Movie Scenes to fire up the team
My old man was a Marine (Magnificent Bastards of Chu Lai) in Chu Lai 66-
He thought the movie sucked.
I'll stop here too....
but i agree w/ Kontra on the HEAT shootout scene
I'm guessing that you're too young to have lived through that War. The triviality of Kilgore's mission in wiping out that village (to secure a place to surf) in the face of the horror of war and the futility of that war is Coppola's transition to the river journey to find Kurtz and ultimately sets the context for Brando's soliloquy on "the horror." From this point on, the film is shot from an almost surreal, absurdist perspective.
It's an absolutely brilliant piece of acting by Duvall and of genius from Coppola, but not the stuff of halftime motivation. I'll stop there because a longer comment would take this thread way OT.
My old man was a Marine (Magnificent Bastards of Chu Lai) in Chu Lai 66-
He thought the movie sucked.
I'll stop here too....
but i agree w/ Kontra on the HEAT shootout scene