Subject: Re: What are people reading?
From: jason varsoke (jjv@caesun.msd.ray.com)
Date: Fri Feb 04 2000 - 08:38:30 EST
> > Was "Apocalypse Now" based on "Heart of Darkness"?
One the two most compelling aspects of the film for me happened in the
first 10 minutes. One commanding officer is walking across the beachhead,
walking across enemy fire. Soldiers are prone all around him, taking
heavy fire from the woods. The man is invulnerable. For some reason I
was caught by this, that a man's optimism, or ego could repel bullets. I
looked into it and it turns out there are many stories of people doing
that exact thing in a fire fight. It's as if their will is greater than
physics, or at least statistics. Incredible snipet of a scene.
The other thing that rendered exactly the problem of the war and why
we had so much trouble there was the helicopter scene. I never really
understood so much of the war as when I viewed that one scene. A huey has
landed and is evacing several south vietnamese. A woman with what looks
like a baby in her arms runs up to the huey and it turns out she has a
bomb, blows the huey on the pad. Pretty difficult war when you can't
recognize friend or foe.
-jason
(scenes might not be exactly as I represent them, I haven't seen the film
since `81 or so)
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