APOCALYPSE NOW (1979) Movie Reaction w/ Coby FIRST TIME WATCHING
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Apocalypse Now movie reaction. Check out Coby's first time watching Apocalypse Now reaction.
The 45th anniversary of "Apocalypse Now"
The horror... the horror... Released in the Summer of 1979, Francis Ford Coppola had his work cut out for him - following the Conversation or topping the Godfathers would be an exercise in futility. And yet, somehow he achieved something truly new - diving head first into a Vietnam film with his own money, a skeleton script and no commitment that Marlon Brando would even arrive to the set...
Starring Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Laurence Fishburne, Robert Duvall, Harrison Ford, and Dennis Hopper.
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@@geraldbatts575 yep, maybe later in the year + hearts of darkness
didn't notice Lawrence Fishburn?
If you want to see Harrison Ford really young, you need to watch American Graffiti. That is a classic film from 1973.
Oh yeah, the 17 year old sailor is Laurence Fishburne.
The transition from the helicopters to ceiling fan is one of the best transitions ever
And his yelling in the shower to the helicopter!
I was in Saigon in a room identical to the room with the ceiling fan including the view from the blinds. Seriously brought me back into 1964 - 1966
And even better from the helicopter sound to the traffic sound!
Its a strait homage to Kubrik's jump cut from the thrown bone to the spaceship. Thats the best cut ever...
"You're neither. You're a errand boy sent by grocery clerks to collect a bill."
One of the BEST lines in history, delivered by one of the BEST actors in history, shot by one of the BEST directors in history. Every time I see that moment, I get chills. It's SO GOOD.
Martin Sheen actually punched the mirror and cut his hand was bleeding and they continued to shoot… epic filmmaking
IIRC he was also drunk or on drugs for real.
He was in alcoholic despair when that happened, I think he’s saying my heart is broken when he’s crying
From what I've read and in the documentary, Sheen was drunk in the room during that scene, exorcising some emotional demons, and Coppola was egging him on, saying things like, "Your wife is going to leave you." Sheen also had a heart attack during filming. He was not in a healthy place, physically or mentally, in those days.
@@Calamity_Jack Not only was Sheen drunk and releasing emotional "baggage" (egged-on by Francis), that "Saigon hotel room" scene was, also, shot on Martin's 36th Birthday!
(and, if I'm not mistaken: that may well have been his FIRST day on set - after the releasing of Keitel and acquisition of Sheen as the lead!)
Martin Sheen also had a heart attack during filming. And he was only in his 30s. This movie took him to a dark place. Peak method acting. Every performance is absolutely exceptional.
Remember ... old school classic special effects. Has raw real, hand made feel, like many of the classic films of the past. Real helicopters, jets, tanks, real locations, actual explosions ... NO digital CGI, no green screen, or dizzying excessive quick edits/cuts.
Oh, and REAL cows. Don’t forget the cows.
Also Martin Sheen actually wounded himself in the opening scene, the blood is real.
Yes. All that. And it's a WAR movie.
Nightmare producstion. True suffering for your art.
@@MarkSleper chop
And REAL war. Francis Ford Coppola filmed this movie right in the middle of the civil war going on in the Philippines.
"We train young men to drop fire on their enemies, but their commanders scold them for writing 'fuck' on their airplanes because it's obscene."
Eve of Destruction, 1965 protest song.
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We train AI unmanned drones to drop fire on the enemies, but TH-cam AI scolds us for writing "fuck" in the comments
Hi Coby now that you've watched one of my favorite Vietnam films you have to watch two of my other favorites if you already haven't, Full Metal Jacket and Platoon.. then we can rank which ones are better 🤟
@@NoName-yx1uxFull Metal Jacket by miles. Platoon was a mess!
@@danielschaeffer1294
Full Metal was awesome but Platoon was my favorite, maybe bcuz I'm a big fan of Willem Defoe and Keith David but I get you Full Metal was flawless
the scenes with Harrison Ford were filmed in 1976, in total they spent 16 months (overcoming many difficulties) shooting the movie finishing in August 1977. First release was for the Cannes Film Festival in May 1979, worldwide later that year.
Thank you! Never knew it was filmed before Star Wars.
You know all these older actors, I’m impressed.
I kinda get that reactors want to flex how knowledgeable they are, many reactors do that. But making it a "recognize-the-actor" game kinda keeps pulling you out of the story. When I personally watch I just try to ignore that I've seen Harrison Ford as space smuggler, archeologist, CIA agent, undercover cop, Russian submarine captain, wrongly convicted doctor, cyberpunk bounty hunter and president of the USA. And rather just try to believe that he's some random nervous military guy who drops his papers
@@shredd5705 Precisely, she has seen 2 of Robert Duvall's roles and acts like she has known his work forever. I wait for the day these channels realize when you DO know cinema there are none of these childish reactions. The festive mood over the "Napalm" quote is so vacuous and silly, would guess she has no clue about the consequences of that bright colour.
I think you guys need to take a chill pill or 3.
@@shredd5705The issue is, if they don’t show any recognition the comments are filled with shitty messages about how
‘dumb the reactors are, not to recognize so & so in this film and did you know they were in such & such film, which YOU reacted to a year & a half ago & you don’t even recognize them. I’m unsubscribing!’
I’ve seen this hundreds of times. I think the easiest way to deal with it is to just say, “oh hey, Harrison Ford, cool,” otherwise it becomes too much & reactors end up missing dialogue while talking about other movies the actor they recognized was in..
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 You have a point I guess. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. But maybe better not make it into a scene idk. Like you said, better to quickly return to the storyline at hand
I've never seen a woman who appreciates this movie this much. I think I'm in love. :)
Pick a number. She is pretty spectacular. I'd marry her at 1st meeting.
Hashtag same
Take a number and get into the line ;)
thank you !!!
@@criminalcontent This film was inspired by the books _Heart Of Darkness_ & _Dispatches_ - mainly.
Colonel Kurtz really existed and some of his exploits were more outrageous than the film portrays!
The key to understanding this movie is that the opening sequence clearly establishes that Martin Sheen is insane. But you forget that, because he spends the rest of the movie around people who are progressively even more and more insane, so that he seems more and more normal.
“IT’S ROBERT DUVALL!” 😂😂😂
I was at the premiere of this film back in 1979. WOW is the exact words I used at the end of the film. The audience was in shocked silence. In those day the public could buy tickets to premieres and I went to some of the biggest ones. I was with 10 friends and we stared at each other. The first thing I did was find out where Coppola was and made a beeline to him. The place was in total silence as people left. I was able to walk into the row in front of him and stopped to face him. I leaned over and put out my hand and said "Thank you for one of the greatest movies I've ever seen!"
He took my hand in what seemed like relief and smiled up at me and said "Thank You." For some reason that seemed to give the crowd the okay to talk again and as they went by him and say various versions of "great movie". It is still one of my favorite films in all versions (yes, there are different versions -but this is still the best). You have given one of the best reactions I've ever seen to a movie. I love that you know who everyone is and how movies are made. Thanks for a great afternoon spent reliving my journey into Coppola's Heart Of Darkness.
The water buffalo was real.
BBQ for the staff 🤣
I have read that the film crew was allowed to film a ritual of a local tribe. The buffalo was real but not killed for the movie but for food. They just happened to film it and cut it into the scene.
@@CRVideoTutorials
Well, sort of correct. The Ifugao tribe, on whose land much of Apocalypse Now was filmed, frequently traded for animals with the film producers , for slaughter for food, chickens, pigs, etc. That was a big part of their compensation for the land use.
Two water buffalo were also promised to them.
Eleanor Coppola, Francis' wife and a documentary filmmaker herself, watched and filmed the Ifugao tribe's first water buffalo sacrifice. So Coppola decided to film the second one for the film. He did not direct them at all and those were the real tribe members doing their ritual. he decided to film the second slaughter, for the final scenes of the movie.
@@USCFlash Very interesting - thanks for the info! 🙂
@@CRVideoTutorials
my pleasure. I'd recommend the documentary about the making of Apocalypse Now.
"Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse"
I can't hear "The Ride of the Valkeries" without hearing, "kill da wabbit, kill da wabbit." In Elmer Fudd's voice. Over and over.
It was a water buffalo and it was real. The animal was part of the compensation paid to the locals who appeared in the film, and the way they killed it by ritual sacrifice was how they did it. He just filmed it after seeing how they did it the first time off camera.
The GOAT of movies. So gorgeous. A masterpiece of filmmaking. They will never make movies like this again.
I was waiting to see if you would recognize Lawrence Fishburne, that look was worth the wait.
"Has he been in it the whole time?!" fantastic...
When editing the opening sequence, editor Walter Murch was listening to the Doors’ “The End”, and he realized it actually fit the scene!
Coppola thought it would be funny to begin with The End
I also read that they didn't even really consult the band to use the song. Obviously Jim Morrison was dead by this movies release but when the other band mate, I think Robbie Krieger, saw the movie, he was surprised to hear the song play in the beginning.
It also helped launch The Doors revival at the end of the seventies
@@dubuggaAbsolutely not, sorry. In fact, the production had purchased the rights to the entire Doors catalog, and if the surviving members were surprised by anything it was that only “The End” wound up getting used in the film. (Writer John Milius preferred “Light My Fire,” but Coppola thought the lyrics were too on the nose, and I think he definitely made the right call.)
Morrison and Coppola attended the UCLA film school at the same time, and vaguely knew each other.
Not only it's an amazing film at face value, it's symbolism is outstanding. The deeper Martin Sheen gets into the jungle, the deeper he enters his own mind, and the crazier and more primal the things he encounters. Until he meets Brando, a war demon inside his own mind. And he can only return home after he puts down that demon. It's the most fascinating film I've seen about war.
The movie is far deeper than the majority of people realize, it taps into primal myth. In many ancient cultures, the king was believed to be responsible for the fertility and prosperity of the land. When his power waned, he had to be replaced through ritual sacrifice, so that the land would not grow ill along with the old king, but be reborn in blood by the hand of the new one. The concept in general is not unknown to even our western cultures, even when the sacrifice was a thing long forgotten. "You and the land are one. Drink." --Perceval to King Arthur. The movie is about the death of the old order and the potential for rebirth. Willard, importantly, does not follow in Kurtz' footsteps. This myth is discussed at length in The Golden Bough, a book Kurtz owns.
He also has a copy of From Ritual to Romance, about the history of the myth of the Fisher King, who is also the Grail King, which is the same archetype you're referring to.
You two fellas have the intellect of giants. I'd love to seat at a cafe esplanade having a chat with you guys woth some beers. Salutations
And when I was 15 and saw this movie when it came out, I somehow sensed all this. Even if I (obviously) didn't know it intellectually, the ideas were communicated. Apocalypse Now opened up the sense of infinite mystery and the pre-history of man and his "heart of darkness." I didn't know the myth texts, etc. But the film showed me how deep the human experience is and was. You're so correct. (And the film led me to The Golden Bough, too.)
Coby, the actor playing the emcee of the Playboy Playmate show for the troops was Bill Graham. He was arguably the greatest concert promoter in music history, from the mid-sixties until his untimely passing in a helicopter crash in Oct 1991. He ran two of the most important music venues in modern music history, Fillmore East in NYC and Fillmore West in San Francisco, from 1968-71.
I think 100% of reactors recognize Harrison Ford, but maybe only 20% recognize Laurence Fishburne. 🤣
When he says that he is 17. he was actually 15 Years old. .. Lied his way threw the casting
@@ozmaile793814 actually but he also suspected that some of them knew that he wasn’t as old as he said he was.
@@mohammedashian8094they trafficked him
Check out Harrison's name
0.01% Scott Glenn as Colby
Coppola's wife Eleanor Coppola co-directed the documentary "Heart of Darkness" (1991) which was the making of Apocalypse Now. I highly recommend it, because what everyone went through making the movie. I won't give anything away but it was just as intense as the movie.
absolutely
Heart of Darkness is the Joseph Conrad novel which is basically a critique of European colonialism in Africa where the Kurtz character is an ivory trader. It's what this movie is based on.
@@criminalcontent Absolutely! Yours was a great reaction, and I think you'll dig the documentary.
It's practically required viewing. It was a multi-year process with unbelievable issues for Coppola. Great doc.
Coppola lost his mind, making this one. Definitely see Heart of Darkness and find out what they'd originally planned for the third act.
37:39 "Do you know that 'if' is the middle word in life." I had never thought about that before watching this film. :)
Kilgore's "You smell that" line became a staple amongst my friends every time one of us farted. Childish, but hilarious, even to this day.
This woman....no words. Pure beauty.
Beef, it’s what’s for dinner, real buffalo real slaughter, real celebration by these people 😂✌️🇺🇸
Yes I was going to comment this. It was a ritualistic slaughter by the village who ate it afterwards.
"My film is not a movie. It's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. It's what it was really like it was crazy.
And the way we made this film is very much like the way the Americans were in Vietnam. We were in the jungle. There were too many of us. We had access to too much money. Too much equipment. And little by little we went insane."
-Francis Ford Coppola
1979 at the Cannes Film Festival
during the premiere of
Apocalypse Now
R. Lee Ermey is also in Apocalypse Now, as one of the Calvary chopper pilots.
Its actually the greatest antiwar film because it shows the psychological cost, consequences, and damage war can cause. Loved your reaction to this and i think its better you saw it later in your life having such a great knowledge of cinema, the industry' and all it entailes. Watch the documentary on how it was made to discover the events that Martin Sheen endured making it, including the scene of him cutting himself, having an actual psychological and emotional breakdown while Copolla let the camera continue rolling to capture this honest and beautiful moment of him coming to terms with his own personal reckoning of his life. Its the most incredible scene ever filmed.
"Apocalypse Now" is a 1979 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, which is loosely based on the novella "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. The film is set during the Vietnam War, while the novella is set in the Congo Free State during the late 19th century. The movie and the book share themes of the darkness within human nature and the effects of imperialism and war. Here's a comparison and analysis of how "Apocalypse Now" draws from "Heart of Darkness":
"Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad
Plot Summary:
Protagonist: Charles Marlow, a sailor, is hired by a Belgian trading company to travel up the Congo River to find Kurtz, an ivory trader who has gone rogue.
Journey: Marlow travels deeper into the African jungle, encountering brutal colonial exploitation and witnessing the darkness within humanity.
Kurtz: Kurtz is revered by the natives as a god-like figure but has succumbed to madness and moral corruption. Marlow eventually finds Kurtz, who is ill and nearing death. Kurtz’s final words, “The horror! The horror!” reflect his realization of the atrocities and moral degradation he has experienced and perpetrated.
"Apocalypse Now" (1979)
Plot Summary:
Protagonist: Captain Benjamin Willard, a disillusioned soldier, is assigned to assassinate Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, a rogue officer who has set himself up as a demigod among a local tribe in Cambodia.
Journey: Willard travels up the Nung River, witnessing the chaos and horrors of the Vietnam War. The journey exposes the madness and moral ambiguity of the conflict.
Kurtz: Colonel Kurtz is portrayed as a once-idealistic soldier who has gone insane. He commands a private army and engages in brutal, ritualistic practices. Willard confronts Kurtz, who, like in the novella, has become a symbol of the darkness within humanity. Kurtz’s final words, “The horror... the horror...” mirror those of Conrad’s Kurtz, encapsulating the central theme of human depravity.
Themes and Analysis
1. Darkness Within Humanity:
Both works explore the darkness that resides within humans, especially when removed from the constraints of civilization.
In "Heart of Darkness," the jungle symbolizes the unknown and the subconscious, where civilized men can revert to primal instincts.
In "Apocalypse Now," the chaos of the Vietnam War acts as a backdrop where moral boundaries are blurred, and the true nature of individuals is revealed.
2. Imperialism and Colonialism:
"Heart of Darkness" critiques European colonialism and its dehumanizing effects on both the colonizers and the colonized.
"Apocalypse Now" translates this critique to the context of American intervention in Vietnam, highlighting the absurdity and brutality of war.
3. Madness:
Kurtz’s descent into madness is central to both works. His madness is a result of his realization of the inherent evil within humanity and the futility of his endeavors.
Both Marlow and Willard undergo personal transformations as they grapple with the reality of Kurtz’s madness and the horrors they witness.
Adaptation Differences
1. Setting:
The novella is set in the Congo during the height of European colonialism.
The film is set during the Vietnam War, reflecting contemporary issues of the 1970s.
2. Protagonist’s Role:
Marlow is a somewhat passive observer, while Willard is an active participant, tasked with assassinating Kurtz.
3. Narrative Style:
"Heart of Darkness" is a frame narrative, with Marlow recounting his story to friends aboard a boat on the Thames.
"Apocalypse Now" uses a more straightforward narrative, focusing on Willard’s mission.
4. Themes:
While the core themes remain the same, "Apocalypse Now" also delves into the specific context of the Vietnam War, questioning American intervention and military strategy.
Conclusion
"Apocalypse Now" successfully translates the essence of Joseph Conrad’s "Heart of Darkness" to a new setting and era. By doing so, it preserves the exploration of human nature, madness, and the critique of imperialism, while also addressing the unique horrors of the Vietnam War. The film stands as a powerful adaptation, bringing the timeless themes of the novella to a contemporary audience.
Fun fact: Joseph Conrad was Polish, his full name was Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski, he was himself a sea captain and was speaking English with a thick Polish accent. But he learned to write in English and became a writter.
Also drew on John Paul Vann's life a lot.
The scene with the buffalo was real. The local tribe who were acting as extras for the movie were sacrificing it for a religious ritual, and they let Coppola film it.
The story about the VC chopping off the Vietnamese kids' inncoulated arms was real too. I used to talk to a Vietnam vet online who saw it with his own eyes. He had PTSD so he hadn't watched any Vietnam War films for obvious reasons. When he told the story, and people told him that Kurtz tells it in Apocalypse Now, he did some digging and discovered that a guy from his old unit was a technical advisor on the film.
I thought that was taken from Michael Herr's book Dispatches.
@@Elsupermayan8870 Nothing like that was in "Dispatches" that I remember. But Michael Herr did advise on the production and the script.
@@alecfoster4413
I know that his book has been used for a few scenes in war movies.
Maybe it was the scene where the VC was holding his guts in with the pot lid.
When I came into the service in the 80s we still had a lot of Platoon Sergeants and senior officers that were Vietnam vets. What was interesting was that when I brought up AN (my favorite film) the ones that served in the early years of the war insisted “Oh, those sorts of things NEVER happened,” referring to the water-skiing or Supply Sergeants selling dope… but the ones that served in the later years, when discipline began breaking down, would say “Oh that stuff happened ALL the time.” One described the Red Cross ladies delivering doughnuts (“Doughnut Dollies”) during an evening firefight when the base was being assaulted. That’s the nicest story I can tell
"They were going to make me a Major for this...and I wasn't even in their fucking army anymore"
The Laurence Fishburne realization 🏆🏆🏆
He was sixteen years old when they filmed this.
@@TEEG48 I think they cast him when he was 14 and he aged up through the production.
The real question is: Would she have recognized Morpheus without his trademark gap?
Great reaction! It is almost criminal that it didn’t win Best Picture that year (lost out to Kramer vs, Kramer 😝), and that Martin Sheen didn’t even get nominated for his performance. Fun fact: in the original theatre release (which I saw 3 times), Willard does call in the air strike at the end and as the credits roll you see explosions that bookend with the opening of the film. When the movie went to video, Coppola changed his mind on how it should end, thinking that Willard would have had enough of killing.
Thanks for this, I was sure I remembered the final conflagration…. Bad choice to drop it imho
It's still kind of there in this version. They just left it up to interpretation a bit more. Which I think fits the movie much better, as it maintains the mix of the real and the spiritual better.
My dad saw it in its original run and there were no credits of any kind : the theatre ushers handed out a small folded sheet with the credits printed on it. The version with the closing titles on arclight is the one I saw in theatres but it was a "revival" shown about 5 years later - I'm pretty confident in '84-85 (that decade gets progressively more fuzzy as I age and YOU KIDS get off my lawn!) There was another revival in '94 (the 25th anniversary) and I caught it in Toronto, HUGE screen with a kick-ass sound system. That one had no credits, as per the original run, and a printed program, which I still have somewhere.
For me it's CITIZEN KANE, 2001 : A SPACE ODYSSEY and this one for my top 3 of all time.
Yeah, Kramer vs Kramer. The Academy always picks the wrong movie.
@@EdDunkle
Not always. They definitely got it wrong that year.
I take my hat off to you Coby. I'm a brat kid and my dad did time "incountry'. I did not like this movie when it was released, but the older I've become the more this movie represented what was an insane time. Well, now you've experienced it.
thank you !
Harrison was busy in 1979, two others you may find interesting from that year with him "Heroes" with Henry Winkler and Sally Field and "Force 10 from Navarone". He was busy also filming our beloved "The Empire Strikes Back" It was a magical time to be a kid..❤
"Upside Down and fifty Years Ago" would be a good title for a book.
Laurence Fishburne earned a supporting role in Apocalypse Now, in which he played Tyrone Miller, a cocky 17-year-old Gunner's Mate 3rd Class from the Bronx, nicknamed Mr. Clean. When production began in March 1976, he was just 14 years old, having lied about his age to get the part.
Morpheus! 🤙😎
Not only that, but he was so immature and naive at the time that he's quoted as having said he wanted to be part of the movie because Vietnam seemed like a fun war. Maybe that should have clued in Coppola that he was lying about his age.
@@dudermcdudeface367417-year olds are that immature too. That’s why recruiters target them.
Damn he was 14 during this movie? That's crazy!
I "got out of the boat" as a 19 yr. old door gunner in 1969. Coby/Colby. Love it!
I had been in training to become an Army Aviator in the 90s. The "cowboy hat" is actually a Stetson worn by members of the 1st Air Cavalry. They were a bunch of swashbucklers back then, stationed out in the middle of nowhere with lots and lots of action. As Sheen's character stated, "they traded their horses for choppers and went tear-assing around 'Nam". A good memoir to read about the Air Cav is "Chickenhawk" by Robert Mason. He wrote the book in 1980 about his tour as a helicopter pilot in the Air Cav in Vietnam. I read his book prior to reporting for active duty and it frightened the hell out of me. Harrison Ford, a big aviation enthusiast, at one time tried to have the book made into a screenplay for an eventual film.
Chickenhawk is a great read. Very gritty. I just finished Flying Through Midnight about spooks flying C-123s which was pretty good.
@@goodshipkaraboudjan I'll check that out.
@@avestuart You got me hunting for my copy of Chickenhawk and I found another great one on the shelf called "Shockwave" about the Aussies who modified their Hueys in Vietnam to be gunships by beg, borrowing and stealing stuff from Marines and the Army because they were desperate for a CAS capability. I'm a fixed wing pilot myself but did have a couple chances to take the controls of angry palm trees. Robert Mason nailed the analogy of trying to hover for the first time as standing on a greasy beach ball and juggling.
I was a kid in the 70s, so a little too young to get drafted.
And my dad was a little too old, he served almost exactly between Korea and Vietnam.
But all my buddies' dads?
They were coming back horribly scarred.
One dear friend's dad flew those choppers in the Air Cav but unknown division.
He would not discuss Vietnam.
He would not watch movies about it.
He could only pretend it never happened.
A very successful engineer, again like my dad.
I don't know what would've happened if he wasn't a Hawk missile guy.
I read all the Bat-21.
Better Times Than These.
Heart of Darkness.
All's Quiet on the Western Front.
The Red Badge of Courage.
I don't even want to think about it anymore.
@@series3113 just prior to reporting, I was at lunch with friend's dad and I told him that I had been selected to fly helicopters in the Army. He said, "friend of mine did that in Vietnam, he's about half nuts".
I was fucking frightened when I reported, lol
2:20
"This is the end, beautiful friend. This is the end, my only friend, the end.
Of our elaborate plans, the end. Of everything that stands, the end.
No safety or surprise, the end. I'll never look into your eyes, again."
I'm obsessed with Coby's reactions. That mouth makes me feel some type of way 😂
an oscar for best cinematography and best sound,was nominated for best picture,director,supporting actor for duvall ect,.8 nominations in all .i love this film and martin sheens beautiful big SEIKO 6105 diver watch,named now as the WILLARD after sheens character.
It's easy to miss but the poem "The Wasteland" is in Kurtz's quarters. That poem and others were from a literary movement after WW1 that really showed the shift away from the idea of war as a glorious venture to one of senseless slaughter. I have watched a number of people reacting on YT, usually stopping after 1 video. You are really one of the best I have seen because you do have a good grasp of films and references along with intelligence to process what you are watching and it is very rare to see that. I look forward to your reactions to movies.
I second that. Coby got all the beats and was appropriately astonished by the filmmaking. Some reactors are just bored by movies that take the time to go where they need to go. Their loss.
When he says “ some day this war is gonna end”. The look on his face his so sad. Freaking amazing
*_«You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks to collect a bill.»_*
You want to see a great Robert Duvall movie? The Great Santini.
I was waiting for you to recongnize Lawrence Fishburne Coby. The reaction on your face, hilarious.
Your excitement in cinema is childlike awe and wonder! I feel young again. Keep it up. Lovely channel.
Thank you so much!
This masterpiece can be summed up in one word: POWERFUL.
It is in every sense, in its symbolism, its message, the dialogues, the monologues, the script, the performances and the cast, TOTAL POWER.
Great reaction Miss Coby and by the way you missed recognizing Colby, Scott Glenn and R. Lee Ermey as one of the Kilgore's pilots.
Fun fact: Lawrence Fishburne was 14 win production started. So he was playing a character 3 years older than he actually was. The hand injury Sheen suffers in the hotel scene was real. He wasn't acting drunk, he was really drunk, and punching the mirror wasn't scripted or a breakaway prop. It was a real mirror and he really cut his hand when he punched it. Coppola decided to run with it, and the result is what you see. Finally, I totally approve of your choice in pants for this reaction.
Young lady! You've earned yourself a subscribe with your reaction and grasp of this movie! My father was a Vietnam Vet. This was one of his favorite movies. I've seen it so many times that I couldn't begin to count. If I ever came across a woman that reacted and grasped this movie in the way that you have, she'd find me down on one knee by the ending credits. I want you to put your man on here, so that I can tell him just how lucky he is.
You're one tough chick, Coby, I'm glad you made it through to the end. That movie leaves you feeling scarred for days afterwards.
Despite this movie haven’t come out until 1979, Harrison Ford actually did this before he was in Star Wars. His scene was shot in 1976, before he made Star Wars and just made American Graffiti and had a small role in The Conversation. Which is why he looks so young. Apocalypse Now took 16 months to shoot and over a year to get completed which is why it didn’t come out till 79. And ford by that point had made A New Hope which is why audiences were surprised he had such a small part in the film.
The sad thing that you have to realize with the Vietnam War, is that the people in that village the Air Cav destroyed, were Viet Cong "Enemy Combatants"... and their families.
After my uncle returned from two tours as a Marine in Vietnam, including the siege of Khe Sanh, he told me about guys that he knew getting blown up by children begging for candy.
Whether or not we should have been involved, surviving combat in Vietnam was brutal.
This scene depicts a war crime, dummy, murdering civilians is against the law.
I'm sorry Coby but the cow (water buffalo) was real. It wasn't killed for the movie. As part of the production, Coppola pay with some animals to the tribe that live where the movie was filmed. It included two water buffalos. Once the tribe receive the first one, they slaughter it in this ritualistic way and Coppola decided to film the second sacrifice in order to add it to the movie end (as a documentary). So, the buffalo was destined to die this way with or without film. And yes, it is horrible.
Impressed that you've recognized all the major actors in the movie 😄
It won an Oscar for Best Cinematography... and deservedly so.
so beautiful - but a looooong shoot
This is a once in a life time movie, amount the hundreds of movies I'm seen, few reach this level of artwork
Great reaction Coby. I highly recommend The Great Santini you being a Robert Duvall fan. Great movie.
Saw this as a kid in 79 on a military base. I was a 15 yr old kid, but surrounded by a large number of men who had served in Viet Nam in one way or another.
Amazingly quiet leaving the theater. I don't recall ANYONE talking at all.
It kind of surprises me how much she keeps laughing during this video.... not really a movie i ever laughed during....
"Someday this war's gonna end" He knew right there on that beach when the war ended so did his life
Yes this came out in 1979 and Star Wars came out in 1977, but it took so long to film Apocalypse Now that filming started in 1976. So Harrison Ford's scenes were likely shot before Star Wars.
Your legit shock and raw response is what everyone was hoping you'd feel. The exhaustion, the chimerical pulse, the horror.....
If you want to take the next step up watch the Redux version, it takes you some place that even the normal version cannot.
Thanks for the enjoyably visceral react Coby!
Great flick, I remember when this came out, i was in the Marine Corps, and stationed on Okinawa, i actually seen the movie while on a Navy ship in the port of Hong Kong, great memories !
Amazing reaction to this iconic masterpiece of a Vietnam movie.
Great reaction Coby like always this movie is a masterpiece love it, and its based on the Joseph Conrad book "Heart of Darkness," which is about a sailor traveling upriver to find an ivory trader named Kurtz who is supposedly ill and is being worshiped by the natives. Instead of killing Kurtz, which is the mission in the 1979 movie, Conrad's character is out to rescue him. Coppola expected everyone in the film to be familiar with "Heart of Darkness," but when actor Marlon Brando arrived on set, he had neither read the book nor the movie's script. Coppola would spend several days reading the book to Brando during production.
Some Fun facts, A Water Buffalo Is Really Sacrificed on Screen. While filming in the Philippines, one of the local tribes, the Ifugao, was slaughtering a water buffalo as a sacrifice. The crew had provided a number of animals to the tribes as payment for filming on their land, including two water buffalo. Coppola's wife filmed one of the water buffalo sacrifices. And coppola himself filmed the second sacrifice. He didn't direct the action; he just filmed it and included the footage in the final scenes of this movie. Keep up the amazing work.
thank you marcus !!
They should get AI Brando for the upcoming Blood Meridian movie
I watched this in the theater on opening night, and was in a trance until the end. Speechless is an understatement. Supreme reaction Ms Coby... you recognized and appreciated the film for what it is. A classic.
I had that response after watching The Deer Hunter. I was dizzy for a week. It was so "real". I didn't have the same reaction to Apocalypse Now because it was so surreal, I was able to disengage easier.
A friend of mine was in this movie . He told me I was like ya right!! When Robert Duvall was throwing death cards on the dead body's my friend was sitting on the stone wall the the director told him to stay there for the next scene Dovall pats him on the shoulder and says cheer up son.. I'll be Damned it was him!!! 😊
I want to hang out with Coby and talk all night until i fall asleep
"Terminate with extreme prejudice." That line always gives me chills.
great line, and great delivery
"Some day this war's gonna end."
I saw this in the theater 1979. I was 14. Great movie. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. 🔥
Same. I saw this in early '80 at 15. It was the first "mature" film my parents took me to. I was obsessed to see it after watching Siskel & Ebert debate it on Sneak Previews, so I was harassing them non-stop until they gave in. Needless to say I was not prepared for it. But it was a turning point for me. Going to the theatre was no longer about seeing a movie, it was about appreciating an art form.
"I told you not to stop now let's go." The final line of that tragic scene always stuck with me.
Just call me napalm in the morning, napalm...just touch my cheek before you leave me, napalm! Awesome Coby content, so immersive, truly epic.
25:25 That's the key to this whole madness. That phrase was a pain in the ass on the Pentagon back in 1978, and it would be also today.
I'm so glad you watched the theatrical release first! Redux is interesting if you're fan, but ultimately it stands as proof of how great the original editing was, where all the material that was cut made for a better movie.
Agreed. Never been a fan of Redux.
@@MongooseTales I totally agree. The Redux is a great example of why editors are necessary. With all the extra footage, it really drags and nothing worthwhile is added to the story. The pacing is spoiled.
Re the scene with the Vietnamese boat and the dog, Chief stopped the boat in order to search in in case they were running guns for the Viet Cong (a legit possibility). That's why he made Chef go and root through all theri stuff to see if guns or ammo were hidden in the bottom of the baskets. When Chef got to where the dog was, the girl ran to protect it, but Clean thorugh she was attacking Chef (maybe going to knife him or set off a grenade), so he opened up. Once the shooting started everybody else joined in by reflex. Captain Willard shot the wounded girl because he didn't want the boat crew to get side-tracked from their mission to get him up-river. What you have to rememeber is that this isn't a _policing_ situation where the stakes are getting arrested or not, it's a _war_ situation where the stakes are getting killed or not. Clean's assumption that a teenage girl running towards a US soldier in defiance of orders meant that she was going to do him harm was totally justified. Remember the "innocent" girl who threw her hat with a grenade in it into a helicopter? That's why that scene exists: to explain the boat scene. if the girl was a hostile, that meant that the rest of boat crew were, by definition, hostile too.
Totally shitty situation and absolutely the sort of thing that happens in real life. You can see the same psychology at work on a smaller scale with US vs UK police shootings. In the UK, the chance that a driver has a gun in the glove box is so tiny that regular cops, __who are generally unarmed_ , are pretty relaxed when doing a traffic stop, even if the driver doesn't fully cooperate. In the US by contrast, a cop doing a traffic stop is in a potential life-or-death situation, so he's going to be hyped up, have his hand on his gun, and if the driver makes a sudden move he's highly likely to shoot in the belief that he's acting in genuine self-defence. Result? The number of police shootings in the UK is absolutely tiny compared to the US, even allowing for the population difference.
Trying to justify that with the UA flag in your avatar is priceless, thanks for the chuckle. Z
@@uncleho1945 I'm not trying to "justify" anything, I'm trying to explain how things go down in the real world with real humans, as opposed to how they're imagined to go down in academic ethics classes.
You criticising people for "justifying" things when you're clearly on the side of the orks in the Ukraine war is hilarious.
Martin Sheen had a heart attack while on set in the Phillipines. They had to stop filming while he recovered over several months. Laurence Fishburne was 14 years old in this movie. Duvall, Ford, Hopper and, of course, Brando....the cast is impeccable, the script and filming, epic. This is a masterpiece.
First year in college mid 80's in a small town our student apartments only got 2 local channels. I had my VCR and my only 2 VHS tapes, Apocalypse Now and Caddyshack. We played them nonstop all year round whether anyone was watching or not. We literally had the films memorized.
_i recommend you :_
🔥 *Full Metal Jacket* (1987) 🔥
_Matthew Modine , R. Lee Ermey & Vincent D'Onofrio_
Directed by *Stanley Kubrick*
she watched it - but a little out of focus unfortunately, so we're not sure if it can be salvaged...
@@criminalcontent
i recommend you :
★ *A Clockwork Orange* (1971) 🔥
_starring Malcolm McDowell_
Directed by *Stanley Kubrick*
@@criminalcontent I'd watch it out of focus.
@@jimstanley_49 oh boy lol - we'll post some pics for y'all over the weekend to show what we're talking about here
Milius. It's a documentary you'd find interesting, not really suitable for reaction vid but the story of his life is fascinating. I don't want to give too much away, let's just say that the more you find out about John Milius the more you become convinced that the best moments and the most memorable dialog from the films of Spielberg, Coppola, and Lucas, among many others, are attributable to him. Directly or indirectly, credited or uncredited. You start to realize that he is the connective tissue of greatness in a bygone era of Hollywood.
That is a great documentary, btw. John Milius is a true original. One of the best dialogue writers ever.
Cheers man 🍺
His CONAN film is a masterpiece of genre cinema and the recently published book on the making of it shows Milius to have been a veritable "force of nature."
I believe Milius was also responsible for HBO's "Rome" series, if memory serves.
Much as I personally detest his politics it’s a matter of record that the brilliant concept of transferring the plot of “Heart of Darkness” to Vietnam originated with Milius, as did some (not all) of the best ideas in the film. So why when it came time to put together the writing credits did he have to be such a dick about it, fighting with Coppola before the Writer’s Guild over giving Joseph Conrad his due? APOCALYPSE NOW was an enormous production, and yet just about everyone involved received a screen credit, except for one of the greatest writers in the history of English literature, without whose story the film wouldn’t exist at all.
@@Tessmage_TesseraHe was one of the producers of the show, which all-in-all was pretty good.
"Are you an assassin?" "I'm a soldier." "You're niether. You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect the bill."
Dennis Hopper’s character says “Who is going to tell his story…You.” That’s why Willard goes back, to tell the story. And it’s the story we just watched.
I'm glad you watched the original and not the extended cut. Most EC's I like but with this movie you can see why they removed those scenes.
I'm old and saw this so long ago it's cool to see a new generation experience film like this for the first time with an entire new perspective and lens
indeed !
@@bmorg5190 Don't kid yourself: wanting to ban things isn't new at all, its been a constant of American life for centuries.
@@criminalcontent Always try to look for remastered copies of good quality image and sound of the movies, for those who react, so they see them as it should be, because sometimes when the movie looks old image, or are old copies, subtracts that to the experience, because it looks old and this generation subtracts that in the experience, so they should see it with the most modern image possible, so we jump that obstacle of the old image and concentrate on the content of the work. Thanks to the great resmasters at Hollwood you can see excellent copies of old movies.
I'm there with ya. Saw it first week in the theater on the big screen with the big surround sound. It's good to see a new generation exposed to it, but sad it's on a teeny, tiny little screen with headphones. In the theater, the six-channel sound had the helicopters sound like they were flying right over your head toward the back of the house, and the napalming was sixty feet wide!
Recognising Martin Sheen upside down and 50 years ago is damn impressive!
"The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on.
He took a face from the ancient gallery and he walked on down the hall..."
because I was in film class and the teacher knew the editor, I got to see this pre-release at the Cinerama dome in L.A. - in that version, it ended with the air strike after willard and lance left
I think the TV broadcast version still does end with the air strike and closing credits, which the theatrical version had no opening or closing credits, but a playbill handed out with all of that info
When I saw it in the Theater the air strike happened with the roll of the credits.
Dennis Hopper said that he was so high all the time during this period of his life he had no memory of making this movie, or really even for the 8 years around it.
Other actors involved in the film have stated, he wasn't acting, that's Dennis Hopper.
ABSOLUTELY LOVED YOUR REACTIONS!!!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!!!
Thank you so much!!
This film takes you on a journey through madness. That's what makes it so special. It changes you a bit for having seen it.
Larry Fishburn started shooting because the woman ran at the other guy when he was about to find the puppy.
Yep. And all you have to do is look at the scene where the girl threw a grenade in the chopper to realize that these boys were strung pretty tight.
Their version of the Mai Lai Massacre. Platoon has a similar scene. Things go bad.
Crazy production. If you watch the documentary you can hear the calls from Coppola when he learned that Martin Sheen had a heart attack. Coppala panicked and said it was a heat stroke to prevent funding problems. Lawrence Fishburne was 14 when filming started.
The sacrifice of the water buffalo was a real ceremony with a real animal. Filmed in Philippines, the extras were indigenous tribes. WhenCoppola heard they had plans on their own time for this sacrificial ceremony, he figured out a way to film it and work it into the script and a metaphor for Kurtz' death. Pretty awesome. Should be noted that this entire movie was shot with no scripted ending right up until the final days. Amazing documentary about the making of the movie called Heart of Darkness by Coppola's wife.
I’m glad someone explained this for Coby. That bit is really shocking when you find out it’s real. Just horrifying to see.
Martin Sheen actually had a minor heart attack during the Saigon scene. They had to temporarily stop production till he recovered.
The character of "Colby," the assassin sent prior to Willard, was played by a young Scott Glenn (who years later played Jack Crawford in Silence of the Lambs). A really great character actor!
War, in reality, is a "horror" show. The fear, horror, panic, guilt, shame, anxiety, anger, rage, and sadness …
An experience that haunts you the rest of your life.
Authentic reaction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Absolute masterpiece. It’s so good watching other people seeing it for the first time. This movie simply could not be made today.
In the hotel room scene, Martin Sheen's pained expression was real, as he had actually slashed his fist on the broken mirror. Plus, he was having a heart attack. It was so severe that Joe Estevez, his brother, had to body-double for him while he recovered.
Plus, the cow at the end was actually killed on camera (it was a planned sacrifice by the tribe being filmed, but still... it was a real cow.)
APOCALYPSE NOW did sh#t differently.