Harrison Ford nerds it up.
“Terminate with extreme prejudice.” This guy later showed up in Say Anything and Jerry Maguire.
Francis Ford Coppola gives the best director cameo in film history.
Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” is perfectly fused with helicopters, machine guns, and mayhem.
Most directors would be satisfied with the “I love the smell of napalm in the morning” speech. Coppola fills all four corners of the screen. Also, Robert Duvall’s best film moment – which is truly saying something.
Not a bad start for 14-year-old Laurence Fishburne.
The inner conflict between good and evil brilliantly shown by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro.
A perfectly cast Dennis Hopper welcomes Willard to hell on earth.
Once again, the conflict between good and evil with the right and left reversed – mirror reflections of the same soul, struggle.
Willard emerges from a lake of fire.
4 comments:
nice. this is my favorite of the "10 pictures" series.
Fishburne was 18, actually...
To "anonymous": supposedly production began in March of '76, so Fishburne was actually 14 when he was cast and 18 by the time it was released in '79. (Filming and post-production took some time.) The story is that he said he was older (16, I think) in order to get the part.
And Dennis Hopper quotes a poem that Woody Allen presented in "Love and Death"
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