Apocalypse Now

[azziria]

Started re-watching Apocalypse Now this evening, which I haven't watched in years. DS is watching along with me, and as always it's fascinating to see it through his fresh eyes and through the filter of his keen brain. Lots of topics: the reasons for the war, the peace movement at the time, the corruption of power, the fate of Vietnam veterans, the techniques and psychology of jungle warfare, the cultural fallout from the war both in the US and here, when is a war film not a war film, the soundtrack choices, the sayings from the film that have passed into our popular culture (he'd heard both 'Charlie don't surf' and 'I love the smell of napalm in the morning'), and lots of other things. He's at that age where he wants to soak up all the classic films etc that he needs to know to be part of the grown-up world, or that's how he sees it. I love it.

We're as far as the end of the surfing sequence. More tomorrow night.

And I've never been sure how much of my love for this film is down to how stoned I was the first time I saw it... but that was a long time ago...

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[shinysylver.livejournal.com]

Apocalypse Now is one of those movies I'm really glad I saw but never really want to see again. Of course I watched it in a Film Class in college that was focusing on War Movies and was therefore not enhanced in any way. Although the idea of watching that movie in an altered state sounds horrific to me.

[azziria.livejournal.com]

Not half as bad as watching The Evil Dead stoned... *g*

I have a similar relationship with Gone With The Wind (the book, not the movie). I'm very glad I'v read it, but don't want to read it again... it was far more gruelling than I was expecting, and I can quite see why she never wrote another book.

[jendeana.livejournal.com]

I feel exactly the same way.