CloudChaser's Apocalypse

"This is the end.......my only friend"

As napalm incinerates the treelines, the music of the Doors sounds so powerful and perfect.... it's almost magical.

Apocalypse Now is a brilliant movie by Francis Coppola.

This page is just meant to pass on some of this magic, through the means of stills from the movie, some quotes taken from the movie and some other 'things'.

Let's first start with introducing some people...

The comments are by Willard himself

	Lieutenant Willard: I was going to the worst place in the world, and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snakes through the war like a main circuit cable. Plugged straight into Kurz

Colonel Kurtz: It's impossible through words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror has a face and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared

	A machine is the one they call Chef, who's from New Orleans. He was rapped too tight for Vietnam, probably rapped too tight for New Orleans.

Lance on the Forward 50's was a famous surfer from the beaches south of LA. If you'd look at him you wouldn't believe he'd ever fire a weapon in his life.

	Clean, Mr. Clean was from some South Bronx shithole, and I think the light and space of Vietnam really put the zap on his head.

Then there was Philips, the Chief. It might have been my mission, but it sure as shit was the chief's boat.

	Killgore wasn't a bad officer, I guess. He loved his boys and you felt safe with him. He was one of those guys that had that weird light around them. You just knew he wasn't going to get as much as a scratch here.

Quotes

These are a few quotes I took from the movie. I think they're great.

Willard

"I hardly said a word to my wife until I said yes to a divorce"

"Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins they gave me one"

"Charging a man with murder in this place is like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500"

"Ah man....the bullshit piled up so fast in Vietnam you needed wings to stay above it"

Killgore

"Do you smell that? It's napalm, son. Nothing else on the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. Y'know, once we had a hail bomb....12 hours....and when it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of them, not one stinking dink body. The smell, y'know that gasoline smell, that whole hell. Smells like........Victory."

More Pictures

These are basically stills I 'stole' from the movie. I think they're either beautiful or at the least memorable. Some are just pictures that need no words, some have a quote to go with it.