"Anyone who runs is a V.C. Anyone who stands still is a well-disciplined V.C. Get some!"
Posted on 09/21/2005 5:35:25 PM PDT by SandRat
ok , sorry....now I remember !
"Anyone who runs is a V.C. Anyone who stands still is a well-disciplined V.C. Get some!"
oh crap, he died? that's a shame. he was a good writer, and a bibliophile. Couple years ago he got in trouble for borrowing books from a library without checking them out. But still, that's a shame.
My Drill Sgt's last name was Cunningham. I'll never forget it.
BTTT
In his defense, bibliophilia can be a sickness. I wouldn't be too hard on him.
The only originality of Apocalypse Now was the part where they played Flight of the Valkyries on loudspeakers during the attack to capture the beach for the grunt to surf. Robert's Duvall's character saying "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" is the "highlight" of the movie, IMO.
Seeing how it was based on Joe Conrad, it wasn't supposed to be original.
The movie was loosely based on the classic novel Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad.
The movie is not so much about war, but rather, the depravity of men and their lust to rule and be ruled.
In its attempt to paint the extremes of men it paints the US Military and the Vietnam War in a very bad light.
In many ways it was a crappy movie, but it had potential, if they would have toned down the weirdness and cheapshots at the Military.
-Gene Shallot :-)
Black Hawk Down
We Were Soldiers Once
Enemy At The Gates
Considering that Valkyries wasn't in the book, it was orignal to the movie. :-)
Although not much in the movie, if anything, was in the book, the movie was fairly original. :-)
Duvall's Cav Commander is unforgettable, "Charlie don't surf" and "Smells like...victory" are two of the most memorable lines in the history of war movies.
"Jarhead" will suck, because the book was mostly bragging, and whining.
Second one sounds good. First sounds like typical hollyweird miltary-bashing.
I'm not being hard on him, just providing a bit of trivia.
John Milius (the red dawn guy) and Coppola (sp?)wrote the screenplay from Heart of Darkness. There were nods to colonialism (edited out) and the eventual demise of the Brando character/Kurtz along with his conclusions, "exterminate the brutes" v. "nuke'em all" etc.
Also, obviously, the river as the path for the trip...basically a lot of similarities.
I know -- but it was a good book. Deserves better than to be remembered for the Kubrick film. Author deserves more than to be remembered as a "book thief."
I agree. His demise was sad in more ways than one.
If you like Vietnam books, you might try War Story by Jim Morris.
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