spoilers review edited due word limitbr br the horror horror marlon brando apocalypse  apocalypse redux br br the sentence famous heres looking you kid are talkin me may force you ill back means little oneliners spoken lingers air importance meaning go unnoticed might drive viewers nuts may never find answer horror unless rewatch film try pay close observation every single framebr br what exactly line dialogue mean horror spoken reality war reality moral men easily corrupted turn inborn instincts kill fellow beings without sign guilt capt willard martin sheen stands dying col kurtz marlon brando end film the horrorthe horror realization willards corruptness mercilessly killed man cold blood part assignment typical hollywood ending cases character gains something whether emotionally physically mentally three willard gains loses gains knowledge lost morals shocking endingbr br apocalypse now francis ford coppolas tribute artistic side filmmaking film wholly different the godfather hallucinogenic visually dazzling ode guilty side human nature first seems realistic becomes strange symbolic and end original unique perspective spiritual side warfare much film vietnam war film war within usbr br at first appear another war film captain willard sheen assigned army lieutenant a young harrison ford assassinate renegade american colonel named kurtz brando hiding somewhere vietnam hoard troops less act slavesbr br willard carries mission with extreme prejudice heading boat along four soldiers including boat captain chief albert hall chef frederic forest young larry fishburne who later went appear morpheus the matrixbr br apocalypse now many ways modern update homers odyssey main character willard carries journey meets array original strange characters including lt col kilgore robert duvall strange fetish surfing stoned photographer dennis hopper whose lively gestures mannerisms compared much lesser jeremy davies the million dollar hotel one worst films ever seen davies failed make connection audience hopper does like poetic vibe willard kurtz like interpreter going back forth speaking foreign languages case translating kurtz willard although im sure kurtz needs translation willardbr br many films lucky enough one two memorable scenes lines apocalypse now many kilgore descending upon vietnam village playing wagners ride valkyries remains one remembered scenes film history sharpness it brutality it ironic tone it also sense playfulness kilgore kneels beach says i love smell napalm morningit smells like victory crack smilebr br i lie you apocalypse now strange film exactly easiest thing analyze end may frustrate viewers understand marlon brandos significant speeches comes to really matters film dark nature human psyche horror realization war effects war itself kurtz says you right kill me right judge me brandos character kurtz left audience judge many nave viewers may appear crazy loon whose power got head francis ford coppola trying get across fighting vietnam kurtz realized great it bad others it walking devastated villages eventually comes realize nave ones living lives fools paradise totally nave surroundings possible misfortunes hit seeing unlucky vietnamese are kurtz realizes easily could struck something easily could end like people around him also realizes people people abandoned morals left door many people think horror one thing two kurtz horror reality nave reality wars impact upon men willard murders kurtz hears kurtzs dying words realizes too realizes effects war see many soldiers sense right wrong makes realize horror war man done him horrorbr br  stars br br 