Frumious B.
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Er, yes. When a famous actor has a part in a film, the audience notices them. What else did you notice? Any helicopters? Or a river?
Apocalypse Now
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weltweit
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I have probably seen Apocalypse Now three or four times but yesterday was the first time I had noticed Harrison Ford. Perhaps I just wasn't concentrating at that moment when I saw it the previous times!!
Anyhow, he probably wasn't famous the first time I saw AN..
I shit on your cynicism !!
Tankus
Slowing down to a stop
If your going to kill a cow , that seemed a pretty quick and humane way to do it
I usually judge a film by how much I can remember from it .....and that was a memorable film.
I've seen stuff I can't even remember the following day , stone cold sober too......a great anti war film
I usually judge a film by how much I can remember from it .....and that was a memorable film.
I've seen stuff I can't even remember the following day , stone cold sober too......a great anti war film
Frumious B.
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Next time you see it look out for cameos by Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Laurence Fishburne and Marlon Brando.
eta And Scott Glenn!
weltweit
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Duval and Hopper were not cameos, they were major parts ... Brando? (I already said I shit on your cynicism
) .... but I didn't see Fishbourne, perhaps that was when I went out for 15 minutes.
weltweit
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But it was very long. Very very long.
weltweit
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Oh when I watched it last night it did, I went out and came back for the end, the journey up the river didn't hold my interest so well this time around.
I loved that bit cos he was going deeper into uncertainty and danger. 'But that's charlies point...'.
Frumious B.
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weltweit
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Oh I liked that bit, the mobile air unit and their attack, the music and surfing and all ... after that though my interest flagged a bit....
What I really wanted to watch was the final part when Sheen had arrived at Brando's camp. The filming was interesting, the lighting especially. During much of the time Sheen is talking to Brando, there is hardly any detail lit on the screen, perhaps a tiny part of Brando's shaven head, just his nose or a single eye, or just a faint outline, as a viewer I am constantly trying to make sense of the shadows, I think it was very well shot.
Frumious B.
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That was serendipitous...Brando was supposed to be all scrawny but he arrived on set massively overweight. Shooting him in shadow was a way to disguise his girth.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
It's only a fucking cow.
SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
Fishburne was about 15 when they made the film, and you wouldn't recognise him coz he's skinny as a rake. He plays Mr Clean, the machine gunner from some south Bronx shithole. Fishburne himself had been discovered in a south Bronx shithole and was cast because he had the right look for the role. They wanted someone very young to get across the fact that most of the fighting in vietnam was done by teenagers, something few other vietnam movies pick up on.
Ponyutd
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In the film Fords name is G. Lucas, Lucas of course discovered Ford when he was doing chippy work for him, and gave him a screen shot....I think thats right
Ford had been acting and appearing in films prior to doing carpentry for Lucas.In the film Fords name is G. Lucas, Lucas of course discovered Ford when he was doing chippy work for him, and gave him a screen shot....I think thats right
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Ford#Early_career
Frumious B.
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Anyone ever encountered the 5 hour version? http://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/oct/17/1 I did actually manage to download it from somewhere but being a work print it was horribly rough and ready. I'm afraid I gave up on it as Sheen is about to get his briefing.
Frumious B.
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Thanks you, that was fascinating.
If anyone else wants it, it's at isohunt and downloads v fast.
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