Chaos at the Do Lung Bridge | Apocalypse Now 

don’t usually smoke weed, I felt like this is a movie you get high and watch so I watched it last night, it felt like Inferno by dante allighieri to me. How the deeper they went into the jungle, the more that the structure of humanity, the military and any traces of civilization broke down. The absolutely surreal way they shot this scene stopped me in my tracks, the silence of it it’s just raw, piercing fucking madness. Martin sheen is still speaking with authority but when you’re this deep into the war, everyone is the same rank. That’s what I got from it, fucking awesome

this movie turns into complete chaos the second those palm trees light up in flames at the beginning of the film. I don’t think there’s any other movie that’s captured the surreal insanity of war quite like Apocalypse Now did

It’s a horror movie, it’s just not billed as one

Yup, Do Lung bride was made to look like a circus, and even the music when they first arrive is reminiscent of a circus. Probably signifying total madness and chaos.

@@Bumbaclartios I've felt this same kind of fear,far from civilization,late night,only some family members around,I've felt that silent horror on a winter night(it was my first taste of what going crazy would be like)

That's THE LINE of the movie

Perfectly emphasizes how war on the battlefront is just pure chaos and mayhem at some point

Came here to post the same...terrifying line when you think about it. (which we clearly have)

More like "Aint chu?"

bettered: Yeah

Legend has it that Roach is still blasting fools at the wire to this very day...

@@matthewbruno993 hey, someone has to make sure that only the worthy are allowed into valhalla sec'y mayorkas ain't guardin those gates ya know

You know he probably died in an alley with a needle in this vein.

My headcannon is that every single soldier on that bridge had just stayed there for eternity, still defending that bridge 50 years later

Same could be said for all veterans of WWI ... there was something uniquely brutal about trench warfare that meant whilst the body of soldier came home, alive, for too many, their minds were still in those trenches ...

It sure is. The whole part with the horror carnival ambience. And the mentioning that the bridge gets destroyed every day and rebuild. Like, how is that for a metaphor for 'War is Hell'?

Filmmaking at its acid peak

Yes.

A pleasure to rewatch

Napoleon Dynamite?

I guess it depends where they were. My dad hated platoon but felt We Were Soldiers was an accurate depiction. Col Hal Moore was a legend

Platoon was iper violent, was really hard for me to watch - i don't judge the movie, but at age age was really a shock

And what did Full Metal Jacket capture? Just asking

What about Deer Hunter? That film was a masterpiece, too.

​@@aditya_yadav4Full Metal is a dark satire about the de-humanisation of the kids and soldiers fighting the war

That part is brilliant because the M2 soldier doesn’t answer to Willard, it answers to the camera, implying that is answering us, the audience, aren’t we in command? Genius.

AND while all this Mayhem is transpiring, the lovely Audio of the hollow tube with a NEW Round! Ker'klunk! Fwoowuphmph! Battlefield 1942 Ruled in the past. Aim, Pop, and wait for 'Splash'! FU GI has been SIlenced!

Its also kind of pure hollywood, vietnam was crazy but your average grunt would have at least known who their squad or platoon commander was. Probably would have been more realistic for him to say that their command got wiped out or something. A much better movie that shows how important command dynamics were to every soldier would be Platoon.

Must have wore the rifling out in that .50 barrel-!

@@charleswest6372 Wouldn't matter at those ranges, 400 yards at best.

Load of bullshit

This^^ this is the beat breakdown of this scene. People with empty thought saying “he was stoned.” Yeah not shit he was, but the yeah although empty a first listen implies so much more. Which you explained perfectly well done! I love how Miller seems to understand what Roach meant by it as well.

To be fair,we can't see what the Vietcongs situation is like.

What makes it even weirder is, these guys are so out of their minds you can't dismiss the possibility there are NO VC out there at all to begin with. Apparently somebody is hit out there. But who?

Sounds like Haiti today nobody is in charge 🤔

He is stoned I guess.

@Raylan Givens you are correct sir, a closer read of that exchange does support that.

You are so correct. This was my favorite section of the movie as well. Hypnotic!

Ya think????

What about Lawrence Fishbourn? It is badass though.

jimmy nackiama

Mel Gibson gave a really good performance in that movie

I think his reply meant the VC is in command

We were Soldiers is a great movie.

My parents met during Vietnam...my father was in Army Intelligence whose job it was to collect and turn in the "Kill Numbers" from the different units, my mother's job was to transcribe said numbers into the records...they both agreed that there weren't enough people living in Vietnam to equal the supposed kills that were being reported... ...but anyway...I think when Roach says "Yeah..." he leaves "...ME, motherfucker..." unspoken...

Many thanks. So *this* is where Al Jourgensen found the solo, sampled in Ministry's "N.W.O.".

@@Your_President_Kanye_East That's why that sounded familiar!

Randy Hansen sounds so much like Jimi he had a long running tribute show similar to Beatlemania where he looks, dresses, sings, and talks like Hendrix.

There's some Mickey Hart drumming in there too! (Grateful Dead)💀✌️

Thank you.... I didn't recognize it but it had a style like Hendrix.

I always thought it was the opposite...nobody, as in chaos/insanity, was in command...

When everyone is in command, no one is. When no one is in command everyone is.

I think they called him roach become he's survived alot (bone necklace) he was even going through shell shock when they called him over, but man's is a killer

I alway expect him to point toward the wire, and say “Them.”

@@cmleoj that’s how I’d always interpreted it

He used the money he made from the Godfather films to make Apocalypse Now. All live action, no CGI.

Francis Ford Coppola is filming a new movie called Megalopolis, which he is funding himself, should release to theaters 2024.

@@xyzxyz7042 His movies are brilliant.

Good comment about the faces

A forest at night in the middle of the war in Vietnam........

And the sound.

With all the darkness and chaos, the lighting is still better than the Game of Thrones battle of WInterfell.

@@ge2623 In this scene in particular it's just brilliant. It takes you inside The Roach's mind. He's shut down all the circuitry but what he needs to destroy a threat.

@@mfreeman313 And survive.

@@ge2623 Yeah, Hendrix live.

How unsettlingly calm he is...he's sitting in the pits of hell but the tone of his voice couldn't be more peaceful and serene

i think he said " Yeah." sarcastically implying his commanding officer was dead or they were left to die and hold that bridge or maybe he was high as hell and anything they said would go in one ear and out the other. the guy that woke him up had to wake him up a few times while he slowly got up still a cool character though

I also like to think it's answered by Kurtz in his dying moments. The horror, the horror is in charge.

Very ell said. Out of this movie, this scene creeps me out the most. I know of a few NAM VETs and talking to them about being over there, when they want to talk about it, they were affected , except one, well he was but differently.there's something not right about them. Two were alcoholics, One was arrested quite a few times for Domestic Violence but is okay today, and another one facilitates a PTSD counseling program for VETs that were in COMBAT. One of the most ODD things he (Counselor)ever told me was every year around and during April 4th he has to really get himself together. I asked him why? He said that he was in NAM when MLK was assassinated and his CO didn't tell anyone in his Platoon, he said a Vietnamese woman told him. April 4th triggers him of being in NAM . Smh.

Really well said. I watched this movie like a month ago and commented on this scene but I keep coming back to it. The path coppola took in directing it is so perfect- it feels like a dream. This mad, quiet yet screaming dream. It’s not a 1:1 replication of actual combat, but it sure does feel like a nightmare that a vietnam vet would shoot up awake from in the middle of the night

In WWI they called them the lost generation. MIC only winner in war.

"all the Vietnam vets". Balderdash. There were professional career solders for whom this was just another war. Not everybody returned freaked out with PTSD or whatever. Most led perfectly normal productive lives.

One of the greatest movies of all time.

The Roach was a nice guy, honest.

There are many in this movie.

Question: "Do you know who's in charge here?" Reply: "Yes." [And turned around and walked away without saying anything more]

Shooting a flare would ruin Roach's night vision and hearing . He doesn't need any help , as he feels the direction and range to his target through experience .

He wasnt gone... he was in "tune."

@@victorwaddell6530 I shot a rabbit through an old barn wall once. All I could hear was his teeth grinding. Got him right between his front teeth. Sound is all you need.

He clearly didn’t need it

Great line

"Ain't you?" * Both of the MG gunner & Willard visibly even more confused *

@@notamoonraker Confusion, chain of command basically abolished shooting wildly, death All around, knowing from seeing it happen to other's your head can explode any second by a AK-47 bullet this plus no one knows or care's what is going on can lead to permanent Mental health issues like a nervous break down, PTSD, Schizophrenia or much worse like the guy in the 🦌 deer Hunter that lost his mind

The Roach

@@moncorp1 GO GET THE ROACH NIKKA

It's brilliant film making.

I always wondered how they got Adrian Peterson in that scene. He wasn't even born yet.

Not to mention the M79 itself with that badass Tiger stripe paint job!

Seen FMJ the door gunner?

His assistant isn't screaming, he's trolling his gunner who in turn is trolling the Viet Cong. True military 😂

​@@MikeO8585"they're all dead, stooopid!"

Agreed, basically a direct copy (homage)

WHOS IN CHARGE HERE?!?!?!........WHERE IS THE AIR SUPPORT!?!?!?!

FINALLY SOMEONE IN THE COMMENTS MENTIONS IT. Also like how the marine pointing at the Battlecruiser echoes what Roach was implying by saying "Yeah". Both no one and everyone is in charge, and they're all fucked.

Wow, how do you know that weapon was called a blooper? The only reason I know is because it was the weapon my father was assigned during the Vietnam conflict.

this is how whole war was conducted

Brilliant.

It could also mean that noone is in command

Death is in command. Hungry. Reaping. We will all be harvested in time. But when you see the face of death and remain alive, that's what your eyes look like sometimes. You've lost something and it won't come back.

High? It always seemed to me that he was numb.

Did this movie actually accurately portray atleast some parts of your vietnam experience

Hell yeah! Thank you for your service 🫡

@@noface4176 No, I was assigned to Northern I Corps, Quang Tri Provence on the DMZ. Our Unit engaged North Vietnamese Regulars.

@@War_Dog_Films Thank You, it means a lot to me!

@@paulmicelli5819 no problem buddy! Have a great one 😃

Agreed. Saw this decades ago and man, what a film.

Figures.

Damn, kinda stoned right now but this is very thought-provoking. Thank you

ride the snake he is long

​@@retsiembrUHe is old and his skin is cold

"the bridge is destroyed every night and rebuilt every day" - this is literarally the defenition of insanity

What he does know: Who’s in charge. What he doesn’t know: I want him to have my children.

I never understood his "yeah". Do you know what the film writers wanted to allude here?

@@danielmeier8321 I think it's open to interpretation.

@@danielmeier8321 I think he believes Willard is asking him that because he thinks WILLARD is in charge and wants him to swear allegiance, not realizing Willard's asking because he doesn't know

@@edwardfetner2513 my theory always was this: that soldier is so far gone already, that the only one in charge there is not a higher ranking lieutenant, but insanity. That's why he said "yeah" and just left. Could be complete nonsense though.

Likewise,13 when I first saw this film, think it had been out about 6months ,put the fear of GOD into me, totally blew my mind!Then set me on a path to study all things Vietnam War!

Very true Theater hopped & snuck in to see this when I was 17 (‘79) in Newport fashion Island cinemas in Newport Beach California; & yes it was a good theater. They’ve since changed them to those over priced, stadium style seating shit holes. One review I saw : 53 bucks for a plate of fish and chips, a Coke and a glass of wine🤣🤣🤣 Not my thing.

Saw in San Francisco when released when my ship visited..handed out programs and no credits at end..amazing

iMax?

@@Jeremyho439 Released in 70mm

Stoned out of my mind. Changed my life.

😂😂😂

"they're all dead stooopit!"

U Aint Shot Shit!

Afghan was very similar to this

Firefight at night is chaotic, gun powder reeks the air, hands get burnt touching barrel of machine gun, thirsty, hyped up and there is always light coming from somewhere - never really pitch black...

Goes to show you how just a little can go a very long ways

My favorite movie of all time. I saw it in a packed theater in August 1979 stoned out of my mind. I'm glad I did.

him with that puppy is nerve-racking no matter how many times i watch it

The puppy represents humanity, as long as he kept that puppy he kept his humanity

"Ain't you?"

When I saw Platoon in the theater I was like , thank God I was never in Nam ?

too bad there are no films that make you think about iraq, afghanistan, syria, lybia

You are our fathers. All of you.

what year did U serve in VT?

@@markwaynetaylor6278 Never served in Vermont. I was in south Vietnam 68-69.

@@dan1oval Vermont..🙈..yeah! sry..it was my mistake,my question was related to yr service in Vietnam, because my father was KIA in 1971, Mekong delta, he served in the SOG. In 1975, or 76, I dunna exactly, I found inside a ammunition box many pics by him and other compats on PBR

@@markwaynetaylor6278 So sorry about your father, Mark. What a terrible tragedy to lose you dad.

@@dan1oval _"Never served in Vermont. I was in south Vietnam 68-69."_ Vermont and Vietnam are very different places. One is full of communists, and the other one's in Asia.

Nurse ?

This scene sums up the world right now. Hey soldier ? Do you know who's in command here ?

this whole scene is what it’s like working the graveyard shift at a manufacturing job lmao

Same here 😂😂😂

That’s fucking funny! Where?

Dam that's funny and probably a reasonable answer.

Ashley you the man

This reminds you of being an SP on an Air Force Base were no one was shooting at you? Damn. You bad. You go Girl!

🤣🤣 Chair Force

Same question was once asked to Pope John XXIII about how many people work at the Vatican, his response; “about 1/2 of them”

How so? These kids were stoned and poorly led and on their own. Its not always like that in every war. Vietnam was Vietnam. Salerno was Salerno. Tunisia was Tunisia. Saipan was Saipan. All different.

The kernel of insanity that lies at the heart of all war, and ultimately all human experience, is on full display.

REDUX

@@22steve5150 Yes

@@22steve5150 I prefer the original theatrical cut, but I can respect Redux and Final Cut!

My favorite movie.

It's close... it's real close.

Charlie is in command.

@@martinreinhold6589 that’s Martin Sheen, not Charlie. It’s his dad

@@SuperiorBrick I think @Martin Reinhold means Victor Charlie

@@djackmanson Looking at it a second time, I think you may be right there big guy

Kurtz is in command. Or everything he represents anyhow...

God bless the '70s

would you recommend it?

@@LynchByInchdo you mean recommend the movie or seeing it on acid?

I saw it stoned out of mind in 1979. Changed my life.

@@LoneLee2022 Me too, best way

"All right, who is it?"

@@UnitedStatesofAmerica1984 Him -- The Roach. Because he was the one with the M-29 40mm grenade launcher and could hit whomever he wanted. Mao said, "Political power comes from the end of a gun."

too many times if you ask me.

he got camo skin lol

As is insanity, the heart of darkness.

Bonne analyse.

This one and the attack scene.

My brothers and I say that to each other to this day whenever we see or hear insanity. We say it a lot lately.

No one Comes Home.

The movies today are all CGI.