How Does A Film-liners Lost Their Innocence With Apocalypse Now
It did not take long for Apocalypse Now to add a bunch of one-liners to use the lexicon of film. Even before the lukewarm criticism turned into a call with any test, was expressed from a script by Francis Coppola, John Milius and Michael Herr (with a little help from Joseph Conrad) is already impacting the beyond their context in the film
"Saigon. Shit." "Exit ... with serious injuries," "Charlie do not surf!", "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" "Never Get Out of the Boat," "The horror, the horror." And so on.
The manuscripts are more than just a dialogue, of course, but the well-turned phrase can go a long way toward cementing the film a cult. Watching Casablanca today is to experiment a bit 'thrill of recognition that the second row, and only partly due to "Play it, Sam" or "round up the usual suspects" has been adapted for the titles of other movies. Ideally, a good offer, not only some of its dramatic context, but it is a general question. "We always have Paris" and "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" are gifts that must be justified.
You could say the same for the Wizard of Oz, or Some Like It Hot, Sunset Boulevard or - my Love offering to collectors. But Apocalypse Now, for me means a loan that point the film became a self-conscious and innocence lost, divorced from their dramatic part of the film exchange Buffery, flavor trademark cinematic references to pilgrims quoters business ideas and confusion the uninitiated.
It is a minor character in Diner, which does nothing but dialogue quote from Sweet Smell of Success - and not just JJ Hunsecker slogan, but it always seemed an idea more in tune with the film-nerd "Match me, Sidney. " the spirit of the 1980s when the film was made, instead of 1959 when it was created. Because surely no coincidence that the release Apocalypse Now in 1979 coincided with the mass market video for the first time allow fans to hunt truffles verbal, see their favorite scenes repeatedly and hordes of committing dialogue memory without having to sit in a cinema.
1980 also saw a tendency to speak in public, driven by dialogue Thing Bill Lancaster, in which the characters react not think philosophically to the hills of beans, or "We always Antarctica, but reciting clichés like you or I might say, if we had only glimpsed the head sprouting spider's legs and run on the floor: "You must be a joke." It seemed fresh and funny, in 1982, but that was before the countless other sci-fi, horror and action films made in Constitution. There are only so many ways you can say (to quote Arnold Schwarzenegger is The Terminator), "Fuck you, asshole."
