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- From: peschko@seasnake.micro.umn.edu (Edward Peschko)
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- Subject: Re: APOCALYPSE NOW (Was Re: Movies you loved, but couldn't see more than once.)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.030904.29008@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 03:09:04 GMT
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- In <1992Dec15.164530@usho72.hou281.chevron.com> hhtra@usho72.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock) writes:
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- > Yep, the waterbuffalo was really slaughtered. As I remember it...
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- > According to the Oscar winning THE MAKING OF APOCALYPSE NOW, the
- > crew were taking a break from filming and the villagers were off
- > celebrating some kinda of holiday or something. Some of the crew
- > went but soon came running back to get FFC and took him to see the
- > _sacrifice_ for real. So impressed he was with the whole ceremony,
- > he put it in the film to symbolize the _slaughtering_ of Kurtz/Brando.
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- > After arguing for several days over WHY Kurtz/Brando should say a
- > simple line, someone said they could've save a animal by just sticking
- > some horns on Brando. ;)
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- NO KIDDING! Marlon Brando has SOME NERVE to ask for how many bejillions of
- dollars ,get to the set a half-year late and then finally confess that he
- has not read 'Heart of Darkness' in preparation for the part of Kurtz.
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- The man's ego could stop a freight train.
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- Ed
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