Continuity mistake: In the playboy bunny scene, the helicopter's main rotor keeps on starting and stopping. (01:06:39)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Plot summary
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Frederic Forrest
Based on Joseph Conrad's "Heart Of Darkness". Set in 1969 Vietnam, the movie follows U.S. Special Forces Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) on his mission up a river into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret (Marlon Brando) who has set himself up as a "god" among a local tribe.
Chef: Why do all you guys sit on your helmets?
Soldier: So we don't get our balls blown off.
Trivia: The man shooting the movie during the attack on the beach who says "Don't look at the camera" is actually director Francis Ford Coppola. (00:25:38)
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Chosen answer: Kurtz was protected by political connections and his military record from being relieved of command, and the Montagnard people whose village he was in were considered American allies, so they couldn't just send a force in to kill him or relieve him of command, but an individual assassin. (The US Government's "official" policy is that they do not engage in assassination, which is why "this mission does not exist, nor will it ever exist").
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