#apocalypse now redux

[lounesdarbois]

[erving-goffman]

what they don't tell you about apocalypse now redux is that the scene where chief tries to stab willard with the lance in his chest (that he is dying from) is right after the scene where willard has sex with the french woman

[arc-77]

"Someday this war's gonna end." There's an ambiguity of intention in the way he states it—reassurance? disappointment?—with a sense that he has more to say. But after a moment, he turns and looks away.

[komadina61]

Watch Apocalypse Now (Redux) on Tubi

Watch Apocalypse Now (Redux) on Tubi: https://link.tubi.tv/Lm781WsQAQb

[loopdile]

✨ loopdile prompts ✨

for anyone who wants to make loopdile ^^ feel free to use these ideas, with or without credit, though i would love to see whatever you make!

scene ideas:

they're sitting outside in the sun together, odile's reading and loop's taking a nap

loop tries on some dumb shit at a thrift store and odile pretends she doesn't think it's funny

they go for a walk but they find. a kitten!!

they're up late/early cuz they can't sleep, odile is sipping tea, loop is drawing or carving or smth

loop threw a snowball at odile and now she's going to Get Them

sasasap!frin has a particularly bad loop and odile helps them out or calms them down or cheers them up somehow

odile figures out loop's identity and loop maybe freaks out but maybe it's nice being seen like that, too

odile charts out the stars on loop's skin

loop gets hurt and odile has to patch them up but it's kinda weird bc it's not the same as a human injury

odile gets hurt and loop has to patch her up, maybe they're panicking, maybe they're teasing her, maybe they're teasing her to stave off panic, there are many directions this could go

they run into each other at some point post-canon, having not seen each other since the king.

they sit on the beach and and talk about what loop remembers about the island (basically nothing). friendquest redux between two people who have heard about that convo but not actually participated in it?

during the loops odile visits for the favor tree for some reason and ends up chatting with loop

dynamics i enjoy:

odile helps loop figure out how their new inhuman body works, maybe just for fun, or maybe in order to craft it to be something they're more comfortable with. or maybe they have to accept that it's something they can't change, instead.

loop's funny drama + odile's deadpan humor = they can keep a bit going for days. possibly they get mean about it but that's just their love language it's probably fine. probably.

loop lashes out bc they're a self-destructive mess and odile doesn't feed into it but she doesn't put up with it either. and loop, who still feels guilty about their failures and the 2hats fight, feels safer knowing that odile is willing to do what it takes to protect the party, even from loop. and loop from themself.

odile doesn't care for romantic love and loop hates the thought of being in a mushy sweet relationship like isabeau+siffrin are, so they kinda just do their own aloof-yet-intense thing together

loop wanders between isafrin and odile like an outdoor cat with two homes

loop is really bizarre and an absolute mess and odile is so into it. like why tf did you do that. i need to take notes on your psychological profile and/or put you in a maze like a lab rat. maybe loop acts even weirder on purpose to throw her off (but tbh loop's not very good at that despite their best efforts).

AU ideas:

odile loops au

sci-fi au with alien loop

post-apocalypse?? wandering the wasteland…

meet cute at a community art class, odile is trying to get out of the house occasionally and loop picks up a new medium every semester to add to their weird abstract collage/sculptures

meet cute at the library… they both need the last book on [topic] right now and get kicked out for fighting over it so they both have to go to the other library but that means they’re taking the same bus route and end up talking about their very different reasons for wanting the book

meet cute they’re next to each other on an airplane and odile is freaked out by the turbulence so loop distracts her

coffee shop au but they work at rival coffee shops but they both secretly think the other is better so they clandestinely trade drinks in the alley during their smoke breaks

murder mystery au?? odile assigns herself the role of detective, obviously, someone’s gotta do it

meet cute one of them slips on ice and breaks something and the other has to bring them to the hospital

wait meet cute loop has an allergic reaction to pineapple and odile happens to carry an epipen <3

vampire au ^^ either direction is fun… canon-adjacent or urban fantasy… so many possibilities

secret research lab au where loop is being studied for morally ambiguous/corrupt reasons and odile rescues them

i could do this all day. au where they are apples on a beautiful apple tree together. ok that’s a joke but how about au where they meet at a pumpkin patch / petting zoo. odile is there with bonnie and nille bc nille doesn’t have a car so they needed a ride, loop likes to hang out with the baby animals, they meet bc loop helps odile get her shoe back from a goat. and then they share a warm apple cider… life is so beautiful

they meet at a parkour competition… odile has stopped competing herself and only coaches/teaches, and is probably about to retire from that too soon, but perhaps she’ll teach one last promising competitor…….

rivals at the local farmers market. they both keep coincidentally buying the last of the thing that the other person wanted. nothing like a silent vendetta against a total stranger to make you wake up at 6am to be at the farmers market the moment they open. but maybe one day one of them is having a bad day and not getting their yummy treat is the last straw and the other feels bad and shares?

(not sure how to make loop be, well, loop, in a no-magic au? i usually make siffrin and loop headmates in a system. but you can also just keep magic around in a modern au if you want, the world is your oyster.)

(want to do a more-human post-canon loop? absolutely do feel free to use your own design/ideas, but if you’d rather borrow mine, here they are!)

[romanceyourdemons]

YOOOOO YOU'RE WATCHING APOCALYPSE NOW? THAT'S LITERALLY ONE OF MY FAVOURITE MOVIES, WHICH VERSION ARE YOU WATCHING?

i’m watching the theatrical cut because that’s what my library has, but if the redux is better i’ll definitely track that down too. it really effectively extends the work of conrad’s writing (both the good the bad and the ugly), it’s got all of coppola’s greatest strengths on display, and even his weaknesses work so well here i can understand why he indulges in them

[subliminalbo]

Genuinely so fascinated by every movie being at least 150 minutes long now. Like, for the last thirty years people have criticized Apocalypse Now Redux for being too long and poorly paced (both criticisms are true!) but now we're all just like, super cool with sitting in a theater for three hours if Iron Man dies at the end

[on0nychee]

Nt really big info but ive finished like 40% of my Nepeta cosplay, yaayyy, i handsew like almost everything

I should post more about my cosplay activities 😞🙏 ive already cosplayed Jotaro Kujo, Postal dude ( redux and apocalypse weekend) now working on Nepeta

[stargiirl27]

my favorite stills from Apocalypse Now Redux, Sam Bottoms as Lance B. Johnson and Cynthia Wood as playmate of the year

[angel-of-the-moons]

I swear to God with that ghost x sole survivor crossover fic, you scratched an itch that I didn't even know I had, you've created an addiction for me now, I'm in love with that fic I need to download that fucking mod for f04 or I'm gonna go even more unhinged than I already am with how vicereally I NEED him

Haha I knoooow! On a whim I downloaded him as a mod because I really only use Hancock, Danse, or Nick as companions, and it's nice having a companion that can pack a punch and not go down so easily (at least in my save).

However he does say "Fuckin' hell!" a goddamn lot of you don't tell him to sit still before going into build-mode cause his ass can and will fuck around while you're doing stuff.

But the mods I use(d) are:

Modern Warfare SAS Companions - Ghost and Price (by: bohgger) They don't speak very much and aren't too terribly well-programmed, but they use actual voice lines from their respective games.

(I'm not sure if the mod is available as it's now gone and vanished from my mod list and searches; but if you're not on Xbox like me, I'm sure the PC has waaaay better mods there!)

His outfit was a mod called [XHX] MW19 Ghost Prison Outfit (it is by the author thefalllenking) but it may still show up on PC searches.

There's another outfit mod I may download called [XHX] MW19 Ghost Redux that comes with several other Ghost outfits! (Also by thefalllenking)

I may also consider downloading the Apocalypse Survival Set + Improved Textures (2k) (by LandoCummando) for a more "immersive" look in the future

Now, I also have the following mods for other NPCs (i love my Minutemen looking like actual soldiers and not homeless chem addicts toting around fatman launchers)

Unfortunately, like the first MW2 Ghost outfit mod, the PMC Operators Pack (I believe it is called, and I believe it is done by Overboss.Dragon, but I could be incorrect) is no longer appearing on Xbox searches or in my mod list but it may still be available on PC, like the previous one. It allows me to set custom faction patches for their gear! (Price is rocking the MM flag currently)

If you can't find that mod, there is also the BZW Captain Price mod (by DeepBlue93) for (one of) his outfit from MW. I just like the PMC Operators Pack because it gives me so many customization options.

For my Soul Survivor:

The BZW MW Domino Spy mod (by elfunstoppable)

I also use the NV Authority Glasses (by princesscake) but you can also just use the vanilla Patrolman Sunglasses found lying around

For her gun:

The Glock 19x Revamp (by: KingofWolves313) I recommend it since it's highly customizable!

Springfield XD Model 2 Subcompact Pistol (by: Urbanranger88)

[valancietrinit]

said i wasn't gonna do this bc i have some irl stuff to deal w before i can really take on another project, but i'll put this out there to gauge where interest is sitting

expansion on fic premises below the cut

option 1: harrow/kiriona/ianthe; left in charge of varying aspects of the empire post-ntn, following alecto nabbing jod for a tour of the universe (threat); sort of court intrigue; much sexual tension; nobody is truly happy w this arrangement but the girls look stunning + sulky anyway

option 2: modern setting, sort of post-htn au; gideon uses newfound nepotism to kickstart dormant rockstar dreams; a la sir chloe's "michelle", writes a song abt harrow that blows tf up + encounters info that harrow might actually be dead + feels really bad abt it all; later finds out harrow is not dead + just found out abt the song + is heading to her location (ft. cam&pal + corona&ianthe as fellow musicians/bad influences)

option 3: fresh out of the psych ward, harrow is staying in crux's hunting cabin to deal w her issues abt her parents' deaths six months earlier; aiglamene (who crux left in charge of making sure harrow's not dead every week while he fucks off somewhere else) breaks her hip, so gideon is delegated the job of weekend check ins + grocery runs + picking up harrow's meds; shenanigans ensue

option 4: harrow is an og lyctor brought to a war front to help the Cohort break through enemy lines; gideon escaped the ninth at age 16 & (4 - 5 years on) is now reasonably highly ranked; they work together in battle & then harrow recognises gideon's eyes...

option 5: griddlehark phone sex fic; ft. corona & ianthe shenanigans + background cam/pal/pyrrha; heavy on the comedy, light on actual plot; rep for butches w/ bad knees & goth's w/ no fashion sense

option 6: cam/pal/pyrrha; canon divergent post-gtn exploring canaan house redux; still tossing up whether this is a modern-setting fic or not; pyrrha pov; cam&pal scheme like absolute nerds to seduce pyrrha & she does not notice bc she is a professional

option 7: g1deon pov; non-linear narrative following his final hours in melbourne w/ the suitcase nuke -> his 1v1 showdown w/ varun; probs back to back pain & comedy; if it ends up containing smut, it will probably include john, + g1deon/pyrrha (/wake as well, let's be real)

[at-thestillpoint]

If Top Gun 3 is a go and Hangman and Phoenix return, how would you see their story going from the end of TGM into the new movie? (Obviously resulting in them ending up together after the battle of wills and 🌶��� 🔥 times)

I love how you write them and I’m wondering how you’d plan out the plot if you were in charge 🤩?

Oh my god, this ask! I'll preface this with a caveat that I don't think I could plot out a full Top Gun movie. I don't have the storytelling skill or creativity! But in terms of their relationship setup, there are so many directions this could go:

We could go with a continuation of the wild and unruly universe where they're together and there's all the angst of one or both of them potentially dying in this next impossible mission. Imagine: Banging for dear life. A redux of the Rooster being too slow argument, only this time Natasha is the one picking the fight, because Hangman is surprisingly laissez-faire about it all and she is terrified. They part with fear-fueled angry words right before the mission, which they're both obviously going on because "conflict of interest" does not exist in Maverick's vocabulary, and then in the inevitable dogfight, he tells her to break right, she breaks right, and he goes left right in front of a missile. (I'm 99% certain I stole this from @goddesspharo's apocalypse AU.) OR she tells him to break right, he breaks left, and she goes right, right into that missile. Something something they make it back alive and everyone lives happily ever after.

Or the post-TG:M friendship has fizzled out into something friendly but distant, so they haven't seen each other in a bit, but they're brought together to basically be Maverick and train a new group of baby aviators. It's exhausting, they're spending more time together than they ever have, and hey—he's not that bad! He's actually...sweet? And smart? And there's a realization of feelings, maybe a tentative kiss, right before they realize they have to go on the mission to make it work. So all of this potential is hanging in the balance while they have to go save the world. One of them goes down, the other does not, and it's angst city until Cyclone sends in search and rescue. The person on the boat demands to go, even though that's definitely against eleven different protocols. There's a desperate kiss in enemy territory before they're making like gangbusters out of there so they can go on a first date.

Or the Dagger Squadron is a standing squadron in the Navy, so we're dropped in medias res of their shenanigans, by which I mean banging each other in secret. They continue to keep it a secret during training, but then shit gets real during the mission, and did Hangman just crash land his plane after Phoenix and Bob were shot out of the sky??? This version of Top Gun might end up being more a wilderness survival movie than a planes go fast movie? Bob is confused and really wishes he had earplugs. They eventually find a commercial-ish plane with seats for a pilot and co-pilot that neither of them knows how to fly. Bob gets them in touch with someone who can walk them through it. They fight over who gets to be lead, make it home, make it official, etc.

This is a chaotic answer, and I am not sure any of it is what you were looking for, anon, but I had a lot of fun with this. Thank you for the ask! I now want to write all of these.

[nothingavailable]

Here’s lore and world-building I’d like to put down for a possible reboot/rework/remake/retool/redux/rewrite of Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall involving other series.

Lord Fuse has a connection to the Nothing from The Neverending Story, MultiVersus and Fortnite, as do the Void from The Amazing World of Gumball, the Darkness from Learning with Pibby: Apocalypse and the Entity from Dead by Daylight. In terms of both skill and power he’s at the same level as the Meta-Nanites from Generator Rex, Aku from Samurai Jack, the Omnitrix from Ben 10, the Collector and Archivists from The Owl House, the Magic from Star vs. the Forces of Evil, the Calamity Gems from Amphibia and Bill Cipher from Gravity Falls at their strongest. His powers here primarily revolve around non-elemental and non-radioactive sources with the added abilities of immortality and extreme regeneration.

Now here are battles I’m interested in seeing for multimedia crossovers:

Cube Queen & Herald (Fortnite) vs. Origin/Cube King (Fortnite)

Vilgax (Ben 10 Classic) vs. Megatron (Transformers: Animated)

Reindog (MultiVersus) vs. Strike (O.K. K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes!)

Shiba Sintaro & Simone (Cannon Spike) vs. Strike (O.K. K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes!)

Chizuru Urashima, Reiji Arisu, Xiaomu, Mii Koryuji & Kogoro Tenzai (Namco x Capcom & Project X Zone) vs. Strike (O.K. K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes!)

York Neely, Miko Aiba, Troy, Lazarus, Anesha, Raizen & Augustine (Cross Edge) vs. Strike (O.K. K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes!)

Ruby Heart, Amingo & SonSon III (Marvel vs. Capcom) vs. Strike (O.K. K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes!)

Sora, Riku, Kairi, Roxas, Namine, Xion, Terra, Ventus & Aqua (Kingdom Hearts) vs. Strike (O.K. K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes!)

[watching-pictures-move]

Put On Your Raincoats | Wild Things (De Renzy, 1985)

Like I did with my review of Ball Busters, I present to you some stray observations in scattershot form, not unlike the vignette structure of the film being commented on:

I didn't watch this to make a "We have Wild Things at home!" joke, because I haven't seen Wild Things (1998) and this was released first. I'm innocent of all charges, your honor.

This is bookended by a pair of roughie-style scenes. I think the first one is better, in that the female aggressors make it stand out against the usual genre dynamics and the latter has John Leslie doing some weird bear growl noises I found a bit distracting. Both also have neat twists at the end that go a long way in alleviating the sleaze factor that normally comes with these things.

Between the organ music on the soundtrack, the pointed shot of the cross dangling Kimberly Carson's breasts, her desire to make love as a means of procreation and her devout nature ("I'm talking to God here"), the segment where Herschel Savage tries to impregnate Carson plays like a middle finger to the moral majority types, although one could argue it's a bit more subtle than the usual evangelical characters in more overt porno satires (Spitfire, Friday the 13th: A Nude Beginning). This is also the only time I can recall off the top of my head seeing Savage with a beard, and combined with the leather jacket he's introduced in, it's a pretty good look. (Much better than the Gene Shalit 'stache he had in Skin Flicks.)

As someone who's made that same awful sitcom double date joke in too many reviews, I have a tremendous amount of respect for Elle Rio for following through on it. You see, the problem is that "there is so many men and how you say, so little time", and maybe she "should get a little book or something", so she "accidentally date two guys at the same time!" (For the record, I love her accent and her mellifluous voice. I'm not making fun, I promise.) And rather than suffer any embarrassment, she takes charge and resolves things in the most elegant manner possible given the circumstances. (Hint: it rhymes with "free gum.") Apparently this was added after the fact (the breaking of the fourth wall feels more in line with Ball Busters) but is arguably a highlight, making this not unlike a Heaven's Gate situation where a later release is supposed to be the superior version. Or maybe like the Snyder Cut. Definitely not like Apocalypse Now: Redux, where the additional footage kills the pacing. Bonus points for Tom Byron's terrible mustache and his insistence on kicking rocks at Jon Martin's car. "A lot of men, they don't have the kind of sense of humour like we girls do."

Maybe I'm still high off a rewatch of Body Double, but there's one shot where the husband is masturbating in the foreground and the wife is masturbating in the background that looks a little bit like a composition from Mr. BDP himself. Now if you just switched out the rack focus for a split diopter, we'd be in business. (This scene also starts with the wife looking at magazine layout with *shudders* Ron Jeremy, and thankfully that's where he stays.) And before you think I'm giving the movie too much credit visually, there's some pretty nice use of lens flare and shadows throughout. This is not without a decent amount of style.

Lots of great music throughout, probably a little heavier on the rock side of things (psych rock jams, garage rock, funk rock, maybe a little doo wop), but my favourite bit of scoring has to be the fluttering synths in the first scene.

While I missed the knockoff Troy McClure shtick John Leslie was doing while hosting Ball Busters, Jill Ferrar is not without her charms and has some fun interplay with the crew. Also, unlike Leslie she doesn't try to push a heretofore unheard of definition of the title, so definitely wins some points there.

Now, as for whether this is any good: if you like the performers, I can report they are in fine form, and if you are not yet sold on any of them, a strong case is made for all. (MVP: Elle Rio, for the record.) There's enough variation in the premises of each segment, the energy level is consistently high, and the film is not without a good amount of humour (and doesn't feel mean spirited the way I've found De Renzy sometimes can be). I'm assuming Howard Hawks never saw this (because it was released after his passing, unless he came back a decade later like Bruce Lee was prophesied to in Ng See-Yuen's Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth), but it meets his criteria for a good movie and then some.

[kittenjungle2025]

In other news, La Fawn Épique has deigned to admit into her coterie of mutuals, a man who has nightmares about butterflies…and who is fairly convinced the sky changed (I meant to tell you about this but it requires gesticulations; regardless something has altered in the firmament).

I’m actually quite pleased you understood what I meant by the ‘psychedelic pynchonesque warscape’ thing. And I had no idea about the faux Hendrix thing…I read Coppola On Coppola years ago and I don’t think he mentioned it. Have you listened to ‘1983…(A Merman I should Turn To Be)’?

So finally I differ with you on something. One of the main things I didn’t like about Redux was the humanisation of Willard; I couldn’t see him doing that for Lance…and at one point I was mortified to see Willard smile. I took him to be a joyless man…as joyless and damaged as Kurtz. I do wonder if I’m defaulting to a framework of toxic masculinity in thinking this…I identify with Willard quite strongly.

Also, my own creative work deals with journeys/searches…a doomed voyage. So I think the austerity involved, emotionally, jives with me.

But…I’ve only watched Redux once. I recently I bought a 4K box set of apocalypse now, and it includes that cut…so I’ll give it a watch.

So…I wanted to ask which Hindu deity you’re most drawn to and why. Do you know any Hindus?

And also, I’m curious, are people intimidated by you at all? How do people irl perceive you?

omg 🤣 i had a feeling it was you lol… and you’re so eloquent i had to literally google words that u used. also wym the sky changed?? (pls do inform me about that). yeah from memory it wasn’t hendrix but a guy named richard henson? (and no i haven’t listened to that song i will now 😁).

yeah honestly haha i kind of both agree/disagree with u on the willard thing, i love the surfboard scene individually but i don’t feel like it works in the film because of how willard is meant to be portrayed. also what do u mean by ur creative work??? what do you make??? i’m intrigued… if you don’t mind sharing of course.

the hindu deity i’m drawn to most is definitely ganesha, i remember seeing him in this clothes store i shopped at growing up, they had this like glowing board with a picture of him lol it was so cool, and then my older sister gave me an old shirt with him on it, so yeah i just feel drawn to him. but also i had a vision of kalki the other night. i was just laying in bed trying to sleep then i had a hypnagogic vision of a blue god with a sword sitting atop a white horse and after i looked it up i realised it was kalki/vishnu which is crazy cos i didn’t know he was portrayed like that. so i want to explore that further. i also accidentally picked up one of iskcons books at my fave second hand store and became intrigued by krishna consciousness lol. it’s so beautiful and fascinating and inspiring. i’m curious as a hindu what beliefs do you ascribe to? or what deities/how many deities do you worship?

and no people are not intimidated by me, i am always intimidated by other people lol. i’m a normal girl irl i feel like people perceive me as like weak or smthing because sometimes older people that i know will talk down to me in a patronising tone and it makes me annoyed. idk if it’s because i’m a girl or they assume i’m stupid or something but it’s really demeaning. lol. so to answer your question i think people perceive me as a normal introvert 18yr old brunette from the suburbs

[sleepycap]

Apocalypse Now (1979) + Heart of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (1991) REALLY good anti war movie. I tried watching it a few years ago but stopped for some reason. I watched the original theatrical release, not the redux or final cut of the movie. My friends recommended watching the documentary after it about it's troubled production and it was interesting to watch as well.