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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Cue "Music/RideOfTheValkyries".]]
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4	* The entire introduction of the Air Cavalry counts as one for ''filmmaking''. Every shot has dozens of moving parts, with helicopters buzzing, landing, taking off, soldiers moving, talking and fighting, civilians evacuating, tanks spraying fire, journalists poking through the ruins, vehicles rumbling ashore or being loaded with civilians, all while actors move and talk in long, barely interrupted tracking shots. The audio mixing alone is a work of pure art, with each audio setpiece (the medics, the flamethrower, the radioman, the translated announcer and the preacher) seamlessly blending into one another under the dialog and accompanied by the constant drone of the choppers. Seeing and hearing it in motion is almost unbelievable, especially knowing it was made and mixed before computers.
5	** Capped by Col. Kilgore's speech "I love the smell of napalm in the morning!" A memetic oration and SignatureScene of the movie (if not about the Vietnam War itself).
6	* Roach.
7	-->'''Gunner''': You hear him? Do you hear him?
8	-->'''Roach''': [''nods'']
9	-->'''Gunner''': Well, bust him. [''Roach very slowly makes his way over to Willard and turns off the cassette player''] He's out there on the wire, man.
10	-->'''Roach''': ...Yeah.
11	-->'''Gunner''': You need a flare?
12	-->'''Roach''': [''looks up, shakes his head no, barely audible''] No. [''listens. Pause''] He's close, man. He's real close.\
13	[''Roach loads his grenade launcher.'']
14	-->'''Distant VC soldier''': Fuck you GI! Fuck you! [''yells unintelligibly'']\
15	[''Roach points the grenade launcher high up, listens.'']
16	-->'''Distant VC soldier''': GI! Fuck YOU!\
17	[''Roach fires. Pause'']
18	-->'''Distant VC soldier''': GI! FUCK-- ['''BANG!''']\
19	[''Silence'']
20	-->'''Roach''': [''muttering''] Mother''fucker''.
21	-->'''Willard''': Hey, soldier. [''Roach looks at him for the first time. Pause''] Do you know who's in command here?
22	-->'''Roach''': [''stares at him. Pause''] ...Yeah. [''turns away'']
23	* While the AccidentalMurder of the riverboat of innocent Vietnamese is horrific, and Willard giving a wounded girl a MercyKill to avoid diverting his mission is likewise upsetting - there is something very satisfying with the TranquilFury in his voice as he says to Chief "I told you not to stop". Effectively reminding the man that his SkewedPriorities got a boatload of innocent people killed AllForNothing, as well as wasting ammo and traumatizing the others. He says it with such a badass politeness, especially in contrast to Chief's rude "until we reach your destination, you're just along for the ride" earlier when he insisted on stopping the boat.
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