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minus-squareDagwoodIII@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·17 hours ago[off topic?] There’s a scene at the start of ‘Apocalypse Now’ where Martin Sheen gets drunk in a Saigon hotel room and practices Tai-Chi. When I saw it, I thought it was complete Hollywood bullshit. They did a 20th Anniversary doc about the movie and interviewed a bunch of veterans. One authentic CIA operator said that getting drunk and doing Tai-Chi was exactly the sort of thing Sheen’s character would have done.
minus-squareAgent641@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·16 hours agoAlso he was actually drunk, he actually punched a real mirror, and really cut himself. Everyone in that movie was high as balls the entire time.
minus-squareInputZero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·11 hours agoBecause they were miserable. Let’s follow one of the most demanding film makers in the world, into one of the least hospitable places in the world, where there is no law enforcement in the 70s. That’s a recipe for drug use.
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There’s a scene at the start of ‘Apocalypse Now’ where Martin Sheen gets drunk in a Saigon hotel room and practices Tai-Chi.
When I saw it, I thought it was complete Hollywood bullshit.
They did a 20th Anniversary doc about the movie and interviewed a bunch of veterans.
One authentic CIA operator said that getting drunk and doing Tai-Chi was exactly the sort of thing Sheen’s character would have done.
Also he was actually drunk, he actually punched a real mirror, and really cut himself.
Everyone in that movie was high as balls the entire time.
Because they were miserable. Let’s follow one of the most demanding film makers in the world, into one of the least hospitable places in the world, where there is no law enforcement in the 70s. That’s a recipe for drug use.
Very method