Nobody remembers Dennis Hopper as the photojournalist on a bad acid trip in the middle of Kurtz' Hellish camp. His presence there, and much of what he says is a virtual non sequitur, and Dennis Hopper really went over the top.

"What are they gonna say about him? What are they gonna say? That he was a kind man? That he was a wise man? That he had plans? That he had wisdom? Bullshit man!

Willard: "Could we, uh, talk to Colonel Kurtz?"
Photojournalist: "Hey, man, you don't talk to the Colonel. You listen to him. The man's enlarged my mind. He's a poet-warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes he'll, uh, well, you'll say hello to him, right? And he'll just walk right by you, and he won't even notice you. And suddenly he'll grab you, and he'll throw you in a corner, and he'll say do you know that if is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you - I mean I'm no, I can't - I'm a little man, I'm a little man, he's, he's a great man. I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas..."


The Helicopter Attack to Ride of the Valkyries is the single coolest fucking scene in movie history...only the arena scene from Gladiator comes close.