You are fighting for the biggest nothing in history.
Hubert
- Director
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Cast
- Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Dennis Hopper, Francis Ford Coppola
- Year
- 1979
- Runtime
- 147 min
- Genres
- war film, action film, drama film
- Country
- United States
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What the hell do you know about surfing? You’re from goddamned New Jersey.
Kilgore
This is the way the fucking world ends. Look at this fucking shit we're in man. Not with a bang, but with a whimper. And with a whimper, I'm fucking splitting, Jack.
Photo Journalist
There are two of you, don't you see? One that kills... and one that loves.
Roxanne
The war will still be here tomorrow.
Roxanne
Someday this war’s gonna end. That’d be just fine with the boys on the boat. They weren’t looking for anything more than a way home. Trouble is, I’d been back there, and I knew that it just didn’t exist anymore.
Willard