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I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
— Kilgore · Apocalypse Now
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Kilgore speaks about destruction as if it were a pleasure of everyday life. The calm familiarity is what makes the line disturbing: it reveals how completely war has distorted his sense of what should be ordinary.
- AFI100 Movie Quotes, number12; synopsis attributes the remark to Kilgore.Reference checked
- AFI Movie ClubApocalypse Now1979: Robert Duvall’s Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore and selected line.Reference checked
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