Colonel Kurtz


Just saw this movie thinking that Natascha would have had an important role, which was more of a cameo than anything else.
Anyway, the best way to describe this thing and unfortunately I am going to give it a comical twist, is what would have happened if Colonel Kurtz would have come to his senses and then go into Cambodia to build a casino.
Of course he brings death onto himself because he's the grim reaper.
The 1st half had an inordinate need for the local flavor music which sounded pretty bad and majorly distracted from the movie, until the 2nd half of the movie makes up for better sound and music.
Essentially in some ways this is a poor man's Apocalypse. Good cast in general but not very well thought out in the way it was presented. Chaotic at best! To be sure shooting locally did give it the atmosphere.

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It's very Colonel Kurtz, and obviously inspired by NOW, even the DVD cover has a Sheen/Brando vibe to how Dillon/Caan are placed as sort of one person split in half.

Caan may have been one of the many actors Coppola considered for Kurtz. He had a lot of people in mind including Steve McQueen and (this one blows me away) Robert Redford, but knew only one man representing the end of the line would really work, and knew also it'd be a nightmare experience.

Anyhow, CITY OF GHOSTS really needed a Dennis Hopper character to curb the somewhat claustrophobic seriousness.

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Cracks me up pretty boy Redford as Kurtz HAHAHAHAHA I can Steve McQueen that guy the cool to pull it off. Redford just another Champagne Socialist Elitist preaching as ever from Mt. Olympus how us mortals should conduct ourselves like that windbag Clooney.

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