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What do you call it when the assassins accuse the assassinThey lieThey lie and we have to be merciful
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Apocalypse Now

What do you call it when the assassins accuse the assassin? A lie. A lie and we have to be...

Kurtz:What do you call it when the assassins accuse the assassin? A lie. A lie and we have to be merciful

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What do you call it when the assassins accuse the assassin
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They lie
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They lie and we have to be merciful
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Duration
12 seconds
Views
1,134
Timestamp in Movie
00:13:59
Uploaded
Feb 17, 2026
Genres
drama, mystery, war
Production
United Artists,American Zoetrope

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Movie Summary

A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.

Actors

Martin Sheen
Captain Benjamin L. Willard
Martin Sheen
Walt Kurtz was one of the most outstanding officersthis country's ever producedHe was brilliant He was outstanding in every wayAnd he was a good man tooA humanitarian manA man of wit and humorHe joined the special forcesAnd after thatHis ideas - Apocalypse Now 00:46
Walt Kurtz was one of the most outstanding officersthis...
Now he's crossed into Cambodia with this montagnard army of his that worship the man like a god. - Apocalypse Now 00:26
Now he's crossed into Cambodia with this montagnard...
Kurtz had ordered the execution of some vietnamese intelligence agents. - Apocalypse Now 00:43
Kurtz had ordered the execution of some vietnamese...
Well you see WillardIn this war things getConfused out therePower ideals the old moralityand practical military necessityBut out there with these nativesIt must be a temptationTo be godBecause there's a conflict in every human heartBetween the rational - Apocalypse Now 00:59
Well you see WillardIn this war things getConfused out...
Because there's a conflict in every human heart... - Apocalypse Now 00:44
Because there's a conflict in every human heart...
Yes, sir. - Apocalypse Now 00:06
Yes, sir.
Your mission is to proceed up the nung river in a Navy patrol boatPick up colonel Kurtz's path at nu mung bafollow it learn what you can along the wayWhen you find the colonel infiltrate his team bywhatever means availableand terminate the colonel's - Apocalypse Now 00:59
Your mission is to proceed up the nung river in a Navy...
Terminate the colonel? - Apocalypse Now 00:33
Terminate the colonel?
How many people had I already killedThere were those six that I knew about for sureClose enough to blow their last breath in my faceBut this time it was an American and an officerThat wasn't supposed to make any difference to me but it didShit charging a - Apocalypse Now 00:52
How many people had I already killedThere were those six...
That wasn't supposed to make any difference to me, but it did. - Apocalypse Now 00:28
That wasn't supposed to make any difference to me, but...
Shit charging a man with murder in this placewas like handing out speeding tickets at the indy 500 - Apocalypse Now 00:09
Shit charging a man with murder in this placewas like...
The crew were mostly just kidsRock 'n' rollers with one foot in their graves - Apocalypse Now 00:08
The crew were mostly just kidsRock 'n' rollers...
The machinist the one they called chefwas from New OrleansHe was wrapped too tight for VietnamProbably wrapped too tight for New OrleansLance on the forward 50s was a famous surferfrom the beaches south of laTo look at him you wouldn't believe he'd ever - Apocalypse Now 00:40
The machinist the one they called chefwas from New OrleansHe...
You know I've pulled a few special ops in hereAbout six months agoI took a man who was going up past the bridge at do luongHe was regular army tooI heard he shot himself in the head - Apocalypse Now 00:19
You know I've pulled a few special ops in hereAbout six...
At first I thought they handed me the wrong dossierI couldn't believe they wanted this man deadThird generation west point top of his classKorea airborne about 1 000 decorations et cetera et ceteraI had heard his voice on the tape and it really put the - Apocalypse Now 00:31
At first I thought they handed me the wrong dossierI...
I had heard his voice on the tape and it really put the hook in me, but I couldn't connect up that voice with this man. - Apocalypse Now 00:11
I had heard his voice on the tape and it really put the hook...
Like they said he had an impressive careerMaybe too impressiveI mean perfectHe was being groomed for one of the top slots in the corporationgeneral chief of staff anythingIn 1964 he returned from a tour with advisory command in Vietnamand things started - Apocalypse Now 00:58
Like they said he had an impressive careerMaybe too...
Hueys over there Lots of hueys - Apocalypse Now 00:04
Hueys over there Lots of hueys
It was the air cav, first of the ninth. - Apocalypse Now 00:18
It was the air cav, first of the ninth.
Well airmobile those boys just couldn't stay put - Apocalypse Now 00:06
Well airmobile those boys just couldn't stay put