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Goethe Dies

James Reidel and Thomas Bernhard

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This collection of four stories by the writer George Steiner called "one of the masters of European...

Burton at the BBC: Classic Excerpts from the BBC Archive

Richard Burton, Full Cast and B.B.C. Audiobooks ltd

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Highlights from Richard Burton's finest BBC radio performances from the 1940s to the 1980s. Richard...

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Apocalypse Now (1979)

1979 | Action, Drama, War

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"It’s so epic and so well-acted, it’s got a literary lineage, and it’s just amazing. I was a fan of all the music, and it’s so well-used in the picture. I was always intrigued and fascinated by the Vietnam war and this made me feel like I was there. I was surprised by so many things about the reality of war. When Martin Sheen’s character is going up the river and he goes to this one place where they’re blowing up a bridge everyday and he says, “Where’s your CO,” and he says, “Ain’t you him?” and I was just like, “Oh shit.” And the other thing that still stays with me today, the way the character acted — the helicopter pilot that’s going down — he says “Mayday Mayday, we’re going down.” He doesn’t overdo it; he gives information that’s necessary for other people to hear, and so for me that was a big acting lesson. I didn’t know it at the time. Any other actor — he may have been a real pilot — any other actor would have chewed that up, screaming, “Mayday,” but a real pilot has to convey information to the tower. He goes, “I’m in trouble, I’m in trouble,” and that’s it."

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