07.19.06
Apocalypse Now
One of the best scenes of dialog from the powerful film Apocalypse Now:
[napalm falling in the distance]
You smell that?
Do you smell that?
(What?)
Napalm son.
Nothing else in the world smells like that.I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. and when it was over, I walked up. We didn’t find one of ’em, not one stinking dink body. That smell… you know, that gasoline smell… the whole hill… smelled like…
Victory…
Someday this war’s gonna end.