Quotation record · reviewed 2026-08-09
Circulates under Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore
Editorial status
The line is genuine to Apocalypse Now but commonly quoted without the surrounding monologue. The shortened form loses the scene's context and should be identified as an excerpt.
The film's scene contains a longer monologue; the popular sentence is a shortened excerpt rather than the complete quotation.
Earliest traceable appearance in this record: 1979 film Apocalypse Now.
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