Apocalypse Now
You smell that? Do you smell that? 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 12 hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn’t find one of ’em, not one stinkin’ dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like… victory. Someday this war’s gonna end…
Robert Duvall’s monologue in 1979’s Apocalypse Now is simply unforgettable. As Lt. Col. Kilgore, Duvall’s “Napalm in the morning” monologue comes as his troops are on a Vietnamese War raid on a ravaged beachfront.
