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From: waltt@tekecs.UUCP (Walt Tucker)
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Subject: Re: Quote (Help!)
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Date: Mon, 6-May-85 11:57:33 EDT
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> >I saw the credits to "Apocalypse Now" on tv this week (but
> >missed part of the movie), and they credited Eliot's "The Hollow Men."
> >Did anyone catch where in the movie it was used?  Was it the bang...whimper
> >section, the "headpieces filled with straw line," or something else?
> >
> >Bill Hery
> 
> Near the end there's a scene or three where Kurtz (Marlon Brando) is
> reading from Elliot.  I think he starts with "We are the hollow men"
> which apparently immediately preceeds the "headpieces filled..".

Also notic the strong similarities to Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" 
(i.e. Kurtz, "the horror, the horror", etc).   Someone said that in one
of the scenes Kurtz had "Heart of Darkness" on his bookshelf.  I didn't
catch it myself.

The whole movie seems to be almost an update of "Heart of Darkness".
The parallels are fascinating.

                             -- Walt Tucker
                                Tektronix, Inc