Was Kurtz crazy or just misunderstood?

Was Kurtz crazy or just misunderstood?

neither, he just disagreed with how things should be run.

batshit

Kurtz was batshit insane. He was based on a real person. Read "a good place for a war".

i take it you've never heard of Heart of Darkness

is there really a difference man?

Yea. Im telling you to read a 2017 rand corporation/cfr press book about the shadow war in laos and cambodia, and the actual cia guy that kurtz was based on. But i skipped that month in tenth grade.

>he hasn't read one of the greatest and most well known novellas of all time
why? it'd take you the time of a single afternoon, and if you're a fan of apocalypse now it will only deepen your understanding and appreciation of it.

>rand corporation

Fucking dropped

actually Colonel Kurtz was based on the fictional ivory trader "Kurtz" from HoD. some of his lines are taken directly from the book.

Your not wrong. However kurtz never did almost anything the same in the 2 books and the big link is the river journey.

Hey look think im some illiterate that never passed 10th grade english. But a huge part of Sup Forums retardation isorons thinking they are geniuses for reading the required books list from high school.

Read pic related. Its fucking awesome.

kek

it was more that he was fighting a war he perceived as insane and acted accordingly (insane).

what are them in america btw? I always feel like a retard browsing /his/ and seems like most of them don't even read a lot of history books, they just learned in school
not eurobro btw

Yes, but the war he saw wasliterally insane. The guy he is based on slaughtered batallion sized forces. In the name of democracy. He acually at one point captured prisoners and dropped them out of a plane alive onto a training camp.

>named Kurz
>5'7"
Poetric as fuck

dude he wasn't based on that real life guy at all

I read rand and cfr books because i was employed by those types. I did 7 years in afghaniatan. I love that shit.

I don't feel that people are dumb because theh don't know, but i have absolute disdain when they tell me i dont.

He actually was. It was moon landing bro trying to get the story out and using heart of darkness as a medium.

Use your brain your heart and your dick. Read some books and do some missions. You will know it is true.

>Colonel Kurtz is based on the character of a 19th-century ivory trader, also called Kurtz, from the novella Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad.

The movie's Kurtz is widely believed to have been modeled after Tony Poe, a highly decorated and highly unorthodox Vietnam War-era paramilitary officer from the CIA's Special Activities Division.[2] Poe was known to drop severed heads into enemy-controlled villages as a form of psychological warfare and to use human ears to record the number of enemies his indigenous troops had killed. He would send these ears back to his superiors as proof of his efforts deep inside Laos.[3][4]

However, Coppola denies that Poe was a primary influence. Coppola says the character was loosely based on Special Forces Colonel Robert B. Rheault, whose 1969 arrest for the murder of a suspected double agent generated substantial news coverage.[5]

ya dumb grunt

Both.

Has anyone in this thread read this? It's been on my to buy list for a while.

He was the logical product of insanity.

Maybe im wrong. But i seriously doubt it.

I would still read the book if i were you its pretty amazing.

why did he let sheen kill him?

Kurt isn't crazy at all. He is a genius and understood by a lot of people, Marlow, his fiancé, the russian guy, ...

alright i'll read it

this ones pretty good too but gets really technical. put me to sleep a couple times

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willard claimed the heart of darkness, and it killed kurtz when it left him

He was the personification of the vietnam war. He was what happens if you fully embrace the war

He was the personification of chaos.

he was amoral, unhypocritical war. he showed the americans the ugly face of what they were doing in Vietnam and despite his effectiveness, nobody liked what they saw. they preferred their self deluding morality.

this, basically the vaccinated children story

Yeah, I read it last year.

Interesting journalism, but pretty poorly written. It gets extremely repetitive after the 200 page mark.

>Tiger Force goes to a new village and commits even more war crimes
>then after that, they go to a new village and commit more war crimes in boring detail
>then they go steal some beer and commit more war crimes
>then after that, guess what, they go to a new village and commit more war crimes

They were never persecuted for their crimes and the military covered it up, but that is never delved in to in any detail.

I give it a 5/10

More like the personification of MAGA

Trump/Kurtz 2020

So are you actually retarded? It's either that or a obvious shameless attempt at generating book sales

According to most other human's value system he was. Don't wanna get into a debate about the legitimacy of that though.

Well according to a quoted wikipedia article that i have not researched i am wrong.

But im pretty sure im right. And i would never tell you to buy a book. Libraries exist, nigger.

He a good boy