Love the Blues Brothers and Carpenter quotes
Here is my contribution to the debate, an incredible speech delivered by possibly the finest film actor of all time:
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"I've seen horrors - horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that. But you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means.
Horror. Horror has a face - and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared.
They are truly enemies.
I remember when I was with Special Forces - seems a thousand centuries ago - we went into a camp to innoculate some children. We'd left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio. And this old man came running after us, and he was crying. He couldn't say. We went back there, and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were, in a pile. A pile of little arms. And, I remember, I cried, I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget it.
And then I realized, like I was shot, like I was shot with a diamond bullet through my forehead. And I thought, My God, the genius of that! The genius. The
will to do that.
Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure.
And then I realized, they were stronger than we. Because they could stand it. These were not monsters. These were men, strained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who have families, who have children, who are filled with love... that they had the strength, the strength to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men, then our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral, and at the same time, who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling, without passion. Without judgment.
Without Judgment. Because it's judgment that defeats us.
I worry that my son might not understand what I've tried to be. And if I were to be killed, Willard, I would want someone to go to my home and tell my son everything...
Everything I did. Everything you saw. Because there's nothing I detest more than the stench of lies. And if you understand me, Willard, you will do this for me."
---Marlon Brando as Colonel Kurtz, 'Apocalypse Now'
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