13-09-2009, 11:12 AM
Gary Loughran Wrote:Keith Millea Wrote:Richard Armitage reminds me very much like the character(Special Forces Colonel Kurtz) played by Marlon Brando in the movie "Apocalypse Now".The physical characteristics are also extemely identical.
I imagine if you looked into (beyond wikipedia if possible) Tony 'Po(e)' Posephny - you might find a closer match. A very interesting man.
You know your movies Gary. Tony Posephy (Tony Poe) HERE:
Quote:Tony Poe was a former World War II U.S. Marine and legendary Paramilitary Operations Officer during the Vietnam War. He is sometimes labeled as the model for the character Colonel Kurtz in the 1979 film Apocalypse Now.[16][146] Poe was awarded the Intelligence Star twice, a very rare occurrence.[147] Poe gained the respect of the Hmong forces with practices that were barbaric even by native standards. The Hmong fighters brought him the ears of dead enemy soldiers, and he mailed the ears to the U.S. embassy in Vientiane to prove the body counts. He dropped severed heads onto enemy locations twice in a grisly form of psy-ops. He was also wounded several times in combat and is still held in very high esteem by the Hmong community in the United States. [148]
But it seems that both Tony Poe and Francis Ford Coppola deny the connection:
Quote:Retirement
After the war Poshepny remained in Thailand with his Hmong wife and four children. He moved the family to California in the 1990s. He frequently appeared at Hmong veteran gatherings and helped veterans immigrate and settle in the US. He freely admitted his actions during the war to reporters and historians, saying they were a necessary response to communist aggression.
Several press stories have suggested that Poshepny was the model for Colonel Walter Kurtz in the film Apocalypse Now, but both Poshepny and director Francis Ford Coppola have denied the connection.
Good to see you here Mr. Leprechaun. :tee:
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14