The french plantation sequence finally explained

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The French Plantation Sequence FINALLY Explained | Ep19 | Making Apocalypse Now

The film contains several alterations and entire scenes that were cut from the original version.[6] The longest section of added footage in the Redux version is a "French Plantation" sequence, in which the Americans encounter an extended French family operating a rubber plantation, holdovers from French colonization. The scene also includes Coppola's two sons Gian-Carlo and Roman, appearing as children of the family. Around the dinner table, the French family patriarchs argue about the positive side of colonialism in Indochina and the failures at the Battle of ;i;n Bi;n Ph;. A young French child recites a poem by Charles Baudelaire entitled L'albatros. The father, Hubert de Marais, played by Christian Marquand, tells Willard that the US created the Viet Cong, to fend off Japanese invaders. A notable line in the dialog is when Hubert describes why they are still here, saying: "When you ask me why we want to stay here, Captain… we want to stay here because it’s ours. It belongs to us. It keeps our family together. I mean, we fight for that. While you Americans… you are fighting for the biggest nothing in history."[7]

Willard and a young woman of the family who has been widowed, played by Aurore Cl;ment, are attracted to each other. Later she fixes him a pipe of opium and shares her bed with him - the only sex scene in what was previously a war movie.[8]