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The weight of US power, two and a half years after the big buildup began, is beginning to make itself felt.'

9 seconds sound clip from the Apocalypse Now movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 02:50:16 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Time magazine, the weekly news magazine...

- September 22nd, 1967, volume 90, number 12.

- The war on the horizon.

- The American people may find it hard to believe that the US is winning the war in Vietnam.

- Nevertheless, one of the most exhaustive inquiries into the status of the conflict yet compiled offers considerable evidence...

- The weight of US power, two and a half years after the big buildup began, is beginning to make itself felt.'

- White House officials maintain the impact of that strength may bring the enemy to the point where he could simply be unable to continue fighting.

- Is this familiar?

- Because Lyndon Johnson fears that the US public is in no mood to accept its optimistic conclusions, he may never permit the report to be released in full.

- Even so, he is sufficiently impressed with the findings...

- And sufficiently anxious to make their conclusions known to permit experts who have been working on it to talk about it in general terms.

[...]

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Actors: Marlon Brando (Colonel Walter Kurtz), Martin Sheen (Captain Benjamin Willard), Dennis Hopper (American photojournalist), Robert Duvall (Lt. Col. William "Bill" Kilgore), Frederic Forrest (Jay "Chef" Hicks)

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