http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d79_1340827309 No monologue on screen has ever vividly portrayed the horror and passion of war more so than that delivered by Marlon Brando's Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse now. Sure, Kilgore's 'I love the smell of napalm in the morning' speech may hit you with all the senses; capturing the feel of war, but it has nothing on Kilgore's account of the true horrors it entails. Bathed in shadow, just a shaved head on screen and a weary Willard (Martin Sheen) to react, Kurtz is a forbidding image, frightening, grim; visually as striking as the story he recounts. This monologue captures the insanity that led him down his path; it is hard not to be repulsed and yet feel pity the man who encountered those child arms and turned as hard as a diamond as a result. An emotively powerful monologue indeed.