The cross-on-the-chest joke
I don't get it.
shareThere was no-joke to get. Boedin had gone crazy. Hardin, Spencer and the rest of the squad didn't 'get-it' either. Why did Boedin strip bare-chested and daub a cross on his chest in red paint? Was it to be reminscent of a Christian crusader 'exacting revenge' against a 'savage non believing enemy'? Boedin did say when asked that it was to represent 'the avenging angel'. Who knows, he was crazy!
shareThat may explain why crazy people are always bursting into fits of hysterical laughter; they must be laughing at some crazy person in-joke that you'd have to be Nutters-O-Butters in order to get.
I guess that's why mental intitutions are sometimes referred to as 'funny farms.'
Makes you wonder......maybe they know something we don't.
For fans of this movie....I HIGHLY recommend "Dispatches" by Michael Herr.....it heavily inspired Apoc Now and FMJ.
There's a great line in it about someone going crazy; (roughly) "he followed the blacklight arrow around the bend to find the madness that had been waiting for him for (enter grunt's age) XX years.....
Thanks for the recommendation.
sharedalldorfw wrote:
"That may explain why crazy people are always bursting into fits of hysterical laughter; they must be laughing at some crazy person in-joke that you'd have to be Nutters-O-Butters in order to get."
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They're laughing at the absurdity of our human existences and wondering why nobody else does.
So crazy people are like Bill Hicks.
sharedalldorfw wrote:
"So crazy people are like Bill Hicks."
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The great Bill Hicks did have the advantage of articulating the absurdity more comprehensibly.
Oh yeah, that's true. Bill Hicks managed to make others laugh with him.
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