John Fardy
speaker
834 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 Sep
John Fardy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There was a monsoon.
There was a civil war.
Dennis Hopper was out of his mind.
Marlon Brando showed up late having not read the script.
They literally lost their minds making that movie.
And yet the result is one of the
the greatest war movies ever made.
I
Do yourself retreat and watch apocalypse.
That might be the most visceral piece of war fictionalized footage ever committed to screen, largely filmed in Ireland, you may remember at the time, and it's the chap's landing
On this coast, presumably in Normandy, I I I think it is, obviously, and it is so visceral
The most troubling thing is they're wearing these helmets, and you don't hear, you know, blood and guts.
You hear this tiny ping, and the bullets are getting through.
That's how useless their helmets was.
That 30 minutes is unforgettable.
It then goes into something very Spielberg-esque, where they're trying to rescue, as the name implies, this private Ryan.
And you have Tom Hanks doing.
You know, and no disrespect to him, but Tom Hanks is that kind of Jimmy Stewart, oh shucks, we gotta get on with it.
But he is brilliant.
And here he is giving a memorable speech basically saying how much of yourself you lose in war.
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