Apocalypse Now (1979)  |
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Coppola and Milius based their script loosely on Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Search and destroy; terminate with extreme prejudice—this is Sheen’s mission. But it is the insanity of the Vietnam war (“I love the smell of napalm in the morning…”) that really blows his mind. By the time he reaches renegade Green Beret Brando, his crew is dead, and he has nearly become the man he was sent to kill.
Coppola and Milius based their script loosely on Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Search and destroy; terminate with extreme prejudice—this is Sheen’s mission. But it is the insanity of the Vietnam war (“I love the smell of napalm in the morning…”) that really blows his mind. By the time he reaches renegade Green Beret Brando, his crew is dead, and he has nearly become the man he was sent to kill.
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