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Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr, is loosely inspired by the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War.
Aug 15, 1979 · Apocalypse Now: Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. With Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest. A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
In Vietnam in 1970, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) takes a perilous and increasingly hallucinatory journey upriver to find and terminate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once-promising officer who...
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Nov 28, 1999 · Francis Ford Coppola's film "Apocalypse Now" was inspired by Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad about a European named Kurtz who penetrated to the farthest reaches of the Congo and established himself like a god.
The mission is to travel upriver to assassinate a colonel, who's gone AWOL and acts like a demi-god to a group of tribal natives in the jungle. Taking the mission for what it is, Willard travels upriver along with a ragtag group of American soldiers, some of which are called by their nicknames.
The PBR crew glides into the desolate heart of Colonel Kurtz’s outpost—an abandoned Angkor temple now teeming with indigenous Montagnards. The temple grounds are a chilling sight, littered with the grisly remains of victims, a stark testament to the power Kurtz holds over this corner of the jungle.
Apocalypse Now. Roger Ebert June 01, 1979. Tweet. Arriving at the heart of darkness, Col. Kurtz's compound, in "Apocalypse Now." Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. In his book The Films of My Life, the French director Francois Truffaut makes a curious statement.
