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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...
- War, Drama
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.
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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.
Apocalypse Now. An Army captain's secret mission becomes a journey into madness in Francis Ford Coppola's spectacular drama of the Vietnam War. 12,373 IMDb 8.4 2 h 27 min 1979. X-Ray R. Drama · Military and War · Ambitious · Cerebral.
Apocalypse Now explores the fragile human psyche when its morality is challenged and its sanity is questioned—a psychological focus wrapped in the grim tapestry of the Vietnam War. Instead of a mere anti-war narrative, this Best Picture nominee at the 52nd Academy Awards probes deeper, manifesting as a timeless allegory of man’s inner ...
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Overview. At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
