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Apocalypse Now Movie Review & Film Summary

Apocalypse Now Movie Review & Film Summary (1979)

    
Setting Apocalypse Now (1979) - Produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, this is a visually beautiful revolutionary masterpiece featuring symbolic and surreal scenes detailing The chaos, violence, fear and nightmarish madness of the Vietnam War. Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War film, Apocalypse Now, tells the story of Captain Willard hunting down and killing the AWOL Colonel Kurtz downstream for his Known for its beauty, vision and vision, it has become one of the best films ever made. Francis Ford Coppola named Apocalypse Now the best Vietnam War movie and included it in a 2002 Sight & Sound poll of the best movies of all time. If Apocalypse Now seemed to foreshadow the many Vietnamese films that followed by melding the moral contradictions of the action thriller "Platoon," the psychodrama "The Deer Hunter," and "Full Metal Jacket," it was because at the time, Francis Ford Coppolas assumed this would be the only American film about Vietnam. [Sources: 1, 2, 8, 9]
    
Indeed, when Francis Ford Coppola's epic Apocalypse Now premiered in 1979, the Vietnam War had just ended four years later, and the ensuing war between Vietnam and Cambodia (where the film climaxes) ) is in full swing. Because here, in a navy captain's journey through the dark heart of Vietnam, Francis Ford Coppola captures the specter of the entire war: its horror, its madness and grotesque, its cosmic absurdity. Apocalypse Now follows Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Shin) on a river trip from South Vietnam to Cambodia, where he is on a secret mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Brando), one of the renegade Army Special Forces officer charged with murder, allegedly insane Brando). [Sources: 0, 2, 8]
    
Martin Sheen plays Captain Willard, a US Navy hitman who is recruited to find and kill former star officer Colonel Walter Kurtz, who is now AWOL and commands a private militia somewhere in Cambodia. U.S. Army hitman Willards is shown a photograph and story of a witty and brilliant American officer, once a distinguished operations officer and war hero, and now a demented, deranged, and rebellious green beret colonel named Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando). As the film reaches its climax, we know more about Willards' elusive prey, Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Brando), than we do about Captain Benjamin Willard. [Sources: 1, 3, 8]
    
Whether Willards' elusive prey is sane or not is irrelevant (although it's clear his superiors think he's out of his mind); Kurtz has become a danger and a disgrace and must be eliminated. The entire film is a journey into Willard's understanding of how Kurtz, one of the best soldiers in the army, penetrated the reality of war to the point where Kurtz could no longer look at it without madness and desperation. The entire journey turns into a leisurely hell (the Redux version adds another 49 minutes of footage) when Willard ends up sacrificing the psychological qualities that separate him from Kurtz, becoming the very thing he was sent to destroy. [Sources: 3, 4, 7]
    
The effect is to bring to the fore the mystical nature of Willard's journey and move the Mikong River from a narrative thread into a fragile haven of conscience, morality, and civilization that inexorably weakens as one approaches Kurtz's complex. The film's storyline is provided by the Mikong River, an artery that runs through the center of the war. River Nung Journey is powerful and eerie, and captures the core madness of war in a way that other films, including notable undertakings like The Bridge on the River Kwai and Platoon, have failed. [Sources: 3, 8]
    
Willard's journey upstream from Vietnam is at first glance an action adventure, but it is equally obvious an allegory for the madness of war and a metaphor for an inward journey. Part Deux, includes a short scene in which Sheen is in a boat on a river in Iraq during a rescue operation and passes the film's lead actor, Martin, as he crosses over. In the new montage, this is followed by a lengthy French plantation scene where the discussion revolves around colonialism and communism and culminates in a furry, opium-soaked sex scene between Willard and a French widow (Aurora Clement) that looks like this. was taken from a soft porn movie about a French plantation, a furry, opium-soaked sex scene between Willard and a French widow (Aurora Clement) that seems to have been pulled from a weak soft porn movie. [Sources: 2, 3, 5]
    
The entire film has one of the most unsettling endings in cinema, a poetic reminiscence of what Kurtz has discovered and what we hope not to discover. In the final 30 minutes, as Brando appears as the mad Kurtz, the film turns into a marvelous philosophical quest through improvisation and chaos to find answers and solutions to the mysteries of madness and evil. The film opens (at The Doors The End) with a gripping seven-minute montage of nightmares, flashbacks and omens as Willards' destroyed and consumed demons consume him in a hotel room in Saigon. [Sources: 5, 7]
    
Celluloid shots containing fades are harder to reconstruct than normal shots, and the film's opening shot is one of the most famous overlays in film history: images of napalm-dropping helicopters are superimposed on both a ceiling fan in a motel room and an upside-down image. the face of Martin Shins, Captain Willard, the wounded man whose memory binds them together. The 139-minute version ended with Willard's boat, a stone statue that faded to black with no credits except for "Copyright 1979 Omni Zoetrope" shortly after Apocalypse Now ended. A new modification of Apocalypse Now used original footage and restored scenes cut from Apocalypse Now (1979) (to include more details about the character of US Army assassin Willards, his crew, and Colonel Kurtz (in one scene where he reads from a real and shows how they lied to the American public), an extended episode of the Playboy Playmates after their helicopter was shot down, and an additional episode of French colonial plantations). [Sources: 1, 2, 6]
    
Apocalypse Now (1979) follows the mission of U.S. Army assassin Willards (starring Martin Sheen), a journey both mental and physical to put an end to a dangerously illegal warlord and former Colonel Kurtz (Brando) who has gone AWOL and became a self-proclaimed god. and control a squad of local jungle warriors. Filled with unforgettable visuals, including a napalm raid on a Vietnamese village, Willard emerges slowly but spectacularly from the black, oily water, and Kurtz, spitting out some poetry, mostly madness about his command (and dying from whispering the words "horror...horrors ”), Apocalypse Now is a thought-provoking yet rewarding vision of heartache and upside down. Apocalypse Now was also voted by viewers as the second best war movie on Channel 4's 100 Greatest War Movies and was the second highest rated war movie of all time on Movifone's list (after Schindler's List) and on IMDb's War Movies list (after "The Longest Day"). [Sources: 1, 2, 4]
    



    

        
    



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[9]: https://www.theweek.co.uk/entertainment/5191/apocalypse-now-original-1979-reviews