Posted on Aug 9, 2019
Francis Ford Coppola: 'Apocalypse Now is not an anti-war film'
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t is to my surprise, then, that Coppola hesitates to call the film “anti-war”. “No one wants to make a pro-war film, everyone wants to make an anti-war film,” he says. “But an anti-war film, I always thought, should be like [Kon Ichikawa’s 1956 post-second world war drama] The Burmese Harp – something filled with love and peace and tranquillity and happiness. It shouldn’t have sequences of violence that inspire a lust for violence. Apocalypse Now has stirring scenes of helicopters attacking innocent people. That’s not anti-war.”
Francis Ford Coppola: 'Apocalypse Now is not an anti-war film'
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Later, the cook being decapitated by Marlon Brando and the sixteen-year-old Laurence Fishburne being killed while listening to a tape from his mom from home demonstrates the insanity of War. Then Marlon Brando talking about the horror and asking that Captain Willard kill him and destroy his army with an air strike buy a B-52 also known as ArcLight.
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LtCol Robert Quinter I first saw this movie as a teenager in Honduras. My family was in San Pedro Sula. Funny to see Apocalypse Now and my laughs a second or two before the others did because of understanding English instead of the subtitles. I recall at the ending of Apocalypse Now had a difference explosion scene with the Buddhist temple being bombed by the B-52's and the cameras were inside the temple area. Even though I have seen Apocalypse Now Redux, the ending was different for this export version with subtitles. Could you elaborate on the extreme?
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LTC (Join to see) - By its nature, war requires a soldier to put aside what he has been taught his entire life and start living by standards necessary to survive and perform his duty. Dependent upon the circumstances, those new standards become so overwhelming and demanding that, were the individual back in the peace environment, he would probably walk out of a psychiatrist office with multiple diagnosys. What people do in war borders on the insane with a very thin margin between sane accomplishment of one's duty and an insane compulsion. Please excuse if this doesn't make sense to a trained specialist, I'm just an old stick and throttle guy.
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Five Came Back Trailer: Netflix WWII Documentary
Five Came Back Official Trailer - Netlfix: Watch the trailer for the Netflix documentary Five Came Back narrated by Meryl Streep with appearance by Steven Sp...
LtCol Robert Quinter
Yes, Roger, good copy. Audie Murphy, SGT. York and hundreds of thousands of veterans are changed. These 5 directors were changed by War.
https://youtu.be/KmQvEVeGj5c
Yes, Roger, good copy. Audie Murphy, SGT. York and hundreds of thousands of veterans are changed. These 5 directors were changed by War.
https://youtu.be/KmQvEVeGj5c
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