What a pleasure should be to be a film director and film a sequence like the beginning of Apocalypse Now
Martin Sheen as Captain Benjamin L. Willard is the spitting image of any of us in such a position ... in the middle of a war, uprooted from his family, numb, lonely, alcoholic ...
Ford Coppola, took Heart of Darkness by John Conrad as a guide and showed everyone what was happening in Vietnam in the 70's ... but also as an allegory of what can happen inside everyone's head under certain circumstances.. solitude, despair...
The music could not fit better .. and is where else can one realize the importance of music made for artistic purposes .. not for fun .. to denounce and to show the miseries that welfare societies want to hide..
And along with him ... Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Harrison Ford...
"My film is not a movie. My film is not about Vietnam, It is Vietnam" Francis Ford Coppola
Interview with the Director
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