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You must have missed the anti-war theme of Apocalypse.

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In Reply to: Okay, let me explain a bit: by telling the story from the standpoint posted by tinear on October 11, 2006 at 18:36:56:

The Duvall scenes did NOT glorify Americans at war; rather it showed a rather entertaining view of a Americans pillaging a Vietnamese village. If anything the film glorified the heroic stand of poorly-armed VIetnamese against the foreign invaders.
Nothing in that movie suggested support for the Vietnamese war.

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"rather entertaining..." Well, exactly. Would a responsible - tinear 08:51:05 10/14/06 (0)
filmmaker make carnage "entertaining?"
Re: You must have missed the anti-war theme of Apocalypse. - rico 07:28:21 10/13/06 (1)
In the commentary Coppola mentions more than once that "Apocalypse Now" was not intended to be an anti-war film. The intent was to present Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" as a journey into surreal madness using the Viet Nam war as context.
- Right and one must ignore the fact that the most divisive, explosive, and - tinear 08:53:04 10/14/06 (0)
  important event of that time in American history is to be ignored in the context of the film?
  Hardly.
  If Coppola truly wished to just produce an allegory, he would have stuck to Conrad's short story.
  As it is, he chose the most inflammatory segment in our recent history.
  He ain't stupid.
  It's like a Holocaust film: can one use it as an allegory of human history, in general, and have no moral viewpoint?
  Coppola isn't naive so I'll just assume he's a liar or unable to self-criticize.

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