In Reply to: War movies that got it right...at least according to those that were there... posted by TWB on May 27, 2020 at 02:47:22:
My dad toured Vietnam in 1966.
In 1979 or 1980 we took him to see Apocalypse Now and he said that in his time there he absolutely saw everything in the movie, except for guys fighting with ghetto blasters. He said Apocalypse Now was like a timelapse of his tour.
Trying to hide from entropy
John K
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Follow Ups
- Apocalypse Now - JDK 00:40:58 05/29/20 (5)
- RE: Apocalypse Now - BillH 09:54:40 05/30/20 (1)
- The Col Kurtz character was partly based on an Australian Army guy - JDK 17:57:08 05/30/20 (0)
- AN captures the context not the history of the . . . - Billy Wonka 22:46:30 05/29/20 (2)
- I believe so - JDK 18:00:42 05/30/20 (0)
- That was my impression of the film too... luckily I didn't have to go... - TWB 08:43:58 05/30/20 (0)