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In Reply to: You must have missed the anti-war theme of Apocalypse. posted by oscar on October 13, 2006 at 06:02:47:
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.
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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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