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Synopsis
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American anti-war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, written by Coppola and John Milius, with narration by Michael Herr, is loosely inspired by Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella Heart of Darkness, with the setting changed from the late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War. The film follows a river journey from South Vietnam into Cambodia undertaken by Captain Willard, who is on a secret mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz, a renegade Special Forces officer who is accused of murder and presumed insane. The ensemble cast also features Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper, G. D. Spradlin and Harrison Ford.
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Themes & motifs
the taxonomy ↗- Order and ChaosThemeMilitary order thins out with every mile upriver until command is one man in the dark reciting poetry — the chain of command as a thing that evaporates.
- Water That RisesMotifThe river is the plot — a current that runs one way only, and every mile it carries them is a mile that cannot be taken back.
Credits
- Producer
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Director
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Screenplay
- Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius, Michael Herr
- Director of Photography
- Vittorio Storaro
- Original Music Composer
- Francis Ford Coppola, Carmine Coppola
- Editor
- Richard Marks
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