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Apocalypse Now and then. (Film).

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| January 01, 2002 | McDonald, Neil | COPYRIGHT 2002 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

APOCALYPSE NOW "is not a movie. My film is not about Vietnam, it is Vietnam. It was what it is really like. It is crazy. It is very much like the way the Americans were in Vietnam. We were in the jungle. There were too many of us. We had access to too much money: too much equipment. And we went insane." This is how Francis Ford Coppola introduced Apocalypse Now at the Cannes Film Festival in 1979.

His words seemed to confirm all the stories that had been circulating about a crazed cast and crew and a demented director floating upriver in a haze of pot smoke. Twenty-two years later we know better. The actors have spoken freely about their experiences in numerous ...


    
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