Apocalypse Now
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Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" was made in 1979, as his attempt to help bring understanding to the Vietnam War. He based the movie on the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. In the novel, told in first person by an agent for an ivory trading company, the action involves going deeper and deeper into the Congo in search of an employee named Kurtz. As he travels further into the jungle, his thinking becomes more delusional and he begins to think in a much darker fashion. Coppola saw this tale as being similar to the situation in Vietnam. Instead of a company agent, he creates a Captain Willard (a hyper sensitive Martin Sheen) who is assigned a mission deep into the Cambodian jungles to find and neutralize the renegade Colonel Kurtz, played by Marlon Brando. Captain Willard goes on a Navy Patrol Boat up river deep into the jungle, and as he goes deeper into the jungle, more and more layers of civilization peel away. The film is narrated in Will
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)
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