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One way to look at films is through the lens of genre.
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By now you all know the story of apocalypse now.
One of a cluster of late 1970s films about the vietnam war francis ford coppola s apocalypse now adapts the joseph conrad novella heart of darkness to depict the war as a descent into primal madness.
She sees the first part of the film as a.
But what if we look a little deeper.
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One part vietnam one part joseph conrad s heart of darkness one part jonestown as it could have been.
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And the most obvious way to think about apocalypse now is as a war movie.
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Way more important than my first screening however is the story behind the making of apocalypse now the film was legendarily produced over budget from an initial 14 million to costing.
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Apocalypse now is a 1979 american epic war film directed produced and co written by francis ford coppola it stars marlon brando robert duvall martin sheen frederic forrest albert hall sam bottoms laurence fishburne harrison ford and dennis hopper the screenplay co written by coppola and john milius and narration written by michael herr was loosely based on the 1899 novella heart of.
Apocalypse now redux released in 2001 was over three hours more diffuse more of a thematic and narrative incoherence but also mostly galvanically hallucinatory.
Ruby rich makes a compelling case that coppola s film actually moves through several different genres as it unfolds.
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Ruby rich jump cut february 27 2020 one of the pleasures of apocalypse now is that coppola never settles for a single explanation.
And now we have apocalypse now final cut hitting almost exactly the three hour mark.
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