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What is the best war movie ever? Not Rambo 2, not Saving Private Ryan, but the legendary story of Vietnam War told by Francis Ford Coppola. This uncompromising film shows American soldier for the first time as a real person without all of those pathetic aura around. The director speaks about things that many people are afraid to think even nowadays.
Coppola gives us an image of America’s army that is not filled with heroes but people who are acting like ordinary people. Sometimes they just follow orders, sometimes they use their position to gain glory and money. Some of them start to think independently and because of that they become enemies. The whole story is complicated and twisted but the main plot consist Captain Benjamin L. Willard’s (brilliant role of Martin Sheen) journey up river into the dark heart of the Cambodian jungle in search for Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando). This journey shows not only the real aspects of war, but using the conflict, alien environment and collision of western civilization with totally new philosophy, shows the darkest side of human nature.
The visual side of the show looks great. Don’t be fooled by the age of the movie (1979) – it doesn’t look old. And the scene when the flying cavalry is attacking a Vietnam village is one of the most impressive and most disturbing battle scene I’ve ever seen. And such lines like Robert Duvall saying “I love the smell of napalm in the morning” is one of the most recognizable oneliners in cinematographic history. Marlon Brando is in his best form (acting and looking), there is also disturbing Dennis Hooper and as a bonus small appearance from (not so famous yet) Harrison Ford.
I can surely recommend this movie to anyone that wants to feel something not so obvious and to see another face of war.
Apocalypse Now!, 1979. Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola. Starring: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Laurence Fishbourne, Harrison Ford, Dennis Hooper.
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