[Quick Summary from IMDB: During the on-going Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe.]
I know this is considered a classic, a movie of its time, among the first about Vietnam.
I know Rotten Tomatoes calls it a "masterpiece" & "brilliant", & gives it an extremely rare 99%.
But I don't get this script. I barely understood it until p. 100 of 155 pages. I even had to use the logline from IMDB because I was unable to make up my own.
Coppola clearly had a vision, given the finished film. But I couldn't see it on the page.
I didn't know why Willard is really on this journey. Tell me again why I want him to succeed?
I don't know what is the purpose of locating crazy Kurtz. To show the fruitlessness of war? To criticize the decision to go to war? I have no idea.
I exited the jungle very dissatisfied...but even worse than that, I learned squat.
WHAT I'VE LEARNED: I simply don't get this script, but wish I did. Anyone care to comment?
Apocalypse Now (1979)
by John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola
Based on the novel by Joseph Conrad
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