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Apocalypse Now (1979)

Author: Francis Ford Coppola
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Extended: CAPT, LT, WO2, SGT
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Director, Francis Ford Coppola. (147min)
Based on Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness, a young Army captain is sent on a mission to eliminate a ‘rogue’ colonel waging his own war in-country. Filled with memorable lines and scenes (‘I love the smell of napalm in the morning … smells like victory’, ‘terminate, with extreme prejudice’, ‘Charlie don’t surf ’), the film is more philosophical than strictly historical in its meditations on truth, corruption and the brutalising effects of war. 
 

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