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A Three Part Series Examining the Masterpiece that is Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Apocalypse Now’
Apocalypse Now (1979) A man in a fugue of drugs, alcohol, and violent imagery self destructs in the humid hotbox that is his smoke-filled hotel room in Saigon, Vietnam. He is Captain Benjamin Willard, soon to be tasked with killing a rogue Colonel by the name of Kurtz – an enigmatic figure who’s installed himself as a quasireligious leader in…
