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Stephen Smith's avatar

I prefer the cut version, but I fully understand why people like the Redux as it extends the madness their going towards, the idea that civilisation is slowly slipping away the farther they go up river and there's nothing they can do to stop it and in some cases, Willard's, want to stop it. He wants to see what's at the end, to face it and see who comes out the victor. The two scenes that stick out for me are Lt. Col. Kilgore saying 'Some day this wars gonna end.' The contrasting look on his face, resignation and Willard's face, your insane, was an epic moment of film making and the edit of the scene ending right there was genius. The other, the bridge a Do Lung when Willard asks 'Hey solder, who's in charge here?' 'Ain't you!' Those two lines encapsulate the entire war from the macro perspective. A damming indictment of Washington and the generals running that disaster.

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Clint Till's avatar

The documentary "Hearts of Darkness" that Coppola's wife made about the production is incredible. Also, I remember having to read three novels by the same author for McGuffey's AP English class and then write a term paper examining common themes threaded throughout each book. She was tough, but I really enjoyed her class.

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