Hello everyone, today is a classic movie "Apocalypse Now" by Maran Bailongdu, this movie is a war class, the story is very exciting, the plot is careful, and everyone is deeply impressed after watching it.
During the Vietnam War, U.S. Captain Willard received orders from headquarters to find Colonel Coates, who had broken away from the U.S. Army. Coates once had a glorious history, but now it's insane. He established an independent kingdom in Cambodia, pursued barbaric, bloody, inhuman brutality, and sporadic radio propaganda to the U.S. military in a frenzied, almost nonsensical manner. Willard was ordered to find Coates and bring him back or kill him. With this order, Willard led a small group of soldiers up the Mekong River and crossed the jungle to Cambodia.
In the search for Colonel Coates, Willard crossed almost the entire Vietnamese battlefield. He witnessed scenes of atrocities, horrors, killings and deaths, and was deeply shaken. In the midst of the constant killing, Willard also almost became crazy. In the end, Willard and his party finally arrived in Coates's Kingdom of Terror. They fell into Coates's hands and were tortured. But it also allowed Willard to face Coates directly. Coates could have killed Willard, but he didn't, and with the help of Willard's hand, he completed the long-awaited death and finally got free from this crazy world. And Willard also deeply felt in the human heart?? They fell to their knees in front of him, and he had effectively replaced Coates.
Feeling disgusted by all this, Willa della gathered up her companions and boarded the ship and left. Coates' madness was stopped, but throughout the Vietnamese battlefield, terror and killing were still going on in a frenzy.
The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes International Film Festival in France, as well as the Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Sound. The reason why it is considered by critics to be the most profound and representative Vietnam War film is first of all because director Coppola integrates philosophical reflections on human nature, war, and modern civilization in this war-themed film, and skillfully integrates philosophical rationality and symbolism into the plot of the entire film. Secondly, the visual impact of the film is also shocking. According to Coppola's directorial intentions, the film pursues an opera-style dramatic lighting effect, making extensive use of backlight, contour light, background light, etc., and also specially casts red, yellow, green, blue, purple smoke and fireworks, making the bloody battlefield and mysterious jungle look like a colorful stage, and this modeling effect is also a satire on modern American civilization and the invasion of Vietnam. In addition, the film is also very successful in character development, the main characters of the film are not women, is a typical male theme of the war film. The famous movie star Marlon Brando plays Colonel Kurz in the film, dedicated to portraying the character's very complex inner world.
Although the film was a controversial work at the time, overall, Apocalypse Now is indeed a film that can shock people's hearts. Coppola's majestic technique, the gunfire of the Vietnam War, into the hellscape of the end of mankind, is a war epic film worth exploring, especially in the play with the psychedelic rock masterpiece of the doors with a helicopter Massacre scene, but also a classic shot praised by many fans.
All in all, the profound allegory, the grand scenes, the wonderful performances, and the shocking visual shapes make "Apocalypse Now" truly as the review said, "a war epic film that has reached the pinnacle of perfection.".
After the release of "Apocalypse Modern", the domestic box office reached 40 million US dollars, and the overseas box office reached 100 million. He also shared the Palme d'Or at that year's Cannes Film Festival with Tin Drum.
War is always thought-provoking, people's attitudes toward war are often inconsistent, this film will show you that war is actually inevitable, the reality is so cruel.
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