"==Themes== 
 I don't think Willard ""murders... in cold blood"" the girl on the sampan - I think she was mortally wounded - it appears that she's shot with at least 3 or 4 rounds.  I think Willard was putting her out of her misery.  Who agrees?    

 :That whole section has been tagged for being a personal essay for a long time, and has a lot of unsourced claims (I don't think any of them are sourced, actually), and now people are disagreeing with stuff on it... I went ahead and removed the section  if someone disagrees with that, let's talk about it here.   

 I took it that he was finishing her off so that they wouldn't have any further ties (considering their mission is rather illeagal to begin with). No one would know it was they who killed the entire family, and no one would be following them or holding them for violations of the ROE.   

 ==Jarhead== 
 pretty sure jarhead has a scene with apocalypse now in it 

  
 Replaced the description of Mr Coppola as suicidal with temperamental. Surely a more accurate reflection..  

 Warning: Reading this will spoil the entire movie. In the film, Martin Sheen has been commanded to bring back Colonel Kurtz from the dense Vietnam jungle, played by Marlon Brando. As he makes his journey there, he sees scenes of violence and insanity, such as a young Laurence Fishburne (little Larry Fishburne) mow down a Vietnamese fishing boat. He also sees the darndest things, like Larry Fishburne dancing to Satisfaction on the tip of their boat, and dudes surfing while battles were going on. He makes it to where Kurtz has settled down. He listens to Kurtz' crazy rants and ponders. He eventually hacks Kurtz apart with a machete. ""Mistah Kurtz, he dead"". 

 Killer film about the Vietnam war directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Marlon Brando and Dennis Hopper.  

  
 Practically a hallucinogenic trip, and Hopper's performance is a trip in itself.  

  
 I love the smell of napalm in the morning...  

 The film is based on Joseph Conrad's ""Heart of Darkness"", which also lends it's name to the film of the making of apocalypse now: ""Hearts of Darkness"". 

 Just as freaky and trippy as the film itself, if not more. 

 ::Halucinogens used by the soldiers during war plus several other factors (such as the dubious nature of the ""domino effect"", wich was one of the reassons why America went to war) led to Viet Nam being one of the most complicated wars in american history (so far, the only counted defeat for america). All that is very well accounted in Apocalipse Now, perhaps one of the most faithful adaptations of the Nam war. Yet, it was criticized for the same issue, as it was one of the first Viet Nam movies to show up, critics were specting a movie about Viet Nam, not about Colonel Kurtz or about a poetical Journey into darkness. Years later, Platoon came up, widely praised for giving importance more to the war than to the story, wich all in all was a lot like the one in Apocalipse Now. 

  
 == Quotes == 
 Isn't it better to link to wikiquote than to have quotes on this page? 

 :Certainly quotes like the one about the smell of Napalm in the morning and Willard being just an errand boy are pertinent enough, but perhaps the others could be moved to WikiQuote. -   

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 == Synopsis edited == 

 I fixed the most obvious spelling, grammar, and punctuation mistakes in the synopsis.  It's still a pretty leaden piece of writing (sorry, whoever you are), but it more closely resembles English now. 

 : No kidding; I shudder to think what it was like before you upgraded.  I just spent another 45 minutes or so grinding away.  A couple more passes and it'll be a plausible entry.   

 Shouldn't scenes that only appear in REDUX be listed seprately and not included as scenes in the film.  There is a section devoted to REDUX which goes over thes