And its legacy stems primarily from the latter, all its perfect shots (DP Vittorio Storaro won the Oscar for his cinematography) and set pieces and quotable dialogue, as a movie that presents war as both awful and awesome, a Hell for humanity but heaven for cinephiles. Not only did it help shape the depiction of the Vietnam War in cinema, despite not really dealing with much of the main conflict and despite being barely sourced in authenticity, but on its own terms, Apocalypse Now is a masterpiece of drama and iconography. ![]() ![]() Eliot, James George Frazer’s The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, Werner Herzog’s Aguirre: The Wrath of God - yet is also itself one of the most influential movies of all time. Not unlike Star Wars, which was made by almost Apocalypse Now helmer George Lucas, the Vietnam War-set odyssey is a mashup of influences - including its core basis in Joseph Conrad’s The Heart of Darkness, plus the poetry of T.S. ![]() After cementing his place in the filmmaking hall of fame with two parts of The Godfather and the brilliant surveillance thriller The Conversation, not to mention his decade-starting first Oscar win for writing Patton, director Francis Ford Coppola closed out the 1970s with a mix of New Hollywood auteurism and blockbuster ambition in the intimately epic war movie Apocalypse Now.
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