Film Review – Apocalypse Now Redux

Image: IMDb The origins of the epic and spectacle-filled Apocalypse Now (1979) date back to the late 1960s, when two students at film school in southern California discussed making a film about the war in Vietnam. John Milius had heard a lot of stories about excessive and bizarre behaviour by US soldiers in Vietnam, like going surfing while attacking a peasant village. Milius began work on a script. The other student was George Lucas. The film never got made, and it was several years later, after US forces had withdrawn from Vietnam in 1973 (see MHM April/May 2023), that Oscar award-winning film-maker Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather) became excited about the project. By this time,