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Rating: "You smell that? You smell that? Napalm, son! Nothing else in the world smells like that." I love the smell of Napalm in the morning..... We once bombed a hill, for twelve hours it was everywhere, no smell was quite like it and the whole hill smelled of Napalm..... of victory...."
Two Academy Awards (sound and cinematography), the soundtrack was composed by director Francis Ford and his father Carmine Coppola, actors Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Harrison Ford, Scott Glenn, Laurence Fishburne.
Harps, electric guitars, percussion, wind instruments, synthesizers, sound reproductions, and thus orchestral musicians who shaped the entire structure, almost entirely instrumental, very deep and I would say best enjoyed with the film’s images rather than on its own. Excellent tracks are "Opening: The End"- The Doors, "Suzie Q"- D. Hawkins, S. Lewis, E. Broadwater, while the most stunning and crucial, challenging scene is the village air raid while an officer surfs under Napalm bombings and Colonel Kilgore (Duvall) wants the fire from the skies to be accompanied by the music of R. Wagner "Ride Of The Valkyries", the trumpets blaring through the speakers must be able to instill ultimate terror and emphasize the power of the frenzied fury.
Captain Willard (Sheen) has been entrusted with a risky, secret, and extremely difficult mission, to reach the borders of Cambodia by ascending the river to terminate, without any qualms, the command of Colonel Kurtz (Brando), a mad and enigmatic deserter leading a group of deranged Vietnamese engaged in a personal war, and Willard might perhaps free himself from the demons that plagued his mind, the nightmare of a reality.
Speaking of Vietnam, Apocalypse Now is a masterpiece film that is based on the level of madness that can erupt within a being, it is a bringing to light the psyche hidden within the human soul that tries to find itself. Sometimes it's hard to distinguish the good part from the bad, from what is right or wrong, sometimes one doesn't notice anything at all. The film, the soundtrack, the images, the sets, the performances, are truly fantastic because they are all perfectly integrated, created for one another, one cannot speak only of the soundtrack, the direction, or the performance, because in this case, everything is an integral part of the whole, nothing would make sense without everything else. The total effect created in the film with explosions, lights, fireworks, flames, hallucinations, is a global representation of expressive force of war, of struggle but also of the attempt to normalize everything distorted in the present.
Coppola defines it as "a kind of divine comedy where each advance into the hell of war reveals a circle of the damned. The torment and damnation pause long enough to be known and observed. But they resume just as the boat pulls away", he wanted to be a director and writer in the imaginary exploration of the psyche.
Music and direction highlight the merciless atrocities committed where the viewer will be fully involved. The entire complete representation is a disturbing oneiric work.
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