I watched the 196-minute extended version, which was also the first 3h+ movie this year. I went to the toilet twice, made a cup of coffee, and kept watching. The overall feeling was like a hallucination after eating poisonous mushrooms. Compared with the previous "Godfather" trilogy, Coppola in "Apocalypse Now" looks very unfamiliar. The best analogy should be to watch Fellini's movies first and see "The Great Road" and "Cabylia". Looking at the state of "Eight and a Half" again, it is completely different. Coppola also completely established his "state of the rivers and lakes" in the new Hollywood through this "Apocalypse Now". Vietnam is a high-frequency attraction for anti-war films. Coppola used the most daring techniques to shoot the most bland road film stories, showing the most absurd side of human nature in the environment of the Vietnam War. The flow of consciousness on the small stage of human nature is slow. I don’t know if it was Coppola’s intention. Several absurd scenes full of literature in the film even show the same texture as a stage play. I would like to call it "Post-Postmodernism".
The influence of "Apocalypse Now" on the following Vietnam War films is self-evident. Take the 20-year-old Spike Lee's Vietnam War film as an example. I don't believe that it did not learn from this film (although the core is different, at least Audio-visual language Spike Lee must have been working hard to pursue the same return). Oh yes, the most obvious audio-visual reference is "King Kong: Skull Island". It was only after I wrote this that I remembered that, as a Vietnam War movie, there is not a single passage that depicts the minefields in Vietnam. .
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