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SBj^mfinHSBIIBIl^ll^H^^^^ jjjj^ Martin Sh< i By David Baker Garrwcock Film Critic On page three of the progra handed out at the 70mm showin of Francis Ford Coppola Apocalypse Now, Coppola write "When I began working on t film, over four years ago, I thoug it was going to be the or Ampriran fpjitnrp film ma dealing with (Vietnam) war, a so I worked with that in mind." This quote, to me seems like last-ditch effort by a once-grc filmmaker to put the blame for $32 million folly on the moti picture marketplace, rather th on his own shoulders, where Knl/\?t rfo UCIUllgd. While it's true that Hero< Coming Home, The Boys Company C, Go Tell the Spartar Rolling Thunder and especiai The Deer Hunter have stol Apoca/ypsc's fury, it's also tr that Apocalypse just isn't a ve good movie to begin with. The picture is a heavy, ov wrought and underwritten atten at surrealism. The or, surrealistic qualities it possess However, are uiose provided Dy i beautifully disorienti cinematography of Vittoi Storaro, the man responsible 1 such breathtaking photography that in Bernardo Bertolucci's Lj Tango in Paris and 1900. The colors Storaro brings i Apocalypse make Vietnam 1< like an exploding Nirvana. C pola's use (perhaos overuse wo w -*^| Mel Martin and Chris top! In H.E. Bates 'Love for Lyt MfeT9>!S? 'VRS&^': h sen as ^st^iished Capta be the better word) of colored smoke helps to make the film seem m all the more circus-like. gs i's Unfortunatly, the stunning ts: visuals and Robert Duvall's brief, he but unforgettable portrait of Lt. [ht Col. Kilgore (a man who wipes out ily an entire village so that he and a de few of his men can go surfing) are nd the only things Apocalypse has going for it. a ;at The biggest problem with the a film is its lack of an adequate on script. Written by John Milius and an Coppola, the script, which is based it on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, deals with a young army captain's assignment to seek out and "terminate with extreme in prejudice" a renegaade colonel 1 ? _ 11 a_ _r A i_i _ 1Sv wiiu la uausing an soru> 01 irouuie lly in Cambodia. en ue The dialogue, or what there is of ry it, doesn't add anything whatsoever to the story. Most of the lines are infuriating in their er- crypticism and Michael Herr's lpt narration (evidently added as an ily afterthought, when Coppola tv> Avrin rvrn/^A li^f In CS, icantcu liic iiiuvic uiauc nine the sense, chronological or otherwise ng is so heavy-handed and blatant rio that it suffocates both the viewer for and the movie itself. as ast Some of the scenes in the film do succeed in making the viewer recoil in his seat, though they nto aren't the ones that were supposed [>ok to achieve that effect. As Captain op Willard (Martin Sheen) and his uld band of not-so-merry men Ill' v'"*" llis!i?Psi?fi88^?i?BHlMW3?4MtflB^ ^*"** '' '" '"v"' ' ---^> -.' ^n^BHn s ' E36fli^8P10^ifS6W**S wr Blake continue life in the 20's Ha' on channel 35 Sunday's at 9. sJfe vAfif-9 ^:+-^r^y^:jZ^jz: in Willard Jgfe (Frederic Forrest, Albert 1 Sam Bottoms and Larry I burne) are moving uprivei search of Colonel Kurtz (Ms Brando), several of the men b to sing along with a radio br cast of the Rolling Stones' Can't Get No) Satisfaction." I'm sure the scene was bril when Coppola conceived it, now it seems like nothing r Hon o tri lrnctir nf tKn Km VIIMI1 U UUVViJijr \J A. tliv k/U A singalong in The Deer Hunter. Another scene, wherein E dumps the severed head of 01 Willards compatriots into sleeping Willard's lap remarkably reminiscent of liAn/4 i w% HUIOC O ucau DV.CUC 111 own The Godfather. Such repit from an artist of Coppola's ca provides evidence that the art IfM L'r nii HpoSMT I REGISTRATION: Oct. 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