Embrace Hyperreality

Lol Coppola didn't even fight in Vietnam.

isn’t apocalypse now just heart of darkness but with a vietnam war skin?

Song?

While working on Bonfire of the Vanities - I was befriended by the A Camera operator - Doug Ryan. Doug had gotten into the industry as the Marine technical advisor on Apocalypse Now. Coppola asked Doug to write on one sheet of paper everything weird he had seen the 6 months he was in Vietnam - he was in the first wave of Marines after the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. Coppola included everything Doug had written on that one sheet of paper in one scene - making it hyper-reality. I believe that scene is the one where Coppola is in the scene as a combat footage director yelling at Willard not to look at the camera as he was coming off the boat…