Hello Nagel,
concerning "Apocalypse now" you wrote :
" ... I do agree it's a brilliant work, but it's still leftist propaganda. just take that one scene where the can comes in playing Wagner, come on! Wagner for God's sake, and attack the "peaceful" village where the children are sitting down in school? We're portrayed as the invading horde. that movie is a blatent piece of antiwar propaganda. I do love the air cav scene, ... "
People don't die in wars, this is all (leftist) propaganda. Maybe they did not play Wagner, but in original camera footages of Vietnam they indeed had mounted loudspeakers, only thing is they mostly played Rock'n roll going in, not Wagner. Why not say it ? A village "proven" to be a vietcong one was mostly erased, collateral damage with civilians. Sh*t happens. How could a frightened 18-year old farmer boy from Idaho possibly decide what to do when they found a gun in a hut in the jungle. Chewing gums when igniting a hut with a Zippo lighter maybe is leftist propaganda, as well as Americans dying at all, i know. (dropping atom bombs over civilian targets including schoolchildren is also leftist propaganda). I do not discuss whether it was necessary to do that, but to call leftist propaganda anything presenting what really happened without showing the US flag every two minutes and having a marine say "Yessir!" - B.S.! Leftist propaganda is something else.
I do not think the film really makes sense in a way the original author really meant, because the book Coppola got the idea from is no military or "leftist" one, Coppoly only transferred the story from another location and time to the far east into a war. And even the hidden story behind within the film is not about war.
Greetings,
Catfish
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