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Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr, is loosely inspired by the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War.
Marlon Brando (1924 – 2004) was an American actor and considered one of the most influential actors of the 20th century. [1]Having studied with Stella Adler in the 1940s, he is credited with being one of the first actors to bring the Stanislavski system of acting, and method acting, to mainstream audiences.
An unnamed and psychotic Vietnam War veteran who returns from the Vietnam War sexually assaults and kills random women who stop at the filling station where he works as a gas station attendant. 1974 Canada Deathdream: Bob Clark: War veteran returns home as a living corpse. [31] 1974 US The Trial of Billy Jack: Tom Laughlin
The younger Sheen had previously starred in Stone's 1986 Best Picture winner, Platoon, which was inspired by the filmmaker's own experiences as a soldier in the Vietnam War. For their second movie ...
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The film opens with a mortar attack on the 1st Australian Task Force (1 ATF) base at Nui Dat by the Viet Cong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN). During the attack, Major Harry Smith is cool under fire, ordering his men to take cover and stand to, while other soldiers don't take it seriously, playing cards or drinking beer.
Free Money (also known as Double Nickels) [2] [3] is a 1998 Canadian black comedy film directed by Yves Simoneau, produced by Nicolas Clermont and written by Anthony Peck and Joseph Brutsman, and starring Marlon Brando in his penultimate film (his final screen appearance was in 2001's The Score).
One star has become Brando for a new film titled Waltzing with Brando, which focuses on the actor between the years 16 and 1974, when he starred in The Godfather and Last Tango in Paris.