Apocalypse Now Now

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Mr Žižek rejects the modern idea of progress, sometimes described as the Whig interpretation of history, arguing instead that we have entered into a new age of great-power rivalry and resource scarcity. Francis Ford Coppola ( cameo) as a TV news director filming beach combat; he shouts "Don't look at the camera, go by like you're fighting!" Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro plays the cameraman by Coppola's side.

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Raja, Masood (2007). "Joseph Conrad: Question of Racism and the Representation of Muslims in his Malayan Works". Postcolonial Text. 3 (4): 13. Archived from the original on 21 November 2021.

Returning to Europe, Marlow is embittered and contemptuous of the "civilised" world. Several callers come to retrieve the papers Kurtz entrusted to him, but Marlow withholds them or offers papers he knows they have no interest in. He gives Kurtz's report to a journalist, for publication if he sees fit. Marlow is left with some personal letters and a photograph of Kurtz's fiancée. When Marlow visits her, she is deep in mourning although it has been more than a year since Kurtz's death. She presses Marlow for information, asking him to repeat Kurtz's final words. Marlow tells her that Kurtz's final word was her name. Today, the movie is regarded by many as a masterpiece of the New Hollywood era. Roger Ebert considered it the finest film on the Vietnam War and included it on his list for the 2002 Sight & Sound poll for the greatest movie of all time. [120] [121] In the 2002 Sight & Sound director's poll of the "greatest films of all time", it was ranked No. 19. [122] [123] It is on the American Film Institute's 100 Years...100 Movies list at number 28, but dropped to number 30 on their 10th anniversary list. Kilgore's quotation, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning", written by Milius, was number 12 on the AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movie Quotes list and was also voted the greatest movie speech of all time in a 2004 poll. [124] In 2006, Writers Guild of America ranked the screenplay, by John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola, the 55th greatest ever. [125] It is number 7 on Empire 's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time. [126] Empire re-ranked it at #20 in their 2014 list of The 301 Greatest Movies of All Time, [127] and again at #22 on their 2018 list of The 100 Greatest Movies. [128] It was voted No. 66 on the list of "100 Greatest Films" by the prominent French magazine Cahiers du cinéma in 2008. [129] In 2010, The Guardian named Apocalypse Now "the best action and war film of all time". [130] In 2016, The Hollywood Reporter ranked it 11th among 69 winners of the Palme d'Or. [131] The New York Times included it on its Best 1000 Movies Ever list. [132] Entertainment Weekly ranked it as having one of the "10 Best Surfing Scenes" in cinema. [133]A classic, and probably King’s best novel (don’t come for me) is a behemoth (famously inspired by The Lord of the Rings) with many threads and characters, all set in a world ravaged by a pandemic caused by a weaponized strain of influenza that is fatal to 99.4% of those who encounter it. So you may not want to read it right now!