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In a production so bizarre that it inspired a fascinating documentary (Fax Barh's 1991 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse) and a full-length study (Peter Cowie's new The Apocalypse Now Book), the quality of the resulting film could be irrelevant. But despite Coppola's protestation, Apocalypse...
The tale, based on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, is about an Army officer, Captain Willard (Sheen), sent to find and "terminate with extreme prejudice" the renegade Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has "gone insane" and set himself up in Cambodia as lord of an army of Montagnard headhunters...
Bringing the darkness to light
The desert here is monotonously flat, rising only for escarpments and ridges a couple of hundred meters high?ribs off the ancient, eroded spines of the MacDonnell and Davenport Ranges. From horizon to horizon there is nothing but red earth, squat, pale-green mulga trees and dense mallee shrubs. And...
The darkness that allowed the gunman to commit his crime unobserved proved Lees' savior. She was able to lie undiscovered in the thorny scrub as the man searched for her with a torch and a dog. Now the hunter is the hunted: more than 100 police, of a Northern Territory...