Word: tells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Martin Sheen), an officer who is commanded to travel upriver from Saigon to Cambodia. His mission is to assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once exemplary Green Beret who has now gone crazy and set up a kingdom of murder in the darkest jungle. "There is no way to tell [Kurtz's] story without telling my own," Willard explains early on. Coppola apparently hoped that by dramatizing both Kurtz's and Willard's descents into savagery, he would arrive face to face with the moral horror...
...panoramas of death is a human context. There are almost no well-defined characters in Apocalypse Now. The biggest nonentity of all, sadly enough, is Willard. We are supposed to see the movie through his eyes-which are frequently superimposed on the film's images-but those eyes tell us nothing. It is not Sheen's fault; no one has written him a role. He is neither the initially innocent traveler of Conrad's fiction (where the character was called Marlow) nor a hardened assassin...
Groll claims that Bo and Peep decided to have him come out of hiding for a while and tell his story. Consequently he regards his workaday life as temporary. "If I felt they were calling," he says flatly, "I would go back. They're still putting out vibrations and sending me a lot of positive energy." If the call does not come earlier, he expects to meet up with his companions when that rescue spaceship arrives and flies them away to the eternal garden...
...performance with their feet: they keep on walking. Hence a by-God spontaneous response is the street musicians' sweetest reward. A Seattle group called Brandywine (violin, hammer dulcimer, guitar, bass) will always cherish the moment during the Fat Tuesday celebration when its galloping rendition of the William Tell Overture so inflamed a woman bystander that she bounded up onto a horse behind a mounted policeman. Hi-ho, Rossini...
...best, eeriest tale, paints an idyllic Jamaican setting. But the narrator soon learns that his 16-year-old son is homosexual and has been cruising in dangerous native waters. Violence must be forestalled. The father is too civilized to confront the boy with what he knows, nor can he tell him to stop. So he allows his son to seduce...