... of war. But there has always been a double irony to Francis Ford Coppola's own remarks about Apocalypse Now: "My film is not about Vietnam. My film is Vietnam. It's what it was really like." Apocalypse Now Redux is not a film about war. It is war: staging itself as final judgment ... with the remainder of the film, and its efforts to place the action in some kind of historical context never really resonate- (Vaux). He calls the scene "excess baggage,"" when in fact the historical context lays the foundation to the pointlessness of the war. French Imperialism has crumbled and the remainin...

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