... equipment all while paying cheap Philippine labor cost. Coppola created this film with "ambitious effort to show Vietnam as America's Heart of Darkness, with Joseph Conrad's story providing the narrative skeleton" "(Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 1-1) and many themes, meanings, and entire scenes from the movie do in fact come directly from Conrad's book. Aside from the adaptation of Heart of Darkness's story ... did in fact win an Oscar for his work in Coppola's masterpiece, and it is well deserved and easy to see why. As his technical skills such as his lo-key lighting will forever ...

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