... 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 ... . As the music continues and Jim Morrison's lyrics and volume intensifies so does various shots of the spinning ceiling fan in Willard's room. The sounds of the helicopters spinning blades dissolve into Captain Willard's illusion that his ceiling fan is in fact a helic...

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