What does Apocalypse Now mean?

During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard received an order from the headquarters to look for Colonel Coates who had left the US army. Coates once had a glorious history, but now he is crazy.

He established an independent kingdom in Vietnam, ruled savagely, bloodily and inhumanely, and from time to time carried out crazy and almost nonsense broadcast propaganda to the US military.

Willard's orders are to find Coates and bring him back, or kill him. With this order, Willard led a small group of soldiers up the Mekong River and through the jungle to Vietnam. ?

In the process of searching for Colonel Coates, Willard almost crossed the entire battlefield in Vietnam. He witnessed all kinds of scenes of atrocities, terror, killing and death and was deeply shocked. In the constant killing, Willard almost went crazy.

Finally, Willard and his party finally came to Coates' terror kingdom. They fell into the hands of Coates and were tortured.

But it also allows Willard to face Coates directly. Coates could have killed Willard, but he didn't. He finished his long-awaited death by Willard's hand and finally got rid of this crazy world.

Willard also deeply realized the evil and darkness in human hearts and the madness caused by evil. The aborigines knelt before him, and he actually replaced Coates.

Willard, who really hated all this, picked up his companion and boarded the boat to leave. Coates' madness has stopped, but throughout the battlefield in Vietnam, terror and killing are still going on like crazy.

Extended data:

Apocalypse Now is a film set in the Vietnam War, directed by francis ford coppola and starring martin sheen, Marlon Brando and Robert Dewar. The film was released in the United States on August 1979.

The film tells the story of Captain Wilder, an American intelligence officer, who was ordered to get rid of Colonel Courths in the Vietnam War. After receiving the order, Wilder led his team to venture into Cambodia by boat.

Creative background:

As early as 1969 filming Rain Man, george lucas, then francis ford coppola's assistant, encouraged john milius to write a Vietnam War movie. The latter thought of adapting Joseph Condra's novel "Black Heart", but he didn't want to direct it and wanted Lucas to lead the film.

However, director Carroll Ballard once said that he had the idea of shooting Apocalypse Now in 1967. At that time, Mileus had not started writing, and he reached an agreement with producer Joel Langdon, but they finally failed to get the right to adapt Condra's novels.

Coppola paid milius $65,438+05,000 to write the play. The first draft of Milius's play was completed on 1969, and the original film was called Psychedelic Warrior.

Although the script is adapted from "Black Heart", it is obviously very different from the original. Condra incorporated his personal experience in Africa in "Black Heart", when he was the captain of a steamboat.

Mileus hopes to regard Condra's novels as fables, because the plot of the novel is too simple to follow completely. When he conceived the characters, he also drew lessons from the first-hand information around him.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Apocalypse Now