Ep. 47 - Apocalypse Now (1979): Deep into the Heart

In Vietnam in 1970, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) takes a perilous and increasingly hallucinatory journey upriver to find and terminate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once-promising officer who has reportedly gone completely mad. In the company of a Navy patrol boat filled with street-smart kids, a surfing-obsessed Air Cavalry officer (Robert Duvall), and a crazed freelance photographer (Dennis Hopper), Willard travels further and further into the heart of darkness.

Noah, Jonesy, and guest Marco Bottiglieri debate over perhaps one of Francis Ford Coppola's greatest directorial achievement. The guys find themselves deep down the river as they try and understand this hallucinatory brilliant and bizarre take on war as they dissect the poetic cinematography, mystical sound design, and unsettling ending. There is greatness throughout Apocaplyse Now, however, there is also madness. One can not live without the other.

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