glk [none/use name] to Movies & TV • 4 years agoApocalypse Now is colonialist propaganda. It frames desertion as an orientalist power trip instead of joining your comrades fighting imperialism.message-squaremessage-square28 fedilinkarrow-up140file-text
arrow-up140message-squareApocalypse Now is colonialist propaganda. It frames desertion as an orientalist power trip instead of joining your comrades fighting imperialism.glk [none/use name] to Movies & TV • 4 years agomessage-square28 Commentsfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarequarantine_man [none/use name]hexbear7·4 years ago (only to instead just die of malaria on his own)? No, I think that's what happens in Heart of Darkness, but in Apocalypse Now he is murdered by the guy sent to kill him. link
minus-squareKobaCumTribute [she/her]hexbear3·4 years agoOh, that's right, Martin Sheen cuts his head off doesn't he? He is dying of malaria, but he lets Martin Sheen kill him instead because he has the whole fascist "wanting a warrior's death" thing going on. link
No, I think that's what happens in Heart of Darkness, but in Apocalypse Now he is murdered by the guy sent to kill him.
Oh, that's right, Martin Sheen cuts his head off doesn't he? He is dying of malaria, but he lets Martin Sheen kill him instead because he has the whole fascist "wanting a warrior's death" thing going on.
yeah, it was pretty crazy