The Date: January
12
The Movie: Apocalypse Now (1979)
What Is It?: Francis
Ford Coppola adapts Heart of Darkness
as a Vietnam War movie and a demented and immersive metaphor for the insanity
of the war, itself. He gives himself and his film crew a taste of that insanity
too.
Why Today?: On
this day in 1962, Operation Chopper, the first American
combat mission in Vietnam, takes place.
