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| | "Apocalypse Now" by B. Ruby Rich |
 | | Sure, those wars had their share of moral dilemmas, but film treatments on the conflicts could always rest on a basic history of soldiers fighting the good fight — against fascism, against slavery. |
 | | War is beautiful because it combines the gunfire, the cannonades, the ceasefire, the scents, and the stench of putrefaction into a symphony. |
 | | Making this film, Coppola is playing at war with all the passion of a schoolboy, relishing its spectacle, aiming a technology as powerful as a war machine at his vision, creating a rainbow of fatal gasses, a crescendo of deadly weaponry, a Coney Island in place of a morgue. |
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