![]() ![]() As if Francis Coppola, the director, had never fully worked out what they were meant to be doing.īut when I talk to anyone about that picture, they hardly mention Sheen or Brando. No one can argue the case, they are both very striking, if a little confused. Why would the military bother finding a madman rotting in the jungle? Of course, this is Martin Sheen as the young officer and Marlon Brando as the jungle outcast. Put like that, you might even recognize a kind of story nonsense. If I asked you to describe it, you might say, well, it’s the hell of Vietnam, with a young officer going upriver to eliminate a rogue officer so maddened by the war that he is fighting on his own terms. Would an example help? I daresay you recall Apocalypse Now. I’m thinking about a few scenes that come and go when you see a film, but which stay in the mind, no matter that no one at the time-not even the actors-dreamed they could be nominated, let alone given a statuette. So I have a modest booster suggestion-and it concerns the little things, moments in a movie that may seem marginal, or something that could have been cut. Are you going to watch the Oscars this year? The Academy doesn’t like to talk about this, but it’s nervous you’ll be doing something else. ![]()
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