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3 days ago · Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr, is loosely inspired by the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War.
2 days ago · Michael Herr commented on the performance of `grunts' when they knew that there was a camera crew nearby and how they imitated the stars of war movies. So powerful were cinematic images of battle that soldiers acted as though they were on the screen according to Herr.
Jun 2, 2024 · Full Metal Jacket received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. The film’s screenplay, written by Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, and Gustav Hasford, was recognized for its powerful and thought-provoking storytelling. The iconic line “Me love you long time” is from the film
Jun 9, 2024 · “People who used the word ‘Kafkaesque’ had probably never read Kafka,” he told his friend the journalist Michael Herr. Later, when publicising his film A Clockwork Orange in 1972, Kubrick...
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May 31, 2024 · Stars included Gay Talese, who applied it to celebrity profiles, Michael Herr, who applied it to the Vietnam War, Norman Mailer, who applied it to Norman Mailer, and Joan Didion, whom people...
Jun 14, 2024 · Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of...
Jun 8, 2024 · Dispatches by Michael Herr. Narrative voice and perspective in Herr's Dispatches. Michael Herr's enigmatically titled book Dispatches might be called a postmodern view of the Vietnam War.
