The whir of the ceiling fan in Willard’s Saigon hotel room blends with the whoop-whoop-whoop of helicopter blades ... dirge “The End” (the Apocalypse Now pictures’ theme song).

These images set the tone ... and the concurrent horror of what those helicopters do to a Vietnamese village filled with women and children. My view on Apocalypse Now is that Coppola wants the ...

So reads the screenplay for the 1979 war movie Apocalypse Now. It describes the sequence in which a squadron of American helicopters ... but failed to win the Best Picture Academy Award.

In its original form, the sequence was clearly an homage to what likely is the most famous helicopter scene ever in Apocalypse Now, which also is four-minute-long and was set to Wagner’s music.

Francis Ford Coppola scales back the 2001 'Redux' version of his masterpiece 'Apocalypse Now,' with state ... famous superimpositions — images of napalm-dropping helicopters overlapping with ...

The fwap fwap fwap of helicopters always reminds me of my favorite movie, "Apocalypse Now." The association is ripe here at my home in Manila, where military choppers often pass overhead on their ...

In its original form, the sequence was clearly a nod to what likely is the most famous helicopter scene ever in Apocalypse Now, which also is four-minute-long and set to Wagner’s music.