I know a lot has been said and written about who the characters were based on and I've seen somewhere that the Hopper character was based on Sean Flynn and somewhere else it said it was based on Tim Page.. Watching the Hearts of Darkness documentary which was filmed by Coppola's wife during the shooting of the movie, I get the impression that much of the theories of what everything was based on was made up later either by people who read to much into the movie or by Coppola himself. It's very clear I think that the movie is primarily Coppola's take on Conrad's Heart of darkness set in Vietnam and is most of all, as Coppola's wife says early in the documentary, "a metaphor for a journey into self".
There's not a single mention of any of the stuff listed on f.ex wikipedia about who Kurtz was based on etc during the whole documentary.. He basically seems to just make stuff up along the way to fit the way he wants to tell the story and also because of production problems he faced along the way.
It's fiction. Pure fiction. And whether some of it is based on real events or places or not isn't really that relevant.. my main point still stands.. Using fiction as a source when discussing real historical events is not only laughable.. it makes the whole discussion an exercise in futility.
That's just my opinion of course..
How did Cambodia avoid going to war with the US?
Alcohol is necessary so that a man can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts
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