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Truth on Film French director Francois Truffaut once said, "I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between." Consequently, Francis Ford Coppola remarked on his film Apocalypse Now, “My film is not a movie. My film is not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.” The film’s strength stems directly from Coppola’s ability to effectively capture the essence of Vietnam by manipulating the surrounding circumstances, which in themselves, resembled the reality of the war. Coppola once remarked on the similarities between U.S. involvement in Vietnam and his own misadventures there: "We were in the jungle, we had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little we went insane." A planned six-week production schedule extended to sixteen merciless months in the jungle, where everything that c