Titus & John Presnall discuss Apocalypse Now, which ended the 70s, the decade of vastly ambitious Coppola movies which started with the Godfather. We talk about Coppola's vision of America & the Vietnam war, his exploration of varieties of manliness, some more insane, others less, his ideas about British imperialism--his allusions to Kipling, Conrad, & T.S.Eliot--& the amazing & awful qualities of the movie, which lead the audience to discover, in the emerging chaos of war, possibilities that had seemed foreclosed by civilization & thus forgotten, but which come alive again as humanity regresses symbolically & thematically back beyond peace, war, & the cosmos.