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RAINING SNAKES

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the author presents and interprets two versions of Coppola’s classic Apocalypse Now. The film ending air-strike is the difference between the two versions, the air-strike which disappeared in the latter versions. The author focuses on the “missing” scene and argues that it is fundamental for the coherent interpretation of the movie. He uses Arendt’s interpretation of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness on which Coppola’s film is based and tries to show how Coppola’s film unknowingly expresses the concept of radical evil. Kurelić also argues that Kurtz represents an evildoer which is neither demonic nor thoughtless, exactly the type missing in Arendt’s confrontation between radical evil and banal evil. The author wants to show how the film made in 1979, which was mainly understood as the film about the Viet Nam war, actually unintentionally represents an apocalyptic warning that the wars based on the clash of cultures and civilizations can produce the same outcome as Arendt’s totalitarianism – radical evil.

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