You know, sometimes you make a movie because of a sentence that you hear. In “Apocalypse Now” the sentence that made me make that whole movie, and pardon my bad language, is I read a quote where a general or someone says “We teach the boys to drop fire on people, but won’t let them write ‘f*ck’ on their airplanes because it’s immoral”.
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