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Title: overrated in my opinion
Review: I couldn't really get into the movie. But then again, I saw it when I was young. Everyone says the movie is adapted from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, but that is only partially true. In college George Lucas(yes, the George Lucas) and John Milius wrote the story, but when Coppola wanted to proceed with it Lucas was busy with Star Wars. Coppola, who owned the rights to the movie through Zoethrope, rewrote the story with Milius and went ahead and directed it anyway despite Lucas. Lucas had wanted to direct the movie which he felt was at least half his and it put a strain in his and Coppola's friendship. Lucas felt that Coppola had wrecked his and Milius' original story. I would have liked to see what Lucas would have done with it and compared the two. Lucas retaliated with Purple Haze(never seen it, heard mixed reviews) which Universal renamed More American Grafitti.
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