John Milius

Hollywood, 1979

A movie about Vietnam has to have a surfer. It was a California war—all the dope, the peace symbols, the rock and roll.

"Apocalypse Now—Surfing in the Mekong Delta: an Interview with John Milius" ran in the February 1980 issue of SURFER. Two years earlier, Milius had directed the Hollywood surf epic Big Wednesday; this interview was published during the release of Apocalypse Now, for which Milius wrote the screenplay. * * * Surfing is used as an expression of the American value system in one of the most important...

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