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| An old "listening post" from Viet Nam war days |
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| We kept an ear to the north from a high point near Manila. |
Aside from these traces of the old days of trying to spy on the communist forces in Asia, the area near Los Baños also happens to be where Francis Ford Coppola shot "Apocalypse Now" back in '78 -'79, along the Pagsanjan River. We took a drive there with Crissan's friend Aurora. As the story was told to me, Aurora saw the opportunity for the people from her original Ifugao community to work as extras in the film, because of their much stronger resemblance to Vietnamese people than the population of Filipino people from the more urban areas happened to. She was working in the area where the film was to be shot, and the story has it that she made arrangements for several hundred people to make the 10 hour or longer journey down to the filming site. So if you see the film on TV or Netflix, say hello to Aurora's cousins, aunts, uncles, and townspeople.
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| Two views of the Pagsanjan River. |
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| Local kids, near Col. Kurz's campsite in the film. They, of course, never heard of "Apocalypse Now." |
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