In the midst of her deadly illness, she comfortsherbest friend Ann King (Fitzgerald), and courageously meets her fate when her eyesight dims.The only sign of movement in the early morning gloom is a lone black police car that patrols he isolated area - its radio reports on a holdup at the Hotel de Paris by an "armed suspect, all man, Caucasian, wearing a dark suit and soft hat.The wound area glowed, and thunder crackled as his tortured soul was released.With a final thurst from her foot at the dagger to drive it even deeper, giant demon, mud-encrusted hands pulled the dying murderer down into Hell(# 25 death).There, he told her that her death would look like an accident: "I don""t want to hurt you.I want to help you.Help you end your pain - what that mutant stopped you from doing last week." Shingen suddenly realized that he was surrounded by Harada""s black-clad ninjas, as Mariko was rescued and whisked away.Others hat swept across movie screens in the late 70""s and 80s to illustrate he ""hellish"", futile conditions of bloody Vietnam War combat included:the Oscar-winning documentaryHearts and Minds (1974)Francis Ford Coppola""sApocalypse Now (1979)Oliver Stone""sPlatoon (1986)Stanley Kubrick""sFull Metal Jacket (1987)John Irvin""sHamburger Hill (1987)Oliver Stone""sBorn on the Fourth of July (1989)Brian De Palma""sCasualties of War (1989)This film received nine Academy Award nominations (including Best Actor (Robert De Niro), Best Supporting Actress (Meryl Streep), Best Cinematography (by Vilmos Zsigmond - who had just filmed Spielberg""sClose Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)), and Best Original Screenplay), and won five Oscars: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Christopher Walken), Best Director, Best Sound, and Best Film Editing.