Although she experiences personal triumph within the Edwardian high society at an Embassy Ball, and wins her teacher""s love, she storms off after being transformed - only to return by film""s end.All I want is results." BackgroundApocalypse Now(1979) is producer/director Francis Ford Coppola""s visually beautiful, ground-breaking masterpiece with surrealistic and symbolic sequences detailing the confusion, violence, fear, and nightmarish madness of the Vietnam War.A few moments later, he discovers her discarded handkerchief (and cigarette) and her purse - thrown down.Plot SynopsisThe film opens with the bemused Great Man (W.C.Fields playing himself), a film scriptwriter, walking on his way to Esoteric Studios on the West Coast for a story conference.Spade.""She admits she was putting it on too thick, but he is obviously attracted and allured to her anyway:Brigid: I deserve that.