He added, “I also have a lot of love for my brother Francis Ford Coppola. As you saw, there are two homages to ‘Apocalypse Now’ . So they’re there for a reason.”
The Vietnam War was a vivid memory for the boy growing up in Brooklyn. “I was born in 1957, so I was 10 years old in 1967,” he recalled. “I was old enough to know what was going on, but young enough not to be drafted. He emphasized that Vietnam War was generally an unpopular war that ignited protests in the United States. “I do know during and after the war, black and white Vietnam soldiers were spat upon,” Spike said. “They were vilified because it was an immoral war and the atrocities that some of the American soldiers did were televised.”
“Da 5 Bloods” is Spike Lee’s homage to Francis Ford Coppola and Oliver Stone’s Vietnam War films, which were shot in the Philippines. —NETFLIX
They’ll probably shoot in Vietnam now than in the Philippines.