The Use of Wagner's "The Ride of the Valkyries" During

question 24

Multiple Choice

The use of Wagner's "The Ride of the Valkyries" during a helicopter attack on a Vietnamese village in Apocalypse Now is an intertextual reference to ________.

• A) Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will
• B) the Ku Klux Klan's triumphant charge in Birth of a Nation
• C) John Wayne's favorite song in The Green Berets
• D) F.W. Murnau's expressionist classic Faust

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