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Plot-hole #137 · August 3, 2026
Difficulty:
Hard
· 56% of 314 players solved it.
Hint 1 — One-word hint
"Madness"
Hint 2 — The Setup
The jungles of Vietnam during the war.
Hint 3 — The Character
A young captain is sent on a classified mission upriver.
Hint 4 — The Conflict
He must find and eliminate a colonel who has gone rogue.
Hint 5 — The Twist
The colonel has set up his own kingdom in the jungle.
Final hint (names names)
Martin Sheen goes upriver to find Marlon Brando in Coppola's Vietnam epic.
The answer
Apocalypse Now (1979)
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