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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The use of Wagner's "The Ride of the Valkyries" in "Apocalypse Now" is an intertextual reference to the Ku Klux Klan's charge in "Birth of a Nation," where the same music is used to underscore a scene of triumph and power.

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