cambodia and vietnam were off-limits. Thailand? Indonesia? Perhaps.

what we have here is a combination of many different issues and like i said in my post previously a lot of the issues were a result of circumstance. i don't even think coppola was thinking about the racial implications of using the philippines/filipinos as part of the film when he chose the philippines. from a director's standpoint - it was probably just a location that best fit the geographical topography he was looking for and all the other issues came to light as production dragged on and problems started to spill out. furthermore, i wonder how much Marcos' influence had to do w/ Coppola needing to use Filipinos throughout the film as Vietnamese.