There could not have been a better song choice for the intro portion of Apocalypse Now than The End by The Doors.  First of all, The Doors epitomized the madness, the cultural and generational tension, of 1960s America.  Not the Beatles.  Not the Rolling Stones.  Not Jimi Hendrix.  No, it was the sound of The Doors and the voice of Jim Morrison that in effect became the American soundtrack of this tumultuous time, one forged by America's conflict in Vietnam. 

The intro portion of Apocalypse Now, the dreamlike sequence of Captain Willard in a Saigon hotel room, complete with flame, napalm, alcohol consumption, cigarettes, guns, divorce letters from home, blood, broken mirrors, and untold torment and pain, ends with Captain Willard staring at a rotating ceiling fan while Jim Morrison overlays the already bizarre and maddened mood by stating"Lost in a Roman...wilderness of pain, and all the children are insane...waiting for the summer rain, yeah."
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