filmmakers like francis ford coppola, michael cimino and oliver stone recreated modern war with a visionhat was grippingly realistic, but sometimes surreal. with narrator mathew modine, we'll see the tradition of telling war stories is as old as conflict itself in "the combat film." (heavy breathing) (thumping of heart beating) (explosion) ah, you'll live, smitty. you just trip wired a mine. they're not made to kill ya', just to castrate ya'. (narrator) you've seen him in every war film. he's the guy that's wet behind the ears, facing fear by himself in an agony that is both terrifying and exhilarating. (gunfire) (dramatic music playing) (narrator) it is this experience that combat film tries to recreate for the audience. (buzzing of flies) you're on point. me? no friendlies out there. got a full load. (narrator) from world war i to vietnam, hollywood has rendered portraits of the brutal life of the combat grunt. (bugle playing) (narrator) it all started in world war i. that was different from any war before or since. william wellman's "wings" was the first movie to win an academy award

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retired and if he'd become a movie maker, maybe i would get a role better than that, which francis ford coppola gave me in the "godfather" or others. that's how much i loved and interacted with and joked around with jeff adachi. every public event that i have ever given in this city, jeff adachi was always there, whether invited or not. [laughter] that's who jeff adachi -- that's who jeff adachi really was. and to tell you i'm going to miss him, i'm going to miss him just as much as everybody in this wonderful place will miss him. i remember so clearly and louise rainy was here, she would remember, too. when we were trying to redo city hall and it took them so lock to do that. jeff adachi wanted the public defenders' office put in city hall. [laughter] he got a better deal on 7th street. but he really did -- he said you said everybody connected with city government would have a presence in city hall. i think the public defender should have a presence in city hall. and then jeff adachi came to me, with the bizarre idea, he said every dollar you give to the public -- to the district attorney's of

neil: how did francis ford coppola picked you is? >> he didn't. neil: who did?> i was assigned i helped resolve problems with the labor. joe colombo was picketing fbi build -- neil: so you did have italian friends. >> thank goodness. from mulberry street. neil: marlon brando looking at new kid, who the hell are you? >> it was funny. call sheet came out. i was never on a set before. it said at bottom of the call sheet, no eye contact with brando. don't approach him. neil: i tell my staff same thing. >> now we get our first break. came over to me. i said i ain't breaking the law. he says to me you're a big tv actor? i says no. you have a big movie coming out? i said no. you're not on broadway. i know everybody on broadway. i know that. what did you study, who did you study with. i didn't, talk about study, study what? he calls coppola over. he says francis, this guy plays my son-in-law francis i know. he didn't pick me. he breaks down the script. i didn't know how important carlo's character irreally was. neil: you're get worried role of a lifetime is being ripped

cage, whose real name is nicolas kim coppola, says he and koike drank "to the point of intoxication"re the wedding saturday. (pam san francisco based "lyft" made its debut on the nasdaq this morning -- and shares rose nearly nine - percent in its first day of trading. at one point, they were up more than 20- percent. the nation's second largest ride hailing service finished the day with shares valued at over 78- dollars. putting the value of the company at 26 and a half billion dollars. many investors view lyft as a proxy for how the much larger uber may perform when it goes public later this year. some are worried about lyft's massive 20-18 net loss of 911 million dollars. it's more than any u-s start-up has lost in the year before its i-p-o -- but dwarfed by uber's one- point-eight billion dollar loss. (pam) that wraps up kron 4 news at 8.(ken) justine waldman and vicki liviakis are here with kron 4 news at 9. next on kron-4 news at nine: vallejo police body cam video of a deadly shooting ... of a young man who was sitting in his car. what happened in the moments leading up to the

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