Brad Pitt really ripped off...
...Dennis Hopper's photojournalist character in "Apocalypse Now." He must've studied every frame meticulously.
Pitt does the part well and is entertaining, but I could discern that he was acting here and there. Hopper, by contrast, was the real deal, perhaps because he & crew were hanging out in the jungle doing drugs or whatever while Coppola & Brando worked out the kinks in the script for the last act of "Apocalypse Now" (Eleanor shared how days would go by while the crew waited for a scene to shoot).