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2021-10-13 18:32
As early as the filming of "Rain Man" in 1969, George Lucas, then Francis Ford Coppola's assistant, encouraged John Millius to write a Vietnam War movie, and the latter thought of adapting Joseph Condela The novel "Heart of Darkness", but he has no intention of directing, but wants Lucas to play the lead. However, director Larol Barrland once said that he had the idea of ​​filming "Apocalypse Now" in 1967. At that time, Milius hadn't started writing and he reached an agreement with producer Joel Langdon, but The two ultimately failed to get the right to adapt Kondela's novel.
Coppola paid Milius $15,000 to write the script. The first draft of Milius's screenplay was completed in 1969, and the original title was "Psychedelic Warrior". Although the script of the film is adapted from "Heart of Darkness", it is obviously quite different from the original. Kondela incorporated his personal experience in Africa in "Heart of Darkness", when he was the captain of a steamship. Milius hopes to treat Condra's novel as a kind of fable, because the plot of the novel is too simple to comply with. When conceiving the characters, he also borrowed the first-hand materials around him.
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  • Luther 2022-04-24 07:01:01

    It is simply an adventure + cult movie with a war label. The meaning of war in this film is only used as a background, and the real core is to trigger people's anti-war through a series of incomprehensible events experienced during the mission. Thinking, but in the end it ended with a half-hour cult preaching by Brando in the male lead position.

  • Kamryn 2022-03-23 09:01:02

    Blast them back to the Stone Age!

Apocalypse Now quotes

  • Photo Journalist: One through nine, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions. You can't travel in space, you can't go out into space, you know, without, like, you know, uh, with fractions - what are you going to land on - one-quarter, three-eighths? What are you going to do when you go from here to Venus or something? That's dialectic physics.

  • Kurtz: We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!

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