Apocalypse Now Creative background

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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  • Deangelo 2021-10-20 18:59:08

    It's not because of the length. The reason I suggest to watch it carefully is that after reading it, you will doubt the meaning of human civilization and the world. If there is not enough philosophical quality, it is really exhausting. Coppola's strong pessimism is impregnated here. I don't think it is difficult to understand, but it is too uncomfortable after reading. Even if it is preaching, this preaching is quite frightening! In this sense, this movie is great! 8.9

  • Thea 2022-03-25 09:01:02

    One big screen, one hundred Blu-ray discs, Coppola’s Cannes film and the Cannes Festival at that time really complement each other and progress together... To quote the words of Professor Jingshi: Film is a visual and auditory art, "Modern Enlightenment" "Record" is not only simultaneous, but also unattainable

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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