On May 21, 1977, "Apocalypse Now" finally came to an end. Coppola told the editor and sound designer Walter Murzi to give him only 4 months to complete the sound effects of the film. Murzi discovered that the script used narration, but Coppola did not adopt it during the filming. In the end, he decided to change his original intention and record the narration for the film himself. In September 1977, Coppola confessed to his wife that there was only a 20% chance that the film would be released on schedule. Coppola found the upper management of United American Film Company and requested that the premiere date be postponed from May 1978 to October. While under the great pressure of the film, Coppola also fell into a family crisis due to an extramarital affair. In May 1978, Coppola decided to postpone the film's screening until the following spring.
Apocalypse Now Screening encounter
2021-10-13 18:32
Extended Reading
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Amiya 2021-10-20 18:59:27
I very much agree with Roger Ebert's view of this film: modern civilization is nothing more than a crumbling building, perched on nature's hungry blood basin, and will be swallowed without hesitation if it is not careful. A happy life is just a probation day after day in the face of such fragility. It is not so much a depiction of war, as it is how war has revealed the truth that we never want to discover. | Relive on the big screen, shocked to be sealed on the seat. (SIFF, 4K, Tianshan-Hongqiao Art Center, 2020.7.30)
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Logan 2021-10-20 18:58:40
With three distinct narratives, a madman's diary about war, it is rare to see Coppola so confused and infatuated. It feels like "Snake's Embrace" and "Lost Z City" are about to lose stars... "Horror! Horror!"
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Photo Journalist: He can be terrible. He can be mean. And he can be right. He's a great man. I wish I had words, man. I wish I had words... I can tell ya something like the other day he wanted to kill me. Somethin' like that.
Willard: Why'd he wanna kill you?
Photo Journalist: Because I took his picture. He said "If you take my picture again, I'm gonna kill you." And he meant it! So you just lay back. Lay cool. He becomes friendly again, he really does. But you don't judge the Colonel. You don't judge the Colonel like an ordinary man.
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Willard: [about Colonel Kilgore] Well, he wasn't a bad officer, I guess. He loved his boys, and he felt safe with 'em. He was just one of those guys with that weird light around him. He just knew he wasn't gonna get so much as a scratch here.