Apocalypse Now Shooting Highlights

2021-10-13 18:32
George Lucas was initially determined to be the director of Apocalypse Now, and he got the script from John Millius. Lucas originally planned to make the film into a semi-documentary form, set in southern Vietnam where the war is still in full swing.
Francis Ford Coppola was originally the executive producer of the film. He tried to make a production plan business with Warner Bros. After the deal failed, he began to invest in the filming of "The Godfather" (1972).
In the fall of Saigon in 1977, Lucas was already busy shooting his "Star Wars", and Milius had no interest in the film. Lucas gave the coveted power to direct the film to Coppola.
Coppola believes that Marlon Brando must be familiar with Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness", and that he is the best candidate for the film, and he is looking forward to the appearance of this legendary actor. Unexpectedly, Brando had never read "Heart of Darkness" or even knew its verses.
To make matters worse, Brando has become severely fat (Coates is repeatedly described in the novel as a tall, skinny man). Therefore, Coppola decided to take Brando's tall, cruel and savage adult appearance, and made sure that Brando's bulging general's belly would not appear in the lens.
In the scene where Willard gets drunk alone in his hotel room, Martin Sheen is indeed drunk. The drunken behavior of Xin that can be seen in the movie is his true reflection. When Xin broke the mirror, as shown in the movie, he did hurt his hand.
Coppola shot nearly 200 hours of motion picture film for the film. The original filming plan was six weeks, and the result lasted 16 months. In order to film the scene of the devastating typhoon, it was delayed for several months.
Francis Ford Coppola lost 100 pounds during filming.
Coppola spent nearly three years editing "Apocalypse Now", and when it was almost finished, he realized that Martin Sheen should add some narrative voice-overs to the film. However, Xin couldn't spare any time to dub at that time. Coppola asked his brother Joe Eastwoods to help.
When Sim suffered a heart attack during shooting in 1976, Eastwoods also acted as a stand-in for Sim. But Eastwoods did not leave a name on the credits because of his work.
In May 1979, the film won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first unfinished film to win this award. Since the opinions of the Cannes jury could not be unified, they shared the best picture award with Schrondorf's "Tin Drum". 
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  • Reinhold 2022-04-24 07:01:01

    I watched the 202-minute extended version, and saw the second day... what does the last sentence of horror mean? Actually, I don't quite agree with that cult leader's point of view. That's not a lie, it's just a true expression of the traces of the heart.

  • Kari 2022-03-25 09:01:02

    The music is very good, whether it is the beginning of this is the end or the very long heartbeat at the back, it is very prominent...The film focuses on the detailed description of human nature. So the lens has many dark angles on the side of the person, and the natural light is half. Half dark and half light, it explains the good and evil of people. The war scenes are shocking enough. The distortion of human nature in the war is a problem reflected by the director. The dialogue is more preaching, but the movie is like a dream, grand and profound.

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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