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Apocalypse Now: Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. With Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest. A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
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- Drama, Mystery, War
- Francis Ford Coppola
- 1979-08-15
The film follows a river journey from South Vietnam into Cambodia undertaken by Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), who is on a secret mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a renegade Special Forces officer who is accused of murder and presumed insane.
Nov 28, 2023 · What Really Went on Between Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Sheen During the Filming of Apocalypse Now? The Disturbing—and Revealing—Story Behind an Iconic Moment in Cinema History. By Sam Wasson. November 28, 2023. Late in July 1976, the Coppolas returned to the Philippines.
- Martin Sheen Had A Heart Attack in The Middle of Filming
- The Doors’ “The End” Was Initially Played Over The Opening Scene as A Joke
- Filming Took More Than Ten Times Longer Than Expected
- Laurence Fishburne Lied About His Age to Get A Role in The Film
- Francis Ford Coppola Chipped in Millions of Dollars from His Own Pocket
- The U.S. Military Refused to Lend The Filmmakers Any Equipment
- The Slaughter of The Water Buffalo Was Real
- Marlon Brando Didn’T Learn Any of His Lines
- Dennis Hopper Got A Teenaged Laurence Fishburne Hooked on Heroin
- Martin Sheen Really Was Drunk in The Opening Hotel Room Sequence
In the middle of filming Apocalypse Now, the lead actor Martin Sheen suffered from a heart attack and had to take time off to recover from it. In the meantime, Francis Ford Coppola brought in Sheen’s brother Joe Estevez to stand in for him in all of his scenes during this hiatus. Years later, when Coppola was editing the movie and needed Sheen to r...
The film from Apocalypse Now’s opening scene, with grainy images of helicopters flying across psychedelic landscapes, was actually fished out of the trash in the cutting room. It started off as a joke to play the Doors’ “The End” over the beginning of the movie. Francis Ford Coppola was quoted as saying, “Oh, wouldn’t it be funny if we started the ...
Shooting for Apocalypse Nowwas initially scheduled to last for six weeks, but it ended up taking 16 months. This is around ten times longer than the production was scheduled to last. Naturally, the producers that were putting up money for Francis Ford Coppola to stay in the jungle with his cast and crew and all of the equipment for these extra 58-o...
Back in 1979, very few moviegoers noticed a young Laurence Fishburne in Apocalypse Now. He was years away from immortalizing himself as a screen icon with roles like Furious in Boyz n the Hood and Morpheus in The Matrix trilogy. As it turns out, Fishburne did something a little sneaky to land his role in Apocalypse Now. RELATED: 5 Reasons We're Wor...
The studio was furious when Francis Ford Coppola went way over-budget with Apocalypse Now. Movies are expected to sometimes exceed their budgets as the realities of filmmaking set in and unplanned incidents occur, but Apocalypse Nowwas ridiculously over-budget. It got to the point that Coppola contributed millions of dollars out of his own pocket, ...
When you’re making a war movie, it’s always a good idea to get the U.S. military on your side, because then they can lend out equipment that you can’t get anywhere else to use as props. However, since Apocalypse Nowrevolved around the U.S. military ordering a captain to assassinate one of their own colonels, the real military wanted nothing to do w...
The scene in which the water buffalo gets brutally and ritualistically slaughtered was done for real. If the movie was shooting in America, there’s no way the crew would’ve gotten away with it. In fact, as an American production, despite shooting internationally, the filming of Apocalypse Nowwas subject to the animal cruelty laws of the U.S.. Howev...
The character of Colonel Kurtz was originally envisioned as a tall, slender man, and that’s what Marlon Brando was when he was cast. However, when Brando showed up on the set, Francis Ford Coppola was horrified to discover that the actor had become obese. He also didn’t learn any of his lines, or read Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, which the mo...
On the set of Apocalypse Now, drugs were getting passed around the cast and crew like bottles of water. Dennis Hopper was particularly notorious for his substance abuse on the set, and even got Laurence Fishburne — who, as we mentioned earlier, was a teenager lying about his age when he appeared in the film — addicted to heroin. Those involved in t...
Apocalypse Nowopens with Willard in a hotel room, set to the sounds of the Doors, going ballistic, possibly tripping. When this scene was filmed, Martin Sheen got really drunk and told the crew to keep rolling the cameras. He used the scene to confront his drinking problem, figuring that if the cameras kept filming as he disappeared into his own mi...
In Vietnam in 1970, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) takes a perilous and increasingly hallucinatory journey upriver to find and terminate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once-promising...
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