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Estevez stood in for his brother in a number of long shots and in some of the voice-overs for Apocalypse Now (1979), as Martin Sheen was recovering from his heart attack. [3] In 1992, he acted in Armed for Action and Blood on the Badge .
The canteen scene with Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore and the wounded Viet Cong is based on an actual wounded VC fighter who fought while keeping his entrails strapped to his belly in an enameled cooking pot. The incident was documented by the photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths. The real-life U.S. soldier was quoted as saying, "Any soldier who ...
- Martin Sheen Had A Heart Attack. Heart Attacks are bad enough if one is close to a hospital. Now imagine having one in the Philippines, a quarter-mile away from the nearest assistance.
- It Created A Surfing Scene In The Philippines. Prior to the movie, surfing was a virtually unknown activity in the archipelago. However, locals observed members of the crew engaging in the sport.
- Laurence Fishburne. Apocalypse Now was only Laurence Fishburne's third film role. Becoming a part of such a prestigious production so early is impressive.
- Marlon Brando. By the late '70s, Marlon Brando's physical appearance was a far cry from the hunky Stanley Kowalski who made women faint in theaters more than twenty years prior.
- Writer John Milius listened exclusively to music by The Doors and Richard Wagner while he worked on the screenplay. Milius said he believed The Doors to be "the music of war," a fact which greatly upset the members of the band.
- The majority of the dialogue had to be re-recorded during post-production, as the jungle environments and heavy background noise made much of the original dialogue impossible to use.
- Coppola originally offered the role of Captain Willard to "The Godfather" star Al Pacino. Pacino declined, telling Coppola he had no interest in spending months shooting in a swamp.
- Pacino was also one of several actors Coppola considered as a potential replacement for Marlon Brando, who repeatedly threatened to quit.
Joe Estevez. Actor: Return of the Roller Blade Seven. Joe Estevez' first time on the stage was as a 6-year-old playing the "Evil Inn Keeper" in a Christmas Nativity play, and as an actor he has never looked back. Born the last of ten children to an Irish immigrant mother and a Spanish immigrant father, Joe was raised in Dayton Ohio to be a ...
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Apocalypse Now. Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr, is loosely based on the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War.
