He planned to shoot the film in the rice fields between Stockton and Sacramento , California. While making The Godfather Part II , Coppola asked Lucas and then Milius to direct Apocalypse Now , but both men were involved with other projects, [14] in Lucas' case, he got the go-ahead to make his pet project, Star Wars , and declined the offer to direct Apocalypse Now.
He envisioned the film as a definitive statement on the nature of modern war, the difference between good and evil, and the impact of American society on the rest of the world. The director said that he wanted to take the audience "through an unprecedented experience of war and have them react as much as those who had gone through the war".
Production coordinator Fred Roos had already made two low-budget films there for Monte Hellman and had friends and contacts in the country. Marlon Brando as Colonel Kurtz. Steve McQueen was Coppola's first choice to play Willard but the actor did not accept because he did not want to leave America for 17 weeks.
Dennis Hopper was cast as a kind of Green Beret sidekick for Kurtz and when Coppola heard him talking nonstop on location, he remembered putting "the cameras and the Montagnard shirt on him, and we shot the scene where he greets them on the boat". On March 1, , Coppola and his family flew to Manila and rented a large house there for the five-month shoot. Principal photography began three weeks later.
Within a few days, Coppola was not happy with Harvey Keitel's take on Willard, saying that the actor "found it difficult to play him a passive onlooker". Typhoon Olga wrecked the sets at Iba and on May 26, , production was closed down. The Playboy Playmate set had been destroyed, ruining a month's shooting that had been scheduled. Most of the cast and crew went back to the United States for six to eight weeks.
Tavoularis and his team stayed on to scout new locations and rebuild the Playmate set in a different place. Also, the production had bodyguards watching constantly at night and one day the entire payroll was stolen. Coppola flew back to the U. He read a book about Genghis Khan to get a better handle on the character of Kurtz. In the days after Christmas , Coppola viewed a rough assembly of the footage he had to date but still needed to improvise an ending. He returned to the Philippines in early and resumed filming.
A major sequence in a French plantation cost hundreds of thousands of dollars but was cut from the final film. Rumors began to circulate that Apocalypse Now had several endings but Richard Beggs, who worked on the sound elements, said, "There were never five endings, but just the one, even if there were differently edited versions". Coppola admitted that he had no ending because Brando was too fat to play the scenes as written in the original script. With the help of Dennis Jakob, Coppola decided that the ending could be "the classic myth of the murderer who gets up the river, kills the king, and then himself becomes the king — it's the Fisher King , from The Golden Bough ".
A water buffalo was slaughtered with a machete for the climactic scene. The scene was inspired by a ritual performed by a local Ifugao tribe which Coppola had witnessed along with his wife who filmed the ritual later shown in the documentary Hearts of Darkness and film crew.
Although this was an American production subject to American animal cruelty laws, scenes like this filmed in the Philippines were not policed or monitored, and the American Humane Association gave the film an "unacceptable" rating. In the summer of , Coppola told Walter Murch that he had four months to assemble the sound. Murch realized that the script had been narrated but Coppola abandoned the idea during filming.
Author Michael Herr received a call from Zoetrope in January and was asked to work on the film's narration based on his well-received journal about Vietnam, Dispatches. Murch had problems trying to make a quadraphonic soundtrack for Apocalypse Now because sound libraries were devoid of any stereo recordings of any weapons and, specifically, weapons used in Vietnam. Murch and his crew had to fabricate the mood of the jungle on the soundtrack.
Apocalypse Now would feature innovative sound technique for movies as Murch insisted on recording the most up-to-date gunfire and employed a quintuphonic soundtrack with three channels of sound behind the movie screen and two channels of sound from behind the audience.
In May , Coppola decided that it would not be possible to finish the film for a December release and postponed the opening until spring of He screened a "work in progress" for people in April that was not well-received.
The week prior to Cannes, Coppola arranged three sneak previews that each featured their own slightly different versions. He allowed critics to attend the screenings and believed that they would honor the embargo placed on reviews. On May 14, Rona Barrett reviewed the film on television and called it "a disappointing failure". At the time of its release, many rumors surrounded the ending of Apocalypse Now. Coppola stated an ending was written in haste in which Willard and Kurtz joined forces and repelled the air strike on the compound; however, Coppola never fully agreed with the two going out in apocalyptic intensity, preferring to end the film in a more encouraging manner.
When Coppola originally organized the ending of the movie, he had two choices. One involved Willard leading Lance by the hand as everyone in Kurtz's base throws down their weapons, and ends with images of Willard's boat pulling away from Kurtz's compound superimposed over the face of a stone idol which then fades into black.
Another option showed an air strike being called and the base being blown to bits in a spectacular display, consequently killing everyone left at the base. The original Template:Nowrap exclusive theatrical release ended with Willard's boat, the stone statue, then fade to black with no credits, save for '"Copyright Omni Zoetrope"' right after the film ends. This mirrors the lack of any opening titles and supposedly stems from Coppola's original intention to "tour" the film as one would a play: the credits would have appeared on printed programs provided before the screening began.
However, when Coppola heard that audiences interpreted this as an air strike called by Willard, Coppola pulled the film from its Template:Nowrap run, and put credits on a black screen. In the DVD commentary, Coppola explains that the images of explosions had not been intended to be part of the story; they were intended to be seen as completely separate from the film. He had added them to the credits because he had captured the footage during the demolition of the set in the Philippines, which was filmed with multiple cameras fitted with different film stocks and lenses to capture the explosions at different speeds.
Because of the confusion over the misinterpreted ending, there are multiple slightly varying versions of the ending credits. Some TV screenings maintain the explosion footage at the end, others do not, and there are several other versions. In the Redux Version, Willard silences the radio, and thus fails to stop the air strike on Kurtz's compound. Just before fading to black, Kurtz's last words "the horror" are echoed and there is a brief glimpse of helicopters and napalm. There is also a longer minute version which circulates unofficially.
It has never been officially released but circulates as a video bootleg, containing extra material not included in either the original theatrical release or the "redux" version. Classical Hits of the Cinema Virgin Records. Les plus grandes musiques des films. When you ask someone about the music in Apocalypse Now , chances are that they will remember Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" more than anything else. A more traditional romantic cue can be heard in "Love Theme", but the synthesizers removes any warmth that might exist due to the melody.
The mixing of the score is interesting. This version removes the dialogue, and adds two previously unreleased tracks "Clean's Funeral", "Love Theme". If any information appears to be missing from this page, contact us and let us know! Net Soundtrack. Apocalypse Now Theatrical. Apocalypse Now 9, 8. An Army captain's secret mission becomes a journey into madness in Francis Ford Coppola's spectacular drama of In Vietnam in , Captain Willard Martin Sheen takes a perilous and increasingly hallucinatory journey upriver to find and terminate Apocalypse Now is a American epic war film set during the Vietnam War.
The plot revolves around Special Operator Benjamin L. Willard Martin Sheen who is sent into the jungle to assassinate the rogue and presumably insane Colonel Walter E. Kurtz Marlon Brando of Special Forces.
See full list on warfilm. The film opens, introducing seasoned veteran Benjamin L. Willard Martin Sheen ; a deeply troubled, seasoned veteran. It is Willard has returned to Saigon from deployment in the field. He stays in his apartment, alone and isolated and drinks excessively and appears to be having difficulty adjusting to life in the rear-area.
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