Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now is a 1979 film out of the American film director Francis Ford Coppola and starring the actors Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper and Marlon Brando.

Apocalypse Now is based loosely on the book Heart of Darkness of the Polish/British writer Joseph Conrad, but takes place in Viet Nam and Cambodia at the time of theViet Nam war. However, he is recorded on the Philippines. Of the shots is a documentary created by Coppola's wife, Eleanor Coppola, under the title Hearts of Darkness(1991).



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == The film is accompanied by the voice of the main character.
 * 2 Cast
 * 3 background information
 * 4 Apocalypse Now Redux
 * 5 Quotes
 * 6 Prices

The film deals with the struggle between good and evil in the deepest interior of each individual and is set against the background of the Viet Nam war. The Director treats classic themes as human hubris (hybris) and purification, but also sense and nonsense of war and drug use. The film begins as a level-headed and realistic war film, but is gradually to in a surreal story of self-discovery.

Captain Willard, a chastened officer who in the recent past in Viet Nam has carried out secret missions for the CIA, including liquidations, order of the u.s. Army command to find the AWOL gifted and hooggedecoreerde Colonel Kurtz, who with a small army a private war natives, for the sole purpose of killing him, officially because the Colonel of (unauthorized) murder and insanity is accused. During his trip, through the jungle of Viet Nam and Cambodia about the (fictional) Nung River, hit Captain Willard, however, more and more fascinated by his ' goal ' and he places questioning its mission and the hypocrisy of the American army command: To charge a guy with murder in this place, it was like easy out speeding tickets at the Indy 500. The trip, by means of a small patrol boat with a colorful crew, reflects the Viet Nam war including a show with Playboy-Bunny's helicopter and a devastating attack by an airCavalryunit led by the eccentric Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Background Information[ Edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">When Coppola on 20 March 1976 began filming the role of Willard Harvey Keitel would play. It took a month before Coppola took the decision to replace him, after he ran through the shooting of the first weeks. Keitel would not be the right man to Willard to play. Coppola said that Keitel is a very active actor, who always have the attention, and not a passive watching officer. After this was Coppola flew to Los Angeles and decided contacted Martin Sheen. Sheen then got a heart attackduring the recordings;the recordings of the film layers weeks silent while the financiers were kept unaware of this incident. Another problem was actor Marlon Brando. Brando would play the role of Colonel Kurtz. Coppola had worked with Brando with the recordings for the The Godfather was expecting a normal looking Brando. The actor was however arrived and showed little lust to acting. To avoid the appearance of Brando would distract too much from certain angles and held it Coppola filmed extensively in the dark. Brando's unruly behavior, however, took much recording time.
 * Marlon Brando: Colonel Walter e. Kurtz
 * Martin Sheen: Captain Benjamin l. Willard
 * Robert Duvall: Lieutenant-Colonel Bill Kilgore
 * Frederic Forrest: Jay "Chef" Hicks
 * Sam Bottoms: Lance B. Johnson
 * Laurence Fishburne: Tyrone ' Clean ' Miller
 * Dennis Hopper: photojournalist
 * Harrison Ford: Colonel Lucas
 * Albert Hall: Chief Phil Lambert
 * G.D. Spradlin: General Corman

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Coppola was hoping that the United States Department of Defense and the u.s. military would give him permission and help to make the movie. In 1975 he sent an unfinished version of the script on the script The U.s. Army found unacceptable. and did not want to cooperate. After having decided was not in the movie to include Australia (where the army command stated that they do not "Agency for movie attributes is") took Coppola contact the then president of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos, who wanted to help him if he would pay. The Philippine Army helicoptersdelivered, security and everything else would be needed. Working with the helicopters turned out to be tricky. Every day there were new pilots and had to explain Coppola repeatedly what he wanted. In addition the helicopters sometimes without consultation called away by the Philippine Army command when they were needed elsewhere.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Laurence Fishburne was 14 years old when production began. He lied about his age so he the role as Tyrone "Mr. Clean" Miller would get if 17-year-old. The production ultimately took so long that he was 17 years old when the movie production was finished. ==Apocalypse Now Redux<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2001, the film was completed with previously unused footage and originally mounted to the version that Coppola had been originally envisioned. Among other things is a scene added over a French aristocratic family, that there is still a kind of private colony on. This about an hour longer version appeared under the title Apocalypse Now Redux. This film went in May 2001 premiered at the Cannes Film festival. ==Quotes<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Prices<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="46" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film was awarded with various film awards:
 * The shit piled up so fast in ' Nam you needed wings to stay above (Willard when he reads his briefing)
 * I love the smell of Napalm in the morning ... it smells like ... like victory (Kilgore after a napalmattack) (the background music from Richard Wagner 's Die Walküre, a musical quote);
 * I hardly spoke a word to my wife until I said yes to a divorce (Willard when he is musing about his return to the US after his first deployment in Viet Nam)
 * Every man has his breaking point. Walt Kurtz has reached his. He has obviously become totally insane (General Corman which explains the command to Willard)
 * Terminate with extreme prejudice (CIA-agent against Willard about command to kill Kurtz)
 * I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. It's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor ... and surviving (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! (Kurtz)
 * We must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig. Cow after cow. Village after village. Army after army, and they call me an assassin! Well, what do you call it when the assassins accuse the assassin?(Kurtz)
 * Charlie don't surf! (Kilgore when he wants to surf in a controlled area by the Vietcong )
 * If that's how Kilgore fought the war, I began to wonder what they really had against Kurtz. (Willard after a devastating attack of Kilgores unit on a village)
 * Charlies idea of great R & R was a bowl of rice and a little rat meat. Hey just had two options: death or victory. (Willard when he sees the Playboy bunny show for the American soldiers)
 * If I had 10 divisions of those men, our troubles here would be over very quickly (Kurtz after he has the ruthlessness of the North Vietnamese soldiers described)
 * Never get out of the boat! Absolutely, goddamn right. Unless you were going all the way. Kurtz went all the way.. He split from the whole fucking program (Willard after he is attacked by a tiger in the jungle)
 * I couldn't believe they wanted this guy dead. 3rd generation West Point, top of his class, Korea, about a thousand decorations (Willard when he gets to face the dossier on Kurtz)
 * I told you not to stop. (Willard against Chief after he kill a wounded Vietnamese wife on one, against the will of Willard, sampan held)
 * Who is in command here? (Willard to a soldier in the u.s. Army post to the furthest and disintegrating Nung-River) Ain't you? (The soldier Replies)
 * Do you think my methods are unsound, Willard? (Kurtz asks Willard) I don't see any method at all, Sir (Willard replies)
 * Ah the heads ... sometimes he goes too far.. He's the first one to admit it! (photo journalist against Willard after he severed heads see)
 * (Kurtz) What are you, Willard? An assassin? (Willard) I'm a soldier (Kurtz) You're neither. You're an errand boy sent by the grocery clerks to collect the bill.
 * The Horror ...The Horror (last words of Kurtz-a direct quotation from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness)
 * (Kurtz) because it's judgment that defeats us


 * Golden palm at the Cannes Film festival
 * Academy Award: won: Best Cinematography and Best Sound, two and five nominations: Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
 * Golden Globe: Best Actor in won three: Best Director, Supporting Role, Best Original Score, and a nomination: Best Motion Picture.
 * BAFTA Award: won two: Best Direction, Best Actor in Supporting Role, and six nominations: Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Film, Best Best Production Design and Best Soundtrack