Fascinating to hear John Milius describing how it came about. And Coppola so gracious, "YOU created Apocalypse Now. I didn't create Apocalypse Now". Beautiful conversation.
I remember the bad reviews of both the Godfather and Apocalypse Now. This taught me at a very young age that critics are simply potholes to be avoided in the ride of life.
I toured Vietnam for the USO in '72 at age of 21 with some 'sirens.' We were always treated with much respect and kindness by all military personnel. I experienced many of the scenes depicted in Apocalypse and Platoon. It was a great honor for me and I thank all who served and serve today. The leaders who sent them there, well that's another story...
I agree with Jor Van Kline . . . please write your story Cliff. When I was at school in my teens O discovered that the guy next to me was knowledgeable about the Vietnam War. It turns out that his brother was Special Forces - The Australian Special Air Service (SAS) - who trained the American Special Forces, in particular the U.S. Green Berets AND the Kit Carson Scouts whose official name was the Long Range Reccoinance Patrol rangers. The LRRP's provided amazing intelligence to the U.S. military which was far more accurate than that from satellites. This Australian SAS trooper tols us that Coppola got it right. The Vietnam War was a surreal experience and it drove many mad. The SAS trooper witnessed the psychological decline od the U.S. soldier but NOT the LRRP"s and Green Berets.
Don't forget that Coppola had his very life and treasure at stake making this film..dealing with bankruptcy..Brando and his outrageous ways.. devasted sets in the Philippines etc. Immense respect!
I absolutely love this movie! Probably my favourite... so real, such great film-making, amazing script. Total respect to those live and dead who experienced this war, from myself and the whole Royal Marines Corps!
Phenomenal stuff with two brilliant minds. I am starving to see the full Redux version of this film, and hopefully soon. Apocalypse has to be one of the greatest scripts that has come out of Hollywood. So many innovative and spectacular scenes and lines with a fantastic cast and crew.
WOW! This is really something. I had no idea that it even existed. Two of the greatest minds in film history recounting the birth of one of the most influential movies of our time (or of any time). This is a treasure. Thank you.
I saw the premier of Apocalypse Now on Oct. 31 - Halloween night - 1979, at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood (I still have the ticket stub in the movie DVD case). I had just moved to LA, fresh out of film school, and I was blown-away. The bad reviews must be by the same type of critics that panned 2001: A Space Odyssey. On the other hand, Spielberg's 1941 was released the same time, and was unanimously panned by the critics - for good reason. John Milius was involved in that as well.
"Do you wanna eat something? Good. I have healthy stuff- broccoli!" (47:20) So good ol' Francis feeds him too. What a great ol' chat between 2 veterans of a classic piece (and period) of cinema!
+WalterLiddy Yes and no, I do think that the scenes with the French family and there passionate viewpoints were a great addition to give a historical dose of reality...
Good scenes but don't really fit among the film. I prefer the addition of the extra Playboy girls scene due to the subtext of them, but I read that the order in which they appear in redux doesn't make logical sense.
WalterLiddy Given the choice between the two I’d most definitely pick the theatrical version. As much as it’s cool to have all the big discarded scenes wrapped into a director’s cut, it just loses the essence. Like you’re no longer accompanying Capt. Willard as he retraces his experience down the river but are instead imprisoned in the mind of someone who can’t distinguish fanciful day dreams from waking reality.
Fascinating interview. Great f*****g movie. Never tire of watching it. Always says something different as we get older. Wish Coppola would do another cut and drop that French scene though. Put it in the extras and watch it as a stand alone thing.
@William Burns But it doesn't work dropping it in right before meeting Kurtz. Or dropping it in anywhere. There's no fit. It does nothing for the movie. Takes you out of it. So he does a Final Cut and drops the playboy bunny scenes and leaves the French one in. Ridiculous.....let me take a wild guess as to why.......? ANYONE I ask who watches it still....ALL say they skip past the French scene,
The Beauty & Graciousness of Francis FC, & John,M.. Master Artist & Film Makers At their Best. We Often get Run Off the Roads we Intend to Travel in Life. War is Hell & Life Surely Can Be. Beware of Evil & Darkness that 'll Undermine you. This is Import for Any Artist to Find Your Way Back Into the Light. Love Self, Protect Life, Cultivate, Breathe Happy, Peace.!!!
Thanks so much for sharing this. It is frustrating that these features are only available on the BluRay release and are therefore out of reach for many people. Would you consider uploading the Francis Ford Coppola - Martin Sheen conversation as well? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again.
THANK YOU TEO!! Highly recommend the documentary Hearts of Darkness: Making Apocalypse Now to those that find this stuff engrossing. Hahahah YESSS he is the inspiration for Walter Sobchak from The Big Lebowski... STFU Donnie lol New shit has come to light,Dude
The main reason why is that he knows that straight "reaction shots" are the most artifical in movies. When he asks a question he's better but the fact is they have very little common.
If I were na interviewer I think I'd be like poor Coppola: "Oh, what's the question that will get him to talk more?! Oh, there it is. Phew, back to listening..."
People are so focused on the war in the movie and it was the most minor thing it was more a backdrop more than anything.The movie was character driven about morality and men's psyche. We are always at war...with ourselves
7:36 When I was a kid, and afraid of the dark, I did NOT go deeper into the dark. I jumped in the bed, rolled over, and pulled the covers up to my ears.
Well as you know the succes of the wine business helped make him a multimillionare but when he wrote Patton and the Godfather - he was known and wished to be known (like it or not) as an anti-capitalist writer. But he always best when he has something to kick against - Milius was perfect for that as he was a friend of sorts and loved war as did a lot of people in Nam. Don't forget he told Coppola war is beautiful - that's there in the film too.
only "kinda"? It is a huge oversight on your part. I am glad you recognized your error though. It is a good reminder to people who consider themselves film expert who don't even know some of the basic background notes of the projects they are praising.
I was not aware of Milius, as a maker of movies, until I saw Rough Riders. I loved the attention to detail, especially with the weapons, and then I slowly started to realize that Milius had his hands in virtually every one of my favorite movies. Same with soundtracks by Lalo Schifrin. I had the soundtrack album for Enter the Dragon, and I'd hear little bits of it in other movies;, he wrote the soundtracks for a lot of my favorite movies of the '70s, and Milius was often involved in those same movies.
Milius is such a hugely underrated screenwriter, and Director. His politics are crap, his talent is incandescent. There should be a place in Hollywood for such a purely talented guy.
Agree he most certinaly is not "anti-capitalist" now I used the term generically. But if you look at Patton and how he came to be involved in the Godfather - the studio did not see the project as the great epic work it became they saw the project as something to be given to an indepdent radical who would make it as a "critique of American capitalism" in other words they did not plan/ invisage the huge success it became. The producer did try to sack him but as you know FFC suvived.
@ 6:13 "Ben Hecht" , nee Hackton" whom google. '' ... if Orson Welles’ Heart of Darkness had been made, it would most likely have been a brilliant and revolutionary film for its time. It is in the embryonic Heart of Darkness that we see themes that later came to characterise Welles’ work, such as the destruction of the meta-narrative and exploration of the ever-present primitivism of the modern self. Adapting Heart of Darkness is perhaps the ultimate cinematic challenge, yet if there was ever a director to battle with the beast and “the horror”, Orson Welles may well have been it.''
"Is this your homework, Larry?"
Apparently, this is timeless
It had me fooled @1'st.deadringer 4.walter sobchek.from The Big L..
Of course it's his effing homework!
''Have you ever heard of Vietnam son?''
Your killing your father, Larry!!!!
The most underrated director of all time and one of the greatest writers in Hollywood history John Milius
Fascinating to hear John Milius describing how it came about. And Coppola so gracious, "YOU created Apocalypse Now. I didn't create Apocalypse Now". Beautiful conversation.
one thing I like about Coppola
is his ability to LISTEN
to not be in the spotlight and allow someone to tell their whole tale
Great point, mate.
YES!!! you are right
so true and a good story teller. just saw him at a festival speak!
This is kinda the point of the conversation. And he's intentionally overdoing it in a positive manner.
I remember the bad reviews of both the Godfather and Apocalypse Now. This taught me at a very young age that critics are simply potholes to be avoided in the ride of life.
Agreed
Yes critics are bitter failed artists.
“Also dude, Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please”
Shomer fucking Shabbos!
I really respect Coppola for doing this.
John Milius = Total legend.
+mbdulka John Milius is the god of movie writing....
+A. Drew Walker His contribution to HBO's Rome was epic!
Wolverines!
AGREED SIR!
100% love John m
I toured Vietnam for the USO in '72 at age of 21 with some 'sirens.' We were always treated with much respect and kindness by all military personnel. I experienced many of the scenes depicted in Apocalypse and Platoon. It was a great honor for me and I thank all who served and serve today. The leaders who sent them there, well that's another story...
Another story which YOU SHOULD WRITE!
I agree with Jor Van Kline . . . please write your story Cliff. When I was at school in my teens O discovered that the guy next to me was knowledgeable about the Vietnam War. It turns out that his brother was Special Forces - The Australian Special Air Service (SAS) - who trained the American Special Forces, in particular the U.S. Green Berets AND the Kit Carson Scouts whose official name was the Long Range Reccoinance Patrol rangers. The LRRP's provided amazing intelligence to the U.S. military which was far more accurate than that from satellites. This Australian SAS trooper tols us that Coppola got it right. The Vietnam War was a surreal experience and it drove many mad. The SAS trooper witnessed the psychological decline od the U.S. soldier but NOT the LRRP"s and Green Berets.
Just priceless. The humbleness of these two larger-than-life chaps. Amazing interview. Thank you a lot for the upload!
Francis Ford Coppola is pure class, selfless, graceful. Genius. I think im gonna go watch the Godfather l &ll again.
Don't forget that Coppola had his very life and treasure at stake making this film..dealing with bankruptcy..Brando and his outrageous ways.. devasted sets in the Philippines etc. Immense respect!
What an incredible man, I could listen to John Milius forever
I love how all the comments are a reference to Walter. Milius will always be remembered for this by the new generations.
John Milius is very underrated moviemaker!
Forget it, Donny, you're out of your element!
Coppola knew Jim Morrison at UCLA, Milius wrote the script with the Doors music in mind....Amazing interview!
Fascinating to watch these 2 greats in casual conversation.
I absolutely love this movie! Probably my favourite... so real, such great film-making, amazing script. Total respect to those live and dead who experienced this war, from myself and the whole Royal Marines Corps!
Phenomenal stuff with two brilliant minds. I am starving to see the full Redux version of this film, and hopefully soon. Apocalypse has to be one of the greatest scripts that has come out of Hollywood. So many innovative and spectacular scenes and lines with a fantastic cast and crew.
love this. milius is one of the most underrated filmakers, his films are always grounded in some fairly deep philosophy
thank you very much for sharing this interview... Milius and Coppola are both brilliant and Apocalypse Now is a superior film...
WOW! This is really something. I had no idea that it even existed. Two of the greatest minds in film history recounting the birth of one of the most influential movies of our time (or of any time). This is a treasure. Thank you.
Smokey, my friend, you are entering a world of pain.
I can't get enough of these....HAHA
This isn't Nam, this is bowling. there are rules!
I saw the premier of Apocalypse Now on Oct. 31 - Halloween night - 1979, at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood (I still have the ticket stub in the movie DVD case). I had just moved to LA, fresh out of film school, and I was blown-away. The bad reviews must be by the same type of critics that panned 2001: A Space Odyssey. On the other hand, Spielberg's 1941 was released the same time, and was unanimously panned by the critics - for good reason. John Milius was involved in that as well.
So glad Lucas didn't make apocalypse now.
AMEN
@@Duhdgijdsnk George Lucas sucks. Get over it
Could listen to him talk for years, decades...
"Do you wanna eat something? Good. I have healthy stuff- broccoli!" (47:20)
So good ol' Francis feeds him too. What a great ol' chat between 2 veterans of a classic piece (and period) of cinema!
Your odd.
*****
Your a good guy Mr Beckwith. Ivana says good things about you. But watch out for that David Guy. He is very Wily...LOL
*****
He is always trying to steal my girlfriend...
*****
Yea we have to keep an eye on that one.
*****
One of those indeed...
This is f'ing great
AM I THE ONLY ONE AROUND HERE WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT THE RULES?
OVER THE LINE!!!!!!!!!!!!
PUT THE PIECE DOWN, WALTER. THEY'RE CALLIN' THE COPS, MAN.
There are Rules!!
Sometimes limitations and pressure are a good thing. The theatrical version is a million times better than the 'redux'.
+WalterLiddy Yes and no, I do think that the scenes with the French family and there passionate viewpoints were a great addition to give a historical dose of reality...
Good scenes but don't really fit among the film. I prefer the addition of the extra Playboy girls scene due to the subtext of them, but I read that the order in which they appear in redux doesn't make logical sense.
WalterLiddy Given the choice between the two I’d most definitely pick the theatrical version. As much as it’s cool to have all the big discarded scenes wrapped into a director’s cut, it just loses the essence. Like you’re no longer accompanying Capt. Willard as he retraces his experience down the river but are instead imprisoned in the mind of someone who can’t distinguish fanciful day dreams from waking reality.
So true! French plantation scene is a bore.
Fascinating interview. Great f*****g movie. Never tire of watching it. Always says something different as we get older. Wish Coppola would do another cut and drop that French scene though. Put it in the extras and watch it as a stand alone thing.
@William Burns But it doesn't work dropping it in right before meeting Kurtz. Or dropping it in anywhere. There's no fit. It does nothing for the movie. Takes you out of it. So he does a Final Cut and drops the playboy bunny scenes and leaves the French one in. Ridiculous.....let me take a wild guess as to why.......?
ANYONE I ask who watches it still....ALL say they skip past the French scene,
She kidnapped herself, you said so yourself, dude
LOL, I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude!
ACROSS THIS LINE YOU DO NOT!, by the way dude...
You are entering a world of pain.
This is amazing holy moly. Thank you for downloading this on RUclips.
Thank you so much for sharing this!
Thank you so much sir, this is absolutely marvellous. Great work.
The Beauty & Graciousness of Francis FC, & John,M.. Master Artist & Film Makers At their Best. We Often get Run Off the Roads we Intend to Travel in Life. War is Hell & Life Surely Can Be. Beware of Evil & Darkness that 'll Undermine you. This is Import for Any Artist to Find Your Way Back Into the Light. Love Self, Protect Life, Cultivate, Breathe Happy, Peace.!!!
Well said,enjoy the journey.
Never leave the Boat.
Milius will sadly never get his true due as one of the great talents in the modern history of Hollywood.
really great to watch this...
“So you have no frame of reference here, Donny. You're like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to know...”
This is beautiful.
Oh I loved this. Two true greats in the history of motion picture.
Wonderful interview
Thank you for this...
hearing milius talking about writing apoc now is an absolute treat
I wish there was 300 john milius' making movies today....
thanks for this man
schön,I love it!!
"I have good stuff.... Brocolli!" hahahaha Great interview, simply wonderful.
Great. Thx!
This is soo good I wish it was longer soo good.
brilliant!!
Thanks so much for sharing this. It is frustrating that these features are only available on the BluRay release and are therefore out of reach for many people. Would you consider uploading the Francis Ford Coppola - Martin Sheen conversation as well? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again.
John Milius is awesome.
You are my hero John!
Great behind the scenes of the evolution of an IDEA. And Tenacity is TRUE> I love the call out to Geronimo...
Fantastic conversation with the best ending. "So, you wanna eat something?"
this is great. i have nothing else to say i just think this is great.
I'm perfectly calm dude, calmer than you are.
I like the way they waddle off at the end.
When people throw out that what movie is better, and they star with Red Dawn or, I immediately tell them to go no farther. I love John Milius
John Milius interviewed by Francis Ford Coppola = Gold.
This guy is awesome
John Milius looks kinda like John Goodman
I thought it WAS Goodman at first!
"I am the Walrus."
They're perfectly placed for a staring competition.
"The Chinaman is not the issue here, Dude."
THANK YOU TEO!! Highly recommend the documentary Hearts of Darkness: Making Apocalypse Now to those that find this stuff engrossing. Hahahah YESSS he is the inspiration for Walter Sobchak from The Big Lebowski... STFU Donnie lol New shit has come to light,Dude
The main reason why is that he knows that straight "reaction shots" are the most artifical in movies. When he asks a question he's better but the fact is they have very little common.
Legendary
If I were na interviewer I think I'd be like poor Coppola: "Oh, what's the question that will get him to talk more?! Oh, there it is. Phew, back to listening..."
John is great
They used to play the sound of babies crying at night from speakers on Hueys to keep Charlie awake.
Unbelievable stuff -
People are so focused on the war in the movie and it was the most minor thing it was more a backdrop more than anything.The movie was character driven about morality and men's psyche. We are always at war...with ourselves
Fascinating interview!! The Redux version of AN was completely unnecessary.
You are right, Fast Eddie!
@@marknewton6984 grazie!
I also agree 100% fast eddie
7:36
When I was a kid, and afraid of the dark, I did NOT go deeper into the dark. I jumped in the bed, rolled over, and pulled the covers up to my ears.
I turned on the lights!
Brilliant Minds...
Well as you know the succes of the wine business helped make him a multimillionare but when he wrote Patton and the Godfather - he was known and wished to be known (like it or not) as an anti-capitalist writer. But he always best when he has something to kick against - Milius was perfect for that as he was a friend of sorts and loved war as did a lot of people in Nam. Don't forget he told Coppola war is beautiful - that's there in the film too.
fascinating
This is not NAM.There are rules.
Smokey this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules.
I keep trying to shut off the subtitles but I can't get rid of them.
Does nobody give a shit about the rules?!!!! Mark it Zero!
only "kinda"? It is a huge oversight on your part. I am glad you recognized your error though. It is a good reminder to people who consider themselves film expert who don't even know some of the basic background notes of the projects they are praising.
Anybody know if there's a transcript of this online?
I was not aware of Milius, as a maker of movies, until I saw Rough Riders. I loved the attention to detail, especially with the weapons, and then I slowly started to realize that Milius had his hands in virtually every one of my favorite movies. Same with soundtracks by Lalo Schifrin. I had the soundtrack album for Enter the Dragon, and I'd hear little bits of it in other movies;, he wrote the soundtracks for a lot of my favorite movies of the '70s, and Milius was often involved in those same movies.
Genius
Wasn't Walter sobchak the name of John Goodmans character in the big lebowski? He was a Vietnam vet!
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Milius is such a hugely underrated screenwriter, and Director. His politics are crap, his talent is incandescent. There should be a place in Hollywood for such a purely talented guy.
Nirvana Now, no fuck that shit, it's Apocalypse Now. Love Milius!
I was very confused and couldn’t figure out why Coppola was interviewing Walter from the big Lebowski for a few minutes
it's like im watching an older walter sobchak talk....
Agree he most certinaly is not "anti-capitalist" now I used the term generically. But if you look at Patton and how he came to be involved in the Godfather - the studio did not see the project as the great epic work it became they saw the project as something to be given to an indepdent radical who would make it as a "critique of American capitalism" in other words they did not plan/ invisage the huge success it became. The producer did try to sack him but as you know FFC suvived.
FORGET ABOUT THE FUCKIN TOE!!
"And of course Steven's extremely cheap..." 💀💀💀💀
“She’s a Valkyrie”
Oh yes it is, watch the audio commentary on the original Conan the Barbarian.
If only Coppola had gone back to making little movies instead of making One From the Arse.
@ 6:13 "Ben Hecht" , nee Hackton" whom google. '' ... if Orson Welles’ Heart of Darkness had been made, it would most likely have been a brilliant and revolutionary film for its time. It is in the embryonic Heart of Darkness that we see themes that later came to characterise Welles’ work, such as the destruction of the meta-narrative and exploration of the ever-present primitivism of the modern self. Adapting Heart of Darkness is perhaps the ultimate cinematic challenge, yet if there was ever a director to battle with the beast and “the horror”, Orson Welles may well have been it.''