Ride of the Valkyries: The Story Behind Cinema’s Most Epic Battle | Ep10 | Making Apocalypse Now
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In Episode 10 of Making Apocalypse Now, we take a look at the making of one of cinema’s most epic battle scenes-the Ride of the Valkyries Sequence. Aside from the complex logistics of putting together a helicopter assault sequence in the middle of a small rural village in the Philippines, there were endless problems with fires, communication issues, copyright, and constantly having the helicopters called away to fight rebels. It’s incredible that Francis Ford Coppola, Vittorio Storaro (Cinematographer), Dean Tavoularis (Production Designer), and Walter Murch (Editor) managed to pull off an intense sequence that has taken its place as one of the most memorable battles in cinema history.
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Back in 1976 or 1977 my dad was installing a high end stereo system for Coppola at his Napa house. I rode dirt bikes with Coppola's son, Carlo. I still remember that day when Coppola had my dad and I to watch a segment of a new movie he was making. I watch the " Ride of the Valkyries ". I hated the music (opera), but loved watching all the helicopters. I remember vividly how Coppola asked my dad in a nervous, stressed out voice:"What do you think? Huh, what do you think? Coppola was a very stressed out man with this movie. Little did I know that this scene would become a "classic".
Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
awesome sauce
Wow
Not sure if you'll see this, but how did Coppola show the clip? On a projector?
@@BlyGuy I saw on it on a small screen, not like a theater sized screen. I was 12 at the time, so I really wasn't paying attention to any details.
Apocalypse Now is one of those movies that simply won't leave your mind. I've seen this movie only once and I still remember scenes frame by frame.
I've seen it at least forty times and still pick up new things during each viewing.
It goes deeper into your psyche than almost any other movie....
When I watched for the first time, I didn´t feel like watching anything else for like a months
@@giovanni21mas I think Marlon Brando is overrated as an actor. I don't find him compelling, I find him annoying.
How can someone watch THAT movie only once?!?
If this was done in CGI today, it wouldn't have the same effect we saw in the film originally. Even though there was hardships in filming, logistics etc, it's still the best sequence ever made for film. I've watched Apocalypse Now over the years in various cuts & it's still brilliant.
Kind of why Top Gun Maverick used real planes. The main use was putting planes shot separately into a scene together. The other main use of the CGI was for explosions and backgrounds. All the F-18’s were real. Some of the other planes were CGI.
Think it was the fifth generation jets were CGI
@@kudukilla there was plenty of cgi in that film, especially in the dogfights, the planes were often pure cgi
@@StoutProper even the CGI of some planes in the dogfights was just putting a skin over footage of a real plane. The Su-57’s and darkstar were skins over F-18’s. Minimal “pure” CGI
Yeah, not a huge fan of CGI. Laws of physics get broken regularly and reality is being estimated. Then maybe the art involved is tossed out the window in favor of the big spectacular scene/explosion.
I was in Vietnam with the Air Cav. Old troopers like me still get goose bumps over this sequence.
Hell, if Matthew Brennan's books were any indication (Brennan is an author and a multi tour vet several 'Blue Platoons' of several troops of the 1st of the 9th), these 'Scouts' were crazy and/or gutsy as hell.
@@nickmitsialis I was in the Air Cav in Vietnam. Those Loach pilots were both gutsy, and nuts. All of our scout birds had a minigun mounted on them.
@@perihelion7798 Indeed! I recommend Brennan's book 'Flashing Sabers', a 'redux' of his original 'Brennan's War'. Before Amazon changed things, from time to time, when folks reviewed or made comments on his books, he'd drop in to chat.
@@nickmitsialis I'll check it out - thanks.
Man Coppola must have had nerves of steel. How could one man cope with that kind of pressure and problems. Unbelievable. What a great series this is. Incredibly interesting. Thanks for creating it for us.
I’d like to think that after the vindication of his hard work on the godfather films, he was feeling quite invulnerable and ambitious.
My mother, a total cinephile, took me to see "Apocalypse Now" in the theater when I was 14. It kinda shell shocked both of us, it was a lot to take in. Our usual post-film dinner out was pretty quiet.
(Side note, for our 79th/56th birthdays we watched Fury Road, which reminded both of us of AN in certain ways.)
Fury Road is one of the few modern films that is top notch cinematography. The way it’s shot is enrapturing
Wow I'd never thought of Fury Road that way but now that you mention it Immortan Joe is kind of like Kurtz and Furiosa is Willard or maybe Max is partly Willard as well !
My mom took me when I was 10. I was scared to death. The suspense was insane. I had to pee like 15 times during that movie. My mom also took me to Jaws when I was like 8. It was a stressful childhood. Ha!
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*Francis Ford Coppola an underrated creator?*
Oh, you mean CinemaTyler.
Yes, I figured out what you meant by the time I started writing this reply but this reply does capture my initial thoughts when first reading your comment.
This channel does make great content.
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I'm watching these episodes for maybe the 3rd or 4th time. So we'll put together, researched, narrated etc.
And this is no different with the other channel content. Genuinely one of my most favourite channels on RUclips
I was in PSYOP in the 90s, stationed in Fort Bragg, NC. We'd get requests from the 82nd to play Ride of the Valkyries from our loudspeakers on the various DZs during Mass Tac. They loved it.
In 1990, while working on Bonfire of the Vanities, I was befriended by the A Camera operator, Doug Ryan. He was a participatnt on different levels on Apocalypse Now. What originally qualified him for participation was that he was in the original Marine group that was deployed in Vietnam after the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, so began as a technical advisor. Doug told me that Francis asked him to put on one piece of paper all the weird things that he had seen during the 6 months he was in country. Francis then took that one page of weirdness and used it - 6 months of experience - in one scene, making the scene hyper-real. After a while, Doug began to assist Francis’ wife in shooting documentary footage, which eventually was used in Hearts of Darkness. This is how Doug began to enter camera work, eventually becoming the A Camera Operator on Bonfire of the Vanities. Doug also said that he did some 2nd Unit Directing, in particular on the tiger scene…
The Valkyrie/Surfer sequence is timeless and epic. Duvall is savage and perfect for the scene.
TheBrownSys...Did you see The Great Santini???? Duvall????,,Its great too!
In fact, in my humble opinion Duval's delivery in this sequence is just perfect, it had the right TONE for almost every line.
But the one line in particular that was delivered more than perfect was right after the medevac chopper is destroyed by a civilian clothes Vietnamese woman running in with a grenade to throw into the chopper.
The cry of " She's got a grenade! She's got a grenade!" Is too late, and the resulting ball of fire shows a stuntman lingering too long in the chopper and tumbling out..but then Duvall exclaims " FUCKING SAVAGES!".... extremely ironic considering what they are there for...and then another voice over the radio, " Holy Christ! She's an assassin! Get over there Johnny! Put the white skin right up her ass!"
It's such BRUTAL film making... putting the audience THERE, right in the box seat.
Truly memorable cinema 😮
The more I learn about it, the more miraculous it seems that the film was ever finished at all.
"Of course dear boy, why didn't you ask me in the first place?" That Solti line gave me chills, cool little bit.
I'm a Huey pilot and have loved this movie since it first came out. In High school, all I wanted to do was graduate and become a Warrant Officer Huey Pilot. I was trained by Vietnam Vets, the best training in the world. Oh, and by the way, the OH-6 is not a Hughes 500, its a 369A
Never got to ride in a Huey, how do you think it feels in comparison to a Black Hawk or a shit hook?
Saw this film when I was about 12 years old in the early 80's on HBO. In the back of my mind I always wanted to be in the Cavalry. When my time was up in the 8th Infantry in Germany. My new orders told me I was assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division Ft.Hood Tx. Funny how sometimes the world bends to give you what you wanted years before. Enjoyed serving there
Being in my early 20s and having a much older father, I've seen most of these movies you have covered but didn't know where to look for facts about these films except for IMDB's. My dad and I love your work!
Your father is older than you? That’s bizarre!
@@DeanH92 hahaha, my dad was 40 when I was born so he's got quite of bit of age on me.
With Apocalypse Now there is actually a lot of first hand information you can easily get out there, mainly the documentary "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse" and the book "Notes on the Making of Apocalypse Now" both by Eleanor Coppola.
@@CornishCreamtea07 thank you
The unedited director cut really outstandingly nails it, I was in Cambodia for 6 years, great people, magical country.... the French actors told the truth.... 20 miles, 32km if you must, from home, I've never been safer than in the Cambodian jungle 🇰🇭🍀
i saw this in a near empty cinema on a snowy day in 1979 (I was 14 and shouldn't have even been allowed in) and it was mind-blowing. I then totally confused my parents by requesting Doors and Wagner LPs for my birthday!
Bugs Bunny and Apocalypse Now brought classical music to a new generation like nothing else could have.
As a young teen at the beginning of the 80s, I’ve seen Apocalypse Now more than Superman & that is saying something. The film had a huge reputation in a generation that really missed seeing Vietnam in real time on TV. At any gathering for any girl or boy, who said they hadn’t seen it, a VHS copy would appear in short order. It was so visually & musically arresting compared to other movies, even Star Wars, no one could take their eyes off it once it was rolling.
as much as I love Star Wars, especially the OT and (yes) the prequels, it really is just entry level stuff when compared to Apocalypse Now
@@sunsetman22 Not really comparable since they are vastly different genres and have different messages.
As a kid, I loved this scene. I loved it so much that as an adult, I was a Crew chief/Door gunner on a Huey of my own.
Seeing this in IMAX a few years ago was incredible, this sequence literally moved me to tears it’s so powerful.
Man, I would love to see it in IMAX…👍
I saw Apocalypse Now on its opening weekend as a teenager, a year later I joined the US Army and requested the 101st Airborne (Air Assault) to experience helicopter infantry first-hand so this movie shaped my life. In the early 80's there was smoking weed and cavalier leadership just like in Apocalypse Now!
As someone who has been studying this film for about 15 years now - my fav of all time - you still manage to give me new perspectives on it. Thanks for your awesome work!
Imagine the pilots being afraid of the maneuvers that they are being asked to make for these scenes, and how they're probably thinking "I better get this right, because I might end up having to do this for real later today"
I rewatched Apocalypse Now last year during all the lockdowns and I can remember almost every detail and plot point laid out vividly, there's always something new to find in an ambitious epic film like this one.
Just when you thought Tyler was over and done with his outstanding Apocalypse Now series. This addition here is just absolutely beautifully wonderfully awesome. As it is said these days, Fire!
I am at the university of Hertfordshire and on the film and television course. We have an editing suite called "The Walter Murch lab" this series has taught me so much about him. Thank you
Superb breakdown of this spectacular scene. Also, I'd say that few (or no) other scenes in movies better illustrates the massive strength and the unforgettable impact of live filming vs. the pathetically homogenized and cartoonish CGI that is now, so very often, and SO very sadly, used in the place of live action.
Between this and the Full Metal Jacket series, I'll bet you feel like you've been in 'Nam forever, Tyler.
I got the Tomita album mentioned here years ago after Coppola referenced it in his commentary, and it's mind-blowing on vinyl
Love to see interviews with Oliver Stone next, for a truly comprehensive array
I'm starting to kind of get into electronic music....I have every Kraftwerk piece, and 3 Jean Michael Jarre albums, and every "Art of Noise" album.....What is Tomita like? What else do you recommend?
@@dancalmpeaceful3903 Tangerine Dream. The "Sorcerer" soundtrack is also amazing on vinyl
@@1dbanner Thanks for the recommendation. I'll try and check it out. I remember back in college, when me and my buddy were REALLY high...THEN, and ONLY then, he would get out his prized Mike Oldfield LIVE album (4 album boxed set). I believe it was an import. Oh man did that shit sound GOOD especially since he had a good turntable...(I think it was a quality Denon).
From David A.Wood: In August 1979, the first showing of the momentous Francis Ford Coppola-directed movie "Apocalypse Now" was previewed in New York City. Though I was not fortunate enough to have seen the preview, which was shown later that month, I learned of this occurrence on the late night of Wednesday, August 8th when I was in a Manhattan borough-located, Howsrd Johnson hotel room while I was vacationing with my parents. Smoothly edited excerpts from the very enthralling 1979 movie were advertised on TV during that late Wednesday night and the movie's "trailer" was exhibited to the music of Wagner's emotionally thrilling "Ride of the Valkyries." That was the very first time that I really "heard" Wagner's epic Classical Musical (Opera) song as opposed to the many times that I previously, and also just merely, heard Wagner's song during the early years of my childhood. From then on because of Coppola's film, "Ride of The Valkyries" became, and still is, one of my favorite Classical Music songs! Thank you very much, Mr. Coppola!
You are such a gift to fans of film makers like Coppola and Kubrick. Ever since I first saw AN at age 13, I have been deeply fascinated by it, bought every book I could find, magazines , and scraps of memorabilia. Yet you always offer new insights and ideas, leaving me astonished and breathless after each video. I highly recommend everyone support the work by buying your excellent companion PDFs. They are as finely produced and written as your videos. Many thanks for your great work.
Was in the middle of re watching apocalypse now when I got the notification for this video! Finished it and now I'm here.
The Kilgore section of the film is likely the best filmmmaking and acting in cinema history. It culminates in the "napalm" line. There's nothing else like it.
Charlie don't surf... one of the greatest lines
The toughest part for me would have been to TRY and get the pilots on the same page.madness BUT francis was determined and to the victor go the spoils. My hats off to you sir, and all who made this amazing movie possable..
Great video! Certainly one of the best scenes in film history. Although I will say that Milius, God bless him, isn't totally correct about music and warfare. I was in the 2-503, 173rd Airborne and deployed twice to Afghanistan. I certainly do not profess to know everything but in reality music and combat are not mixed. It's exhilarating in the movies for sure. But even if we had the permission / ability to blast music in a firefight we wouldn't even entertain the idea. Combat is fucking LOUD, you'd have to play it so high it would be disorienting. Making yourself heard and understood in those situations is hard enough. You're constantly being co-ordinated and re-coordinated as the firefight evolves and circumstances change. Situational awareness in the present, anticipating logical next steps, and being ready to adapt to new developments immediately ties up all your mental energy. Wagner would not make us more lethal lol.
Thank you for your service.👍🙏
I thought the same thing when I watched this, I probably would've been yelling "shut that damn music off I need to concentrate!"
You really manage to outline the art in these cinema scenes perfectly. Also I can recommend the book "Chickenhawk" for an insight into the life of a Huey pilot in Vietnam.
Ahhhh! CHICKENHAWK!
What a powerful book it was.
I still believe it should be required reading for anyone that wants to be a serving soldier. I've never been in the military personally, but I do know there is nowhere to hide on a modern battlefield, and helicopters in particular foreshadowed this very vulnerability all those years ago.
And CHICKENHAWK spells that fact out in black and white.
The moive was fantastic. The production behind the scene was even more legendary. Been following this series, and you did a great job man!
I thought I knew about this sequence, but while watching this I became tense and anxious. This production nightmare was enlivened by such incredible background detail.
The brilliance of this film makes it the most unique war film ever made. And that's because of FF Coppolla, who in effect made the film up as they went along. Generally this method of filmmaking doesn't result in a classic of cinema and Apocalypse might be the only one of its kind, ever. When you watch the "making of" movie "Hearts of darkness" it is difficult to reconcile the excellent results of the final movie with the sheer chaos of its production.
What I love about this movie is how much Copola was into Heart of Darkness
I love this series. Make 100 of these, please sir!
the ride of the valkyries also was used during the "deutsche wochenschau" (the nazi's news show) from may 30th 1941 for the air strike on british targets on crete.
the stukas (german diving bombers) who were part of this attack had an quite early form of what later would be called 'psy-ops': the "jericho trumpet". that was a siren-like device powered by the airflow during the diving maneuvers of those planes (of course enhanced by the doppler effect) to frighten the people on the ground (even more).
I've seen this scene countless times and it's still stunning
Great video. One note: Ferdinand Marcos was not given helicopters "to fight the Vietcong"! (5:14) He was given US military support to fight an indigenous communist-aligned insurgency led by the New Peoples Army. There were no "Vietcong" in the Philippines.
Or the "Moro's", down in Mindanao, Muslims who wanted their own independence. The Huey's were mainly (not all ), handed over from "surplus", flown directly off carriers on the way back to he states, in exchange for refugee camps(temporary) for Vietnamese fleeing Uncle Ho's crowd. Met a few N.P.A. while living on Luzon.
bingo - came here to say this.
Correction, The US provided the UH-1 Huey helicopters in return for Philippines participation in the Vietnam War.
The Philippines sent a contingent of army engineers, medics and security personnel in the late 60s. It was the US that first offered the Philippines the HUEYs in 1965. In return, UH1-D Hueys were offered to Marcos.
The Phil Air Force got the UH1-H Hueys in 1968.
So it is still an accurate statement.
@@aumariganWhile you might be correct re the intent of the original statement, i think it's a generous interpretation. And as your fairly involved explication shows, the video's original statement regarding 'fighting Viet Cong',' however technically accurate it 'still' might have been, was very incomplete and lacking in clarity and context.
@@grahamgreene779
You can find my source here:
VIETNAM STUDIES ALLIED PARTICIPATION IN VIETNAM by Lieutenant General Stanley Robert Larsen and Brigadier General James Lawton Collins, Jr. DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY WASHINGTON, D.C., 2005
I had no idea that helicopter pilot was R. Lee... that's awesome.
I watch this movie weekly.
It's transcendental for me.
That is pretty intense. I´ve seen the movie twice now, both times this month and I love it a lot.
I will probably continue to watch it at least once a year.
Thanks for doing this.
I can't wait for the next installment, and I hope that you shed some light on that - _flare inside the helo_ - scene.
I have always assumed that one of them simulating a helo-rocket accidentally got inside, and the result was just some great ad libbing from Duvall.
Great research and presentation, man!
Yt channel "Second Thought" has just done a great video about the American military's influence over films by loaning or denying its equipment in exchange for script edits/rewrites.
This has been a fascinating Apocalypse Now series, thank you!
I remember reading a film review in none other than Soldier of Fortune magazine back in 1979 when Apocalypse Now came out. The reviewer pointed out how the rockets coming out of the pods had been a special effect gremlin, as they were kind of wimpy and would just drop from the flight path like a lead balloon. Also, many of the planted explosives would burn for too long and the rotor wash would make it look like a firework instead of a mortar round. I still see these things in that scene, but it's still a great scene. One particular explosion that was a little too realistic was the Hughes 500 that goes in to shoot the woman that threw the grenade in the medivac helicopter. The explosion was so powerful it actually forced the helicopter to make an emergency landing.
Really good job with the film research dude.
*Note: at 9:22, I say "beach-bombing.' I should have said, 'beach-combing.'
*Also, the page number for the quote at 20:32 is Page 26.
*Several of you have pointed out that they didn't invade a North Vietnamese Village, but rather a North Vietnamese Stronghold in South Vietnam.
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Small detail for 1:26: "Snowflakes are Dancing" is by Claude Debussy. He's usually described "Impressionist"/"Symbolist".
the way that the keys/harmony in all the music examples from 1:24-1:52 flow into each other is really great. I know that could be 66% coincidence or 100% unintentional but as a musician and an editor I dig it Tyler😤
Excellent content thank you! I saw in the theater in 79 and it never gets old, thanks again
I thoroughly enjoyed the movie and the extras that I learned from watching the clip. Voigner is great!!!
I love Vittorio Storaro's work.❤
Awesomeness! I love this entire series! My favorite movie, by far!!! 👏
I remember the low flying (tree top level) was because the trees "silenced" the 'copters approach (the sound of which terrified the VC). So playing the load speakers would not be heard by the VC either, it was for the 'copter passengers morale.
This is easily one of the greatest movie scenes ever. As an ex heroin user he used to snort it myself hearing a pilot of a helicopter was doing it and flying is shocking as hell! I’ll never forget hiding my habit and one time having to drive when I was in no condition to be and I was fighting to stay awake and not nod off and crash. The person I was with at the time insisted I drive for some reason (she didn’t know i was using hard drugs or any drugs) and if I made a big thing of it and insisted she drove it wouldve made her know something was up. That interaction was so fast and next thing you know I was driving and I’m so against drunk or drug driving. Only time I ever did it. The skill and concentration of flying a helicopter is just incredible especially in a situation like this. Plus you know they were getting pure heroin there. Bet that guy had some crazy stories. Those pilots were fighting the day before then flying in these scenes. It’s just crazy.
4:09 WWII actually did have mounted cavalry units involved in extremely limited numbers. By the peak of the war both sides, particularly the allies, had more or less phased them out to be replaced with mechanized cavalry: tanks and other armored vehicles.
I've studied this film for years. Coppola was fighting his own war, every minute of every day, to get every inch of film in the can. Just amazing. This and other documentaries speak volumes on the stamina, character and perseverance it took to make this film.
07:48 one of my favourite aerial shots ....Loved that banking and plunge....ROTV is my all time fav !! Those Pilots ..WOWW !!!
Dude, you have ate up a lot of my time, since I subscribed! Your videos are so good and full of details. I loved the Apocalypse Now series, and all the Kubrick movies. Still have many more to go!
If you make a film with the same attention to detail that you make these videos , it will surely be a masterpiece.
fav channel, excited for the Brando episode
This is a great video, loved it. I got to spend the better part of a day with R Lee Ermey on the set of a History Channel show years ago, and one of my big regrets was not asking him about his role in this movie when I had the chance that day... I have always wondered why Kilgore's helmet changes, it's white in some photo and scenes in behind the scenes, but OD green in the final film
Amazing production, the fact that it was done using actual military equipment used in the war is even more amazing.
The pilots did amazing work, really. I hope the ones good enough to actually fit in the shots got promoted.
Also, the "there is no war in the southern philipenes" vibes are kinda nuts. You can't blame the crew for being 'out of touch'
19:48. I am somewhat thankful that CGI now exist to allow stuntmen have the option of safety or do a dangerous stunt like that. But my God that stunt really takes balls and thr fact that its done for REAL really gives you a lot of respect for these stunt guys for their dangerous work.
Interesting story on the choppers being up North for the film during the day, then down South for the Philippines AF at night.🚁 Also interesting how the film helped fix their equipment.
I love your channel, Tyler! Great content, information and footage. Thanks for your hard work!
This entire series was very well done!
Fantastic video, thank you for this ongoing series
The one episode I was expecting all along... Great way to start the new year. Thanx!!!
War is insanity ….. this is the first and only movie that truly embraces that obvious truth
Thank you so much for these videos, fantastic work! How many videos do you anticipate having in this series? I eagerly await every new one that comes out.
Well done on this man.
Thanks for all these videos and the extraordinary amount of work you must've put into all this.
As a soldier who rode into combat in a chopper my favorite part is when the sailor ask why they sit on there helmets lol so true
Want to know something that could also be a fitting analogy to the idiocy of the Vietnam War? One answer: the haunting Russian Roulette sequence in Michael Cimino's _The Deer Hunter._ In that scene, the characters portrayed by Robert DeNiro, Christopher Walken, and John Savage are captured and put into a horrible prison, which was filmed on the River Kwai, the same river that became vital to the story of _The Bridge on the River Kwai,_ both the Pierre Boulle book and the David Lean film that it was based on, and the torture is horrific.
To twist the knife further, they're being forced to play Russian Roulette. That form of torture never actually happened in real life, but in the film, it _does_ become a disturbing metaphor of how the conflict got way out of control. I think the same could apply to both _Apocalypse Now,_ and _Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse,_ both being metaphorical of how the conflict went beyond their control.
00:23 - the war was fought entirely in South Vietnam (with some incursions into Cambodia). While soldiers from North Vietnam were the main adversary, particularly after 1968, it would still be inaccurate to call the village "North Vietnamese". The US and its allies feared Chinese involvement, which was what happened in the opening months of the Korean War when UN troops occupied North Korea. So the US and its allies restricted its use of ground forces to the Republic of Vietnam. The Viet Cong insurgents, and the civilian residents of the village, would have been South Vietnamese.
I'm sure there are many, many youtube channels that work really hard, so it seems unfair to say that this is the best channel, but c'mon... this is the best channel
A great sequence - one of the greatest in film history. A few years back we had it on in the background with a bunch of mil colleagues of various ages. When this bit came up, we called it to the attention of the youngsters who hadn't seen the film (can you imagine?). While watching it, one asked "is that CGI?" The response from the older guys was, "no, you idiot. They didn't have CGI in the 70s!"
Watch for Kilgore's badges on his Stetson change during this part of the film. I always wondered what happened. Given the length of time it took to complete this scene, his original hat might have been lost. Continuity can be tough.
The one aspect of this great scene that I don't like is the fake-looking rockets. They are fine close up but, at distance, they drop off quite quickly and look like fireworks.
One of the greatest scenes in movie history.
I cant wait for the next episode mate, this was great
BTW - in a helicopter the pilot seat is on the right & co-pilot is on the left. That's how they got shots of Ermey (or any actor that appears to be flying a helicopter in any movie ever made) looking like he's really piloting the ship.
Very well done, ol' boy. Anything to do with "Apocalypse Now" is like crack to me. I've been obsessed with this film since I first saw it some thirty-eight years ago.
I could watch hours of this! Keep them coming!
GREAT story behind the music used in the Ride of the Valkyrie’s.
I found this mini-documentary really interesting. This is my first visit. Thank you for posting
a great in-depth analysis of a brilliant sequence.... I've watched Apocalypse Now once a year since it came out.
I use to think Godfather and apocalypse now and the hood the bad the ugly we’re tied for greatest movies of all time I think apocalypse now edges the lead but good lord what amazing movies. All of the Coppola is the hands down GOAT
Amazing how much work went into this move . Thank you .
I'm Alessandro. No Fear. Love This!
Apocalypse Now is the only war movie that I remember so vividly, simply because it was so
Vivid in every detail of the characters as much as the wild action It’s unbelievable that no war movie has ever come close to capturing my imagination like that. Not even the great Nam movies of the 80s can touch it.
I really love your work!
Very well done! Thank you!
This series is fantastic. Keep it up!
Thank you so much for this upload. Love your work on my favorite movie👏
Watching this I keep thinking that just to keep people safe in these scenes was a monumental task. Keeping helicopters from flying into each other.