@@phw6526 Amen. ,,about every scene - this movie continues to UnLock Nuggets as I get old'r and thought patterns ideals ideas w/e changes,,I see something new almost everyTime🌎
Exactly. I have had to explain to people that this is not really a war movie, as much as it is a psychological movie that happens to take place during a war.
He's broken and that's exactly why he could do that kind of job. Soldiers in a war are all broken to some degree or they will end that way. There's no other way to do that job. That's the horror, either they die or get lost emotionally, spiritually... luckily a recovery can be achieved, but usually it's partial or just ruin your life
The voiceovers were written by a photojournalist who was at the most brutal battles in the war. He wrote a phenomenal book about his experiences there called “Dispatches”.
It really happened: The animal (a water buffalo, or carabao) was killed - but not for the film. The tribe in the film was a real indigenous tribe that lived in the area, and they had already decided to slaughter it. Coppola merely decided to film the event.
The youngest American soldier that died in Vietnam was 14. The average age of the combat soldier there was 19. Vietnam lost 3-4 million souls in the war.
@@calm713 The average age of KIA in Vietnam is 22. Most of the troops sent to Vietnam were 18-19 year old conscripts. 8.7 million Americans were sent to Vietnam of which 63% were conscripted over the course of the war. 58,000 or under 2% were KIA. The youngest KIA was 15. Most American soldiers died in 1969-1970.
The seventeen, eighteen year olds didn’t have a choice. They were drafted into military service and sent to Vietnam. Terrible, terrible war. In the end the final words spoken by Kurtz encapsulate the entire war…. The horror, the horror. Great reaction, Emma. ❤❤🙏🙏
Seventeen year olds were NOT drafted! In fact I recall President Lyndon Johnson blowing a major gasket when news got out that a seventeen year old was killed in action while serving in the Vietnam war! It was a public relations nightmare!
Nobody was drafted at 17. You could enlist, with your parents written permission at 17. November 9, 1965, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara ordered military services to stop sending 17 year-olds to Vietnam and pull out those who were there. The average age of American military personnel in combat during the Vietnam War was 22 years-old. Also, more enlisted personnel were killed in action than draftees during the Vietnam War. The reality of that war is far different from the perception of it.
Martin Sheens' inner dialogue was written by Micheal Herr, one of the greatest of all vietnam era writers. Some of those lines are the best ever written about the darkness of that war. It shows the idiocy and futility of this war in full light and its utter darkness. In the end Sheen calls in the bombing raid, nobody wins.
I saw it when it came out on a hot summer night. It was 1979, just a few years after US involvement in the War was over. I remember the complete, stunned silence from the audience as we left the movie theater
The scene when Willard was in the bamboo prison and the journalist was giving him water - it was at that moment that actor Martin Sheen had a heart attack and had to go back to the US for six weeks to recuperate.
Yes, the film is based on a novel 'Heart of Darkness.' After Willard assassinated Kurtz, standing at the top of the temple, covered in his blood, and the mountain-yard army bowed to him like a god is the moment he was standing on the edge of hell looking down into the heart of darkness. Temptation to rule in hell. But he pulled back and left. VERY POWERFUL Cinema!
Its actually based on two books - joseph conrad’s , Heart of Darkness AND Michael Herr’s, Dispatches. Full Metal Jacket is also based on Dispatches, but Michael Herr co-wrote the Apocalypse Now script and the best bits of Dispatches are In Apocalypse Now. If youve read Dispatches, Full Metal Jacket is very disappointing, even though Herr also wrote part of that script. All the best scenes are - almost word for word - from Dispatches. Herr had a breakdown after leaving vietnam and wrote Dispatches in a haze of drugs and alcohol. Willard’s opening scene is Herr’s opening scene in Dispatches. His own experience. Redux is - by a Mexican mile - the best version of this movie. The point explored by Conrad (who served on the Belgian Congo river boats and was a friend of Roger Casement) and Herr is this: is man really civilised, or is it a veneer? Do we all have a heart of darkness, ready to come out? Kurtz in the movie is based on Heart of Darkness’ Kurtz and on Colonel David Hackworth, the man who created ‘tiger force’ and then went rogue against the US government in a spectacularly public way.
Both Charlie Sheen and his father Martin Sheen, played characters that were soldiers in the Vietnam War, narrating the story as the main character. Platoon (1986) for Charlie, and Apocalypse Now (1979) for Martin. Martin was 39 years old for this movie and Charlie was only 21 years for Platoon.
Has the best musical opening , and call back at the end , of any movie I have ever seen . When that napalm hits at the opening , what else could you possibly say .
Dennis Hopper I swear just showed up one day on set and started doing whatever he was doing and Coppola couldn't get rid of him. I can't prove it, but you can't tell me he wouldn't have done that.
An epic film that should have won the Best Picture Oscar, and a crime that Martin Sheen wasn’t even nominated for an Oscar. One of my top 5 films of all time. 😎👍
Martin Sheen is the best actor of any with 0 Academy Award nominations to his name. Hopefully they give him the Thalberg Award soon, the ultimate honorary Oscar.
The film used the plot of a famous novel : 'Heart of Darkness' by Joseph Conrad. In the novel the story takes place around 1900 in the Congolese jungles in Africa. For the film Mr. Coppola uses the absurdity/insanity of the Vietnam War around 1970. The 'plot' is a protagonist takes a journey up a river of 'insanity/surrealism/absurdity' to the 'heart of darkness' to find and bring back (or 'terminate') the villain...but is the villain really a 'villain' ?? It's all about a journey to our darkest regions of our mind/humanity/soul/morality. The main song is called 'The End' by The Doors....who were huge in the late 60s (still are in certain niches) and the American soldiers in the jungle played their music (among other bands) all the time.
Laurence Fishburne was 14 years old when filming began on Apocalypse Now in March 1976, but he was 18 by the time the film was released. Fishburne lied about his age to get the role of Tyrone Miller, a 17-year-old Gunner's Mate 3rd Class from the South Bronx. The film's production took so long that Fishburne celebrated his 15th and 16th birthdays while working on it. Fishburne is best known for his role as Morpheus in The Matrix film trilogy, but he also had a breakthrough role as Furious Styles in Boyz n the Hood.
A friend of mine was in this movie he got an extras spot. Dering a break he was not feeling well so he sat down on this low wall the director told him to stay there for the next shot when Duval was throwing death cards on the bodies Duval pats him on the shoulder and say cheer up son!! I'll be damned if it wasn't him!!!
You've seen Marlon Brando as the Godfather Vito Corleone and here as the crazy Colonel Kurtz, so I now strongly encourage you to watch Brando, as a young vigorous and virile man named Stanley Kowalski, in "A Streetcar Named Desire", the role that thrust Brando into Hollywood fame.
I saw this movie a long time ago. I knew this was one of the best movies ever made from the first time I watched it. However during the countless amount of years that I have been watching reactions about it I never knew there was an extended version and watching it here has been a beautiful experience ❤❤❤❤
Your next reaction should be, "All Quiet On The Western Front" (It is best to watch it in the original German and French language with English subtitles)
I was obsessed with this movie as a teenager. Based on the book "Heart of darkness" which based on his real experiences in the Congo. From what I have heard many of the cast members had breakdowns making this movie.. For example when Martin Sheen punches the mirror the blood is real.
The blood on Martin Sheen's face was real: he injured himself by punching the mirror and refused help. The dead children seem to be a reference to the Mi-Lai massacre. Col. Killgore and his helicopter music were inspired by a Psy-War officer who used loudspeakers in the helicopter. The music is Ride of Walkiries from an opera by Richard Wagner. Marlon Brando was filmed in semi-darkness because he was very overweight despite Coppola's request that he lose weight before filming. Brando's solo lines were improvised because he refused to say the script.
I have never seen the whole movie of this one, but the movie is both well known, and also infamous for the several year nightmare for everyone involved that production was (I am told the documentary on the making of the Movie, calls Hearts of Darkness, is superb). If memory serves, Martin Sheen, who was only in his mid-30's, gave himself a stress-induced heart attack filming the movie. Tremendous cast and tremendous indictment of the horrors of war, what it does to people, and the nightmare and atrocities of the Vietnam War. Really enjoyed your reaction!
I don't know if it was deliberate for the film, but the village the Air Cavalry attacked wasn't flying the standard Viet Cong guerilla flag. Ostensibly, the Viet Cong were all natives of South Vietnam rising up against their own government spontaneously without outside help. The flag flown in the village was the standard North Vietnamese flag, indicating the presence of North Vietnamese regular troops, not guerillas. That they felt secure enough to openly fly that flag in South Vietnam was why the Americans were calling it "Charlie's Point."
Ostensibly southern, perhaps, but only in the Communist propaganda. The reality was that the Viet Cong were supplied by North Vietnam and operated under the direction of the North Vietnamese military. Tens of thousands of Viet Cong fighters were trained in North Vietnam and then infiltrated into South Vietnam by way of the Ho Chi Minh trail. The government of South Vietnam was corrupt and oppressive and the Viet Cong did get support and recruit fighters from among the population in the south, but it was definitely not a purely indigenous movement operating without outside help.
I watched this movie about half a dozen times within the first 2 weeks after it first came to Canadian theaters and the ending I saw has never been seen on any VHS, DVD or other after market A. Now movie you can buy. What happened at the end of this movie was after you hear US command calling Captain Willard on the radio the screen fades to black and you can hear creepy music starting to quietly play and more of that ritual music the natives were making for the cow sacrifice adds to it. Then a single red flare could be seen in the top middle of the screen slowly falling down. Then as it hits the ground the entire movie screen lights up in a giant explosion of fire suddenly destroying the jungle and compound of Kurt's army. A strange guitar sound rips through your ears in sync with the bombs as they explode and destroyed the entire area as the end credits rolls past, and finally it all goes quiet and dark. I suspect they were telling the audience that the US military already had the location of the compound and decided to bomb it anyway. War is hell, and the US gov. was hiding the evidence of just how crazy war really was by blowing up Kurt's compound.
The first movie to have true 4 channel sound. Front right and left, back right and left (not just the front channels duplicated). In theaters there would have been a subwoofer as well, the original 5.0 surround sound.
This is actually a modernized retelling of Joseph Conrad's classic novella 'Heart of Darkness' that combines sequences of Homer's 'The Odyssey' in a few key scenes : *•* Kilgore, the surfer, is the Cyclops *•* The bridge that gets destroyed every night and rebuilt for the generals to say the road is open is Hades; with the bridge being a Sisyphusian task of punishment the troops beg to escape *•* The French plantation owners with their French cuisine, cognac, and opium are the Lotus Eaters that try to keep them from leaving
The "Cow" Ceremony was illegal and wasn't supposed to be filmed but the crew made a few payOffs and got the chance,,,it's actually a Joyous celebration for a village and the Ox's meat was shared with them
8:17 It wasn't so much that parents were sending their children to Vietnam, as it was the government was taking kids from their families and forcing them to go and fight.
You said “surrealistic” at the end, but the movie was designed that way, according to the first writer J. Milius, to lure people to buy repeat tickets before the VHS/DVD. Milius started this in the late ‘60s as an adaptation to “Heart of Darkness” (1899) on a dare and superimposed a Vietnam War project on it. Then the next writer, Coppola himself, added more on the boat trip and ad-libbed the ending with Brando. They brought Vietnam War correspondent Herr in for authenticity. “True fire” at the very beginning .. the production was expensive with lots of explosions and even renting Philippine army helicopters. The problem became once you get a helicopter in a scene, they found the viewer wants even more helicopters. That’s probably why we get the break with the tiger chase scene and, of course, the Playboy Bunnies, before really going up the river.
The sacrifice of the buffalo was not simulated; it was a real event. Coppola’s crew filmed an actual ritual sacrifice performed by the Ifugao people, a native tribe in the Philippines where parts of the movie were filmed. The decision to use the real sacrifice added to the film's controversy, especially among animal rights groups.
Saw this when it first came out (was 17). It was in old school wide format... only classic old theatres had the wide screens to show it. There were no credits at the beginning (ushers handed out pamphlets with all the screen credits to meet screen guild union requirements). So you sat down and the movie just began. The scene in Willard's hotel room where he breaks the mirror and then collapses crying was actually Martin Sheen having a nervous breakdown (because of the heat and his alcoholism). Coppola kept the cameras running, thought it was improvisation at first. Sheen has no memory of the incident whatsoever. Anyway, this was a BIG deal when it came out, instant masterpiece, raved by all the critics.
Sometimes they did. "Family tradition", other forms of pressure, some did go for the star-spangled glory of it all. But forgot what Gen. Sherman told us, "Boys, it is hell."
@@jonathancarlson6127 I watched her reaction less than an hour after she posted it. In the beginning she questioned why parents would send their children to kill others. When I got drafted the vast majority in basic with me were draftees, and they all looked down and mocked the enlistees. The enlistees didn't deserve that
@@rubroken No, they did not. But, good on you for not dodging. On a different subject, R. Lee Ermey has a small role in this movie as a helicopter pilot, but served several tours in Vietnam. History Channel did a special where he returned to Vietnam, and he's mentioning all that had changed, what was, etc. But you can tell from his eyes and body language, even though he's there in Ho Chi Minh City- it's only physically. Mentally, he's back in Saigon. It's the most vulnerable I've seen the man on camera.
@@jonathancarlson6127 I have respect for anyone that served 'in country' in any conflict but I have mad respect for those that saw combat. R. Lee. Army served in Vietnam so he has my respect, but he was a supply sergeant, so he didn't see combat(as far as I know)
It's incredible Emma to see your beautiful face that change for the scenes of the film, scenes dramatic or ironic, where the photography have a extraordinary part in the opera, in the deep always more deep and dark. I would have liked that to see the film close to you.
The general in the beginning was played by the same actor who played Senator Geary in Godfather Part Two. Did you recognize the young Harrison Ford? The point of the music during the helicopter attack is psychological warfare. The Roach will have absolutely no problem readjusting to civilian life. Did you notice the circus music at the end of the bridge scene? The whole thing was a circus. With no ringmaster. "They were going to make me a major for this and I wasn't even in their f***ing army anymore."
Apocalypse Now is more art than history. Using "The End" to begin and end the film additionally serves to wrap its Heart of Darkness subtext within the literary folds of Sophocles, Sigmund Freud, and James George Frazer. Many excellent films are set in that war, including The Deer Hunter (1978), Platoon (1986), Full Metal Jacket (1987), Hamburger Hill (1987), Casualties of War (1989), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Bullet in the Head (1990), Heaven & Earth (1993), We Were Soldiers (2002), and Rescue Dawn (2006). All of these films are quite intense, and some quite graphic in their depiction of the cruelty and horror of the war, so they may not be to your liking or your taste. But they all treat the subject with the dignity it deserves.
I'm not making excuses for the guys for shooting up the sampan, just offering a factual explanation. It was S.O.P.(Standard Operating Procedure) for the patrol boats to check all boats they encountered on the river. It wasn't totally uncommon to find weapons, ammunition, and supplies being smuggled south for Viet Cong insurgents. Chef's reluctance to board the boat is due to his encounter with the tiger earlier and leads to his anger toward the Vietnamese in the sampan. With everybody on the boat pumping more adrenaline in that moment than you or I will probably use up in a lifetime, they were extremely on edge. When the girl moved so quickly toward Chef, Clean's first impulse, not knowing that she was just trying to save her dog, was to protect his shipmate so he opened fire, triggering Lance and Chef to follow suit.
The first scene with Martin Sheen was filmed on his birthday. He was also drunk according to reports. Umm, a tiger will "bother" you, it's what they do, especially if surprised. In India, people carried specifically made pistols to shoot tigers that were climbing onto the elephants they rode. These were called howdah pistols. Wild tigers aren't from a Disney movie.
The documentary “Heart of Darkness” about the making of Apocalypse Now is an interesting watch. I bet Ben Stiller watched it before doing Tropic Thunder.
On the beach Captain Kilgore says “Charlie don’t surf.” Later the cook reads a newspaper article about Charles Manson. There were T-shirts made with Manson’s face and the line “Charlie don’t surf.” I’m not sure if the those T-shirts are still around.
Even today, most americans are completely unaware of the utter atrocity US forces committed in Vietnam, basically declaring the whole of south vietnam - the bit that was supposed to be friendly to the USA - a free fire zone, which meant anyone in the area could and would be attacked. Villagers were deported to ‘safe’ villages, but most left the ‘ safe’ villages (which weren’t safe anyway) and then found themselves under attack by US forces who killed them willy nilly then reported their bodies as VC - vietcong insurgents. The infamous ‘body count’ of Vietnam. Despite an estimated 2 million civilian deaths (and 1 million vietcong and NVA deaths) americans who fought there have a remarkably limited recollection of attacking civilians. The only comparison is the utter atrocity thats happening today in Gaza, the activities of the SS and special units in eastern europe during ww2, and the atrocities in the Belgian Congo, which sparked the very first international human rights investigation in 1904. Thats why the story is based on Heart of Darkness - which was instrumental in publicising the atrocities committed against the population of Belgian Congo when King Leopold ‘owned’ Belgian Congo as a private company, which led to the Casement Report on Belgian Congo. This is the most honest depiction of what happened in Vietnam, but many people think its exaggerated for dramatic effect. Its not. Many of the scenes are based on the personal experiences of the script co-writer, Michael Herr, who also wrote a memoir of his experiences in the Vietnam war called Dispatches. Dispatches - at Herr’s insistence - is regarded as a novel, because Herr wrote it in a blur of drugs and alcohol during his post-vietnam mental breakdown. But the basics of the events Herr recorded are true. Many of them appear in this movie. Full Metal Jacket was also co-written by Michael Herr and is a mish-mash of scenes from Dispatches that werent used in Apocalypse Now.
Sheen actually cut his hand in the beginning they kept it,,,sheens mental faculties were tested during filming and he suffered a heart attack that almost killed'm
There's an interview with Coppola and he says that an Army veteran told him that US soldiers are trained to burn people alive but are not allowed to paint the 'F word' on US planes and bombs and helmets. Doing so was considered "immoral" by the US Army. Hearing about that, Coppola said to himself, That is Apocalypse Now.
You mentioned the age of the PBR crew... "so young." The ugly truth of war, all wars, is that they are fought by children, barely into their teens. The odd person who isn't is usually less than thirty.
An 18 year old is actually very well into his teens, not "barely". Barely an adult, you might mean. And the average age of GI's was 22 years---a young man's war.
@johannesvalterdivizzini1523 Before you get too busy replying, you might want to check on the age of soldiers killed in WWI. Germans were putting 14 and 15-year olds in uniform in 1945. It was quite legal to enlist at 17-1/2 with a parents permission in the US military during the Vietnam Era. Whatever you might think, when I look at pictures of my AF unit in Korea in the mid 70s, what stands out to me is how young we all were. The fact is, wars are fought by children.
Great reaction Emma like always this movie is a masterpiece love it, and its based on the Joseph Conrad book "Heart of Darkness," which is about a sailor traveling upriver to find an ivory trader named Kurtz who is supposedly ill and is being worshiped by the natives. Instead of killing Kurtz, which is the mission in the 1979 movie, Conrad's character is out to rescue him. Coppola expected everyone in the film to be familiar with "Heart of Darkness," but when actor Marlon Brando arrived on set, he had neither read the book nor the movie's script. Coppola would spend several days reading the book to Brando during production. Some Fun facts, A Water Buffalo Is Really Sacrificed on Screen. While filming in the Philippines, one of the local tribes, the Ifugao, was slaughtering a water buffalo as a sacrifice. The crew had provided a number of animals to the tribes as payment for filming on their land, including two water buffalo. Coppola's wife filmed one of the water buffalo sacrifices. And coppola himself filmed the second sacrifice. He didn't direct the action; he just filmed it and included the footage in the final scenes of this movie. Keep up the amazing work.
Faster than one can watch: You uploading reactions to greatest or most philosophical films (star wars 4-6, fight club, apocalypse now,/ matrix 1-4 missing in that line). Good cutter didn't cut out the famous victory smell quote/ Robert Duvall bringing the mania on point.
I always have to force my self to watch a reactor that is so removed in a bubble reacting to movies that are set to evoke raw emotions . This always helps me to see why things can slip so quickly in just one or two generations. I did not feel a connection with your responses , they were the correct reactions yet they seemed empty. All the best in your endeavors .
My brother, one year older, and i went to the theater to see another movie (my mom paid for that one.) When it was over Apocalypse Now had just started in another room and we snuck in. We were both too young, but we were both drawn into seeing this film. My mom called the theater as the movie ended, not knowing where we were. Explaining to her was an interesting situation.
"Apocalypse Now" is a rich and powerful dream with multiple interpretations. One meaning; it's a telling of how the Vietnam war was the catalyst for the political maturation of the baby boomers. It both begins and ends with the Doors song "The End", which contains material from Joseph Campbell's "The Hero With A Thousand Faces", and it's clearly about the slaying of a warped father figure, representing the rejection of the child's picture of spotless authority in favor of a deeper, more adult understanding of power and the evil in all of us.
crazy war movie, one of the best depiction of madness caused by war .......... "drop the bomb exterminate 'em all", making off the movie was also crazy ... the more i see this movie, the more i think Kurtz was right, war is horror, assume this and do the horror or don't do the war at all ... sad but 2000 years of history tell us that is true ........... fact: this war was the start of mass drugs use in USA as up to 300000 soldiers were severe drug addict when they return to home and CIA use to send weapons (Air america movie with M Gibson) in Cambodia against NVietnam, those weapons were paid with drug of the Gold triangle and CIA let high rank military officers to sell this drug in USA; war is horror more that we can thinking .....
The behind-the-scenes production of this film was equally chaotic. The Bunnies' camp was destroyed by a hurricane, and they filmed without fixing it. Martin Sheen suffered a heart attack during filming. The Philippine army helicopters sometimes simply flew away because they were called to fight a communist guerrilla. There is a very good documentary made by Francis Coppola's wife.
A second husband of a coworker was a Phoenix Program veteran. He was really messed up, like this lead character. This kind of scenario has realism in it. The Corporation = CIA. The attack on Vietnamese villages are iconic. Burning and killing ;-( Tyger tyger burning bright ...
LOL … Just noticed that you started your RUclips channel on September 9 2024 which is my birthday exactly 62 years ago. I saw this movie in the theater when it came out. A buddy of mine and I went to see another movie (Don’t remember which movie) but it was sold out so we decided to buy tickets to Apocalypse Now with the intention of sneaking into the other movie after it started. We had no idea what Apocalypse Now was about and had never heard about it. About 15 minutes into the movie when it came time to sneak into the other one …. Well … let’s just say the we never did see that movie. This one just blew our minds. lol
Looking at Marlon Brando's face in profile, you can see his face fading into darkness just as his character has fallen into the darkness... "This is the End of safety and surprise, the End, I'll never look into your Eyes again..." Jim Morrison, The Doors (of Perception)
Saw at the theater and at the end during the credits it shows Kurtz compound being destroyed by the air strike Willard called in, Coppola changed that ending for wider release saying he didn’t want violence to be the final solution, or something like that, anyway this film is epic, the logistics, cinematography, sound design everything doesn’t get any better, thanks
The "cow" was not killed for the movie. The natives were going to slaughter it anyway, so Coppola asked if he could film it.
I'm sure that's exactly how it went.
Coppola was allowed to use an actual animal kill in the film because it was a real native ritual being captured.
@@johnmiller7682 Yes it did. Watch the doc "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse" by Eleanor Coppola
only a cow, millions are slaughtered daily.
@@johnmiller7682I believe his wife filmed it.
This film is a masterclass in filmmaking! Like it or hate it there's no denying it's an original!
"Terminate.... with extreme prejudice".
What a great line.
This is a very deep dark movie well beyond war. Every scene means something. Brilliant acting all around, outstanding writing and directing!!
@@phw6526 Amen. ,,about every scene - this movie continues to UnLock Nuggets as I get old'r and thought patterns ideals ideas w/e changes,,I see something new almost everyTime🌎
Exactly. I have had to explain to people that this is not really a war movie, as much as it is a psychological movie that happens to take place during a war.
Martin Sheen wasn't broken, the world he was in was broken.
He's broken and that's exactly why he could do that kind of job.
Soldiers in a war are all broken to some degree or they will end that way. There's no other way to do that job.
That's the horror, either they die or get lost emotionally, spiritually... luckily a recovery can be achieved, but usually it's partial or just ruin your life
the world his character was in
R Lee Ermy our favorite Drill Instructor from Full Metal Jacket is Killgore's Pilot
He's the pilot of the attack helicopter who gets hit, not Kilgore's bird. But there's no mistaking that voice.
The voiceovers were written by a photojournalist who was at the most brutal battles in the war. He wrote a phenomenal book about his experiences there called “Dispatches”.
Michael Herr. I recommend the book highly.
It really happened: The animal (a water buffalo, or carabao) was killed - but not for the film. The tribe in the film was a real indigenous tribe that lived in the area, and they had already decided to slaughter it. Coppola merely decided to film the event.
“What do YOU know about surfing, Major? You’re from God d*mn New Jersey!” LMAO 😂
Lawrence Fishburnes first movie,,,he was actually underage to work but got on anyway - that's his Real Mom on the "Tape from Home"
That was a real slaughter of the buffalo, but it was not done for the movie. The locals were having some type of ceremony and they decided to film it.
It fit the movie so well.
The youngest American soldier that died in Vietnam was 14. The average age of the combat soldier there was 19. Vietnam lost 3-4 million souls in the war.
NOPE.
that's a myth.
The average age was 22, the US lost 58,000 and the North Vietnamese lost 1.1 million, the rest would have been civilians.
@@calm713 The average age of KIA in Vietnam is 22. Most of the troops sent to Vietnam were 18-19 year old conscripts. 8.7 million Americans were sent to Vietnam of which 63% were conscripted over the course of the war. 58,000 or under 2% were KIA. The youngest KIA was 15. Most American soldiers died in 1969-1970.
The seventeen, eighteen year olds didn’t have a choice. They were drafted into military service and sent to Vietnam. Terrible, terrible war. In the end the final words spoken by Kurtz encapsulate the entire war…. The horror, the horror. Great reaction, Emma. ❤❤🙏🙏
Although they could volunteer, seventeen year olds were too young to be drafted.
@@Reno_Slim I registered for the draft at 18. I got my draft number (52) at 19 and I was drafted at 20.
@@reddog1277 My dad volunteered.
Seventeen year olds were NOT drafted! In fact I recall President Lyndon Johnson blowing a major gasket when news got out that a seventeen year old was killed in action while serving in the Vietnam war! It was a public relations nightmare!
Nobody was drafted at 17. You could enlist, with your parents written permission at 17. November 9, 1965, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara ordered military services to stop sending 17 year-olds to Vietnam and pull out those who were there. The average age of American military personnel in combat during the Vietnam War was 22 years-old. Also, more enlisted personnel were killed in action than draftees during the Vietnam War. The reality of that war is far different from the perception of it.
Martin Sheens' inner dialogue was written by Micheal Herr, one of the greatest of all vietnam era writers.
Some of those lines are the best ever written about the darkness of that war. It shows the idiocy and
futility of this war in full light and its utter darkness. In the end Sheen calls in the bombing raid, nobody wins.
There is a documentary about the making of this movie called, “Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse”.
I saw it when it came out on a hot summer night. It was 1979, just a few years after US involvement in the War was over. I remember the complete, stunned silence from the audience as we left the movie theater
I saw it also when it came out I was 16 and I was just shocked and overwhelmed.
Colonel Kilgore, the crazy surfer, was played by Robert Duvall, who also played the role of Tom Hagen - the lawyer in The Godfather
You're an errand boy sent by groccery clerks to collect a bill.
You are in store for one hell of a movie. Have a great week Emma
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The scene when Willard was in the bamboo prison and the journalist was giving him water - it was at that moment that actor Martin Sheen had a heart attack and had to go back to the US for six weeks to recuperate.
When Chief asked if there were any "Mamma's" he was asking if there were any Black Women
The opening song is 'The End' by the Doors. Jim Morrison was the writer and singer.
The End seemed to be made for the film.
Yes, the film is based on a novel 'Heart of Darkness.' After Willard assassinated Kurtz, standing at the top of the temple, covered in his blood, and the mountain-yard army bowed to him like a god is the moment he was standing on the edge of hell looking down into the heart of darkness. Temptation to rule in hell. But he pulled back and left. VERY POWERFUL Cinema!
Its actually based on two books - joseph conrad’s , Heart of Darkness AND Michael Herr’s, Dispatches. Full Metal Jacket is also based on Dispatches, but Michael Herr co-wrote the Apocalypse Now script and the best bits of Dispatches are In Apocalypse Now. If youve read Dispatches, Full Metal Jacket is very disappointing, even though Herr also wrote part of that script.
All the best scenes are - almost word for word - from Dispatches. Herr had a breakdown after leaving vietnam and wrote Dispatches in a haze of drugs and alcohol. Willard’s opening scene is Herr’s opening scene in Dispatches. His own experience.
Redux is - by a Mexican mile - the best version of this movie.
The point explored by Conrad (who served on the Belgian Congo river boats and was a friend of Roger Casement) and Herr is this: is man really civilised, or is it a veneer? Do we all have a heart of darkness, ready to come out?
Kurtz in the movie is based on Heart of Darkness’ Kurtz and on Colonel David Hackworth, the man who created ‘tiger force’ and then went rogue against the US government in a spectacularly public way.
@@user-lv5bt3nt3r Thanks for sharing. Certainly "The horror, the horror" was from HOD.
He's smoking Opium w/ the French woman
Both Charlie Sheen and his father Martin Sheen, played characters that were soldiers in the Vietnam War, narrating the story as the main character. Platoon (1986) for Charlie, and Apocalypse Now (1979) for Martin. Martin was 39 years old for this movie and Charlie was only 21 years for Platoon.
Has the best musical opening , and call back at the end , of any movie I have ever seen . When that napalm hits at the opening , what else could you possibly say .
The cow sacrifice was real and was done in exchange for allowing Francis Ford Coppola to film their ritual, so he had to buy the cow for them.
They paid Dennis Hopper w/a briefcase half'full of cocaine and half his pay
Dennis Hopper I swear just showed up one day on set and started doing whatever he was doing and Coppola couldn't get rid of him. I can't prove it, but you can't tell me he wouldn't have done that.
...and with his performance, he must've snorted the whole thing just before the cameras started rolling.
Dennis Hopper was the bad guy in Speed while Martin Sheen was the lead in this film but Hopper was the journalist at Kurtz's stronghold.
An epic film that should have won the Best Picture Oscar, and a crime that Martin Sheen wasn’t even nominated for an Oscar. One of my top 5 films of all time. 😎👍
Martin Sheen is the best actor of any with 0 Academy Award nominations to his name. Hopefully they give him the Thalberg Award soon, the ultimate honorary Oscar.
Why does the Academy dislike Martin Sheen?
The film used the plot of a famous novel : 'Heart of Darkness' by Joseph Conrad. In the novel the story takes place around 1900 in the Congolese jungles in Africa. For the film Mr. Coppola uses the absurdity/insanity of the Vietnam War around 1970.
The 'plot' is a protagonist takes a journey up a river of 'insanity/surrealism/absurdity' to the 'heart of darkness' to find and bring back (or 'terminate') the villain...but is the villain really a 'villain' ?? It's all about a journey to our darkest regions of our mind/humanity/soul/morality.
The main song is called 'The End' by The Doors....who were huge in the late 60s (still are in certain niches) and the American soldiers in the jungle played their music (among other bands) all the time.
Please react to Mulholland Drive. It is amazing movie.
Capt. Willard is not Denis Hopper, who does appear later in this movie. This part is played by Martin Sheen who wasn't in "Speed."
Dennis Hopper was the crazy photographer
Laurence Fishburne was 14 years old when filming began on Apocalypse Now in March 1976, but he was 18 by the time the film was released. Fishburne lied about his age to get the role of Tyrone Miller, a 17-year-old Gunner's Mate 3rd Class from the South Bronx. The film's production took so long that Fishburne celebrated his 15th and 16th birthdays while working on it. Fishburne is best known for his role as Morpheus in The Matrix film trilogy, but he also had a breakthrough role as Furious Styles in Boyz n the Hood.
A friend of mine was in this movie he got an extras spot. Dering a break he was not feeling well so he sat down on this low wall the director told him to stay there for the next shot when Duval was throwing death cards on the bodies Duval pats him on the shoulder and say cheer up son!! I'll be damned if it wasn't him!!!
I always loved that little scene! - "Cheer Up, Son!"
You've seen Marlon Brando as the Godfather Vito Corleone and here as the crazy Colonel Kurtz, so I now strongly encourage you to watch Brando, as a young vigorous and virile man named Stanley Kowalski, in "A Streetcar Named Desire", the role that thrust Brando into Hollywood fame.
I saw this movie a long time ago. I knew this was one of the best movies ever made from the first time I watched it. However during the countless amount of years that I have been watching reactions about it I never knew there was an extended version and watching it here has been a beautiful experience ❤❤❤❤
Really glad you went with the Extended version,,,this puts So much More meat on the Bones
Your next reaction should be, "All Quiet On The Western Front" (It is best to watch it in the original German and French language with English subtitles)
This is a movie everyone should see once. But almost no one wants to see twice.
I was obsessed with this movie as a teenager. Based on the book "Heart of darkness" which based on his real experiences in the Congo. From what I have heard many of the cast members had breakdowns making this movie.. For example when Martin Sheen punches the mirror the blood is real.
The blood on Martin Sheen's face was real: he injured himself by punching the mirror and refused help. The dead children seem to be a reference to the Mi-Lai massacre. Col. Killgore and his helicopter music were inspired by a Psy-War officer who used loudspeakers in the helicopter. The music is Ride of Walkiries from an opera by Richard Wagner. Marlon Brando was filmed in semi-darkness because he was very overweight despite Coppola's request that he lose weight before filming. Brando's solo lines were improvised because he refused to say the script.
I have never seen the whole movie of this one, but the movie is both well known, and also infamous for the several year nightmare for everyone involved that production was (I am told the documentary on the making of the Movie, calls Hearts of Darkness, is superb). If memory serves, Martin Sheen, who was only in his mid-30's, gave himself a stress-induced heart attack filming the movie. Tremendous cast and tremendous indictment of the horrors of war, what it does to people, and the nightmare and atrocities of the Vietnam War. Really enjoyed your reaction!
I don't know if it was deliberate for the film, but the village the Air Cavalry attacked wasn't flying the standard Viet Cong guerilla flag. Ostensibly, the Viet Cong were all natives of South Vietnam rising up against their own government spontaneously without outside help. The flag flown in the village was the standard North Vietnamese flag, indicating the presence of North Vietnamese regular troops, not guerillas. That they felt secure enough to openly fly that flag in South Vietnam was why the Americans were calling it "Charlie's Point."
Ostensibly southern, perhaps, but only in the Communist propaganda. The reality was that the Viet Cong were supplied by North Vietnam and operated under the direction of the North Vietnamese military. Tens of thousands of Viet Cong fighters were trained in North Vietnam and then infiltrated into South Vietnam by way of the Ho Chi Minh trail. The government of South Vietnam was corrupt and oppressive and the Viet Cong did get support and recruit fighters from among the population in the south, but it was definitely not a purely indigenous movement operating without outside help.
I watched this movie about half a dozen times within the first 2 weeks after it first came to Canadian theaters and the ending I saw has never been seen on any VHS, DVD or other after market A. Now movie you can buy. What happened at the end of this movie was after you hear US command calling Captain Willard on the radio the screen fades to black and you can hear creepy music starting to quietly play and more of that ritual music the natives were making for the cow sacrifice adds to it. Then a single red flare could be seen in the top middle of the screen slowly falling down. Then as it hits the ground the entire movie screen lights up in a giant explosion of fire suddenly destroying the jungle and compound of Kurt's army. A strange guitar sound rips through your ears in sync with the bombs as they explode and destroyed the entire area as the end credits rolls past, and finally it all goes quiet and dark. I suspect they were telling the audience that the US military already had the location of the compound and decided to bomb it anyway. War is hell, and the US gov. was hiding the evidence of just how crazy war really was by blowing up Kurt's compound.
The first movie to have true 4 channel sound. Front right and left, back right and left (not just the front channels duplicated). In theaters there would have been a subwoofer as well, the original 5.0 surround sound.
This is actually a modernized retelling of Joseph Conrad's classic novella 'Heart of Darkness' that combines sequences of Homer's 'The Odyssey' in a few key scenes :
*•* Kilgore, the surfer, is the Cyclops
*•* The bridge that gets destroyed every night and rebuilt for the generals to say the road is open is Hades; with the bridge being a Sisyphusian task of punishment the troops beg to escape
*•* The French plantation owners with their French cuisine, cognac, and opium are the Lotus Eaters that try to keep them from leaving
The playboy bunnies are the Sirens John Milus said.
Watch the documentary about the making of this film, "Hearts of Darkness, A Film Makers Apocalypse"
The "Cow" Ceremony was illegal and wasn't supposed to be filmed but the crew made a few payOffs and got the chance,,,it's actually a Joyous celebration for a village and the Ox's meat was shared with them
"Something happened to his mid ..." yep, he was born Dennis Hopper.
1:03:00 That sigh at the end. That's cinema greatness when it can make you feel like that.
8:17 It wasn't so much that parents were sending their children to Vietnam, as it was the government was taking kids from their families and forcing them to go and fight.
Mostly poor kids too. Rich kids could easily get out of it.
You said “surrealistic” at the end, but the movie was designed that way, according to the first writer J. Milius, to lure people to buy repeat tickets before the VHS/DVD. Milius started this in the late ‘60s as an adaptation to “Heart of Darkness” (1899) on a dare and superimposed a Vietnam War project on it. Then the next writer, Coppola himself, added more on the boat trip and ad-libbed the ending with Brando. They brought Vietnam War correspondent Herr in for authenticity.
“True fire” at the very beginning .. the production was expensive with lots of explosions and even renting Philippine army helicopters. The problem became once you get a helicopter in a scene, they found the viewer wants even more helicopters. That’s probably why we get the break with the tiger chase scene and, of course, the Playboy Bunnies, before really going up the river.
Emma, you picked a great movie, a dark movie, with a great soundtrack, to react to......great pick
Now, THIS is a real horror movie.
"I am aware of the charges against me and am not concerned. I am beyond their timid, lying morality and so I am beyond caring." ~ Kurtz
The sacrifice of the buffalo was not simulated; it was a real event. Coppola’s crew filmed an actual ritual sacrifice performed by the Ifugao people, a native tribe in the Philippines where parts of the movie were filmed. The decision to use the real sacrifice added to the film's controversy, especially among animal rights groups.
Saw this when it first came out (was 17). It was in old school wide format... only classic old theatres had the wide screens to show it. There were no credits at the beginning (ushers handed out pamphlets with all the screen credits to meet screen guild union requirements). So you sat down and the movie just began. The scene in Willard's hotel room where he breaks the mirror and then collapses crying was actually Martin Sheen having a nervous breakdown (because of the heat and his alcoholism). Coppola kept the cameras running, thought it was improvisation at first. Sheen has no memory of the incident whatsoever. Anyway, this was a BIG deal when it came out, instant masterpiece, raved by all the critics.
During the Vietnam war, parents didn't send their children to war, they were drafted and the government sent them.
Sometimes they did. "Family tradition", other forms of pressure, some did go for the star-spangled glory of it all. But forgot what Gen. Sherman told us, "Boys, it is hell."
@@jonathancarlson6127 I watched her reaction less than an hour after she posted it. In the beginning she questioned why parents would send their children to kill others. When I got drafted the vast majority in basic with me were draftees, and they all looked down and mocked the enlistees. The enlistees didn't deserve that
@@rubroken No, they did not. But, good on you for not dodging.
On a different subject, R. Lee Ermey has a small role in this movie as a helicopter pilot, but served several tours in Vietnam. History Channel did a special where he returned to Vietnam, and he's mentioning all that had changed, what was, etc. But you can tell from his eyes and body language, even though he's there in Ho Chi Minh City- it's only physically. Mentally, he's back in Saigon. It's the most vulnerable I've seen the man on camera.
not all were drafted
@@jonathancarlson6127 I have respect for anyone that served 'in country' in any conflict but I have mad respect for those that saw combat. R. Lee. Army served in Vietnam so he has my respect, but he was a supply sergeant, so he didn't see combat(as far as I know)
It's incredible Emma to see your beautiful face that change for the scenes of the film, scenes dramatic or ironic, where the photography have a extraordinary part in the opera, in the deep always more deep and dark.
I would have liked that to see the film close to you.
Don't be such a simp.
I hope you will watch the original theatrical cut. It really is the superior version of "Apocalypse Now."
Should have done the Theatrical version.
I had to giggle when you said that you thought it would be like Independence Day.
The general in the beginning was played by the same actor who played Senator Geary in Godfather Part Two. Did you recognize the young Harrison Ford? The point of the music during the helicopter attack is psychological warfare. The Roach will have absolutely no problem readjusting to civilian life. Did you notice the circus music at the end of the bridge scene? The whole thing was a circus. With no ringmaster.
"They were going to make me a major for this and I wasn't even in their f***ing army anymore."
Well Done Emma! Apocalypse Now as classic and still is today. Such a great movie with an All Star Cast!!
Apocalypse Now is more art than history. Using "The End" to begin and end the film additionally serves to wrap its Heart of Darkness subtext within the literary folds of Sophocles, Sigmund Freud, and James George Frazer. Many excellent films are set in that war, including The Deer Hunter (1978), Platoon (1986), Full Metal Jacket (1987), Hamburger Hill (1987), Casualties of War (1989), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Bullet in the Head (1990), Heaven & Earth (1993), We Were Soldiers (2002), and Rescue Dawn (2006). All of these films are quite intense, and some quite graphic in their depiction of the cruelty and horror of the war, so they may not be to your liking or your taste. But they all treat the subject with the dignity it deserves.
Don't cry, girl, the bullets will pass, the soldier will return - you just wait
At least in a zinc coffin
I'm not making excuses for the guys for shooting up the sampan, just offering a factual explanation. It was S.O.P.(Standard Operating Procedure) for the patrol boats to check all boats they encountered on the river. It wasn't totally uncommon to find weapons, ammunition, and supplies being smuggled south for Viet Cong insurgents. Chef's reluctance to board the boat is due to his encounter with the tiger earlier and leads to his anger toward the Vietnamese in the sampan. With everybody on the boat pumping more adrenaline in that moment than you or I will probably use up in a lifetime, they were extremely on edge. When the girl moved so quickly toward Chef, Clean's first impulse, not knowing that she was just trying to save her dog, was to protect his shipmate so he opened fire, triggering Lance and Chef to follow suit.
The first scene with Martin Sheen was filmed on his birthday. He was also drunk according to reports.
Umm, a tiger will "bother" you, it's what they do, especially if surprised. In India, people carried specifically made pistols to shoot tigers that were climbing onto the elephants they rode. These were called howdah pistols. Wild tigers aren't from a Disney movie.
I think this is the first reaction I have seen to the Redux. It is worth a watch at least once.
The bad guy in SPEED is in this movie but it isn’t Captain Willard (Martin Sheen).
The bad guy was - Photojournalist (Dennis Hopper).
My oldest brother came back from "Nam "and was never the same. War and Politicians destroyed my brother.
The documentary “Heart of Darkness” about the making of Apocalypse Now is an interesting watch. I bet Ben Stiller watched it before doing Tropic Thunder.
On the beach Captain Kilgore says “Charlie don’t surf.” Later the cook reads a newspaper article about Charles Manson. There were T-shirts made with Manson’s face and the line “Charlie don’t surf.” I’m not sure if the those T-shirts are still around.
Even today, most americans are completely unaware of the utter atrocity US forces committed in Vietnam, basically declaring the whole of south vietnam - the bit that was supposed to be friendly to the USA - a free fire zone, which meant anyone in the area could and would be attacked. Villagers were deported to ‘safe’ villages, but most left the ‘ safe’ villages (which weren’t safe anyway) and then found themselves under attack by US forces who killed them willy nilly then reported their bodies as VC - vietcong insurgents. The infamous ‘body count’ of Vietnam. Despite an estimated 2 million civilian deaths (and 1 million vietcong and NVA deaths) americans who fought there have a remarkably limited recollection of attacking civilians.
The only comparison is the utter atrocity thats happening today in Gaza, the activities of the SS and special units in eastern europe during ww2, and the atrocities in the Belgian Congo, which sparked the very first international human rights investigation in 1904.
Thats why the story is based on Heart of Darkness - which was instrumental in publicising the atrocities committed against the population of Belgian Congo when King Leopold ‘owned’ Belgian Congo as a private company, which led to the Casement Report on Belgian Congo.
This is the most honest depiction of what happened in Vietnam, but many people think its exaggerated for dramatic effect. Its not. Many of the scenes are based on the personal experiences of the script co-writer, Michael Herr, who also wrote a memoir of his experiences in the Vietnam war called Dispatches. Dispatches - at Herr’s insistence - is regarded as a novel, because Herr wrote it in a blur of drugs and alcohol during his post-vietnam mental breakdown. But the basics of the events Herr recorded are true. Many of them appear in this movie.
Full Metal Jacket was also co-written by Michael Herr and is a mish-mash of scenes from Dispatches that werent used in Apocalypse Now.
Great Movie, Great Cast, Great Performances By Everyone In This Movie & Nice Reaction Sweetheart ❤ & See You at The Next One
Another amazing ww2 movie about nobody knows about you should watch : Come And See (Idi I Smotri)
the doors the end beginning music crazy song great reaction emma lovve it one of your best reactions
the canteen with the emeny guts out actually happened in Vietnam so it was put in as a scene in the movie
Really stepping up your game on reactions, great job
Sheen actually cut his hand in the beginning they kept it,,,sheens mental faculties were tested during filming and he suffered a heart attack that almost killed'm
There's an interview with Coppola and he says that an Army veteran told him that US soldiers are trained to burn people alive but are not allowed to paint the 'F word' on US planes and bombs and helmets. Doing so was considered "immoral" by the US Army. Hearing about that, Coppola said to himself, That is Apocalypse Now.
You mentioned the age of the PBR crew... "so young." The ugly truth of war, all wars, is that they are fought by children, barely into their teens. The odd person who isn't is usually less than thirty.
An 18 year old is actually very well into his teens, not "barely". Barely an adult, you might mean. And the average age of GI's was 22 years---a young man's war.
@johannesvalterdivizzini1523 Before you get too busy replying, you might want to check on the age of soldiers killed in WWI. Germans were putting 14 and 15-year olds in uniform in 1945. It was quite legal to enlist at 17-1/2 with a parents permission in the US military during the Vietnam Era. Whatever you might think, when I look at pictures of my AF unit in Korea in the mid 70s, what stands out to me is how young we all were. The fact is, wars are fought by children.
THAT village is full of V C Viet Cong , that is what was running around in black p.js
Great reaction Emma like always this movie is a masterpiece love it, and its based on the Joseph Conrad book "Heart of Darkness," which is about a sailor traveling upriver to find an ivory trader named Kurtz who is supposedly ill and is being worshiped by the natives. Instead of killing Kurtz, which is the mission in the 1979 movie, Conrad's character is out to rescue him.
Coppola expected everyone in the film to be familiar with "Heart of Darkness," but when actor Marlon Brando arrived on set, he had neither read the book nor the movie's script. Coppola would spend several days reading the book to Brando during production.
Some Fun facts, A Water Buffalo Is Really Sacrificed on Screen. While filming in the Philippines, one of the local tribes, the Ifugao, was slaughtering a water buffalo as a sacrifice. The crew had provided a number of animals to the tribes as payment for filming on their land, including two water buffalo. Coppola's wife filmed one of the water buffalo sacrifices. And coppola himself filmed the second sacrifice. He didn't direct the action; he just filmed it and included the footage in the final scenes of this movie. Keep up the amazing work.
Faster than one can watch: You uploading reactions to greatest or most philosophical films (star wars 4-6, fight club, apocalypse now,/ matrix 1-4 missing in that line). Good cutter didn't cut out the famous victory smell quote/ Robert Duvall bringing the mania on point.
I always have to force my self to watch a reactor that is so removed in a bubble reacting to movies that are set to evoke raw emotions . This always helps me to see why things can slip so quickly in just one or two generations. I did not feel a connection with your responses , they were the correct reactions yet they seemed empty. All the best in your endeavors .
My brother, one year older, and i went to the theater to see another movie (my mom paid for that one.) When it was over Apocalypse Now had just started in another room and we snuck in. We were both too young, but we were both drawn into seeing this film. My mom called the theater as the movie ended, not knowing where we were. Explaining to her was an interesting situation.
One tiger that pegs humans as a food source can kill hundreds over the course of its life, it happened a lot in India as they were building railroads.
I told you not to stop.
"Apocalypse Now" is a rich and powerful dream with multiple interpretations. One meaning; it's a telling of how the Vietnam war was the catalyst for the political maturation of the baby boomers. It both begins and ends with the Doors song "The End", which contains material from Joseph Campbell's "The Hero With A Thousand Faces", and it's clearly about the slaying of a warped father figure, representing the rejection of the child's picture of spotless authority in favor of a deeper, more adult understanding of power and the evil in all of us.
crazy war movie, one of the best depiction of madness caused by war .......... "drop the bomb exterminate 'em all", making off the movie was also crazy ... the more i see this movie, the more i think Kurtz was right, war is horror, assume this and do the horror or don't do the war at all ... sad but 2000 years of history tell us that is true ........... fact: this war was the start of mass drugs use in USA as up to 300000 soldiers were severe drug addict when they return to home and CIA use to send weapons (Air america movie with M Gibson) in Cambodia against NVietnam, those weapons were paid with drug of the Gold triangle and CIA let high rank military officers to sell this drug in USA; war is horror more that we can thinking .....
It was actually another guy who was "bad" in Speed. It's a guy with the cameras (Dennis Hopper).
The behind-the-scenes production of this film was equally chaotic. The Bunnies' camp was destroyed by a hurricane, and they filmed without fixing it. Martin Sheen suffered a heart attack during filming. The Philippine army helicopters sometimes simply flew away because they were called to fight a communist guerrilla. There is a very good documentary made by Francis Coppola's wife.
A second husband of a coworker was a Phoenix Program veteran. He was really messed up, like this lead character. This kind of scenario has realism in it. The Corporation = CIA. The attack on Vietnamese villages are iconic. Burning and killing ;-( Tyger tyger burning bright ...
"The Corporation" here was the DOD, not the CIA. Kurtz was being groomed for a top spot in the Pentagon.
The concept of the French Plantation was that they were ghosts.
I don't know what the Patreons were thinking, this movie will blow her mind 😊
😂😂😂😜🤗
LOL … Just noticed that you started your RUclips channel on September 9 2024 which is my birthday exactly 62 years ago.
I saw this movie in the theater when it came out. A buddy of mine and I went to see another movie (Don’t remember which movie) but it was sold out so we decided to buy tickets to Apocalypse Now with the intention of sneaking into the other movie after it started. We had no idea what Apocalypse Now was about and had never heard about it. About 15 minutes into the movie when it came time to sneak into the other one …. Well … let’s just say the we never did see that movie. This one just blew our minds. lol
Looking at Marlon Brando's face in profile, you can see his face fading into darkness just as his character has fallen into the darkness... "This is the End of safety and surprise, the End, I'll never look into your Eyes again..." Jim Morrison, The Doors (of Perception)
Saw at the theater and at the end during the credits it shows Kurtz compound being destroyed by the air strike Willard called in, Coppola changed that ending for wider release saying he didn’t want violence to be the final solution, or something like that, anyway this film is epic, the logistics, cinematography, sound design everything doesn’t get any better, thanks
Martin Sheen. His birth name is "Ramon Estevez".
His brother did some voice over for this, too.