Production Hell - Apocalypse Now
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- When it comes to movies that have had a nightmarish production, few films compare to Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam epic, Apocalypse Now. Join me as I take you through the history of one of the most difficult movies ever made.
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Isnt this movie based on a book A Heart of Darkness
Thanks for another great video, I hope to help provide for the labor costs, and by that I mean your bar tab. But really though, thanks again for another look into the Critical Drinker's mind.
why the f did you have to show the animal slaughter scene. shame on you. come on man.
In a war, there are many moments for compassion and tender action, there are many moments for ruthless action, what is often called ruthless, what may in many circumstances be unkind, seeing clearly what there is to be done and doing it, directly, quickly, awake.
you mean "return to the CIVILIZED world", not the real world. Now you have to re-edit the whole video. Better get some coke from Hopper. haha ;)
Brando was the only one on set who wasn’t on drugs and he still managed to be the weirdest guy there.
Now 'that's' acting!
Maybe he wasn’t high, but I’m sure he tried to fuck everyone there.
Garrus1995 😂😂😂 Some of that is myth. I read his biography and I think those rumours started long after he died. They’re overstated.
@LordMightyTrousers you are right of course, and I didn't state otherwise! Brando was drinking heavily, so complaining about Hopper using coke and whatnot seems ridiculous!
Yeah he was getting all antsy thinking of all his sex slaves that are trying to escape when he’s away on set
"The attack choppers kept getting called away to blow up actual targets"
Holy shit, that's quite the production.
The Philippines at that time was under constant harassment by communists.
It is still today as well but the communists here now are but a mere shadow of what they used to be.
"Is that...a bullet hole? It wasn't there in the previous scene."
"We can edit it out in post."
Amazing that the pilots didn't mix up the movie set and the battlefield. Imagine having a bunch of extras or even some of the credited cast get blown up by napalm on set.
That topped Michael Jackson using real gang member in the Beat It music video by miles!!!!
Imagine the TIE fighters on a Star Wars set being constantly called away to fight real rebels lol
Before production began, Coppola sought out his former mentor, Roger Corman, to ask him for any tips on filming in the Philippines, as Roger had made SEVERAL movies in the Philippines during his career. Roger responded to him with just two words: “Don’t go.”
Coppola replied: NAH, IT'LL BE FINE!
@@ItsNotaTuhmah Pretty much
@Barstool4545 Yikes! I can imagine. I grew up in Louisiana, so trust me when I say I know all about relentless, agonizing heatwaves lol 🔥😳🔥
@Barstool4545 Where at in the Philippines? I spent some time in Cebu during the rainy season but there was a few days that got decently hot.
Heat, typhoons, unpredictable weather, merely the tip of the iceberg of everything that can drive you mad in my country.
This movie is why TROPIC THUNDER is one of the greatest comedies ever. So much of it was influenced by this movie
I also think Tropic Thunder is a way better searing indictment of Hollywood than Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back was, which is the only other movie I can think of that takes a shot at Hollywood.
Try do blackface in a movie today....
It is the Spinal Tap of war movies.
Come and See is the most horrifying war movie, cause it shows the real stuff that went on in WWIi
Hot shots part duex parodies it pretty damn good and even has charlie sheen doing same part and scenes as his father.
Marlon Brando being disgusted by unprofessional behavior is like Kathleen Kennedy being disgusted by over-politicization in movies
Seems like a similar mindset though - "it's okay when I do it"
@@Raskolnikov70 Yeah, there's a lot of that going around North America these days 🤣
or by megalomaniacal chicks who look like dudes.
It's called ''moral myopia''.
Brando was a professional mostly. Trouble is, he was getting lazier and lazier by age. Refused to memorize the script and shit like that. Robert Duvall had to have a page of script pinned to his suite when Brando was talking to him in "The Godfather" just so this one knows the lines he was suppose to say. Brilliant performer, that is why Coppola and other take him even if they knew how he was.
“I don't like cocaine. It's coarse, rough and irritating and it gets everywhere”
What George Lucas would have said to Dennis Hopper had he directed the movie.
Probably like death sticks
😂😂😂😂
this is a lame joke
You should go home and rethink your life.
@@rosephjosenbaum7130 Wow, just wow, /woosh.
Kim Jensen mentioned death sticks.
Do you want to buy death sticks ?
No, I don't want you to sell me death sticks.
I don't want to sell you death sticks
You want to go home and rethink your life.
So please, go home and rethink your life, read some books, like Sarcasm for dummies, watch some movies, preferably not by Disney.
Moral of the story: don't film on location in a tropical jungle with Marlon Brando.
...and "Never fight a land war in Asia!"
YEP..LISTEN TO THE LOCATION SCOUT, JACK ENGLISH......WEHO..5/2021
Better moral: do exactly that and get it on film. You'll go down in history if you survive it
Better yet: Don't film with Marlon Brando.
@@TheSlammurai Especially not these days, it'd probably be in poor taste.
"We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane."
Kinda sums up the movie, the vietnam war and describes the making of the movie... Good quote.
Too many drugs...
Kinda sums up every job I had...
@@marknewton6984 sounds like you had some interesting jobs
@@KamiRecca I took early retirement.
And then we chopped a cow in half.
Imagine a world where art is no longer torture, where it’s easy, agreeable, just what you wanted...oh
Must also be interpreted in only a specific agenda driven way.
It’s not what I wanted. I prefer apocalypse now
We have a whole world apart from crap films... it's literature. Pick up a good book and read. And if you have the resources build a decent personal library, and pass it on - in words, wisdom, certain nods... all is not lost to these basic btiches.
Daphne Du Maurier.... she's fire, friend. That lady could WRITE.
@homer555552 more reliable profit in mass appeal crap.
Star Wars put George Lucas in the hospital. Apocalypse now would have killed him for sure...
It almost killed the Creator and director of The godfather he had to fund this out of his personal money because it was just so over budget and so crazy 😭
I prefer to imagine that George Lucas would have gone insane, grabbed all the drugs, loaded them unto one of the patrol boats before taking the boat up one of the Filipino rivers and turning into a real life Colonel Kurtz.
“Hey George, you okay?”
“The horror... The horror....”
Lucas ONLY had exhaustion. Not jungle diseases or a heart attack.
he was offered to direct it, but declined by not believing that he was the right man to do it.
Edit: I guess you can say that Coppola made him an offer that he refused! BWAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@studinthemaking he actually had a heart attack. the studio was giving him shit
I was in Vietnam from 1968-69, Air Force medic in an ER outside Saigon. Did medical missions to villages outside a 30 mile radius, responded to inflight emergencies on the flight line, sewed guys up, smoked some powerful stuff in bars in Saigon, and our dispensary was in an old French concrete one story building. Next to it was an Army mortuary with casualties arriving daily and the corpses sent home in stainless steel (or aluminum) caskets taken to the flight line on flat bed tractor trailers. We smelled death every day from the morgue, and knew when floaters (our wounded in rice paddies) and crispy critters (our wounded burned to death), recognizing the difference. Air raid sirens when VC activity was spotted near the base, flare parachutes lighting up the night sky and C-130 gunships firing streams of tracers down towards the enemy. Sometime we got hit by Soviet made 105mm rockets. The atmosphere was palpable on a daily basis. I refused to watch (afraid?) Apocalypse Now for the longest time. I listened to the Doors "this is the end" cut a lot of times and it added to the movie. I have moderate PTSD and I think the allegorical parts of the movie were genuine. We never should have been there. Thanks CD for a fascinating insight into the making of this classic war film.
Wow.. thats quite a take on your experience. So did you indeed ever end up watching the whole movie?
@@WolfStory I've watched it a number of times in later years.
You are one of the honored veterans, likely, because you had to go because of the draft--we others went because we volunteered, as fools. Cheers brother.
dude... thank you for your service man.. as crazy as it was...
My dad was in Vietnam...he occasionally talks about it but never anything too graphic. However I know he feels much like you sir. He will not watch ANY movie like that because it's a terrible reminder and also gets very mad anytime something downplays or misrepresents it too. I have EXTREME respect for him and that extends to you as will sir. It's not been said NEARLY enough, thank you for your service.
One overlooked factor in this saga is the real role that R.Lee Ermy played. He'd expatriated to the Phillipines and owned a chopper for hire company. Taught himself to fly. Coppola rented helicopters from him, saving him from bankruptcy. He also flies one of them and plays a Sergeant on the ground. Previously, he did The Boys of Charlie Company basically playing himself. R.I.P. Gunny.
Damn i never knew that. Makes him even more of a legend
It's nice to remember a time when people actually cared about the movies they made.
They still do. We only remember the good, or hilariously bad, films from that time. If Best of the Worst shows anything, it's that there's an absolute landfill of shitty low-effort cash grab films from that time, that we just forget about.
@@0lionheart maybe, but creativity is stifled now due to the “woke”.
If people "caring" about the movies they made produced this awful, non-sensical, totally inaccurate, far too long movie...I'd rather them not care at all.
Says the guy with a pennywise pic.
@@sc1338 exactly. Especially when movies are being political instead of being Fantasy and creativity
"Somehow I don't think Disney would sanction something like this!"
What, you mean digging up a corpse from its resting place, desecrating it, and putting it on display for the spectacle and their own greed?
**looks at Star Wars meaningfully**
Na, it'll be fine.
They're also famous for pushing lemmings down a cliff.
Not just Star Wars in general, but they also had the audacity to create a CGI abomination to stand in for Peter Cushing’s character in Rogue One due to the actual actor being... “unable” to reprise his role as the Grand Moff Tarkin. 😱
nailed it
10:05 one could be talking about Star Wars and other modern blockbusters of late...
Christian Bale was 18 when he starred in the Disney musical "Newsies!". In an interview he said the teens cast as extras were child prostitutes and drummed up a lot of business among the film crews. They would film their scenes during the day then sneak back into the closed studios after sunset and do their night work. Bale said he mostly rembers there was a lot of humping going on during the making of that film.
Disney's no slouch either when it comes to crud.
Nevermind an Oscar, Coppola deserves a Medal of Honor for getting this film done
He did win Palme D'Or for it.
Old school filmmaking is no joke.
Fun Fact: At the time if Francis Ford Coppola wanted to go to war, he would have had the sixth largest army in the world
What do you mean?
@@50.CalFilms He/She means there were lots of soldiers involved in the film production.
@@ajbahlam ah yeah makes sense g
Basically he could’ve become Kurtz if he wanted to
I somehow doubt that he had more than a hundred thousand men involved...Which would be required to come even into the top 10 of armies at that time..@@ajbahlam
Daisey Ridley: "I suffered for my role acting as Rey!"
Martin Sheen: "Hold my M-16..."
Hold the Colonel's surfboard!😂
She didn’t really say that, DID SHE? Sheeeeit...She suffered about as much as Rey.
The scene where he punches the mirror was 100% genuine. He was drunk and punched the mirror which cut his hands right open. The blood he wipes all over his face is just his actual blood. That's pretty metal.
I mean, I’m sure she had to either spread her legs or swallow some Weinstein milk in order to get that role so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
illusioNery Yeah, the old Hollywood casting couch
“Somehow, I don’t think Disney would sanction something like this.”
Giving modern Disney a little too much credit there, mate. They’d give their own grandmothers’ corpses the “I Spit On Your Grave” special if Chairman Winnie the Xu threw enough yuans at them.
Hahahaha this is a masterpiece of a comment.
fuckin genius
"Winnie the Xu"...I'll have to remember that one! LOL
Wow you went there. I love it. I wonder how many people actually catch that?
They filmed next to a active concentration camp as long as they're making Chinese money they will throw morals out the window.
Somehow it feels totally appropriate that the production of a film about the Vietnam war was itself complete hell. Perhaps this is why it's so good. Some states of mind you simply cannot fake.
I worked on the crew in Casting Dept. under local Director Ken Metcalfe from Harvey Keitel 1975 throughmain principle shooting in 1976 early 1977. This review is 80% accurate but with some embellishments naturally, the stories get better with the telling. One interesting urban legend about the 2nd Village up in Baler, where the main battle scenes wer to be shot the following month. Col. Killgore (Robert Duvall) is discussing with Capt. Willard (Martine Sheen) on taking the PBR (Patrol Boat River) by helicopter and gently putting into the river. One of Col. Killgore's men reminds him that the village has great waves but that it was "Charlie's Point". *Note: 40 years later Dir. Manny Marquez came back and interviews many of us who had worked on the production). Duvall makes the iconic statement "Charlie Don't Surf". A Filipino legend began that the surfboards were left and that began surfing in Baler. THIS IS NOT TRUE...International surfers already knew. Well, a surf shop began called "Charlie Does" and not even the owners realized that 'Charlie' was the V.C. or Victor Charlie, shortened to "Charlie"...they had no idea that Charlie was our enemy. Dir. Manny Marquez took footage of three major locations, but only a few ruins remain of Col. Kurtz's Compound, Du Long Bridge scene, and Baler lagoon. As a Vietnam Veteran with US Marine Reconnaissance service in I Corps, I will say that war movies are not um, totally accurate but artistic interpretations for entertainment. I am proud to have been with this epic production. Don Gordon Bell.
"Since he refused to learn his lines, the only option was to turn the camera on him and just let him talk, hoping that some of it would eventually be usable" ...ACTING!!!
They tried that on the Ghostbusters remake too...just mindless f babble came out tho
@@apachehelicopter9032 WAIT... did you just compare these two movies?
O_O
dude...not cool...
HUH?
"Acting" like a pompous asshat. Which at this point (1976) maybe they couldn't have anticipated, but for any films after this everyone involved should have known better. Brando had made it perfectly clear that he couldn't be bothered, and would be nothing but a giant (and I do mean "giant" in every sense of the word) baby on set.
As ridiculous as he was, he came up with some memorable lines..(as crazy, & weird, as they were)..."you are an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks to collect a bill"...
Still, they survived and gave us a memorable classic unlike Ghost of the Noonday or Island of Doctor Moreau.
Island is a memorable classic just not in the way they intended.
Now its just an easy run of the mill bullshit, i'm sorry kids that your movies suck blame the left.
@Jkd Buck76 last tango in paris
When the filming of your eternal masterpiece becomes a movie on itself, you know you did it right.
Hearts of Darkness
When I watched this film my friends and i (both veterans of Vietnam) sat in stunned silence along with a whole theater, the credits rolled, the lights came up... nearly everyone just sat there silent.
Slowly people began moving to the exits... it was a powerful film
They still made a better movie than most overbudgeted messes we see today
"Most".... All. You mean All
@@TheFly212 well.. yeah. You are right
I don't know, the last two Star Wars movies were pretty great!
Daniel Cowen we know ur joking mate
@@MESRogerStudios No way, they had fantastic world building, fantastic characterisation, helmed by highly talented writers and producers, dynamic actors, superb internal consistency and built a foundation for national and international popularity for decades, if not centuries, to come...
Based on stories I heard from my dad and his friends when I was a kid, Apocalypse Now is the most accurate depiction of the Vietnam war ever made.
I saw it in Fall 1979 in the Yongsan, Korea base theater; the audience was largely Vietnam vets. When the film faded out and the lights went on, everybody got up from their seats in absolute stone silence and walked quietly out. No shuffling of feet, no talking as people headed for the exits. One of the most disturbing and profound moments of my young life. Coppola carved out a permanent place in our memories with a scalpel-like stylus. I don't think anyone could have been in the Yongsan base theater that evening and not been deeply moved by the profound, mind-bending experience we collectively had by watching that film.
I've heard the exact same from people regarding The Deer Hunter, Platoon, and Full Metal Jacket. Each of them seemed to capture the "truth" of the war from a different perspective, and each had affected different war veterans profoundly.
Notice that none of those films had glorified either the war or the warriors. Instead, they sought to show specifically what the war did to those warriors. We have to remember that most of these people weren't volunteers like they are now. Instead, they were drafted, and just happened to be in a position where they couldn't defer the draft (like those still in college, or those with "medical issues", or those who somehow found themselves in Canada). As such, we're talking about people that went into the military with an opposing mindset.
It's hard enough when you think you want to be there. It's far harder if you're sure you never wanted it. The guys I speak with at the VA, VFW, and American Legion all speak of having one sole purpose in the war: To keep your buddies alive as they keep you alive, so you can all leave that hell-hole and return home. The ones who made it home, for the most part, didn't make it home entirely. A large part of them is still out there in the jungles, villages, and cities.
No it isn’t. It’s based off a fictional book that has nothing to do with Vietnam. A higher up starting his own tribe and the bridge scene are totally unrealistic.
Platoon is more accurate because it was directed and written by a guy who actually fought in Vietnam.
Errm.. I think a few elements of it may be quite realistic. But honestly it is a very exaggerated and somewhat psychedelic portrayal of the Vietnam war. I think a movie like Platoon is one of the most realistic even though there are a number of small inaccuracies in it. Also, the short ambush scene in Forest Gump is the most accurate depiction of what it is like to get shot at in an enemy engagement I have seen in a movie..(I used to be on Army ranges) and so I would rate that as incredibly realsitic.
I doubt there would be a movie about the Afghanistan war and hope it doesn't get made.
"Somehow, I don't think Disney would sanction behavior like this" You truly are the king of sarcasm.
Maybe not on their set, but if they're doing it down the road in a concentration camp, sure.. lol
A favourite scene is the proposition for the mission... The awkward interaction between Martin Sheen and his trio of handlers played by Gervase Spradlin, Jerry Ziesmer and Harrison Ford is truly something to behold.
“Yes, sir. Obviously insane, sir.”
Now THIS is how you make a movie. Stories like this is why we used to respect movie stars.
Some of us never respected movie stars, lol. They work in a morally corrupt industry ... how do you think they got on top, what were they willing to do and how far were they willing to go to get their first parts?
There must be some wholesome ones, of course. But as a whole they're just overpaid prostitutes.
@@pwnmeisterage Totally true. Now 70% of Hollywood is implicated in pedophelia
@@pwnmeisterage There's nothing wrong with prostitution you BIGOT!
@@Varangian_af_Scaniae There is something wrong with it when we're expected to admire, worship, and _celebrate_ people who get paid more for it than doctors, lawyers, astronauts, and presidents.
P It’s Capitalism. In a society that craves entertainment to get by, of course they’ll be paid millions.
"Apocalypse Now is one of the greatest war movies..."
I think it's kinda one of the greatest movies, period, never mind the genre.
I'm actually going as far as to say it's the greatest film ever made. It's the best film I've ever seen, out of thousands.
Yea this is my personal favorite movie of all time with some close 2nd Nd thirds
But...the story makes no sense. For one, why did they need to take a boat up the river when they could have used a chopper to get there in a few hours?
@Jugg mkj that’s a good question. Only. Someone in war could probably answer that best
@@drek273 My father was in Vietnam and that was the first question he had about the movie, among many others, when we watched it.
The more often I watch this masterpiece of a film, the more I have the feeling that this is kind of a horror movie.
It is amazing how people react to this film. Last year I saw it in a cinema. At the beginning you heard people munching chips (crisps) and popcorn, from the point where Willard is starting his mission, especially the famous Ride of the Valkyries scene, there was complete silence in the cinema. People left with nearly full chips (crisps) trays and popcorn containers at the end. It was really amazing to see, how the film stunned its audience.
It is 100% a psychological thriller and horror movie. Watching Willard get closer and closer to his goal and realizing more and more that the person he is ordered to kill is more justified than the men who sent him. The hypocrisy of the whole situation twists on itself again and again until Willard meets Kurtz and realizes they are one and the same.
@@ColoradoStreaming How so. Seriously, enlighten me How the film sells this idea that Kurtz is right.
@@Zerradable The whole theme of the movie is that the Vietnam war just drags on with mounting death, horror and casualties and yet the US Military brass tries to uphold this façade they are doing some noble venture. Meanwhile the soldiers all suffer and just want to go home and have it end. Even "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" guy says his final, "This war is going to end one day." line before he walks off. Even his supposed bravado is just to keep his men motivated when deep down he knows the truth.
Kurtz is one of the best military commanders and learns the hard way that the top brass wont let him do what it takes to really win the war and even does a successful mission without the generals permission. Kurtz is finally charged with murder when he executed double agents that were getting his men killed. Kurtz then went to the extreme knowing that the only way to win and eventually save lives is to fight as brutally and totally as possible. There is no hypocrisy with Kurtz, just simple realization that war is horror and you must accept that to win. Willard knows this as well which is why
It is a horror movie marshallgibson89. Marlon Brando said that at the end of the movie :)
one of the best films ever made...
1. The Godfather 2
1a. The Godfather
2. Apocalypse Now
all directed by Francis Ford Coppola, amazing
I agree. But would add Last Tango in Paris.
The Conversation is a masterpiece too
You can't put '1a' and get around it. Why Godfather 2 above Godfather
Dracula was epic too
12 angry men should be up there, too
This movie could never be made today, every reason is a testament to what’s wrong with movies today. But mostly it’s because there are no actors and directors with that talent and caliber today.
But they could cast Robert Pattinson in the Sheen role... And Brie Larson as his commanding officer who beats up all the 250-pound, heavily armed white soldiers as he looks on...
4 YEARS..JE
There’s many
@@Borganov20 Someone just discovered the Drinkers videos what do you think? he's a great youtuber!
@@jakemellen6556 k
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning, smells like ...... Victory"
Smells like production delays. :)
@@asdnetwork4268 cocaine
@@Jacob-sy5xm lol
_"Charlie don't surf!"_
Actually: "Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell? The whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end."
Never get out of the boat.
Absolutely goddamn right.
_"Bye, tiger!"_
Kurtz got out..
and went insane.
One of my favorite pieces of trivia regarding this movie is how Brando though that an american Colonel wouldn't be named "Kurtz" and would instead be named something like "Lieghley", and it wasn't until the filming was finished when he finally read "Hearts of Darkness" and loved the reference and wanted the name to be changed back to "Kurtz"
Brando was talented but an illiterate.
Waking up to drinker video, means good day.
Agreed
Whiskey for breakfast, whisky for dinner 🥃 cheers
yep, I just finished his first Ryan drake novel too. something to tide me over until I get the next one in the series.
I was going to like your comment, but i noticed that you had 269 likes
Sequel is currently being filmed, working title, Portland Now.
Good one, Venture B. Since plagiarism is the highest form of flattery, I offer you...
"Portland Now: Everywhere Else Next"
Sandy Trunks I don’t think this protestiots would play well everywhere. There are people out there who love their country enough to do some bad things to keep it.
So, basically Portlandia
Sorry pal, studio got involved, it’s now Seattle Now
"The peaceful...the peaceful..."
"Apocalypse Now is one of the best -war- films ever made."
There, I fixed it for you.
NOPE..JE
This movie is not good. Objectively bad. This is a ham fisted morality tale (war is bad/ all morality is a lie, there is no morality in war blah, blah, blah. The meaning in this movie can be expressed by any edge high school kid.) was anyone watching in suspense about what Kurtz would do? Nope did you actually relate to any character nope? Every single person in this movie was a caricatured a person. “I love the smell of napalm in the morning” oh what a badass (eye roll) Playboy bunnies in a “hyper dangerous area of the jungle” no that was just a talking point to show the obsurdity, materialism,vanity and depravity of war!! Didn’t you get it!!! It’s a metaphor jeez guys hope that wasn’t to subtle. God this movie makes me more
Mad the more I think about it. This move objective sucks. I give zero fucks about the termoil making this movie cause the director. This movie was basic pop psychology crap! For 2 fucking hours!! I don’t want to be that guy. But everyone who likes this movie is entitled to like this movie. But if you say this is a great movie you are wrong your opinion is wrong you are just flat out wrong. You are allowed to say it is your favorite movie that’s fine. But this movie is not good.
No edge high school kid or anyone at all could reproduce this movie with any amount of money. Talent can’t be replaced. It’s both a good movie and a good war movie because it achieves what it set out to do and doesn’t sugar coat the reality of war. Anyways, I also recommend Hacksaw Ridge.
@@nickrawls9092
Jesus Christ you’re acting like a child having a tantrum “you’re wrong, your opinion is wrong” is a fucking hilarious quote, I cannot believe a human being unironically said that.
@@nickrawls9092 Hmm interesting take.. too bad most of the planet totally disagrees with you (I'm one of them).
I like these production hell videos because the way Drinker talks sound a lot like how anyone working on these movies would feel. Tired, depressed, and very drunk. Great work!
Jesus Apocalypse now’s production is basically ”what could go wrong? Everything!”
"Nah, It'll be fine." :D
This is why you don’t ask that.
Except for the results. Now michael ciminos Heavens Gate is where everything absolutely went wrong
The actors went through a bunch of rough shit, that is indeed true, but the finished product is really fucking good. Let's ALL just be thankful it didn't go the way of "The Island of Dr. Moreau." Let's also be thankful that "Heart of Darkness" and "Apocalypse Now" were successful enough to inspire several other pretty good pieces of entertainment, like Spec Ops: The Line for example
Check out Lost in La Mancha sometime. :)
Please do a video of The Drinker Recommends: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
You mean the Jeremy Clarkson one ?
Recommends: once upon a time in the west
Great film. IMO The best western ever.
YES
One of the best films ever.
My favourite film ever, as was its companion piece of the making of it. Knowing the troubles all cast and crew went through only made it even more awesome.
My grandfather actually helped out in the production of the movie, he helped them find some locations and some boats. His fishing boat actually appears in the first few minutes of the movie.
HUH?..JE
@@jackrenglish the red boat at the intro when Capt. Willard was linking up with the PBR crew
who knew that 'Apocalypse Now' would be so true to its production that they had to produce a real Apocalypse For the film.
Back in '78 or '79 when Martin Sheen hosted SNL, they did a parody of "Apocalypse Now" in which the studio was sending Willard into the jungle set to terminate Coppola with extreme prejudice for going over budget. :-D The idea of the skit was funnier than the actual skit, though, but that's how SNL was by then in general.
Never get out of the boat
Unless you are going all the way!
Absolutely Goddam-right
DUDE I DID NOT EXPECT TO SEE YOU HERE
@@dante666jt kurtz go out of the boat, he split from the whole fuckin program...
Until he gets you to the other side
The madness of production is mirrored in the madness the movie presents. Its absolutely fantastic to watch
I just love marlon brando's monologues in the end when he gives his view of how to win a war as the "bad guy". Blurred the lines about good guys and bad guys in war pretty well for me after that haha.
Denis hopper - “man I love the smell of cocaine in the morning”
It's been a long time , but it's really nice
"and the afternoon . . . and early evening . . . and night."
@@donwhiteley3293 lol
@@donwhiteley3293 I can't that often I like getting my swole on, and Im living poverty even though I make people rich
Denis Hopper: I must...SNIFF!!!
I don't get Brando here. "No, I don't care for the source material and neither have I read the script. I'm also out of shape and will never bother to lear my lines ... pay me!"
It's beyond words how much of a petty dickhead he was.
What a performance though
That's what happens when you get high on your own ego and fame.
He's basically the Bruce Willis of the 70s
Marlon Brando had a long history of being a complete pain in the arse. He survived in the acting world for decades through sheer charisma but he was a nightmare to work with. If he were alive in modern Hollywood, he wouldn't have a career. Legendary actors like Bill Murray, James Woods and Frank Langella have been blacklisted for far less than Brando.
5:07 “I wonder what they could have possibly spent it on.”
Truly a riddle for the ages. Not even Sherlock Holmes could solve this one.
Napalm In The Morning. Destruction has been Inflicted. Imagine Being A Soldier. My Dad Was a USMC Marine in the early days of Korea. A fellow Marine Fell on a Grenade & Saved his Life. Edward “Babe” Gomez. Medal of Honor Recipient. Yeah. That’s A Real Story. Semper Fi. CJ
Your father wasn't a Marine. Your father (alive or dead) IS a Marine. We hate hearing "was a Marine." Once a Marine, always a Marine. Semper Fi.
This film is nuts, there is no way that huge amounts of drugs weren't involved in just about every stage of it
Oh yes there was, a lot of them.
Yeah, that's exactly what the Drinker said.
Heroin ,coke and LSD and non stop drinking probably plenty of downers to like xanax and Valium but around that time qualudes were a popular drug the can’t be gotten anymore and unlimited pussy....I miss Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia even tho it was shot in the Philippines 😅
A certain actor brought with him LSD, uppers, downers, etc and was supplied by uh, certain members of the crew with herb from the mountains of the Ifugao tribal regions.
From the sound of this, Coppola got to find out the meaning of that phrase, "Be careful what you ask for, you might get it"! It's impressive enough that he continued with it 'til the end, much less delivered such a great film.
I just watched Visconti’s The Leopard and it is visually like a series of ravishing Old Master paintings. The politics and mores have a message for our times now. I was engrossed unlike anything I have seen in years. The whole thing is subtitled and damn me if it doesn’t improve the movie. Your eyes are drawn to the gorgeous muted, soft, ancient landscape and interiors. The story sweeps you along as if you are on the cusp of great change but as Fabrizio observes, things don’t change much except to screw over the little folk.
When Kilgore says to Willard "this wars gonna end some day" and that look he gives...sends shivers up my spine
Martin Sheen's voiceover is possibly the best ever put in a film.
YEP!...MY IDEA..
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I don't see how the movie could have ever been concieved without it.
YEP..BEST THING ABOUT THE FILM..SAVED THE CLUTTER....
Fun facts, that was not martin sheen voice it was his brother
Thanks to Michael Herr - he wrote it!
Apocalypse Now is how you do a re-envisioning of a classic. I read Heart of Darkness in the 5th Grade, and saw Apocalypse Now two years later.... And knew exactly what it was based on without having to be told.
As a side note, Robert Duvall's portrayal of Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore was my inspiration for joining the service.
Good, now play Spec Ops The Line. which was inspired by both of them. If it wasnt for mundane gameplay, I would have given that game a 10 out of 10. Because the story is an 11/10 GOD TIER.
@@omgsam7185 thanks for the tip, but I never really got into video games beyond the ones you put quarters in at the arcade back in the 80's. I was always too busy doing things in the Real World. Now that I'm retired, I'm not really inclined to bother with trying the modern version of those games.
a 5th grader can understand conrad's novel? and then watch a portrayal of a murderous psychopath in a film and use that as inspiration to join the us military? either you are a troll or you are seriously ill.
@@Laurencetw Obviously you fail to comprehend that the educational system back in the 70's was not the dumbed down participation award mill human warehousing project that it is now. We not only read Heart of Darkness, but also other literary works such as Lord of the Flies, Letters to the Earth, Watership Down, etc. We built actual flying model rockets in science class, studied geometry and basic principles of physics, and learned Latin or French, and we're exposed to classical music. We were strongly encouraged to participate in physical sports, learn to play musical instruments, and spent time participating in groups like The Scouts, 4H, JROTC, FFA, etc. We were not the wimps, simps, sissies, and weak minded SJW cry babies of these current generations.
You can call the character of Kilgore a psychotic murderer if you choose. What you fail to see is he was also a warrior of extreme confidence, discipline, and dedication. He stood for his men, and they performed for him. He displayed utter control in the face of adversity and didn't allow himself the luxury of fear. Traits, wich are greatly lacking in this current generation of worthless and weak excuses for human beings.
@@Necron-ez2cc bravo
Brando quoting TS Eliot’s The Hollow Men was perfection!
"I was going for that speedy look."
- Quote from actor in Apocalypse Now who popped amphetamines before his scene was shot.
Lawrence FIshburne was 15 years old on that set. Imagine coming of age in that environment.
Imagine doing this movie at 15, and then saying, "Yep, I want to make a career out of this!"
Trial by fire
Got DAMN! I imagine he saw some really fucking wacky shit, I honestly can't even imagine what he might've seen while ALL the cameras were off.
He probably thought it was awesome.
It probably helped Fishburne become the badass he is today. It was a fitting trial for Morpheus. The actual Morpheus, not the imposter from Matrix 4.
Marlon Brando really was The Phantom Of The Opera for Hollywood.
A mysterious freak with a torture chamber in his house?
I fear no man, but that thing...
*Marlon Brando's sex dungeon*
It scares me
@@riograndedosulball248 There there, Heavy. Have a sandvich.
"TLJ is such a challenging and daring movie!!"
Get TF out of ere
Stunning: 11 / Brave: 11
I wanna hear the Drinkers take on all the crazy shit that went down during the filming of original Wizard of Oz.
March 24, 1910 "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" starring Bebe Daniels - the original Wizard of Oz movie.
Especially the part about the orgies.
@@dparis2172poor Judy Garland. Nearly every cast member kept harassing her except ironically, teh actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West. Her gradual downward spiral is also very sad and upsetting.
I remember seeing this a few days after its open, i had no idea what kind of movie it was... as the credits began rolling to "the end" not a single person got up to leave... sitting awestruck in stunned silence as the lights came up and still not a word or movement by the audience.
Finally and slowly the group began moving still stunned at what we had seen, it was unlike anything i had ever seen before or since
The best opening of any movie I've ever seen.
My experience was similar. I saw it in Yongsan, Korea, amidst mostly Vietnam vets. The stony silence in that theater was unreal.
Don't forget Larry Fishburne got malaria and almost gave up acting. Bye bye Morpheus.
I didn't know that. That's crazy! Though Denzel Washington, or Patrice O'Neill as Morpheus would've been entertaining. 🤣
Al Wallace All he would've had to do was take the "Blue Pill". Nah, it'll be fine.
@@MykeLewisMusic "Remember. All I'm offering is the truth, nothing more."
Neo takes the red pill
"My man."
@@GingerZombie29 which, as we know now, was not the PC thing to do! ;-)
@@MykeLewisMusic Patrice????? Really?
"Somehow, I don't think Disney would sanction behavior like this."
Perhaps not, but they seem perfectly okay shooting a movie in a country, and even the same province, where government instituted genocide against religious minorities is actively going on and then thanking that province's police force in the credits, sooo...
Did you know that Apple has a contract(or maybe it's a patent, idk I'm no lawyer) that says if their products appear in a movie, they aren't allowed to show a "bad guy" using the product?
So what would happen if I made a movie about some Django Unchained type rampage in China, about a badass black dude forcing DiVeRsItY AnD InClUSiOn onto those camps you mentioned? Who would be the bad guy? Would I be sued for that? And would I still need to make the brown people smaller on the promo material, to appease the grumpy yellow people in China?
the things you are stating is like not liking Judas Priest music because their lead singer is homosexual. one thing has nothing to do with the other. the author of the video is talking about production mess that disney would not sanction and that we observe in modern day gaming industry which, by creating safe space for creators fucks up any kind of creative genious and gives us the bags of shit that are modern games. same goes with movies, too much safety and care for poor actors and nobody actually kicking their asses to give us a good script/performance/editing
What movie is that?
@@antonnurwald5700 Mulan live action
@@Freesorin837 oh yes, that one, I remember. I wonder what they learned from that experience. Probably: if you want to get away with working for dictators you need more woke virtue signaling.
So 'Apocalypse Now' refers to the title of the movie, and the production hell they went through..
The hardest part was finding places to land for all the 747's carrying Brando's cheeseburgers 🤣
Stripey Arse obviously, there’s too many moving pieces to blame it all on Brando. But he was still a thorn in the side, and a big one at that.
The Philippines used to only be one island. They dredged up the ocean to make more so they had room for the burgers. 🤣
The cow they kill, was Brando's Dinner
Lol
@@fernandogimenez7520 MoOoOooOooOOOOOOoooo!!!1!!1!
Last time I was this early cinematic story telling was still a thing
The only good cinematic storyteller left is the guy that directed Mission Impossible Fallout.
@@randomnerd3402 Indeed
@@winglessmecha James Wan is pretty good too.
@@randomnerd3402 yeah Aquaman was awesome despite having Amber Heard in it
@@winglessmecha Yeah Aquaman was surprisingly solid
So many great performances: Sheen, Duvall, Hopper, and Marlon!
And Spradlin!
Remember, When this film was released in 1979 there were 2 endings:
70mm Kurtz is killed, they get back into the boat and start to back away.
35mm Kurtz is killed, they get back into the boat and start to back away and an air strike destroys the temple and people.
I remember seeing this in a large domed theatre in 1979. The opening helicopter fly byes, the beach battle, the sound. Amazing.
"You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill"
One of my favorite quotes in any movie ever
The Seinfeld parody of the scene is pretty funny to those who recognize it.
The scene where they take the calvary helicopters in to take the point while blasting flight of the valkyries is one of the best scenes in any movie I've ever seen.
I love the smell of napalm in the morning ........ Smells like victory
There is a clip of German WW2 newsreel showing Luftwaffe planes dropping Fallschirmjager /paratroops in to battle using "Ride Of The Valkyrie" over the footage.....so I'm guessing the inspiration for Coppola came from seeing that clip.
@@chelseachelseaboy didn't know that🤙
It even has an early appearance of one R. Lee Ermey (as one of the helicopter pilots).
@Nicholas "Charlie don't surf and we think he should"
This was priceless. Excellent video!
"Do a Dennis Hopper" lol!
5:10 - Hopper High as a Kite.
"Horror. Horror has a face… and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared."
I've saw the movie as a teenager in 1979. Forty one years later, it's still as fresh and relevant as ever, and is still one of my favorite films. As great as the original theatrical cut is, I actually love the REDUX. The scenes with the stranded Playboy Bunnies and the french plantation story add so much more.
I remember being entranced by the closing credits as the B-52 strike destroyed the compound. Then I read they removed it. Has that been put back in to current versions?
"We had access to too much money, too much equipment and little by little we all went insane" ~ Gen. William Westmoreland
U could actually go literally insane in the opposite situation as well lol.
True
ALREADY INSANE..JE
@@chaosdweller It seems then that moderation is key. Too much in either direction and things go very wrong.
It’s seems casting Brando in his old age leads to hellish production.
I don't wanna sound evil, but I imagine guys like him get the quick 1,2 "oh he died btw....carry on" type announcement when they pass away. I imagine no1 has anything good to say about him. lol
These two videos make him seem like Hollywoods most unprofessional actor. Lol
The problem you young wippersnapper have is that Brando made a lot of his career in the old -old - old days. Last Tango in Paris, The Wild one, Street Car named Desire was one of his best preformances and that was 1951.
By the time of the Godfather he was already falling in that spot of prima donna, but he was still making massive preformances.
For god sake the man did Marc Antony in Ceasar and almost won an oscar for it.
Brando is one of the Old Ones right next to Peter Sellers and Orson Wells
bert bvdemier
Yup...
Brando might have morphed into an old, fat prima donna...
But let’s be realistic.
The man was a legend.
He took Marilyn Monroe to the Oscars for f’s sake.😳
Brando was easily the most influential male actor of his generation.💪👍😊🥃
It's ironic that most of his roles audiences of the last 40 years are familiar with are the ones where he was just coasting on star power and phoning it in. The Godfather, Superman, Apocalypse Now. Many people have never actually seen Brando in his prime.
5:09
You gotta give it up to Francis for being willing to allow one of his actors to be completely "coked out" on the job site for the sake of the production!
Now that's a legend
👊😃😉😚😎🤣🇺🇲
Good God you can't understate the lengths Coppola went to to make his movies. I can't think of another director as dedicated as him.
Seeing APOCALYPSE NOW: REDUX in the IMAX has been one of the most magnificent viewing experiences of my life...
They showed REDUX in IMAX? I saw Coppola's "Final Cut" on IMAX and it is far and away my favorite cinema experience of all time!
Fun fact: That cow was actually killed during the filming of that sacrifice scene.
Yep. They had hired some of the local tribe for that purpose. They had seen them previously performed that ritual and thought it'd fit nicely into the movie. LOL Dont believe me? Just watch Coppola's wife documentary about the whole thing.
PETA has left the chat
"Hardly any animals were harmed during the making of this film"
When they use real dead bodies as props I don't think anyone hear doubted the cow in the scene wasn't real.
@@sendintheclowns7305 yeah as if PETA fucking care they would slaughter the cow themselves for exposure
I was about 10 when I first saw this, few years after it came out. I'm still in love with Robert Duvall as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore to this day. What a ride this movie was.
8:02 You can see Scott Glenn (Capt. Colby) walking toward the camera (and sneezing) and then going out-of-frame to the left. Jerry Ziesmer, assistant director, and cast as the mysterious man in civvies, (CIA operative ?) is also making his way through the set.
You think Lucas was looking at the production like "man, I'm glad I went with the space movie"
there's a difference between Apocalpyse Now and The Island of Doctor Moreau:
The former was made with passion and loads of effort, despite being hammered by tropical storms, and resulted in one of the most harrowing works in cinema, and the latter was plagued with clashing egos, incompetent direction and unintentional hilarity to squirt out a mediocre mess.
It was saved by a great director and editing team. It's as much of a clusterfuck as Dr. Moreau
YEP
The allegorical implications of the ending make more sense when you realize it was meant originally to be the adapted screenplay of Orson Welles' Heart of Darkness. After reading the book, the ending made a lot more sense.
Thanks i had no idea... Always assumed it was adapted from the Joseph Conrad novel 'Heart of Darkness'
It's really neat to hear you cover this. I actually had the producer of this film Grey Fredrickson as a film school professor. He loved to tell stories of this film and The Godfather, and all the weird things that went on making those movies.
Lucky Brando was overweight I say, the way it was shot really gave the feeling of a man who'd descended into madness.
“The Horror...”. Drinker’s reaction when his liquor cabinet goes empty
That was pretty good dude XD
HAHAAA
but if I’m being honest... I thought that coulda been done better
One of my first childhood memories is this movie. I didn't understand it all but I would always watch it.
I tell you, take a night and first watch Heart of Darkness, the documentary Coppola’s wife shot about the making of the film. And then watch Apocalypse Now.
Even if you’ve seen the movie before. Watch them both.
The movie then takes on this frightening, horrorfull , surreal atmosphere where they are as much in war as the war they portray. You fear for the characters, the people portraying them and everyone involved.
A more unique combination, you will never find.
Ive seen this documentary. Its absolutely amazing.
Amazing how some of the most troubled productions become amazing movies.
Coppola deserved a medal for finishing this film. Not many directors would have survived something like this.
Excluding the Star Wars sequels, obvs.
@@sirloin8745 obviously most of them turn out to be garbage but sometimes you get a masterpiece.
@@jaromeartley73 Well sometimes you have artists with genuine passion working over a clusterfuck trying to make it work and sometimes you have talentless political shills doing the same. (Or pretending to do so, anyway.) When it's the latter, it's pretty much doomed from the start.
Jaws comes to mind....
I can’t believe you were able to sum up in 10 minutes what it took a documentary an hour and 37 minutes to do!
I can't believe it either - this doesn't come close to Hearts of Darkness. It's a good summary, but not actually entirely accurate to that documentary. If you think it did, I encourage you to look at that film again.
What the documentary had that this doesn't was Coppola's wife recording her husbands rants as the production dragged on and everybody was losing their goddamn minds.
@@suflanker45 Sounds funny to watch lol
Also i'm sure he's provided some details i'm sure the docco, which was great, never covered. For instance I don't remember anything in the docco about Dennis Hopper performing on coke.
love the documentary though, it's not possible to fit all the amazing storys into a 10 minute video, but I agree, as always he did a good job providing the essence. I remember watching the documentary not long ago for the first time when I got the director's cut on blueray, like 20 years after watching the movie for the first time. It was fucking amazing.
Other interesting little facts - Laurence Fishburne was 15 when he filmed his role, and had to lie and say he was 18 in order to play his part.
Sophia Coppola was a young kid running around on set during the parts of the film that were destroyed in the monsoons.
I believe Coppola put like two liens on his house to get the last parts of the budget.
There’s more I’m not remembering. Watch the documentary Hearts Of Darkness if you want to learn more about the production.
Sheesh, how did Coppola not get arrested for child endangerment?
@@osmanyousif7849 A it was the 70s. B, LF lied about his age. And C, Sophia is his daughter.
Wait till you hear about the real bull that was murdered for the movie. No disclaimer at the end of this film about no animals being harmed lol.
@@ApostleMan222 , OK but weren’t there any laws for some thing like that back in the 70s? And just because Fishburne lied and Sophia is his daughter still probably wouldn’t change the fact the Francis should have known better since he’s the grown adult. In fact, I bet a court would argue that too…
@@osmanyousif7849 It was a production that cost tens of millions. It isn’t Coppola’s job to check birth certificates for his actors, and the production took place entirely in the Philippines, where even TODAY laws about child labour are whatever.
And what are you going to charge Coppola with? Launching the career of a 15 year old? The only thing that would happen, even today, is he would get in trouble with SAG for having a minor on set without a parent present.
You’re getting upset about nothing right now. Find something else to be bothered about
@@ApostleMan222 I mean, consider how many things went bad during production, if Fishburne got hurt or killed, then that's on Coppola. Same goes for his daughter during the monsoon destruction. Anybody could have gotten themselves hurt.
I finally got the chance to sit down and watch this monster of a film, ALL 3 hours and almost 20 minutes of it, and I came back here to say this: what an amazing film . Period. I'm still reeling from the fact that you only see Brando's character in the last 40 freaking minutes of the movie out of the 2 and a half hours you only here about him through Sheen's character, Crazy how all the scenes before Kurtz' reveal pile on until the grand finale!
Also watched Tropic Thunder soon after in its entirety and it is also a great movie! THANK YOU Critical Thinker!
Look for the 5+hr version. It's a workprint and the quality is poor but it's got a ton of extra scenes that didn't make it to even the Redux version.
R. Lee Ermy was a technical consultant on the film. He also had a couple of lines as a chopper pilot in the Ride of the Valkyries scene.
RIP
When Josh Trank talks about how difficult it was to shoot Fan4tastic, I have to always remind myself that movies like Titanic, Aliens, and Apocalypse now exist.
But Trank had to suffer that luxury home the studio rented for him.
Fanatastic?
And the abyss hmm maybe Cameron has something to do with tough shoots lol
@@slyaspie4934 His movies are so ahead of its time nobody knows how to execute it, in addition to his short temper and high budget. The fact that he is still making big-budget movies is a testament to his talent. Cameron is one hell of a Director.
@@palmoart Definitely also his work ethic, everyone who's worked with him says he's slave driver but he's also the hardest working person on set. like in abyss he'd spend all day under water which was so cold the actor's had to get into a hot tub every couple of hours to stop hypothermia setting in, yet he just carried on. Im sure the making of abyss is here on RUclips it's well worth a watch seeing all the problems they had to overcome in fact it'd make a great episode of this not so much drama just shit going wrong, like sods law if it can go wrong it will lol
The story of how this film was made would be absolute winner of a movie in itself.