Jim Morrison and Beginning with 'The End' | Ep4 | Making Apocalypse Now
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- Опубликовано: 30 янв 2020
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*NOTE: This is a re-upload because Warner Music Group rejected my dispute for the use of 'The End' at the beginning of the video and took the money I've earned from my hard work. My video is absolutely Fair Use, but I don't have the time/money to fight it.
In Episode 4, we take a look at the opening of Apocalypse Now featuring the haunting Doors song ’The End’ and singer Jim Morrison’s strange connections to the film and the Vietnam War. We also compare several written openings to the movie that were not used that would have given us a unique look at Colonel Kurtz and his army.
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This video essay was written, edited, and narrated by Tyler Knudsen.
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Movie Clips:
Apocalypse Now (1979 dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
The Doors Live at the Bowl 1968 - • Video
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (1991)
Forrest Gump (1994 dir. Robert Zemeckis)
Spartacus (1960 dir. Stanley Kubrick)
The Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin
The Doors (1991 dir. Oliver Stone)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920 dir. Robert Wiene)
Interview with Jim Morrison’s father and sister - • Interview with Jim Mor...
US Navy view of Tonkin Gulf incident - reconstruction - AP - • US Navy view of Tonkin...
President Johnson Speaks on Vietnam Crisis (1964) - • President Johnson Spea...
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 dir. Martin Scorsese)
Drive (2011 dir. Nicolas Winding Refn)
X-Men: First Class (2011 dir. Matthew Vaughn)
Full Metal Jacket (1987 dir. Stanley Kubrick)
The Road to El Dorado (2000 dir. Bibo Bergeron, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Don Paul)
Me, Myself & Irene (2000 dir. The Farrelly Brothers)
The Green Berets (1968 dir. John Wayne, Ray Kellogg)
Peter Pan (1953 dir. Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske)
Jacob's Ladder (1990 dir. Adrian Lyne)
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I like how he opens the movie by presenting us with a protagonist who is unquestionably broken and insane... and somewhere along the way you realize that this insane drunk crying on the floor covered in his own blood is pretty much the most sane character in the movie.
The End was a perfect way to submerge the audience in a feeling that some soldiers must have felt in Vietnam; that the world was ending. This song is about a relationship ending, which can feel like the world is ending. One of those perfect film-meets-music moments.
The Door's song "The End " playing in the jungle scene is about as atmospheric as you could have gotten with a movie...Haunting as hell.
Also him yelling the work fuck was just the right kind of choatic energy.
The sound of the chopper blades in the very beginning then moving to a fan in Willard's room is one of the greatest scene cuts ever put in any film of the 1970s or 80s. It moves so seamlessly that my mind tricks me and for just a split second I WANT to think the fan was the Huey's blades spinning. Amazing way to immerse the audience into the story and remind you of the real theme behind the film: "War is hell. War is madness."
One extra thing: When Sheen cut his hand, Coppola WAS alarmed and concerned and tried to call for a medic but Sheen urged him to keep filming. He felt he was connecting with Willard. Very creepy to think about. This is mentioned in Mrs. Coppola's excellent documentary "Hearts of Darkness."
One of the greatest openings to a film. Hypnotic, bleak, terrifying, brilliant. Everything after is not too bad either :)
I can't believe Lawrence Fishbourne was 14 when he started filming Apocalypse Now!
@@vollsticks and can't believe Harvey Keitel was first choice to played Willard....amazes me every time
@@Nately22 I know right, mad! Sheen just fits that part like a fuckin' glove if you'll excuse the profanity. And to go through what he did (cutting himself up for real, a drink problem, or at least a nascent one, then a fucking heart attack, and STILL going back to film! Makes Brando seem like a diva-ish weakling in comparison...he wasn't THAT much older than sheen at the time, was he?)! That's balls, commitment and a work ethic for ya1
saw it in first theatre i'd ever been in with dolby surround,houston,down frum midwest visiting sis werkin va hosp,same dudes,10 yrs on ,alvin lee style.
@@caseysheehan3220 Casey, I'm from Houston, do you remember the theater? Just curious, I wish I'd been able to see it at a theater the first time☆
Man if this film started with “Light My Fire” it really would’ve cast a different tone
The horror
It would be more like Full Metal Jacket. It would seem tongue in cheek.
Napalm fire with light my fire: cringe.
Its good but even in the 60s it was an overheard, overcovered pop song, it hardly says anything...
Imagine if John Milius's script had been done verbatim. It would have been this jingoistic, patriotic, unrealistic John Wayne war movie.
But Susie Q was? lol
Way too punny
The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.
- Francis Ford Coppola
This movie got me into the Doors, actually changed my life. Very cool.
One of the haunting moments in AN is the letter Kurtz sends to his son. He tells his son that he has been officially accused of murder by the Army. He ends the letter by stating, 'As for the charges against me I am unconcerned. I am beyond their timid line of morality and so I am beyond caring. Could you imagine reading this from your father? The film is an absolute masterpiece.
At the conclusion, Kurtz obviously feels that something in that letter and lots of other things need to be clarified, but he knows very well it's not going to be him that does it.
This is why Willard is so important to Kurtz. And he tells him so, instructing him straightforward...
He says..
" I worry that my son...might not understand what I've...tried to be...and..if I were to be killed here, Willard...I would want someone to go to my son...and tell him EVERYTHING... everything I did...because there's nothing I hate more than the stench of lies..."
It can't be a coincidence that Coppola used The End at the the beginning and then quotes from TS Elliot at the end. I only realised this yesterday despite growing up seeing "In my beginning is my end..., In my end is my beginning" every week of my childhood" on Elliott's memorial in East Coker.
See the Wikipedia articles "The Golden Bough" and "Not to Touch the Earth".
In 'Apocalypse Now' Kurtz has *"The Golden Bough"* book by James George Frazer which influenced T.S. Elliot and Jim Morrison. Read the 'Literary Influences' section.
Cinema Tyler. Your fans from all over the world support you. We know the kind of person you are, a good man. We know you would never do anything disreputable. Your endless research, your push for educational excellence is not going unnoticed. You are a great film historian of the new gemeration and the studios should be pleased that you do what you do with passion and respect to the masters that came before us. Thank you for your videos. They are a great pleasure to watch and learn from but most importantly they encourage a noble appreciation of the medium. I know I'm not alone in saying this but thank you again for your work. I actually believe you should make the pilgrimage to the Kubrick estate to hand deliver your 2001 videos to Christiane herself. She would see the likeness of character between her husband and yourself.
Take care, keep the videos coming.
Thanks so much! You are too kind though! I just read a lot of books by great film historians and try to organize all the various info into entertaining videos. It makes me so happy to know that others enjoy this stuff as much as I do!
Disreputable? Was he accused of something? What did i miss?
Whats even more crazy is that, (to reiterate) The film "Apocalypse Now" a film about Vietnam, STARTS with The Doors' The END". Jim Morrison's haunting lyrics echo in irony because it was his father, Admiral George Stephen Morrison who fired the first American artillery shells into the Gulf of Tonkin which would go down in history as Americas first action of involvement in what would soon become the Vietnam War. This is known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. Yes... Jim Morrison's dad started the Vietnam war for America and all because of a faulty RADAR system. Look it up.
Yup, I just realized you do mention this later on. Good job. Not a lot of people knew about that. Crazy story
" This is a re-upload because Warner Music Group rejected my dispute for the use of 'The End' at the beginning of the video and took the money I've earned from my hard work."
Jeebus H, as a musician and producer I feel your pain. I had a spat with Warners a few years ago with one of my own tracks that they claim they own ( they don't, at all ) I hit brick walls with their lawyers, they just have too much money to fight. Without going into it, they basically took my money too.
/Insert expletives here.
Anyway, keep up the great work ( minus the track ) love this series.
Thanks! So sorry to hear that. That sounds awful!
Warner is such an unethical company.
this movie is something else, I've never seen anything like it and I doubt I'll ever will
I came here to mention the Tonkin Incident! For years until his death Morisson said his parents were dead in interviews--it wasn't until thirty years after his death that the truth came out. It's certainly strange the amount of high-profile counterculture musicians had parents who were either highly ranked in the Letter Agencies, Navy, Marines etc...read "Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon-Lauren Canyon, Covert Ops And The Dark Heart Of The Hippie Dream" by David McGowan. Some very strange connections...
I just googled the book now and I'm suspicious of it not being "too much", meaning that it crosses the line into fantasy to me. Being a huge fan of the 60s music and realising some of the connections of famous musicians are indeed really weird, could you point out what the book really tries to say? Thank you in advance
The truth came out in 1970.
Jim said his parents were dead because he didn't want to involve them in his trip in 1966 bio.
Ben fong torres mentions it to jim in his rolling stone interview and he admits it then .
@@twomindz79 Oh, I stand corrected then. Looks like David MaCgowan's research isn't all it should be (which is why you have to take some of his books with a pinch of salt.
"The End" and "Shaman Blues" were the only interesting things they did and I still can't understand why "Jim" is vaunted as this brilliant poet....90% is 6th form doggerel at best. But that's only my opinion, I've got nothing against 'em.
Thanks for clearing that up, anyway.
@@vollsticks all good my friend.
I couldn't get through his book due to a lot of things like that . Using coincidences to create stories .
A lot of misinformation.
Morrison was a wonderful poet and song writer . One of the best.
@@vollsticks
I think Morrison and the Doors were a unique package at the time. Yes, he wrote weird, LSD infused imagery laced lyrics, but also crooning songs, like Wintertime Love, which you'll never hear outside of the album. He's said to have s 4 octave vocal range, which is pretty wide.
One of my favorite lines is when Willard says “after this Mission he wouldn’t want another”
Same.
The movie had a profound impact on me as a freshman in college. I recorded the entire movie sound track onto cassette tapes and would listen to the entire movie in the car every time I went home from college. The cool thing about the soundtrack is the fact that it wasn't just the music but all of the dialogue as well. I was so obsessed with the opening scene that I had my stereo set up to wake me up every morning with The End playing. Enjoyed learning more about the making of the film. Thanks for producing this series.
Out here in the perimeter,there are no stars,we as stoned,immaculate:)
We have constructed pyramids in honor of our escaping this is the land where the Pharao dies.
No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn
Thanks for reminding me of this amazing wordplay of the poet known to the world as THE LIZARD KING!
Only two lyricists have started a movie using a song with the first line of "This is the end." One was Jim Morrison, and the other was...?
You guessed it... Frank Stallone. The song is called "Far From Over" and is seen at the beginning of the John Travolta film, Staying Alive.
Keep up the good work CinemaTyler, been enjoying your channel for a while.
You`re the man
Don't worry about it. Warner Music Group is really really strict about using any of their music in videos even if they're use for entertainment or educational uses. I've seen other RUclipsrs like TheDooo dealing with this stuff but at the end Warner will never listen. If any about watching this video not know what 'The End' sounds like, do Tyler a favour and listen the song by itself or watch the opening sequence before watching this video.
Thanks! I look forward to the day when Fair Use protections become stronger. After all, remixing media is only going to get more prevalent as creative tools become easier to acquire and use.
@@CinemaTyler Unfortunately for us, all recent Copyright law amendments have been for longer and stronger protections for owners, becoming absurd lengths of time. I don't believe fair use is enshrined anywhere in law at this time, and is only a precedent and set of guidelines for courts to consider. Regrettably, unless something fundamentally changes with regards to Copyright law, it is difficult to see where better Fair use rules can be applied.
Warners are just soar because they turned down Apocalypse Now.
@@CinemaTyler I recommend the story of "The sand pebbles" or Bullitt great movies.
Cheers
Historically, a fluid script ends in disaster, but not this one. Coppola's decisions were spot on.
I still have the original movie handout. What a crazy experience.
What's it look like? I'd love to see a pic!
give me some examples please
@@ammoburgeryoutube rewrites everyday, particularly at the end. Watch the documentary his wife did.
@@jimmerhardy i mean give me examples of fluid scripts. i inferred that other scripts have been written in a similar way and ended in disaster, am i misunderstanding you?
@@ammoburgeryoutube I'm not sure why you're harping on this issue. Of course, many unresolved film scripts and infighting have hurt films. Off the cuff, Alien 3 is a good example.
I watched the first upload, but I’m re-watching this one as you deserve your view stats
Thanks!
it’s a shame you deserve way more followers than you have this series is so well put together
Thank you! Sharing to social media is just as helpful as donations!
Harrison Ford was a camera guy for the doors
Loved his role in this film. He nailed it. One of the “ grocery clerks” .....
I never knew that, I had to look it up, thanks!😁👍
@AndreTreeCantSeeMe If I remember rightly isn't he addressed as "George"?
@@c.s.s.1723
I like that line about grocery clerks--it fits most politicians so well.
fazole .....Kurtz slays Willard by telling him he is no assassin, but just an “errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect the bill.”
One of the best lines of the film for sure.
Remasters of the first album have the uncensored version of The End. There also is more to Break on Through with Jim singing "she gets high!" It's cool stuff.
Wow, man, these series of yours are so well done. Keep it up!
And, yes, the copyright system is utterly and completely broken.
Your research and editing is phenomenal Tyler. Thank you! I'm aspiring to incorporate some of your "tricks" into my channel as well. I appreciate the hard work
I'm so glad this video appeared in my recommendations, really looking forward to binge watching as much as I can! Great work.
Thank you so much for making this series. After watching this movie again recently, I’m so hungry for apocalypse now content
Sorry to hear that Tyler.
I watched the first time, and now I'm watching this one so you get what you deserve for your hard work. Your videos are just great.
Keep up the good work!
Thank you!
@@CinemaTyler I know it's hard on video creators, but in many respects, I have sympathy for copyright holders (if that is where the strikes are coming from, often, they are not). Since napster, music artists have had to put up with their hard work being shared for free. With loss of income since the pandemic, it makes sense that artists are now looking to gain control of their livelihoods by seizing control of who gets to use their material. This might not be the case for The Doors, but put yourself in the shoes of an artist who has worked on a piece and then has to see others make money from it. There are 'boogy man' stores told in the music business about certain artists and musicians, like the guy who played the famous Amen break. His 8 bars of drumming on an unknown b side gave birth to drum and bass, but the guy himself never made a penny. In fact, during his final illness, Prince paid for his hospital bills. The injustice you feel mirrors the injustice artists feel when strangers use their work and expect to do so for free.
I love that pan on the exploding trees in the opening scene
Excellent and dynamic as always, Tyler. Keep it up!
(Well then I'll re-up my comment and like and watch again. That's utter BS they pulled) CinemaTyler, respect your work deeply, and am excited upon every upload. I wish you success both critically and financially - I would be deeply interested if you would investigate and illustrate for your audience the scene of Sheen (Willard) in his room post monologue. The injury of the hand; the crying; direction from Coppola: the process of that scene, if you had information/notes through investigation, would be brilliant. Keep it up boi
Thanks! You're in luck because that's the next episode and it's nearly finished!
I have now seen numerous of your videos, and I'm impressed and I love your balance with your 1USD PDF offer. almost to low, but a superb way to get people to support while also getting some material on the topics.
well done channelholder.
this is some of the bestest/thoroughest content ive ever seen. keep up the good work
Once again you stagger me with a unbelievable detail from this amazing movie. I always assumed the awesome opening sequence was meticulously planned...yet turns out Cuppola only used footage that was literally going to be discarded cause at last minute thought it “looked interesting “😳
You're right on this, CinemaTyler seems to have some amazing sources! I have been reading and watching everything I could get ahold of about this truly astonishing movie - ever since 1979 when I was fortunate enough to see it in theater - thought I read all the books ( "The apocalypse now book" is one of the better ones) and thought I'd tapped out every source about the film. But Tyler has inside info that would seem almost impossible to find, especially 40 years later!
Although I'll always love the final movie, I kind of wish we could've seen a version of Milius' script without the rewrites.
Sublimely good essay, thank you very much.
I really liked how you intercut brief snippets of the movies that A.N. has influenced, lovely touch.
I saw Apocalypse now when it came out At the drive-in and will never forget the opening scene with the doors this is the end playing on all the speakers throughout the drive in
Outstanding Chronicle !!!! Thank you for posting !!!!
Awesome job, great work
The opening with the jungle sounds and darkness would have been epic too
Good thing Coppola came on work on a Saturday!
Great work as always!
Great upload about this film. Love this 1979 classic. 💖
How incredibly odd that the Gulf of Tonkin incident that garnered support for American involvement in Vietnam involved Jim Morrison's father, Captain George Stephen Morrison. Then, by some miracle, The Doors music featuring Jim Morrison's lyrics and vocals goes on to be prominently featured in the most iconic film associated with that same war. This reality is absurd in the extreme.
Glad you did get a fragment of The End past the bastards, at 3:10.
Well I’ll be damned
I never knew why they called them Charlie!
Thanks for sharing CinemaTyler.
Such an unconventional masterpiece, Coppola just owned this period of filmmaking. He had his fingerprints all over the zeitgeist of the time.
another great episode
Michael Herr author of The dispatchers who co-wrote the dialogue came up with the fan, helicopter blades
I really loved your editing on this one.
The beginning of the movie is one of the most haunting description of Vietnam War.
It’s one of the greatest beginnings of a movie ever. IMHO
This intro set the tone for the entire movie ... Genius !!!
...this channel is among the most underrated on YT.
Jim Morrison's father was a flag officer in the US Navy. In fact, Admiral George Stephen Morrison commanded the Carrier Division during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. The Gulf of Tonkin Incident was actually a contrived event that famously gave the Johnson Administration the justification they needed to escalate the Vietnam War. Until it happened in October 1964 US military personnel in South Vietnam only acted in an advisory status not engaged in any combat circumstance save to protect American installations and themselves if attacked. After the Gulf of Tonkin however American forces began going on search-and-destroy missions against the Viet Cong. That was six years before my time there in 1970-71 as a member of the US Army Security Agency (A US Army extension of the National Security Agency) involved in Signals Intelligence.
Excellent presentation and information on my #2 favorite movie.!
Awesome content in your channel mate.. Love your approach to analysing films!
Sorry about the Warner music issue. Keep it up!
Gaed..i love this stuff..and you have given so many details that makes this film so much better..btw..the Doors is my favorite group of all time..blood in the streets, up to my ankles...
Its worth mentioning, for years it was the only way to hear the uncensored verion of the end.
Well done series!
Excellent content, thanks!
Back to support. Loved it the first time and this time.
Thank you!
Also love how 96 Tears is written on one of the helicopters
Aw c'mon WMG... Thanks for this series, I discovered it a bit late but am enjoying playing catch up.
I love this movie so much, but I love the fact more that it was pretty much a miracle that it was made
best series on youtube
The end as the beginning is brilliant.
Written in the helmet was actually "Feel the Force, young mudblood." That's Hollywood for you, just six storylines and a swampload of hype.
Eye opening and very interesting.
Every war is The End of the world and humanity. Brilliant and not coincidental connection between this song writer and the movie theme about distractive consequences of producers of wars. We see Apocalypse Now in 2022.
Apocalypse" (ἀποκάλυψις) is a Greek word meaning "revelation", "an unveiling or unfolding of things not previously known and which could not be known apart from the unveiling". As a genre, apocalyptic literature details the authors' visions of the end times as revealed by an angel or other heavenly messenger.
Always wondered about the different version of The End!
This intro and the one for Citizen Kane and Star Wars (the original) are the greatest.
Speaking of music and “Apocalypse Now,” the film syncs up in a very uncanny way with the Pink Floyd album “Dark Side of the Moon” (similar to how it does with “The Wizard of Oz”). Just start the album and the film at the same time (while the screen is still dark at the beginning of Apocalypse). If one is as familiar with “Apocalypse Now” as everyone watching this video probably is you will see how it works almost as if it has been intended.
Keep it up!
Great little 'Jacob's Ladder' shout it.
"Los Angeles was once one of the places of darkness".... a fitting tribute to Conrad, whose book said the same thing about London.
Shame you had to reupload it but we understand why you did what you did.
But to repeat my old comment, I'm still amazed at all this information I didn't know about The End's inclusion in the film other than the basics of it being used as a joke. Stellar research.
Thanks!
awesome opening
Oh man... I am so sorry Tyler. You really don´t deserve this hassle...
The beginning of this film IMO perfectly captures the quagmire that the war became. The confusion and complexity of fighting a war that was Vietnam. The passion to win and the loss of innocence, turning men into brutal killers. A beautiful lush green jungle is suddenly set ablaze by napalm while helicopters fly in and out, all the while the sound of distorted rotors wop wop wop by.
And The End starts. Incredible movie.
Papa George Stephen Morrison literally started the Vietnam War with that claim about the Gulf of Tonkin Incident… trippy
Interesting side note of The Doors & John Miius' opening notes (December 1969) on troops in San Francisco waiting to depart for Vietnam. The Doors performed for many of my buds in the graduating class of 1969 (June) at Beverly Hills High School...
That summer "Light My Fire" was released and they hit the big time. I was in the class of 70 BHHS and shipped out for Nam late 1970... all my classmates went to college.
Wouldn't have traded the experience even for a free ride to Harvard.
you know the craziest thing about the opening of apocalypse now is the mechanics of all the dissolves which I imagine had to be done optically to film before you could see what it would look like. and there are so many of them.
Keep up the good work. Dodging cars on the freeway will become second nature at some point if you continue these endeavours.
I think the first draft of the opening wouldve been great but theres not another opening scene thats more iconic than AN
@2:10 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 LOVE IT!!!
a slight inadvertent plus . . as advancing technology moves ahead
the "ghost chopper" sound
while playing- in a well dialed in /treated ATMOS HT using the DSU mode, 5.3.4
you can get very more noticeable immersive panning , much more 3D
and of course being a war movie, the woofers create solid clean clear hard hitting bass and TR
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I am subscribing to your channel. It's really cool.
I was making music w Jim Morrisons nephew, Ian Morrison all through high school without knowing they were related lmfao
The tape Murch got of THE END would be called a “4-track master” or “multitrack session tape” containing the individual stems, instrument and voice tracks as they were recorded, pre-mixdown. It’s from this multitrack that LP stereo mixes are done. However, I find it hard to believe that the label sent them this tape _by_ _accident_ because that would be akin of a movie company sending out camera negatives by accident. Even if this was the ‘70s, those tapes would have been very valuable and held under strict lock. I’ve heard Murch himself telling that story, but I have a feeling that he’s leaving out some detail or he misremembers. When mixing a film you’ll want to have access to individual instruments or fade between different sections of the song, so it’s more likely he got a _copy_ of the multitracks by request.
it has great sets I remember going to VietNam in 93 and 94, before all the main towns become twee tourist parks, and there was that perforated landing strip stuff everywhere and loads of American stuff lying around Hue citadel is now a shiny museum site but in 93 it was overgrown with bullet casings, bits of ponchos, and shattered tiles and crockery lying around
When Francis originally wrote opocalpse it was captain Willard was written for Jim Morrison and copolla gave it to Morrison to read he was found dead with the script on him
There was a great lengthy interview with Walter Murch a couple years ago in the Johns Hopkins University Magazine with lots of interesting tidbits regarding Apocalypse Now! that's worth checking out,. FYI.
Man, am I ever glad that original '67 opening got replaced. Way too on-the-nose.
Another connection; Jim Morrison's father started the Vietnam war. He was the admiral, who claimed that the Vietnamese had attacked the Gulf of Tonkin. In 1984, former Secretary of State, Robert McNamara admitted the Vietnamese never attacked..
also a cool connection is that harrison ford was a roadie for the doors as well.
So many of these alternative scenes are horrible! It's amazing they actually got so much of it right!