Milius: The True Mind Behind APOCALYPSE NOW? (Behind the Scenes Documentary)
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- In this rare one on one, legendary writer/director Francis Ford Coppola interviews John Milius, the virtuosic screenwriter of Apocalypse Now. Milius discusses his insular process of adapting Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness: Drawing on both personal and historic experiences of the Vietnam War and the hippie movement. Many other great writers, including Orson Wells have tried adapting Conrad's novella, but had hit dead ends.
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic psychological[6] war film directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola. It stars Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, and Dennis Hopper. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola and John Milius with narration written by Michael Herr, is loosely based on the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War. The film follows a river journey from South Vietnam into Cambodia undertaken by Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Sheen), who is on a secret mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Brando), a renegade Army Special Forces officer accused of murder and who is presumed insane.
Apocalypse Now was honored with the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, where it premiered unfinished before it was finally released on August 15, 1979, by United Artists. It performed well at the box office, grossing $40 million domestically and going on to gross over $100 million worldwide. Initial reviews were mixed; while Vittorio Storaro's cinematography was widely acclaimed, several critics found Coppola's handling of the story's major themes anticlimactic and intellectually disappointing.
Apocalypse Now is today widely considered one of the greatest films ever made. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards at the 52nd Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Coppola), and Best Supporting Actor for Duvall, and went on to win for Best Cinematography and Best Sound. It ranked No. 14 in Sight & Sound's greatest films poll in 2012, and No. 6 in the Director's Poll of greatest films of all time. Roger Ebert also included it in his top 10 list of greatest films ever in 2012.
In 2000, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".
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Coppola’s generosity is rare.
It's important to metion that the movie "Aguirre the wrath of God", inspired Ford Coppola to make this film. Moreover, making movies could be stressful and, at the same time, funny to tell stories behind the scenes. Especially, if you work with Marlon Brando who showed us in Apocalypse now his last great performance after his Vito Corleone's role in the Godfather.
Milius created more red meat, manly, confrontational, and politically charged scripts than anyone of his generation - and always kept it entertaining. Besides "Apocalypse Now," he wrote "The Wind and the Lion," "The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean," and "Conan the Barbarian."
That's completely untrue. But he was definitely into self aggrandizement and showmanship
@@commanderkeen3787 Really? Dude made Red Dawn. Nothing was more red meat 🍖 and manly than killing Russians that invaded America 🇺🇲
@@commanderkeen3787 That's completely untrue. But you definitely have no argument at all and dont't even try to explain your pisspoor take.
Lol Conan is a film for idiots
His movies weren't red meat political statements. He was too much of a brilliantly complex writer, and director who'd never make a single faceted propaganda piece. Not even Red Dawn which people misconstrued as a pro war rah rah MURICA! movie. If you watch it then you realize it showed the futility of war and it's cost to the young people who always fought the wars. He was a funny larger than life character who modeled himself after his obvious heroes like Hemingway and general George S Patton. To say he had a flare for the dramatic would be an understatement. ❤
Moving from Willard in the shower to the descending helicopter is one of the greatest hard cuts in the history of the movies. It's a rush of cold, horrifying reality.
He might not have created or wrote it but Coppola ended up making one of the greatest films in history in my opinion, saw at the theater the first weekend it was out , thanks for posting this, Milius is so great, him and Walter Hill are involved in so many great movies
Watching this, it's a hidden gem. Thanks for finding and posting it.
Thank you for watching, jimmer! We actually edit these videos using the behind the scenes clips and documentaries found on Blu-rays. You won't find these exact videos anywhere else.
@@CinemaLabyrinthine That's great to know. Excellent work! The only problem is it wasn't longer. Milius was a true original.
@@jimmerhardy Good news: there's an awful darn good documentary about him.
ruclips.net/video/oLuPXfsCkWg/видео.html
Thank you for posting this, this is really great!
Glad you enjoyed it!
How in the bloody hell did Milius NOT win the Oscar for best screenplay? I gave up on the academy a long time ago because they’ve had their heads in their
a$$es for a long long time.
This is amazing. Any chance you do something similar for Drácula, or even the Godfather? big fan of Coppola here 🙂
The Godfather is a great idea! We have the box set so we can surely put something together.
@@CinemaLabyrinthine that would be great 🙏
Such great artists, two of the best of all time.
What they said about Apocalypse getting bad reviews is true. I remember Time magazine calling it “The making of a quagmire”
One day this war will end...
Thank you for this great video
Milus is fascinating
The HBO show ROME is kick ass!
I read Milius' original 1969 draft....omg...lunacy...insane....it could've never have been released with other than an X rating
This is great- thank you! Ya’ll be sure to check out the Doc “Milius” on RUclips
Thanks for watching! We'll make sure to check out that doc.
I have original movie posters from this masterpiece. One of kurtz, one of Willard and one of the bodies hanging from the trees with the Navy PBR .
While I hate the clickbait nature of the title (short answer: NO), this turned out to be one great video anyway. Thanks.
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"Explodes into fragments of intellectual shrapnel"
Watching this made me wonder...why Mr. Coppola has not yet been honored via AFI Lifetime...Kennedy Center Honors...and other lifetime achievements...yes he was awarded a Thalberg Oscar, anyway, awards are getting old hat and have lost some of its luster...yet the next AFI Lifetime should be awarded to Mr. Coppola.
Agreed. He's greatly contributed to the culture of American Cinema. The Conversation is a great film (same year as Godfather Part II)
What was the cinematography style at 4:02? I have to know!
That is a really engaging shot! They must have rotated the camera on a crane. It makes you feel like you’re being tugged the way Martin Sheen’s character is in that scene!
Why that picture of Orson? 😅
Those are actually John Milius in the back, Martin Sheen in the middle, and Francis Ford Coppola in the foreground. We thought it would be cheeky.
@@CinemaLabyrinthine i was talking about a different picture.
2 min. 47 sec. That picture.
@@tranquilitybase7860 Oh that one! That's Orson Welles in costume for the version of Heart of Darkness he wanted to film.
“Tenacity” 🎬🎥🎞
I can smell the trembling water drop off green leaf off the Doors.
Too bad this has to end.
So true
there is a full 50min version of this interview online
@@MrKrisstain Link?
@@jimmerhardy search youtube for Milius interview
@@MrKrisstain All right already...
ruclips.net/video/i4nY2J1gRzg/видео.html
It it wasn't for Coppola it'd be just an above average war film.
The surrealist nature of the film is my favourite aspect of it, and it seems that all came from Coppola, so I agree.
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Doubtful. There's nothing "just above average" about John Milius.
"The three most important aspects of a film are the script, the script and the script."
- Alfred Hitchcock
@The Witherling What are you talking about? _Farewell to the King_ is a gorgeous flick. So is _The Wind and the Lion_ and the cast of his films that I've seen left little room for complaint.
It's spelled L-E-H-M-A-N
The Confederate hat
Huh?
Did you mean "cavalry"…?
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Ops.
Yes,
Thanks