Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now

  • Director: Francis Ford Coppola
  • Writer: John Milius,Francis Ford Coppola,Michael Herr
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English, French, Vietnamese
  • Release date: August 15, 1979
  • Runtime: 2h 27min
  • Aspect ratio: 2.39 : 1
  • Also known as: Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier
  • "Apocalypse Now" is a film set in the Vietnam War, directed by Francis Ford Coppola , starring Martin Sheen , Marlon Brando , and Robert Dewar. The film was released in the United States on August 15, 1979   .
    The film tells the story of the US military intelligence officer Captain Wilde was ordered to remove Colonel Kurz during the Vietnam War. After receiving the order, Wilde led a small team and ventured deep into Cambodia by boat   .

    Details

    • Release date August 15, 1979
    • Filming locations Baler Bay, Baler, Aurora, Philippines
    • Production companies American Zoetrope, Zoetrope Studios

    Box office

    Budget

    $31,500,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $83,471,511

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $118,558

    Gross worldwide

    $92,158,064

    Movie reviews

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    • By Antone 2022-04-23 07:01:01

      Finally opening Apocalypse Now the right way

      Today, I finally opened "Apocalypse Now" in the right way, and all the feelings finally condensed into the word "shock". In every respect, this is a masterpiece that is difficult to replicate. Such a grand scene, such a delicate design, almost reached the peak of "making" movies in the era of no special effects. Complementing the form, there is also a rich core that I couldn't feel when I saw it for the first time. The film seems to discuss issues such as ideological differences between the...

    • By Neoma 2022-04-23 07:01:01

      Did I delete mine?

      It turned out to be a "war movie" of stream of consciousness. The discussion and thinking about human nature and moral always make me question the meaning of liberal arts and even begin to question the meaning of philosophy. That non-standard discussion depends on one's own limitations. In the Western Philosophy class, I once said that Westerners use the so-called "civilization" to disturb the primitive tribes. The unjust and misfortune discussed in this semester's class I...

    • By Rodolfo 2022-04-23 07:01:01

      The more depraved the happier

      Great director Ford. Coppola works. Cannes Palme d'Or.

        Before this, I had never seen a war film that would have the taste of a literary film. Maybe the director didn't want to make a pure war movie from the beginning! This group of American soldiers went to Vietnam, of course, to fight the war, but they did everything, but the only thing missing was the war. So everything, of course, is inexplicable. There is no purpose at all. In a situation where death may occur at any time,...

    • By Wellington 2022-04-23 07:01:01

      epic war picture

      This is the most thoroughly peeled, huh, most deeply reflective war film I have ever seen.
      I think the film has two main lines.
      The first is the picture of life brought by the war that Captain Willard showed during his journey upstream along the river. At the beginning, he was the US Airborne Division when he was downstream. Obviously, the behavior of the commander was a bit inconsistent. It's common sense, and the ship goes up slowly, as if it is a journey of exploration leading to...

    • By Ibrahim 2022-04-23 07:01:01

      what is human nature

      It's 5am and I finally finished Apocalypse Now 5 days later. I swear, this is more terrifying than any horror movie I've ever seen.
        Because I've been watching CRIMINAL MINDS lately and all I've seen is the most depraved side of human nature, sadists, psychopaths, serial killers of all kinds - but I'm still hopeful because there's always going to be a law against them. Regardless of whether the law can regulate everyone, at least in my worldview, right and wrong are black and white....

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    • By Geoffrey 2023-09-05 10:06:56

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    • By Stuart 2023-08-23 11:15:58

      Watching the 196-minute version, 3 hours doesn't feel long at all. A perfect movie in every way. The scene is grand, and the director's aura can be seen, and the movie is really regarded as a dream machine. Although this dream is about war and human nature, it is a nightmare, but it still looks golden. A movie that beats the godfather and can make Coppola famous in history. After watching the movie, it is like waking up from a dream, sad and desperate, because he leads the audience to see fear...

    • By Sigurd 2023-07-12 11:28:34

      The most painful movie viewing experience, I forced myself not to quit the movie several times during the viewing process. I thought it was a reflection on the Vietnam War, but it turned out to be surreal, and there were a lot of useless scenes. The foggy scene and the dark night are simply a powerful hypnotic agent. , I have to say that the music and the director are very good, but the movie itself is still confusing after reading the comments. In short, I don't understand this movie, and I...

    • By Lolita 2023-07-10 05:14:50

      9.6/10 #BJIFF10th made up for the regret of not getting tickets for the Shanghai Film Festival. The rhythm is tight and the audiovisual effect is excellent. The battlefield becomes the new "terrain", hosting many other types of other activities (love, surfing activities, gigs under consumerism, religion). Not "Apocalypse", but "Wrath", an end after multiple sins, as predetermined as the absurd "murder" on the battlefield. Showing the boundaries of man, the boundaries of humanity, the last...

    • By Orin 2023-06-30 12:52:27

      AKA: Apocalypse Now Director: Francis Ford Coppola Starring: Marlon Brando / Martin Sheen / Robert Duvall Year of release: 1979 Language: English / French Country of production: USA imdb link:...

    Movie plot

    During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard of the US Army received an order from the headquarters to find Colonel Coates who had left the US Army. Coates once had a glorious history, but now he has fallen into madness. He established an independent kingdom in Vietnam, pursued a barbaric, bloody, and inhuman cruel rule, and from time to time carried out frantic, almost liar broadcast propaganda to the U.S. military. Willard’s order was to...
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    Shooting Highlights

    George Lucas was initially determined to be the director of Apocalypse Now, and he got the script from John Millius. Lucas originally planned to make the film into a semi-documentary form, set in southern Vietnam where the war is still in full swing.
    Francis Ford Coppola was originally the executive producer of the film. He tried to make a production plan business with Warner Bros. After the deal failed, he began to invest in the...
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    Piercing Shots

    Continuity: After Kotz was killed, Willard looked through his manuscript and the thickness of the paper changed.
    Factual error: The maximum weight of a Huey helicopter is 10,500 pounds. For this type of model, it is impossible to pull up a river tanker (PBR), because these ships can weigh between 15,000 and 19,000 pounds.
    Continuity: After the awning on the ship was destroyed, it was replaced by some large leaves. The canopy reappeared...
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    Creative background

    As early as the filming of "Rain Man" in 1969, George Lucas, then Francis Ford Coppola's assistant, encouraged John Millius to write a Vietnam War movie, and the latter thought of adapting Joseph Condela The novel "Heart of Darkness", but he has no intention of directing, but wants Lucas to play the lead. However, director Larol Barrland once said that he had the idea of ​​filming "Apocalypse Now" in 1967. At that time, Milius hadn't...
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    Shooting process

    On March 1, 1976, Coppola and his family flew to Manila, where they rented a large house for five months of filming. Three weeks later, the film officially started shooting. On May 26, 1976, the crew encountered a tropical rainstorm in Iba, the Philippines. The heavy rain ruined the film set, and the crew had to stop shooting. In June 1976, Coppola returned to the United States and saw a book about Genghis Khan, and immediately came up...
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    Screening encounter

    On May 21, 1977, "Apocalypse Now" finally came to an end. Coppola told the editor and sound designer Walter Murzi to give him only 4 months to complete the sound effects of the film. Murzi discovered that the script used narration, but Coppola did not adopt it during the filming. In the end, he decided to change his original intention and record the narration for the film himself. In September 1977, Coppola confessed to his wife that...
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    Evaluation action

    "Apocalypse Now" is about searching, but also about growing. These two basic narrative elements determine the narrative process of the work. "Apocalypse Now" can also be said to be a road movie. It uses the model of a road movie, but replaces roads with rivers and cars with patrol boats. (Evaluation by Dongfang.com) 
    On the surface, the film talks about the Vietnam War, but of all the famous war films, it may be the one with the...
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    Movie quotes

    • [the patrol boat's crew are lighting up a joint]

      Lance: Buddha Time!

    • Willard: [incredulous] What are you talking about?

      Chief Quartermaster (QMC) Phillips: We're taking her to some friendlies, Captain. She's wounded, she's not dead.

      Willard: Get off there, Chef.

      [Willard shoots the injured girl]

      Chef: Fuck it!

      Willard: [to Chief] I told you not to stop. Now let's go!

    • General Corman: Well, you see, Willard, in this war, things get confused out there. Power, ideals, the old morality, and practical military necessity. But out there with these natives, it must be a temptation to be God. Because there's a conflict in every human heart, between the rational and irration, between good and evil. And good does not always triumph. Sometimes, the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.