The Apocalypse Now Book

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Murch had problems trying to make a stereo soundtrack for Apocalypse Now because sound libraries had no stereo recordings of weapons. That night, as the Montagnards ceremonially kill a water buffalo, Willard murders Kurtz with a machete.

The opening scene—which features Willard staggering around his hotel room, culminating in him punching a mirror—was filmed on Sheen's 36th birthday when he was heavily intoxicated.A major sequence in a French plantation cost hundreds of thousands of dollars but was cut from the final film. Everyone in the camp sees Willard departing, carrying a collection of Kurtz's writings, and bow down to him.

It goes into detail about the creation of the movie and offers interesting insights into the pre-production process, including excepts from transcripts of conversation between Coppola and Brando about the Kurtz character.Apocalypse Now won the Palme d'Or for best film, along with Volker Schlöndorff's The Tin Drum – a decision reportedly greeted with "some boos and jeers from the audience". He said he wanted to take the audience "through an unprecedented experience of war and have them react as much as those who had gone through the war". This new version is Coppola's preferred version of the film and has a runtime of three hours and three minutes, with Coppola having cut 20 minutes of the added material from Redux; the scenes deleted include the second encounter with the Playmates, parts of the plantation sequence, and Kurtz's reading of Time magazine.

At Cannes, Zoetrope technicians worked during the night before the screening to install additional speakers to achieve Murch's 5. At the subsequent press conference, Coppola criticized the media for releasing premature reviews [48] and for attacking him and the production during their problems filming in the Philippines.Rexer claimed to have experienced, first-hand, the scene relayed by Brando's character wherein the arms of villagers are hacked off by the Viet Cong; and that Kurtz was based on Robert B. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Apocalypse Now holds an approval rating of 97% based on 96 reviews, with an average rating of 8.