Apocalypse Now

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I 10 film più famosi sulla guerra del Vietnam	D
Marlon Brando improvised a lot of Kurtz's dialogue, including an 18-minute speech, two minutes of wh [...]	D
In the DVD commentary, Francis Ford Coppola downplays his involvement in the controversial slaughter [...]	D
Animaniacs: Hitchcock Opening/Hearts of Twilight/The Boids (1993) parodies this film. It tells of Ya [...]	D
Audio/dialogue samples from the film have been used in songs by numerous bands, including 23 Skidoo' [...]	D
It took Francis Ford Coppola nearly three years to edit the footage. While working on his final edit [...]	D
Willard's last lines in voice over are "Even the jungle wanted him dead, and that's who he really to [...]	D
The Philippines had no professional film laboratories at the time, meaning the raw camera negatives [...]	D
Harvey Keitel was initially cast as Willard. Two weeks into shooting, Francis Ford Coppola replaced [...]	D
In addition to the other T.S. Eliot references, one book shown at the Kurtz compound is "The Golden [...]	D
At the end of the U.S.O. show, the Playboy Bunnies and the emcee leave by helicopter. The emcee was [...]	D
Captain Willard's fatigues were known as Tigerstripe camouflage. They were a Republic of Vietnam uni [...]	D
The photojournalist quotes two T.S. Eliot poems. In a late scene in the film, a slow pan over a tabl [...]	D
Despite being nominated for a Grammy, a BAFTA and winning the Golden Globe, the film's score was not [...]	D
The following conversation took place and was recorded between Marlon Brando and Francis Ford Coppol [...]	D
The opening tracking shot of the film was originally a discarded trim from the footage of the villag [...]	D
During some sequences, the sound of the helicopters was created on a synthesizer to blend in with th [...]	D
During Capt. Willard's conversation with Kurtz, it is revealed that Willard is from Ohio. Martin She [...]	D
The original editor, Barry Malkin, withdrew in the earlier stages of the production. However, it was [...]	D
John Milius' early draft ended with Willard returning to America to take the news to Kurtz's wife an [...]	D
The movie's line, "The horror... the horror..." was voted as #66 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" b [...]	D
Francis Ford Coppola approached Lee Marvin to play Colonel Kurtz.	D
The phrase "terminate with extreme prejudice" was not invented by the scriptwriters, but rather had [...]	D
Dean Tavoularis: The production designer filming a war documentary.	D
Carmine Coppola (Francis Ford Coppola's father) wrote the score for this film.	D
John Milius had written the story for this movie a few years earlier. It was originally planned to b [...]	D
According to Dennis Hopper, Marlon Brando yelled at him over a simple misunderstanding. He then deci [...]	D
Nick Nolte has said that he had never wanted a role more than that of Captain Willard, and was very [...]	D
The boat's name is "Erebus", seen on the transom, referring to the son of the Greek god of utter dar [...]	D
An early scene where Captain Willard is alone in his hotel room was completely unscripted. Martin Sh [...]	D
Clint Eastwood and Al Pacino were both considered for lead roles but both didn't want to be away fro [...]	D
The text "Santa Barbara, California" is shown twice. [32:07]Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore is weari [...]	D
The first film to use the 70mm Dolby Stereo surround sound system.	D
The document, through which Willard skimmed, near the film's conclusion, on which "DROP THE BOMB. EX [...]	D
John Milius originally wrote the script in 1969, which was known then as "The Psychedelic Soldier". [...]	D
Kurtz reads from the T.S. Eliot poem "The Hollow Men". Eliot was inspired to write this poem by "Hea [...]	D
The only Best Picture Oscar nominee that year to be also nominated for Best Sound.	D
Much of Scott Glenn's part ended up on the cutting room floor. He has more screentime in the workpri [...]	D
The iconic opening scene of the palm trees burning under a storm of napalm involved the destruction [...]	D
This is the second film in which Robert Duvall and Harrison Ford appeared together. The first was La [...]	D
The famous line "terminate... with extreme prejudice" is spoken by assistant director Jerry Ziesmer.	D
One ending considered for the film was that an air strike was called to destroy the temple. Explosiv [...]	D
The film cast includes four Oscar winners: Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Francis Ford Coppola, and V [...]	D
Frederic Forrest and Marlon Brando earlier appeared in Missouri (1976)	D
The visit by the Playboy Playmates was based on an actual visit by 1965 Playmate of the Year Jo Coll [...]	D
Although filming on-location in the Philippines lasted from March 1976 until May 1977, Marlon Brando [...]	D
Apocalypse Now won the Palme d'Or for best film along with Volker SchlÃ¶ndorff's The Tin Drum - a [...]	D
One of the books on Kurtz's night table is "The Golden Bough" by James Frazer. It is an anthropologi [...]	D
One of the sequences cut from the original release version but added to the "Redux" version is a seq [...]	D
Sam Bottoms was on speed, LSD, and marijuana during the shooting of his scenes for the movie.	D
The film was shown again as an "official selection", though not part of competition, at the May 2001 [...]	D
After being fired from this film, Harvey Keitel went on to appear in "I duellanti (1977)," a film al [...]	D
The sequence where the PBR gets attacked with spears exactly mirrors the attack on the jungle boat i [...]	D
Francis Ford Coppola makes a cameo appearance as the director of the news crew on the beach.	D
The film is included on Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list.	D
The letter Martin Sheen is reading in the deleted scene "Letter from Mrs. Kurtz" is actually a poem [...]	D
Vittorio Storaro: The cinematographer filming a war documentary.	D
When asked what he thought about Marlon Brando's $3.5 million fee after a New York City screening of [...]	D
One of the photos Willard studies in the dossier shows Kurtz in a line of soldiers being decorated b [...]	D
According to screenwriter John Milius, he wrote the entire script of the movie listening only to mus [...]	D
Francis Ford Coppola lost 100 pounds while filming.	D
The scene in which the helicopters swoop in on the village while playing "The Ride of the Valkyries" [...]	D
Although the character played by Marlon Brando was based on ivory trader Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's bo [...]	D
Martin Sheen's character's name combines the names of the two eldest sons of Harrison Ford, Benjamin [...]	D
"Warner Brothers" put an ad in Boxoffice Magazine in November 1970 announcing their future productio [...]	D
In a 1979 interview with Playboy Magazine, Colleen Camp stated that Lynda Carter did some test shots [...]	D
On March 5 of that year, Sheen had a heart attack and struggled for a quarter of a mile to reach hel [...]	D
According to an interview given by Robert Duvall for National Public Radio's Fresh Air on July 22, 2 [...]	D
Francis Ford Coppola initially wanted to use "Universal Studios"-owned Sensurround system, but they [...]	D
The IMAX poster for Kong: Skull Island (2017) is an homage to the original iconic onesheet for this [...]	D
The film was voted "Best Picture of the last 25 years" by the Dutch movie magazine "Skrien" on Decem [...]	D
The character played by Scott Glenn does not have any lines in the final cut of the movie.	D
James Caan was Coppola's first choice to play Colonel Lucas. Caan, however, wanted too much money fo [...]	D
At 13m 34S the tape machine is a Sony TC-260 4-Track Stereo Tapecorder.	D
The character of the photojournalist was first suggested by unit photographer Chas Gerretsen and Rob [...]	D
When Steve McQueen was being pursued for the role of Willard, the script was called "Apocalypse Thre [...]	D
Director Francis Ford Coppola was never fully satisfied with the original theatrical version, so his [...]	D
In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the number thirty Greatest Movie of All Time.	D
One of the things that delayed the production of the film was the estate of Joseph Conrad, who tight [...]	D
The opening hotel scene was shot in Olongapo, just outside Subic Bay Naval Base, which was a U.S. Na [...]	D
Marlon Brando was paid $1 million in advance. He threatened to quit and keep the advance. Francis Fo [...]	D
The original choice for the soundtrack was to be done by Isao Tomita, as Francis Ford Coppola liked [...]	D
In, or just before each of the scenes where a member of the boat crew dies, purple smoke from a flar [...]	D
Martin Sheen's son Charlie starred as the main protagonist in a movie set during the Vietnam War, Pl [...]	D
The scene in the beginning, where Willard is moving around chaotically in his underwear and eventual [...]	D
G.D. Spradlin (Corman) sends Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) to find Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando). I [...]	D
G.S. Spradlin's character is named "R. Corman," for director Roger Corman. Spradlin and Corman appea [...]	D
The canteen scene with Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore and the wounded Viet Cong is based on an actual wo [...]	D
The poem quoted by The Photojournalist (Dennis Hopper) (the line about "a pair of ragged claws") is [...]	D
According to the George Lucas biography "Skywalking", Lucas' decision to pull out of this movie dest [...]	D
While in the movie, the main character is sent to kill Kurtz, in the source novel, "Heart of Darknes [...]	D
One of five movie collaborations of Frederic Forrest and Francis Ford Coppola. The others were Hamme [...]	D
This film is in the Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd.	D
Scenes featuring Aurore ClÃ©ment as the owner of a French plantation were filmed, but cut from the [...]	D
Francis Ford Coppola threatened suicide several times during the making of the film.	D
General Corman states that Colonel Kurtz is the Operations Officer for the 5th Special Forces Group. [...]	D
The United States military refused to lend Francis Ford Coppola any military equipment, due to the o [...]	D
Although it is said that Sean Flynn was the main inspiration for the drug-addled-brave war photograp [...]	D
The film was on in Polish cinemas when martial law was introduced on 13th December 1981 by communist [...]	D
Milius changed the film's title to Apocalypse Now after being inspired by a button badge popular wit [...]	D
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos agreed to let his Army supply the helicopters and pilots used [...]	D
"Dennis Gassner" is the author of one of the articles about Kurtz in the dossier given to Willard. D [...]	D
The budget had doubled to over $25 million, and Coppola's loan from United Artists to fund the overr [...]	D
Martin Sheen had a heart attack during the filming. Some shots of Willard's back are of doubles, inc [...]	D
The total length of film printed for the movie was approximately 1,250,000 feet, about 230 hours of [...]	D
Colonel Bill Killgore (Robert Duvall) was loosely based on author and syndicated columnist Colonel D [...]	D
Military sets for the movie were nearly destroyed by a hurricane during filming. Instead of breaking [...]	D
In Kurtz's village, "Our Motto: Apocalypse Now!" is spray-painted on a wall.	D
Francis Ford Coppola invested $7 million of his own money in the film after it went severely over bu [...]	D
The water buffalo slaughter in the film was real. The scene was inspired by a ritual performed by a [...]	D
Marlon Brando improvised the line "You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill."	D
Jeff Bridges auditioned for the role of Willard.	D
There are no opening credits or titles. The title appears late in the film, as graffiti which reads, [...]	D
"Apocalypse Now" is credited as helping making the music of The Doors popular again eight years afte [...]	D
The music during the helicopter scene is Wagner's "Ritt der WalkÃ¼ren" ("Ride of The Valkyries") a [...]	D
Al Pacino was also offered the role, but he too did not want to be away for that long and was afraid [...]	D
Lee Beaupre, publicist for this movie until his murder in 1979, wrote in a publicity release on Chas [...]	D
In 1890 Konrad Korzeniowski, a young man from Poland, took a steamer boat up the Congo River in Afri [...]	D
The movie's line "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" was voted as the number twelve movie qu [...]	D
Shooting, originally scheduled for six weeks, took 16 months.	D
Clint Eastwood turned down the role of Captain Willard because he felt the film was too dark.	D
Apocalypse Now - originally scheduled for 1976) was finally released in North America in August 1979 [...]	D
The cameras the photojournalist, played by Dennis Hopper, carries with him are all Nikon F cameras. [...]	D
During pre-production, Francis Ford Coppola had the idea of casting Clint Eastwood as Captain Willar [...]	D
The timepiece Martin Sheen's character wears in the film is a Seiko 6105 diver, dubbed the "Willard" [...]	D
Voted number one in Film4's "50 Films To See Before You Die".	D
Francis Ford Coppola first offered the role of Kurtz to Orson Welles (who had previously tried to ad [...]	D
While in pre-production, Francis Ford Coppola consulted his friend and mentor Roger Corman for advic [...]	D
Voted number seven On Empire's 500 "Greatest Movies Of All Time" (September 2008).	D
When Francis Ford Coppola first described the role to Marlon Brando, Brando remarked that an America [...]	D
Emilio Estevez hung out on the set of the movie in the Phillipines with his father, Martin Sheen. Wh [...]	D
Marlon Brando so angered Francis Ford Coppola that Coppola turned over the filming of Brando's scene [...]	D
Martin Sheen's sons, Emilio Estevez, 14, and Charlie Sheen, 11, had parts in the film that were cut. [...]	D
Steve McQueen was the first to turn down the role of Captain Willard. He had initially verbally agre [...]	D
The famous line 'Charlie don't surf' was later used as a song title by Welsh band Funeral For A Frie [...]	D
A typhoon destroyed sets, causing a delay of several months.	D
Joseph Conrad's novella "Heart of Darkness" was the inspiration for John Milius's screenplay of Apoc [...]	D
Randy Thom, one of the film's sound mixers, said that the sound mix took over nine months to complet [...]	D
In the Playboy Bunny show scene, several drums with the name "Dow Chemicals" are visible. Dow is one [...]	D
Francis Ford Coppola shot nearly 200 hours of footage.	D
John Milius explained how he had come up with the title "Apocalypse Now". Apparently, this was deriv [...]	D
According to his book "In the Blink of an Eye", Walter Murch took nearly two years to edit the movie [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Ameri [...]	D
In the original script, and the shooting of some scenes, Colonel Kurtz was originally to be called C [...]	D
The film was originally distributed by United Artists. Since then, ownership has switched from Unite [...]	D
War movie staple R. Lee Ermey has an uncredited cameo as a pilot who flies one of the Huey helicopte [...]	D
The original script by John Milius climaxes with Kurtz fighting off an attack by U.S. Army helicopte [...]	D
Dennis Hopper's death scene was cut out of the film. It appears in the bootlegged workprint.	D
Laurence Fishburne saved Emilio Estevez from dying in quicksand during some downtime, while this fil [...]	D
Excluding voice-overs, Willard doesn't speak during the final half hour. His last spoken words are " [...]	D
Kilgore says he's a "Goofy foot". This means he surfs with his right foot forward whereas most peopl [...]	D
Orson Welles wanted his first feature film to be an adaptation of "Heart of Darkness". In 1939, he p [...]	D
After Martin Sheen recovered from his heart attack, there was concern that he looked too healthy to [...]	D
More than a year had passed between the filming of Willard and Chef searching the jungle for mangoes [...]	D
When Francis Ford Coppola asked Al Pacino to play Willard, Pacino turned him down, saying, "I know w [...]	D
Harrison Ford's character is named "Colonel G. Lucas", a nod to George Lucas. Lucas, of course, dire [...]	D
Unknown to Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Sheen could not swim, and was always scared when in the boat [...]	D
Besides being a straightforward pun, Colonel Kilgore's name is also the name of the hometown of a gu [...]	D
Released less than a year after another Vietnam-related film, Il cacciatore (1978). Two of the actor [...]	D
Editing the helicopter napalm attack took one year to complete. Approximately ten percent of the ent [...]	D
Jeff bridges was considered for the role of Captain Richard Colby.	D
The character Lance Johnson is a surfer. In the writer John Milius' film Big Wednesday the main char [...]	D
Martin Sheen claimed that he had to hold the lines for Marlon Brando to read and that Brando had eve [...]	D
Although top billed, Marlon Brando does not appear until more than two and a half hours into the mov [...]	D
Francis Ford Coppola played the reporter on the camera crew that was yelling at Willard, "Don't look [...]	D
Francis Ford Coppola wanted the film to be a special event by having it play in exactly one theater [...]	D
When the photographer (Dennis Hopper) is babbling about the religious fervor of Kurtz, he babbles ou [...]	D
The people on the riverboat were Vietnamese refugees who had come to the Philippines less than six w [...]	D
Francis Ford Coppola spent several days reading Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" out loud to Marl [...]	D
Laurence Fishburne saved Emilio Estevez from dying in quicksand during some downtime, while making t [...]	D
In a 2015 The Hollywood Reporter interview, Clint Eastwood revealed that Coppola offered him the rol [...]	D
At the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, Francis Ford Coppola iconically said about the film, "My film is n [...]	D
Using "The Ride of the Valkyries" on the soundtrack was John Milius' idea. He claimed that it seemed [...]	D
Frederic Forrest and Albert Hall later appeared in Music Box - Prova d'accusa (1989).	D
The film holds the record on the MovieMistakes.com collaborative website for the film with the most [...]	D
In May 1979, this became the first film to be awarded the Palme D'Or at The Cannes Film Festival bef [...]	D
While Willard is riding on the boat, one section of the dossier on Kurtz he reads is entitled "IVORY [...]	D
The way that Captain Willard is directly told, on the record, by U.S. Army senior leadership to kill [...]	D
Writer Michael Herr was called in to write much of Willard's voice-over dialogue and a few scenes. T [...]	D
The character of Colonel Kurtz is inspired by the story of the traitor Lope de Aguirre, a sixteenth [...]	D
Francis Ford Coppola believed that Marlon Brando was familiar with Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darknes [...]	D
When Willard and Chef are running back to the boat and there is a reaction shot of the rest of the c [...]	D
The tape recording that Clean gets in the mail was recorded by Laurence Fishburne's own mother.	D
Most of the dialogue was replaced in post-production. Extraneous noise, such as helicopters, left ma [...]	D
There are three different treatments of the opening and end credits. In the 35mm version, the credit [...]	D
Coppola tried unsuccessfully to get military cooperation of the film. This meant getting script appr [...]	D
Francis Ford Coppola, who considered offering the role of Willard to Al Pacino, said that Pacino wou [...]	D
Many critics felt Marlon Brando was too old and too heavy to play Kurtz.	D
At 24 minutes, the entire French plantation scene was cut from the original release of the film. The [...]	D
The film was originally supposed to be scored by Francis Ford Coppola mainstay David Shire (then hus [...]	D
John Millius's original draft borrowed the framing device of the Conrad novella. It begins in the mi [...]	D
Francis Ford Coppola was unable to find a satisfactory way of ending the film until his wife, Eleano [...]	D
Two pairs of actors from this film have shared a role elsewhere. Scott Glenn played Jack Crawford in [...]	D
In a 2006 interview, screenwriter John Milius said that after he had written the now-famous line "I [...]	D
The helicopter attack scene bears more than a passing resemblance to some parts of a 1941 German pro [...]	D
Francis Ford Coppola's wife, Eleanor Coppola, filmed and recorded the making of this film, leading t [...]	D
The picture of Marlon Brando in military uniform in the dossier is from "Riflessi in un occhio d'oro [...]	D
This is one of Francis Ford Coppola's top five favorite films of his own.	D
The Doors song "The End" is featured prominently in the beginning and end of the film. Harrison Ford [...]	D
Robert Duvall's iconic Oscar-nominated performance as Colonel Kilgore amounts to just eleven minutes [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the Top 100 Greatest American Movies.	D
Actual Locales: The film was not shot in Vietnam, but rather in the Philippines. The surfing scenes [...]	D
In the theatrical version of the film, Robert Duvall and Dennis Hopper leave the same way, by standi [...]	D
Laurence Fishburne's character mentions in Boyz n the Hood - Strade violente (1991) that he was a so [...]	D
When Captain Willard receives his orders (about 9:30 mark), much of the scene takes place over a tab [...]	D
Superstar actor Steve McQueen was offered the role of Captain Willard before any other actor (which [...]	D
Laurence Fishburne was 14 when production began in 1976. He lied about his age.	D
Burt Reynolds was offered the role of Willard. Marlon Brando virulently opposed this decision, and y [...]	D
Harrison Ford was allowed to pick his own character's name. He chose "G. Lucas" to honor George Luca [...]	D
Principal photography ended on May 21, 1977, after 238 days of filming.	D
Although no date or year is given for when the film took place, a newspaper article being read by Ch [...]	D
George Lucas was originally set to direct the film from a screenplay by John Milius, of which Lucas [...]	D
Francis Ford Coppola went to UCLA film school with all of the members of The Doors, including Jim Mo [...]	D

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