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Apocalypse Now - Patreon Version (Patreon)

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2022-10-01 12:00:12
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No Sync Required Version: https://cinebingers.ca/WsMIR7Dr00 - For Patreon tier "Bingers on The Wall" or higher.

Movie runtime: 2:27:11

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Apocalypse Now - Patreon Version

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brian burke

i would also recommend to the hosts and everyone in the comments HEARTS OF DARKNESS a documentary about the making of this film which shows what a nightmare it was, its amazing it got finished at all.

China Andronicus

One of my favorite things about this film is that the novel it's based on, Heart of Darkness, is set in the 1800s. I don't know whose idea it was to update it to Vietnam but it works so well and is one of my favorite adaptations made.

China Andronicus
>>144022200

An added note because I just found this out, there's actually a documentary film exploring the relationship between Vietnam and the subculture of surfing. So I guess it really was a big deal. I never knew.

PickettsChargingPort

You guys are watching this AND a clockwork orange? Like, in the span of a couple of days? ouch

Young Blood Priest

Brando not learning lines was an ongoing problem. The epic dramatic pauses Brando did in The Godfather were all do to the fact that he didn’t know his lines which pissed off all the other actors. In the scene before his character’s death when he was advising Al Pacino (Mike) how the other families would come for him, was the worst. You can see him leaning back in his seat whenever Pacino says his lines. It’s because he didn’t know what to say so the crew was off camera holding up cue cards.

Odd Thomas

Frankly I find the making of this film more interesting than the film itself

Tyler Foster

Based on the running time of this video, I'm guessing this is the theatrical cut?

Odd Thomas

"Jesus, did you have cocaine for lunch?" lol

redddfer44

Brando wasn't too fond of his homeland or its way of life. He had some strong-ass opinions of things and spoke more fondly of lesser-known films of his, like the post-colonial "¡Queimada!" which he starred in. Like some other "difficult people to work with", he thought he had justified reasons to act like he did. Of course, it's difficult to tell how much of his reasons that he states in his autobiography are rationalizations. IIRC the reason he didn't learn his scripts is because he thought his performances would feel more natural if he didn't know them by heart. With monologues like this, I can't say he was completely wrong. Not saying he was a saint -- he wasn't -- but I'd say the reality is more multi-faceted and much more interesting than "he was on an ego-trip". I wonder if the shrimp thing is because it was a hot dish, or, because of something related to what Uncle Roger said: "shrimp paste is white people kryptonite".

Grand Moff Slackin'

Just in case anyone isn’t sure if who “Charlie” is: the Vietnamese communist revolutionaries are called Viet Cong. Which is commonly shortened to VC. Which is Victor Charlie in NATO alphabet. Which is then shortened to Charlie.

Christopher Feiertag

I strongly recommend you to give the Original Score of "Apocalypse Now" a listen.A lot of the movies dialogue is incorporated in it and while you listen to it, it feels like experiencing the movie again with your ears.

Jeff I.

Great reaction! I like think of this as less of a traditional war film and more the telling of something like a Greek legend that's set in the context of the Vietnam War, like when Odysseus goes on his epic journey.

Richard

The movie gives a lot of memorable lines and some incredible visuals, but Martin Sheen's narration is so good and one of the underrated aspects of the movie.

TGrimace
>>92715460

Hearts of Darkness is amazing and you should definitely watch it. Imagine Tropic Thunder but real, darker, disturbing, a ton of drugs, and a ton of explosions. And in no way funny.

Jack Burton
>>92734370

i agree with this. it makes it a more interesting experience if you think of it in this way.

Persnickity

Wow this was a whole thing. I feel like a need a shower. Very good but man I've got a lot to think about

Eddy V Ruiz II

When I saw this as a kid in the 80's I was fine until the bull. That messed me up.

Logan Kerlee
>>92715174

I'm super looking forward to the reaction for A Clockwork Orange! First saw that movie while I was in highschool with an ex girlfriend who came to visit me during the summer. She's the one who brought it and said that I had to see it. lmao, that night was pretty fun!

Haye Zeus

I saw this movie years ago. It felt like I watched a dream. Watching it again I can see why. It’s very much like being in a haze. They did a good job of capturing it. Great film but won’t watch it again until another 15 years pass.

Brendan Rafferty

Production lasted more that a year. The delays and incidents that occurred in and around the filming are legendary The original ending Coppola envisioned had a grand battle scene in the jungle. But when Brando showed up to set, a year after filming started... he arrived 90 pounds overweight and had not even read the script. When he did read it, he refused to do the lines and wanted to improvise Coppola had to scrap his planned ending and film around Brando (literally) keeping him in shadows to hide his weight and editing together what they could of Brando's impromptu lines to build an ending around it

Kinokind

I remember it was like a running joke in the Hollywood media at the time. The movie was way over budget and way behind schedule and Coppola was running wild somewhere out in the jungles of the Philippines, untethered from the studio. There are certain similarities between the film and it's making. Brando was making up lines, Martin Sheen had a heart attack, Dennis Hopper was . . .Dennis Hopper. The whole thing reeked of fiasco, yet Coppola pulled it off. Agreed, the movie about the making of the movie is also mesmerizing. I don't think anyone has mentioned it, but the film is, of course, loosely based on Joseph Conrad's book "Heat of Darkness". And possibly Dante's "Inferno".

PIG

"The nuttiest movie I’ve ever seen. Masterly created." And then you have to do A Clockwork Orange. Jeepers.

Joe D. MacGuffinstuff

I laughed out loud when George said, "I feel like I did acid." That's how I describe it to people, like I did acid but not on purpose. Also, yes, pretty sure the scene in the beginning with Martin Sheen having a breakdown is what you've heard about Simone. Sheen was actually wasted drunk (celebrating his 30th birthday) and Coppola decided to use that, and kept pushing him. It was bad enough that Coppola's wife, who was in the room and part of the production, made it clear she thought he was going too far, but he kept going. And when Sheen punches the mirror, that was real, and that's his actual blood on the sheets. Someone, I think the military advisor on set, told Coppola that a lot of Special Forces guys have big egos, even vain, so that's why he had Sheen doing some kind of Tai Chi nearly naked in front of the mirror, but I'm not sure, don't remember, what exactly prompted him to punch the mirror. Sheen didn't recall a single part of the scene and either quit or tried to quit drinking after the filming, dedicated himself more to his family (maybe a little too late for Charlie?) Also, Lawrence Fishburne was 14 years old. All that said, this movie is a masterpiece, that's what I want from a movie, I never got to see it in a theater, but I always love that jarring feeling of walking out of a theater after a movie into the parking lot and back into this dimension lol as if I was in another reality for two and a half hours.

Gary Fixler
>>92749582

Watched this film with my class in high school, way back in the early 90s. Kinda shocked all of us. I just looked it up, finally. The tribe in the movie was the indigenous tribe where they shot the film. They were already going to ritually slaughter that water buffalo, so Coppola just filmed their ceremony.

redddfer44
>>92775120

It's my favorite movie but I'm glad they don't make movies in this manner anymore. Seeing The Final Cut in a movie theater is my greatest movie theater experience. The sound design is phenomenal.

UsedFishing

The animal sacrifice was real, as were some of the human bodies in the camp. Although the crew didn't know that the person they'd hired to provide the bodies had robbed a graveyard.

Samuel Bruce

Deer Hunter is also a great but exceptionally long Vietnam War movie with Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken, won a bunch of awards too.