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November 2001 |
| Apocalypse
Now Redux |
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Director:
Francis
Ford Coppola
Cast: :
Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest,
Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Larry Fishburne, Dennis Hopper,
G. D. Spradlin, Harrison Ford, Jerry Ziesmer, Scott Glenn,
Bo Byers, James Keane, Kerry Rossall, Ron McQueen, Tom Mason,
Cynthia Wood, Colleen Camp, Linda Carpenter, Jack Thibeau,
Glenn Walken, George Cantero, Damien Leake, Herb Rice, William
Upton, Larry Carney, Marc Coppola, Daniel Kiewit, Father Elias,
Bill Graham, Hattie James (voice), Jerry Ross, Dick White,
Francis Coppola, R. Lee Ermey, Vittorio Storaro.
Length: 147 minutes
Release: 23rd November 2001
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Coppola
remakes his classic
20
years after releasing "the film that we thought would
work for the mainstream audience of its day", Francis
Ford Coppola has edited and remixed a new version, from
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Coppola
says, "The result is a film that has 49 minutes of never-before-seen
footage; is more attentive to theme, and is sexier, funnier,
more bizarre, more romantic and is more politically intriguing."
“Apocalypse Now Redux” is a loose retelling of Joseph Conrad’s
classic novella “Heart of Darkness”, set against the Vietnam
War.
The story tracks the journey of Captain Willard (Sheen), a U.S.
Army intelligence officer sent on a hazardous mission up river
into Cambodia to terminate “with extreme prejudice” an American
renegade colonel named Kurtz (Brando) who has spun out of control
and out of his mind.
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| Martin
Sheen on a hazardous mission as Captain Willard |
Kurtz’s
massive, enigmatic, Buddha-like figure lords over a group
of Montagnard tribesmen in a remote jungle compound replete
with severed heads and hanging, rotting bodies.
Captain Willard’s journey up river introduces him to Colonel
Kilgore (Duvall), who leads his squadron of helicopters into
battle to the tune of Wagner’s “Die Walkure” and who commands
a Californian surfing champion into the waves even as the
enemy continues to shell the beach.
It also puts Willard on a Navy patrol boat with a crew of
four men who serve as a microcosm of the American fighting
force: the boat’s African American Chief (Albert Hall), a
former taxi driver trying to keep his ship afloat and his
young, drug-crazed charges in line; Chef, a New Orleans gourmet
cook who joined the Navy because he thought they’d have better
food than the Army (Frederic Forrest); Clean, a black teenager
from the Bronx (played by 14-year-old Laurence Fishburne);
and Lance, a California surfer cast adrift by the war (Sam
Bottoms).
As the boat makes its way deeper into Cambodia, it also seems
to surge deeper and deeper into a realm of illusory truth
and total madness . . . and into the darkest shadows of the
human heart.
Coppola sought “to create a film experience that would let
audiences feel what Vietnam was like: the immediacy, the insanity,
the exhilaration, the horror, the sensuousness and the moral
dilemma of America’s most surreal and nightmarish war.”
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