Apocalypse Now (1979)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Martin Sheen
Captain Benjamin Willard
Frederic Forrest
Jay 'Chef' Hicks
Albert Hall
Chief Phillips
Laurence Fishburne
Tyrone 'Clean' Miller
Sam Bottoms
Lance B. Johnson
Marlon Brando
Colonel Walter Kurtz
Robert Duvall
Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
Dennis Hopper
Photojournalist
G. D. Spradlin
General Corman
Harrison Ford
Colonel Lucas
Jerry Ziesmer
Jerry, Civilian / Assistant Director
Scott Glenn
Lieutenant Richard M. Colby
James Keane
Kilgore's Gunner
Kerry Rossall
Mike from San Diego / Stunts
Tom Mason
Supply Sergeant
Cynthia Wood
Playmate of the Year
Colleen Camp
Miss May
Linda Carpenter
Playmate
Aurore Clément
Roxanne Sarrault
Jack Thibeau
Soldier in Trench
Glenn Walken
Lieutenant Carlsen
Damien Leake
Machine Gunner
Marc Coppola
AFRS Announcer
Bill Graham
Agent
Jerry Ross
Johnny from Malibu / Mike from San Diego / Assistant Editor
Charles Robinson
Soldier with Colby (uncredited)
Nick Nicholson
Soldier (uncredited)
Don Gordon Bell
Soldier (uncredited)
Evan A. Lottman
Soldier (uncredited)
R. Lee Ermey
Eagle Thrust Seven Helicopter Pilot (uncredited)
Jim Gaines
Extra (uncredited)
Vittorio Storaro
TV Photographer (uncredited) / Director of Photography
Francis Ford Coppola
Director of TV Crew (uncredited) / Producer / Director / Writer / Original Music Composer
Henry Strzalkowski
Bit Part (uncredited)
Herb Rice
Roach
Joe Estevez
Captain Benjamin L. Willard (voice) (uncredited)
Bo Byers
MP Sergeant #1
Frank Villard
Gaston de Marais (Long Version)
Gerald B. Greenberg
Editor
Vic Ramos
Casting
George R. Nelson
Set Decoration
Terry Liebling
Casting
Jack H. Young
Makeup Artist
Lisa Fruchtman
Editor
Fred C. Blau Jr.
Makeup Artist
Walter Murch
Editor / Sound Designer
Angelo P. Graham
Art Direction
Leon Chooluck
Production Manager
Dean Tavoularis
Production Design
Carmine Coppola
Original Music Composer
Barrie M. Osborne
Production Manager
Barry Malkin
Additional Editor
Jeff Scheftel
Thanks
Michael Herr
Additional Writing / Writer
Terry Leonard
Stunt Coordinator
Efren Lapid
First Assistant Camera
Larry Franco
Assistant Director
Joe Lombardi
Special Effects Coordinator
Tony Brandt
Assistant Director
Maurice Schell
Sound Editor
Jay Miracle
Sound Editor
James J. Murakami
Assistant Art Director
Josh Weiner
Still Photographer
Melissa Mathison
Executive Assistant
Piero Servo
Camera Operator
Zakir Hussain
Musician
Richard Beggs
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Leslie Hodgson
Sound Editor
Mark Berger
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Nathan Boxer
Sound Recordist
Larry Holt
Stunts
Wayne Fitzgerald
Title Designer
Media.
Details.
Release DateAugust 15, 1979
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 27m
Content RatingR
Budget$31,500,000
Box Office$150,000,000
Filming LocationsPhilippines
Genres
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Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr, is loosely inspired by the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War. The film follows a river journey from South Vietnam into Cambodia undertaken by Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), who is on a secret mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a renegade Special Forces officer who is accused of murder and presumed insane. The ensemble cast also features Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper, and Harrison Ford.
Milius became interested in adapting Heart of Darkness for a Vietnam War setting in the late 1960s, and initially began developing the film with Coppola as producer and George Lucas as director. After Lucas became unavailable, Coppola took over directorial control, and was influenced by Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) in his approach to the material. Initially set to be a five-month shoot in the Philippines starting in March 1976, a series of problems lengthened it to over a year. These problems included expensive sets being destroyed by severe weather, Brando showing up on set overweight and completely unprepared, and Sheen having a breakdown and suffering a near-fatal heart attack on location. After photography was finally finished in May 1977, the release was postponed several times while Coppola edited over a million feet of film. Many of these difficulties are chronicled in the documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991).
Apocalypse Now was honored with the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, where it premiered unfinished. When it was finally released on August 15, 1979, by United Artists, it performed well at the box office, grossing over $80 million in the United States and Canada and over $100 million worldwide. Initial reviews were polarized; while Vittorio Storaro's cinematography was widely acclaimed, several critics found Coppola's handling of the story's major themes anticlimactic and intellectually disappointing. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Coppola), and Best Supporting Actor (Duvall); it went on to win Best Cinematography and Best Sound.
Apocalypse Now is today considered one of the greatest films ever made; it ranked 14th and 19th in Sight & Sound's greatest films poll in 2012 and 2022 respectively. Film critic Kyle Smith dubbed it "the greatest war movie ever made," while The Guardian called it "the best action and war film of all time." In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the U.S. Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."