Apocalypse Now Redux
Author | : John Milius |
Publisher | : Hyperion Books |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2001 |
ISBN-10 | : 0571214843 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780571214846 |
Rating | : 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: In May 1979, Francis Ford Coppola unveiled a 'work in progress' cut of his film, Apocalypse Now, at the Cannes Film Festival. After winning the prestigious Palme d'Or, the convention-shattering film was nominated for eight Academy Awards and became a worldwide phenomenon. In 2001 Coppola introduced a new version - wholly re-edited from the original raw footage - that included forty-nine minutes of never-before-seen footage: Apocalypse Now Redux.Apocalypse Now relocates Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to the Vietnam War, focusing on the hazardous mission of Captain Willard to find and terminate 'with extreme prejudice' a renegade American colonel in Cambodia.