Apocalypse Now (Redux)

original title:
Apocalypse Now (Redux)
country / year of production:
USA / 1979/ 2001 (Redux-Version)
original length:
153 min./ 202 min. (Redux-Version) , color
premiere:
15 August 1979/ F: 11 May 2001 (Redux-Version)
genre:
melodrama
based on:
Joseph Conrad. Heart Of Darkness. New York: Signet, 1950.
director:
Francis Ford Coppola
film script:
Francis Ford Coppola , John Milius , Michael Herr , Joseph Conrad
producer:
Francis Ford Coppola , Gray Frederickson , Tom Sternberg , Fred Roos
cinematographer:
Vittorio Storaro
editor:
composer:
Carmine Coppola , Francis Ford Coppola , Mickey Hart
cast (role):
Marlon Brando (Col. Walter E. Kurtz) , Robert Duvall (Lt. Colonel William 'Bill' Kilgore) , Martin Sheen (Capt. Benjamin L. Willard) , Sam Bottoms (Pvt. 3rd class Lance B. Johnson) , Lawrence Fishburne (Pvt. 3rd class Tyrone Miller/Mr. Clean) , Sam Bottoms , Lawrence Fishburne , Marlon Brando , Robert Duvall , Martin Sheen
more:
Albert P. Hall (Chief Phillips) , Frederic Forrest (Engineman Jay Hicks/'Chef') , Harrison Ford (Col. G. Lucas) , Dennis Hopper (Photo Journalist) , G.D. Spradlin (Gen. R. Corman) , Harrison Ford , Frederic Forrest , Albert P. Hall , Dennis Hopper , G.D. Spradlin
plot synopsis:
Burned out Captain Willard is sent into the jungle with orders to find and kill Colonel Kurtz who has set up his own army within the jungle. As he descends into the jungle he is slowly over taken by the jungles mesmerizing powers and the battles and insanity which surround him. His crew begins to succumbs to drugs and are slowly killed off one by one. As Willard continues his journey he begins to become more and more like the man he was sent to kill.
keywords:
infantry , jungle , PT- boat , massacre , guerilla warfare , helicopter
war:
Vietnam War (1946-1975)
literature:
L.C. Cahir. "Narratological Parallels in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now". In: Literature/Film Quarterly 20 (1992), 3, 181-187.

Eleanor Coppola. Notes. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979.

Eleanor Coppola. Vielleicht bin ich zu nah. Notizen bei der Entstehung von "Apocalypse Now". Rowohlt: Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1980.

Werner Faulstich. "Didaktik des Grauens. Eine Interpretation von Francis Ford Coppolas Apocalypse Now (1979)". In: Gunter E. Grimm/ Werner Faulstich/ Peter Kuon (Eds.). Apokalypse. Weltuntergangsvisionen in der Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1986, 246-267.

John Hellman. "Vietnam and the Hollywood Genre Film. Inversions of American Mythology in `The Deer Hunter´and `Apocalypse Now´". In: Michael A. Anderegg (Ed.). Inventing Vietnam. The War in Film and Television. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1991, 56-80.

Frank P. Tomasulo. "The Politics of Ambivalence. `Apocalypse Now´ as Prowar and Antiwar Film". In: Linda Dittmar/ Gene Michuad (Eds.). From Hanoi to Hollywood. The Vietnam War in American Film. New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1990, 145-158.

David Everett Whillock. "Narrative Structure in `Apocalypse Now´". In: Owen W. Gilman Jr./ Lorrie Smith (Eds.). America Rediscovered. Critical Essays on Literature and Film of the Vietnam War. New York: Garland, 1990, 225-237.
remarks:
availability:
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