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A War Film That Became Something Much Bigger & Why Apocalypse Now Still Stands As One Of The Greatest Movies Ever Made@thefed130d
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  1. [Esp/Eng] Revisión, curiosidades y opinión de Apocalipsis Ahora / Review, curiosities and opinion of Apocalypse Now.@nbarrios671896d

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    La película Apocalipsis Ahora es una adaptación por parte de Francis Ford Coppola de la obra literaria de Joseph Conrad publicada en el año 1.899, El Corazón de las Tinieblas.

    En esta novela se narra la historia de Marlow, un aventurero que realiza un viaje en un vapor belga, río arriba hacia el corazón de África con el objeto de encontrar a Kurtz, un agente colonial convertido en un dios para los nativos. Cuando lo encuentra descubre a un ser atormentado capaz de cometer cualquier atrocidad. Es denunciada la colonización, y explotación de occidente en nombre de la civilización y sus efectos en las personas.

    En la obra de Coppola la acción se traslada a la Guerra de Vietnam. Aquí el Capitán Willard debe localizar y exterminar al Coronel Kurtz, que ha organizado un ejército con desertores y nativos los cuales lo consideran un dios. Para ello debe navegar el río Nung hacia arriba a bordo de un bote patrullero con 4 acompañantes. La película explora como la guerra es capaz de transformar a los hombres en bestias que realizan acciones crueles y absurdas.

    Los papeles protagónicos recaerían sobre Harvey Keitel (Capitan Benjamin Willard) y Marlon Brando (Coronel Walter E. Kurtz). Ademas, se presenta un impresionante elenco: Robert Duvall (Teniente Coronel William”Bil” Kilgore), Laurence Fishburne (Taylor “Clean” Miller), Frederick Forrest (Jay “Chef” Hicks), Albert Hall (“Chief” Phillips), Sam Bottoms (Lance B.Johnson), Dennis Hopper (Fotográfo Estadounidense) y Harrison Ford y Scott Glenn en pequeños papeles. El Director (Francis Ford Coppola) despide a Keitel al no estar contento con la interpretación del personaje, recayendo el papel del Capitán Willard en Martin Sheen.

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    En la parte técnica, Vittorio Storaro es el responsable de la fotografía, Dean Tavoularis es el diseñador de producción y Walter Murch es el editor del filme y responsable del sonido (junto a Mark Berger, Richard Beggs y Nathan Boxer). Este equipo y Storaro ganaron el Oscar correspondiente al año 1979 por sus trabajos.

    Cuando visualice Apocalipsis Ahora, la sensación de opresión era increíble, sentí calor al ver las imágenes plasmadas en pantalla, es densa pero no podía quitar el Blu Ray, erá una cinta magnética atrayente, cinematográficamente hermosa y a su vez terrorífica, sus imágenes son inmersivas, acompañadas por música de The Doors (The End), Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids (durante mucho tiempo confudí a esta versión de Suzie Q con la de Creedence Clearwater Revival), Surfin' Safari de The Beach Boys ,la Cabalgata de las Valquirias de Richard Wagner y The Rolling Stones [(I can't get no) Satisfaction]. En su narrativa se palpa la transformación moral y mental de su personaje principal el capitán Benjamin Willard.

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    ***Sinopsis.***

    En el inicio nos situamos en un hotel de Saigón en el año 1969, y vemos al capitán Benjamin Willard, sobre una cama mirando el ventilador de techo, sobreponiéndose en él unos helicópteros sobrevolando la selva y bombardeándola con Napalm, la jungla esta en llamas mientras suena la canción de The End de la agrupación The Doors.

    Posteriormente, Willard es enviado por sus superiores a remontar el río Nung a bordo de una pequeña lancha patrullera con cuatro hombres a bordo, (Chief el Capitán del bote, Chef el maquinista, Lance un famoso surfeador y Clean) con el fin de adentrarse en Camboya para encontrar y acabar con el coronel Walter E. Kurtz, el cual es adorado como un Dios y ha organizado su propio ejército con parte de sus hombres y de los nativos.

    Aquí comienza una odisea macabra para Willard, que lo llevará al borde de la locura, y la desesperación:

    El coronel de caballería Bill Kilgore (un psicópata amante del surf), se encarga de escoltarles hasta el río Nung, misión que acepta al enterarse de que en la zona hay olas para surfear y que además en el equipo del capitán se encuentra un surfista admirado por Kilgore. A bordo de los helicópteros Kilgore bombardea la zona y al mismo tiempo la Cabalgata de las Valquirias de Richard Wagner suena por los altavoces de los helicópteros. Posteriormente, aparecen aviones arrazando todo a su paso con napalm. Willard roba la tabla de surf de Kilgore y por ello el grupo es perseguido.

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    Iniciado su viaje paran en una base americana para reposar, asisten a un show de unas conejitas de playboy bailando sobre una enorme plataforma la canción Susie Q, el espectáculo se interrumpe y termina ya que varios soldados suben a la plataforma. Días después encuentran el helicóptero de las playmates accidentado en una base medio destruida y entregarán bidones de combustible para poder estar con ellas. Estas mujeres se muestran vacias y frívolas.

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    Ya en el rio Willard se adentra en la personalidad de Kurtz. Más datos previos son develados mientras se escucha en la banda sonora (I can't get no) Satisfaction, de los Rolling Stones y Lance esquía remolcado por el bote.

    Siguiendo el viaje, el capitán del barco (Chief) da la orden de inspeccionar una barcaza vietnamita y le pide a Chef que baje a ella y la revise. Esto desencadena una matanza, pues una chica indígena teme que le quiten a su perrito, se pone nerviosa y los tripulantes del barco asustados pensando que son del Vietcong, disparan acabando con casi todos. La mujer vietnamita está mal herida y los tripulantes piensan llevarla al poblado más cercano, pero Willard la mata dándole un tiro de gracia. Le comenta al capitán del bote que esto era evitable si el no hubiera insistido en la revisión. Nada puede distraerlos de su misión.

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    El puente Du Lung, es el último puesto de la armada en el río Nung. Allí todo resulta caótico, los soldados se enfrentan sin razón alguna, es una mezcla aterradora de sonidos, luces y sombras. En este sitio los esperan y le entregan la correspondencia a Willard, quien a través de esta se entera de que anteriormente un capitán que partió con su misma misión se unió a Kurtz. Siguiendo su viaje son atacados y muere uno de los tripulantes (Clean) bajo una ráfaga de disparos.

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    Topan tras ello con una plantación francesa de ambiente brumoso. Una plantación de caucho, donde se les permite enterrar a Clean. Los franceses manifiestan que no se van de allí porque esas tierras provenientes del colonialismo son suyas.

    Saliendo de la platación francesa son atacados por una tribu salvaje desde la orilla con cientos de flechas de palo, pierden de nuevo los nervios y comienzan a disparar hasta que una lanza acaba con Chief , el capitán del barco. Willard les cuenta entonces a los supervivientes que van a Camboya a eliminar a Kurtz.

    Navegan en la profundidad de una selva que prácticamente se los está tragando y asi de improvisto se encuentran rodeados de nativos de la tribu Montagnard en un campamento sembrado de cabezas cortadas y cadáveres putrefactos, donde les recibe un reportero norteamericano acolito de Kurtz. Solicitándole al reportero hablar con Kurtz este le contesta:”A Kurtz no se le habla, se le escucha”.

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    Luego de inspeccionar la zona Willard deja a Chef en la barca con la radio, pidiéndole que convoque a un ataque aéreo de la región si no regresa a las 10:00. Mientras él y Lance van a buscar a Kurtz.. En su búsqueda encuentran cadáveres de todo tipo.

    En una intensa lluvia, un grupo de hombres atrapa a Willard y lo llevan ante Kurtz, aquí ocurre un efecto de luz y sombra que oculta un lado del rostro del coronel es como si se quisiese reflejar el bien y el mal a la vez. Kurtz le informa a Willard que conoce las razones de su estancia y luego de una conversación le dice que ni es asesino ni es soldado si no el muchacho de los mandados del mercado enviado a cobrar una factura.

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    Allí lo mantiene preso en una jaula de bambú y es visitado por el fotógrafo estadounidense que le pregunta porque quiere matar a Kurtz. Además le informa que le agrada mucho a Kurtz y que este le tiene una sorpresa. Le indica que Kurtz tiene una mente clara pero un alma insana.

    En la noche bajo una intensa lluvia Kurtz se presenta ante Willard con la cabeza de Chef en la mano, tirándola dentro de su encierro.

    Tras ello en la mañana Kurtz lo vuelve a visitar con un grupo de niños y le lee un viejo articulo de la revista Times Le deja en libertad advirtiéndole que si intenta escapar acabarán con él. No podrá hacerlo, su estado de debilidad es tal que pierde el conocimiento.

    Cuando se recupera, Kurtz le dice a Willard que tiene derecho a matarle, pero no a juzgarle, pide que si él muere vaya a ver a su hijo y le cuente la verdad. Lo visto por él, no la verdad oficial.

    Kurtz desea que sea él quien le mate como un soldado, no como alguien sin honor, y mientras los nativos celebran una fiesta en que acaban a hachazos con una res él acaba de manera similar con Kurtz, resistiéndose a la tentación de convertirse él mismo en un nuevo dios para los adoradores de Kurtz.

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    Al salir del edificio donde acaba de matar a Kurtz, Willard se mantiene erguido, pero contaminado por la locura. Willard, con Lance a su lado, se reembarca para regresar por el río. Se resiste a la tentación de convertirse en un nuevo Dios.

    La guerra es un acto horroroso que nos vuelve menos humanos, nos enfrenta a la violencia, la desesperación y nuestras más oscuras pesadillas.

    Curiosidades:

    Originalmente, iba a ser dirigida por George Lucas, y Francis Ford Coppola iba a ser el Productor Ejecutivo. Lucas oyendo los consejos de su amigo Steven Spielberg decidió realizar Star Wars.

    Los papeles principales fueron ofrecidos a actores de la talla de: Steve McQueen, Robert Redford, James Caan, Jack Nicholson y, Al Pacino todos los rechazaron.

    Cuando Marlon Brando llega a Filipinas presenta sobrepeso y no se sabía sus líneas del guión. Se niega a trabajar con Dennis Hopper, así la escena en la que Brando le tira fruta a Hopper se filma separadamente .

    La música incidental está compuesta por Carmine Coppola y el propio director especialmente para la película, se utilizaron muchos sintetizadores para manipular los sónidos .

    En vez de trabajar sobre el guion, Coppola llegó al punto de escribir escenas la noche anterior al rodaje, basado en un ejemplar de El corazón de las tinieblas (la novela de Joseph Conrad en la que se basa la película) subrayado por él.

    En la escena, en la que Martin Sheen presenta su personaje, el actor estaba bebido de verdad, por lo que al golpear el espejo el corte resulta ser real.

    La producción se realizó en Filipinas, ya que el dictador Ferdinad Marcos le concede a Coppola, ( previa cancelación de miles de dólares), el uso de helicópteros y pilotos del ejército filipino y bombardear con napalm real las hectáreas de selva que se necesitasen.

    Aparecen en un breve papel: Francis Ford Coppola (Director), Dean Tavoularis (Diseñador de Producción) y Vittorio Storaro (Director de Fotografía), como Director y Equipo de un noticiero durante la escena del encuentro del grupo de Willard con el coronel surfista Kilgore.

    La película fue concebida sin títulos de crédito al principio y al final, y las imágenes de la destrucción del campamento fueron añadidas posteriormente, como extras en Blu Ray y DVD dado su valor estético.

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    La Guerra de Francis Ford Coppola.

    Para Francis Ford Coppola la película se volvió su propia guerra. Un rodaje planificado en 16 semanas pasa a durar 15 meses. En el momento de la filmación ocurría una guerra civil en Filipinas, así el ejército local que suministraba los helicópteros los tomaba sin aviso para el conflicto. Un tifón estropea decorados enteros y se detuvo la filmación durante semanas.

    El actor protagonista Martin Sheen, sufrió un infarto tan fuerte que llegó a recibir la extremaunción. Marlon Brando (quien cobró 3 Millones de doláres por 3 semanas de trabajo), es difícil de controlar dado sus imposiciones de diva, e irrespeto a los diálogos establecidos. Dennis Hooper en ese entonces era asiduo consumidor de cocaína.

    El Director de fotografía Vittorio Storaro, frecuentemente despedía a sus asistentes y sólo quería comer pasta traída de Italia.

    El presupuesto pasa de 11 Millones de doláres a 31,5 Millones de dólares, por lo que Coppola hipoteca su casa y su bodega de vinos con el Chase Bank como aval. El tipo de interés empezó en el 7% pero, al finalizar la producción había llegado al 29%. Estuvo al borde de la ruina.

    Coppola sufrió un ataque epiléptico mientras rodaba, tuvo una crisis nerviosa y se comenta que pensó seriamente en el suicidio.

    La película se estrena el 15 de agosto de 1979 en los Estados Unidos, y recauda una taquilla a nivel mundial de 150 Millones de dólares.

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    Apocalipsis Ahora es una obra que no podría catalogar como antibelicista, ya que se recrea en la belleza del horror de la guerra, y se intuye el mensaje de que para ganar una guerra lo importante es no tener prejuicios ni moral. Es la guerra vista a través de los ojos de Willard, es la odisea del protagonista el cual transforma la curiosidad hacia la persona de Kurtz en admiración. ¿Es moral matar a un ciudadano que ha obedecido orden de matar otras personas a través de su propio Gobierno?. Como dijo Kurtz antes de morir: El horror!…el horror!.

    Muchísimas gracias por dedicar parte de su tiempo a leer la presente publicación, por favor compartan sus opiniones. Espero que se encuentren motivados a revisar este clásico moderno del cine.

    Ingles no es mi lengua materna, por lo que utilizo el traductor DeepL. Fuente de la primera imagen Fuente

    English Version.

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    The film Apocalypse Now is an adaptation by Francis Ford Coppola of Joseph Conrad's literary work published in 1899, Heart of Darkness.

    This novel tells the story of Marlow, an adventurer who takes a trip on a Belgian steamer, upriver to the heart of Africa in order to find Kurtz, a colonial agent turned into a god for the natives. When he finds him, he discovers a tormented being capable of committing any atrocity. The colonization and exploitation of the West in the name of civilization and its effects on the people are denounced.

    In Coppola's work the action moves to the Vietnam War. Here Captain Willard must locate and exterminate Colonel Kurtz, who has organized an army with deserters and natives who consider him a god. To do this he must navigate the Nung River upstream aboard a patrol boat with 4 companions. The film explores how war is capable of transforming men into beasts that perform cruel and absurd actions.

    The leading roles are played by Harvey Keitel (Captain Benjamin Willard) and Marlon Brando (Colonel Walter E. Kurtz). It also features an impressive cast: Robert Duvall (Lieutenant Colonel William "Bil" Kilgore), Laurence Fishburne (Taylor "Clean" Miller), Frederick Forrest (Jay "Chef" Hicks), Albert Hall ("Chief" Phillips), Sam Bottoms (Lance B. Johnson), Dennis Hopper (American Photographer) and Harrison Ford and Scott Glenn in small roles. The director (Francis Ford Coppola) fires Keitel because he is not happy with the interpretation of the character, and the role of Captain Willard falls on Martin Sheen.

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    On the technical side, Vittorio Storaro is in charge of photography, Dean Tavoularis is the production designer and Walter Murch is the film editor and responsible for sound (along with Mark Berger, Richard Beggs and Nathan Boxer). This team and Storaro won the 1979 Oscar for their work.

    When I watched Apocalypse Now, the feeling of oppression was incredible, I felt warm when I saw the images captured on screen, it is dense but I couldn't take the Blu Ray away, it was an attractive magnetic tape, cinematographically beautiful and at the same time terrifying, its images are immersive, accompanied by music by The Doors (The End), Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids (for a long time I mistook this version by Suzie Q for Creedence Clearwater Revival), Surfin' Safari by The Beach Boys, Richard Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries and The Rolling Stones [(I can't get no) Satisfaction]. In his narrative one can feel the moral and mental transformation of his main character Captain Benjamin Willard.

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    Synopsis.

    At the beginning we are in a hotel in Saigon in 1969, and we see Captain Benjamin Willard, on a bed looking at the ceiling fan, overlapping in it some helicopters flying over the jungle and bombing it with Napalm, the jungle is in flames while the song The End of the group The Doors sounds.

    Later, Willard is sent by his superiors to go up the Nung River aboard a small patrol boat with four men on board, (Chief the Captain of the boat, Chef the engineer, Lance a famous surfer and Clean) in order to go into Cambodia to find and kill Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, who is worshiped as a God and has organized his own army with part of his men and the natives.

    Here begins a macabre odyssey for Willard, which will lead him to the brink of madness, and despair:

    Cavalry Colonel Bill Kilgore (a surf-loving psychopath), is charged with escorting them to the Nung River, a mission he accepts upon learning that there are surfing waves in the area and that also in the captain's team is a surfer admired by Kilgore. On board the helicopters Kilgore bombs the area and at the same time Richard Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries sounds through the helicopters' loudspeakers. Later, planes appear, blasting everything in their path with napalm. Willard steals Kilgore's surfboard and the group is chased.

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    Once they start their trip they stop at an American base to rest, they attend a show of some playboy bunnies dancing on a huge platform to the song Susie Q, the show is interrupted and ends because several soldiers climb on the platform. Days later they find the playmates' helicopter crashed in a half-destroyed base and they deliver fuel cans to be with them. These women are empty and frivolous.

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    Already on the river Willard delves into Kurtz's personality. More background information is revealed as the Rolling Stones' (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction is played on the soundtrack and Lance skis in tow on the boat.

    Following the voyage, the ship's captain (Chief) gives the order to inspect a Vietnamese barge and asks Chef to go down to it and check it out. This triggers a massacre, as an indigenous girl fears that her little dog will be taken away from her, she gets nervous and the boat's crewmen, frightened into thinking they are Vietcong, shoot, killing almost all of them. The Vietnamese woman is badly wounded and the crew members plan to take her to the nearest village, but Willard kills her by shooting her dead. He comments to the boat captain that this was avoidable if he had not insisted on the search. Nothing can distract them from their mission.

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    Du Lung Bridge is the last army post on the Nung River. There everything is chaotic, the soldiers confront each other for no reason, it is a terrifying mixture of sounds, lights and shadows. In this place they wait for them and deliver the correspondence to Willard, who through it learns that previously a captain who left with the same mission joined Kurtz. Continuing their journey they are attacked and one of the crew (Clean) dies under a hail of gunfire.

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    They then stumble upon a French plantation with a foggy atmosphere. A rubber plantation, where they are allowed to bury Clean. The French state that they are not leaving because this colonial land is theirs.

    Leaving the French plantation they are attacked by a savage tribe from the shore with hundreds of stick arrows, lose their nerve again and start shooting until a spear kills Chief, the ship's captain. Willard then tells the survivors that they are going to Cambodia to eliminate Kurtz.

    They sail deep into a jungle that is practically swallowing them up and suddenly find themselves surrounded by natives of the Montagnard tribe in a camp strewn with severed heads and rotting corpses, where they are met by an American reporter, an acolyte of Kurtz. Asking the reporter to speak to Kurtz, he replies: "You don't talk to Kurtz, you listen to him".

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    After inspecting the area Willard leaves Chef in the boat with the radio, asking him to call for an air strike of the region if he does not return by 10:00. While he and Lance go to look for Kurtz. In their search they find dead bodies of all kinds.

    In a heavy rain, a group of men catch Willard and take him to Kurtz, here occurs an effect of light and shadow that hides one side of the colonel's face as if to reflect good and evil at the same time. Kurtz informs Willard that he knows the reasons for his stay and after a conversation he tells him that he is neither a murderer nor a soldier, but a market errand boy sent to collect a bill.

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    There he keeps him prisoner in a bamboo cage and is visited by the American photographer who asks him why he wants to kill Kurtz. He also informs him that Kurtz likes him very much and that Kurtz has a surprise for him. He tells him that Kurtz has a clear mind but an insane soul.

    At night in the pouring rain Kurtz appears before Willard with Chef's head in his hand, throwing it into his confinement.
    After that in the morning Kurtz visits him again with a group of children and reads him an old article from the Times magazine and sets him free, warning him that if he tries to escape they will finish him off. He is unable to do so, his state of weakness is such that he loses consciousness.

    When he recovers, Kurtz tells Willard that he has the right to kill him, but not to judge him, he asks that if he dies he should go to his son and tell him the truth. As seen by him, not the official truth.

    Kurtz wants him to be the one to kill him as a soldier, not as someone without honor, and as the natives hold a feast where they axe a carcass he similarly ends Kurtz, resisting the temptation to become a new god himself to Kurtz's worshippers.

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    Exiting the building where he has just killed Kurtz, Willard stands erect, but tainted by madness. Willard, with Lance at his side, reembarks to return down the river. He resists the temptation to become a new God.

    War is a horrific act that makes us less human, confronts us with violence, despair and our darkest nightmares.

    Curiosities:

    Originally, it was to be directed by George Lucas, and Francis Ford Coppola was to be the Executive Producer. Lucas, listening to the advice of his friend Steven Spielberg, decided to make Star Wars.

    The main roles were offered to actors of the stature of: Steve McQueen, Robert Redford, James Caan, Jack Nicholson and, Al Pacino all turned them down.

    When Marlon Brando arrived in the Philippines he was overweight and didn't know his lines from the script. He refuses to work with Dennis Hopper, so the scene where Brando throws fruit at Hopper is filmed separately.

    The incidental music is composed by Carmine Coppola and the director himself especially for the film, many synthesizers were used to manipulate the sounds.

    Instead of working on the script, Coppola went so far as to write scenes the night before shooting, based on a copy of Heart of Darkness (the Joseph Conrad novel on which the film is based) underlined by him.

    In the scene, in which Martin Sheen introduces his character, the actor was actually drunk, so when he hits the mirror the cut turns out to be real.

    The production took place in the Philippines, as the dictator Ferdinad Marcos granted Coppola (after paying thousands of dollars) the use of Philippine army helicopters and pilots to bomb with real napalm as many hectares of jungle as needed.

    Appearing in a brief role are: Francis Ford Coppola (Director), Dean Tavoularis (Production Designer) and Vittorio Storaro (Director of Photography), as Director and Crew of a newsreel during the scene of Willard's group's encounter with the surfer Colonel Kilgore.

    The film was conceived without credits at the beginning and at the end, and the images of the destruction of the camp were added later, as extras on Blu Ray and DVD because of their aesthetic value.

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    Francis Ford Coppola's War.

    For Francis Ford Coppola the film became its own war. A shoot that was planned to take 16 weeks turned into 15 months.

    At the time of filming, a civil war was going on in the Philippines, so the local army, which supplied the helicopters, took them without warning for the conflict. A typhoon damaged entire sets and filming was halted for weeks.

    The leading actor, Martin Sheen, suffered a heart attack so severe that he received the last rites. Marlon Brando (who was paid 3 million dollars for 3 weeks of work), is difficult to control given his diva impositions and disrespect to the established dialogues. Dennis Hooper at the time was an assiduous cocaine user.

    Director of photography Vittorio Storaro frequently fired his assistants and only wanted to eat Spaghetti brought from Italy.

    The budget went from $11 million to $31.5 million, so Coppola mortgaged his house and wine cellar with Chase Bank as collateral. The interest rate started at 7%, but by the end of production it had reached 29%. He was on the verge of ruin.

    Coppola suffered an epileptic seizure while filming, had a nervous breakdown and is said to have seriously considered suicide. The film opens on August 15, 1979 in the United States, and grosses $150 million worldwide.

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    Apocalypse Now is a work that could not be classified as anti-war, since it recreates the beauty of the horror of war, and the message that to win a war the important thing is to have no prejudices or morals. It is the war seen through Willard's eyes, it is the odyssey of the protagonist who transforms the curiosity towards Kurtz's person into admiration. It is moral to kill a citizen who has obeyed orders to kill other people through his own government?. As Kurtz said before he died: The horror!...the horror!

    Thank you very much for taking the time to read this publication, please share your opinions. I hope you will be motivated to check out this modern classic film.

    English is not my mother tongue, so I use the translator DeepL.

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  2. Retro Review - Apocalypse@freddbrito2172d

    Ultimately Hollywood actors have been involved in video games, have been participants in these giving their voices to characters or being directly characters modeled within a video game. There are many actors who have been part of this, to mention a few: Ramik Malek (Mr. Robot) in Until Daw, Ellen Page (X-Men Saga) in Beyond Two Souls and one of the most recent projects was Death Stranding, which has a pretty big cast of actors and celebrities. And although the fact that actors participate in videogames is not something totally new since many years ago it had also been done (Samuel L. Jackson in GTA San Andreas, to mention one of many), it was until recently years ago that this has increased, so it is not uncommon to see some actor participate in some project of these. However, one of the actors who could least expect to be part of a project of this style is Bruce Willis, highly regarded for having starred in the saga Die Hard. This actor participates in a video game that is really entertaining.

    That's why today's Retro Review is about Apocalypse.



    As the name of the game clearly indicates, we are in a post-apocalyptic world and we are also many years in the future, a world full of chaos and misery. In this world, science and religion are the only two "forces" that command the world, with each of these "sides" logically having a totally different kind of belief, and because of these differences they are in constant clash of opinions (not much different than what's going on now), but on a more critical and radical level.

    On the one hand, science has achieved great technological advances with nano-technology, having a quite big technological impulse in society, but on the other hand, on the religious side, there is a group of believers commanded by "The Reverend", a character and villain with obvious desires of world destruction, who for that reason creates a version of the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse, in such a way that using the nano-technology that he criticizes so much, he wants to provoke a world apocalypse.

    To stop the plan this villain, we will be Trey Kincaid (Bruce Willis), since he was in charge of developing the nano-technology used to create the horsemen, now our protagonist must escape from prison to stop the next apocalypse, but before facing the main villain he must defeat the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse and all those who want to face him.


    As I said before, Bruce Willis was part of this videogame and his 3D modeling is that of the main character, Trey Kincaid, and it's a modeling that although it's not perfect, by the standards of the time this videogame was released, it's really good, you can easily recognize the actor's face.

    In general Apocalypse is a game with a quite decent graphic level to be a game with a quite simple playability, with quite good and varied scenarios, although not with great details, but with light effects and really good that gives it that style of "cyberpunk" quite characteristic, because logically, when we find ourselves in a world located several years in the future, that this game has a "cyberpunk" look was logical and necessary, besides that in spite of the obvious graphic limitations, this game does a good job this aspect. I'm really impressed with this game. Also our main character, despite the fact that the animation set is not very varied, the animations are fluid.

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    System of a Down, since I was younger has always been my favorite band, in fact, when I created my Youtube account, many years ago, the profile picture of my account is the cover of the album "System of a Down" (that album with one hand on the cover) and since then I have never changed it. But what does this have to do with the review of this game, and that is that in Apocalypse we can find a song of this band. During this "adventure" we will go through different scenarios and in them there are giant screens showing different things, and one of those things is a video clip of System of a Down, exactly the song "War". When I saw that video clip of my favorite band I was totally amazed, because I never expected it and that's why I give it 10/10 in the sound section. Well, getting more serious, actually the soundtrack of this videogame is good, with quite "industrial" melodies, so to speak", in a way they allude to all that depressing atmosphere that this game presents us. Regarding the sound effects, they are correct and necessary, I don't have much to say about this aspect, on the other hand. Bruce Willis not only gave his appearance to the main character, since he also recorded a few phrases for Trey Kincaid to repeat while we're playing, there really aren't many, but some are funny.

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    Apocalypse can be categorized as a 3rd person shooter, an action game and a platform game (although the platform section is sometimes a bit desperate). This is a game where there will be action and shooting from start to finish, really quite entertaining that will distract us for a few hours.

    It's a pretty linear game, so there won't be any other routes to go, something that, due to the theme and genre of this video game is quite logical, but this doesn't make it boring, even though in terms of enemy design they aren't very varied, it's quite the opposite, it's due to that quite aggressive and fast gameplay, it makes this game very fun. We will be in constant movement, shooting, dodging and climbing on platforms. Besides that we have different types of weapons throughout this adventure that will make more dynamic the way we eliminate our enemies.


    I think Apocalypse can be considered a little gem within the great catalogue of the old but beloved PlayStation 1, which with its mistakes and shortcomings, is a videogame that is genuinely great fun despite its appearance and aesthetics (although I consider it quite good). It also has a cameo of my favorite band. However, I can't help but wonder how much Bruce Willis was paid to participate in a video game, in which he only gave his image and recorded a few sentences? There's no doubt that being such a renowned actor has its merits.

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  3. League of Movies (First Edition | Week 02): Apocalypse Now@serialfiller2267d

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    Today I'm participating in the second edition of @wiseagent's movie league. Here you can find the link to the contest (https://peakd.com/hive-148441/@wiseagent/league-of-movies-hive-writing-contest-first-edition-or-week-02-back-in-time). Today the challenge is to write a review on an old film. I chose one of the most beautiful films in history in my opinion:

    Apocalypse Now

    The year was 1979 when Francis Ford Coppola decided to definitively enter the Olympus of the best directors ever. A monumental Marlon Brando helped him in this undertaking. His interpretation of Colonel Kurtz is unanimously recognized by all as one of the most important interpretations in the history of cinema. The photography of the Italian Vittorio Storaro was fundamental in giving the drama, the weight to many scenes in the film. We think of Kurtz's face in chiaroscuro, at the end of the film. A play of shadows and lights, a very symbolic contrast of the personality of a man who lives between two fires, in the torment that has become a mission. A man who lives in the violence that embodies it but also rejects it at a certain point thanks to his revolutionary choices. The ride of the Valkyries and Robert Duvall. An indissoluble pair, unforgettable scenes. Apocalypse Now is substance and form at the highest levels. It is content combined with aesthetics. It's skill meets competence. The genius that embraces the method. The art that combines hard work.

    Not everyone knows it but Francis Ford Coppola was one step away from giving up, from abandoning the project. The director moved to the Philippines for almost a year with his whole family. There, he found a thousand difficulties. Environmental, political, management, food. It was also very difficult to convince the cast and found it very difficult to follow him there for the shoot. In the end he managed to overcome all perplexities and problems, making one of the most beautiful films in the history of cinema. A warlike, denouncing, political film. A manifesto that represents the psychological and physical violence that becomes man. He becomes a man in Duvall's character above all. It allows us to investigate the reasons for that conflict in Vietnam but in general all the conflicts. It's universal because it allows us to investigate the nature of things, the nature of ourselves. It's spectacular, it's beautiful to see, it's capable of making you horrified and in love. It's a unique, unrepeatable film. "The Horror, The Horror." Horrible, how horrible can mankind generate. That's what we think about watching Apocalypse Now. At the same time, though:

    How much beauty can mankind generate. Just look at this masterpiece.

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    Oggi partecipo alla seconda edizione della movie league di @wiseagent. Qui trovate il link al contest (https://peakd.com/hive-148441/@wiseagent/league-of-movies-hive-writing-contest-first-edition-or-week-02-back-in-time). Oggi la sfida è quella di scrivere una review su un vecchio film. Io ho scelto uno dei film più belli della storia a mio avviso:

    Apocalypse Now

    Correva l'anno 1979 quando Francis Ford Coppola decise di entrare definitivamente nell'Olimpo dei registi migliori di sempre. Ad aiutarlo in questa impresa un monumentale Marlon Brando. La sua interpretazione del colonello Kurtz è unanimemente riconosciuta da tutti come una delle più importanti interpretazioni della storia del cinema. La fotografia dell'italiano Vittorio Storaro è stata fondamentale nel conferire la drammaticità, il peso a molte scene del film. Pensiamo al volto di Kurtz in chiaroscuro, sul finale del film. Un gioco di ombre e luci, un contrasto quantomai simbolico della personalità di un uomo che vive fra 2 fuochi, nel tormento diventato missione. Un uomo vissuto nella violenza che la incarna ma la rigetta anche ad un certo punto grazie alle sue scelte rivoluzionarie. La cavalcata delle Valchirie e Robert Duvall. Un binomio indissolubile, scene indimenticabili. Apocalypse Now è sostanza e forma ai massimi livelli. E' contenuto unito all'estetica. E' la bravura che incontra la competenza. La genialità che abbraccia il metodo. L'arte che sposa il duro lavoro.

    Non tutti lo sanno ma Francis Ford Coppola era ad un passo dal desistere, dall'abbandonare il progetto. Il regista si trasferì nelle Filippine per quasi un anno con tutta la famiglia. Li, trovò mille difficoltà. Ambientali, politiche, gestionali, alimentari. Fu anche difficilissimo convincere cast e troupè a seguirlo in quel luogo per le riprese. Alla fine riuscì a sconfiggere ogni perplessità e problema, girando uno dei film più belli della storia del cinema. Un film bellico, di denuncia, politico. Un manifesto che rappresenta la violenza psicologica e fisica che si fa uomo. Si fa uomo nel personaggio di Duvall soprattutto. Ci permette di indagare sui motivi di quel conflitto in Vietnam ma in generale su tutti i conflitti. E' universale proprio perchè ci permette di indagare sulla natura delle cose, sulla natura di noi stessi. E' spettacolare, è bello da vedere, è capace di farti inorridire ed innamorare. E' un film unico, irripetibile. "The Horror, The Horror". Orribile, quanto orrore può generare l'uomo. E' questo che pensiamo guardando Apocalypse Now. Al tempo stesso pensiamo però:

    Quanta bellezza può generare l'uomo. Basti guardare a questo capolavoro.

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  4. Apocalypse Now (1979) - Directing and Acting (and Writing)@lionsuit2926d

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    It's a dance, surely, performance in production. The director, actor, crew, and more.

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    Francis Coppola (to discuss him again) undertakes a huge journey in producing this film. It truly is one of the most fascinating behind the scenes stories I've ever seen. Written by John Milius, Coppola, and Michael Herr (narration).

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    Coppola's guts, his willingness to go into the jungle with an open mind. Exciting stuff.

    He's a master of many things, but we have to understand he was a writer. Writers are more like actors than directors are. Coppola knows how to go into the emotion that makes any human story absurd and true. He knows how to bring that into his directing, beyond his writing desk, onto the set.

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    He can create a sort of bubble, a safe zone in which to tangle with your inner self, free of the outside world, free of the schedules, and budgets, and gear just feet away.

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    This is seen so clearly in the shooting of Willard's hotel scene, a man in a room, fans are helicopter blades, looking into a mirror, wine, bedsheets, weeping, "My... heart... is... broken," Martin Sheen says as Coppola voices direction, or more so images, ideas, objects to engage the heart, the human emotion, the absurdity and truth that makes any real movie worth watching.

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    Respect to the whole team.

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    Be well. http://www.LionSuit.com

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