Apocalypse Now (Three-Disc Full
Disclosure Edition) (Apocalypse Now
/ Apocalypse Now Redux / Hearts of
Darkness) [Blu-ray] starring Martin
Sheen, Marlon Brando
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In the tradition of such obsessively driven directors as Erich von Stroheim
and Werner Herzog, Francis Ford Coppola approached the production of
Apocalypse Now as if it were his own epic mission into the heart of
darkness. On location in the storm-ravaged Philippines, he quite literally
went mad as the project threatened to devour him in a vortex of creative
despair, but from this insanity came one of the greatest films ever made. It
began as a John Milius screenplay, transposing Joseph Conrads classic
story Heart of Darkness into the horrors of the Vietnam War, following a
battle-weary Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) on a secret upriver mission to
find and execute the renegade Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has
reverted to a state of murderous and mystical insanity. The journey is
fraught with danger involving wartime action on epic and intimate scales.
One measure of the films awesome visceral impact is the number of
sequences, images, and lines of dialogue that have literally burned
themselves into our cinematic consciousness, from the Wagnerian strike of
helicopter gunships on a Vietnamese village to the brutal murder of
stowaways on a peasant sampan and the unflinching fearlessness of the
surfing warrior Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore (Robert Duvall), who speaks
lovingly of the smell of napalm in the morning. Like Herzogs Aguirre: The
Wrath of God, this film is the product of genius cast into a pit of hell and
emerging, phoenix-like, in triumph. Coppolas obsession (effectively
detailed in the riveting documentary Hearts of Darkness, directed by
Coppolas wife, Eleanor) informs every scene and every frame, and the
result is a film for the ages. --Jeff Shannon
This movie is a great classic at least that's what I was told by my "teenage"
son. I enjoyed having the Collector's Edition with alternate endings, and
scenes that were not in the original movie, which are only available with
this special edition. This was a gift for my teenage son who was facinated
by this movie when he saw it on TV. I had a difficult time locating it in any
stores, I can't imagine why??? I finally was told that this movie was
"retired", imagine my surprise! I got this movie pack for a very reasonable
price from a seller who shipped this item very fast and in great condition.
My son would recommend the movie and I would recommend the seller of
this item. Both were great in their own way!
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