The commander is an avid surfer himself and agrees to escort them through the Nùng's Viet Cong-held coastal mouth. Kilgore is initially uncooperative as he has not received word about their mission through normal channels, but he becomes more engaged after discovering that Lance is a well-known surfer. Before reaching the coastal mouth of the Nùng, they rendezvous with the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, an air-cavalry helicopter unit commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore, to discuss safe passage. Navy river patrol boat (PBR) commanded by Chief Petty Officer "Chief" Phillips, with crewmen Lance, "Chef", and "Mr. Willard, initially ambivalent, begins his journey up the Nùng River to Kurtz's outpost on a U.S. He is told by Colonel Lucas that "this mission does not exist, nor will it ever exist". Willard is given a mission to "terminate Colonel Kurtz's command. Lucas, aide to Corman and a mysterious man in civilian attire who is apparently a CIA officer. He is briefed on the situation by Lieutenant General R. Willard is summoned to I Field Force headquarters in Nha Trang. At an outpost in Cambodia, he commands a militia consisting of American and Montagnard troops who see him as a demigod.īurnt out MACV-SOG operative Captain Benjamin L. Kurtz has lost his moral compass and is waging a brutal guerrilla war against terrified NVA and PLAF forces without Pentagon authorization, direction or resupply. This summary excludes events only seen in the Redux or the Final Cut.ĭuring the Vietnam War, U.S. In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". Roger Ebert also included it in his top 10 list of greatest films ever in 2012. 6 in the Director's Poll of greatest films of all time. 14 in Sight & Sound 's greatest films poll in 2012, and No. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards at the 52nd Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Coppola), and Best Supporting Actor for Duvall, and went on to win for Best Cinematography and Best Sound. Initial reviews were mixed while Vittorio Storaro's cinematography was widely acclaimed, several critics found Coppola's handling of the story's major themes to be anticlimactic and intellectually disappointing.Īpocalypse Now is today widely considered one of the greatest films ever made. The film performed well at the box office, grossing $40 million domestically and going on to gross over $100 million worldwide.
Īpocalypse Now was honored with the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, where it premiered unfinished before it was finally released on August 15, 1979, by United Artists. Problems continued after production as the release was postponed several times while Coppola edited over a million feet of film. 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 while on location. Initially set to be a five-month shoot, the film became noted for the problems encountered while making it for over a year, as chronicled in the documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991). 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. 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. Willard (Sheen), who is on a secret mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Brando), a renegade Army Special Forces officer accused of murder and who is presumed insane. The film follows a river journey from South Vietnam into Cambodia undertaken by Captain Benjamin L. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola and John Milius with narration written by Michael Herr, is loosely based on the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War. It stars Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, and Dennis Hopper.
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic psychological war film directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola.
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