Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse Page #2

Synopsis: Documents the sensational events surrounding the making of Apocalypse Now (1979)' and Francis Ford Coppola's struggle with nature, governments, actors, and self-doubt. Includes footage and sound secretly recorded by Eleanor Coppola, wife of Francis.
Genre: Documentary
Production: Showtime Network
  Won 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 6 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
R
Year:
1991
96 min
755 Views


for their social courage.

Without a studio,

Apocalypse Now was shelved,

and Francis put his dreams

for Zoetrope on hold.

He went on to direct

The Godfather Parts I and I I.

The films won eight Academy Awards

and made Francis a multimillionaire.

In 1975, he revived his plans

for Zoetrope

and chose Apocalypse Now

as its first project.

I was in the position whereas I wanted

to always write original work.

Original work really takes

six, eight months minimum to do,

and here was the script of Apocalypse

that we could clean up

and send out immediately.

So I basically said,

"Well, what if I just

did Apocalypse Now?"

And in doing so,

we were able to make our company

independent and further our goal.

But nothing really prepared me

for the date I had

with trying to do a modern telling

of Heart of Darkness

in a Vietnam setting.

Mike, would you read Kilgore?

Glenn, I'd like you to read... No.

I'll wait for a minute.

I'd like Tommy, you read Willard.

Freddy's gonna read Chef.

And, Sam, you read Lance.

And, Albert, you read Chief, okay?

Let's just... What we'll do now,

we'll just read it, just to read it,

to know what we're doing.

Apocalypse Now has been budgeted

at $13 million.

In order to maintain creative control,

Francis had to raise the money himself.

If the film goes over budget,

Francis is responsible.

He has put up our personal assets

as collateral.

A couple of million dollars

of Francis' money was in it.

But that was Francis' style.

His philosophy was always,

and remains to this date is,

"I'm gonna go and make the movie.

"And if everybody knows

I'm going to make it,

"it will fall into place.

"And if I don't go forward

as if I'm making it and start making it,

"nothing will happen. "

My attitude towards money has always

been, "I don't have very much of it,

"but if I use it in a very audacious way,

it multiplies it."

If you have $ 1,000, but you're willing

to use it, really not caring of risking,

you can make it feel like $ 10,000.

Marlon Brando has sent word

that he will do the part of Kurtz.

Brando has agreed to three weeks

of shooting at a million dollars a week.

Francis sent him a $1 million advance.

After auditioning dozens of actors,

Harvey Keitel has been cast

as Captain Willard.

For the four-man boat crew

who will take Willard upriver,

Sam Bottoms will play Lance.

Albert Hall, Chief.

Frederic Forrest, Chef,

and Larry Fishburne, age 14,

will play Mr. Clean.

The whole thing's really fun.

I mean, a war is fun. Sh*t.

You can do anything you want to.

That's why Vietnam must

have been so much fun

for the guys that were out there.

I mean, like, I know this one dude

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