2023-08-16
49 分钟‘Apocalypse Now’ closes out the 1970s with the most ambitious Vietnam movie yet: a big-budget spectacle that will bring moviegoers closer than ever to the madness of war—and nearly push director Francis Ford Coppola over the edge. Other films we talk about in this episode include ‘Who’ll Stop the Rain’ (1978), ‘The Boys in Company C’ (1978), ‘Go Tell the Spartans’ (1978), and ‘Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse’ (1991). Host: Brian Raftery Producers: Devon Manze, Mike Wargon, Amanda Dobbins, and Vikram Patel Sound Design: Bobby Wagner Mixing and Mastering: Scott Somerville All interviews for this series were conducted before the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes in 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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One Saturday night, 1978 not long before the opening of the Deer Hunter, Michael Cimino received a visitor while staying in a New York City hotel.
Francis Ford Coppola.
Though only in his late 30s, Coppola was already a filmmaking superstar, one in the middle of an amazing big screen run.
He'd co written Patton, released in 1970, and had gone on to make two blockbuster Godfather films, as well as the hit drama the Conversation.
He was about as mighty as a director could get, but by the time he knocked on Cimino's door, Coppola hadn't released a new movie in almost five years.
He'd spent a lot of that time in the Philippines, working feverishly on his own Vietnam drama, Apocalypse Now.
The movie starred Martin Sheen as a jaded military man, Captain Willard, who's tasked with hunting down a former colonel who's been driven mad by the war and gone awol.
Apocalypse now starts with Willard already at the end of his rope.
He's been in Vietnam too long and and he's holed up in a dark room drinking and drifting.
Saigon.
Shit, I'm still only in Saigon.
And by late 1978, Coppola was still in Apocalypse Now.