New York.-forty years after the release of the iconic film Apocalypse Now, a new version restored and reissued premieres this Sunday at the Tribeca Film Festival, which spoke its director, Francis Ford Coppola.Tras the first viewing, the c ineasta told an audience given the difficulties experienced to make the film, considered one of the masterpieces of the seventh art, and showing the harshness of the Viet Nam war.” Nobody wanted to support Apocalypse Now,”said Ford Coppola, who thought that the reason for the rejection was that the tape came shortly after his success with the Godfather, and it was hoped to make a film similar to that.
Soderbergh on Coppola completo direction of APOCALYPSE: “You weren’t flying close to the sun.” You were flying at the sun-with intention… “You seemed to be leaning in to how hard it was, and embracing it.” Coppola: “To make art that doesn’t reflect your personal feelings is pointless.” pic.twitter.com/Neko5zInci – Tribeca (@Tribeca)
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“My movies styles were very different and that is not attractive,” he said, after which confessed that besides no actor wanted to go with him to the Philippines, where the film was shot given the logistic facilities and the low price of the labour force in the Asian country. Thus, Ford Coppola had to put part of the money they had earned with the godfather for Apocalypse Now, no Hollywood Studio wanting to cover the costs, and nor had the support of United States or the army despite the fact that he had a history of conflict director Vietnam.El passed it so bad filming the movie, which came to think that he would not survive his shooting. “It was $ 30 million. I was afraid, had three sons and a vineyard that had just bought, and was sure that was going to lose”, he said. Among the complications, the destruction of much of the recording equipment when a typhoon hit the Philippines, and the heart attack suffered by the actor Martin Sheen, one of the protagonists, that “it was unknown if he would recover”.
Coppola spent five days talking alone with Brando in order to help him build the character of Kurtz. The filmmaker says he has met a dozen geniuses in his life, including Fellini and Kurosawa, but Brando is in a class of his own: “Marlon was too interesting to man to be angry at.” pic.twitter.com/WyGQVo1szJ – Tribeca (@Tribeca)
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However, Coppola went ahead with the project despite the risks posed by. “If you want to make art you have to learn to be comfortable with the risk. (…) Cannot be art without risk, just that babies without sex can do”. The tape, which was shown in U.S. cinemas for the first time on August 15, 1979, was nominated for eight Academy Awards and revolves around the horrors of the Viet Nam war in a free adaptation of the novel by Joseph Conrad “Heart of darkness”. Account with actors of the likes of Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Harrison Ford and Frederic Forrest, and raised some 150 million dollars at the box office.
When no one would fund the film, Coppola threw his five Oscars out of window in frustration, breaking them, as he says, like “the Maltese Falcon.” His mother ended up taking the trophies to the Academy to get them replaced, telling AMPAS that they had been damaged by a maid. pic.twitter.com/mGjoavvt8r – Tribeca (@Tribeca)
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This new version, called “Apocalypse Now: Final Cut”, was shown at the Beacon Theater, in Manhattan, where is used the control technology of very low frequency audio VLFC, a speaker system designed to emit sounds that the human ear cannot perceive but that creates a sound effect that makes the body vibrates. In addition, the film has been modernised with visual technology that multiplies by 40 colors and intensity by 10 of blacks.
