Episode 274: Apocalypse Now (1979)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2016

⏱️ 167 minutes

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Summary

We get off the boat and go all the way on this episode about Francis Ford Coppola's landmark 1979 Vietnam film Apocalypse Now. Based on a script by John Milius, the making of the film is nearly as fascinating as the film itself. To that end, Fax Bahr, director of Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse discusses the creation of the fascinating and illuminating documentary about Apocalypse Now.

Professor Rich Edwards and former Film Threat editor Paul Zimmerman join Mike to examine the film, the "Redux" version, the nearly five-hour assembly version, and many of the parodies that the film has inspired from Porklips Now to Apocalypse Pooh and more.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:07.8	This is the air.
0:10.7	Beautiful friend.
0:17.8	I've been a soldier since I was 19.
0:23.6	And I still haven't learned how to wait for it. I wanted a mission for my sins. They gave me one.
0:28.6	Nobody'd ever gone on a mission like it before.
0:32.6	And when it was over, I'd never want another one.
0:36.6	Your mission is your seat up the Nung River in the United States. when it was over. I'd never want another one.
0:41.5	Your mission is to proceed up the Nung River in the Navy Patrol book.
0:43.4	Pick up Colonel Kurtz's path at New Mung Bah.
0:46.2	When you find the colonel infiltrate his team
0:49.0	by whatever means available
0:50.6	and terminate the colonel's command.
0:53.3	Terminate.
0:54.9	Terminate with Terminate.
0:56.5	It's extreme prejudice.
1:00.8	I ought to say I'm not supposed to know where I'm taking this boat, so I don't.
1:04.4	But one look at you, and I know it's going to be hot.
1:08.4	How can you get no satisfaction
1:13.6	I can get more
1:17.6	satisfaction
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