Episode 42: Apocalypse Now 🚁

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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The LFTS team discusses Coppola's ambitious filmmaking, the merits of simplicity in story design, and the harrowing behind-the-scenes struggle to get the film made.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.
0:08.9	Today we are talking about Apocalypse Now, the 1979 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, written by John Millius, Francis Ford Coppola, based loosely on the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, joined by the
0:22.3	lessons from screenplay team, Tricia Arand.
0:24.7	Hello, everyone. Brian Bittner. Hello, hello. And Alex Cayanos. Hi. So this is an entry in our
0:31.3	new series of someone from the team picks a movie and forces everybody else to watch it.
0:36.7	And I picked this movie because, shockingly, several of the team members had not seen it.
0:42.5	I'm not going to name names.
0:43.9	And so the reason I picked Apocalypse Now, I have this very strange relationship with this movie.
0:50.4	And I think it has everything to do with when I saw it and like the context in which I saw it.
0:55.7	But it was around post high school, like, but pre-college, like right in that like I'm becoming like a real person phase.
1:05.6	And, you know, as a straight edge high school kid, I wasn't allowed to watch R-rated movies.
1:11.8	So, like, suddenly this new world opened up to me.
1:15.4	And my dad had always talked about this movie, and he was really good at, like, telling,
1:21.7	like, basically creating tall tales around things.
1:24.4	And so there was just this, like, weird built-up lore with this movie of, it's this insane movie where so there was just this like weird built up lore with this movie of it's this
1:28.9	insane movie where the experience was just like actually being in the war. And there was this
1:34.2	documentary made about it. But no one can find it anymore doesn't exist. And like all this. So just like as
1:41.6	a kid I'd heard about it. And so there was this buildup of like
1:44.3	apocalypse now. And so I don't remember exactly how it happened, but somewhere in college,
1:50.1	I was on, you know, the totally illegal places that you go when you're downloading movies in
1:55.2	college. And I found like a grainy copy of the making of, which is called Hearts of Darkness, which we're going to
2:02.4	have to talk about. And so I watched the movie and watched the movie again and watched
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