Apocalypse Now
Here’s a film that featured as the number one film to see before you die according to Film4's 50 Films To See Before You Die.
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1979 and starring actors such as Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen, this film has bagged two Oscars (Cinematography and Sound), a Palm D’Or at Cannes, and three Golden Globes( Best Director, Best supporting actor, and Best Original Score).
With a long list of impressive accomplishments such as those listed, anyone would be curious to see the film.
Inspired by Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”, the story is set during the Vietnam War. Captain Willard (Sheen) is entrusted with a covert mission. He has to travel to Cambodia and terminate Col. Kurtz’s command “with extreme prejudice”. Apparently, the colonel who was once brilliant and a highly decorated officer, has now lost his mind and is carrying on a reign of terror.
We follow Capt. Willard’s journey upstream where on the way, the lives of many of those accompanying him are lost due to incidents of enemy fire. When they reach Col. Kurtz’s outpost, they are greeted with a truly bizarre faction of people, his followers.
It is then that Capt. Willard journeys into the crazed mind of Kurtz to discover that Kurtz does not have a method to his madness. He, in fact, has “no method at all”. Kurtz is a man whose soul is in fragments, and he is totally deranged. For a while, Willard can’t decide whether Kurtz is insane or so brilliant that lesser mortals can’t understand him. Will he be swayed by Kurtz or carry out his mission as intended? Will he, too, lose his mind? These are questions that are answered when you watch the film.
During the filming of this movie, the director faced several challenges: Brando showed up on the sets overweight, Martin Sheen suffered a heart attack, bad weather plagued their shooting, not to mention destroyed expensive sets, and Coppola himself struggled with the end of the movie. However, this movie has made its mark in Hollywood history.
Here’s a film that featured as the number one film to see before you die according to Film4's 50 Films To See Before You Die.
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1979 and starring actors such as Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen, this film has bagged two Oscars (Cinematography and Sound), a Palm D’Or at Cannes, and three Golden Globes( Best Director, Best supporting actor, and Best Original Score).
With a long list of impressive accomplishments such as those listed, anyone would be curious to see the film.
Inspired by Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”, the story is set during the Vietnam War. Captain Willard (Sheen) is entrusted with a covert mission. He has to travel to Cambodia and terminate Col. Kurtz’s command “with extreme prejudice”. Apparently, the colonel who was once brilliant and a highly decorated officer, has now lost his mind and is carrying on a reign of terror.
We follow Capt. Willard’s journey upstream where on the way, the lives of many of those accompanying him are lost due to incidents of enemy fire. When they reach Col. Kurtz’s outpost, they are greeted with a truly bizarre faction of people, his followers.
It is then that Capt. Willard journeys into the crazed mind of Kurtz to discover that Kurtz does not have a method to his madness. He, in fact, has “no method at all”. Kurtz is a man whose soul is in fragments, and he is totally deranged. For a while, Willard can’t decide whether Kurtz is insane or so brilliant that lesser mortals can’t understand him. Will he be swayed by Kurtz or carry out his mission as intended? Will he, too, lose his mind? These are questions that are answered when you watch the film.
During the filming of this movie, the director faced several challenges: Brando showed up on the sets overweight, Martin Sheen suffered a heart attack, bad weather plagued their shooting, not to mention destroyed expensive sets, and Coppola himself struggled with the end of the movie. However, this movie has made its mark in Hollywood history.
Comments