Coppola, along with editor/longtime collaborator Walter Murch, added 49 minutes of material that had been removed from the initial theatrical release. Following the incident, Brando declared that he would consent to be in the film but would never be on set with Hopper. Apocalypse Now Redux is a 2001 American extended version of Francis Ford Coppola's epic 1979 war film Apocalypse Now. After this, Hopper made it his mission to irritate Brando and hurled insults at him whenever he could. Brando thought he meant "Heart of Darkness" and angrily stormed away. Unbeknownst to Hopper, Coppola had been harassing Brando for not having read the book "Heart of Darkness," on which the film was based.ĭuring a cast dinner, Hopper tells Brando, "I bet you haven't read the book," referring to the one he was given by production. During his preparation for the film, Hopper had been given a "little red book" used by the Green Berets. The conflict between the two men began at dinner one night. Hopper had already been there for over a month, training in the jungle with his team. Luckily, all of this danger led to some pretty incredible sequences, namely the opening shot of helicopters flying across the scene in front of the fiery jungle –- something Coppola created from previously discarded footage.īrando initially arrived on the set weeks after he had been scheduled to start, which meant the entire crew had been waiting for him. The explosion scenes were done with actual napalm, and, according to cast and crew, the heat could be felt from half a mile away. At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, 'does not exist, nor will it ever exist. Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro kept asking the pilots to get closer to one another, even though a crash would have been disastrous. There was no supervisor in the air, making it difficult to get the helicopters all in one shot. It took three weeks to film the Air Cavalry attack in the film, and it was a pretty hazardous situation. Coppola once said he thought some of the pilots were high on heroin when they flew off into battle.
According to a retrospective featured on Cinephilia & Beyond, this also meant that the helicopters had to be repeatedly re-painted in American military colors every time the helicopters were recalled.
This was all well and good, but the problem was the helicopters were frequently flown off to fight rebel armies in the real-life war happening in the Philippines.
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