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Box office. $104.8–150 million [ 6 ][ 7 ][ 8 ] Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr, is loosely inspired by the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to ...
The Ride of the Valkyries (‹See Tfd› German: Walkürenritt or Ritt der Walküren) is the popular name of the prelude to the first scene of the third and last act of Die Walküre, the second of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner 's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Performed in 1921. by the American Symphony Orchestra for ...
Ronald Lee Ermey (March 24, 1944 – April 15, 2018) was an American actor and U.S. Marine drill instructor. He achieved fame for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Ermey was also a United States Marine Corps staff sergeant and an ...
Apocalypse Now (1979) Sheen goes upriver into the heart of darkness in Apocalypse Now. (Photo: United Artists/ Courtesy: Everett Collection) (©United Artists/courtesy Everett / Everett Collection)
The New York City-born, Los Angeles-raised Estevez is still better known to the masses for his acting credits, which have afforded him a front-row seat to many maestros working behind the camera.
Apocalypse Now Redux is a 2001 American extended version of Francis Ford Coppola 's epic 1979 war film Apocalypse Now. Coppola, along with editor and longtime collaborator Walter Murch, added 49 minutes of material that had been removed from the initial theatrical release. It is a significant re-edit of the original version.
The second half of the film is set in the Battle of Hue in 1968, where the Marines fight to retake Hue, and the film climaxes with an extended scene where an unseen Viet Cong sniper kills a number of men in the Marine squad Joker is attached to. [5] The film ends with Joker coldly executing the sniper, a badly wounded woman who begs for mercy. [5]
Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, portrayed by Marlon Brando, is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now.Colonel Kurtz is based on the character of a nineteenth-century ivory trader, also called Kurtz, from the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.