"Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse is a 1991 American documentary film about the production of ""Apocalypse Now,"" the 1979 Vietnam War epic directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The title is derived from the Joseph Conrad novella ""Heart of Darkness"", the source material for ""Apocalypse Now"". Using behind-the-scenes footage, and narrated by Eleanor Coppola, the documentary chronicles how production problems—among them bad weather, actors' poor health, and other issues—delayed the film, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of its director, her husband, Francis Ford Coppola. In 1990, Coppola turned her material"
"for Francis Ford Coppola's ""Apocalypse Now"") - and because of Stanley's own family relation to legendary African explorer Henry Morton Stanley, one of the chief inspirations for Conrad's lead character, Kurtz. According to Stanley, Brando was still fascinated by Kurtz more than fifteen years after he had played a version of the character in Coppola's film. With Brando supporting him, Stanley was confirmed as director, and he was also able to recruit two more major stars: Bruce Willis as Edward Prendick, a UN negotiator who washes up on Moreau's island after his plane crashes, and James Woods as Montgomery, Moreau's"
"Walter Lord's book ""A Night to Remember"" in 1955. The discovery of the wreck of the ""Titanic"" by Robert Ballard in 1985 sparked a new wave of interest which has continued to the present day, boosted by the release of James Cameron's film of the same name in 1997. The fourth and final came with the capsizing of the ""Costa Concordia"" in 2012, just few months before the centenary of the ""Titanic"" disaster. Even at the time, the high level of public interest in the disaster produced strong dissenting reactions in some quarters. The novelist Joseph Conrad (who was himself"
"circumstances and remote settings to assert power over others. It is widely believed that Conrad drew influence from these characters, as well as Stevenson's plot lines, when writing ""Heart of Darkness"". In the 1958 loose adaptation for the CBS television anthology series ""Playhouse 90"" Kurtz was played by Boris Karloff. This version uses the encounter between Marlow and Kurtz as its final act, and adds a backstory in which Marlow had been Kurtz's adopted son. Francis Ford Coppola's acclaimed Vietnam War film ""Apocalypse Now"" (1979) centers on the protagonist's mission to find and kill the renegade Colonel Kurtz (played by"
"Karloff) as its final act, and adds a backstory in which Marlow had been Kurtz's adopted son. The cast includes Inga Swenson and Eartha Kitt. The most famous adaptation is Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 motion picture ""Apocalypse Now"" based on the screenplay by John Milius, which moves the story from the Congo to Vietnam and Cambodia during the Vietnam War. In ""Apocalypse Now"", Martin Sheen plays Captain Benjamin L. Willard, a US Army Captain assigned to ""terminate the command"" of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz. Marlon Brando played Kurtz, in one of his most famous roles. A production documentary of the"
"in a ""writers walk"" commemorates Conrad's visits to Australia between 1879 and 1892. The plaque notes that ""Many of his works reflect his 'affection for that young continent.'"" In San Francisco in 1979, a small triangular square at Columbus Avenue and Beach Street, near Fisherman's Wharf, was dedicated as ""Joseph Conrad Square"" after Conrad. The square's dedication was timed to coincide with release of Francis Ford Coppola's ""Heart of Darkness""-inspired film, ""Apocalypse Now"". In the latter part of World War II, the Royal Navy cruiser ""HMS Danae"" was rechristened ORP ""Conrad"" and served as part of the Polish Navy. Notwithstanding"
"US gave it their ""Best Cinematography"" Award. It won the prestigious Grand Prix of the Belgian Film Critics Association in 1976 and was nominated for a ""Best Film"" César Award. Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film ""Apocalypse Now"", a film based on Joseph Conrad's 1902 novella ""Heart of Darkness"", was influenced also by ""Aguirre"", as it contains seemingly deliberate visual ""quotations"" of Herzog's film. Coppola himself has noted, """"Aguirre"", with its incredible imagery, was a very strong influence. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention it."" Several critics have noted that ""Aguirre"" appears to have had a direct influence on several"
"have become Abrams, (CIA Director Richard) Helms and Nixon. The only winner would have been North Vietnam."" After the war, Francis Ford Coppola, director of the 1979 film ""Apocalypse Now"" said that the character Colonel Walter Kurtz in the film was loosely based upon Rheault, whom he had become aware of through the 1969 news accounts of the Green Beret Affair. Upon retirement from the military, Rheault served as an instructor, program leader, and later, acting president of the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School in Rockland, Maine; retiring from the school in 2001 after 32 years of service. He also"
"""Heart of Darkness"" (1899) by Joseph Conrad. The movie's Kurtz is widely believed to have been modeled after Tony Poe, a highly decorated and highly unorthodox Vietnam War-era paramilitary officer from the CIA's Special Activities Division. Poe was known to drop severed heads into enemy-controlled villages as a form of psychological warfare and to use human ears to record the number of enemies his indigenous troops had killed. He would send these ears back to his superiors as proof of his efforts deep inside Laos. However, Coppola denies that Poe was a primary influence. Coppola says the character was loosely"
"Heart of Darkness Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad about a narrated voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State in the so-called ""heart of Africa"". Charles Marlow, the narrator, tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames. This setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his obsession with the ivory trader Kurtz, which enables Conrad to create a parallel between what Conrad calls ""the greatest town on earth"", London, and Africa as places of darkness. Central to Conrad's work is the idea that there is"
"a competing offer of $15,000 for Milius to write ""Apocalypse Now"". ""Apocalypse Now"" was an adaptation of ""Heart of Darkness"" set in the Vietnam War which George Lucas intended to direct as a follow up to his first feature ""THX 1138"" (1971). Milius says Coppola: Offered that wonderful fork in the road where I could go do my own thing rather than just rewrite some piece of crap that would probably be rewritten by somebody else. That was the most important decision I made in my life as a writer. That sort of steered me onto the path of doing"
"The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' The Nigger of the 'Narcissus': A Tale of the Forecastle (1897; also subtitled A Tale of the Sea and published in the US as The Children of the Sea) is a novella by Joseph Conrad. Because of its quality compared to earlier works, some have described it as marking the start of Conrad's major, or middle, period; others have placed it as the best work of his early, or first, period. The author's preface to the novel, regarded as a manifesto of literary impressionism, is considered one of Conrad's most significant pieces of non-fiction writing."
"Carmine and Francis Ford Coppola (with some tracks co-composed by Mickey Hart and Richard Hansen). The first track is an abridged version of The Doors' eleven-minute epic ""The End"". All songs written by Carmine Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola, except where noted: Apocalypse Now Redux Apocalypse Now Redux is a 2001 extended version of Francis Ford Coppola's epic war film ""Apocalypse Now"", which was originally released in 1979. Coppola, along with editor/longtime collaborator Walter Murch, added 49 minutes of material that had been removed from the original film. It represents a significant re-edit of the original version. Francis Ford Coppola"
"Apocalypse Now Redux Apocalypse Now Redux is a 2001 extended version of Francis Ford Coppola's epic war film ""Apocalypse Now"", which was originally released in 1979. Coppola, along with editor/longtime collaborator Walter Murch, added 49 minutes of material that had been removed from the original film. It represents a significant re-edit of the original version. Francis Ford Coppola began production on the new cut with working-partner Kim Aubry. Coppola then tried to get Murch, who was reluctant at first. He thought it would be extremely difficult recutting a film that had taken two years to edit originally. He later changed"
"Said has remarked that ""It is difficult to read ‘Amy Foster’ without thinking that Conrad must have feared dying a similar death, inconsolable, alone, talking away in a language no one could understand"". In 1997 ""Amy Foster"" was made into the film, ""Swept from the Sea"". Amy Foster ""Amy Foster"" is a short story by Joseph Conrad written in 1901, first published in the ""Illustrated London News"" (December 1901), and collected in ""Typhoon and Other Stories"" (1903). A poor emigrant from Central Europe sailing from Hamburg to America is shipwrecked off the coast of England. The residents of nearby villages,"
"were replaced with cheaper actors. The novel was adapted into a film in 1918. The screenwriters were Harry Chandlee and E. Richard Schayer. It was directed by Reginald Barker. It was shot in May–June 1918 at Paralta Studio on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. Actors included W. Lawson Butt, Clara Williams and Adda Gleason. The film, which is now lost, was reviewed in ""Variety"". The One Woman: A Story of Modern Utopia The One Woman: A Story of Modern Utopia is a 1903 novel by Thomas Dixon, Jr.. Reverend Joseph Gordon, a preacher in New York City, clashes with church"
"their first movies was going to be ""East of Suez"", written and directed by Milius. It was not made. However, the following year saw the release of ""Apocalypse Now"", directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola rewrote the script, which Milius disliked. ""He wanted to ruin it, liberalize it, and turn it into ""Hair"","" said Milius in 1976. ""He sees himself as a great humanitarian, an enlightened soul who will tell you such wonderful things as he does at the end of GODFATHER II-that crime doesn't pay ... Talent-wise, he's no John Ford; character-wise, he's no Steve Spielberg. Francis can't stand"
"French theorist Jean Baudrillard dedicated a chapter to ""Apocalypse Now"" in his 1981 treatise ""Simulacra and Simulation"". Baudrillard accuses the Vietnam War, a non-event, of having become ""film"" and Coppola of having made the Vietnam War an actual event and a victory through the film ""Apocalypse Now"": The first home video releases of ""Apocalypse Now"" were pan-and-scan versions of the original Technovision anamorphic 2.35:1 print, and the closing credits, white on black background, were presented in compressed 1.33:1 full-frame format to allow all credit information to be seen on standard televisions. The first letterboxed appearance, on Laserdisc on December 29,"
"on the Making of Apocalypse Now"" in 1979. The book chronicled such events as the near destruction of the film's production as well as the stress that both cast and crew were suffering from at the time. This would not be the only documentation of the making of Francis Ford Coppola's ""Apocalypse Now"" as she decided to film a documentary based on the same movie. The documentary film ""Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse"" was co-directed by Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr, and George Hickenlooper. In the film, Eleanor narrates the trials and difficulties surrounding the production of the award-winning film"
"became recognized as a classic of post-World War II literature, both in Germany and around the world. A translation into English by Ralph Manheim was published in 1961. A new 50th anniversary translation into English by Breon Mitchell was published in 2009. In 1979 a film adaptation appeared by Volker Schlöndorff. It covers only Books 1 and 2, concluding at the end of the war. It shared the 1979 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or with ""Apocalypse Now"". It also won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film of 1979 at the 1980 Academy Awards. In 1996 a radio dramatisation starring"
"Joseph Conrad's second novel, ""An Outcast of the Islands"". Almayer's Folly Almayer's Folly, published in 1895, is Joseph Conrad's first novel. Set in the late 19th century, it centres on the life of the Dutch trader Kaspar Almayer in the Borneo jungle and his relationship to his mixed heritage daughter Nina. ""Almayer’s Folly"" is about a poor businessman who dreams of finding a hidden gold mine and becoming very wealthy. He is a white European, married to a native Malayan; they have one daughter named Nina. He fails to find the goldmine, and comes home saddened. Previously, he had heard"
"the notes to his poem, ""The Waste Land"". The book appears in the film ""Apocalypse Now"" (1979), among those kept by the character, Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, played by Marlon Brando, along with ""The Golden Bough"". The book appears in the limited series ""Batman: Tenses"", in which it is thrown in a fire by Ted Krosby before he kills his father. The book also appears in the Oliver Stone film ""The Doors"". From Ritual to Romance From Ritual to Romance is a 1920 book written by Jessie L. Weston. Weston's book is an examination of the roots of the King"
"Since his 1974 film ""The Conversation"" won the Palme d'Or, Coppola agreed to screen ""Apocalypse Now"" with only a month before the festival. The week prior to Cannes, Coppola arranged three sneak previews of slightly different versions. He allowed critics to attend the screenings and believed that they would honor the embargo placed on reviews. On 14 May, Rona Barrett reviewed the film on television and called it ""a disappointing failure"". At Cannes, Zoetrope technicians worked during the night before the screening to install additional speakers on the theater walls, to achieve Murch's 5.1 soundtrack. On August 15, 1979 ""Apocalypse"
"Apocalypse Now (painting) Apocalypse Now is a 1988 painting by the American artist Christopher Wool, widely regarded as among the most important of his ""word paintings"" created in the late 1980s. It consists of the words ""SELL THE HOUSE SELL THE CAR SELL THE KIDS"", stenciled in black, block letters in alkyd enamel on an off-white painted aluminum and steel plate measuring 84 x 72 inches (213.4 x 182.9 cm). The quotation is from the 1979 Francis Ford Coppola movie ""Apocalypse Now"", where it is written in a letter mailed home by a character who has lost his mind in"
"Almayer's Folly Almayer's Folly, published in 1895, is Joseph Conrad's first novel. Set in the late 19th century, it centres on the life of the Dutch trader Kaspar Almayer in the Borneo jungle and his relationship to his mixed heritage daughter Nina. ""Almayer’s Folly"" is about a poor businessman who dreams of finding a hidden gold mine and becoming very wealthy. He is a white European, married to a native Malayan; they have one daughter named Nina. He fails to find the goldmine, and comes home saddened. Previously, he had heard that the British were to conquer the Pantai River,"
"the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. Initial reviews were mixed; while Vittorio Storaro's cinematography was widely acclaimed, several critics found Coppola's handling of the story's major themes to be anticlimactic and intellectually disappointing. Reevaluated in subsequent years, ""Apocalypse Now"" is today considered to be one of the greatest films ever made. It ranked No. 14 in ""Sight & Sound""<nowiki>'s</nowiki> greatest films poll in 2012. In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library"
"When?"" The 1991 documentary film """", directed by Eleanor Coppola (Francis's wife), Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper, chronicles the difficulties the crew went through making ""Apocalypse Now"" and features behind-the-scenes footage filmed by Eleanor. After filming ""Apocalypse Now"", Coppola famously stated: ""We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment and little by little, we went insane."" The film was overwhelmingly lauded by critics when it finally appeared in 1979 and was selected for the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, winning the Palme d'Or along with ""The Tin Drum"","
"began filming ""Apocalypse Now"", an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's ""Heart of Darkness"" set in Cambodia during the Vietnam War (Coppola himself briefly appears as a TV news director). The production of the film was plagued by numerous problems, including typhoons, nervous breakdowns, the firing of Harvey Keitel, Martin Sheen's heart attack, extras from the Philippine military and half of the supplied helicopters leaving in the middle of scenes to go fight rebels and an unprepared Brando with a bloated appearance (which Coppola attempted to hide by shooting him in the shadows). It was delayed so often it was nicknamed ""Apocalypse"
"sensitivity to suffering can be detrimental to the management of a human society. In his critical study of Conrad, John G. Peters said of the work in 2006: (plain text and HTML) The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' The Nigger of the 'Narcissus': A Tale of the Forecastle (1897; also subtitled A Tale of the Sea and published in the US as The Children of the Sea) is a novella by Joseph Conrad. Because of its quality compared to earlier works, some have described it as marking the start of Conrad's major, or middle, period; others have placed it as the"
"of Francis Ford Coppola's film ""Apocalypse Now"": ""The horror... the horror..."", which in turn was adapted from Joseph Conrad's novel ""Heart of Darkness"". ""College Roomies from Hell!!!"" has been nominated for several Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards, winning ""Best Writing"" and ""Best Serial Comic"" in 2001, and ""Outstanding Character Development"" in 2002. Campos-Rebolledo went on to create the webcomic ""Power Nap"" in collaboration with the artist Bachan. College Roomies from Hell!!! College Roomies from Hell!!! or CRFH!!! as it is known to fans, is a webcomic strip by Maritza Campos-Rebolledo. It started January 1, 1999. Since 2010 it updated only sporadically"
"addition, the film industry was in crisis, and the army did not wish to assist in making anti-war films. From the late 1970s, independently financed and produced films showed Hollywood that Vietnam could be treated in film. Successful but very different portrayals of the war in which America had been defeated included Michael Cimino's ""The Deer Hunter"" (1978), and Francis Ford Coppola's ""Apocalypse Now"" (1979). With the shift in American politics to the right in the 1980s, military success could again be shown in films such as Oliver Stone's ""Platoon"" (1986), Stanley Kubrick's ""Full Metal Jacket"" (1987) and John Irvin's"
"on the Congo River, an episode that would inspire his novella, ""Heart of Darkness"". During this period, in 1890 in the Congo, Conrad encountered and befriended the Irish Republican and advocate for human rights, Sir Roger Casement. When Conrad left London on 25 October 1892 aboard the clipper ship ""Torrens"", one of the passengers was William Henry Jacques, a consumptive Cambridge graduate who died less than a year later (19 September 1893) and was, according to Conrad's ""A Personal Record"", the first reader of the still-unfinished manuscript of his ""Almayer's Folly"". Jacques encouraged Conrad to continue writing the novel. Conrad"
"neo-Nazis' plot to take over Europe through terrorism and biological warfare. A running joke concerns the inability of the French to pronounce ""Latham"" correctly. The Apocalypse Watch The Apocalypse Watch (1995) is a novel by Robert Ludlum. A TV movie based on it aired in 1997 which starred Patrick Bergin and Virginia Madsen. This was Ludlum's second novel to focus on a neo-Nazi conspiracy to take over the world, after ""The Holcroft Covenant"" (1978). The plot concerns Drew Latham, a special officer for consular operations, who must discover why his brother was killed after a covert mission. He impersonates his"