"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Now Apocalypse Now Apocalypse is an upcoming American comedy television series that is set to premiere on Starz. The series is set to be written by Gregg Araki and Karley Sciortino. Araki is also expected to act as director and executive produce alongside Steven Soderbergh, and Gregory Jacobs. ""Now Apocalypse"" follows ""Ulysses and his friends Carly, Ford and Severine, who are on various quests pursuing love, sex and fame. ""Now Apocalypse"" explores identity, sexuality and artistry, while navigating the strange and oftentimes bewildering city of Los Angeles. Between sexual and romantic dating app adventures, Ulysses grows increasingly troubled as foreboding"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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,"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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."
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"directed by Volker Schlöndorff. When the film screened at Cannes, he quipped: ""My film is not about Vietnam, it is Vietnam."" ""Apocalypse Now""'s reputation has grown in time and it is now regarded by many as a masterpiece of the New Hollywood era and is frequently cited as one of the greatest movies ever made. Roger Ebert considers it to be the finest film on the Vietnam War and included it in his list for the 2002 ""Sight & Sound"" critics' poll of the greatest movies ever made. In 2001, Coppola re-released ""Apocalypse Now"" as ""Apocalypse Now Redux"", restoring several"
"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 brother and uncovers a web of neo-Nazi supporters with members at high levels of the U.S. government and its allies. Latham must stop the"
"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"
"1960, Coppola enrolled in UCLA Film School for graduate work in film. There he directed a short horror film called ""The Two Christophers"", inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's ""William Wilson"", and ""Ayamonn the Terrible"", a film about a sculptor's nightmares coming to life, before directing the experimental softcore comedy ""Tonight for Sure"" in 1962. At UCLA, Coppola met Jim Morrison. He later used Morrison's song ""The End"" in ""Apocalypse Now"". The company that hired him for ""Tonight for Sure"" brought him back to re-cut a German film titled ""Mit Eva fing die Sünde an"" directed by Fritz Umgelter. He added"
"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"
"of ""Apocalypse Now"", released on October 19, 2010. A quote from the Coppola interview shown at the beginning of the film (""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"") is sampled in UNKLE's song ""UNKLE (Main Title Theme)"", and also in the Cabaret Voltaire song ""Project80"" (as part of a larger sample from that interview). ""Hearts of Dartmouth: Life of a Trailer Park Girl"" is a documentary about the making of the TV series ""Trailer Park Boys"". It was directed"
"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"
"According to Coppola, the film may be considered anti-war, but is even more anti-lie: ""...the fact that a culture can lie about what's really going on in warfare, that people are being brutalized, tortured, maimed, and killed, and somehow present this as moral is what horrifies me, and perpetuates the possibility of war"". In May 2011, a newly restored digital print of ""Apocalypse Now"" was released in UK cinemas, distributed by Optimum Releasing. ""Total Film"" magazine gave the film a five-star review, stating: ""This is the original cut rather than the 2001 'Redux' (be gone, jarring French plantation interlude!), digitally"
"to hint at epic qualities. But such qualities do not bear too much repeating, and they are reiterated beyond tolerable limits"". The Rescue (Conrad novel) The Rescue, A Romance of the Shallows (1920) is one of Joseph Conrad's works contained in what is now sometimes called the Lingard Trilogy, a group of novels based on Conrad's experience as mate on the steamer Vidar. Although it was the last of the three novels to be published, after ""Almayer's Folly"" (1895) and ""An Outcast of the Islands"" (1896), the events related in the novel precede those. The story follows Captain Tom Lingard,"
"by Mark Peploe, with Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Irène Jacob, and Rufus Sewell. British dramatist Harold Pinter prepared a screenplay for a film, never made, from which the BBC broadcast a radio adaptation in 2015. The 1987 German film, ""Des Teufels Paradies"", starring Jürgen Prochnow, Suzanna Hamilton and Sam Waterston, is also based on Conrad's novel. Victory (novel) Victory (also published as Victory: An Island Tale) is a psychological novel by Joseph Conrad first published in 1915, through which Conrad achieved ""popular success."" The ""New York Times"", however, called it ""an uneven book"" and ""more open to criticism than most"
"the film's title to ""Apocalypse Now"" after being inspired by a button badge popular with hippies during the 1960s that said ""Nirvana Now"". He was influenced by an article written by Michael Herr titled, ""The Battle for Khe Sanh"", which referred to drugs, rock 'n' roll, and people calling airstrikes down on themselves. He was also inspired by such films as ""Dr Strangelove"". Milius says the classic line ""Charlie don't surf"" was inspired by a comment Ariel Sharon made during the Six-Day War, when he went skin diving after capturing enemy territory and announced ""We're eating their fish"". He says"
"at the turn of the century. While Macwhirr, who, according to Conrad, ""never walked on this Earth"" - is emotionally estranged from his family and crew, and though he refuses to consider an alternative course to skirt the typhoon, his indomitable will in the face of a superior natural force elicits grudging admiration. Typhoon (novella) Typhoon is a novella by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and serialized in ""Pall Mall Magazine"" in January–March 1902. Its first book publication was in New York by Putnam in 1902; it was also published in Britain in Typhoon and Other Stories by Heinemann in"
"""Apocalypse Now"" that he met his future wife, French actress Aurore Clément. (Clément's role was eventually edited out of the final cut of the film, and only restored in the ""Apocalypse Now Redux"" version in 2001. From 1967 until 2001, he worked on over thirty movies and landed five Academy Award nominations for Best Art Direction, one of which he won for ""The Godfather Part II"". For the 1982 release ""One from the Heart"" he recreated both the Las Vegas 'strip' and McCarran International Airport on the sound stages of Zoetrope Studios. The list of directors with whom he has"
"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"