![]() Coppola, along with editor/longtime collaborator Walter Murch, added 49 minutes of material that had been removed from the initial theatrical release. It's a mix of art and storytelling that winds up being a perfect blend, and even twenty years later it can't be improved upon with never before seen footage. Apocalypse Now Redux is a 2001 American extended version of Francis Ford Coppola's epic 1979 war film Apocalypse Now. ![]() Thankfully both versions are readily available and some people do find Redux to be an improvement story-wise, especially as it relates to Clean's character, but I prefer the much slicker and more tightly-edited narrative of the original film. ![]() They're good scenes in and of themselves, but I think the film improves without their inclusion. If you're bogged down in what's happening in the story with a narrative that follows a man up a river to find a Colonel, then you're gonna be bored when he stops off for a half an hour to talk to some French plantation owners. Kurtz Robert Duvall: Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore Martin Sheen: Captain Benjamin L. I feel the new footage slows the pace of an already long film down. Again, I'm not criticizing the effort, just stating my feelings about it. The trouble is that it doesn't improve what had already been perfected to begin with. For me, I find it to be a bit fascinating to see the extra footage and how it works in the context of the film that I'm already very familiar with. It's a fresh approach to the material that was shot in the late 1970's by mostly the same group of people who made it in the first place. I’ve added it to my Netflix queue, but I had a few questions: The scene I saw was a very disturbing (and well acted all around) scene in which the Playboy Playmates prostitute themselves for helicopter fuel. People like to take Francis Ford Coppola to task for going all George Lucas on his masterpiece and tinkering with it, but the difference is that Coppola is just as happy with the original film as he is with this alternate version, which is what he calls it. It’s been many many years since I saw Apocalypse Now and I’ve never seen Redux, though I caught a part of it on cable the other day. There's a reason all of this extra footage was cut out in the first place: to make a better film. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.A U.S. Like most people, I had a similar reaction to Apocalypse Now: Redux in that I didn't find it all that great as a film.
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