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The colonel, once considered a model officer and future general, has gone insane from the horror and the pointlessness of the war. In his personal compound deep in the Cambodian jungle, he has turned to cannibalism and murder and is worshipped by the natives.
The film features performances by Martin Sheen as Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Marlow, in the novel), Marlon Brando as Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, and Dennis Hopper as a seemingly insane photojournalist (the harlequin).
The film deviates extensively from the book, for example in that Captain Willard is not sent to investigate, but to kill, and that Colonel Kurtz does not die a natural, though mysterious, death; also Marlow is sent to Cambodia, not the land of the Congo River.
Filmed in the Philippines, the film went extremely over budget and over schedule, partly due to a typhoon, but also due to the excesses of Coppola and others. The film was originally six hours long and had to be severely edited, with the result that some of the symbolismFor an account of the late 19th-century movement in poetry and the arts, known as Symbolism see symbolism (arts). Symbolism is the systematic use of symbols to represent or allude to something. In the most literal sense, all language is symbolic. In a nar was lost in the original theatrical release. Coppola re-released the film in 20012001 is a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall ap under the title Apocalypse Now Redux, featuring over an hour of restored footage. For background information on the film, see Eleanor CoppolaEleanor Coppola ( May 4th, 1936 ), a graduate in Applied Design from UCLA, is the wife of Francis Ford Coppola. They met on the set of his directorial debut Dementia 13 in 1962 where she was Assistant Art Director, and married a year later. Their children's documentary, , released in 19911991 like 2002, is a palindromic year. It also has the same calendar as 2002, including Easter on March 31. It is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January January 2 Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC becoming the first blac.
Several other actors who were, or later became, prominent stars, had minor or supporting roles in the movie, including Robert DuvallRobert Duvall is an actor, born on January 5, 1931 in San Diego, California. He studied acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York. His screen debut was as Boo Radley in the critically acclaimed To Kill a Mockingbird ( 1962) bu, Harrison FordHarrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor who between 1977 and 1983 appeared in what were then four of the top ten highest-grossing movies ever. In most of his roles, Ford plays a tough, wise-cracking action hero, and is especially well know, and Laurence FishburneLaurence Fishburne (born July 30, 1961 in Augusta, Georgia, USA) is a notable United States movie actor. Laurence Fishburne started acting at the age of 12, getting his big break portraying Joshua Hall on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live in 1973..
Apocalypse Now won the 1979 Palme d'Or (Golden Palm, the highest prize) at the Cannes Film Festival. It was the first and remains the only film to win this prize before the film was actually completed.
It also won two Academy Awards in 1980:
Other nominations were:
In 2000 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film " culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.