I think that "Apocalypse now redux" is a great edition. It is not like the "Star Wars special editions" where the scenes are MODIFIED: this version ADDIED cut scenes. Who says that is "overstuffed" or "boring" says bullshit. However I am disappointed that they cut off these end credits. My question is "Why?". With this credits the redux edition would be really complete...
As this was the ending that I originally saw the first time I watched this, I was very disappointed when I watched it in the future and this was missing. It fit into the whole package too well to be omitted. The music you hear over the black background was useless without the striking visual footage which was obviously synched with the sound. It seems to me that Coppola changed his mind for some reason (external pressure perhaps) and corrupted a perfect ending to a perfect movie.
Another point is that Chef calls Almighty about the air strike (presumingly giving coordinates) and it isn't until dark that Kurtz delivers his head to Willard, giving the idea that the communication had enough time to go through. The later calls to PBR from Almighty might have been to check if they were still alive. Almighty would have still carried out the mission knowing the coordinates of Kurtz, regardless of the safety of the others. They did make Willard a Major, after all...
This ending was the original ending I saw when I originally saw this movie on video. The music (including percussion by the Rhythm Devils, including Mickey Hart) seem to be absolutely synchronized with the scenes. Particularly striking is the incredible feedbacking guitar which goes occurs exactly when some explosions are taking place, later in the credits. To me, the whole thing was planned: music and scenery. Kurtz, the genius military planner, would have warned 'his children' to evacuate...
Interesting observation. When I saw the movie for the first time about a year after its release, I always thought it was Willard who called in the airstrike. In this sense the final scene was a metaphor for ultimately obeying ones orders from on high, rather than following ones owns instincts about the war.
To me this is the 'real & true ending' . WIllard after standing at the steps with the chance to be 'god' - calls in the 'death from above' - the Apocalypse ...
There's a reason artists shouldn't be allowed to reinterpret their work. They spent something like two years editing the first release and it worked. Now we get the horrible pacing of the Redux version, with its dispensible scenes, and the loss of this footage which is the *perfect* ending. And airing this on mainstream television is just a joke, they have to bleep out or alter far too much content.
Interesting. I saw the redux version at the cinema two nights ago. I had never even seen the film before (but naturally fell in love with it) so i wasn't aware of this ending. Controversial, but I feel like the fade to black with the whimpering is more truthful somehow, and far more apocalyptic. Although, I can't deny that all this fire is very visually striking. Maybe i'd feel differently if I saw it on the big screen, but the way it ended so quietly when I saw it felt more disconcerting.
When I saw the movie when it was first released, it had these credits but, soon after Willard called in the airstrike, the music was Jimi Hendrix' Woodstock rendition of The Star Spangled Banner.
I have Apocalypse Now on VHS (from Paramount) but it has a black screen that Francis Ford Coppola pulled out because he did not say about having explosions at the end. But with or without the scene the credits are still in its place.
@shaneu1 according to the book that Apocalypse Now is almost based on (Heart of Darkness), Marlow, or in this case Willard, does leave and returns home. I would presume that Coppola intended it to seem the same way. Dont really know why they cut it out. I guess this just reaffirms the fact that Willard left and followed orders.
@mcgstudmuffin FFC called this the "mom and apple pie version" implying that this really was supposed to be the air strike and not just some random explosions. Anyway, this is the version I remember seeing back in 1979. Best closing credits ever. No one left until it was over.
@Swinefeld Yeah usually I was like a rat up a drainpipe, sprinting out the theatre so I could get to the pub before last orders (about 10.45pm in the 70's in the U.K.). Not when I watched this movie.
VIETNAM is still in the NEWS, just different Location, now called AFGHANISTAN!!! FUCK the Military and all these sick HABBITS done by ZOMBIES ... "CONFITENTIAL" ... This is a cover Sheet ... NOWADAYS we should support wikileaks and the couraged Julian Assange. My deepest RESPECT to this man. LIVE LONG and PROSPER xxx
I refuse to buy a set of this until they have the original credits reinstated, not as an extra with just the explosions. All the copies now are released thru paramount. Heck these aren't even the credits i remember even though they are close and awesome. The credits I remember had United Artists instead of omni zoetrope and the released thru united artists logo at the end of it.
Only the laserdisk has the original ending. Mr. FFC claims willard did not call in airstrike so it was misleading so FFC cut it out of all releases, But that's not true. In heart of darkness documentary FFC as a story board on his desk and last thing is airstrike. In the Orginal release Willard calls it in even. This is either a bow to PC or FFC changed his vision and thought peace should reign as he says in bluray release in directors commentary. Regardless Laserdisk only!
"In some but not all prints of the film, the closing credits play over footage of Kurtz' temple-base exploding; after the film's original general release Coppola replaced this footage with a plain black screen because some viewers interpreted it as an air strike called in by Willard, which Coppola did not intend."
not the ending you all think happened, sorry to burst your bubble.
I was so glad to find this, since this is the original end credit sequence that so entranced me when I saw the original release in 1979, in a large theater in 70mm. I cannot imagine why Coppola saw fit to remove it from DVD releases and from the overstuffed "Redux" version. It was an appropriate and brilliantly creative coda to a marvellous surreal spectacle.
@shaneu1 Oh I agree with you. There's not many times I could remember sitting right to the last frame of a film, rather than dashing out as soon as the end credits start so I could get a quick drink down the pub before closing time.
@MaverickMediaUK Splendid. Nothing among the offerings of a public house could quite equal the effect of this clip; not even if they had a jigger of absinthe lurking beneath the bar.
@mdjones2112 Yes, and in my view, his rethinking on that matter was mistaken. I believe there was an alternate ending in Mr. Coppola's mind that would at least suggest Willard taking on the role of the departed Col. Kurtz, establishing himself as the new monarch of Kurtz's crazed kingdom. The removal of the original credit sequence may well been intended to leave the viewer guessing as to Willard's intentions and why, uncharacteristically, his experience had led him to disobey orders.
@shaneu1 He removed it because people interpreted that Willard called in the airstrike and blew everyone away, which was against the theme that he was going for.
@ufuckfacesonofabitch Yes, I think he eventually decided that he wanted an ambiguous ending. But, as I describe above, when the film was first released Coppola evidently had a different view. Some have suggested that he wanted to leave the impression that Willard may just have decided to install himself as Kurtz's successor. By the way, that's a rather charming screen name you have.
@shaneu1 I actually agree with you. I think this would be a much better ending sequence. It never would had occurred to me that it was the airstrike. I just think it personifies the title "Apocalypse Now". Lots of explosions and strange music.
so much more powerful, but haha does anyone else think its funny how much work prolly went into this scene and all that careful timing and coppola just cut it? XD
These are the ending credits for the 35mm version that I orginally saw and loved.I think it matters that Willard phones in the airstrike on Kurtz's compund and this is what we see. It's damn impressive and brought the film full circle, I think. Plus, the soundtrack is one of the most horryfying I've heard. A psychedlic ending to a very surreal film. You can almost hear the helicopters again near the end.
@briantravelman The End opened the movie. If anything, from early copies of the script I've read, Light My Fire would have played over these scenes. Crappy music? I think not. It's some of the hottest percussionists from the San Francisco Bay Area playing.
Yes thank you for this clip I saw this movie in its original theatrical release and my friends and i were glued to our seats right to the last moment. I have a VHS of the movie and it did not include the end credit compound explosions.Then I bought the redux copy and still no ending. Does the newest version have this ending on it ? Any help is welcome as I dont want to purchase it if the scenes are not there.
@EOJOEK1 I think the "destruction" ending was on the European version of the 1979 cut, but not the US one....but I'm not sure. I saw it in London in the early 80s and loved it....I don't think these images are available except as a dvd extra.
@jonathanmelia The 79 US release did feature this more haunting, viscerally disturbing credit sequence, which was a prefect counterpoint to the opening nightmare visuals filtered through Willard's mind.
@EOJOEK1 As far as I know, these credits from the 35mm version were shown in theaters that showed the 35mm cut and it was also on many VHS copies of the film.
Avoid the double DVD set like the plague. Really bad.
They went back and fiddled with the saturation, colour, sound and whatnot and it just comes across as overkill.
I don't think that this video is included on the DVD set, but was available as a bonus DVD via Circuit City when you purchased the DVD release at their stores.
Find the DVD release for the original film ... that is where you'll be able to view this video (sans credits at the end ... F.F.C. narrates how the scene was).
@Zikan13 I definitely agree but I agree on an artistic sense. Its undoubtedly the best Vietnam film but I think in terms of accuracy, and drama Das Boot is better on the war side but as a whole Apocalypse No is better in terms of film.
@Zikan13 I definitely agree but I agree on an artistic sense. Its undoubtedly the best Vietnam film but I think in terms of accuracy, and drama Das Boot is better on the war side but as a whole Apocalypse Now is better in terms of film.
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All that you can see here, the air strike, the explosions, the destruction... it's all TRUE! In fact at the end of the production Philippine's president Marcos sent air squads to bomb all movie's sets and locations because he would absolutely not to leave any trace of them... and THAT's what you see here!
Actually I'm pretty sure of my version. Maybe you'd seen/read something else or more but this is, for what I meant, quite ininfluent: what I wanted to underline is that there isn't any special effect, any ficticious footage or other fake things: that was really the set that was blowing up (not important if by an air strike or explosives set up), it's all real.
@AgraMahnu obviously the explosions are "real" do you think they had CGI back then? And yes, the set was rigged to blow after the filming was complete, but it was not done via airstrike. explosives were just set up. it would be redundant and inefficient to use an airstrike to remove the set... just think about it.
I love this, simply becuase of how nihilistic & apocalyptic it is, while showing how many folks were involved in the making of this cinematic masterpiece
Also, I managed to find the actual title for the score to this final scene in Apocalypse Now.
It is known as "Napalm For Breakfast" and is an extended version of the original track (cassette track "B5" at 3:25 in length) off of The Rhythm Devils: The Apocalypse Now Sessions [The Rhythm Devils Play River Music]" rereleased in 1989 on the Ryko Analogue label.
Run a search on Discogs [dot] com for further info on this album for a more detailed background.
I prefer this ending to the final scene where Willard and Lance leave Kurtz's compound on the PBR and the film closes with the fade out of Kurtz's final words "The HORROR. The HORROR." and the image of the Cambodian temple statue's face.
I think that Willard -would- have called in the airstrike in accordance to Kurtz's final wishes to "Bomb Them All!" as found written on the pages of his personal books in his chamber room. Plus Willard wouldn't have wanted to reveal how mad Kurtz was.
Thank you for taking the time to upload this version of the final credits of Apocalypse Now w/o Coppola's narration. :-)
I put a request in for this same clip on another YouTube user's account the other day, but sadly, no reply back from him. Thanks for taking up the slack and doing so.
This track is done by the Grateful Dead's side project known as "The Rhythm Devils" which was put together by Coppola to score the movie's soundtrack.
Thanks for the info Trollcrusher, I didnt know who scored the end music and thought it was by Coppola and his wife as I hadnt looked carefully at the end credits. Ill have a look out for that track - see if I can get it somewhere.
I personally like this apocalyptic ending more than the Redux version, as it was the way I saw Apocalypse Now in 1979 and calling in the air strike ends the whole crazy Kurtz cult with a definite full stop. Yes I agree that "Bomb Them All!" was hinting the ending.
@trollcrusher242 You cn still purchase the Vodoo Rythm Devils - Apocalypse Now Sessions on CD. It contains a different remix of these ending credits but they are instantly recognizable to anyone familiar with this alternative ending credit.
Is the end credit music by The Doors too...?
retrovideoquest 6 days ago
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0180917 2 weeks ago
I think that "Apocalypse now redux" is a great edition. It is not like the "Star Wars special editions" where the scenes are MODIFIED: this version ADDIED cut scenes. Who says that is "overstuffed" or "boring" says bullshit. However I am disappointed that they cut off these end credits. My question is "Why?". With this credits the redux edition would be really complete...
Qwerty3781122 2 weeks ago
Kurtz: "Drop the Bomb! Exterminate them all!" ... done...
FearthePast 4 weeks ago
As this was the ending that I originally saw the first time I watched this, I was very disappointed when I watched it in the future and this was missing. It fit into the whole package too well to be omitted. The music you hear over the black background was useless without the striking visual footage which was obviously synched with the sound. It seems to me that Coppola changed his mind for some reason (external pressure perhaps) and corrupted a perfect ending to a perfect movie.
BlaBlog101 1 month ago
Another point is that Chef calls Almighty about the air strike (presumingly giving coordinates) and it isn't until dark that Kurtz delivers his head to Willard, giving the idea that the communication had enough time to go through. The later calls to PBR from Almighty might have been to check if they were still alive. Almighty would have still carried out the mission knowing the coordinates of Kurtz, regardless of the safety of the others. They did make Willard a Major, after all...
BlaBlog101 1 month ago
This ending was the original ending I saw when I originally saw this movie on video. The music (including percussion by the Rhythm Devils, including Mickey Hart) seem to be absolutely synchronized with the scenes. Particularly striking is the incredible feedbacking guitar which goes occurs exactly when some explosions are taking place, later in the credits. To me, the whole thing was planned: music and scenery. Kurtz, the genius military planner, would have warned 'his children' to evacuate...
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Drop the bomb, EXTERMINATE THEM ALL!!!
Kylev2 2 months ago
Make a good soundtrack for Gears of war MOVIE
dleano 4 months ago
Interesting observation. When I saw the movie for the first time about a year after its release, I always thought it was Willard who called in the airstrike. In this sense the final scene was a metaphor for ultimately obeying ones orders from on high, rather than following ones owns instincts about the war.
anilomd 5 months ago
Coppolla must be true genius to put this together
srad66 6 months ago
Will it ever be surrpassed??
srad66 6 months ago
I can't think of any other film that has the 'gravity' of Apocalypse now .. It's heavy
srad66 6 months ago
To me this is the 'real & true ending' . WIllard after standing at the steps with the chance to be 'god' - calls in the 'death from above' - the Apocalypse ...
srad66 6 months ago
I watched that movie 10 years ago, so i remember that at the end,all of FULRO's guerilla did defeat by napalm. Just feel free with that.
drakelei 7 months ago
What source is this from?
Vandcort 7 months ago
@Vandcort Says in the info above.
MaverickMediaUK 7 months ago
There's a reason artists shouldn't be allowed to reinterpret their work. They spent something like two years editing the first release and it worked. Now we get the horrible pacing of the Redux version, with its dispensible scenes, and the loss of this footage which is the *perfect* ending. And airing this on mainstream television is just a joke, they have to bleep out or alter far too much content.
OroborusFMA 8 months ago
Interesting. I saw the redux version at the cinema two nights ago. I had never even seen the film before (but naturally fell in love with it) so i wasn't aware of this ending. Controversial, but I feel like the fade to black with the whimpering is more truthful somehow, and far more apocalyptic. Although, I can't deny that all this fire is very visually striking. Maybe i'd feel differently if I saw it on the big screen, but the way it ended so quietly when I saw it felt more disconcerting.
videolaze 9 months ago
When I saw the movie when it was first released, it had these credits but, soon after Willard called in the airstrike, the music was Jimi Hendrix' Woodstock rendition of The Star Spangled Banner.
mutatron 9 months ago
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I have Apocalypse Now on VHS (from Paramount) but it has a black screen that Francis Ford Coppola pulled out because he did not say about having explosions at the end. But with or without the scene the credits are still in its place.
luigjj123 9 months ago
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luigjj123 9 months ago
Annnnnnnndddd. Nevermind youre right i just saw a video on copplas explaination about the end…
utheman01 9 months ago
@shaneu1 according to the book that Apocalypse Now is almost based on (Heart of Darkness), Marlow, or in this case Willard, does leave and returns home. I would presume that Coppola intended it to seem the same way. Dont really know why they cut it out. I guess this just reaffirms the fact that Willard left and followed orders.
utheman01 9 months ago
I prefer the fade to black with the rain because the world won't end with a bang, but a whimper.
blablaidontcarewhour 10 months ago
Wow....
Filmdude2001 10 months ago
this music is so chilling, it makes me think of being deep in the dark jungles with only my memories of what I used to be to keep me sane.
Cyclonus21 10 months ago
I actually like it just fading to black, but this is so cool and surreal
blablaidontcarewhour 11 months ago
this is the way i rembered it , & to change it takes away from the hole movie.. to bad.
kliphy10 11 months ago
Does this version imply that they called an air-strike on the base? I can't tell...
mcgstudmuffin 1 year ago
@mcgstudmuffin FFC called this the "mom and apple pie version" implying that this really was supposed to be the air strike and not just some random explosions. Anyway, this is the version I remember seeing back in 1979. Best closing credits ever. No one left until it was over.
Swinefeld 1 year ago
@Swinefeld Yeah usually I was like a rat up a drainpipe, sprinting out the theatre so I could get to the pub before last orders (about 10.45pm in the 70's in the U.K.). Not when I watched this movie.
MaverickMediaUK 1 year ago
@mcgstudmuffin Yes, and F.F Coppola got rid of it at the end of the "redux" version
jthomas666 1 year ago
A timeless and sad Movie!
VIETNAM is still in the NEWS, just different Location, now called AFGHANISTAN!!! FUCK the Military and all these sick HABBITS done by ZOMBIES ... "CONFITENTIAL" ... This is a cover Sheet ... NOWADAYS we should support wikileaks and the couraged Julian Assange. My deepest RESPECT to this man. LIVE LONG and PROSPER xxx
TheAnanda9new 1 year ago
The original ending and it's awesome.
siouzsie 1 year ago
I refuse to buy a set of this until they have the original credits reinstated, not as an extra with just the explosions. All the copies now are released thru paramount. Heck these aren't even the credits i remember even though they are close and awesome. The credits I remember had United Artists instead of omni zoetrope and the released thru united artists logo at the end of it.
CrassMufumbu 1 year ago 2
I like this music
luigjj123 1 year ago 3
Only the laserdisk has the original ending. Mr. FFC claims willard did not call in airstrike so it was misleading so FFC cut it out of all releases, But that's not true. In heart of darkness documentary FFC as a story board on his desk and last thing is airstrike. In the Orginal release Willard calls it in even. This is either a bow to PC or FFC changed his vision and thought peace should reign as he says in bluray release in directors commentary. Regardless Laserdisk only!
TheTDTDT 1 year ago
"In some but not all prints of the film, the closing credits play over footage of Kurtz' temple-base exploding; after the film's original general release Coppola replaced this footage with a plain black screen because some viewers interpreted it as an air strike called in by Willard, which Coppola did not intend."
not the ending you all think happened, sorry to burst your bubble.
Ehiguy102 1 year ago
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winddrifter47 1 year ago
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winddrifter47 1 year ago
what is the music called?
luigjj123 1 year ago
@luigjj123
Mickey Hart from grateful dead improvisation.
TheTDTDT 1 year ago
As a kid this sequence held me in awe. I know Coppolas' reason for removing it. He was so wrong!
PEEBLIES 1 year ago
I was so glad to find this, since this is the original end credit sequence that so entranced me when I saw the original release in 1979, in a large theater in 70mm. I cannot imagine why Coppola saw fit to remove it from DVD releases and from the overstuffed "Redux" version. It was an appropriate and brilliantly creative coda to a marvellous surreal spectacle.
shaneu1 1 year ago 7
@shaneu1 Oh I agree with you. There's not many times I could remember sitting right to the last frame of a film, rather than dashing out as soon as the end credits start so I could get a quick drink down the pub before closing time.
MaverickMediaUK 1 year ago 5
@MaverickMediaUK Splendid. Nothing among the offerings of a public house could quite equal the effect of this clip; not even if they had a jigger of absinthe lurking beneath the bar.
shaneu1 10 months ago
@shaneu1 Coppola removed it from the ending because he didn't want people to misinterpret it as Willard calling in the airstrike.
mdjones2112 10 months ago
@mdjones2112 Yes, and in my view, his rethinking on that matter was mistaken. I believe there was an alternate ending in Mr. Coppola's mind that would at least suggest Willard taking on the role of the departed Col. Kurtz, establishing himself as the new monarch of Kurtz's crazed kingdom. The removal of the original credit sequence may well been intended to leave the viewer guessing as to Willard's intentions and why, uncharacteristically, his experience had led him to disobey orders.
shaneu1 10 months ago
@shaneu1 He removed it because people interpreted that Willard called in the airstrike and blew everyone away, which was against the theme that he was going for.
ufuckfacesonofabitch 7 months ago
@ufuckfacesonofabitch Yes, I think he eventually decided that he wanted an ambiguous ending. But, as I describe above, when the film was first released Coppola evidently had a different view. Some have suggested that he wanted to leave the impression that Willard may just have decided to install himself as Kurtz's successor. By the way, that's a rather charming screen name you have.
shaneu1 7 months ago
@shaneu1 I actually agree with you. I think this would be a much better ending sequence. It never would had occurred to me that it was the airstrike. I just think it personifies the title "Apocalypse Now". Lots of explosions and strange music.
ufuckfacesonofabitch 7 months ago
@shaneu1 in terms of art, expressionism , surrealism -or whatever you want to call it- it just doesnt get any better than this !!
srad66 6 months ago
@shaneu1 "Overstuffed"? I disagree.
Qwerty3781122 2 weeks ago
@Qwerty3781122 Good boy. You should always question the opinions of others.
shaneu1 2 weeks ago
is this kurtz' temple base exploding?
llamasarus1 1 year ago
IMO they should've interspersed brief flashes of this in the "official" ending.
Kylev2 1 year ago
no trees were hurt during the making of this film.
j1zz1n3m 1 year ago 22
@j1zz1n3m lol
MaverickMediaUK 1 year ago
so much more powerful, but haha does anyone else think its funny how much work prolly went into this scene and all that careful timing and coppola just cut it? XD
thedoorsforever256 1 year ago
Many of these scenes were shot with infrared film.
pacific707 1 year ago
These are the ending credits for the 35mm version that I orginally saw and loved.I think it matters that Willard phones in the airstrike on Kurtz's compund and this is what we see. It's damn impressive and brought the film full circle, I think. Plus, the soundtrack is one of the most horryfying I've heard. A psychedlic ending to a very surreal film. You can almost hear the helicopters again near the end.
pacific707 1 year ago
whats with the crappy ass music, it's sippose to be the end by the doors
briantravelman 1 year ago
@briantravelman The End opened the movie. If anything, from early copies of the script I've read, Light My Fire would have played over these scenes. Crappy music? I think not. It's some of the hottest percussionists from the San Francisco Bay Area playing.
pacific707 1 year ago
Yes thank you for this clip I saw this movie in its original theatrical release and my friends and i were glued to our seats right to the last moment. I have a VHS of the movie and it did not include the end credit compound explosions.Then I bought the redux copy and still no ending. Does the newest version have this ending on it ? Any help is welcome as I dont want to purchase it if the scenes are not there.
EOJOEK1 1 year ago
@EOJOEK1 I think the "destruction" ending was on the European version of the 1979 cut, but not the US one....but I'm not sure. I saw it in London in the early 80s and loved it....I don't think these images are available except as a dvd extra.
jonathanmelia 1 year ago
@jonathanmelia The 79 US release did feature this more haunting, viscerally disturbing credit sequence, which was a prefect counterpoint to the opening nightmare visuals filtered through Willard's mind.
literaryman 1 year ago
@EOJOEK1 As far as I know, these credits from the 35mm version were shown in theaters that showed the 35mm cut and it was also on many VHS copies of the film.
pacific707 1 year ago
@EOJOEK1
Avoid the double DVD set like the plague. Really bad.
They went back and fiddled with the saturation, colour, sound and whatnot and it just comes across as overkill.
I don't think that this video is included on the DVD set, but was available as a bonus DVD via Circuit City when you purchased the DVD release at their stores.
Find the DVD release for the original film ... that is where you'll be able to view this video (sans credits at the end ... F.F.C. narrates how the scene was).
trollcrusher242 1 year ago
The fidelity of PCM laserdisc Dolby SUrround is amazing!!! do you hear the bass?
overwatever 1 year ago
Best war movie ever!
Zikan13 2 years ago 20
@Zikan13 I definitely agree but I agree on an artistic sense. Its undoubtedly the best Vietnam film but I think in terms of accuracy, and drama Das Boot is better on the war side but as a whole Apocalypse No is better in terms of film.
bigtoe512 1 year ago
@Zikan13 I definitely agree but I agree on an artistic sense. Its undoubtedly the best Vietnam film but I think in terms of accuracy, and drama Das Boot is better on the war side but as a whole Apocalypse Now is better in terms of film.
bigtoe512 1 year ago
@Zikan13 one of the best war movies ! the best war movie is saving privat rayn
gfxbd 1 year ago
@gfxbd that comment hurts...
LoKimLinProject 11 months ago
@Zikan13 best movie ever!!!
bazzahtid86 11 months ago
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@Zikan13 Best movie ever.
ActionRealmStudios 11 months ago
Why on earth did Coppola edit this from later movie releases? Its is so fitting artistically.
anilomd 2 years ago
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All that you can see here, the air strike, the explosions, the destruction... it's all TRUE! In fact at the end of the production Philippine's president Marcos sent air squads to bomb all movie's sets and locations because he would absolutely not to leave any trace of them... and THAT's what you see here!
AgraMahnu 2 years ago
Francis Ford Coppola had the explosives set up and the explosions filmed. It was not an air strike.
MaverickMediaUK 2 years ago 2
Actually I'm pretty sure of my version. Maybe you'd seen/read something else or more but this is, for what I meant, quite ininfluent: what I wanted to underline is that there isn't any special effect, any ficticious footage or other fake things: that was really the set that was blowing up (not important if by an air strike or explosives set up), it's all real.
AgraMahnu 2 years ago
@AgraMahnu are you dumb?
flectz 1 year ago 2
@flectz Why? It seems I talked even too much
AgraMahnu 1 year ago
@AgraMahnu obviously the explosions are "real" do you think they had CGI back then? And yes, the set was rigged to blow after the filming was complete, but it was not done via airstrike. explosives were just set up. it would be redundant and inefficient to use an airstrike to remove the set... just think about it.
flectz 1 year ago
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AgraMahnu 2 years ago
I like the official ending....but they should have left this in...its just so beutiful in its own meaning
Besherk 2 years ago
I love this, simply becuase of how nihilistic & apocalyptic it is, while showing how many folks were involved in the making of this cinematic masterpiece
GasmaskAvenger 2 years ago
Also, I managed to find the actual title for the score to this final scene in Apocalypse Now.
It is known as "Napalm For Breakfast" and is an extended version of the original track (cassette track "B5" at 3:25 in length) off of The Rhythm Devils: The Apocalypse Now Sessions [The Rhythm Devils Play River Music]" rereleased in 1989 on the Ryko Analogue label.
Run a search on Discogs [dot] com for further info on this album for a more detailed background.
Take care,
trollcrusher242
trollcrusher242 2 years ago
BTW-
I prefer this ending to the final scene where Willard and Lance leave Kurtz's compound on the PBR and the film closes with the fade out of Kurtz's final words "The HORROR. The HORROR." and the image of the Cambodian temple statue's face.
I think that Willard -would- have called in the airstrike in accordance to Kurtz's final wishes to "Bomb Them All!" as found written on the pages of his personal books in his chamber room. Plus Willard wouldn't have wanted to reveal how mad Kurtz was.
trollcrusher242 2 years ago 2
MaverickMediaUK ...
THANK YOU!
Thank you for taking the time to upload this version of the final credits of Apocalypse Now w/o Coppola's narration. :-)
I put a request in for this same clip on another YouTube user's account the other day, but sadly, no reply back from him. Thanks for taking up the slack and doing so.
This track is done by the Grateful Dead's side project known as "The Rhythm Devils" which was put together by Coppola to score the movie's soundtrack.
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trollcrusher242 2 years ago
Thanks for the info Trollcrusher, I didnt know who scored the end music and thought it was by Coppola and his wife as I hadnt looked carefully at the end credits. Ill have a look out for that track - see if I can get it somewhere.
I personally like this apocalyptic ending more than the Redux version, as it was the way I saw Apocalypse Now in 1979 and calling in the air strike ends the whole crazy Kurtz cult with a definite full stop. Yes I agree that "Bomb Them All!" was hinting the ending.
MaverickMediaUK 2 years ago
@trollcrusher242 You cn still purchase the Vodoo Rythm Devils - Apocalypse Now Sessions on CD. It contains a different remix of these ending credits but they are instantly recognizable to anyone familiar with this alternative ending credit.
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