Apocalypse Now

Informationen zum Autor Five-time Academy Award winner Francis Ford Coppola won his first Oscar for the screenplay of Patton , which he co-wrote with Edmund G. North. He won his first Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for The Conversation , which he wrote and directed. He has directed twenty films, including Apocalypse Now and the epic Godfather trilogy. John Milius is a director, screenwriter and producer, whose credits include Dillinger , Conan the Barbarian and Red Dawn . Klappentext In May 1979, Francis Ford Coppola unveiled a 'work in progress' cut of his film, Apocalypse Now, at the Cannes Film Festival. Apocalypse Now Redux is the screenplay to Francis Ford Coppola's convention-shattering relocation of Conrad's Heart of Darkness . Zusammenfassung In May 1979, Francis Ford Coppola unveiled a 'work in progress' cut of his film, Apocalypse Now , at the Cannes Film Festival. After winning the prestigious Palme d'Or, the convention-shattering film was nominated for eight Academy Awards and became a worldwide phenomenon. In 2001 Coppola introduced a new version - wholly re-edited from the original raw footage - that included forty-nine minutes of never-before-seen footage: Apocalypse Now Redux . Apocalypse Now relocates Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to the Vietnam War, focusing on the hazardous mission of Captain Willard to find and terminate 'with extreme prejudice' a renegade American colonel in Cambodia.

Product details

• Authors: Francis Ford Coppola, Coppola Francis Ford, John Milius, Milius John
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2001
• EAN: 9780571214846
• ISBN: 978-0-571-21484-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 235 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; Television screenplays, scripts & performances, Television scripts & screenplays, Film Scripts & Screenplays, Counterculture; Madness; Vietnam; War