![]() Note: the following paragraphs will go over the changes made to the movie. As such, Redux strongly harms a film that already had some concerns because it inserts faults where none previously appeared and does nothing to improve the weak spots. A mix of short and long bits, the new material placed into Redux gave it a very different flow and created problems where none existed. Those were the parts of Now that made it a classic, and changes could easily have distorted the film’s impact.ĭid they? Yeah, to a large extent. While some extra footage was placed in the third act, the most significant additions came earlier, and that’s where the most trouble could occur. He could redub it in Mandarin or digitally insert Jar-Jar Binks for all I care my opinion of those segments was already low enough that I don’t think there’s any way he could make them worse. As far as I’m concerned, Coppola could do whatever he wanted to the Kurtz parts of the film. So how would Redux alter this equation? Significantly, as it happens. As I stated in my original review, Coppola fully captured the confusion - moral and actual - of the conflict, and the film illustrated the pointless and suicidal nature of the United States' involvement in Vietnam. ![]() I really can’t stand the final act, but until that point, Coppola weaved a freaky tale that really seemed to transmit the essence of the war. I think it’s definitely the strongest Vietnam flick around, at least for its first two-thirds. That brief synopsis doesn’t do Now justice, for at its best, it offers possibly the finest war movie ever made. As noted, the final act of the film finds Willard within Kurtz’ compounds, and it tracks those events. Colonel Kilgore (Robert Duvall), a bevy of Playboy bunnies, and a few other bizarre episodes. As they travel toward Willard’s appointment with Kurtz, they run into the gung-ho, surfing obsessed Lt. We also find Louisiana boy “Chef” (Frederic Forrest) and California dude Lance (Sam Bottoms). ![]() Clean” (Laurence Fishburne), its youngest inhabitant. There’s Chief (Albert Hall), the ship’s no-nonsense captain, and “Mr. Willard hops aboard a Navy boat that will escort him upriver, and we meet its cast of characters. The military regards him as an embarrassment and a loose cannon ergo, Willard gets the job to terminate him.įrom there the remainder of Now follows his mission. It seems that Kurtz went a bit loopy while on a mission deep in the jungle he renounced his entire life and set up camp as a demigod amidst the natives. He receives an assignment to track and execute a seriously AWOL officer named Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando). At the start of the film, we meet Army Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), a guy who’s spent too much time in Vietnam and is on the verge of burnout. Redux simply added footage, and a substantial amount at that the new cut includes an additional 49 minutes of material. ![]() Actually, unlike Wise’s new cut of Trek, Coppola eliminated nothing from the original movie. As I noted in my review of the original DVD, I always though Now was excellent for its first two-thirds, but it largely went into the crapper during its Brando-dominated final act.ĭuring his reediting of Now, Coppola did nothing to shorten or tighten that part of the film. Unlike Trek, Now was already regarded as a classic, though a flawed one. Not so for the second altered film from 1979, Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. Director Robert Wise cleaned up some special effects, trimmed a little here, and added a snippet there, but the differences remained pretty modest. ![]() However, the changes made to Star Trek: The Motion Picture were fairly minor. The new “Director’s Edition” did little to alter the slow pacing and general tedium of the original cut, and it remains by far my least favorite Star Trek flick. One of those was a much-maligned - and appropriately so - clunker, Star Trek: The Motion Picture. In an odd coincidence, November 2001 saw the DVD release of reworked versions of two famous films from 1979. Widescreen 2.0:1/16x9 audio English Dolby Digital 5.1 subtitles English closed-captioned single sided - dual layered 36 chapters rated R 202 min. Nominated for Best Picture Best Director Best Screenplay Best Supporting Actor Best Art Direction-Set Decoration Best Film Editing. Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms Nominated for 8 Academy Awards, this classic and compelling Vietnam War epic stars Martin Sheen as Army Lieutenant Willard, who is sent on a dangerous and mesmerizing odyssey into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade American Colonel named Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has succumbed to the horrors of war and barricaded himself in a remote outpost. The definitive version of Francis Ford Coppola's stunning vision of the heart of darkness in all of us, re-edited and remastered with 49 minutes of additional footage. ![]()
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