Apocalypse Now Redux: Difference between revisions

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'''''Apocalypse Now Redux''''' is a 2001 American [[Director's cut|extended version]] of [[Francis Ford Coppola]]'s [[Epic film|epic]] 1979 [[war film]] ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''. Coppola, along with editor and longtime collaborator [[Walter Murch]], added 49 minutes of material that had been removed from the initial theatrical release. It is a significant re-edit of the original version.

New music was recreated and recorded for the remade film by [[San Francisco Bay Area]]-based composer Ed Goldfarb, specifically the added tracks "Clean's Funeral" and "Love Theme".<ref name="openmusiclibrary.org">Ken Hughes, "Ed Goldfarb: Synthesizing the Apocalypse" (2001), ''Keyboard'', Vol. 27, No. 9, pp. 54-56, 58. Article reprinted at https://madcaplabs.com/portfolio/apocalypse-now-redux.</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Blake |first=Larry |url=https://www.mixonline.com/recording/apocalypse-now-redux-373389 |title=Apocalypse Now REDUX |publisher=Mix |date=2001-08-01}}</ref> For example, it was thought no music had been composed for Willard and Roxanne's romantic interlude in the French Plantation scene. To make matters worse, composer [[Carmine Coppola]] had died in 1991. However, the old recording and musical scores were checked and a track titled "Love Theme" was found. During scoring, Francis Coppola had told Carmine, his father, to write a theme for the scene before it was ultimately deleted. For the remake, the track was recorded by a group of [[synthesist]]s.<ref name="openmusiclibrary.org"/>

* [[Franck Villard]] as Gaston de Marais

On [[review aggregator]] [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film holds a 93% rating based on 84 reviews, with an average rating of 7.80/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "The additional footage slows down the movie somewhat (some say the new cut is inferior to the original), but ''Apocalypse Now Redux'' is still a great piece of cinema."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/apocalypse_now_redux_2001|title=Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|publisher=[[Fandango Media|Fandango]]|access-date=April 9, 2022}}</ref> [[Metacritic]], which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 92 out of 100 based on 39 critics.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/apocalypse-now-redux|title=Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)|website=[[Metacritic]]|publisher=[[CBS Interactive]]|access-date=August 4, 2019}}</ref> Some critics thought highly of the additions, such as [[A. O. Scott]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'', who wrote that it "grows richer and stranger with each viewing, and the restoration of scenes left in the cutting room two decades ago has only added to its sublimity."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9404E6D9143CF930A3575BC0A9679C8B63&scp=11&sq=apocalypse%20now&st=cse|title= Aching Heart of Darkness|date=2001-08-03|work=New York Times|access-date=2009-07-20 | first=A. O. | last=Scott}}</ref>

Some critics, however, thought the new scenes slowed the pacing and were too lengthy (notably the French plantation sequence) and added nothing overall to the film's impact. [[Owen Gleiberman]] wrote "''Apocalypse Now Redux'' is the meandering, indulgent art project that [Francis Ford Coppola] was still enough of a craftsman, in 1979, to avoid."<ref>{{cite web|title = Apocalypse Now Redux {{!}} EW.com|url = http://www.ew.com/article/2001/08/01/apocalypse-now-redux|website = www.ew.com|access-date = 2016-01-17}}</ref> Despite this, other critics still gave it high ratings. [[Roger Ebert]] wrote: "Longer or shorter, redux or not, ''Apocalypse Now'' is one of the central events of my life as a filmgoer."<ref>{{cite web|last=Ebert |first=Roger |url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/apocalypse-now-redux-2001 |title=Apocalypse Now /Redux Movie Review (2001) |publisher=Roger Ebert |access-date=2017-06-30}}</ref> [[Anthony Lane]] wrote, "if you have never watched ''Apocalypse Now'' in any form; if you know it well and wish to bend your Jesuitical attention to the latest addenda; if you have grown to love it on scrumbled videotape but failed to catch it on the big screen; if you were out of your head during a pre-dawn college screening, duly noted the movie as a trip, and find yourself unable to remember whether the trip in question was Coppola's, America's, or yours; in short, however relevant or rocky your relations with this film—see it now."<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Lane |first=Anthony |date=August 6, 2001 |title=Apocalypse Now Redux |magazine=[[The New Yorker]]}}</ref>

===Accolades===

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!Award

!Year

!Nominated work

!Category

!Result

!Ref.

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|[[Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 2001|Boston Society of Film Critics Awards]]

|2001

|''Apocalypse Now Redux''

|Best Film

|{{Runner-up}}

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| rowspan="7" |[[Taurus World Stunt Awards]]

| rowspan="7" |2002

|[[Kerry Rossall]], [[Steve Boyum]]

|Best Water Work

|{{nom}}

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|[[Terry Leonard]], Chuck Waters

|Best High Work

|{{nom}}

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|Dick White, J. David Jones

|Best Aerial Work

|{{nom}}

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|Kerry Rossall, Joe Finnegan, Terry Leonard, Steve Boyum

|Best Work With a Vehicle

|{{nom}}

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|Terry Leonard, Kerry Rossall, Steve Boyum, Joe Finnegan

|Best Fire Stunt

|{{nom}}

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|Terry Leonard

|Best Stunt Coordinator and/or 2nd Unit Director: Sequence

|{{nom}}

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|Terry Leonard

|Best Stunt Coordinator and/or 2nd Unit Director: Feature Film

|{{nom}}

|}

A soundtrack was released on July 31, 2001, by [[Nonesuch Records|Nonesuch]]. The soundtrack contains most of the original tracks (remastered), as well as some for the new scenes ("Clean's Funeral", "Love Theme"). The score was composed by [[Carmine Coppola|Carmine]] and [[Francis Ford Coppola]] (with some tracks co-composed by [[Mickey Hart]] and Richard Hansen). The first track is an abridged version of The Doors' "The End". All songs written by [[Carmine Coppola]] and [[Francis Ford Coppola]], except where noted:

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