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00:00He is one of the most acclaimed and controversial filmmakers of all time.

00:13In 1979, his adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness captured the horror of Vietnam

00:21and instantly became a classic.

00:24My film is not a movie.

00:25My film is not about Vietnam.

00:27It is Vietnam.

00:33It's what it was really like.

00:34It was crazy.

00:39My greatest fear is to make a really embarrassing, pompous film on an important subject, and

00:45I am doing it.

00:46I said, Jim, I don't know who this guy is.

00:50Who is this Willard?

00:51And Francis just looked me square in the eye and he said, he's you.

00:58I would have done anything.

00:59He had convinced me that this was the first film that would win a Nobel Prize, you know.

01:05It's like you're in a dream or something, you know.

01:09It's a scenes unknown on the call sheet.

01:12You just would show up, you know.

01:14They didn't know what they were going to do.

01:17I was not in the greatest of shape, you know, as far as like my career was concerned.

01:22It was delightful to hear that I was going to go do anything, anywhere.

01:26Yeah, but are they seriously saying that Marlon would take a million dollars and then not

01:31show up?

01:32I swallowed a book.

01:33I mean, it's just, it's not in the cards that we're not going to finish the movie.

01:37You know, I felt that he'd do whatever he had to do, he'd borrow the money, but part

01:41of me was just fearless in that regard.

01:43It really didn't matter.

01:44It's one thing to go over there for three weeks with like five people, but if you go

01:48over there, there's a big Hollywood production, they're going to kill you.

01:57We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, and little by little we went insane.

02:10What are they going to say about him?

02:11What are they going to say?

02:12He was a kind man, he was a wise man, he had plans, he had wisdom?

02:18The making of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now.

02:24I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

02:26The questions that I kept facing, I couldn't answer.

02:29Yet, I knew that I had constructed the film in such a way that to not answer would be

02:35to fail.

02:36Hearts of Darkness, a filmmaker's apocalypse.

02:42Look at my movie, you'll see what I'm talking.

02:48I love it.

02:49I love it.

02:50I love it.

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | movie | 1991 | Official Trailer

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