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7 unusual facts about Apocalypse Now


1976 Pacific typhoon season

Olga also destroyed many of the sets used during the filming of Apocalypse Now.

Army Men: RTS

The game is based on the movie "Apocalypse Now," where the good guys hunt down an insane colonel, here Colonel Blintz.

Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow

In his essays, Fawcett makes frequent references both to the short Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness, and to the movie Apocalypse Now.

Principal Snyder

Snyder makes one more appearance in the role of Colonel Kurtz in Xander's Apocalypse Now-themed dream in the season four finale "Restless".

Rhythm Devils

The Rhythm Devils duo were formally recruited by director Francis Ford Coppola to record the soundtrack to the film Apocalypse Now.

Situationist Comedy

The song title "Sell the House Sell the Car Sell the Kids Find Someone Else Forget It I'm Never Coming Back Forget It" is a reference to the film Apocalypse Now.

Young American Primitive

The voice sampling on the track "Over and Out" beginning with "Did you know that 'if' is the middle word in life..." is of Dennis Hopper from the film Apocalypse Now during the scene when the boat finally arrives at COL Walter E. Kurtz's outpost and is met by Hopper's character.


Aleksey Mikhaylovich Mikhalyov

Among numerous films and cartoons, translated by him into Russian, are The Jungle Book, The Witches of Eastwick, Apocalypse Now, Pretty Woman and The Silence of the Lambs.

Anthony Poshepny

Several press stories have suggested that Poshepny was the model for Colonel Walter Kurtz in the film Apocalypse Now, but both Poshepny and director Francis Ford Coppola have denied the connection.

Aurore Clément

Her first appearance in a U.S. movie would have been in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979), but her scenes — a long sequence where Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) meets French former colonists — were eventually cut from the film and only restored in 2001 in the Redux version.

Bluebook

He wrote that a cursory look at the Nineteenth Edition "put me in mind of Col. Kurtz (Apocalypse Now) dying words 'The horror! The horror!'"

College Roomies from Hell!!!

The phrase "The horror! The funky horror!" is one of the catchphrases in the comic – adapted from the last lines of Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now: "The horror... the horror...", which in turn was adapted from Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness.

Cruelty to animals

An ox was sliced nearly in half during production of Apocalypse Now, while a donkey was bled to death for dramatic effect for the film Manderlay, in a scene later cut from the film.

Dean Tavoularis

The Godfather Part II and The Conversation, in 1974, consolidated their collaboration, and laid the way for what was to be their joint creative challenge: Apocalypse Now, the film for which Tavoularis created a nightmare jungle kingdom, inspired by Angkor Wat.

Fiona Banner

The Nam (1997), is a 1,000-page book which describes the plots of six Vietnam films in their entirety: the films are Apocalypse Now, Born on the Fourth of July, The Deer Hunter, Full Metal Jacket, Hamburger Hill and Platoon.

Fog City Mavericks

The film also shows some of the movies made by these filmmakers such as American Graffiti, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather, The Black Stallion, Home Alone, Mrs. Doubtfire, Toy Story and many others.

Georges Condominas

The record he made of the Mnong music can be heard at the end of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, the final scene of which was inspired by Condominas's description of the ritual slaughter of buffalo.

How the Test Was Won

Otto hums Richard Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries while believing he is flying a helicopter, a reference to the helicopter attack sequence in the 1979 film Apocalypse Now.

Matthew Naythons

In addition to substantive coverage of seven wars and revolutions, the collection includes his features on the Centers for Disease Control, Burmese rubies, and the film Apocalypse Now, and portraits of such high-profile figures as Steve Jobs, Charles M. Schulz, Pope John Paul II, President Jimmy Carter, Kevin Costner and Hunter S. Thompson.

Motion Pictures, S.A.

Coinciding with early nineties when the video boom was over the company began to buy American film catalogs for television distribution, with titles such Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, The Return of the Jedi, Apocalypse Now, and Tucker.

NAM-1975

There are many references to many famous Vietnam War films in the game, such as Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket: the attract sequence showing one of the characters firing off an M60 machine gun is clearly ported from the shot of Animal Mother firing on the VC sniper in the latter film.

Patrick Gleeson

Gleeson has been involved in the scoring of a number of film soundtracks, including The Plague Dogs, Apocalypse Now, Crossroads and The Bedroom Window.

Patrick Lundborg

Certain representative works and artists are selected for detailed analysis, such as William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now, William Blake, Eden Ahbez, the 13th Floor Elevators, the Mel Lyman Family, Terence McKenna, Grateful Dead, Philip K Dick, Father Yod & The Source Family, and several more.

Pretty Ballerina

The song has appeared in the films Apocalypse Now, Off Limits and Things Behind the Sun and has been covered by such artists as Alice Cooper, John Mellencamp, Jason Falkner, Peter Kingsbery, Eels, Irish Electro Band "Les Marionettes", Argentine rock star Charly García, Alan Merrill, The Bluetones, and The Dickies.


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Christopher Wool

At 303 Gallery in 1988, Wool and fellow artist Robert Gober presented a collaborative exhibition and installation which included Wool's seminal text-based painting, Apocalypse Now (1988).

Dean Tavoularis

It was also on the set of Apocalypse Now that he met his future wife, French actress Aurore Clément.

Redux

Apocalypse Now Redux, an extended director's cut of the 1979 film Apocalypse Now