High-res devingo: From my interview for GQ with Francis Ford Coppola: “I went there with the intention of making a war film that could make a lot of money so that we could use the money to make little art films. And, of course, the subject matter seduced me, and as I started making the film, I realized it was becoming more and more surreal. It was, among other things, a California war. Usually war films in the past were all these characters from the East. And there was always a guy from Brooklyn. But Apocalypse Now was a California war. They were surfers and they were listening to the Doors. That was very different. As I followed what seemed to be the trail, I began to make the film in more of a surreal, drug-induced sensibility—not that we were on drugs, but that was the sensibility. All the pink and green smoke, the strange helicopters. And I realized, by the time I got through three-quarters of it, that I didn’t have an ending.” That’s funny. ‘Cause I was pretty sure there wasn’t an ending when I was only one-quarter in…

devingo:

From my interview for GQ with Francis Ford Coppola:

“I went there with the intention of making a war film that could make a lot of money so that we could use the money to make little art films. And, of course, the subject matter seduced me, and as I started making the film, I realized it was becoming more and more surreal. It was, among other things, a California war. Usually war films in the past were all these characters from the East. And there was always a guy from Brooklyn. But Apocalypse Now was a California war. They were surfers and they were listening to the Doors. That was very different. As I followed what seemed to be the trail, I began to make the film in more of a surreal, drug-induced sensibility—not that we were on drugs, but that was the sensibility. All the pink and green smoke, the strange helicopters. And I realized, by the time I got through three-quarters of it, that I didn’t have an ending.”

That’s funny. ‘Cause I was pretty sure there wasn’t an ending when I was only one-quarter in…

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