Revealing: In the major helicopter scene when Ride of the Valkyries is played, the actual tape isn't going over the playing heads.
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As the general reminisces about Colonel Kurtz being a man of, "wit and humor" the roll on his plate moves and changes from being whole to having a bite out of it and back. See more...
Trivia
Martin Sheen suffered a heart attack while filming in 1976. Sheen's brother, Joe Estevez, doubled in, as well as providing Willard's voice-over narrations. See more...
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall (add more)
Apocalypse Now mistakes
Continuity: In the playboy bunny scene, the helicopter's main rotor keeps on starting and stopping.
Audio problem: As Playmate of the Year Carrie Foster is brought out to the audience carried by two Green Berets watch the band behind her closely. The bass player stops playing as he scratches his head but the bass on the soundtrack keeps going.
Apocalypse Now trivia
In the scene with the man making the movie when they attack the beach, the man shooting the movie saying "Don't look at the camera" is actually Francis Ford Coppola.
Harvey Keitel was originally cast as Captain Willard. Two weeks into filming, director Francis Ford Coppola felt Keitel wasn't taking the role seriously enough, so he fired him and reshot scenes with Martin Sheen as his replacement.
Laurence Fishburne (who played Tyrone "Clean" Miller) lied about his age to get cast. He was 14 when production started, but told director Francis Ford Coppola that he was 17.
Apocalypse Now quotes
Kilgore: Charlie don't surf!
Willard: If that's how Kilgore fought the war I began to wonder what they really had against Kurtz. It wasn't just insanity and murder, there was enough of that to go around for everyone.
Lance: Disneyland. Fuck, man, this is better than Disneyland.