@cinematografico__: Apocalypse Now (1979) Sixteen months of filming for a shoot that was supposed to last six weeks. Two hundred hours of footage. Thirty million dollars spent against a projected budget of twelve, with Francis Ford Coppola mortgaging his house and his winery just to finish it. At the Cannes premiere he said something that has stayed in film history ever since: "My film is not about Vietnam. My film is Vietnam." It wasn't a metaphor. Harvey Keitel was originally cast as Captain Willard, then fired after weeks of filming because Coppola found him too hard-edged, too soldierly for a character who needed to unravel from the inside out. Martin Sheen took over, throwing himself into the role with a dedication that may have gone too far. The opening breakdown scene, the one in the hotel room in front of the mirror, was never scripted. Sheen was genuinely drunk, on his thirty-sixth birthday, and when he punched the mirror he actually cut his hand open. Coppola tried to stop filming. Sheen begged him to keep the cameras rolling. That blood, those tears, are real, and they made it into the final cut. Months later, a typhoon destroyed much of the sets and shut down production for three months. Upon returning to the Philippines, Sheen suffered a real heart attack and had to be airlifted out by helicopter. Coppola, consumed by guilt, had a nervous breakdown and an epileptic seizure. According to multiple accounts, he considered suicide more than once during that period. When Marlon Brando finally arrived on set to play Kurtz, he showed up overweight, having read neither the script nor Joseph Conrad's novel the film was based on. Coppola spent days reading Heart of Darkness aloud to him, page by page, before they could shoot his scenes. The film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. But what the production left behind, typhoons, heart attacks, nervous breakdowns, months stolen from everyone's lives, remains one of the most extreme accounts ever told of what it actually takes to chase a vision all the way through. #viral #film #fyp #xyzbca #edit

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