Notes on the Making of Apocalypse Now

Eleanor Coppola

Detalles del libro
Editorial: Limelight Editions
ISBN: 0-87910-150-4
ISBN-13: 9780879101503
Materia: Libros de Cine
In the spring of 1976, Eleanor Coppola; her husband, Francis Coppola; and their children left California for the Philippines, where Francis Coppola would film Apocalypse Now. Mrs. Coppola was asked tu supervise a documentary film about the making of Apocalypse*, and for this she scribbed notes to record the time, place, and action. As the months stretched into years, Mrs. Coppola's notes became an extraordinary record not only of the making of a movie but of the emotional and physical price exacted from all who participated.
The production of Apocalypse Now has become a legend on its own -three years and millios of dollars spent filming in the Philippines; the destruction of the sets by a typhoon; Brando's awesome arrival, enormously overweight, to play the part of a Green Beret. The filming itself became a drama of tension, passion, and catharsis.
As the focus of this remarkable journal turns to the author, Eleanor Coppola emerges as a woman of strength and complexity with human values that are rare in the film world of illusion. Her Notes take us behind the scenes of a motion picture as no other book has done, and at the same time brings us into a private world of exhilaration, pain, and dramatic conflict.

*The film Hearts of Darkness: a Filmmaker's Apocalypse was produced for Showtime as an original documentary to be shown on the cable network.

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