#apocalypse now
“Nothing is so terrible as a pretentious movie. I mean, a movie that aspires for something really terrific and doesn’t pull it off is shit, it’s scum. And everyone will walk on it as such. And that’s what poor filmmakers, in a way, that’s their greatest horror, to be pretentious.
So here you are, on one hand, trying to aspire to really do something. And on the other hand, you’re not allowed to be pretentious. And finally you say, fuck it. I don’t care if i’m pretentious or if I’m not pretentious or if I’ve done it or I haven’t done it. All I know is that I am going to see this movie. And that for me it has to have some answers. And by ‘answers’ I don’t mean just a punchline. Answers on about forty seven different levels.
And it’s very hard to talk about these things without being very corny. You use a word like self-purgation or epiphany, they think you’re either a religious weirdo or an asshole college professor. But those are the words for the process. This transmutation, this renaissance, this rebirth, which is the basis of all life.
The one rule that all man, from the time they were first walking around looking up at the sun, scratching around for food and an animal to kill, the first concept that, I feel, got into their head was the idea of life and death. That the sun went down and the sun went up. That the crop, when they learned how to make a crop, it died. In the winter, everything died. The first man, he must have thought, 'Oh my God, it’s the end of the world!’ And then all of a sudden, there was spring, and everything came alive, and it was better.
I mean after all, look at Vietnam. Look at my movie. You’ll see what I’m talking.”
Francis Coppola talking about life and death on the set of his film, Apocalypse Now, in 1977. My favourite scene from the documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse
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Apocalypse Now
1979, Francis Ford Coppola
先日行われたグループ展
12インチにこだわる外資系レコード展をイメージしたレコード・ジャケットアート『エンパイア・レコーズ・ジャパン高円寺店再ＯＰＥＮ！！』…という名のレコジャケ展。
に出展したレコジャケアートです。
ベトナム戦争映画 『地獄の黙示録』『プラトーン』『フルメタルジャケット』
の作中に収録されている楽曲をポップ・ロックを中心にチョイスしてベストサントラ形式に収録したレコード。
という体を取って作成ました。
オモテ面はそれぞれ
上：「プラトーン」より、クリス・テイラー 左：「フルメタル・ジャケット」より、ジョーカー 右：「フルメタル・ジャケット」より、アニマルマザー 下：「地獄の黙示録」より、ウィラード大尉
オビ表面の左上は
「フルメタル・ジャケット」よりハートマン鬼軍曹をモチーフにした女性ディフォルメキャラとしました。
ロック＆ポップ集なので「地獄の黙示録」中の「ワルキューレの騎行」と「フルメタルジャケット」中の「ミッキーマウスのテーマ（をアカペラで合唱）」はあえて外したんだけど、「地獄の黙示録」中の「サティスファクション（ローリング・ストーンズ）」をうっかり入れ忘れたのは唯一の心残り。
イラストに関しては、ディフォルメキャラとはいえ雑な描写（5.56mm 7.62mm弾とか）がちらほらあるけど、楽しく描けたので課題を残しつつもまた気軽に挑戦していきたいと思います。
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That’s a part of the sickness in America, that you have to think in terms of who wins, who loses, who’s good, who’s bad, who’s best, who’s worst…I don’t like to think that way. Everybody has their own value in different ways, and I don’t like to think who’s the best at this. I mean, what’s the point of it?
– Marlon Brando
3 April 1924 - 1 July 2004
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Apocalypse Now (1979)
Cinematography: Vittorio Storaro
Cast: Martin Sheen (Capt. Benjamin Willard), Marlon Brando (Colonel Walter E. Kurtz), Robert Duvall (Lt. Colonel William “Bill” Kilgore), Frederic Forrest (Engineman 3rd Class Jay “Chef” Hicks), Albert Hall (Chief Petty Officer George Phillips), Sam Bottoms (Gunner’s Mate 3rd Class Lance B. Johnson), Laurence Fishburne (Gunner’s Mate 3rd Class Tyrone “Mr. Clean” Miller), Dennis Hopper (Photojournalist), Harrison Ford (Colonel G. Lucas)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
All shots from: Original film, Redux, and Final Cut.
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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse
1991. Documentary
By Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr & George Hickenlooper
About: “how Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979) was plagued by extraordinary script, shooting, budget, and casting problems–nearly destroying the life and career of the celebrated director.“
Country: United States
Language: English
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Here’s the cover and 1st page design of LOST SOLDIERS, the new comic from Ales Kot and Luca Cacalanguida; with Heather Marie Lawrence Moore, Aditya Bidikar, and myself — published by Image Comics.
In stores JULY 29!
Reserve your copy at your local comic shop now!
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