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Originally Posted by roadHopper
This still ranks as my favorite film of all time. I think the combination of sheer scale, the way it captures the strangeness of that time, the brilliant adaptation of the novel and the absolutely genius lensing by Vittorio Storaro, make this an absolute masterpiece.
I never had the stomach for the added scenes in Redux - without them the film is tighter and flows much better (no pun intended).
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Have you seen
Aguirre, the Wrath of God, a 1972 film directed by Werner Herzog? It stars Klaus Kinski as a mad Spanish soldier in search of the legendary city of gold, El Dorado. Coppola has been quoted as saying that the film was a huge influence on
Apocalypse Now.
If you haven't, you should check it out sometime. Interesting film, although it's much slower than Coppola's masterpiece and lacks the starpower of Brando, Sheen, Hopper, Duval, etc.