Apocalypse Now: Redux (Widescreen) – DVD (Used)

Description

Author: Martin Sheen

Brand: Paramount

Format: Anamorphic

Release Date: 20-11-2001

Details: Product descriptionApocalypse Now ReduxAmazon.caDigitally remastered with 49 minutes of previously unseen footage,Apocalypse Now Redux is the reference standard of Francis Coppola’s 1979 epic. A metaphorical hallucination of the Vietnam War, the film was reconstructed by Coppola and editor Walter Murch to enrich themes and clarify the ending. On that basisRedux is a qualified success, more coherent than the original while inviting the same accusations of directorial excess. The restored « French plantation » sequence adds ghostly resonance to the war’s absurdity, and Willard’s theft of Colonel Kurtz’s beloved surfboard adds welcomed humor to the film’s nightmarish upriver journey. An encounter with Playboy Playmates seems superfluous compared to the enhanced interplay between Willard and his ill-fated boat crew, but compensation arrives in the hellish Kurtz compound, where Willard’s mission–and the performances of Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando–reach even greater heights of insanity, thus validatingRedux as the rightful heir to Coppola’s triumphantly rampant ambition.–Jeff Shannon

UPC: 097360962949

EAN: 0097360962949

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedLikeNew