Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic adventure war film set during the Vietnam War, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and starring Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, and Martin Sheen. The film follows the central character, Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Sheen), on a secret mission to assassinate the renegade and presumed insane Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Brando).

The screenplay by John Milius and Coppola updates the setting of Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness to that of the Vietnam War era. It also draws from Michael Herr's Dispatches, the film version of Conrad's Lord Jim, and Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972).

The film has been noted for the problems encountered while making it. These problems were chronicled in the documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, which recounted the stories of Brando arriving on the set overweight and completely unprepared; expensive sets being destroyed by severe weather; and its lead actor (Sheen) having a breakdown and suffering a near-fatal heart attack while on location. Problems continued after production as the release was postponed several times while Coppola edited thousands of feet of footage.

Apocalypse Now (album)

Apocalypse Now is Pere Ubu's third live album, and first to document a single performance. The show in question, recorded on December 7, 1991 at Schubas Tavern in Chicago, was performed semi-acoustically, with synth-man Eric Drew Feldman instead handling an upright piano, and Jim Jones playing an amplified (and occasionally heavily distorted) acoustic guitar.

Track listing

  • "My Theory of Spontaneous Simultude" – 6:47
  • "Life of Riley" – 3:08
  • "Wine Dark Sparks" – 3:16
  • "Heaven" – 3:28
  • "Worlds in Collision" – 2:49
  • "Cry Cry Cry" – 3:10
  • "Non"-alignment Pact – 3:41
  • "Caligari's Mirror" – 3:33
  • "Invisible Man" – 3:38
  • "We Have the Technology" – 3:10
  • "Humor Me" – 4:18
  • "Busman's Honeymoon" – 3:20
  • "Oh Catherine" – 4:24
  • "Misery Goats" – 3:49
  • Personnel

  • David Thomas: vocals, radio, swirl horn
  • Jim Jones: acoustic guitar, rat pedal
  • Eric Drew Feldman: honky tonk upright
  • Tony Maimone: acoustic guitar, electric bass
  • Scott Krauss: drums, percussion
  • References

    Apocalypse Now (painting)

    Apocalypse Now is a 1988 painting by the American artist Christopher Wool, widely regarded as among the most important of his "word paintings" created in the late 1980s. It consists of the words "SELL THE HOUSE SELL THE CAR SELL THE KIDS", stenciled in black, block letters in alkyd enamel on an off-white painted aluminum and steel plate measuring 84 x 72 inches (213.4 x 182.9 cm). The quotation is from the 1979 Francis Ford Coppola movie Apocalypse Now, where it is written in a letter mailed home by a character who has lost his mind in the jungle.

    The work (a first version of which exists on paper) was originally displayed in April 1988 at a collaborative show in the East Village at the 303 Gallery, along with three urinals sculpted by artist Robert Gober. It was purchased, with the urinals, by its first owners Werner and Elaine Dannheisser, who probably paid around $7,500 for the painting (according to a later estimate by Bloomberg Business). "It was probably the painting of the year", said Richard Flood, chief curator of the New Museum, who said its text served as "a kind of late-'80s mantra" in the wake of the 1987 "Black Monday" stock market crash. To critic Kay Larson, the stark formatting and "fractured code" of Wool's syntax in Apocalypse Now conveys a warning of disaster "in the coldest terms" and with "telegraphic urgency". Peter Schjeldahl has written about the "hiccup in comprehension" caused by the elimination of standard spacing and punctuation. The painting is unusual in Wool's output for having a title, and Flood has observed that the word "apocalypse" itself originally connoted "revelation", the disclosure of knowledge and the lifting of a veil.

    Podcasts:

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    Apocalypse Now

    by: Transplants

    I'm gonna be straight with you
    This is the end of the world
    You either wake up or you don't
    Apocalypse now
    Apocalypse now, apocalypse now, apocalypse now
    Apocalypse now, apocalypse now, apocalypse now
    Air force bomber, come with the quickness
    Chemical warfare, a bucket of sickness
    Annihilation, written thesis
    Bomb and leashes, shrapnel pieces
    Political dynasty, vigorous lies
    Multi-dead, on the rise
    Realize, the demise
    It's all over, no surprise
    Apocalypse now, apocalypse now, apocalypse now
    Apocalypse now, apocalypse now, apocalypse now
    Chilling with pipe bombs and fun in the sun
    Ain't no, Saving Private Ryan but I've taken his guns
    'Cause there's a war outside and it's far from bein' done
    I only speak for myself I know, I'm not the only one
    Fuckers got us with the planes, set us back on 911
    Families endure the pain, got a twisted view of Heaven
    Need a rabbi or a reverend, I just follow the ghost
    I keep an extra 4 pounds, right up under my coat
    Apocalypse now, apocalypse now, apocalypse now
    Apocalypse now, apocalypse now, apocalypse now
    Cruise missiles are soarin'
    Helicopters are whirlin'
    Crusty cops are firin'
    Bomb shelters are siren
    Soldiers are crawlin'
    Politicians stallin'
    Insurgents prawlin'
    Casualties are risin'
    Life is a nightmare, I dream it all day
    Nothin' as a promise, no, I won't hold I breath
    Still talkin' to death, still chokin' the rest
    Don't know when no one can be trusted, only once for the left
    Steppin' out I'm in the dark, you wanna keep me in the cold
    Rippin' out ain't that your heart, I'm-a causin' to explode
    'Cause you're screwin' money, law mother fucker '95
    You don't know me keep on movin', I'm just tryin' to stay alive
    Apocalypse now, apocalypse now, apocalypse now




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