''Apocalypse Now Redux'' is a 2001 American extended version of

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''. Coppola, along with editor and longtime collaborator

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, added 49 minutes of material that had been removed from the initial theatrical release. It is a significant re-edit of the original version.

Production

began production on the new cut with working-partner Kim Aubry. Coppola then tried to get Murch, who was reluctant at first. He thought it would be extremely difficult recutting a film that had taken two years to edit originally. He later changed his mind (after working on the reconstruction of

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''). Coppola and Murch then examined several of the rough prints and dailies for the film. It was decided early on that the editing of the film would be like editing a new film altogether. One such example was the new French plantation sequence. The scenes were greatly edited to fit into the movie originally, only to be cut out in the end. When working again on the film, instead of using the heavily edited version, Murch decided to work the scene all over again, editing it as if for the first time. Much work needed to be done to the new scenes. Due to the off-screen noises during the shoot, most of the dialogue was impossible to hear. During post-production of the film the actors were brought back to re-record their lines (known as A.D.R. or dubbing). This was done for the scenes that made it into the original cut, but not for the deleted scenes. For the ''Redux'' version,

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, Sam Bottoms, Albert Hall, Frederic Forrest, and Aurore Clément were brought back to record ADR for the new scenes.

Music

New music was recreated and recorded for the remade film by

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-based composer Ed Goldfarb, specifically the added tracks "Clean's Funeral" and "Love Theme".Ken Hughes, "Ed Goldfarb: Synthesizing the Apocalypse" (2001), ''Keyboard'', Vol. 27, No. 9, pp. 54-56, 58. Article reprinted at https://madcaplabs.com/portfolio/apocalypse-now-redux. For example, it was thought no music had been composed for Willard and Roxanne's romantic interlude in the French Plantation scene. To make matters worse, composer

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had died in 1991. However, the old recording and musical scores were checked and a track titled "Love Theme" was found. During scoring, Francis Coppola had told Carmine, his father, to write a theme for the scene before it was ultimately deleted. For the remake, the track was recorded by a group of synthesists.

Cinematography

Vittorio Storaro also returned from Italy to head the development of a new color balance of the film and new scenes. When ''Redux'' was being released, Storaro learned that a

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was being brought back. The dye-transfer is a three-strip process that makes the color highly saturated and has consistent black tone. Storaro wished to use this on ''Redux'', but in order to do it, he needed to cut the original negative of ''Apocalypse Now'', leaving ''Apocalypse Now Redux'' the only version available. Storaro decided to do it, when convinced by Coppola that this version would be the one that would be remembered.

New scenes and alterations

The film contains several alterations and two entire scenes that were cut from the original version – one of which has the boat meeting the Playmates farther up the river, and the other with the boat meeting a family of holdout French colonists on their remote rubber plantation. Also included are additional scenes with Colonel Kurtz.

Cast

* Christian Marquand as Hubert de Marais * Aurore Clément as Roxanne Sarrault *

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as Francis de Marais * Gian-Carlo Coppola as Gilles de Marais * Michel Pitton as Philippe de Marais * Franck Villard as Gaston de Marais * David Olivier as Christian de Marais * Chrystel Le Pelletier as Claudine * Robert Julian as The Tutor * Yvon Le Saux as Sgt. Le Fevre * Henri Sadardiel as French soldier #1 * Gilbert Renkens as French soldier #2

Reception

''Apocalypse Now Redux'' originally premiered at the

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. The screening marked the anniversary of the original ''Apocalypse Now'' screening as a work in progress, where it won the

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. Coppola went to the festival, accompanied by Murch, Storaro, production designer Dean Tavoularis, producer Kim Aubry and actors Bottoms and Clément.

Box office

The film was given a

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in the U.S. on August 3, 2001, and was also released theatrically around the world in some countries, grossing in the United States and Canada, and in other territories, for a worldwide total of .

Critical response

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, the film holds a 93% rating based on 98 reviews, with an average rating of 7.80/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "The additional footage slows down the movie somewhat (some say the new cut is inferior to the original), but ''Apocalypse Now Redux'' is still a great piece of cinema."

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, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 92 out of 100 based on 39 critics. Some critics thought highly of the additions, such as A. O. Scott of ''

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'', who wrote that it "grows richer and stranger with each viewing, and the restoration of scenes left in the cutting room two decades ago has only added to its sublimity." Some critics, however, thought the new scenes slowed the pacing and were too lengthy (notably the French plantation sequence) and added nothing overall to the film's impact.

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wrote "''Apocalypse Now Redux'' is the meandering, indulgent art project that rancis Ford Coppolawas still enough of a craftsman, in 1979, to avoid." Despite this, other critics still gave it high ratings.

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wrote: "Longer or shorter, redux or not, ''Apocalypse Now'' is one of the central events of my life as a filmgoer." Anthony Lane wrote, "if you have never watched ''Apocalypse Now'' in any form; if you know it well and wish to bend your Jesuitical attention to the latest addenda; if you have grown to love it on scrumbled videotape but failed to catch it on the big screen; if you were out of your head during a pre-dawn college screening, duly noted the movie as a trip, and find yourself unable to remember whether the trip in question was Coppola's, America's, or yours; in short, however relevant or rocky your relations with this film—see it now."

Accolades

Soundtrack

A soundtrack was released on July 31, 2001, by Nonesuch. The soundtrack contains most of the original tracks (remastered), as well as some for the new scenes ("Clean's Funeral", "Love Theme"). The score was composed by

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(with some tracks co-composed by

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and Richard Hansen). The first track is an abridged version of The Doors' "The End". All songs written by

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# "Do Lung", Richard Hansen # "Letters From Home" # "Clean's Death", Mickey Hart # "Clean's Funeral" # "Love Theme" # "Chief's Death" # "Voyage" # "Chef's Head" # "Kurtz' Chorale" # "Finale"

References

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