To the majesty of these scenes in their progression to Kurtz’s words “the Horror,” Coppola has now added 49 minutes, most of them devoted to a visit by the crew to a French plantation, a colonial leftover that somehow survives. At dinner the Americans and French discuss the colonial h...
I honestly don't find it all that interesting. Yes, it has some interesting, even spectacular images, but for me, it has no engaging story or characters. I simply didn't care what happened to Willard, Kurtz, or anyone else. Everything I've heard says it's not a realistic depiction ...
Jay Carr, Globe Staff
The 152-minute original cut of the film was expanded by 49 minutes in 2001 forApocalypse Now Redux, which included a lengthy scene set at a rubber plantation that Coppola can be seen struggling with inHearts of Darkness. The additional scenes fill in some gaps and tighten the narrative at t...
The new material augments the similarity by showing Willard's descent into the jungle, into the past, a journey that Kurtz must have taken too. The insert in Paramount'sReduxDVD helpfully segregates the new from the old, with the new scenes listed in yellow in the chapter chart. There are...
TheReduxcommentary differs solely in that it brings extra material. All of this falls into the categories I just described. Coppola offers plenty of remarks about the added scenes. He lets us know why they weren’t in the 1979 cut and tells us why he wanted to restore them forRedux. ...