Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film set during the Vietnam War. It was directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola and stars Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, and Martin Sheen. The central character is US Army special operations officer Captain Benjamin L. Willard (played by Sheen), an assassin sent to killthe renegade and presumed insane Special Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Brando's role). The screenplay byJohn Milius and Coppola came from Milius's idea of adapting Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness into 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).
现代启示录上映于1979年,这是一部以越战为背景的美国史诗电影。导演兼制片人- 弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉,主演马龙·白兰度、罗伯特·杜瓦尔、马丁·辛。影片的主角是一位美国特别行动组头领-本杰明·威拉德上尉(由马丁·辛扮演)。维拉德上尉是一名暗杀者,他将杀害特种部队的科茨上校,科茨是一名疯狂的叛徒(由白兰度饰演)。编剧是约翰·米利厄斯和科波拉,这个剧本的灵感来源米利厄斯,他把约瑟夫·康拉德的小说“黑暗的心”改编进了越战时代。这部电影还引用了麦克尔·赫尔的“派遣”,康拉德电影版的“吉姆老爷”,以及沃纳·赫尔佐格的“阿奎尔,上帝的愤怒”。(1972年上映)
On the review website Rotten Tomatoes.com, Apocalypse Now has an incredibly high 99% rating. The consensusis: "Francis Ford Coppola's haunting, hallucinatory Vietnam war epic is cinema at its most audacious and visionary". In his original review, Roger Ebert wrote: "Apocalypse Now achieves greatness not by analyzing our experience in Vietnam, but by re-creating, in characters and images, something of that experience." The Los Angeles Times' Charles Champlin wrote: "It towers over everything that has been attempted by an American filmmaker in a very long time". The movie is widely regarded by many as a masterpiece of Hollywood, and is frequently cited as one of the greatest films of all time.
影评网“烂番茄”说:现代启示录获得了99%的好评,这简直难以置信。人们一致认为:“弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉的这部越战史诗电影让人们产生了幻觉,人们能在电影院中体验最棒的视觉享受”。影评人罗杰·埃伯特写道:“电影启示录是一部伟大的作品,它不仅带我们走进了越南,同时,它也用角色和画面重新塑造了那样的场景”。洛杉矶时报的查尔斯·钱普林写道:“在很长一段时间里,这部影片超过了任何一位电影制作者想要尝试去做的事情”。许多人认为这部影片是好莱坞史上的巨作,它也是美国最伟大的影片之一。
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