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In the spring of 1976, Eleanor Coppola; her husband, Francis Coppola; and their children left California for the Philippines where Francis Coppola would film *Apocalypse Now*. Mrs. Coppola was asked to supervise a documentary film about the making of *Apocalypse*, and for this she scribbled notes to record the time, place, and action. As the months stretched into years, Mrs. Coppola's notes became an extraordinary record not only of the making of a movie but of the emotional and physical price exacted from all who participated. The production of *Apocalypse Now* has become a legend on its own - three years and millions of dollars spent filming in the Philippines; the destruction of the sets by a typhoon; leading man Martin Sheen's heart attack mid-film; Marlon Brando's awesome arrival, enormously overweight, to play the part of a Green Beret. The filming itself became a drama of tension, passion, and catharsis. With frame-by-frame precision, Eleanor Coppola brings us into the filmmaking drama to witness bizarre and spectacular sights: villages created and destroyed in an orgy of explosives; cadavers burning in piles; a giant stone temple built by 700 laborers and then demolished; c

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Author

Coppola, Eleanor

Publisher

New York: Limelight Editions (Proscenium Publishers Inc., New York)

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780879101503

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sports, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.95 / 5 (150 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14