![]() “I felt that in my lust to make it shorter and less weird back then, I removed so many important things. ![]() “When I was asked which version I wanted to show this time, I knew I didn’t want to show the 1979 version,” Coppola said. The metaphor-laden movie has not only been lavishly restored, but significantly trimmed Final Cut, as the latest version is subtitled, is 20 minutes shorter than the 202-minute extended edition, Apocalypse Now Redux, that Coppola issued in 2001. The 80-year-old director has, in fact, removed more than six frames from his hallucinatory Vietnam War epic, which is returning to theaters today and on home video on August 27-in its third incarnation-40 years after its initial release. So my feeling was that to get Apocalypse Now to light up as an experience for the audience just required some tweaking.” It’s the same with a movie: you might do a lot of little things. I used to tell my kids that in getting a cigarette lighter to work, you might change the flint, put in more fluid, pull the wick out, and keep doing little things so finally it lights. “After all, a movie is an illusion, and what makes the illusion come alive could be a matter of maybe taking out six frames from one sequence-that might do the trick. “A cut of a film is a magical thing,” Francis Ford Coppola told me last week.
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