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| | Apocalypse Now Redux (2001). Movie reviews by Dr. Edwin Jahiel. |
 | | In 1979 his reasoning was that since in those days very long movies were rare, and "Apocalypse" as then edited already ran two and a half hours, a film of almost three and half hours, and one that was not an orthodox war movie, would have been rejected both by festivals and the public. |
 | | Coppola's presentation was rich with explanations, mostly about the way the 1979 version had been edited, about the richness of the footage that had been shelved, the genesis of the new version, various technical aspects, plus anecdotes about his actors, especially Marlon Brando. |
 | | The film that enriched the common persons' vocabulary with expressions ("terminate with extreme prejudice"), quotations ("I love the smell of napalm in the morning"), with a bit of Wagner ("the Ride of the Walkyries"), with Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" which is at the heart of the movie. |
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