Was Dennis Hopper Even Acting in APOCALYPSE NOW? | Ep22 | Making Apocalypse Now
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In Episode 22 of Making Apocalypse Now, we’ll talk about how Dennis Hopper’s own major artistic risk lead to career slump that Apocalypse Now would help fix, how Hopper would bring even more insanity to the production, the inspirations for the photojournalist character, and the story behind the Colby character that was cut from the movie-including the crazy death scene of Colby and the photojournalist that didn’t make it into the final film.
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Dutch Angle: Chas Gerretsen & Apocalypse Now (2019 dir. Baris Azman)
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0:00 - Intro
0:44 - Character Name
1:48 - Mubi Ad
2:46 - Hopper's Career Slump
4:45 - Hopper's Antics/Issues
7:24 - Inspiration for Character
10:03 - Chas Garretsen (Photographer)
11:39 - Improvising
13:58 - Filming Colby Intro
15:38 - Scott Glenn as Colby
16:57 - Severed Heads
17:42 - Coppola Mad at Hopper
20:31 - Colby & Photojournalist Deaths
22:10 - Hopper on Future of Cinema
22:45 - End Screen
Music
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Saddened to hear of the passing of Roger Corman (Early Coppola Mentor) and Fred Roos (Apocalypse Now Producer) between the last episode and this one.
Many of the great Chas Gerretsen pics are from the fantastic doc: Dutch Angle: Chas Gerretsen & Apocalypse Now (2019 dir. Baris Azman) - you can watch it on the Final Cut Blu-ray!
*Also, I stupidly misspelled Chas Gerretsen as 'Garretsen.' I feel like an idiot.
R.I.P Roger Corman! 🙏
I saw the Dennis Hopper Interview with Orsen Welles a month ago, and in this he says some of the same things he improvises in the scene where he tries to explain Kurtz. Just a hint if you are interested. And thank you so much for these great Videos of yours! Very sad to hear about Corman and Roos
Thanks for the kind words! My father (Roger) loved everything film and would have really appreciated your insights. Keep up the great work!
Woah Corman passed? What a bummer. He was great.
I hadn't heard of Corman's passing. So sorry to hear it. His films are classics.
My favorite Dennis Hopper story is when his son asked, "Dad, why did you act in Super Mario Brothers?"
Hopper got a little misty eyed, put his hand on his son's shoulder and said, "I did it so you could have shoes."
His son replied, "Dad, I don't need shoes that badly."
Hahaha. Bloody freakin' brilliant, mate,
An actual true story about his dad is kinda interesting. Throughout his life Dennis would tell people or journalists that his father was a farmer but at the end of his life in a semi death bed confessing he admitted that his father was in the CIA.
@@acetate909 Now we know where Dennis got his acid from..lol
@@acetate909 his dad had been in the OSS, the precursor to the CIA, during WW2, but it wasnt a secret and later the family moved to San Diego where his dad managed a post office.
The scene of Dennis Hopper telling Martin Sheen that Marlon Brando goes to far and is the first to admit it, is one of the best scenes in the movie. The fear and sadness in Hopper's eye, like an abused spouse is haunting. Finding out that wasn't the best take is mind blowing
Yea I thought that was perfect myself
Having worked on the production, ok post-production on AN, all I can say is wow. WOW! you have dug up so much and been able to distill and condense so much of the complex and nuanced richness that AN is.
For all that can find this channel... SUPPORT!
Damn you must have stories.
Having worked on crews at various levels, including some pretty nuts low budget shows with difficult actors, all I can say is “Thank you for your service.” 😅
Are you in the credits? Damn, you must be proud.
Thanks so much! It's been tricky trying to piece together all the information out there (especially when some is conflicting). I really appreciate the kind words. If you have any interesting stories from working on the the post-production, I'd love to hear them!
Hell yeah. Best series on TH-cam. Been watching for years. Unreal shit.
Dennis was my neighbor in Venice for a couple of years on Indiana Ave. I called him "The walking encyclopedia". He had some of the greatest stories, he was such a sweet man. He worked out at Gold's gym almost to the day he died. Miss him. He told me the reason that he was able to work again, was because at the time he was married to the daughter of the head of the studio.
Cool!
Dennis... the Menace... in Venice? I'd watch that.
I played Keno in Reno with Dino. For real. His middle name was Dino.
Life is Good 🙆♀️
Rad. West side for real
Indiana??? I moved from there to OC in 76. 979 Indiana.
Crazy.
The guy's an OG space cadet legend, and will live forever if only just for that Sicilians monologue in True Romance, one of the best in all of cinema.
Indeed.
That is one cameo that overshadowed another great cameo from Christopher Walken, who usually manages to steal the show in less than ten minutes.
Hopper knows very well what Walken is going to do with him. At first he refuses the last cigarette, but realises that he has to insult the Sicilian mobster to get him to kill him before they extract the whereabouts of his son by "other methods".
Of course, in the moment, he forgets that he has his son's contact details right there on the fridge, but it's still a very calculated effort to get a murderous reaction from the Sicilians
I'm 1/2 Sicilian.
Dad would never let emotion interfere with his assignment.
While it was a good line, it wouldn't work with Bonanno's.
I think the algo sent me here because I just watched that scene again. It's so fn good.
He fucking had Tony Soprano STEAMING XD
True Romance is the tip of the iceberg. He'll live forever if only for every single line of his in Blue Velvet: What kind of beer do you like? Heineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!
Every time I see one of these videos, I marvel more and more that the film was ever finished-let alone being a masterpiece.
But regrettably they cut the best scene which was the sailing junk taken over by monkeys drifting down the river up which they were making their way to Colonel Kurtz’s temple of doom.
I love Hopper. His roll in The American Friend is amazing. And in Apocalypse Now he brings this extra notch of delirium tremens that I can't really grasp.
Once again, amazing work CimenaTyler!
Ah, a Wim Wenders fan. One of my faves is State of Things, for the cameos if nothing else. Sam Fuller as the crusty old DP and Rodger Corman as the entertainment lawyer. 🤌🧑🍳 😘
I wish they’d release it on Blu-ray. It’s such a rarity and when you can find a DVD it’s insanely priced.
"Recoil. I feel the recoil from the shotgun."
Pretty good line.
Yes but it's an old military line that soldiers have been saying for decades. Still good, though.
Reducing Errol Flynn to the actor "best known for playing 'Robin Hood'" was priceless! Dude, I admire your obsession with '70s cinema, but there were HUGE stars even before then, and he happened to be one of them!
If there ever is another re-release of Apocalypse Now, this whole series needs to be there as a feature. You do such an amazing work with this (as well as Alien series and all the shorter previous ones you did). Truly awesome work!
I actually think the photo-journalist is an amalgamation of all three of them, Flynn, Page, AND Herr himself. Listening to Herr speak, like in that 'First Kill' documentary, is like hearing the photo-journalist after the comedown, after he somehow gets dragged back to the world kicking and screaming.
He's a composite character, Flynn's his justification for being where he is, Page is his physical look and mannerisms, and then when he opens his mouth and is too manic to make a cogent point, it's all Herr.
I don’t know if you’re literally correct, but that sounds about right. I take it you’ve read Dispatches, and probably more than once.
A lot of people read Heart of Darkness after seeing AN, but they should also read Dispatches. Such a great piece of journalistic memoir.
First and foremost the photo-journalist is the corresponding character in Heart of Darkness, which Conrad had there as a substantial character..
Page is the guy who when offered a book deal with the working title of Through With War he declined Time-Life and said “through with war? War is fun! Where else do you get flaming helicopter falling out of the sky”?
Mr. Hopper's turn as Frank Booth in Blue Velvet will remain my all time favorite performance from any actor. The man was a genius, RIP
Don't you fucking look at me!
Yeah, it was like, finally, a director let him play himself.
Bro originally the script, and the movie, was going to have him huffing fucking helium, from that take, and having the voice change lol. Could you imagine
I used to live in Wilmington, NC, where a lot of that Blue Velvet was filmed. The diner from the movie was about 3 blocks from where I lived. Sitting in the same booth for breakfast was always kinda surreal with a still on the wall from the movie of Hopper in the booth
David Lynch recounted suggesting how to act out a scene with a really hard drug. Hoffman asked Lynch if he had ever used that drug, to which he replied, no. Hoffman said he had, and to just leave it to him. Lynch was shocked, and agreed to let Hopper do his thing. 😂
I LOVE this series. I am an English professor who has taught Conrad's story more times than I can count, so of course I'm a huge fan of AN. I love it that you are going through scene-by-scene, and I appreciate the documentation you embed. Citing sources increases credibility a great deal, as you know.
But have you played the video game? I'm serious, a 2016 game "Spec Ops : The Line", one of the only games to consider the horror of war (vs the "fun" of target shooting which is what most video game war games are like).
This channel is probably the single most important thing on TH-cam for aspiring filmmakers and film students. It combines theory with practice and is so inspiring, it's unbelievable.
To think this is just one film, and yet the lore around it is so inexhaustible and monumental. I keep thinking how on earth you can keep making every video better than the last and yet you keep doing it. This was immersive as hell.
When Willard meets Colby, there is something red on Colby’s right hand. I’m convinced Coppola added that detail on the fly to mimic Martin Sheen inadvertently cutting his hand in the hotel room scene, so there would be a subtext of connection between the two characters.
Interesting observation.
Colby gently stroking the gun barrel while staring suspiciously & apprehensively at Willard (because he knows what he is there to do) is one of my favourite shots in the whole movie
Yes ... Willard was looking at Colby as if he was looking at himself in a mirror.
Last time I was this early, this was still an Orson Welles production lol
Dennis Hopper is the prototype for Nicholas Cage but society isn’t ready for that conversation.
nope. cage is the prototype for paris hilton.
We live in a society
A B C D E F G
This is the end of the internet. You have arrived.
Mad when you consider Nicholas Cage was there
Intriguingly, much of Hopper's improvised dialogue (an unconscious mental cut-up loop of quotes, paraphrases etc. of TS Eliot) had clearly been circuiting in his brain for nearly ten years, if not longer.
In Hopper/Welles, which Welles shot in late 1970 while Hopper was still editing The Last Movie, Hopper can be heard reciting much of the very same words, almost verbatim. It is uncanny to experience, as if you're watching his Apocalypse Now monologues long in advance of the film. He lived with and embodied those words, which seemed to explode from his unconscious in that moment, operating to serve a new creative tapestry.
Dennis Hopper’s take on the mad Russian Kurtz-groupie character in “Heart of Darkness” has always been one of the more gonzo aspects of APOCALYPSE NOW, and one of my personal favorites. I always speculated that his comic turn is at least partly there to deflate the portentousness of the film’s third act, which is largely two guys sitting in a cave, one muttering poetry and rambling bullshit to the other. Given the response of critics, I’m not sure it was entirely successful in that regard.
Hopper himself brought energy and charisma to everything he did, but apparently mostly by instinct and without a lot of reflection. It was no great surprise to me when he traded-in his hippy Birkenstocks for a fascination with Newt Gingrich in the latter years of his life.
That's a pretty sad story for the inspiration of Hopper's character. Sean Flynn seems to have been commendable in his efforts. But upon finding the car of two missing journalists blocking the road, he decides to interview some nearby Cambodian soldiers to see what they might have to say about it? I know hindsight is 20/20, but how could he not sense the danger?
The young can have a feeling that they're 'bullet proof' only by God's grace when and if they do reach a good age is when they realise how blessed they were to have lived through their ignorance
@@benjaminguilatcoiv I can only suspect that they didn't know that the car was of the missing journalists.
but i suppose that they did know that those were Khmer Rouge soldiers at the checkpoint.. that they were already in a volatile, dangerous country should've been reason enough to be more careful
The Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot make the NVA and the Viet Cong look positively mild mannered. It's just that Cambodia had a much smaller population base if it weren't so it would've been even more horrific @@blazinchalice
When you're on mind-altering substances, you can make the oddest calls ever.
You can't land on a fraction, Man!
That's dialectic physics.
Dialectic logic is - there is only love and hate, you either love somebody or you hate them!
I like that the deleted scene finally answers what happened to Colby since he just disappears from the movie after his introduction.
This movie is a masterpiece and it only gets better with time like wine. I watch it every year for 27 years and its always different. I found VHS at an age of 10 and I still feel like there is a lot more to learn. You pick your character from the movie and you make him grow inside of you and sometimes dark side overcomes what Lincoln called better angels of our nature. Good is not always trying but life is confusing messing up good and evil.
Thank you and I split now.
67 and have always liked Dennis Hopper
You could never predict him
You did The Death Of Stalin a disservice with that description. You’ll make people think it is a comedy fantasy satire, rather than letting them know that the more weird or insane a scene appears to be, the more accurate it is. Every scene is based on accurate historical facts (condensed for movie timing) and the more outlandish the scenes are, the more closely the facts are being adhered to.
My sunglasses have fallen off my head a few times and the lenses are a little scratched.
Every time I look at them I think to myself: “every crack, represents a life that I’ve saved”.
I've seen Apocalypse Now 3 or 4 times over the years but this is the first I realized that Colby was played by Scott Glenn. He just doesn't look like the Scott Glenn that would become semi-famous in the 80's. My favorite role of his is The Right Stuff.
Once again, outstanding video. You've added so much to this film for me, and I'm grateful. Dennis Hopper was a true original. A true insane person and artist. He's eternally missed.
I'm 53 ,this is my favorite movie analysis ever. Truly inspiring. Ty
So Dennis Hoppers' character is basically talking about Francis? The way Hopper shows nervous deference to Francis in interviews is very similar to how the journalist talks about Kurtz.
19:50
I think that scene turned out great, I just love that line and chefs rebuttle "... And you were gonna call him crazy?!"
"Fuckin' Aye."
@CinemaTyler yet another brilliant documentary of Apocalypse Now. How you dig up the material & present it, is absolutely fantastic! I hope a major streaming service will show this brilliant documentary. Many thanks from Australia.
I was today old when I discovered that Mac from Night Court was in Apocalypse Now
This is absolutely one of the best series on TH-cam, ever.
So good, in fact, I'm going to go back to ep1 and rewatch it right now.
When I hear "on the next episode..." it's like finding a €20 note in a pair of trousers I haven't worn in a while.
I can't wait to see the episode on Brando. Over the years, I've gathered a considerable amount of information on the making of this film, including Brando's behavior. I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with the information. This is a truly excellent series. Is there any possibility that the entire series will be available on DVD someday? I always discuss the movie when I teach Conrad's story, and there is excellent material to be used in the classroom in your series.
I agree with everything you're saying here. I made this comment up thread, "The episodes go by so quickly that I just want to go to the next one and the next one... Part of me wants the series to end so I can watch all of them in one go but then I realize that " Some day, this war's gonna end." and there won't be anymore left."
@@kowalski3769 This is absolutely the best series I've run across on TH-cam. I just found them a couple of months ago, and I've already binged the entire series twice. I really like this film, and this scene-by-scene breakdown that is well- researched and produced is so fantastic.
*"I saw a satellite man!"* : Dennis Hopper : Easy Rider
45 years after seeing this in the theater, I have never seen anyone move their hands like Hopper did in this film. One one hand, it is most likely Dennis being Dennis, on the other, it sure worked in the film and added a real manic authenticity to the character.
Always killing it Tyler, when this collection is done it deserves to be in the special features. Great work from you and your team as always, I hope you’re doing well and life is going good for you Tyler!
Absolutly brilliat as always. Thank you for the video.
Great video. I really enjoy this series.
Scott Glenn was not a Vietnam veteran. He served in the Marine Corps from 1960 - 1963 prior to Vietnam. Harvey Keitel, the original choice for Willard until fired, was also a Marine around the same time (a couple of years earlier) and participated in an intervention in Lebanon in 1958.
"and watch out those monkeys bite" is from the book as well.
Another thing, my only complaint with the film is that we dont really see/learn enough about the "renegade" American soldiers still with Kurtz except for a few background shots. Since I was young, I was always mesmerized with how those guys looked. Those extra talking scenes with Colby were interesting, but Im glad they left the death scene out.
Dennis gets some of the most revealing lines in the movie, describing the real antics of Kurtz to Willard, who has the IDEA in his head that "Kurtz got off the boat...he split from the whole fucking program" from reading the dossiers, but when confronted by the actual person and the stories that the photographer tells, it confirms that.."Everything I saw told me that Kurtz had gone insane."..and .."This was the end of the river, alright."
Excellent work. You're making me love Apocalypse Now all the more
All the crazy behind the scenes stories surrounding Apocalypse Now stack up to one thing - in the moment collective creative genius filmmaking. The end result can't be denied - one of the greatest examples of filmmaking of all time.
one of the finest actors to ever grace this spinning rock we all reside on. his performances in easy rider, blue velvet, apocalypse now, true romance, and even river’s edge are all incredible.
Great work as usual I’ll be sad when this series is over.
Always love these videos. So much thought and effort and craziness in the making of this film, it's so enriching to hear the behind the scenes. (i also always get a kick out of the clips you add for flavour, like the simpsons, heh)
Hoppers' character as a photographer was absolutely brilliant , a man pushed to his limits under the influence of a circus of drugs on the threshold of insanity and death just holding on to what could be his last breath day in day out , only to find a moments of creativity and inspiration from a mad man. I just loved his role.
Brilliant! Another mind-blowing episode. The work that goes into this series is awesome-inspiring!
I don’t know how many of these videos there are, but I know I’ve seen a bunch and even though I have a hard time watching anything over 5-10 minutes, your vids always keep a hold on me ‘til the end. Excellent work on an incredible story of an incredible movie. There should eventually be a BluRay boxed set of your work.
This is a great video! Very informative and learned a lot! Can't wait til next one
Would’ve been surreal if they’d filmed the heads feeding Hopper’s lines to him
Thank you so much for making this. I have always loved Dennis Hopper's character (and him). An inspiration for sure.
Thank you! Amazing, great videos!
Flipping GREAT JOB!!!
"What are they going to say about him? What? Are they going to say he was a kind man? He was a wise man? He had plans? He had wisdom? Bullshit, man!"
Hopper’s ‘lines’ were some of the best in the film as was his character. It was sort of his story, His story, history, man. Ha ha!
One through nine, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions. You can't travel in space, you can't go out into space, you know, without, like, you know, uh, with fractions - what are you going to land on - one-quarter, three-eighths? What are you going to do when you go from here to Venus or something? That's dialectic physics.
Thank you SO much for these fascinating essays , they’re absolutely fantastic and riveting.
Honestly, these are Heart of Darkness part deux.
Great stuff, Tyler.
You should see his character “Feck” in River’s Edge!
Agreed. That film was well acted and rarely is spoken of.
Cats have claws!!!
Great movie nobody talks about
Everyone talking about the Sicilian scene or the Heineken line in Blue Velvet, but this guy is talking about River's Edge. You have good taste, fucker.
Dennis Hopper was an absolute necessity for Apocalypse Now 🚁🔥💀🙌
William Colby was the name of the head of the CIA in Vietnam.
He oversaw the Phoenix Program,....which, of course, included targeted assassination.
Thank you, CinemaTyler.
The photojournalist provides a very important element of the plot. When we get to Kutz's compound, we see the horror it represents. But the film needs a "spokesperson" that explains -- or tries to -- why these people essentially worship Kurtz regardless or perhaps even because of the horror. That paradoxical concept is very bizarre, so it makes sense that it would be articulated by a bizarre character. Yes, he is comic relief, but he provides exposition on the the way Kurtz is viewed and why that is important to the plot development as well.
loved it bro. fantastic video. looking forward to the rest of the story.
Man it's been 3 years since I delved into apocalypse now and following your channel from 1 year, you the best, keep it up ✨🚁 🌴🔥
Very nice, served as a peacetime navy photographer, naval school of photography 79, always get a kick out of the real deal.
Excellent, thorough, primary-sourced… Great stuff. IMO Hopper is the best part and this video had me laughing out loud in the best way.
One of the best Film history channels anywhere.
Great job again, Tyler.
I hope that one day you might take a look at David Lynch's "Dune." The film is such a brilliant, over-the-top, uneven misfire. I would love to see Lynch relent and give us an "Apocalypse Now: Redux" version of the film. I'd hate to see Lynch go in and try to "fix" the film, but if he could give us another 30 to 45 minutes of weirdness, I think it would be truly memorable.
Dune was a classic.
Dennis Hopper was a hugely memorable character in this film. I love him in everything. He's unique and a great actor, writer, photographer.
I always think of him in the movie My Science Project . I was watching that movie back in the day and my mom said when she saw him ."That's Dennis Hopper." And for some reason that has stuck in my mind for the last 39 years .
This was marvelous to watch
Thank you sir
I love this series. Thank you.
Dennis Hopper was pretty intimidating in Blue Velvet
Hey you wanna go for a ride?
No thanks.
No thanks? What does that mean?
I don't wanna go.
Go where?
For a ride.
A ride! Now that's a good idea!
A brilliant piece of research that provided insight!!!
Great documentary. Dennis was fortunate to have survived the Manson period of Hollywood!
Love these videos!!!
I just learned that DH was an actual photographer, and a good one.
Thank you!
I was into photography in my younger years.
Props.
☮️
Dennis Hopper is buried in NM ,His son was in the same class as my son in LA and I met him a few times and he seemed very friendly to our family .
I met a contractor once who spoke and sounded and laughed and acted exactly like Hopper. He didn't look like him at all, but when he was doing one of these 0:03, somehow he looked just like him
We've all met tons of people who reminded us of tons of people. I've never seen anything as fckin uncanny in my life.
In the span of a couple of days, I watched all 22 of these
We're all definitely waiting for a two part Brando episode ❤
Thanks for another great episode to one of the best movies ever made!!!!!!!
OUT OF THE BLUE,INTO THE BLACK
THIS. IS. AMAZING!
Colby's character always stuck with me ever since i first seen him on screen, such a small role but it carries so much weight considering what he was originally sent to do, i could babble about him for hours
"I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silents seas"... lol.
Excellent video.
What a magical time in film making
Yeah, the industry story about *The Last Movie* is that Hopper kidnapped the master to a ranch and edited it to shreds during a 3-week cocaine binge so that no-one could re-edit it, hence “final cut”. It would certainly explain why Hollywood producers wouldn’t touch him. Easy Rider was easily my favourite movie when I was a teen, I’ve seen it about 300 times, and it’s a masterpiece. Like early John Cusak movies, following the roles Hopper did get took you interesting places. I’m not sure I’d have stumbled into Rumble Fish or Blue Velvet without him and then suddenly in the 90s he was everywhere and his primary archetype was being aped by other actors when directors couldn’t get him. Such a weird career.
River’s Edge is a personal fav, but of his 90s resurrection I think Red Rock West is worth exhuming if you have time.
RUMBLE FISH was awesome, one of Coppola’s most visionary efforts imo. I bought the Criterion edition some months ago after not having seen it in many years, but haven’t watched it yet.
I can't believe theres a video about Hopper being a madman, and neither the creator, nor seemingly anyone in the comments gives any mention to his dynamite death chair stunt. If you think the name is overdramatic clickbait type bullshit. Its not. At all. Look it up. You won't be disappointed. Absolute madman.
I’ve always said that Dennis Hopper plays one character, Dennis Hopper
Yes, Hopper is acting a role. If you watch a video where he tells the story of accidentally pissing off Brando, you see the real Hopper. He just did an exceptional job of making it seem real.
Dennis Hopper, what a legend. Easy Riders was the last movie I bought on video. Still have the tape somewhere.
Brando hitting him with a can made this movie for me. I was like YAAASSSSS!!!! Even the bad guy can't take it.