New Hollywood

New Hollywood: Apocalypse Now


. Not filming in a studio, filming on location
. Creative freedom due to reputation coming off of Godfather 1 and 2 and The Conversation
. The firing of Harvey Kitel
. Massive set pieces
. Philippines army taking their helicopters back frequently
. Marlon Brando as auteur

. Coppola was the head of the 'Film school generation'
. Film becoming something you can study
. Film becoming more respected as an art (as the studio system has been escaped) giving more freedom to directors w/ less constraints
. Technological advancements were freeing
. Big increase 

. New film school generation films were low budget subjects though Hollywood gave them the big budget
. These films were often low budget genre budget pictures in disguise       

Classical Hollywood vs New Hollywood
. Classic hollywood
. studio system
. 180 degree rule
. shit reverse shot
. long take
three point lighting
. Continuity editing
                   



Auteurship Coppola Traits:

. Control of the press
. Between blockbuster and arthouse
. Using bankers
. High budget
. Big set pieces
. Isolation as a theme 
. Chaotic shooting                                           
. Brat pack of new directors that went to film school
. Influence from French new wave = more freedom + possibility from technological innovation
. Experimental to a degree     


Article
. Milius version
. Hippie movement 'nirvana now'
. American Zoetrope independent production company made by Millius and Goerge Lucas which funded apocalyspe now
. Orginally Lucas would direct Apocalayspe now and Milius would right it
. Influenced by Milius affinity for classic literature like Homers Odyssey and Dante's Inferno
. Milius imagined Wagner and the Doors in the sound track
. Wagner for heli attack scene was inspired by true events
. The Doors wrote several songs about the madness of war
. Orignally Milius had Kurtz as a huge Jim Morrison fan
. M + G Lucas wanted to shoot a pseudo - documentary shot on location in 16mm black and white inspired by realism of 'The Battle of Algiers' and 'The Anderson Platoon'
. Wanted to use a mixture of scripted and improvised scenes of performers interacting with real soldiers and events
. Lucas abandend the project in 1977 to direct star wars
. Coppola radically changed the approach to the film
. Milius + Copp had conflicting creative visions
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Apocalyspe now 40 years later - legacy         
. Met mixed reviews originally
. Lack of perspective from the vietnamese side
. In the Iraq war they used the Wagner thing, showing glorification
. its not 40 years old, its 40 years in the making as Coppola keeps rereleasing the ending - other rat pack directors do this as well, as their pushed by the studio's to release the original film whether they're happy with it
.

Coppola sense of cinema
. went in unexpected direction ins his career
. Coppola's didn't waste his potential
. Was found in Zoetrope
. interested in Family in his films
. Interested in how people work together - local, national, international (Godfather, G2, G3)
. Jack and Rain maker - more sober affair than godfather, using more classical
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