Francis Ford Coppola is a director who has dabbled a little in every genre, never really settling down, never developing his own "tropes", never becoming predictable. Masters like Martin Scorsese certainly deserve their credit, but watching a Scorsese film, you know you're going to get fast-dolly-in movements, and you're probably going to get some Rolling Stones soundtrack. There are few similarities between Apocalypse Now, Rumble Fish and The Godfather, so with Coppola, you really never know what to expect.
The film is said to be based on the novel Heart of Darkness, and while there are some parallels, it's really nothing like a direct adaptation. The film follows Martin Sheen as Captain Benjamin J. Willard, a veteran secret operatives specialist who, after his last tour of duty, has apparently taken to heavy drinking and grown psychotic in the meantime.
All he wants is to be put back in the field. "Every day, Charlie grows stronger while I grow weaker". He thrives on the blood lust of battle and can't take another day cooped up in this room. The opening scene is immediately gripping, with the choppers flying overhead and Willard simply going insane in a bedroom somewhere in Saigon, waiting for his next mission.
When Sheen punches the mirror, that wasn't in the script. In fact, the entire production of the film is a tale of legend, of insanity, of incredible difficult and of more odd and unusual happenings than even occur in the film itself. We could discuss them more in depth, but that would take more time than we have for this review, so we'll just focus on the film for now.
From the first scene to the last, the movie is full of fascinating characters and cameos. We see Harrison Ford in the mission briefing scene playing a one-conversation character, and then we meet Cockroach, a character who never speaks, but rather, sleeps through most of his scene, fires a grenade, and goes back to sleep, while remaining the most gripping character in the scene. We have Robert Duvall as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore, and...
This is without even mentioning any of the main characters. You could remove Kilgore, Dennis Hopper or Cockroach and still tell this story. Marlon Brando as Colonel Kurtz is, in fact, the heart of the film, despite not even appearing until the final act of the story. Even without appearing on screen until the finale, his existence casts a nihilistic dread across the atmosphere of the movie.
The movie is a success on literally every level. At times it can be quite endearing, when you see the love and camaraderie between the men on Captain Willard's boat. It's often funny, and Coppola has even described it as a comedy. It's exciting, with "Ride of the Valkyries" being amongst the greatest action scenes of all time. But Kurtz's nihilism is what overwhelms the film in the end.
While Coppola claims Rumble Fish as the personal favorite amongst his body of work, his fans typically consider it to be between Apocalypse Now and The Godfather Part II. It is, at the very least, his most wild, insane and epic film to date. - 40729
The film is said to be based on the novel Heart of Darkness, and while there are some parallels, it's really nothing like a direct adaptation. The film follows Martin Sheen as Captain Benjamin J. Willard, a veteran secret operatives specialist who, after his last tour of duty, has apparently taken to heavy drinking and grown psychotic in the meantime.
All he wants is to be put back in the field. "Every day, Charlie grows stronger while I grow weaker". He thrives on the blood lust of battle and can't take another day cooped up in this room. The opening scene is immediately gripping, with the choppers flying overhead and Willard simply going insane in a bedroom somewhere in Saigon, waiting for his next mission.
When Sheen punches the mirror, that wasn't in the script. In fact, the entire production of the film is a tale of legend, of insanity, of incredible difficult and of more odd and unusual happenings than even occur in the film itself. We could discuss them more in depth, but that would take more time than we have for this review, so we'll just focus on the film for now.
From the first scene to the last, the movie is full of fascinating characters and cameos. We see Harrison Ford in the mission briefing scene playing a one-conversation character, and then we meet Cockroach, a character who never speaks, but rather, sleeps through most of his scene, fires a grenade, and goes back to sleep, while remaining the most gripping character in the scene. We have Robert Duvall as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore, and...
This is without even mentioning any of the main characters. You could remove Kilgore, Dennis Hopper or Cockroach and still tell this story. Marlon Brando as Colonel Kurtz is, in fact, the heart of the film, despite not even appearing until the final act of the story. Even without appearing on screen until the finale, his existence casts a nihilistic dread across the atmosphere of the movie.
The movie is a success on literally every level. At times it can be quite endearing, when you see the love and camaraderie between the men on Captain Willard's boat. It's often funny, and Coppola has even described it as a comedy. It's exciting, with "Ride of the Valkyries" being amongst the greatest action scenes of all time. But Kurtz's nihilism is what overwhelms the film in the end.
While Coppola claims Rumble Fish as the personal favorite amongst his body of work, his fans typically consider it to be between Apocalypse Now and The Godfather Part II. It is, at the very least, his most wild, insane and epic film to date. - 40729
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