Was Dennis Hopper Even Acting in APOCALYPSE NOW? | Ep22 | Making Apocalypse Now

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.

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."

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!

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

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.

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.

Every time I see one of these videos, I marvel more and more that the film was ever finished-let alone being a masterpiece.

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!

Last time I was this early, this was still an Orson Welles production lol

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 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.

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.

"Recoil. I feel the recoil from the shotgun." Pretty good line.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

Dennis Hopper is the prototype for Nicholas Cage but society isn’t ready for that conversation.

This channel is probably the single most important thing on YouTube for aspiring filmmakers and film students. It combines theory with practice and is so inspiring, it's unbelievable.