filmbriefs
Actor

Marlon Brando

2
briefs
13:00
average
26 min
in total
On film.briefs2
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Apocalypse Now

Francis Ford Coppola · 1979

Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film relocates Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to the Vietnam War, sending Captain Willard up a river into Cambodia to assassinate Colonel Kurtz, a decorated officer who has gone rogue and established himself as a warlord among a private army. Shot by Vittorio Storaro on a production in the Philippines that ran a year over schedule, battered by a typhoon, a leading actor's heart attack and an unprepared, overweight Marlon Brando, it premiered unfinished at Cannes to win the Palme d'Or, and later took home Oscars for cinematography and sound on a budget of $31.5 million against an $83.5 million return.

13:00

The Godfather

Francis Ford Coppola · 1972

Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 adaptation of Mario Puzo's novel follows the Corleone family as the youngest son, Michael, is pulled from war-hero outsider into the head of an organised-crime dynasty. Shot by Gordon Willis in interiors so underlit that faces disappear into shadow, scored by Nino Rota, and built on an ensemble led by Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, it cost Paramount $7 million and returned over $268 million, and swept that year's Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay Oscars.