godardslave wrote:i wish hearts of darkness was included, then it would be a really special set.
i cant help but wonder why hearts isnt on there? anyone got any ideas?
I think I've figured it out and I swear I'm not kidding.
It'll make him look like a total hypocrite if he releases it. Those who know HEARTS OF (I have the VHS release of it) knows that Coppola is completely fulla shit when he says that that head-nembutal called APOCALYPSE-REUDX is closer to the film he envisioned when originally making the film. He
made the film he wanted to make
when he made it; that's why the first version was so goddam good, took so notoriously long to make, was made where it was instead of Hollywood, involved so much of the directors own money, and went on in production in the Philipines forever to the point where it became a joke in the contemporary press as a quintessential example of a director gone mad. At the time, when making the film, those editing room floor scenes he sacriligiously plopped back into the film in 2001, were-- and this is very clearly illustrated in
HOD which is why he's probably hiding it under his mattress now-- literally despised by Coppola. He
hated them, wanted to pretend they didn't even exist. He wanted to pour gasoline on them and light it. He had nothing but bile for the actors in them, the crew, himself for writing them, anything & everything remotely connected to them made him wanta vomit.
That's the reason they didn't enter the final cut of the film-- no other reason. Once upon a time he was a great young director with a monstrously accurate sixth sense about what worked and didn't care if he went broke getting his vision up onscreen. Now he's a fumbling director looking to finance a lot of non-FFCoppola film enterprises like wine and his daughter, and he can't juice the Godfather any further, so he went back on his artistic principles and shat all over a settled classic that was originally all his own to begin with, to create a "new" release of it which is merely a new source of income. Releasing HOD will reveal to the vast majority of the population (i e those who haven't seen it) that he's full of bull-pooey. REDUX was a purely financial idea which betrayed his own well-documented, deepest passions about the film, deeply felt passions about those deleted scenes which thereby creates a situation wherein the Young Genius Coppola makes the Old Lost Coppola look thoroughly compromised.
That's why I think this doc aint coming out, especially in REDUX territory.
