Apocalypse Now Movie Details
Apocalypse Now taglines:The Horror. . . The Horror. . .
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| Directors: Francis Ford Coppola | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IMDB Rating: 8.6/10 out of 162,438 votes |
“Apocalypse Now” 1979 by Francis Ford Coppola – Movie Goofs
“Apocalypse Now” Plot Summary
During the on-going Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe.
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“Apocalypse Now” Goofs List
- Continuity: The blades of the Huey helicopter when the Playmate of the Year arrives.
- Crew or equipment visible: When pulling out from the Dulong bridge you can see the wake caused by the camera boat when the camera shows the boat pulling away.
- Continuity: Thickness of pages when Willard flips through Kurtz’s manuscripts after he is killed.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: SPOILER: During Clean’s funeral, the Chief folds the tattered American flag from the stars end to the stripes end. Even a Cub Scout knows you fold the flag from stripes to stars, leaving the blue field on the outside. A Navy Chief Petty Officer would certainly know this. This was almost certainly intentional on the director’s part; it may symbolize the chief’s disaffection with the war, or at least with his mission (similar to flying a flag upside-down as a sign of distress).
- Factual errors: The maximum gross weight of a Huey helicopter is 10,500 pounds. It would be impossible for such an aircraft to lift a Patrol Boat, Riverine (PBR) which weighs anywhere between 15,000 and 19,000 pounds.
- Continuity: After the canopy of the boat is destroyed and is replaced by giant leaves, the canopy reappears while they are at the bridge. In subsequent shots after, the canopy is gone again and replaced by the leaves.
- Continuity: When attacking the village, Kilgore’s helicopter has rocket pods on each side and no surfboards. When it lands it has surfboards on each side and no rocket pods.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: As Willard flips through Kurtz’s dossier, the voiceover says, “Third generation West Point, top of his class” while the dossier clearly reads, “Graduates West Point; second in class.” Second is still reasonably considered “top of the class.”
- Revealing mistakes: The tape player that “Clean” picks up to play his mother’s taped letter has no batteries in the bottom.
- Revealing mistakes: When Willard kicks The Chef’s severed head off his legs his neck can be seen breathing in and out.
- Revealing mistakes: As Willard reads the newspaper articles about Kurtz, the text of one article is about West German, Iranian & US discussions about nuclear energy. It has nothing to do with Kurtz.
- Anachronisms: In Kurtz’s dossier the cover letter in one section is a commendation to Col Kurtz for arranging a fly-by of Cobra gunships for a celebration or parade on “30 Aug 65.” The first prototype of the Cobra gunship didn’t fly until 7 Sep 65.
- Continuity: The length of Willard’s cigarette while he is trapped in the bamboo cage, talking to the freelance photographer.
- Continuity: Willard’s band-aid on his face appears out of nowhere during the battle scene with Kilgore, a few moments after their helicopter lands.
- Continuity: Broken radar dome on the boat reappears later in the film.
- Continuity: After Clean is shot, blood spatters on boat panel disappear and reappear.
- Continuity: When attacking the village, the helicopters alternate from flying at high altitude to sea level several times.
- Crew or equipment visible: Shadow of dolly and crew just before the scene with the news crew.
- Continuity: When Willard grabs the sergeant to get fuel for his boat (just before the scene where the playmates dance for the soldiers) his cigarette disappears and reappears between shots.
- Boom mic visible: When the Kilgore character is first introduced getting off a chopper you can see a reflection of a boom mic in his glasses.
- Crew or equipment visible: When the Playboy chopper takes off with the two men holding on you can see a safety wire holding the man who partially drops when the pants of the other man partially give way.
- Revealing mistakes: When Willard looks thru Kurtz’ book at the end, two of the pages are identical.
- Continuity: When Roxanne Sarrault smokes a cigar during dinner, when only she, her father and Willard are present at the table. At the same time we see the arm of the man who earlier sat next to her, but in the next shot he is gone again.
- Crew or equipment visible: When Willard and his crew meet Kilgore and the cavalry for the first time and walk onto the beach, long shadows (caused by the setting sun) of the camera and its crew are visible where the soldiers walk.
- Continuity: After the massacre on the sampan, Mr. Clean is seen opening and closing the breech on the M-60 machine gun twice.
- Continuity: When Kilgore calls for an air strike, the number of planes attacking varies between four and five in different shots.
- Continuity: In the opening montage two different ceiling fans are seen. One is light colored with a louvered housing on the motor. The other is black with no visible motor housing, and is spinning counterclockwise.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: During Willard’s briefing in Nha Trang, every time someone mentions the name “Kurtz” on the soundtrack, on screen they are mouthing “Lieghley”, the original name of Col. Kurtz’s character in the script during the early part of the shooting.
- Revealing mistakes: When Kilgore calls for the soldier to start The Ride of the Valkyries, the soldier starts the reel-to-reel tape. Unfortunately, none of the tape actually touches a playback head. Instead the tape is wound underneath a tension bar and on to the take-up reel.
- Continuity: When the photojournalist welcomes Willard, his bandana is clearly rolled. A few shots later it appears flat on his forehead, and in the next shot it is back rolled again.
- Continuity: Near the end when Willard gets of the boat to kill Kurtz, he doesn’t wear camouflage make-up on his face. When he emerges from the water, he does.
- Factual errors: During the air-strike on the village, Kilgore calls for “20 mike-mike Vulcan” to be shot from the Huey gunship. The UH-1 Huey does not carry an M-61A1 20mm Vulcan cannon. The Gatling gun which that is shown being shot is a Minigun, which shoots a 7.62mm NATO (.308 cal. Winchester) cartridge.
- Anachronisms: Willard is reading info about Kurtz while eating a Hershey’s bar that has a modern UPC bar code on it.
- Crew or equipment visible: In Cambodia, when the crew is reading mail, then coming under fire and escaping, spray from the camera boat can be seen twice.
- Continuity: LTC Kilgore’s stetson hat has a rank insignia on it when he is first seen, but the rank is missing in the Ride of the Valkyries attack.
- Factual errors: The Viet Cong’s tracer bullets, seen quite often throughout the film, notably when the PT boat is “sprayed” with enemy fire, appear to be red in color. In reality, the Viet Cong used green tracer ammunition while the American’s used red tracer ammunition.
- Continuity: When the helicopter drops the PBR onto the water, the superstructure with the radar mast collapses, but in the next shot the boat is fine.
- Crew or equipment visible: When a helicopter is traveling over the hills in the distance after Willard’s mission briefing from the high rankings, in the bottom right of the shot you can make out the shadow of another helicopter traveling away from Willard’s one. This is possibly a camera helicopter.
- Factual errors: Many M16 rifles are shown with 30-round magazines installed. These were rarely used in Vietnam. The standard magazine of the Vietnam era was shorter, and held 20 rounds.
- Revealing mistakes: Kilgore’s helicopter attack scene, according to the dialogue between him and Willard the previous night, states that the attack will take place at dawn. Yet most of the scene itself was clearly filmed at high noon.
- Factual errors: In the scene the morning after the Do Long bridge incident, following Lance’s popping smoke (“purple haze,” he calls it), Clean is shown about to listen to his tape and an M-60 is shown on the left with linked ammo dangling and draped over the boat’s side panel. However, the ammo rounds are clearly blanks with the characteristic blunt bottle-nose tips, not real rounds.
- Continuity: After the helicopter carrying the wounded child leaves, Lance’s clothing has changed from his Army fatigues to a pair of shorts (this is because of a scene cut from the original theatrical version in which Kilgore gives him a pair of shorts to surf in. The scene was restored in the Redux edition of the film.)
- Continuity: In the opening scene when Willard is in his apartment, before he punches the mirror there is already a blood stain on his sheets.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Willard is looking through the dossier at the times tha
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