Apocalypse Now Credits Ending Kurtz Compound Destruction Original Audio

Apocalypse Now Ending Credits Kurtz Compound Destruction

[@biznz2638]

See the director's comment's version here.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYCXhY2sq8mkn7c or a version without the credits.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGSbZ2uYgb-kiM0

[@biznz2638]

+MarieCelesteRocks That's really interesting to know, I'll lookout for a prime copy of that version.

[@georgepainter7364]

Thanx for the correct version you posted !

[@MrSe1fde2truct]

absolutely true. Does anyone know if they cut it into the 4k Version of the redux cut?

[@talkingeclectic4540]

Michael Bay eat your fucking heart out. That is how you make explosions not only entertaining but mesmerising instead of dull, boring and lifeless.

[@randalljamison5359]

Absolutely!

[@andriealinsangao613]

Yeah, this explosion PISSES all over Bay!

[@traumatose6003]

This was the original ending I saw in a movie theater when the movie was first released. People were starting to get up to leave when it started. They sat down or stood there staring. No one left including my wife at the time and myself. Ex-navy, Viet vet. I didn't move at all.

[@feedfancier]

Cool story bro

[@niconachozstudio1952]

this is an deleted ending

[@jawoody9745]

No kidding! This is one of the most beautiful and haunting credits I've ever seen. However this isn't the original one I saw. I saw a different soundtrack without without these these vocals. Same visuals but they remixed this! The original 1979 35mm release was much more effective than this!

[@fritzk3627]

@@niconachozstudio1952 I saw this n 1979 opening weekend. The ending was there at Graumann’s Chinese theater.

[@lestatdelc]

This was my exopreince when seeing this movie on its initial release here in the U.S. as a teenager.

[@lastunctives2095]

That flare drop is like the angel of death- totally terrifying

[@michaelhall2709]

This was infrared footage recorded by multiple cameras of the destruction of the ‘Kurtz Compound’ set after principal photography had been completed. It was originally included in the film’s 35 millimeter theatrical run and subsequent video releases, but Coppola didn’t like that audiences were mistakenly assuming that the air strike had been called-in after all, and substituted the footage with the white-on-black credits we have now. Personally, I think that was a mistake. With the wailing electric guitars and The Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart’s percussion this comes off like an acid rock concert straight from the bowels of Hell, a perfect coda for one of the most visionary (if imperfect) war movies ever filmed. Let people think what they want.

[@gonzaloNMF]

You're the only one that got it right. Although beautifully filmed, this scene was never intended to be part of the film. They just blew up the set for fun cause the government of the Philippines demanded that nothing from the movie was left in the jungle.

[@NeuroActing]

Saw this ending in a cinema in 1979 (3 times) and I DEFINITELY thought it was an air strike, so I much prefer the final version.

[@christophcarle]

Agree. It was still to be seen on the (German) Directors Cut DVD, but it was already gone when the Bluray was published.

[@christophcarle]

@@NeuroActing But seeing it 3 times, I guess you liked it then. So why then do you prefer another version?

[@NeuroActing]

@@christophcarle To be honest, at the age of 16 I saw it two more times for the helicopter sequence! From a storytelling perspective though this to me is a Character film, not a Spectacle film (in Aristotelian terms), and the original ending seemed as if Willard was following Kurt's instructions to "Drop the bomb. Exterminate them all." In other words he's a puppet. With the final version, the character study is given a degree of closure (he's the first and last person you see in the film) - and yet, with Kurt's voiceover, I'm left feeling that there will NEVER be any closure after this act. And the last image we see is his face morphing into a statue, signifying to me that he has now become a war relic. Going to black with the credits at that point lock in that subjective feeling for me. The conflagration afterwards would be a distraction from the impact of his arc, turning it into a Spectacle ending, whereas the "final" ending makes it a beautiful Character study.

[@danielhayes7967]

With this there needs to be an Oscar for BEST ENDING CREDITS. This would've won "HANDS DOWN."

[@arttheclown9458]

Man this is terrifying, this shouldve been left in the movie...

[@schizoidboy]

Even though the one line is based from the original story of The Heart of Darkness "Exterminate the brutes". I like the part where Willard is flipping through Kurtz's manuscript, which is probably about how to wage insurgent warfare, and he sees the red words "Drop the Bomb, Exterminate them all!" It just sums up what this is all about.

[@schizoidboy]

@3D Modeller Good question, hopefully I can give a good answer. At best this is my own interpretation. Kurtz is the sort of person who is supposed to be civilized, a man of culture and intelligence who is supposed to bring civilization to the natives, instead he succumbs to the will of the jungle which is not civilized and does not follow the ways of the civilized world. It is kill or be killed and you have to be willing to side-step morality in order to win - pay no regard to judgment or the effects thereof and do things that would be considered horrible in order to achieve your goals. Kurtz see himself as being beyond what the civilized world and high command wants and operates on his own. He no longer considers himself apart of their system. If we think about it just dropping the bomb (nuclear perhaps) which is extreme in any sense is a way to win the war rather than trying to drag it out in prolonged battles that yield nothing. I don't know if this answers your question, or even if you wanted an answer ;), but here's my best guess.

[@schizoidboy]

@3D Modeller Considering how far Kurtz was going and his shunning of judgement it makes sense. I think that was the point that was being made in the film. I think it was also in the story it was adapted from as well which dealt with the Congo and that was really bad.

[@sigmasix3719]

@3D Modeller no not Vietnam but his trained monsters which he realised in the end were absolutely evil just as he was, there was no psychopath high ground above judgment just an even greater horror.

[@raynus1121]

@@sigmasix3719 Exactly. In destroying the compound, he's essentially destroyed 'the heart of darkness'.

[@RD-lt3ht]

What a STUNNING sequence...no CGI can compare with this multi-coloured fever-dream that was 100% REAL. This is creativity at it's finest, Coppola and Storarro are superb.

[@markbrenzel9419]

Coppola's only mistake was leaving this ending sequence out. He said because he didn't want people to think Willard called in an air strike on the natives. But the ending was clear that the natives made a truce with Willard and would no longer follow Kurtz or Willard and return to their customs. Willard would call in the air strike after they left to keep up appearances and wipe out any memory of the hell created by Kurtz. Plus, there's clearly no people or bodies anywhere in the final sequence. What a shame. (this is still my #1 movie of all time regardless)

[@flora4616]

Nah. He would have had to kill the natives too. They would literally tell the story of Kurtz and that can’t be done.

[@BrianLamar-es3my]

Truth be told everyone left before the air strike was called in

[@binghamguevara6814]

Terminated ... with extreme predjudice.

[@Iktius]

For me this will be always the true ending. Erasing forever the memory of a men who dared to become a living God (cel Kurtz), or an amoral ubermensch. Something like "I become death, the destroyer of planets"

[@michaelwoods9005]

It was never meant to be "the ending". Coppola photographed the destruction of the compound and the footage was too cool not to use somewhere, so he stuck it over the end credits. When he realized people misinterpreted it as part of the story he took it out. I love it as an artistic piece, it's super cool.

[@hardville]

Kurtz lost his sense of being his sense of belonging after witnessing the children's amputation to the disease polio communist forces they had been waiting for Americans to leave and then amputate the children's little arms...... 1:06

[@mdpah]

It always makes me feel good that my "Tribe", the Ifugaos are given credit of our portrayal of the Montagnards!!!!

[@raphmaster23]

That's pretty darn cool!

[@georgepainter7364]

Matthew Hettel sometimes even the white man can go a little native at times! Props to all Philippine warriors!

[@TheADM16]

they should have show this one in the redux version

[@star-lorddavid-1015]

Did the Photographer and the Children survived?!

[@TheADM16]

DavidMMM yes actually cause cap. Willard didn't call in the airstrike he just simply turned of the radio. This scene is a bonus feature it has nothing to do with the movie.

[@star-lorddavid-1015]

TheADM16 Oh! Of Course!

[@star-lorddavid-1015]

TheADM16 Well! I kinda like the original end credits when it was all black in the theatrical and redux version!

[@star-lorddavid-1015]

Which version do you think is much better: the 1979 version or the redux?

[@newbornassassin7291]

That scene at the end showed how dissosiated lance and willard was . When lance heard the pbr street gang calling over the radio he looks around as if never hearing it before and wilder has the what marines would call the "1000 yard stare" I always think after watching it what happend to the two of them after returning from the mission they both seen some shit amd were deffenitly gonna have PTSD big time . Another thing I noticed is after lance dropped the acid at the bridge his personality and persona changes from then on and almost becomes one of the tribal man just the way he was acting. Couldnt imagine taking lsd in the battlefield that would fuck your head up bad. Havkng a bad trip is one thing but living in a bad trip litearly is another . This movie Is great 10/10

[@Fanomajohn]

This Is The True Ending To One Of The Greatest Films Ever Made!

[@andymurday4538]

This has to be the most incredibly well done end credits ever. LOVE IT!!!

[@MatthewSmith-to1hz]

Everyone says this is a was movie, but to me it's more if a psychological horror like the shining. Even though it takes place in Vietnam during the war it's really not really about the war. But more about the psychological effects of any war can have on the human mind. It isnt even really an "anti-war" film. The screenplay director have very "hawkish" feelings about Vietnam. But he didn't want to shy away from the ugliness of what war was.

[@maximusdarkultima]

many philippine palm trees died that day

[@randalljamison5359]

The music in this scene is phenomenal!!

[@terminatorrc1]

Saw apocalypse now last night at the cinema for its 40th anniversary

[@bruhmaster6950]

What did you think of the movie?

[@terminatorrc1]

@@bruhmaster6950 amazing

[@andymurday4538]

Coolest end credits ever!!! Just out of this world!!!

I really wish Coppola could come to the realization that this IS the ending to the movie. I know it's not the interpretation he intended. But I think its the best interpretation and ending.

[@OroborusFMA]

This is 1000% better than what came after.

[@Mikey300]

I read this ending (which I definitely prefer) as another illustration of the insanity of the whole war. If they knew where Kurtz’s compound was located, they could have Arc-Lighted it well before sending in Colby and then Willard to covertly “terminate” Kurtz. So after Colby fails and Willard apparently fails, they Arc-Light “Kurtzland” anyway, ignoring any political considerations that made them send in the covert teams to get mostly killed. But then FFC wouldn’t have had much of a movie to make . . .

[@silversnail1413]

This footage is spectacular, despite the rather horrific implications. If I was in Coppola's shoes I don't think i could have stopped myself from including it, so I can at least respect his level of restraint. It definitely fits the overall theme of the film much better though.

[@1981madmatt]

Silver Snail14 I watched this as a kid taped of the telly and this was the original ending going bk 30 odd years ago

[@lindav1b]

"PBR Street Gan this is Almighty, over" is one of the greatest lines in the history of cinema.

[@OroborusFMA]

PBR Street GANG.

[@foxontherails]

Bill M elaborate.

[@whereami2477]

How?

[@22695750]

I love that line as well...

[@georgepainter7364]

Bill M, Patrol Boat Riverine this almighty standing by, how copy over?

[@odinosiris8951]

Back in the 80s when I first saw this movie on HBO , THE Ending was like this but without the ANNOYING CHOIR and spooky singing in the background and it was so much more awesome. The singing and CHOIR in the background ruins it. Someone out there has to have that particular ending that HBO was using

[@DDaSilva1980]

Love the burst of distorted guitar.

[@nopcshere6097]

Scott Glenn (Jack Crawford in 'Silence of the Lambs' and John 'Axe' Adcox in 'Backdraft') also had a cameo role in this movie! I didn't notice him until seeing the name in the credits. He was Capt. Richard Colby, the young officer ordered on a mission identical to Willard's and instead of killing Kurtz became part of his 'team'.

[@AlanAvis]

I've only seen the Redux Version, and I never knew this existed! Wish it was kept in.

[@RD-lt3ht]

This OLD analogue photography is atleast the EQUAL of the best digital of today. A few films stocks were used, including hi contrast infrared, I believe. Stunning, CGI has NOTHING on this. Another unbelievably visually immersive 70s masterpiece is Friedkin's Sorcerer... see it and swoon in a sweaty delirium.

[@TheWhite1961]

Best Film credit ending ever....

[@imshambles.9472]

When I first saw this film it didn't have this scene in it. And what we got was a cool glossy booklet that had the credits and personal information about the actors. This was in 1979.I wish I had saved it.

[@claytonmiller1336]

This was the ending included in the 35mm wide release version of Apocalypse Now which shows Kurtz's compound exploding in flames after an airstrike is called in, all set to the ominous electric tones of Carmine Coppola's score. Nevertheless, Coppola, however, soon got wind that people were interpreting this ending to mean that Willard had called in the airstrike and effectively murdered Kurtz's followers as he left. To that end, Coppola ordered the 35mm prints to be returned, and the credits ran out over a black screen, yet this ending persisted on throughout the '80s and even made it on a LaserDisc release. For all this, however, Coppola said the explosions were intended to be a postscript to the story, and was merely added because he felt the images were visually striking.

[@Evan64m]

Sorry to bother, but who was supposed to have called in the air strike then?

[@claytonmiller1336]

@@Evan64m No bother. From what i've read, I believe that Coppola meant to give the impression that the U.S. military found out where Kurtz's base was located and obliterated it.

[@Evan64m]

@@claytonmiller1336 Thanks

[@AugustGallmeyer1998]

Fun fact. This score is actually sampled from the album "The Apocalyse Now Sessions" by the Rhythm Devils which where former Grateful Dead drummers. Carmine Coppola definitely scored the film. But the Rhythm Devils are responsible for this track, which is originally titled "Napalm for Breakfast".

[@rg6413]

​@@claytonmiller1336 @Evan64m in the original script (it's online), they call the airstrike on themselves when they're overrun by the massive North Vietnamese assault on Kurtz's base. They didn't film this scene (an epic battle) at all, like they didn't film the original opening which was about a platoon of the North Vietnamese soldiers being ambushed by Kurtz's "Indians with flamethrowers", from the point of view of the panicked Viets and was also to filmed like a music video.

[@ctmcmullen]

By far the best ending. Saw this in 1979 when it first came out. Its shot in infrared. Great music too. Bookends the Doors opening sequence perfectly. An embarrassment, the way the new "redux" version reduces the film to "the horror". And has to articulate it? Plus the French plantation scene, plus the additional playboy scene, all dilute the original.

[@LibrarianBarbarian]

The movie is incomplete without this scene. The temple bombing credits were there when I first saw Apocalypse Now at a revival theater in the early 80s and every time I have watched the movie without them I felt cheated.

[@DavidBush-wm1fe]

Thank you for posting. Saw this ending the first time watching the movie on subscription "IT TV" in 1985 and loved it. Recorded the movie on VHS and viewed several times. Assumed the airstrike was called in and wondered later why other viewers were puzzled by the ending. Seeing other endings later realized why the puzzlement exists.

[@star-lorddavid-1015]

Francis Ford Coppola is a great director!

[@bruhmaster6950]

He also made a movie that made me cry, specifically The Outsiders

[@isaacdepaula2103]

A great end for a great movie

[@changvasejarik62]

In a twisted way I almost like the idea of an air strike ending better, one final jab at the insanity and stupidity of war by renedering almost the whole thing pointless. The assassin killed the target without killing the followers but kills them anyway by orders he forgot. The cycle continues.

[@gary3875]

I thought I remembered this when seen this in the theaters. I thought i was going crazy!

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"Knowledge of LOVE are how the lessons of life are LEARNED!!!" - St. Sir HMAJW."

[@bandfromtheband9445]

I wish Francis had left this in it's original state, without the vocal chorus stuff! It worked just fine the way it was! I wish whoever posted this would turn the volume up!

[@bandfromtheband9445]

This DOES NOT include the original soundtrack shown on the 35 mm. version in theaters in 1979. THAT version didn't include the chorus of vocals that were mixed in many years later. The original included just the soundtrack by the "Voodoo Rhythm Devils," which included Mickey Hart of The Dead and their mighty, mighty metal I-Beam they banged on, with pickups installed at both ends. The chorus vocals were not mixed in, which left it even more chilling than it already is. Also, the visuals are out-of-synch with the audio! The audio is too early. (Clearly, not using SMPTE time code for this). I could kick Francis for leaving this out of the latest release on Blu-Ray, but he's adamant about people thinking that Willard phoned in the air strike on Kurtz's compound with his intended ending, which was ambiguous, but you know how big directors get about "their babies." He still left us with a great film for the ages!

[@lastunctives2095]

Thanks for getting one of the greatest scenes of death right - Kali I am the destroyer of worlds ......

[@1293ST]

I really don't know which I like better. The silent darkness or the fitting and inevitable destruction of Kurtz's work he wished for himself.

[@lloydonlead]

I saw this when film premiered in 79. I was 14 years old. It has always captivated me. I wish Coppola would have left this in the film.

[@frankroy2005]

Francis Ford Coppola. Apocalypse Now. In Vietnam in 1970, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) takes a perilous and increasingly hallucinatory journey upriver to find and terminate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once-promising officer who has reportedly gone completely mad. In the company of a Navy patrol boat filled with street-smart kids, a surfing-obsessed Air Cavalry officer (Robert Duvall), and a crazed freelance photographer (Dennis Hopper), Willard travels further and further into the heart of darkness. Of all the war movies that I have seen, this film is the only one that truly made me see how someone could go insane after being a participant in any war conflict. The movie has two endings, the first involved Willard (Martin Sheen) leading Lance (Sam Bottoms) by the hand as everyone in Kurtz's (Marlon Brando) base stands by and looks, and ends with images of Willard's boat pulling away from Kurtz's compound superimposed over the face of a stone idol which then fades into black. The better ending shows an air strike being called and the base being blown to bits in a spectacular display, consequently killing everyone left alive. Apocalypse Now...Great Movie, Impressive Cast, Amazing Story. "The horror, The horror."

[@jadehathaway4336]

Everyone escape from the compound they knew what was about to happen and they all took off like a bat out of hell

[@gonzaemon4711]

I think it's supposed to be late summer of 1969, because Chef mentions Woodstock and the Manson murders as having just happened back in the "world"

[@davidfeltheim2501]

The horror....

[@maxmaximus6191]

This was on the VHS version as in Years ago.

[@mmp64]

I swear this is the ending when I saw it in the theater in 1979. When I rented it many years later I couldn’t understand what happened to the spectacular ending.

[@jondstewart]

Cruncher Block it was done away with years ago. I rented a VHS of it in the 80’s and it was all black screen. When I recorded it on Cinemax around 1987, my eyes popped out. Then the Redux edition was no better. And Netflix and Amazon show NO credits! You need to appeal to the Millennials and Generation Z’ers. They don’t need to be shown senseless crap like movie credits, even though this was from 1979 and the credits in this movie are done like 90% of movies today, you know, title only, then director, producer, then stars at closing.

[@johnleeson6946]

This WAS the ending I remember from watching it in the Newport Theater in Youngstown, Ohio in 1979! Radio message was something about "PBR Street Gang", so I went to Mickey's on Market Street and had one... or three!

[@jondstewart]

John Leeson thank you for the heads up. This should be the ending today. But look at the credits! Marlon Brando got first billing, maybe 20 minutes in the last half, Robert Duvall second billing and in 20 minutes between the first 1/4 and 1/3. And Martin Sheen was third. In the entire movie and main character. And Harrison Ford is billed as an insignificant supporting actor, but he filmed his scenes before Star Wars, thus still making him an unknown unless you saw American Graffiti beforehand.

[@colossusforbin5484]

@@jondstewart Marlon Brando got top billing in Superman as well. He had that kind of pull and star power back then.

[@jondstewart]

Colossus Forbin and the same thing went for The Godfather and The Freshman.

[@lastunctives2095]

You gave us the proper ending - it's called death .

[@gtaclevelandcity]

"Larry" Fishburne lol

[@joejaysworldofsuperheroes7770]

That was how Laurence Fishburne was credited in films until around 1994

[@andrewmilesbroughton8222]

best opening scene of a movie ( the haunting hallucinery montage, best cinematography of a movie, best soundtrack, best war sequence of a movie ( helicopter attack) and here it is...best end credit sequence of a movie. Can you tell I like this film?

[@jawoody9745]

This is NOT the original 1979 ending credits of the 35 mm release. This has been remixed sometime during the early 2000's. The original does not include the vocal recordings present here. They are absent in the original. Someone, somewhere, MUST own a VHS or Betamax release with the original mix. The original is much darker, louder and doesn't include the human vocalizations. This whole sequence was shot through infrared filters. The colors of the original are much more brighter, presenting blue, cyan, pink and dirty yellows. If anyone has the original, old ending sequence on VHS tape, please post it! Coppola wanted to leave the ending credits ambiguous, so you would not question whether or not Willard ordered the air strike on Kurtz's compound, as it was written. Coppola and his family and almost the entire crew were on a barge after filming had wrapped and they filmed the destruction of the set with cameras rolling with infrared filters. Someone MUST have a copy of the 1979 original footage with the original, unmixed recording. If that person is YOU, please post it here!

[@jamesmusic110757]

+james woody Yes, I've been looking for that version of the ending credit's music for YEARS with no luck. I thought this was it, until you mentioned that the original did not have vocals! Thanks.... oh where oh where could it be.

[@CAL1MBO]

+Mojo Photo happy hunting

[@biznz2638]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oXS2mZanq6xro7c

[@OroborusFMA]

Wrong. The original had the voices moaning and such over the music.

[@oldjack-mi8gk]

@@OroborusFMA I was a projectionist in a cinema when the 35mm print with the end credits over the destruction of the compound was released. James Woody is correct -- no voices.

[@RichardMNixon-zh6uz]

"But, the man is...vaporized"

[@elbandido9887]

Richard Nixon no, Kurtz sacrificed himself to the horrors of war the US army wanted him dead because of his "unsound" methods and he was still commanding troops in the field.

[@Daniel_Lancelin]

*Mission accomplished.*

[@YolandaAnneBrown95726]

When I first saw this years ago, it terrified me. Now it really REALLY haunts me.

[@OroborusFMA]

The PERFECT ending for a movie called "Apocalypse Now." Do not accept any version but the original 1979 release with these credits. Coppola should be flogged for the ways he has tinkered with the film over the years since then.

[@georgepainter7364]

Oroborus it’s called bait and switch! As long as we keep buying Apocalypse Now in one of the hundreds of different versions we’ve now seen, there is no hope we will ever see the scene we saw in the original Theatrical version! Chicanery,Trickery and a few other choice words come to mind! But Coppola is the great Pimp! N I continue to buy and search for the 1 unobtainable version!

[@fleetwoodvo8673]

After Kurtz's tribe melts away, the B-52s, fearing the mission has been compromised, erase the now empty temples from existence. "PBR Street Gang, this is Almighty."

[@stevew278]

Melts away to where? Where were they going to go?

[@fleetwoodvo8673]

@@stevew278 Anywhere they could. They scattered far and wide, the spell broken. Some probably just went home to their towns.

[@georgepainter7364]

For many years I tried to explain this final scene I saw in the theater, I was sixteen! I only saw this scene once out of the twenty or so viewings! This is what they call a theatrical version! It’s worth the extra money to see movies at a theater, you get extra footage you are sometimes likely to never see again! After seeing Apocalypse Now well over 300 x, I am vindicated! I did see this scene! I even bought the full dossier and this scene was excluded! How then can this be the full dossier?

[@garycooper8687]

Saw this when I was 12 or so. Old viewings had it then it went away. One guy is killed trying to call in the strike. The CPT succeeds in calling in the strike as he is leaving. Awesome ending and shows raw violence without computer effects. In reality it is awesome and terrifying, It shows a place that will consume you if you go there. Very powerful ending.

[@georgepainter7364]

Gary Cooper Chef. (Forrest Tucker) called in the air strike, just before he was killed and beheaded!! Willard (Martin Sheen) severed the Handset Cord to the Radio! PBR street gang this is almighty over! he knew the air strike was inbound!!

[@georgepainter7364]

Gary Cooper You May disagree coop, but it’s good to see a comment from a chap with good taste! A good read is Heart of Darkness by J. Conrad. Apocalypse now was loosely based on this novel! THIS WAS A PROFOUND MOVIE TO GUYS OUR AGE!

[@garycooper8687]

@@georgepainter7364 Roger I remember now that Willard was listening to the aircrews coming in

[@georgepainter7364]

Gary Cooper I was a Army radio operator a year later when I turned 17! 05Bravo was my MOS! Field radio man w/ Morris code training!

[@inzane86]

While I prefer the original ending, this sequence is awesome. Would have been nice if they released the 5 hour version and had this in the beginning in the intro sequence, transitioning between the room and this.

[@arncoo63]

Yes I agree with you Z k should have been made in it's 5 hr originality

[@davidconnellan6875]

I don't know why people had gotten the idea that Willard had called in the airstrike. He didn't need to he had eliminated the target. Almighty went ahead and bombed the compound when PBR Streetgang did not check in or reply to their call. The Almighty rained down hell fire in final judgment on kurtzes empire in the jungle.

[@paulburgio8278]

IMO no redux of final cut needed. The original theatrical release with this ending is the best.

[@darkmage7280]

If this is not meant to be intended as part of the story, why add so many pyrotechnics, and damn *target designation flares* into the proceedings?

[@streppegna4503]

Assuming you don't already know, it wasn't just pyrotechnics. The Philippine government ordered that the movie set be demolished after completion, and Coppola decided to film the bombing with multiple cameras at different speeds and angles.

[@rustblade5021]

Because Coppola could. They had to destroy the compound anyway, they had ample leftover explodes, and tons of film gear, so why not blow it up in a spectacular fashion and get some cool footage? That's the explanation he gave in Hearts of Darkness.

[@davidsanderson5918]

I agree that this is beautiful BUT it does imply an extra caveat to the story.....and it does indeed look like Kurtz's compound is being blown to smitherines. Personally I like the credits with black background as I saw them first time round on the telly WITH the stretched font/wrong screen format. Got a nostalgia for things looking warped and stretched on 70s telly. Ha ha.

[@star-lorddavid-1015]

Awesome!

[@loganstroganoff1284]

Do yourself a favor and watch this movie on acid or shrooms,alone,in a dark room. Make sure if your edition doesn't have this ending to turn this clip on at the end to punctuate the movie. It's incredible.

[@TheSunship777]

The complete soundtrack needs to be released with its entire music.

[@namelessnoone6638]

this is spectacular but the original ending is still the best. victory...

[@CrassMufumbu]

I remember the credits being the same in theatres in 79 except for towards the end there was a United Artists distribution credit released thru united artists.

[@TheSunship777]

The film would still win the Oscar today

[@curtis8966]

What is the name of this music and where can I find it?

[@austinggdyudjdh66319]

does anyone know why this wasn’t kept in the original version? I actually met someone who was at the premiere of this and said this sequence was one of the most incredible things he’s ever witnessed and he was. not. lying.

[@thedarkwolf9423]

The ending I remember.

[@briggscharleton6139]

The ending when I first saw it. At the time I didn't relate it to the air strikes. Just thought it was ... an apocalyptic way to end our journey

[@jondstewart]

Okay, so my question is this: why didn’t these credits remain to this day! It’s bad enough they were taken away in the early 1980’s, then even worse, ALL the credits were taken away with the later deleted scenes release! There were no credits, not even the logo of the studio or movie title!

[@jaegermeister1968]

I saw the film in the cinema at the time and there were these credits and this music. later versions were obviously recut

[@BUBIKINS]

I am genuinely puzzled by something. I have just purchased the rare 3-disc Blu-Ray Steelbook release off Amazon, of APOCALYPSE NOW - which contains the original 1979 cut and APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX. The Blu-Ray disc is distributed by Optimum Releasing/Studio Canal. Both versions of the film have NO end credits at all - it just says: "Copyright: 1979 American Zeotrope. All rights reserved". And REDUX: Copyright: 2000 American Zeotrope All rights reserved. Now, I knew this in advance because I rented the blu-ray of APOCALYPSE NOW in 2012, and I still like it very much, without the end credits. But - what has me really PERPLEXED here, is that in the second Special Features Blu-Ray DVD, there is an option on the menu saying: "Kurtz Compound Destruction With Credits" - but when I play the scene, I get the sequence, with Coppola's commentary, but still NO END CREDITS. Is this right? Have I done something wrong? I don't understand why the menu says: "WITH CREDITS" (exactly as it says above here), and yet when I play the scene, there are NO CREDITS. Why does it say there ARE credits when there are none? Can anybody help explain this? I'm totally vexed. Thank you.

[@CAL1MBO]

Yeah it's a pretty shit ending imo. Just fades black. No wind-down.

[@jamiephillips4726]

I bought The redux version on DVD a few months ago and loved it but I wanted to watch it on blu ray so I bought the same special pack this as you. I had the same dilemma with the ending and it did my head in. I did some research and found there's a million different cuts to this film. the blu ray version has the ending with commentary in the special features. HOWEVER the DVD redux has the ending with no commentary, just the footage. so when I watch this movie I have to switch disks at the end and pretend it didn't happen. I think they're attempting to separate this footage from the movie, that's why you never find it with credits. unless KZbin lol

[@thethrashpanda]

Daniel BOWES where did you get that copy?

[@Inkan1969]

This is the best scene of the best live action movie ever made.

[@michaelhill5406]

& not a 🚁 in sight! Hope you’re watching this, john landis

[@spencerlane415]

There are more helicopters and flying hovercrafts in this movie than all of Landis’ films combined

[@PolishGod1234]

They should have left in in redux and final cut as well -goes well with the explosive opening symbolising the cycle of Apocalypse

[@dragomirmitsov6395]

Speechless ❤

[@ryanleikness3414]

The horror.... the horror

[@moscoagain]

The reason those credits were removed is because people started drawing the wrong conclusions about the ending, ironically the comments section of this video is full of them.

[@SPak-rt2gb]

Kurtz said to exterminate them all from what I remember

[@andreacirasella4989]

FINALMENTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jonathanmelia]

Where did you get this? Is it uploaded from the old laserdisc?

[@TheCapelessCrusader]

I'm honestly confused as to why this was left out of the Blu-ray release.

[@georgepainter7364]

LordJaeger6277 you had to go to the Theater to see this ending! Thanx to so called progress.visa vie YT I once again get to see an ending I saw 40 years ago!

[@SoulStylistJukeBox]

Because Coppola is addicted to making absurd changes to all this best known films.

[@kimcummings6904]

1979 State Theater Ithaca NY

[@22695750]

I always thought that this should have been the official ending... I’m in disagreement with Coppola’s that Willard would have let the compound continue... I think after all he saw he would have completed his mission and called in the air strike... if nothing else to cleanse the insanity that this place represented... for good, bad or indifferent... Willard would have called in the air strike because that’s his mission...

[@michaelbeacom8277]

It was Kurt's last instruction to Willard to destroy them.

[@jackburton4667]

Yes. Hopper's Character would say: (rapidly of course) "IF you can dream-and not make dreams your master"....Kurtz's dream mastered him. After Kurtz, the Montagnards would not continue that dream. It had turned nightmarish. They lit torches as an aiming mark for the "Arclight", they knew was coming.

[@vincenzoluca91]

Titoli di coda grandiosi con una musica ammaliante ed ipnotica. È un peccato che il maestro Coppola non abbia mantenuto un finale del genere nella versione definitiva

[@Davi.Abraham.Millman]

Watching the final credits here because my television is with a problem

[@paolofabbella7954]

I hope this final pearl is featured on Final Cut (2019)

[@ggthtrhr]

99% of the people in the coments did not understand the ending of Apocalypse Now at all...

[@izzyg.o.m.godovermoney1297]

wait no big booom at end I THINK THERE IS A VERSION WHERE HE CALLS ALLMIGHTY this credit scene not on my dvds wtf

[@joel8583]

The fire department sure was busy that night.

[@hdoghillyer8932]

The blu Ray never shows the end credits.

[@Jared_Wignall]

The Final Cut has the end credits, but it’s just black with white text. This is a feature on the Final Cut blu-ray set, but you can’t watch it with the film or without Coppola’s commentary as the credits roll with all this.

[@ndl9764]

The director is insane. The apocalypse as the only logical answer to the man made horror. Apocalypse now. And he cuts it away. He destroyed the whole film. Furthermore i can remember some surfscenes. Propably i have seen it in an interview show on telly. Couldnt see it in any of these versions. They were quite impressing. A shame they were left out in the cuts.

[@ryokan9120]

I find it so bizarre that Coppola withdrew this ending and replaced it with a blank black screen. This is the version I remember watching on my VCR back in 1981 and it's so much better than the one currently available on the 4K and Bluray release.

[@chrismulwee4911]

How did you get a copy of this movie with credits? The version available on Streaming have no credits, just a Copyright 2000 Zoetrope. Tell me please

[@lloydonlead]

You can buy the Blu ray and under special features it has this exact version. Also the original dvd this scene without credits with Francis Ford Coppola explaining why he removed this from the original film. It's under confidential files.

[@star-lorddavid-1015]

The Redux version is way much better than the original!

[@cookiedude2009]

+Star-LordDavid-101 Are you serious? Totally disagree. I think Coppolas success is based upon this movie and the Godfather...and the only reason they came out so good is because the editor knew what was good for the film and what wasn't, not Coppola. In my opinion you can see that from the redux version and his later films, they all suck ass. Some times studios do make judgements that are better than the directors.

[@thedocak7532]

+cookiedude2009 who cares about the success, more apocalypse now is better than less ;}

[@jonathanmelia]

cookiedude2009 See HEARTS OF DARKNESS: A FILMMAKER'S APOCALYPSE. Coppola said he was not happy with the French Plantation scene because they couldn't afford the cast they wanted. You see him explode on set, screaming, "This scene is history!" It was only in 2001 with the release of REDUX that he seems to have changed his tune....

[@llama40204]

Respectfully disagree here. Oddly enough, the only thing about the redux that's better is the Brando & Duvall stuff. Those scenes should have never been cut in the 1st place. The scene with the bunnies, while funny, seems pointless, and the french plantation scene goes on way too long and turns portentous.

[@OroborusFMA]

Wow don't ever get into movie making. A black screen is superior? LOL. This is the PERFECT ending. And the director is a moron for caving to "critics" who got "confused" over the end credits.

[@crackerman3772]

Were these the end credits to the ABC Sunday Night Movie Version 5/8/83? Also repeated on the abc Monday Night Movie in April or May 1985? Is this how they actually appeared? Please reply anyone Thanks for posting this.

[@thunderbolt2145]

Yes, but the sound is wrong. There was no human chorus in the background. Another poster commented that the colors were different too. I remember certain shots that seem to be missing, but that could be false memory. I really liked this ending. My interpretation was that since Almighty didn't get a response, they assumed PBR Street Gang had been compromised. Therefore, they greenlit the airstrike. To me, it was the exclamation point on the insanity of the war depicted in the film.

[@SDGamer638]

When the end credits were shown on ABC in 1983, it had the MGM/UA logo at the end rather than the UA/Transamerica one. By this time, MGM had already acquired UA to create MGM/UA, and they, at this point, still owned the theatrical and television rights (Paramount owned the home video rights). Today, of course, all rights are owned by Lionsgate.

[@thomasferrigno5956]

My friend recorded this version off of Cablevision sometime around 1988 also does anyone know if Lance ever found the dog?