[Ad-Free] The French Plantation Sequence FINALLY Explained | Ep19 | Making Apocalypse Now (Patreon)

The French Plantation sequence in Apocalypse Now has an interesting reputation. Of all the extremely difficult shoots in the mud and rain and heat and night shoots it feels as though the French Plantation sequence must have been a joy to shoot. But this scene proved to be one of the most frustrating for Coppola to film and it upset him so much that he ended up cutting it from the movie.

We are going to take a look at how difficult this scene was to shoot, what the scene adds to the overall story, and why the directing technique that gave Coppola amazing results in the past just didn’t seem to work this time.

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