Apocalypse Now/Trivia


 * Kurtz's character was called Leighley in the original script. Worth noting that the reason for the change from Kurtz to Leighley was due to a conversation between Marlon Brando and Francis Ford Coppola when the latter was trying to describe the role to the actor. Brando, never having read Conrad's novella, said that an American Colonel would never have a name like "Kurtz" and would instead have something more English. After reading the novella, and understanding the reference, Brando demanded that his character's name be changed BACK to Kurtz after the film's completion, and Ford's lines were dubbed.
 * Notice, too, the books read by Kurtz: 'From Ritual to Romance' and 'The Golden Bough'. Both are identified by TS Eliot's notes to 'The Waste Land' as key to the work, which was (prior to Ezra Pound's edit) to contain the epigraph 'The Horror! The Horror!'.


 * Hey Its That Guy:
 * The guy with the 'fro? The guy that looks barely over fourteen? That's Morpheus.
 * Actually, Lawrence Fishburne was just a teenager when he shot this movie, as he lied about his age.
 * That nerdy officer with the glasses who helps brief Willard? Han Solo / Indiana Jones.
 * Upon returning to the States, Willard became President Jed Bartlet.
 * Charlie don't surf, but Tom Hagen sure as hell does.
 * Vito Corleone has flipped his lid.
 * Holy crap. Gunny Sergeant Hartman pilots choppers to Ride of the Valkryies in his spare time.