Tiger Attack: The CRAZY Story Behind Filming This Scene | Ep13 | Making Apocalypse Now

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A scene in which Willard and Chef venture into the jungle and are confronted by a tiger not only kicks off the journey up the river to Kurtz but gives us a glimpse into the danger of leaving the boat and the heart of darkness Willard (and Coppola) must face in order to complete the mission. In this video, we’ll take a look at what makes this scene important to the story, the color-theory and inspirations cinematographer Vittorio Storaro used, and the crazy story about bringing a tiger from Los Angeles to the location.
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@CinemaTyler Год назад

Hi everybody. This is a re-upload of this episode because the painting at 7:10 was apparently too risqué and it violated RU-vid's community standards and caused them to age-restrict the video (which would heavily suppress the video's reach). It's kinda silly, I know, but it's okay. I understand that it is difficult to be nuanced when they are working with such a high number of videos. I just wish they had flagged it between me uploading it and publishing it.

@WojciechDobosz Год назад

Here I was having a deja vu

@acetate909 Год назад

Wow, considering the content YT allows on a regular basis makes their arbitrary censorship of your thoughtfull and articulate video even more egregious. It's ok to sexuaIize very young chiIdren but don't you dare show clips critiqueing a cinematic masterpiece. Unbelievable.

@TheRealNormanBates Год назад

This censorship is getting out of hand.

@reddykilowatt Год назад

lol are they going to require pants on Michelangelo’s David?

@selphhelpvideo Год назад

I just posted a behind the scenes video of a painting I painted filled with nude faeries. I guess I’m next 🤮 how utterly stupid. Great work as always!

@JH-lo9ut Год назад

Chef is such an important character. You can't not like him. He's a Saucier! Chefs freak-out after the tiger incident is one of the most humane reactions in the movie. This film takes you on a psychedelic trip of sorts. Reality is diluted, distorted you are there, but you are not really there. Chef pulls you right back to reality for a moment. It's a big "F**k this shit i wanna go home!" It is so relatable, it is so direct to the point, so human. Perfectly acted. This is also very reminicent of a breakthrough during a psycheddelic trip. When you feel it is all to much to take in. You realize there is no escape from the suffering, you are powerless to fight it. You break down and cry like a child. You display the folly in fighting with your own mind, you act it out and make an ass of yourself. Is this the ego fighting for control? I dont know but not until that point, you can accept what is happening and move on.

@darndude5088 Год назад

Always felt this movie was psychedelic but then again most good movies are

@tomservo5347 Год назад

I always liked how Chef was oblivious to the tiger-but Willard's instincts were razor sharp as he 'felt' something lurking in the darkness. It showcased how Willard is just where he wants to be, can never go back to civilian life and is dangerously close to going full Kurtz mode. (Willard relates how he's began to admire Kurtz while going through his dossier in an earlier scene.) Willard is the epitome of the type of warriors Kurtz felt were needed to actually win.

@blastermaster5039 6 месяцев назад

Chef is obviously a civilian given training and a gun to fight in a war that, yes he might or does understand, but he has none of his heart invested in. Willard on the other had, similar to Kurtz are true warriors and soldiers through and through.

@starwarsroo2448 4 месяца назад

All the noise in the jungle just stops he didn't feel anything

@DrMarianus 2 месяца назад

I served in Danang, Vietnam as a US Navy Diver. I agree, warriors like this are needed. But it was the policies of the US that lost a war, not its military. The ROE (Rules of Engagement) and no stomach for ending a war quickly is what ended the war. These prolonged wars are worse.

@insanejughead Год назад

Just like on the first upload, I just want to tell you how much I appreciate your dedication to this exquisite film and the massive backstory it was built from (all 80 years of it!)

@jsXanatos Год назад

chef actually survived and became the pawn store owner in falling down, this is canon

@C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13 Год назад

"Of course when you're done, you gotta clean the waffle out with a stick, but ya can't have everything... Am I right, or am I wrong?" My favourite film.

@randall9000 Год назад

Think about it!

@sartainja Год назад

Priceless.

@SantaBumm 6 месяцев назад

We're the same, you and me. We're the same.

@marcmeinzer8859 19 дней назад

I knew somebody that happened to for real in Vietnam. He was a janitor at the university I attended from 1973 to 1977. We used to party with him and he would chew the filters of his cigarettes until they were destroyed. He was an army infantryman and not a navy riverine guy or black beret. He rented somebody’s garage in Oxford, Ohio and converted it into an efficiency apartment. He was using his free tuition to get multiple bachelor’s degrees. Everybody called him Weird Phil. He was one of the most fascinating characters on campus.

@doubledrats235 Год назад

Interesting that the tiger scene was filmed around the same time that I was reading “The Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad in high school. I first saw this film shortly after it came out in the theatre with a friend I graduated high school with. At some point we looked at each other and realized this was the same story we read in English class.

@Ruylopez778 Год назад

I do have to wonder when it comes to 'age-restriction', who are the people we are 'protecting' from clicking on a documentary video about Apocalypse Now with 'tiger attack scene' in the title, that can't handle a painting you can see at the MoMA? There's even a video *on RU-vid* from the MoMA channel, of this very painting, and it even zooms in to show the curator dusting the figure, that is not age restricted. It's from 2019 and has 116k views.

@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319 Год назад

Still pretty happy you're still doing videos about this immersive movie. 🦇

@nicedog1 Год назад

I always thought that the tiger was superimposed with Willard. I also thought that the jungle was a funny colour but didn’t realise it was deliberate.

@lxndr3299 Год назад

Thank you for doing a re-edit to keep this up. You do excellent work.

@davidunger222 Год назад

Apocalypse Now is my favorite movie. I look forward to each new episode you put out. Keep up the great work!

@jamesdrynan Год назад

The wild tiger is my favorite animal. Not as a pet or movie extra, though. In its natural environment, it is a supremely powerful creature, beautifully marked. I would disagree with Forrest's description of the tiger's eye looking mad. Look closely. In that black-rimmed yellow lies bravery, strength and intelligence. No two tigers have the same stripe pattern. The marking on the forehead closely resembles the Chinese symbol for KING.

@davidlean1060 Год назад

In fairness, you'd probably think a tiger has mad eyes if it was running straight at you.

@Dreijer94 Год назад

I love your channel! Thank you so much for doing this.

@aliensoup2420 Год назад

I really loved the jungle sequence for the color and composition of the trees in comparison to the men. I also had an experience working with a tiger on set. It was for a commercial which was being shot on a sound stage. It was a pretty tense environment even though the trainer was playing with the tiger like a dog or kitten. They told us not to make any loud noises or sudden movements. While everybody sat still and quiet, the trainer walked the tiger around the inside periphery of the stage to get it acquainted and comfortable with the environment. As the camera assistant, I had to go outside to load film. I decided to reenter using a back door to the stage that was basically hidden from the rest of the stage and away from the people and activity. Just as I swung open the stage door, the trainer and tiger were right there walking toward me. It mildly startled the tiger, and I froze for a second, then shut the door between us. I kind of felt like Willard at that moment. I was almost afraid to show myself on stage again, as the tiger might recognize me and be afraid or angry at me for scaring him. It was pretty well behaved though and did what it was supposed to.

@aliensoup2420 Год назад

@@harryom3497 It was not on Apocalypse Now, I said it was a tv commercial, in the U.S.

@dannycrockett9878 Год назад

How amazing is it with all the peripheral and way off screen preparation that takes place for a classic film like this, that it's all invested so that some dude, or several million dudes, will watch this from a cinema seat and at film's conclusion say, AWESOME! I mean the Kurtz dossier and the unwritten or even un-mentioned backstory from characters like Chef, just beautiful. Coppola is a stone cold genius. He obviously adopts this all in approach where the film becomes the real world and nothing else matters. I mean, it's the stuff that you would have never even known or recognized without these documentary type pieces. The colors, sounds, and wildlife being used as metaphors about the war or life or whatever, just absolute fucking genius. By the way, I am hereby a subscriber. This site is really well done.

@MyDogTank Год назад

Just want to say I appreciate your stuff a lot. Keep it up. Just great.

@354Entertainment Год назад

Awesome Video, thanks for it!

@johnpick8336 Год назад

Your Videos are incredibly entertaining! Thanks.

@mr.phillips Год назад

Your videos are always the highlight of my subscription box.

@OddHominum 6 месяцев назад

Loving every episode wow

@psychotronic_x Год назад

love your videos

@rickytoddbotelho9555 Год назад

This is one of the best scenes in all movie history 👏 🙌 👌 ❤️ ' never get out of the boat man, never get out of 4 boat!!!!'😝

@GhostRanger5060 Год назад

Agreed!!!!

@kremesauce Год назад

Deja-vu, keep up the great work Tyler!

@mantia39 Год назад

I just felt the lighting was to show the darkness and shadow of the triple canopy jungle. All this color symbolism is lost on me,and I've watched this movie maybe 200 times. ...if not more.

@loganholmberg2295 Год назад

Jesus you know more about this movie then Coppola by now. 😅😅 You should go to university and submit this video series as your doctorate on film studies too. I know now more about this movie then I ever cared too and I eagerly await your next video. 👍👍

@Snowcat-rg7bz Год назад

"Hi tiger, hi tiger!" I will never forget Forrest yelling that as they are headed up river.

@michaelsamuel9841 6 месяцев назад

Bye tiger

@kenthetalkingpen2518 Год назад

One of the best films ever made ❤️ 👌

@pootmcphoot Год назад

When RU-vid screws up your favourite channel and they gotta re-upload, you gotta rewatch.

@jhare4099 Год назад

One of my favorite characters in the movie. I also like the idea that Chefs NOLA accent is pretty accurate

@Bias1978 Год назад

Absolutely God damn right !

@jbsmith966 Год назад

i about jumped out of my hide the 1st time i ever saw this scene lol

@daveconlin8342 28 дней назад

Martin Sheens band aid is one of the connections between him and Charlie Sheens in 'Platoon' when I knew both movies better I noticed some interesting connections which I believe the movie 'Hot Shots Part Deux' took a shot at.

@PlateletRichGel 2 месяца назад

whenever I make a mistake at work, I start crying and saying "Never get off the fucking boh-owt."

@trevorsmith7753 2 месяца назад

The tiger was more symbolic than reality. By the 1960s, population pressures, and the war-supply lines, had decimated the larger wildlife. Like Thailand, Vietnam had very few tigers left. Even the purported 'tiger attack' on Jim Thompson, who disappeared in Malaysia's Cameron Highlands (1967), was more likely down to his human, OSS connections.

@lsav1085 Год назад

Thanks

@zooblestyx Год назад

Before even starting the video, let me just say YAAAY!!

@touristtam Месяц назад

I don't think that Willard is trying to know them by empathy but for practical reasons; get them talking and to know what drives then.

@bbt305 Год назад

This channel is art about art! Its incredible! My all time favorite movie gets this sort of breakdown, its poetry in motion. To have RU-vid not only age restrict art but mess with someone’s very hard work is frankly disturbing! The algorithm becomes ones god. BS

@robothunter1035 Год назад

You're gosh darn, ding-dang-dilly right. Never get out of the fudge-ey boat.

@354Entertainment Год назад

Puge magic this movie!!!!!!

@swilkobarfingtoniii1642 Год назад

I first saw "AN" at a matinee showing- University Theater in Toronto. I went with three friends right after we all saw the King Tut exhibit on a school trip and we had the rest of the day to kill. Anyways, before we went into the museum we had all dropped a couple of tabs and we were all tripping balls. When I saw the tiger jump out in this scene I had a VERY BAD REACTION! lol. But I can't think of a movie that I ever saw that hit me as hard as this one did. Maybe the first "ALIEN" movie. I was tripping for that one too!

@UDONTCME111 Год назад

Who else cracked up when he added that cut from Rambo? LOL

@mikesaunders4694 Год назад

…absolutely goddam right.

@vincentgoupil180 9 месяцев назад

3:09 just the opposite, you'll avoid getting to know the person that's gonna die similiar to the military dehumanizing the enemy so you'll shoot them. Or, giving a name to a farm animal getting attached making it less likely it'll be culled later. So, could be said Willard by getting familiar with the enlisted personnel was less likely to cook them later. Officers do not fraternize with expendable ranks.

@c3aloha Год назад

I always use these lines because stationed in Hawaii my coworkers are always talking about picking mangoes 😂

@androidemulator6952 6 месяцев назад

"Never get out of the boat.." - Goddamn right

@kayzeaza Год назад

I knew immediately when I saw the painting it would get the video restricted

@sannyassi73 Год назад

If this was made Today the Directors wouldn't talk about, be interviewed for, or be proud of how they made such great Cinema. Today Directors will be talking about how it is made for a 'Modern Audience', Identity Politics and they'd call their potential fans racist or insult/shame them if they don't support the Movie by going to see it. Forgot to add- Great video!

@rikijett310 Год назад

The first time I saw the tiger scene it scared the ever loving hell out of me!!! LOL 😂👍👍

@lowenization Год назад

once this is all said and done, you should consider a physical media release of these (if legal)

@erikbihari3625 Год назад

There's still More?

@mcolville Год назад

Man they did not get the visual they wanted. The jungle never looked multicolored, psychedelic. I never looked like a Ken Russel movie outside that one scene with the colored smoke grenades, but that's on the river, not in the jungle.

@timoakes450 Год назад

READ-THIS-"The Jungle is Neutral"-says it all -haha

@tballstaedt7807 Год назад

I saw this when I was 14 years old in the theater. To be honest, it was somewhat traumatizing. I suppose I lacked the maturity to process everything rationally.

@lewistownsend8868 Год назад

So did Lawrence Fishburne probably.

@scottscottsdale7868 Год назад

Don’t get out of the boat. In Madagascar, I am out of the boat.

@TheJamesdaykin Год назад

🐅

@gavinmasterson8202 11 месяцев назад

The tiger sequence is so seductive 🐅

@emsports42 Месяц назад

❤

@AN_PVS-2 Год назад

Wow I had no idea that was a real tiger

@garyaugustus690 Год назад

"You kin kiss my ass in the county square, 'cause I'm #@!% buggin' out...

@kringlefanten Год назад

It's the same video as you posted some time ago?

@jimurrata6785 Год назад

With pasties

@Burgsly Год назад

Where are all the comments? There's only 29 when I'm writing this!

@tomsear1 7 месяцев назад

As famous as the Seiko 6105, the rare ‘Tiger Camo’ with black stripes, is MOST prominent in this scene. the Tiger Camo arose in the Vietnam conflict.

@tomsear1 7 месяцев назад

Fn., Australian, Barry ‘Tiger Man’ Peterson, possibly inspo for Kurtz & Tigerland training base in USA.

@tomsear1 5 месяцев назад

WRT booze vs weed - my discussions with Australian Company Commanders - confirm this strong dichotomy of what substances were considered acceptable by command.

@BIZARBIES Год назад

Never get off the boat.

@stevenaarhus8850 Год назад

Unless you're going all the way.

@Novobranec Год назад

Brilliant video as always! Thank you so so mauch. If I may offer just a small criticism is that the music in this episode was a bit dicstacting. Noticed it a few times. But maybe it's just me. Anyway it's an exellent work all the way through. Sure one that'll be as good 10 years from now as it is now. Best of luck!

@jaysilverheals4445 Год назад

it woke up and ate 4 chickens and a ten pound roast

@horrido666 Год назад

The ending was the weakest part of the movie. It makes sense that he made it up at the last moment.

@bijibadness Год назад

_"[Apocalypse Now]_ was refused any support by the U.S. Military on the production." this is heavily ironic, since it's known that _Apocalypse Now_ is these days a popular pick by that same armed forces as RnR entertainment, yes, but also as a toold for motivating troops into Aggression Mode. you can read about it. it's known. [which is by itself ALSO extremely ironic, since the film's not exactly a RINGING ENDORSEMENT of U.S. aggression]

@rubenoteiza9261 Год назад

It is a great thing that they edited out that Kilgore-in-a-chopper-asking-for-his-surfboard-back scene because it is stupid and destroys the characterization of the entire cast and also the relationships that had already been established among these characters. First of all, it destroys the image of Kilgore and depicts him as a shallow immature dork instead of the tough as nails commander he had been until then. But Kilgore is not even in the plot. The worst thing is that commits the deadly sin of establishing a guy-bond between Willard and the boat's crew, an event that will make impossible to (re)establish the psychological distance we see between them for the rest of the movie, specially in the scene when the skipper is dying and tries to kill him too. It is obvious he hates Willard with all his dying heart. But that scene would have been impossible with a bond existing between them, after they stole the surfboard, added to that the fact that Willard provided for the sexual services of the bunnies for his crew. That's another masterful cut, the stranded bunnies, because had Coppola left those two scenes there is no way there could have been bad blood between Willard and the crew, specially the two African Americans.

@nathansyoutubeaccount 4 месяца назад

Bad take, Kilgore wasn’t tough as nails he was an arrogant cowboy. Kurtz would’ve chewed him up and spat his BBQ and beer ass out. This just further cemented his psychotic nature established making them surf under fire. The men taking advantage of the women is bleak and disgusting display of just how evil and descended the men have become. It’s making the characters gray