10 Films With Multiple Different Cuts

The story of the making of Apocalypse Now is as legendary as the film itself.

When Martin Sheen wasn't having a heart attack, when natural disasters weren't ruining whole sets or Marlon Brando wasn't turning up overweight, underrehearsed and fighting with Dennis Hopper or the budget was getting bigger by the second, but somehow Francis Ford Coppola was able to deliver Apocalypse Now nearly a whopping two years behind schedule!

While there's a truly great documentary about the making of Apocalypse Now, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (which also inspired a hilarious episode of Community), the main thing that comes out from Apocalypse Now, was the full, extended cut of the film - Apocalypse Now: Redux.

The new film adds 49 extra minutes of material onto the original and contains several alterations and two entirely new scenes! One, has Willard's boat meeting the Playmates again, further up the river; the other has them meet a family of holdout French colonists on their remote rubber plantation.

While Redux is revered as a great piece of filmmaking, it's probably one of the few examples where a film does sort of ruin the foundations a little bit. The film drags on a lot, the scenes just add a bit of unneeded context and break up the narrative and slows the pace of the film down to a long, slow slog.

It's worth it, just for a bit of cinematic history, but Redux probably won't be knocking the original of its perch anytime soon.