Little By Little, We Went Insane

Open Culture remixes The Making of Apocalypse Now:

In an interview aired on San Francisco radio last week, Francis Ford Coppola acknowledged that he could no longer compete with himself — that he couldn’t make the kind of films that made him famous during the 1970s. The Godfather (1972), The Godfather II (1974), and Apocalypse Now (1979) — they were big, sprawling, masterful films. And they sometimes pushed a young Coppola to the physical and financial brink.

And:

Apocalypse Now hit theaters exactly 33 years ago this week. And to commemorate that occasion, we’re serving up a short remix film, Heart of Coppola, that weaves together scenes from the film, footage from behind the scenes, and audio of the great Orson Welles reading from Heart of Darkness, the Joseph Conrad novella upon which Apocalypse Now was loosely based.

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Like tiny atoms of ozone

Rod Serling, creator of the The Twilight Zone, succinctly explains where ideas come from (via Brain Pickings):

Ideas come from the Earth. They come from every human experience that you’ve either witnessed or have heard about, translated into your brain in your own sense of dialogue, in your own language form. Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized. Ideas are probably in the air, like little tiny items of ozone.

Felt and emotionalized? Isn’t it sufficient to just say ‘felt’? Am I dick for nit-picking like that?
I’m sorry, but it’s like getting served a perfectly prepared filet mignon with a hair in it. Sure I’ll devour it, but I’ll always remember that hair.

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