Was Dennis Hopper Even Acting in APOCALYPSE NOW? | Ep22 | Making Apocalypse Now

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  @CinemaTyler · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Saddened to hear of the passing of Roger Corman (Early Coppola Mentor) and Fred Roos (Apocalypse Now Producer) between the last episode and this one.<br><br>Many of the great Chas Gerretsen pics are from the fantastic doc: Dutch Angle: Chas Gerretsen &amp; Apocalypse Now (2019 dir. Baris Azman) – you can watch it on the Final Cut Blu-ray!<br><br>*Also, I stupidly misspelled Chas Gerretsen as &apos;Garretsen.&apos; I feel like an idiot.

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  @MortonGoldthwait · 2 years ago

  My favorite Dennis Hopper story is when his son asked, &nbsp;&quot;Dad, why did you act in Super Mario Brothers?&quot;<br>Hopper got a little misty eyed, put his hand on his son&apos;s shoulder and said, &quot;I did it so you could have shoes.&quot;<br>His son replied, &quot;Dad, I don&apos;t need shoes that badly.&quot;

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• DC

  @dcdad556 · 2 years ago

  I was on the crew for camera and lighting in Speed. Hopper could not have been more professional. He reported on time. He knew his lines and fought Keanu Reeves in the sequence ending the film. He had been clean and sober for many years. He was a professional grade photographer doing many photo gallery showings of his own work. We had many political conversations at his makeup table on a sound stage at 20th. Honored...

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• MR

  @MrGregory777 · 2 years ago (edited)

  The scene of Dennis Hopper telling Martin Sheen that Marlon Brando goes to far and is the first to admit it, is one of the best scenes in the movie. The fear and sadness in Hopper&apos;s eye, like an abused spouse is haunting. Finding out that wasn&apos;t the best take is mind blowing

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• MU

  @Muggfacepublishing · 2 years ago

  Dennis was my neighbor in Venice for a couple of years on Indiana Ave. I called him &quot;The walking encyclopedia&quot;. &nbsp;He had some of the greatest stories, he was such a sweet man. He worked out at Gold&apos;s gym almost to the day he died. Miss him. He told me the reason that &nbsp;he was able to work again, was because at the time he was married to the daughter of the head of the studio.

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• JA

  @JadeCryptOfWonders · 2 years ago

  Dennis Hopper is the prototype for Nicholas Cage but society isn’t ready for that conversation.

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• JO

  @joshuabrunetti2001 · 2 years ago

  Mr. Hopper&apos;s turn as Frank Booth in Blue Velvet will remain my all time favorite performance from any actor. &nbsp;The man was a genius, RIP

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  @lubumbashi6666 · 1 year ago

  My god, the talent of Coppola to keep it together whilst all this mayhem was going in, stoned actors, Marlon Brando, Typhoons . To finish production with anything half coherent was an achievement, but to bring back a masterpiece - incredible.

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• FI

  @FiveSigma72 · 2 years ago

  The guy&apos;s an OG space cadet legend, and will live forever if only just for that Sicilians monologue in True Romance, one of the best in all of cinema.

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  @CommieGobeldygook · 2 years ago (edited)

  So Dennis Hoppers&apos; character is basically talking about Francis? The way Hopper shows nervous deference to Francis in interviews is very similar to how the journalist talks about Kurtz.

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• SQ

  @squinkque · 2 years ago

  I&apos;ve seen Apocalypse Now 3 or 4 times over the years but this is the first I realized that Colby was played by Scott Glenn. He just doesn&apos;t look like the Scott Glenn that would become semi-famous in the 80&apos;s. My favorite role of his is The Right Stuff.

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  @allyourmoney · 2 years ago

  There was a story of Dennis Hopper giving an acting clinic about sense-memory ( a method acting technique used to recall specific physical memories to lead to some emotional state ). &nbsp;Someone asked him to elaborate on the sense memory he used to create his character in Apocalypse Now. &nbsp;<br><br>He smiled at him and said &quot;That wasn&apos;t sense-memory.&quot; &nbsp;The crowd erupted in laughter.

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