Monday, February 5, 2018
Not Apocalypse Now, but Psychedelic Soldier
John Milius, friend and
associate of Francis Coppola and who received writing credit for
"Apocalypse Now", originally wrote "Psychedelic Soldier",
which was intended to be the working script for he and Coppola's adaptation of
Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness." Eventually, Milius' script was
discarded and Coppola, along with Michael Herring, wrote much of the script. In
Milius' script, Colonel Kurtz was envisioned as a kind of drug-crazed,
thrill-seeking, gung-ho soldier, who was in Cambodia simply for the thrill of
fighting, killing, and calling in napalm strikes because of the adrenal and
sensory rush it gave him.
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