The_Film_That_Changed_My_Life

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Danny Boyle
Apocalypse Now
Danny Boyle’s early exposure to Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now
helped mold his own cinematic obsessions: people and societies in crisis,
or at the edge of madness. Though he admits to an homage to Coppola’s
masterpiece in The Beach, Boyle has otherwise been reluctant to reference
the film directly in his own work. Apocalypse Now’s scale and narrative form
a kind of paradoxical, inimitable specter for Boyle, who remains loyal to the
original 1979 version. He’s not a fan of the recut, extended version Coppola
released in 2001 as Apocalypse Now Redux. To him, the original film is logical
and insane—flawed and yet perfect.
“If I had to nail one film on my heart, this would be the one.”
Danny Boyle, selected filmography:
Shallow Grave (1994)
Trainspotting (1996)
A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
The Beach (2000)
28 Days Later (2002)
Millions (2004)
Sunshine (2007)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
127 Hours (2010)
Apocalypse Now
1979
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
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