Well, I am in the midst of my review of Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier, but realized that I received an extra DVD from the distributors.  So I am going to give away the still sealed DVD  to the first person who can answer all, or most of, the questions in what I call The World’s Hardest Apocalypse Now Quiz. It’s 20 of the toughest questions I could come up with, based on Coppola’s commentary track for the new disc, and my extensive research into the film. Here they are:

 

1) Whom did Coppola originally want to play Willard?

2) What does PBR stand for?

3) What now-obscure Green Beret colonel served as the initial inspiration for Kurtz?

4) What member of the early American Zoetrope community claims that he came up with the idea of adapting Heart of Darkness to a film about Vietnam?

5 ) While Martin Sheen was recovering for six weeks, what person served as a stand in?

 

6, 7, 8; 9, 10, 11; 12, 13, 14) Name the Playboy Bunnies, the actresses who played them, and their centerfold calendar month or title?

15) What actress was almost a Bunny but dropped out to star in a TV show?

16) What animal is sacrificed at the end of the film?

17) What poem does Kurtz read obsessively?

 

18) What is title of Eleanor Coppola’s published diary about the making of the film?

19) What unusual thing did Martin Sheen do during the Academy Award season?

20) What is the title of the play inspired by ** AN, in which several filmmakers and a Bunny are trapped in a room by a monsoon?

 

Please send your answers to dkholm2003@yahoo.com, which I have reserved solely for this quiz. Please include your address. The first person to answer all of the questions correctly, or, barring that, to answer the most correctly, will be mailed a sealed disc of Apocalypse Now. Sadly, I won’t have time to inform the losers, only the winner, so if you don’t hear from me within a few days, well, you probably didn’t get enough answers correct. With luck, I will announce a winner when I post my AN review.

 

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