marlon brando played colonel walter e. kurtz in apocalypse now.
who did marlon brando play in apocalypse now?
colonel walter e. kurtz
brando starred as colonel walter e. kurtz in francis ford coppola's vietnam epic "apocalypse now" (1979). he plays a highly decorated u.s. army special forces officer who goes renegade, running his own operation based in cambodia and is feared by the u.s. military as much as the vietnamese. brando was paid $1 million a week for 3 weeks work. the film drew attention for its lengthy and troubled production, as eleanor coppola's documentary "hearts of darkness: a filmmaker's apocalypse" documents: brando showed up on the set overweight, martin sheen suffered a heart attack, and severe weather destroyed several expensive sets. the film's release was also postponed several times while coppola edited millions of feet of footage. in the documentary, coppola talks about how astonished he was when an overweight brando turned up for his scenes and, feeling desperate, decided to portray kurtz, who appears emaciated in the original story, as a man who had indulged every aspect of himself. coppola: "he was already heavy when i hired him and he promised me that he was going to get in shape and i imagined that i would, if he were heavy, i could use that. but he was "so" fat, he was very, very shy about it ... he was very, very adamant about how he didn't want to portray himself that way." brando admitted to coppola that he had not read the book, "heart of darkness", as the director had asked him to, and the pair spent days exploring the story and the character of kurtz, much to the actor's financial benefit, according to producer fred roos: "the clock was ticking on this deal he had and we had to finish him within three weeks or we'd go into this very expensive overage ... and francis and marlon would be talking about the character and whole days would go by. and this is at marlon's urging—and yet he's getting paid for it."
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bullet::::- marlon brando (1924–2004), american actor





























bullet::::- stephen blackehart né stefano brando, son of marlon brando





























bullet::::- christian brando (1958-2008), son of marlon brando





























bullet::::- miko c. brando, marlon brando's son and michael jackson's one-time friend, bodyguard, and assistant





























bullet::::- tarita cheyenne brando (1970-1995), daughter of marlon brando known as cheyenne brando





























bullet::::- brando eaton (born 1986), american actor





























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bullet::::- brändö, a municipality in finland





























bullet::::- brändö, helsinki, a part of the city of helsinki





























bullet::::- brändö, vaasa, a part of the city of vaasa, finland





























bullet::::- brando, haute-corse, a commune in france
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