Ep. 46 - Coppola v. Scorsese - Round 3: Apocalypse Now v. Raging Bull

This week the Round 3 bell rings loud on our Francis Ford Coppola vs. Martin Scorsese masters of cinema fight for the heavyweight crown of greatest American Filmmaker as we compare their two most extraordinary works, 1979’s Apocalypse Now starring  Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Frederic Forrest, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishbourne, Albert Hall, Harrison Ford, G.D. Spradlin and Dennis Hopper, against 1980’s Raging Bull, starring Robert DeNiro, Cathy Moriarity, Joe Pesci, Nicholas Colasanto, Theresa Saldana, Frank Vincent and Charles Scorsese.  

Joining me this week are series regulars Roseanne Caputi, from the Ken and Dante Youtube show, Kendrick Wright and Dante Oliviero and back for his second FFF appearance, Poet. Book Seller. Lover. Thinker:  Matthew Turvey. 

Apocalypse Now charts the journey up Vietnam’s Nung River and through the metaphorical portals of time as Army Captain Benjamin Willard, an assassin in a Covert Ops unit is assigned the terminaton—with extreme prejudice, of rougue Special Forces Colonel Walter Kurtz, who has gone AWOL and started his own army with Cambodian Montignard tribesmen during the peak of the U.S. war in Vietnam in the 1970’s. 

Raging Bull catalogs the rise and fall of 1940’s era middleweight Italian American boxing champ Jake LaMotta as he reaches the top of the boxing world while repeatedly asking his brother Joey if he slept with his wife Vikki. 

Once again the rules: We going to go around the panel and saliently state whose work we prefer in as many cinematic components as we can cover.

The Categories are:

Acting 

Screenplay 

Cinematography

Production Design

Music

Editing

Direction