'I'm not going to kill an animal for a movie,' Coppola reaffirmed. 'I'm not going to kill anything for any reason.' Despite Coppola's statements, this scene of animal cruelty stands out in 'Apocalypse Now' as horrifying for all the wrong reasons. Cindy hits the skunk button and sprays Dr. Crouch End Festival Chorus & The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. To prove his point, Coppola made sure to emphasize that he refused to have an extra water buffalo around to kill in case extra takes were needed. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Main Theme. 'I did not direct it or anything, that was the way they do it,' Coppola said to USA Today. While intended to be a visual parallel to Willard's plan to assassinate Kurtz with a machete, the sight of an animal killed on-screen is jarring enough to render that thematic undercurrent irrelevant.ĭecades after the film's release, Coppola has stood by the scene, reaffirming that he was merely documenting reality itself. This was apparently a real-life practice that was already underway before cameras started rolling, with director Francis Ford Coppola filming the ritual as it occurred. General Larraby, the military officer in charge of the Project, decides to form a new Zenith Team to fight him. Zoom's actions propelled Concussion to a dimensional rift who is now on a return trajectory. Ed Grant, the scientist behind the original Zenith Project, discovers that Concussion is still alive.

For a climactic scene involving a ritual performed by an Ifugao tribe, a water buffalo is killed on-screen. Zoom defeated Concussion but lost his powers in the process.

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