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Francis Ford Coppola uses strategic lighting in 'apocalypse now'. It provides visual aspects on the river with the lighting

He often casts his real life family members from his extended family to be in his movies and cast his sister in the 'Godfather' movies. He often casts Nicolas cage, Harrison ford and Marlon Brando to name a few. He often works with the cinematographer  Gordon Willis, Fred woos and Grey Frederickson.

The running themes in his moves is the main character being strong inside and wanting to change the world around and usually its not for the characters selfish needs. Another example of his creative signature is including the authors name in the title like 'Bran Stokers Dracula'. In apocalypse now, the battle scenes were difficult as the attack helicopter's kept being called back. Production wrapped in late 1976 and took 2 years of editing until it reached the final cut