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This American Life from Ira Glass.
And we've been talking here at the radio show recently about a certain genre of movie,
which is the making of movie.
A movie about the making of another film, usually a much more famous one.
A classic is Hearts of Darkness, which is a making of documentary.
about the film Apocalypse Now, which has footage that the director Francis Ford Coppola's wife,
Eleanor, shot at the time the movie was being filmed.
Plus, incredibly, these recordings that she made of her husband without him knowing it,
where he's talking about his self-doubt, his despair.
This film is a $20 million disaster.
I'm thinking of shooting myself.
They're candid moments with the actors Dennis Hopper, Lawrence Fishburne,
who was 14 years old when they were making that film.
Martin Sheen, who plays the main character, has a heart attack when they're there.
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Marlon Brando, the film's most expensive star.
At some point, Coppola realizes that Brando has not read the book that the movie is based on,
Heart of Darkness, so he does not get who his character is.