Just watched Coppola's new version of his classic film, with an extra 50+ minutes of footage. Most of the additional time is spent on a French rubber plantation, where the planters explain to Martin Sheen why they could not hold Indochina, and why the US won't be able to, either. Then he smokes opium. Great stuff!

But what really turned my head was the fact that in the scene where Sheen arrives at Robert Duvall's encampment, you suddenly see (for about four seconds) Coppola himself and one or more crew members, yelling at Sheen to "keep going, don't stop"! I can't for the life of me imagine why that's in the film -- if it was a cutting-room mistake it surely would have been caught, and if it was done on purpose then what the hell were they thinking? It completely negates the suspension of disbelief necessary for enjoying a work of fiction.

Has anyone else noticed this scene, and why do you think it was left in?

Baffled,
Michael