An Epic Evaluation of Apocalypse Now

     Critics of Kurt Vonnegut’s are unable to agree on what the main theme of his novel Slaughterhouse Five may be. Although Vonnegut’s novels are satirical, ironical, and extremely wise, they have almost no plot structure, so it is hard to find a constant theme. From the many people that the main character Billy Pilgrim meets, and the places that he takes us, readers are able to discern that Vonnegut is trying to send the message that there will always be death, there will always be war, and humans have no control over their own lives.

An Epic is defined as a long poem, typically derivative of ancient traditionally orally related tales that narrated the feats and adventures of heroic or often legendary figures, or the gallant history of a nation. I believe Forrest Gump is very much an epic. When a story transcends multiple lifetimes and incorporates many events across generational lines, it may be then considered epic. Forrest Gump, a tale about a man of slight mind but significant heart who originates from deficiency to become an American Hero leading one simple life leading to an adventure after another.

In both The Things They Carried and Apocalypse Now, transitional archetypical roles are used to show the degradation of innocence, as a result of the conflicts of war. In The Things They Carried, Mary Anne Bell, the young girlfriend of solider Mark Fossie, is brought to Vietnam in the heart of the war to be with him. In the beginning of her visit, Mary Anne is extremely soft, kind, and ignorant to the nature of the conflict taking place around her (O’Brien 91). Her relationship with Mark is one that appears as overly romanticized: “Mary Anne Bell and Mark Fossie had been sweethearts since grammar school. […] [someday] they would be married, and live in a fine gingerbread house near Lake Erie, and have three healthy yellow -haired children.

Cormac McCarthy’s dystopian novel, The Road, conveys the world’s loss of faith in God after mass destruction strikes. The setting gives the novel its barren post-apocalyptic atmosphere. The author uses biblical allusions: Book of Revelation, Book of Kings, and aspects of Jesus to give the reader a better understanding of the characters McCarthy links the novel’s desolate setting to Book of Revelation, to give depth to the plot. “Barren, silent, godless. ”(1).

In Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now, both Joseph Conrad and Francis Ford Coppola create similar statements through their creations as they both centralize their views upon the effects of environmental changes that affect the human condition. The film Apocalypse Now vaguely reflects a similar message pursued by Conrad’s novella, due to the difference in time period, place setting, and circumstances in which the film was created. Conrad wrote his novella during British colonization, focusing upon imperialism. Coppola’s film similarly focused upon the barbaric nature of man, which demonstrates the insanity of the Vietnam War. In Heart of Darkness, Conrad centers his main focus upon the journey of Marlow, a sailor, who travels into

When Joseph Conrad sat down to write Heart of Darkness over a century ago he decided to set his tale amidst his own country's involvement in the African Congo. Deep in the African jungle his character would make his journey to find the Captain gone astray. Over eighty years later Francis Ford Coppola's Willard would take his journey not in Afica but in the jungles of South Asia. Coppola's Film, Apocalypse Now uses the backdrop of the American Vietnam War yet the similarities between the Conrad's novel and Coppola's film remains constant and plenty.

The novel Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut is an American classic that centers on the life of Billy Pilgrim. There are three key phases in Billy’s life that Vonnegut focuses on: before World War II, during World War II, and after World War II. The main reason for Vonnegut to write this novel is not to show how war is evil, but to show how war influences the lives of the soldiers who have engaged in battle. In this essay, it will show how Kurt Vonnegut uses the life of Billy to represent the horrific impact that the soldiers go through after war.

Apocalypse Now is an examination of the dehumanizing effects of the vietnam war. The film is based off of the novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Francis Ford Coppola adapts the underlying themes of evil and darkness into his main characters in Apocalypse Now. The film follows the character of Captain Willard on his classified mission to find and take away the power of Colonel Kurtz. In order to reach Kurtz, Captain Willard must travel up a river and into the heart of darkness and the heart of the dehumanization of war. Coppola draws deep contrast between characters in order to represent the difference between someone who is dehumanized and evil vs. someone who is not. Every soldier is dehumanized to an extent but some are far more dehumanized than others. The dehumanized characters are completely withdrawn from the outside world and can no longer live in normal society. They are essentially stuck in war or their own kingdom of civilization where they rule. It is not a coincidence that everyone on the boat that takes Willard up the river dies, except for Captain Willard and the

People use classification to give order and organize it for people to have some knowledge of what something might be. Fictional stories help give a thought about how a place may be like if a major event happened. Eli, the protagonist in The Book of Eli survives on his own for over 30 years in a broken land. Therefore, The Book of Eli classifies as a post-apocalyptic film because it is set years after a catastrophic event, because items are rationalized, and people rebuild their society.

At first glance, The Book of Eli appears to be just another violent post-apocalyptic film from Hollywood. But beyond the bloody scenes and foul language, audiences will discover a compelling story filled with more biblical references and Christian thought than any other major motion picture in recent years.

The Michael Movie “Where to Invade Next” is a great movie that outlined the ways in which the United States could making various improvements by adopting different ideas and systems used by other nations and countries. I believe that the ideas in the film that had seemingly business implications could definitely be implemented here domestically in the United States. Ducati Motorcycle bosses credit their workforce’s productiveness to ample, stress-free leisure time. Moore watches that Italians all appear to be so unstressed and loose, as though they've recently had awesome sexual intercourse and the declarations of glad grinning industrial facility line employees. Likewise, the Italians take two hour meal breaks and they exploit the available

The movie Apocalypse Now directed by Francis Ford Coppola has very unique similarities with the book the Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad. The movie has used some of the story of the book in modern times. Starting from the characters inside the movie some of the sets the plots and scenes are the same as the ones in the book. The two has lots of difference the period, setting, and circumstances are mentionable but it has more similarities.

Leaving Vietnam ala Apocalypse Now, in a helicopter soaring over the water to an aircraft carrier in 1975, is definitely the best way to get out of a war zone, in style. Diem (pronounced Ziim, later changed to Ziem) Nguyen grew up in a Buddhist family, that spoke Vietnamese and basic French. As a child, Ziem lived in a four-story house in Ho Chi Minh City, on the south side of Vietnam. Her dad worked as a pharmacist on the first floor of the building. When she was too young to go to school, she spent her days sitting on a tall stool greeting customers, always with a smile. As Ziem got older, she started “diagnosing” the customers’ illnesses when they walked in the door, suggesting drugs to help them, but the customers thought it was more cute than practical. On the second floor was a lab where her dad made the medications that he would later sell. Her family lived on the third and fourth floors of the building. Outside of Ziem’s house was a city where car

Francis Ford Coppola's magnum opus Apocalypse Now was ladened with problems and difficulties before and after filming. These problems ranged from those having to do with the cast and crew, to those having to do with the circumstances surrounding the filming, to those having to do with the script, to those dealing in direct regard to the very sanity of all of those involved with Apocalypse Now. Despite the myriad of problems that contributed to this acclaimed film's failure, Apocalypse Now still became a success in its own right, and a true classic by any director's standards.

In conclusion, these films were new to myself I usually don’t watch these types of films. Due to the fact that it’s our reality and it gets be traumatize. Like if this dystopian world would happen right now I would probably be one of the first to die. I have no survival instiks and all the fast food I eat would slow be down. I’m over eat and so out of shape. At least the cannibals would have plenty to enjoy. In “The Road,” and “Children of Men,” they are a reflection of dystopian communities that display violence’s, giving up, and dehumanization.