Analyzing The Film 'Apocalypse Now'

Kiowa Minisink has past away. He was a kind soul. He was always helping people see the best in things. When he was younger he would go to church every Sunday with his father, Who taught Sunday school. When he got called for war he was pretty upset because war isn’t for him, but he went. He because “best friends” with Tim O’Brien. They stayed by each other's side. When Tim killed that younger bo during the war Kiowa was there to help him calm down. Kiowa was honest and diligent, introspective and compassionate. He was always helping the other soldiers. Kiowa’s death is symbolic of the senseless tragedy of war. He dies a hero to his team and father. Kiowa legacy will live on. Soldiers should try to learn from his legacy.

Still, in tough circumstances like war, people should always have an understanding when it comes to other’s suffering. In both pieces they show the theme of friendship. A friend is really important for a shoulder to lean on when it comes to the tough times. Even if your issues may not all apply to your friends themselves, they should always be accepting. The story “2 Friends”, shows the theme of friendship and loyalty, “- ‘Just let me have that password! Your friend won’t know you've told me. I’ll make it look as though I’ve taken pity on both of you.’ Morrissot said nothing” (Maupassant 554). Morrissot shows his loyalty by not saying anything, even though he could have had a possibility to live if he

In “The Things they Carried” Kiowa says to Tim “The guy wasn’t Heidi-he had a weapon, right? It’s a tough thing, for sure, but you got to cut out that staring” (O’ Brien 120). Kiowa was trying to comfort Tim because he was trying to get right with the fact that he had killed someone. This is similar to Thomas Hardy’s writing “I shot him dead because- because he was my foe, just so: my foe of course he was; that’s clear enough; although,” (Hardy 3). In this stanza the soldier is also trying to get right with the fact that he had shot somebody just like Tim O’

The soldiers take the boots because they are a good sturdy pair of boots and they want them because he won't be able to use them because of his amputation. The symbolism of that being passed on from person to person is that the sturdiness of the soles of the boot and the souls of the people who died will always stay strong and sturdy as well. They would want the shoes because Kemmerich doesn't need them and they are still sturdy. The sturdiness of Kemmerich's soul will stay with them and whoever wears them after that. This says that war will be terrible and your mind and physical needs may change but, your soul and your soles will always stay basically the same. These men changed from decent ethical men, to scavenging men who run for their

The American Western was a world full of violence, rivalry’s, and gender inequality. At the same time, it depicted the traditional story of a heroic cowboy on his horse hunting down and killing American Indians. In the American Western identity determined a lot about a person. It determined who you are, how you're supposed to act, and even the amount of power you carry. In the 1973 movie Westworld you can see how they portrayed different social aspects of the late 19th century to show how everything was suited for men and if you weren’t a man then you weren’t given a real sense of identity. In brief, Westworld is about an adult amusement park where people pay to visit one of three worlds with one of them being Western world, which is a recreation of the American frontier of the 1880 and where all hosts are machines made to replicate humans. Western world showed many common characteristics of the American Western such as showing cowboys being lawless, women being portrayed as sexual objects, and a classic chase through Monument Valley. The film Westworld (1973) represents the American West as a place that privileges male desires and concerns over those of women; the film overlooks women in order to critique these gender imbalances while at the same time giving women no real sense of identity.

     Although Apocalypse Now is an extremely formalistic film from Francis Ford Coppola, he was quoted saying, "It's not about Vietnam, it was Vietnam!" He took quite a bit of time researching the war finding out what life was like for one taking part in the war. It is possible that any man, American or Vietnamese, may have been placed under the extreme psychological conditions of Captain Willard. In fact, in the opening scene, Martin Sheen was genuinely intoxicated and while on a rampage, Coppola video taped his madness and placed it in the script. When Sheen collides with a mirror in the opening scene, it is his real blood that is seen running free on his hands. Coppola

With the hustle and busily of the average person’s day to day activity, transportation has become a necessity. Although the car, bike, bus and train is sufficient Technology has opened door to more portable way to transport. The desire to levitate or hover to a destination has been imprinted in the imagination ever since it was first described in The book “Back to the Future” written by M.K. Joseph in 1967(Shea, 2015). However it was the movie Back to the Future Part II that gave a glimpse of MJ fox making the great get way on a hoovering skate board that sparked technology companies to create this potable compaction and the race was on (Shea, 2015)..

For my project, I chose to analyze the movie, The Help. Set in 1962, this story follows the lives of and relationship between the upper class white and working class African American citizens of Jackson, Mississippi during the Civil Rights Era. It was based on a novel of the same name. This film was released in the fall of 2011 with a general release in North America and a broad release worldwide. At this time, Barrack Obama was serving his first term as President of the United States, the first African American to ever hold the position. Obama’s presidency revealed the thinly veiled racism still present in the U.S. It was this in year that he was basically forced to release his birth certificate, the first president to ever have

In 1979, Francis Ford Coppola unleashed a film that reshaped the view of the American Vietnam war. The film was heralded as an epic of modern film. However, is it truly an epic or is that term become a widely used word for great works of cinema? Does Apocalypse Now contain the epic criteria of religion, a journey, a vast setting, a sense of supernatural and other key factors?

The movie Terminator is a 1991 American science action movie which was produced, directed and written by James Cameron. James Cameron also directed the blockbuster movies aliens of 1986 and the Abyss of 1989. The movie stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Patrick, Edward Furlong, and Linda Hamilton. The movie follows after eleven years after Sarah Connor destroyed the original Terminator that was programmed to kill her when she was pregnant for John. In the Movie Terminator 2, a new and more advanced Terminator called T-1000

    The airman is not affected by this propaganda, though, as he claims that "Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, / Nor public men, nor cheering crowds" (9-10). The airman does not enter the war with any personal dreams of helping his own people. He is of the opinion that, no matter what way the war turns out, his people will not be affected too much one way or the other. This feeling is expressed when he says, "My country is Kiltartan Cross, / My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor, / No likely end could bring them loss / Or leave them happier than before" (5-8). The Irish airman does not enter the war hoping to bring about any significant change for his own people.

The film, Armageddon, causes a viewer to go through an emotional roller coaster mixed in with a few scenes for entertainment. Firstly, the explicit meaning, or gist, on the surface of the film focused on a team of roughnecks who drilled holes in search of oil as their occupation. The boss of the oil ridge was brought to NASA to help save the world from the complete loss of precious life because of his consistent and reliable reputation as “the world’s best deep-hole driller.” Later, he chose and hand-picked teams within a few of the same roughnecks from his field of work to help assist in drilling a hole in outer space. In doing so, they put hope and unity in the human race they would save from an eternal rest.

The film, Armageddon, causes the viewer to go through an emotional roller coaster mixed with a blend of entertainment. Firstly, the explicit meaning, or gist, on the surface of the film focused on a team of roughnecks who drilled holes in search of oil as their occupation. The boss of the oil ridge was brought to the government space agency, NASA, to help save the world from the complete loss of the precious human life in the world because of his consistent and reliable reputation as “the world’s best deep hole driller.” Later, he chose and hand-picked teams within a few of the same roughnecks from his field of work to help assist in drilling a hole in outer space. In doing so, they put hope and unity in the human race they saved from an eternal rest.

Apocalypse Now helps explain the effects of war to viewers through vivid realistic scenes. Throughout the film, Captain Willard, played by Martin Sheen, faces many challenges such as death and insanity on his journey to find the renegade soldier. His team, Chef, played by Frederic Forrest, Clean, played by Laurence Miller, Johnson, played by Sam Bottoms, and Chief Phillips, played by Albert Hall, all show the mental effects of war throughout the trip through the rainforest. Each character experiences some type of trauma weather it be physical or mental. Furthermore, each character is exposed to some type of weakness either being a life ending injury or a psychotic breakdown.

It’s the year 2034, there has been major fights with the United states and Russia. They have been arguing about the North Korean crisis. The United states has threatened Russia to stop giving North Korean missile they will attack all of the globe and become leaders. But North Korea put a chemical to make people eat other human beings.