Benjamin L. Willard

Plantation sequence.” This scene that the Captain and the other characters spoke about the war and about their own land that they have been having for 70 years, which is a sad scene, but an inspirational speech, which really touched Captain Benjamin L. Willard heard because these people were not going to give up in their land or leave there land that they have been having for over 70 years. Also at the same time the French people did help bury Tyrone Miller as well, so there are important things they

within every human heart. Heart of Darkness follows Marlow as he enters Africa in search of a man named Kurtz who had recently stopped shipping ivory to The Company. Apocalypse Now, a Vietnam war-based rendition of Heart of Darkness, follows Captain Willard on his way to assassinate Kurtz, a man who had turned on the US army with questionable methods. Rime of the Ancient Mariner tells the reader of a sin committed by the Mariner, and his prayer for renewal. The Hollow Men, on the other hand, depicts

(Harrison Ford) and General Corman (G.D. Spradlin), who are growing increasingly concerned with Kurtz's renegade operations, assign U.S. Army Captain and Studies and Observations Group veteran Benjamin L. Willard (Martin Sheen) to terminate the Colonel's command with extreme prejudice. Ambivalent about the mission, Willard joins a Navy Patrol boat, riverine (PBR) commanded by "Chief" (Albert Hall) and crewmen Lance (Sam Bottoms), "Chef" (Frederic Forrest) and "Mr. Clean" (Laurence Fishburne) to head upriver

The early 1900’s novella, Heart of Darkness, written by Joseph Conrad follows the journey of a man named Charlie Marlow. Apocalypse Now, a 1970’s movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola follows the mission of a man named Captain Benjamin L. Willard. Apocalypse Now filmed nearly 80 years after the initial publication of the novella was created as a film adaptation of the book. The movie changes many elements from the novella, but keeps the basic outline and a few characters the same. Heart of Darkness

the movies script, the horrors of the Vietnam war, and how the soldier fighting the war, is affected by it. We are given an idea of what it takes to fight and win a war. The first seven minutes of the movie resumes the entire war through captain Benjamin L. Willard’s behaviour while spending a week in a hotel room waiting for a mission in the Vietnamese city Saigon. At first, we are shown the palm trees and dusty banks of Vietnam. “This is the dead land. This is cactus land” as T. S. Elliot writes

in command. For example Captain Benjamin L. Willard, often found himself searching for answers but everything is a mess. Soldiers were randomly shooting at unknown things. The US military is confused but still followed their orders. The effects of war on military soldiers, post traumatic stress disorder cause the soldiers to have mental breakdowns

In Francis Ford Coppola’s, Apocalypse Now (1979), you follow the journey of Captain Benjamin L. Willard, as he makes his way up the Nung River on a US Navy patrol boat in Vietnam to assassinate Colonel Walter Kurtz. Coppola’s film reflects the Vietnam war and all the horrors –seen and unseen— associated with it. Specifically, the dissent into madness and the dehumanizing effects of war. Coppola uses the river to symbolize this dissent into madness. The further up the river the crew got, the more

and children too. In the movie Apocalypse Now, the film follows the voyage of veteran Benjamin L. Willard and his mission to terminate the noted and recently turned insane Colonel, Walter E. Kurtz. In the backdrop of this mission is the Vietnam War and throughout the movie there is clips of savagery and barbaric actions shown by the the Vietnam and American soldiers and even the Vietnam civilians. When Willard arrives at Kurtz’s outpost, he is introduced to the civilization in Cambodia that Kurtz

traditional dress of the local Vietnamese encapsulate viewers into this foreign land. Lighting, fogs and shadows are key elements of the film, leading the audience along the journey of those soldiers. “As the journey begins, the lights are still high, Willard begins his boat ride in dusk, but as the journey gets deeper and deeper, the film gets darker, the shadows get pronounced and light is dimmed” (Srivastava). Most viewers have never visited this region of the world; most viewers likely observe the

ENGLISH EXTENSION ESSAY – Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now The dark core of human nature has been a timeless notion, explored and extrapolated by many literary critics. Both the core text, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and it's film appropriation, Apocalypse Now directed by Francis Ford Coppola, ignite interest as to question whether humans are essentially creatures of dark nature when stripped down to bare essentials. When these are linked to values of greed and hunger for power and domination