Francis Ford Coppola

Why do people hate? S.E. Hinton explores this question in the 1965 classic novel The Outsiders. Francis Ford Coppola brought the story to the silver screen in 1983 and introduced the world to some young actors that would become mega stars. Both the novel and movie deal with the rough and tough world of high school in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Even though the movie is based on the novel there are some striking differences that change the experience for the audience. The movie stays true to the major plot

Inner Station, and Kurtz's own twisted deeds. Coppola's heart of darkness is represented by the madness of the Vietnam War and how even to look for a purpose in it all; is itself quite mad.      It was no accident that a documentary was made on Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film, "Apocalypse Now" entitled "Hearts of Darkness- A Filmmaker's Apocalypse" since the production of the film

to Fitzgerald’s novel; consequently, he perverts the author’s original intentions for an initial establishment of the friendship between Jay Gatsby and Nick prior to the introduction of the cultural party elements. Dixon (2003), who asserts that Coppola sullied Fitzgerald’s original intentions, reinforces this claim when he states, “For example, Nick meets Gatsby during one of his parties at Gatsby’s mansion in a causal, offhand fashion. But in the film, Nick goes for the first time to one of Gatsby’s

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

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." -- Oscar Wilde Perhaps I feel compelled to write on the subject of depression because it is a selfish disease. It seeps into every crevice of one's life; it refuses to be ignored, to be relegated to some obscure corner of the mind. Perhaps I'm writing about it because of what I have learned about my relationship with the disease. Perhaps the time has come when I'm ready to stop

Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola takes place during the Vietnam War and follows the story of Captain Willard on his mission to find and kill rogue Army Colonel Walter Kurtz. The film makes frequent use of dissolves to transition between scenes. One of the most notable examples of this happens towards the end of the film; when it dissolves from a shot showing Willard standing in the river boat, and then it dissolves into an image of two ancient looking statues which frame Willard in

The movie Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola is an adaption of the book Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. A Green Beret or Special Forces Captain in the Army is tasked with hunting down and killing an ex Special Forces Colonel, Colonel Kurtz who is played by Marlon Brando, that turned rogue. The movie is set during the Middle of the Vietnam War. Captain Willard, played by Martin Sheen, is depicted as slightly insane and wavering between the lines of morality. In the beginning

described as "historical, operatic, choral or epic" (Greene 388). Filmmakers of the 1970s explored the traditional modes of melodramatic expression in order to address the socially charged times they lived in. Filmed in the wake of the Vietnam War, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now is a complex treatise of human morality

Apocalypse Now This film, from 1979 was directed by Francis Ford Coppula and starred Martin Sheen (Capt. Willard) and Marlon Brando (Col. Kurtz). The film takes place during the 1970's in the middle of the Vietnam War. Coppula was rewarded for his hard work by winning the Academy Award for cinematography. The story is based on the novel "Hearts of Darkness", by Joseph Conrad. The book and film depicts Capt. Willard in the middle of the Vietnam searching for Col. Kurtz, who has gone mad and

be nominated for eight awards at the Academy Awards is an outstanding feat. Francis Ford Coppola 's Apocalypse Now did not only that, but won Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Sound. Coppola can not take all the credit for this enlightening movie. The film was loosely based off of Joseph Conrad 's Heart of Darkness. Though Conrad was not credited in Apocalypse Now, his novella has a great impact on Coppola 's cinematic masterpiece. Captain Benjamin Willard of Apocalypse Now and Heart