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Apocalypse Now Analysis

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In the movie Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola, The way that he portrays the effects of war on the human is very different than Terrence Malick the director of the movie The Thin Red Line portrays the effects of war. In Apocalypse now Francis Ford shows how the Colonel Kurtz lost his mind while fighting in the war. The director uses very specific images that really highlight and allow the audience to see this. For example when Willard arrived on the PT boat to Kurtz temple the first thing you see is a line of natives in boats just sitting there in the way. The native people are shown as savages but they are kurtz people. Showing how if these savages are kurtz believers and followers then he can't be much crazier than them in the head. …show more content…

This tint takes away from the true coloring of everything so that every object has a yellow dark tint to it. It created a dark mood to the movie because it takes away the happy bright colors of everything and just makes it dull and creepy in a sense giving it a feeling of the underworld, like no one is human any more. He uses the tint to give a feeling like they are taking a journey into darkness. The shadows used in the movie play an important role. In the scene when Kurtz is talking to Willard every time they show Kurtz face it is all shadow. This is very important it is saying how he is almost like a demon he is evil and dark. When Willard talks his face is about half shadow half light this is showing how although Willard is the good guy in this story he is starting to go crazy like he is half good but the other half is the evil in him. Francis Ford is pretty much describing Colonel Kurtz temple as hell. In The Thin Red Line, Terrence Malick uses bright light colors to show a slice of paradise a heavenly place. The color used really is very important to the movie. Another important technique is the camera usage. How right before Witt is killed it zooms in closer and closer onto his face so you can see every detail of is face how he is full human then it zooms out and he gets shot. As the body drops to the ground the usage of color comes back into effect with the blue

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