Analysis/Coppola's Apocalypse Now

Abstract: An 11 page essay that examines Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now (1979). The writer argues that Coppola's visual manifesto on Vietnam is also a journey into the subconscious and the brutal nature that lies beneath the thin veneer of so-called civilized behavior. Like its literary predecessor, Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness, on which the screenplay is loosely based, Coppola constructed the narrative of the film so that it demonstrates how identity is a social construct predicated on the reconstruction or remembrance of the past. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

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Catagory: Film & Television

Subcatagory: Music, Film, Television, Theater & Photography

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