hi everybody!
just watched "apocalypse now" again, after not seeing it for
years. damn, that is a spectacular movie! its one of the very
few movie adaptations which is better than the book. noir to
the hot and steamy max. and willard is pretty darned
hardboiled too. liked it better than conrad's _heart of
darkness_ . conrad's ending seemed weak compared to
coppola's. one weakness of the movie was tying kurtz's
actions to the art of war. that seemed to detract from the
greater philosopher/murderer issue. although drastically
different in many ways, i still thought the movie was loyal
to the spirit of conrad's writing.
i noticed the way coppola used (overused?) the combination of
lighting and shadows on faces, and the liberal use of
smoke/fog and fire. and i noticed that kurtz had the same
junky paperback copy of weston's _ritual and romance_ that i
have. that was cool to see. and the jim morrison tunes to
begin and toward the end of the movie were great.
i do have a couple questions:
1. what is the wagner tune that kilgore (robert duvall)is
playing when they
take charlie point?
2. what is the "hollow man" poetry that kurtz is reading near
the end?
miker
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