Admiral Kurtz In Apocalypase Now :: essays research papers

     Admiral KurtzApocalypse instantly is a film ab bring out madness. In this film, Willard, played by Charlie Sheen, is move through madness, reminiscent of Dantes journey through hell. His mission is to kill Kurtz, whos gone insane according to military intelligence. Kurtz has gone on his own, beginning his own society in Cambodia, where his troops and the local tribes worship him as a god. Kurtz has committed murder by waging his own ferocious, independent struggle against Vietnamese intelligence agents with his own native Montagnard army across the couch in an ancient Cambodian temple deep in the jungle. superior general Corman explains the confused insanity of the war "In this war, things get confused out there, power, ideals, the old morality, and practical military necessity." The colonel has be execute a self-appointed, worshipped godly leader/dictator of a renegade native tribe. General Corman describes Kurtzs enticement to be deified &q uotBecause theres a conflict in every human tenderness between the rational and the irrational, between the good and the evil. The good does not ever so triumph. Sometimes the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. Therein, man has got a breaking point. You and I take aim. Walter Kurtz has reached his. And very obviously, he has gone insane." Kurtzs motivating behind his actions is his need to feel godlike, to act without judgment. In Kurtz camp, a localize of primitive evil, they are greeted by a crazed, hyperactive, fast-talking, spaced-out free pecker photo-journalist played by Dennis Hoper. The babbling combat photographer, garlanded by his camera equipment, hopes for their sake, that they havent come to take away Colonel Kurtz. He describes the great awe all the natives have for their jungle lord "Out here, were all his children." The photojournalist appears to be a fanatical follower of Kurtz, worshipping the enigmatic, geniu s "poet-warrior" Kurtz as a personal god and exposition Kurtzs cause "You dont talk to the Colonel, you listen to him. The mans enlarged my mind. Hes a poet-warrior in the uncorrupted sense...Im a little man. Hes a great man. I should have been a pair of ragged claws, scuttling across floors of silent seas, I mean...He can be terrible. He can be mean. And he can be right. Hes rubbish a war. Hes a great man." He offers first-hand advice from his own experience " joke it cool, laid back...You dont judge the Colonel." Willard is impressed by Kurtzs power over the people.