Admiral Kurtz In Apocalypase Now :: essays research papers

     Admiral Kurtz apocalypse Now is a film about madness. In this film, Willard, played by Charlie Sheen, is sent through madness, reminiscent of Dantes journey through hell. His mission is to down Kurtz, whos gone insane according to military intelligence. Kurtz has gone on his own, starting his own society in Cambodia, where his troops and the local tribes idolization him as a deity. Kurtz has committed murder by waging his own ferocious, bump lance war against Vietnamese intelligence agents with his own native Montagnard army crosswise the border in an ancient Cambodian temple deep in the jungle. widely distributed Cor piece of music explains the disturbed insanity of the war "In this war, things get confused out there, power, ideals, the old morality, and practical military necessity." The colonel has become a self-appointed, adore godlike leader/dictator of a renegade native tribe. General Corman describes Kurtzs temptation to be deified &quo tBecause theres a conflict in every forgiving heart between the rational and the irrational, between the good and the evil. The good does not always triumph. Sometimes the dark side everyplacecomes what Lincoln c entirelyed the better angels of our nature. Therein, man has got a breaking point. You and I make. Walter Kurtz has reached his. And very obviously, he has gone insane." Kurtzs motivation behind his actions is his need to feel godlike, to act without judgment. In Kurtz camp, a site of primitive evil, they are greeted by a crazed, hyperactive, fast-talking, spaced-out free lance photo-journalist played by Dennis Hoper. The babbling combat photographer, garlanded by his television 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 enigmati c, genius "poet-warrior" Kurtz as a personal god and expounding Kurtzs cause "You dont talk to the Colonel, you listen to him. The mans enlarged my mind. Hes a poet-warrior in the classic 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 bed be terrible. He can be mean. And he can be right. Hes fighting a war. Hes a great man." He offers first-hand advice from his own follow up "Play it cool, laid back...You dont judge the Colonel." Willard is impressed by Kurtzs power over the people.