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APOCALYPSE NOW  OPENING SCENE

Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film directed, produced and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola. It stars Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Harrison Ford, and Dennis Hopper.

The film is a metaphor for a journey into the self and shows how the self, in the face of war, darkens beyond recognition. As they move upriver, Willard and the PBR crew become more agitated and separated from reality. Each experiences his own kind of mental breakdown.

The opening scene is a very important factor of the film. AS it mainly show the effect war has on the main hero Willard

CINEMATOGROPHY

-Opening scene of willard, his face is upside down. This shows the fact that his life is 'upside down' and the fact that his face is shown next to a vehicle of war (a helicopter), it suggests that war has made his life 'upside down'

-These layers of different images is shown by the technique of composite shots

EDITING

- Fades, this shows that the character is struggling to find where he is during this 'dream' inside of Willard head, as the scene transfers from the war to the hotel room multiple times by using fades instead of cuts.

MISE-EN-SCENE

One point of mise-en-scene is the fact that the helicopter in the war zone transfers to the hotel room by creating imagery of the helicopter propeller into the fan on the ceiling in the hotel room.

The main factor is the fact that in the scene the audience ca

SOUND

PERFORMANCE

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