Original watercress critics: "Modern Warfare Apocalypse" Friends of beans critics 2006-12-18 20:24:20
This article appears in "watercress critics" bean "Friends Serizawa shrimp dumplings bacteria," the critic original title "The razor edge of madness."
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To dream strokes carved human madness
"Revelation" is the Bible, "the New Testament," the final chapter, tells the story of the Last Judgment, has two meanings in Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" in: Les Corts neighborhood is one of the more self trials were conducted, one being Weile De behalf of the US military trials carried out on Coates. However, like Coates said, "You can kill me, but you can not evaluate (judge) I am." In "Apocalypse Now", the value judgment has been plunged into a state of chaos, lost standard of value judgments is no sense, so we end up seeing is presented in Coppola shot, crazy group as a whole. Why do we fight? Camus said: The real philosophical reflection is suicide. So, choose either death or madness choice for the Vietnam War, even for all the wars, we can only give this answer, this is not a pessimistic answer, because although crazy not a good thing, it is far from a bad thing.
"Apocalypse Now" madness lasted almost the entire movie, Coppola pulled the film from the outset into a mania. Protagonist Wei Lede upside down head close-up, Vietnam jungle, the roar of helicopters, the explosion of flame, and eventually appear next to trial Coates created a huge statue repeatedly dissolves, as if a mass of thick mud along with the hero the body has been stirred into chaos with his memory, Coppola will overprint the beginning and end of the film together so that the characters can not escape into the cycle, the music repeatedly echoed "this is the end, my friend," " All the kids are crazy "... ...
Crazy kids: Bill Kiel trifling war high
Head carry a cowboy hat, a pair of sunglasses eye frame, pointing just like a Western sheriff's appearance, with each side to put the bodies of Viet Cong "Death Poker", but do not forgot the pot of water to a dying Vietnamese drink, also shouted: "this man is my warrior!" Wei Lede for a pedestrian to bring a higher level task indifferent, but on hearing the name of Lance mad, clamoring clamoring to bring he went surfing, the last really to kill the mighty carrying a group of brothers to a beach under the control of the Communist Party of Vietnam, while bombs while listening to Wagner, the two sides are still fighting, he was the first to tease Huoji fire sent two people to surf , even himself off his shirt to the sea. Lance gang robbed him of his surfboard, he drove the airplane all over the world shouting "I just want my surfboard, you know, looking for a good surfboard is not easy." Bill base Thurgau, always one day a fearless state of madness, he is neither a killer nor a humanist, the war for him only a taste of victory, in addition, he eyes, is there war?
Coppola radical music by Wagner, a powerful bomb bursts from flames, sea level rise Jumping water column, especially colorful smoke bombs to a massacre turned into a weekend rave. Coppola will use a lot of panoramic shots of brutal war greatly limit weaken, we see the show as a whole in the war machine for huge appeal and beauty, which is high in the eyes of Kiel picture of the war, as a commander, his personality rights and extreme swelling in the thrill of victory in all his behavior is very normal behavior is magnified in the war in times of peace, it is an exaggeration, of personal behavior and high Kiel environmental stark contrast, Coppola intends to use lyrical brushwork describe atrocities, this contrast will be pushed to the absurd situation.
Crazy group: "bunny" feast
If Kiel high just a crazy case, Kiel high just being presented as a phenomenon under Coppola's lens, then, in "bunny" USO this paragraph, the movie has begun to show the entire United States of madness, but also Kiel on the display of high social environment exists, this madness with the deepening of the jungle Weile De deepened, Coppola approach has become even more fantastic, light began to replace the dispatch schedule to write this scene of Revelation two chapters.
Glare rear view of a point light source covered the entire lens is pulled into a channel variation traverses uncertain screen glare effect in lines, in a relatively dark character gap in Coppola even without any projection in the paragraphs human portraits and body, to impress us with only the "bunny", the human voice, and stage lighting, because in this place, real people actually do not exist, they do not have personality, but became one crazy symbols, no organization, no discipline, erratic, bizarre on stage that resembles the male genitalia and decorative lights formed on the surface of the water symbolizes mankind's most primitive form, the subconscious of this I'm here to maximize the break taboos, there's only sexual desire and destruction, and even these two desires is no reason and meaning.
At the end of this paragraph, two American soldiers climb on the helicopter landing gear was hanging on the high-altitude, high-Kiel with that paragraph, the cows were hanging on the high-altitude helicopter is too similar. They are war machine plaything and clown, and even these soldiers even cattle have been demonstrated by the absence of opposition, become slaves of their era has become subconscious behavior. So Coppola when shooting a cow gave elevation, these head of cattle struggling individually As the haze of the sky, and for those ignorant people, he used a slightly downward angle of vision, they can never escape this crazy piece of land, so they are so tiny. They were abandoned at the same time realistic and beliefs.
Crazy Purgatory: US battle
As the writer of the times, Coppola naturally not just stop at the surface of things, with the deepening of Wei Lede travel, thinking Coppola has further deepened. When describing the last stronghold of the US military in Vietnam, Coppola is also used on a small lantern festival lights to use, but there is no longer a feast of revelers, there have been an explosion of flames rising from the produce, the whole environment is also this explosion suddenly brighten, children suddenly dark, it is difficult to see the whole picture of the battlefield, it is difficult enough time to dwell on every face. This is purgatory, people keep dragging a large box into the water, turn to Wei Lede, we heard the maximum sentence is: "? Who is the commander here." But, no one knows, the US military has lost control , in a kind of no purpose in fighting. There is no Viet Cong to show a direct shot, Coppola is not so much in order to show the hidden fear, as it is irrational in the war metaphor, people either flee or fight no purpose. Absence of the commander of the initiator is the indictment of the war, they will be sent to the battlefield of young people, then they will be abandoned. People died in the center of the war did not know for what? In this way, an old question is raised, why are we fighting? Coppola actually proposed a more realistic problem, since we already know irrational war, why immerse them?
Crazy Reason: Lost family
In this paragraph, Coppola decline to a French family at the dinner debate to express his Reflections on the Vietnam War. The family is a product of the colonial left, miss the glory, deep taste of the pain now, Coppola using the dim light incident window with a performance decline dignity. France has more than the United States in the war unforgettable failure, which allows them to start thinking about the current situation, serious differences occurred at the dinner table, but the most authoritative voices in the last Wei Lede said: "You're the biggest nothing in history is fight. "in any case, these French people have lived 70 years in this land, where they have their roots, and for Americans, it is a tree without roots, a lot young Americans shed the blood of so vain.
First of all, Coppola standing American point of view reveals this fact: the United States is apparently not involved in a war of their own. Vietnam and France, China contradiction has deep historical reasons, they are fighting for themselves, while the United States is clearly a serious error has occurred on the trade-off benefits. The world can not avoid a war, but the United States can avoid a war is not his own.
Then, by Coppola accordion man libretto further criticized the US alone will be extended to the criticism of the whole to white society, represented by the European and American society. The cause of the war and then attributed to numerous wrong decisions in history. These errors cause is a lost nation, a nation of recession, a nation crazy ... ...
Crazy God: Last Judgment
Also in a smoke-filled ground water, slowly opened the mysterious Coppola Wei Lede end of the trip, we follow the Wei Lede subjective lens gradually deepening, saw a group of mystery in his face painted totem of people lined up in neat formation on board the river, followed by the altar and hung the bodies of half-naked in the water, strange mystical music, suddenly, played by Dennis tiger Perot reporters greeted with the same host as the entertainment group of Americans, through his mouth, we learned Colonel Coates status here. Yellow smoke filled the altar, the altar letter to "Apocalypse Now", surrounded by scattered heads of those executed. This scene shocked Wei Lede and his companions, they returned to the ship. In the end, decided to take Weile De Lance depth "Coates kingdom" in the hinterland, he was Coates's "people" surrounded by the way, they will press him into the mud, the lens of Zhunweilede revolution, thus the film into the most classic paragraph.
Wei Lede Coates was taken to the premises, the film uses a bronze backlight, backlight side and side-lighting, this strong sense of style lighting to create a strong sense of the original, Coates always face the beginning in the dark, only Brando's head was shrouded light, with the deepening of the dialogue, Coates face from time to time into the beam of light beam locally, this middle ground in the distance caused by the close-up effect makes the audience feel strongly Ke hereby majesty. When the water basin is offering Coates hands, as if they bathed in the river Styx.
Wei Lede and second contacts Coates is carried out in a kind of dreamy environment, Coppola mobilize the rain, the mud, the mud-covered face paint or other elements, create a lot of scenes from hell .
The third is in contact with the cell, Coppola arrange Coates read the mainstream US newspapers, Coates sitting at the door, the light of nature from behind him with the smoke in the air "Gone with the Wind" Come on, shot full of children, this scene reminiscent of paradise. Coates is clear that lie on the newspaper, paradise, childhood, lies in the juxtaposition of these three factors had a memorable meaning. Coates disappointment the US military also has a powerful irony. He faced in the dark cell in the Wei Lede - the latter on behalf of the US authorities in a way - like a prophet.
Wei Lede coma after being carried to the castle resembles the Roman room, the golden light from all the windows into the goal, lighting and edge-lit backlight still dominated, but unlike the previous chiaroscuro has not so bright, but plus a touch of scattered light, rendering the room smoke-filled situation. In addition to Wei Lede, Coates and reporters, other characters are also clips a cross in, or, as they stood there like a sculpture, or heart Xianqi to play ball, or even just a face without expression ... ... here, Copperfield pull role by mouth tells his own voice: and fear as a friend, otherwise you can only use an enemy with his ... ... primitive instinct to kill, no feeling, no emotion, no judge, no judge because the judge ... ... I will beat you. "Coppola as to express his religious views held for violence. There is no simple right or wrong to judge his violence, but from the height of the entire human population, indicating that the violence is a primitive myth.
Perhaps it is not such words to go with a judgment, then eventually killing Wei Lede firm determination, he finally put aside the rumors and all written materials on the implementation of the Coates military task entrusted to him, in fact, he could just for their own thoughts and kill Coates.
This scene is completely expressionism. Wei Lede slowly emerged from the water, golden side light will become a firm he created the statue, which is a holy baptism. Coppola will use montage Weile De stabbed slaughter cattle on the lens and lens religious Coates cross clips together, highlighting the significant themes of sacrifice. Will today present in our lives Tu killing and the most primitive killing, the killing of individuals killing and groups, the secular killing and killing religion linked to dig out the historical origins of violent tendencies present in the human heart. At the same time cow also take care of the other end of the Wei Lede form began to appear to be hanging on the sky cattle, and Coates has become a victim of this violence brought to the altar of the times.
Crazy process: Wei Lede task
In addition to show the crazy cross-section of different levels, Coppola also through behavioral and psychological changes a pedestrian Wei Lede show the process of development of madness, and how people are step by step how to go from the so-called modern civilization back to the most primitive state of.
The character set, Coppola intends to set up with different life experiences of several characters, among them as well as by their interaction with the outside will be a crazy seeds implanted in their hearts.
Vietnam's poor shooting the film a drama played a significant role in their respective personality changes. On the road, captain in the sense of responsibility, insisted on a Vietnamese fishing boat strict examination, the results of a Vietnamese woman mistakenly protection puppy behavior deemed to counterattack and to all persons on board were shot, after understand the truth, they were shocked , in fact, some people have collapsed, and then they found that Vietnamese women are still alive, they decided to send the woman treatment, Wei Lede acts against this delay trip, then shot and killed her. Coppola This sum is very cruel, cruel this sum it is these inexperienced deep young age ceremony. "Fear," if you do not make friends with it, you can only enemies with it, if you will not fear as a means, you can only be to destroy it.
Maybe fear is an opportunity to contact the original modern civilization and violence. With it as a friend, you will be crazy; and it is an enemy, you will die.
In the darkness of the trailer, Coates came before his death that deep voice: "Fear of fear ... ... ... ..."
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