Compare And Contrast Apocalypse Now

“Apocalypse Now” “ I love the smell of Napalm in the morning, smells like victory.” This is one of the quotes I believe sums up much of the Apocalypse Now movie. The movie and its 2001 “redux” version, seem to play along the same lines. They are both filled with killing, sociopathic soldiers. The movies both show the reality of war. The soldiers were either mentally unstable, or disturbed, showing their human side. Personally I think the original version was much more artistic than the redux version. The first change in the Redux-version has been made to evade connection-errors. The happy radio music from the normal cut has been removed, now there is a dramatic score. There is a scene where Chief continues his Raquel fantasy a little. Then
In the Redux-Version, during this short scene, we completely stay on Willard's face, whereas in the normal cut it's arranged differently: The camera shows lying chief who first asks Willard for permission to go and pick up mangos. Willard states that you can only go into the jungle if you know how to get around. During this short conversation, Coppola changes the scene to a short take showing Clean standing by cannon. Then Lance asks whether there is any poisonous snakes nearby. Finally, chief decides he is going to get mangos now, then Willard follows him without saying a word. So the entire Redux-Version is going on pretty simple, the normal version is dark and inapproachable, even during these short dialogues. Especially this small scene with the little hideout is one of the very few that shows true humanity among the men. The Redux-Version of this short scene is going on for just seven seconds whereas in the normal cut it's exactly twenty seconds
The movie is critically acclaimed for this reason. It also shows the truth of war, which I find to be done at a spectacular level. The film portrays the horrors of the Vietnam War. It does a great job at showing the viewer the different aspects of war. As many of us know there are no rules in war. War is the only thing that can cause humans to act the way they do. When a person know that they are fighting for their lives, there is something that changes. I don’t think regular citizens could know exactly what that change is. It seems to be something you have to experience to understand. The film does do a great job of portraying the lives of the soldiers, in a very artistic way. I find that the charater of Benjamin L Williard is the most intriguing. He suffers from hallucinations, and is completely psychotic at the beginning of the movie. Yet when he is asked to perform in the military he does a good job. I do believe that it can be interpreted that he was going crazy because of the war. My interpretation was that he was suffereing from something along the lines of Post Traumatic Stress