Close-Up Images In Apocalypse Now

The close-up images are glass, gun, bottle, shrimp, and a roasted beef. These images disturb the audience and feel uncomfortable at the screen. They also did a close-up of a taping machine in which there is a recording voice of Kurtz, some photographs of Kurtz, and a dull surface of the hotel room. These are the images that are captured in a close range to evaluate the character of Captain Willard. The close-ups of a food item in the opening scene are not by accident, but they had a deeper meaning in the movie. The food items were shrimp and the roasted beef. The reason that the food was presented in the opening scene because they it’s healthy, nutritional, enjoyable, and delicious. This signifies that the war food was prepared by New Orleans chef
So, these were the images of women seen in the film. Some sexual exploitation is also shown in the war. Coppola had tried to show the different picture of the war in Apocalypse Now. The sexual connotation is seen in the helicopter scene when bullets enter into the body flashing blood and also in the Sampan boat scene where the soldiers tried to humiliate the women. Coppola made a vision about the war-related problems besides technology and aesthetics of the politics. Overall, Coppola made a whole image of the Vietnam War that includes journalism, memoirs, and references to other movies. The cinematographer of the Apocalypse Now was Storaro, Coppola chose Storaro because he want to camera to float across the boat and also to hold camera skillfully. Coppola said he need a professional person to shoot the scenes and person must have knowledge of camera. Coppola also tried different style of editing. Coppola used the editing appropriately to each scenes and a technique to understand the anesthetization of the