In Michael Richardson’s book, Otherness in Hollywood Cinema, he states, “No film in Hollywood history, I think, has directly confronted themes of otherness in a more complex or a more uncomfortable way than Apocalypse Now. (pg. 139). What “themes of otherness’ struck you in the film, and what does this film tell you about who the “other’ is? Contribute to discussion in the comments section of this post, to be found below.
Read Chapter 8 of his book to help you analyze the question. (Click above link; available electronically through UAF library)
You may also want to look at the article by Margot Norris, ‘Modernism and Vietnam: Francis Ford Coppala’s Apocalypse Now.’
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