The Creation of God in Apocalypse Now in Relation to Frazers The Golde

The Creation of God in Apocalypse Now in congeneric to Frazers The Golden Bough Very rarely do filmmakers intend to create cinematic masterpieces which integrate and draw upon lush literary qualities and leave the viewer with a deeper feeling of life and death than he or she had before believe the film. Even if some filmmakers do attempt to create a masterpiece, emblematical and complex, many fall short. However, when Francis Coppola created Apocalypse Now, he succeeded in creating a masterpiece, displace upon the complicated story at heart Conrads Heart of Darkness and the boom observations within Frazers The Golden Bough. The character of Colonel Kurtz in both Conrads and Coppolas works, is one of a complicated, fickle renaissance man he is at the alike time a ruthless, body collecting warrior and a artistic philosopher. Kurtzs divinity is like fire, which downstairs proper restraints, confers endless blessings, but if rashly touched, burns and destroys what it touches ( Frazer 13). Kurtz, as a boor icon, is capable of greatness and is brutally malicious at the same time. Where Coppola strays from Conrad, he does so to show Kurtzs deliberate choice to become a god-like figure and be destroyed in the tradition of the savages. Through the savage beliefs of tabooed well and hair, the slaying of the divine king, and sympathetic magic, Coppola creates a more savagely realistic character in Kurtz. Perhaps one of Col. Kurtzs almost prominent physical features in Apocalypse Now is his shaven head. Frazer explains that, to the savages, the head and hair of their divine king is tabooed, and to touch the top of the head, or anything which had been on his head was sacrilege (Frazer 812). To the savages, their king ra... ...in Cambodia after he slays Kurtz because either Chef had coherent the air strike, or because Willard, eventhough he is mesmerized by the culture, is a trusty part of the western world. Just because Willard is portrayed by Coppola as a unconventional man and can slay Kurtz in accordance with savage customs, doesnt make him a savage. Eventhough Frazer is an Englishman, Coppola believes his observations of savages are precise, and so he chooses to create his born(p) again savage god-king, Kurtz, accordingly. Works Cited Frazer, James. The Golden Bough. 1922. peeled York The Macmillan Company, 1951. Vickery, James B., The literary Aspect of The Golden Bough. Princeton, New Jersey Princeton University Press, 1973. Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Remarks on Frazers Golden Bough. Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey Human Press, Inc., 1979.