Sound In Apocalypse Now

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Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic adventure film. Produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, and Robert Duvall, the film follows the central character, Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Sheen), on a secret mission to assassinate the renegade and presumed insane Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Brando).
I watched this movie at night and in the headphones, hearing loud and clear every step, the crunch in the film. Perhaps that's why more than anything I had emotional impact from the sound effects and music. I knew about this movie, so expect a heavy emotional music for the film, as it happens in Hollywood blockbusters, but I was wrong. The film started with the musical composition "The End" by The Doors.
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Against this background, gradually appears the face of a man - the main character, on whose behalf narrates a voiceover. At this point the film and its music took me to their unpredictability.
The next point in the film when I heard "The End" again was the time of the killing of Kurtz. At that moment, I thought I heard shouting obscenities. At the end of the scene Willard kills Kurtz with a machete. Kurtz accepts death with dignity. Even dying, he whispered: "The horror, the horror." It seems symbolic that the main soundtrack appeared in the film in these two scenes. It seemed that the music stresses the senselessness and absurdity of war in general, appearing at the beginning of the film, and the mission of the protagonist in the film, at the time of the murder of Kurtz.
Generally, the composition could not be better correlated with the theme of senseless killing, raised in the film. It contains the so-called Oedipus part in which the murderer deals with his own parents.
In addition to the composition of "The End" of The Doors,