Death of Kurtz

. Frame within a frame w/ a voice over - angelic back light with silhouette figure of Kurtz
. Tribal mise en scene
. Chiarascuo - Frame - claustrophobic of Willard in the boat
. Doors music
. Bobbing out the water - orange tint, camo face paint, lighting strike
. medium shot of Willard silhouetted by a shrine
.  Silhouette - Orange haze (Kurtz)
. Wilalrd also silhoutted
. 3 inter-cut (Slicing up the cow, slashing the wall, MCU's/ CUs of Kurtz and Willard)
. Orange haze and darkness - CUs
. Fure
. Low angle MCU
. Extreme close up side angle low angle of Kurtz dying 'The horror'
. CU + dissolve of legs + slow motion
. Blur
. Low angle, disorientating camera movement + sombre alien music
. Door frame - moving slow though it POV = mass of tribal people who bow down to him
. CU of his face almost looks like the stone idol next to him
. Wading through the crowd who have split for him, dropping their weapons at his feet as he walks through - mostly an MCU from the front
. Dissolves
. Overlapped totem from the start of the film + CU of Willard + helicopters + Napalm then fade to black
. Silence after Kurtz is killed after the intense music of the doors

. Flashy editing
. Production context
. Structured chaos
. Use of lighting 



Paragraph on Kurtz end scene

. Kurtz is Willards metaphorical - + - + -


. Relgious/ prohpetic
. Fatherhood/ God
. (Neo)Colonialism
. Cyclicality
.

                               
                               

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