Intro:
. Background of both production:
- Studio System Vs New Hollywood (Influence of French new wave and new technologies) 
. Auteur theory

Casablanca
. Ricks intro:  Tracking shots, sets up context, Ricks isolationism, establishing shot moving to character shot - deliberate use of mise en scene. How does it adhere to classical hollywood film form?

. Intro to Willard - dissolves (non continuity editing influenced by French  New Wave), prolepsis, Sheen's improvised performance (he was very drunk as well) - method acting, no establishing shot 

. Rick and Ilsa's reunion w/ Laszlo and Renault: Artifice - set up, three point lighting, well choreographed cinematography, blocking (Rick's isolation), shot reverse shot

. Intro to Killgore: Proxemics, staging, blocking, location, shooting, steadicam, mise - en - scene, - build into Wagner scene 
. Killgore/ Marlon Brandon intro: Brando 'method' acting 

. Ending scene: mise en scene, non location shooting, set, deliberate camera movements - e.g. tracking, crane and tilt up on Renault and Rick, western + film noir + detective .... Curtiz as auteur

. Apocalypse Now: 

Conclusion - refer back to the question


















- Characters relationship to an environment in different ways:
. Rick's relationship to two environments, war and civilian life (hotel room and Vietnam)
. Starts with the jungle - long shot holding on the jungle as it becomes engulfed in yellow smoke (napalm) - slow motion
. Napalm attack - internal turmoil
. Panning right on the jungle in flames
. dissolve into Willard - overlapping layers - his head upside down - internal chaos
. wind fan, his face, helicopters - overlapping multiple layers - ceiling fan graphic matching the helicopters
.  Prolepsis of the Toten poll representing Kurtz but not inverted like Willard
. CU of ricks scattered personal belongings - tracking from Willards face with overlapping helicopters to one layer of stuff on the other side of him w/ alcohol, pistol under his pillow, cigarettes
. 4 mins 40 in establishing shot through  First person POV + voice over - peeking through the blind 'Saigon shit'
. Blinds like prison bars
. CU on belongings - Shallow DOF on Willard
. Over head long shot - lighting highlighting his deformity +  casting big shadow in front of him - small and trapped in the hotel room
. Dissolve into karate moves medium shot in the room - almost silhouette
. Prolepsis - flames and covered in mud - from the ending - overlapping
. Punches the mirror
. Cuts from multiple perspectives on his breakdown as the music intensifies to emphasise the madness and chaos             












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