Growing up I watched tons of action movies with my dad, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Wayne and Sylvester Stallone. Movies that really portrayed this American power, where the good guys Americans conquered every challenge and portraying this American badass. America is a country that symbolizes a lot for people, look at the Bald Eagle as an example as to the freedom that America tries to represent. Growing up children are lead believe that America is perfect we’re the good guys, it's shown in movies and books alike. The American badass character kills the Communists gets the girl and lives happily ever after. But of course as people get older they soon discover everything isn’t as perfect as they thought. They become disillusioned with American ideals and that’s not say people turn into Communist super villains but people lose that huge American patriotism they grew up with. In A Good Man Is Hard To Find and Apocalypse Now it's this American journey, they are about discovering how the world works and all the lies they have been told.
The characters in Apocalypse Now and A Good Man Is Hard to Find are very similar. The protagonists are on a long trip where they encounter a …show more content…
The journey of self discovery and seeing what you believe and it what makes life worth living for you. The find things that guide them for some it’s religion, their country etc.. For certain things I already feel disillusioned with. Most people won’t take it the extreme as The Misfit of the Colonel did. They are guided by their own laws their own morals how evil they may be they are their own. A phrase that i've come to love is “The only real thing in life is action”. Kurtz and The Misfit are men of action were living life meant doing something really changing for the world in there own way. Every person has something to learn about that sure America is the perfect country I was brought up thinking, it’s not a perfect
The characters in Apocalypse Now and A Good Man Is Hard to Find are very similar. The protagonists are on a long trip where they encounter a …show more content…
The journey of self discovery and seeing what you believe and it what makes life worth living for you. The find things that guide them for some it’s religion, their country etc.. For certain things I already feel disillusioned with. Most people won’t take it the extreme as The Misfit of the Colonel did. They are guided by their own laws their own morals how evil they may be they are their own. A phrase that i've come to love is “The only real thing in life is action”. Kurtz and The Misfit are men of action were living life meant doing something really changing for the world in there own way. Every person has something to learn about that sure America is the perfect country I was brought up thinking, it’s not a perfect