Given this show’s attention to detail on names, words, colors, etc. and various prior homages by Vince & Peter to Francis Ford Coppola (FFC) in BCS (Examples from The Godfather and The Conversation ), I’d wager that “Willard” is a cinematic nod to Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) in FFC’s Apocalypse Now.
Ironically/coincidentally, Apocalypse Now :
(1) follows Willard’s (and other’s) descent into madness (sounds familiar)
(2) is a narrative on war vs. peace, dark vs. light, and evil vs. good: which are recurrent story/visual themes in BCS (e.g. wolves vs. sheep; “good criminals and bad cops, bad priests, honorable thieves”)
(3)also has plenty of light/shadow cinematography.
EDIT: Maybe Mike Ehrmantraut is also grappling with old memories from classified missions to terminate with extreme prejudice...
EDIT2. - Chuck’s dismantling of his house at the end of LANTERN is also a homage to the end of The Conversation.
Submitted September 03, 2018 at 12:59PM by Detzeb https://ift.tt/2C9JFVM
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