Hypertext

Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell (/ˈbɪliː ˈaɪlɪʃ/,[1] born December 18, 2001) is an American singer and
songwriter. She first gained media attention in 2016 when she uploaded the song "Ocean Eyes" to SoundCloud, and it was
subsequently released by Interscope Records subsidiary Darkroom. The song was written and produced by her
brother Finneas, with whom she collaborates on music and live shows. Her debut EP, Don't Smile at Me (2017), reached
the top 15 in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.

Eilish's debut studio album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019), debuted atop
the Billboard 200 and became the best-performing album of 2019 in the US.[2] It also reached number one in
the UK. The album contains six Billboard Hot 100 top 40 singles: "When the Party's Over", "Bury a Friend",
"Wish You Were Gay", "Xanny", "Everything I Wanted",[a] and "Bad Guy", the last of which became her first
number one single in the US.
Her accolades include five Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, two Guinness World Records,
and three MTV Video Music Awards. She is the youngest person and first woman to win the four main
Grammy categories, Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Album of the Year in the
same year.

Intertext
Appropriation
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film about the Vietnam War, directed, produced and co-written
by Francis Ford Coppola. It stars Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam
Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Harrison Ford, and Dennis Hopper. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola and John
Milius and narration written by Michael Herr, was loosely based on the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph
Conrad. The setting was changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War. The film follows a river journey
from South Vietnam into Cambodia undertaken by Captain Benjamin L. Willard (a character based on
Conrad's Marlow and played by Sheen), who is on a secret mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Brando, with the
character being based on Conrad's Mr. Kurtz), a renegade Army Special Forces officer accused of murder and who is
presumed insane.

Milius became interested in adapting Heart of Darkness for a Vietnam War setting, and initially began
developing the film with Coppola as producer and George Lucas as director. After Lucas became unavailable,
Coppola took over directoral control, and was influenced by Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of
God (1972) in his approach to the material.[4] Initially set to be a five-month shoot, the film became noted for
the problems encountered while making it for over a year, as chronicled in the documentary Hearts of
Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991). These problems included Brando arriving on the set overweight
and completely unprepared[5], expensive sets being destroyed by severe weather and Sheen having a breakdown
and suffering a near-fatal heart attack while on location. Problems continued after production as the release was
postponed several times while Coppola edited over a million feet of film.[6]
Apocalypse Now was honored with the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, where it premiered unfinished
before it was finally released on August 15, 1979, by United Artists. The film performed well at the box office,
grossing $78 million domestically and going on to gross over $150 million worldwide. Initial reviews were
mixed; while Vittorio Storaro's cinematography was widely acclaimed, several critics found Coppola's
handling of the story's major themes to be anticlimactic and intellectually disappointing. Apocalypse Now is
today considered to be one of the greatest films ever made. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards at
the 52nd Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Coppola), and Best Supporting Actor for
Duvall, and went on to win for Best Cinematography and Best Sound. It ranked No. 14 in Sight & Sound's
greatest films poll in 2012,[7] and No. 6 in the Director's Poll of greatest films of all time.[8] Roger Ebert also
included it in his top 10 list of greatest films ever in 2012.[9] In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in
the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically
significant".[10]

Allusion
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
In Act 3, Scene 4 of this Shakespearean play, the title character of Hamlet describes a
portrait of his late father while alluding to three Greek gods. He cites Hyperion, who had
curly hair; Jove, who had a prominent forehead; and Mars, the god of war. The allusion
meaning here is clear and, now, we know more about the man who raised Hamlet. Here's
the text:
See what a grade was seated on this brow,
Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself,
An eye like Mars' to threaten and command…

Parody
Sonnet 130 (By William Shakespeare)

William Shakespeare wrote Sonnet 130 in parody of traditional love poems common in his day. He
presents an anti-love poem theme in a manner of a love poem, mocking the exaggerated
comparisons they made:

“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;

Unlike a love-poem goddess, his mistress does not have eyes like the sun, she does not have red
lips, nor does she have a white complexion. Her cheeks do not have a rosy color, and her hair is not
silky smooth. All the cliché qualities are missing in his mistress. Such a description allows
Shakespeare to poke fun at the love poets who looked for such impossible qualities in their beloved.