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This 9 page report discusses Joseph Conrad’s 1902 novel “The Heart of Darkness” and the 1979 Francis Ford Coppola movie “Apocalypse Now.” Despite the similarities of Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” and the movie “Apocalypse Now,” they are clearly very different stories that each deals with madness in the context of the timeframe in which it is presented. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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madness in the context of the timeframe in which it is presented. "Apocalypse Now" was widely promoted as an update of Conrads "Heart of Darkness" but because of the fact
that it is set in the "darkness" of the Vietnam/Cambodia war, it has a resonance that modern viewers are unable to experience as fully in Conrads novel. Admittedly, "Heart of
Darkness" is a compelling but ultimately baffling novel. "Apocalypse Now," on the other hand, is more accessible to modern audiences since it takes place in a realm most know something
about. Director Francis Ford Coppola capitalizes on that knowledge in "Apocalypse Now." As the undeniably American Captain Willard makes his way along the river to the stronghold of Kurtz,
Coppola presents a world of surreal images of American icons - a blond "surfer dude" soldier, a gung-ho commander in his black cowboy hat who "loves the smell of napalm,"
the music of American rock and roll music in the jungle and on the river and Wagnerian opera accompanying hundreds of helicopters in the sky. Comparing the Two Stories There
are, of course, significant differences between the plot lines of the novel and the movie. For example, Conrads Marlow is a commercial riverboat pilot who becomes fascinated with the legend
of this mad ivory merchant, Kurtz; as part of his piloting job, he travels deep into the heart of the jungle with the idea of finding Kurtz as his goal.
This sets the story strictly in the realm of business and commerce; there is no military presence in this story at all. In Coppolas story line, on the other
hand, Kurtz is sought by a professional military assassin named Captain Benjamin Willard, who has been assigned to "terminate the command" of Kurtz because he has gone mad. On the
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