Apocalypse Now Vs Heart Of Darkness

The Film Apocalypse Now is a movie that is compared and contrasted to the book Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Some of the ideas are similar while others are not. The film is used to help audience members understand Josephs ideas but from another perspective but still in Josephs perspective. There are different ways to show the similarities between the novel and film by comparing their plot, characters and the main story line.

Though the film and the novel may have their similarities there are some differences. For example, Heart of Darkness was created in 1899, an English man named Charles Marlow traveled along the Congo River to transport ivory. During his travel, he meets a man named Kurtz. The more Marlow kept hearing about Kurtz

When the boat arrives at Kurtz’s camp the first thing that Marlow saw was heads of local resident on a post. A clown like figure is presented to Marlow stating that Kurtz is a god. The natives of this area are intrigued with the ship and want to attack it but Kurtz tells them to back away. Kurtz heath conditions were worsening as time goes by. As Kurtz is slowly dying his last words were “The horror! The horror!” (page1). When Marlow is back in Europe from Africa he refuses to hand the papers from Kurtz. When Marlow went to visit Kurtz’s fiancée to return some of the papers she asked what were his last words and Marlow couldn’t confess to it. So, he lied and said his last words were her name. The film Apocalypse Now was released in 1979, Captain Willard, a trained assassin was put on a mission. The army told him to hunt down Colonel named Kurtz who has been having his own share of a private army in Cambodia. Willard travels along the coast. He ends up meeting a man named Colonel Kilgore and he is taken in a helicopter to travel

In the novel, fog is represented a lot. Fog not only can affect your sight but the way it was represented in the book was that he memory was fog and he didn’t know which decisions were right. Also in the film fog is represented. It helps the audience understand the confusion that Willard was going through as they traveled the river. In Heart of Darkness, the river is also used as a symbol because it was the only way Europeans can get to Africa. It was used a divider to always separate the white men. In the film, the river is described to be the “road” that takes Willard to his death but also ends up being his way to escape. The river in both film and novel is the only way to get to Kurtz. “Darkness is used in both works to create a fear of the unknown” (page1). The one thing that struck out to me is that they both have to do with imperialism. Imperialism is when a country’s power is influenced by a military force. The one thing that stuck out to me is that they both have to do with imperialism. Imperialism is when a country’s power is influenced by a military force. The power in Heart of Darkness comes from Africa during the European colonization and the power from Apocalypse How is from the U.S Military in Vietnam. Both stories also share the power of evil and how it effects the characters and the way they react to it. Both stories seemed to emphasize that evil in each and every one of