By using the major themes of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad as inspiration, Francis Ford Coppola created an honest portrayal of one of the most controversial periods of time in America's history: the Vietnam war. ... Heart of Darkness more accurately acted as a template for any story involving humans behaving at a basic level. ... The success of Francis Ford Coppola in imitating Heart of Darkness is seen in the manipulation of two unique periods of time in world history. ... The film Apocalypse Now emulated the truly horrendous and thought provoking themes of Conrad's Heart of...

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Coppola created this film with "ambitious effort to show Vietnam as America's Heart of Darkness, with Joseph Conrad's story providing the narrative skeleton" "(Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 1-1) and many themes, meanings, and entire scenes from the movie do in fact come directly from Conrad's book. Aside from the adaptation of Heart of Darkness's story into the film Apocalypse Now illustrates the hardships of war in nearly every aspect of a soldiers life. ... Ford's use of imagery, darkness, and slow and long cross dissolves also create vivid realizations of the ...

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The Viet Cong appear as a mass of barbarians running through the dark, trying to overrun the fort, who get exterminated by electrified fences. ... The central plot, based on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, is fictional and far-fetched. ...

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