So Conrad frequently hides them inside of Kurtz. ... Such a powerful, abstract darkness is much like that which Conrad also ascribes to the Congo itself. ... In Conrad's world, all Kurtz can do is respond to the winds of darkness by being blown over. ... As much as Joseph Conrad shows that the darkness responsible for Kurtz's moral disintegration lies in the largely mute Congo itself, he places as much of that shadowy essence in Kurtz and the imperialism he represents. ... Kurtz and imperialism itself all have hearts equally dark in Conrad's world. ...

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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. Just as West Side Story was derived from the classic Romeo and Juliet, Coppola's interpretation of Conrad's novel is not without distinction or differences. ... Through the use of an enigmatic and extreme focus, the character Kurtz, Apocalypse Now effectively reflected the major themes of Conrad's novel. ... The film Apocalypse Now emulated the truly horrend...

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Apocalypse Now Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now Joseph Conrad once wrote, "the individual consciousness was destined to be in total contradiction to its physical and moral environment" (Conrad-1897); the validity of his statement is reflected in the physiological and psychological changes that the characters in both his Heart of Darkness and Coppola's Apocalypse Now undergo as they travel up their respective rivers, the Congo and the Nung. ... In Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Marlow's great understanding is that existence itself has no moral heart; which is proved b...

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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. ...

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Prior to the 1960s, war films did well at the box-office. Invigorated audiences defined their ideas of combat by watching films that glorified heroic soldiers. Rather than questioning the accuracy of setting, dialogue, or action, audiences gave the film makers freedom to use their imagination. Howe...

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