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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