Comparing Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now

One of the many similarities between Heart of Darkness and "Apocalypse Now " is race. ... Although there are many similarities between the two, there are many discrepancies that make Heart of Darkness and "Apocalypse Now " opposite. ... Conrad uses ivory traders as his characters in Heart of Darkness and the ivory trade in "Apocalypse Now, " Coppola uses soldiers and the Vietnam War. ... The most obvious difference between Heart of Darkness and "Apocalypse Now " is the drug usage in "Apocalypse Now. " Heart of Darkness didn't have a hippie-surfer tripping on acid. ... Despite the differen...

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"Apocalypse Now" is a 1979 film based on the novel Heart of Darkness by Francis Ford Coppola set during the Vietnam War. Since "Apocalypse now" is a movie that is inspired from Joseph Conrad's novel, when comparing (both projects) it is evident that they share similarities in theme such as racism against the natives, the fear of the unknown, darkness, the nature of evil, and government. ... The first point of similarity that Heart of Darkness and "Apocalypse Now" share deals with racism. ... Both Heart of Darkness and "Apocalypse Now" deal with the...

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Heart of Darkness Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, and Apocalypse Now, a movie by Francis Ford Coppola can be compared and contrasted in many ways. Heart of Darkness takes place on the Congo River in the Heart of Africa while Apocalypse Now is set in Vietnam. Characterization in Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now are almost identical. ... There may be many minor differences between Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now; but there is one major difference. ... One of the many similarities between Heart of Darkness and "Apocalypse Now" is race. ...

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Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness share parallel characters, ideas and dialogues, but most important is the distinct similarity between central themes. ... On a superficial level, one could compare the characters of Heart of Darkness to those of Apocalypse Now. ... We come to see, through Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now that the nature of man cannot be stifled, cannot be masked, cannot be hidden. ... Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now both demonstrate this point, and the main character in each develops a greater understanding of the nature of man. You come to see that Heart of Darkn...

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Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now lacks the impact of its inspiration; Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. ... The character of Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, however, is never de-humanized as it is in Heart of Darkness. ... In Apocalypse Now, Willard's character is a U.S. ... Conrad's Heart of Darkness forces its reader into meaningful introspection, while Apocalypse Now fails to capture the depth of Conrad's vision. In Heart of Darkness, Kurtz's last words "the horror, the horror!" ...

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Apocalypse Now, like many other films inspired by a novel, lacks the impact of its predecessor; Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. ... In Heart of Darkness, Marlow is defined by his complacency, while in Apocalypse Now, Willard behaves aberrantly, and his fascination with Kurtz is more impressiveness than awe as in Heart of Darkness. ... In Apocalypse Now, Kurtz is portrayed as a powerful, fearless, eccentric Army major; a polar opposite from Heart of Darkness. ... Compared with Marlow's deep, searching ruminations on the dark, enigmatic Kurtz, Willard is a government-issue automaton"...

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In the article, ""Narratological Parallels in Joseph Conrad"'s Heart of Darkness and Francis Ford Coppola"'s Apocalypse Now"" Linda Costanzo Cahir compares and contrasts both the novella and the film. ... Apocalypse Now is a more contemporary version of Heart of Darkness, retold through a camera. ... In Heart of Darkness, the narrator is telling the story to the other people on the boat, while in Apocalypse Now, Willard is telling the story to the audience. ... Although the stories, Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now"'s details are different, the audience gets the same thing o...

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Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, and Apocalypse Now, a movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola can be compared and contrasted in many ways. ... We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness. ... (Conrad 61-62) Apocalypse Now is a movie that is similarly structured and paralleled to the book but has many different meanings. ... Vietnam also features a dark, dense, apparently impenetrable jungle just like in the Heart of Darkness. ... While in Heart of Darkness the African jungle was a great setting for the late 1890's with people going mad in the jungle; Vietn...

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I will focus my investigation on three films in depth, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket and The Deer Hunter, but I will also allude to Oliver Stone's Platoon, and the often overlooked Hamburger Hill. ... Full Metal Jacket is his representation of Vietnam, and it is a darkly comic and impenetrably private vision. Essentially it is almost documentary in its form, making its subject matter the only thing it has in common with grandiose epics like Apocalypse Now or The Deer Hunter. ... Like Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket had Michael Herr on script writing duties to add even more authentic...

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