Heart of Darkness

Comparison of Coppola's film "Apocalypse Now" and Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness." Francis Ford Coppola's film of horror in Vietnam, Apocalypse Now, borrows its narrative structure from Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness. Essentially, Coppola transported the nineteenth century tale of personal depravity to the jungles of twentieth century Vietnam. The effect of this change in setting is inherently tied to the change of time and the political situation, and, while there are a great …showed first 75 words of 1377 total…

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