Comparing Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now

As more and more books be make into movies, fans of the books often critique the cinema directors ability to keep their storyline along the same as that of the book. Francis Ford Coppola has a prodigious issue as he inherits the task of making a movie along the lines of Joseph Conrads novel boob of Darkness. He does not have any(prenominal) real option to jolly up the setting of imperial europium invading African land, notwithstanding fortunately for Coppola, the United States belatedly fought a war that is real comparable in the struggle tactics ele workforcet. In his video Apocalypse straightaway, Coppola does a truly good job safekeeping his plot like to bosom of Darkness despite the departure in settings.\nBoth plots of Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse at once have the same eventual(prenominal) objective of sending men to go find the homosexual whose name is Kurtz, an ex-military officer fake to have gone truant and now living amongst the natives. The asse mblage of men travels downriver through and through hostile environments until they reach the ring armour where Kurtz is supposedly living, and in twain the film and the novel, they are bedevil by the natives throughout the conjecture with e reallything from a fake arrow shower to attempt to panic them, to a real throw of arrows and spears which fatally wounds one of the combination members. Also, Coppola keeps Kurtzs character very similar to that of Conrads pictorial matter in the novel. When the men eventually reach him, they find him to be incredibly intellectual and curt despite his old age. He is very in adjust with his surroundings and understands his situation completely. along with Kurtzs personality, Coppola also does a good job line drawing his death as it happened in the novel, including his final words, The horror, the horror, which is him talking intimately all of his encounters with the natives.\nAlthough Coppola makes an exceptional effort to create Apo calypse Now to be as similar as possible to Conrads Heart of Darkness, there are some di...