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Apocalypse Now Vs. Heart Of Darkness

Heart of Darkness
Vs.
Apocalypse Now
A Comparison

Francis Ford Coppola is an innovative, successful, and ingenious filmmaker. These qualities are well-represented in the film Apocalypse Now. The basic story of Apocalypse Now is about a Vietnam soldier who is sent on a classified mission to kill Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, a man who has made himself a personal Jesus in his surroundings. Widely known, but hardly accepted, the movie was indeed, based off of a book. That book was called Heart of Darkness.

In the movie, Willard travels down a river from Vietnam to Cambodia to kill a man named Kurtz, an American soldier that makes a depravity of the native surroundings. He makes himself appear like god before the local natives, and makes him like a fatherly figure before his soldiers. In the book, A man named Marlow recounts the time when he made a trip down a river in the African Congo to meet a Belgian Ivory trader by the name of Kurtz.

In the book, Marlow is remembering and......


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