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 …

…and we are slipping ever closer towards that awful darkness, depicted in Conrad’s novel.Bibliography Cahir, Linda C. "Narratological parallels in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now," Literature Film Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 3, 1992, pp. 181-187. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. Ed. Robert Kimbrough. 3rd ed. New York: Norton, 1988. Greiff, Louis K. "Soldier, sailor, surfer, chef: Conrad's ethics and the margins of Apocalypse Now," Literature Film Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 3, 1992, pp. 188-198.