Apocalypse Now Vs Coppola

Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola is a film that revolves around the Vietnam War era. Apocalypse Now is based on Joseph Conrad’s 1898 novella Heart of Darkness. Whereas the novella revolves around the European traders and what they have done to the natives, the film revolves around the context of American Imperialism. The protagonists of the novella and the film, Marlow and Willard undergo a journey surrounded by madness, horror and moral darkness wanting the death of Colonel Kurtz. Though there are many differences in the novella and the film, both the protagonists fulfil their mission by killing Kurtz, a man whose tactics are insane “Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad." (Conrad,