Comparing Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now :: Movie Film comparison compare contrast

Comparing Heart of immorality and apocalypse like a shot Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad and Apocalypse Now a movie directed by Francis Coppola ar two works that correspond one another but at the same time forge their own era in time and their creators own personal feelings and prejudices. Apocalypse Now was released in 1979 after two years in the making, as Coppolas modern interpretation to Joseph Conrads novel, Heart of Darkness (Harris). Conrads book is an excellent ideal of the advances writers and philosophers made in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This advance deals with civilized humanitys ability to be prepared for and know the unknown. (Johnson) Comparatively, Copollas movie does the same in the late 1970s. Apocalypse Now dares to breach the edges of soldier sanity in a stressful and protested Vietnam War. One of the many similarities between Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now is race. Joseph Conrad and Francis Coppola both use white hand s as the characters that have dominance (Bradley). The white men not only triumph their respective crews, but also the mickles native to the country the white men are visiting. The character Conrad uses, Marlow, and Coppola uses his character, Willard, both look at the natives as though white men are the civilized culture and the native people are the savage culture (Franklin). Both works also glint the theory that civilized white men that go into an uncivilized record become savage and do not return to white civilization. An poser of this that is in the book is Marlows appointment with the doctor. The doctor measures Marlows skull to compare its size at the present time to the size of his skull upon his return from the Congo. The thought is that a civilized mans skull is a different size than a savages skull. When Marlow asks the doctor how what the results of this test have been in the past, the doctor comments that there are none because no civilized person has ever returne d from the Congo. An example of this in the movie is when Willard faces his own personality of whether or not to complete his soldierlike mission of dash offing Kurtz or to abort it. If he completes the mission he is still civil, if he does not, the Vietnam jungle has conquered him. The first soldier that is sent to kill Kurtz did not kill Kurtz, but in fact became one of his followers.