Essay on Compare and Contrast Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse...

Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, is the story of Captain Willards journey up the Nung River in Cambodia to kill a general, Kurtz, who has lost control of himself. It is set in the Vietnam War and is a very gritty and affecting film. Imagine my surprise when I learned that it was sort of based on Joseph Conrads famous novella, Heart of Darkness. Conrads book, the tale of the sailor Marlowes African adventure, is a study on the evils of colonialism. The two stories at first glance do not seem very similar, but after examining both, it is quite shocking the degree of similarity between the two. Many people have been able to draw comparisons to Joseph Conrads novel Heart of Darkness and Francis Ford Coppolas film†¦show more content†¦We know the attack is coming, but the pilgrims lack of organized action and their fright cause a sense of apprehension for the reader in the impending danger. Conrad also sets a fast pace to this section by his syntax. This section is full of sentences with lots of commas; they have a build to them and set a rhythm to the work. Sticks, little sticks, were flying about, thick; Â…whizzing before my nose, dropping below me, striking behind meÂ… The reader feels as if he is right in the moment as the twigs shook, swayed, and rustled, the arrows flew. The words seem to be just tumbling out of Marlowes mind, and this sentence structure helps us feel the urgency and quickness of this scene. In this scene, there is even a similarity of intent of the main characters, Marlowe and Willard. Conrad, in his specific detail in the passage, shows that Marlowe was not happy with the way the situation was being handled. Both Marlowe and Willard realized that the arrows couldnt really do much harm, since they looked as if they wouldnt kill a cat. They were both trying to get their men to stop their reflexive shooting into the brush since it wasnt helping any; it even got Marlowe in a fury. Coppola, in his film, manages to create that same apprehension and pace of the scene, but does it in a different way. Coppola use of a thick, almost impenetrable fog right up until almost the moment of attack, amplifies the tension of the scene. WE visuallyShow MoreRelatedA Renewed Sense Of Hopelessness : American Sentiment Following The Vietnam War1395 Words   |  6 PagesMy project is titled â€Å"A Renewed Sense of Hopelessness: American Sentiment Following the Vietnam War.† Since I’m interested in studying how film actively molded Americans’ interpretation of the Vietnam War, I picked Francis Ford Coppola’s film, Apocalypse Now, as my artifact. I thought that it would be a good choice because it’s one of the most well-known war films and it came out just a few years after the Vietnam War. 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