Appreciating the Equivalence: Marlow and Willard (Comparison of "Apocalypse Now" to "Heart of Darkenss")

Francis Ford Coppola, the screenwriter of the moving-picture show Apocalypse Now, created the film base on Joseph Conrads novella, Heart of Darkness. However, the overview of the film is totally diverse from the context in the novel. The whole movie takes place during the Vietnam fight in the year 1979, trance the book sets off during the Belgian colonialism in early 1900s. Willard, equivalent to Marlow, kills Kurtz at the end while Marlow tries to save him. It was said that he wanted to show his take in interpretations of the book via his distinct story, however, in those contrasts, which we can easily cover from his distinct Apocalypse Now; there are a great many similarities. The success of his interpretations is clear. The equivalence portrayed by Coppola of Willard to Conrads character, Marlow, is significant in the sense that the differences presented in the film very build upon the similarities in an, at jump, non-direct fashion. Also, if we look through deeper meanings in every detail of the film as well as the novella, we can find that both the novella and the film call for the same symbols and perspectives at the same, specific parts of the works. We come to figure that both works unfold their stories chronologically similarly from the first part until the end.

The ideals behind Apocalypse Now became a metaphoric backdrop for the corruptive madness and folly of war itself in Vietnam for a generation of Americans. Francis Ford Coppola described his own pauperism in the making of the film to create a film experience that would gives its audience a sense of the horror, the madness, the sensuousness, and the moral predicament of the Vietnam war. The lyrical, slow-moving opening sequence is a combination of cinematography, symphony and hallucinatory images from the brutal and destructive...

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