The Horse in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse

In the darkness of Joseph Conrad, the main character Mahlow only plays a sole role. It is to transport the ivory to the company. During his Africa trip over the river, he met a man called Kurts who thought he was broken, for his personal use, the company's ivory. Walter Kurtz, Distinguished Colonel: But in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse of Hell, the American military assassin Benjamin Willard was sent to destroy other American officers. Each protagonist has different intentions in either work, but there are similarities between these works.

Both Joseph Conrad and Francis Ford Coppola tried to draw the darkness of the individual. Coppola's movie "Contemporary Apocalypse" is compared with Conrad's "Dark Heart" in a contemporary way. However, by using a movie as a medium, Coppola makes it easier for audiences to come close to their own images. Since it occurs in real time of history, it creates to some extent the plot associated with the viewer so that viewers can visually see the changes experienced when he gave in to the inner darkness, It is easy.

Joseph Conrad's "Back of Darkness" was first published in 1902, the movie "Apocalypse of Hell", a model of Francis Ford Coppola. In the "back of the darkness", the company discovers Belgium and Congo main chain river boat, brought back the company's highest representative, assigns ivory that their behavior becomes unstable. Malo witnessed fear and cruelty that can not be imagined. Foden's second novel is Ladysmith (2000). This is the story of South African ladies' miss and its inhabitants, and how they survived after the Bohr army besieged for four months. Foden's great-grandfather, based in part on South African letters of British soldiers in the late nineteenth century

"Modern Apocalypse" by Francis Ford Coppola is a 1979 epic Vietnam war movie based on Joseph Conrad's novel "The Heart of Darkness". However, as the two differences are so large, the word "based" has doubts. The period in which these two stories lie is completely different within 70 years of each other and in settings and environments. But through the cruel and crazy role, the two stories that seem to convey plots and two stories are very similar. Coppola is deeply influenced by Conrad's dark heart.