Comparing Heart of Darkness of Joseph Conrad with the Movie "Apocalypse Now!" by Coppola

Appreciating The Equivalence
Ironically, although Coppola wanted to draw the greatness of the
film from the greatness of the novel, the section most like Heart of
Darkness is the weakest because he makes the rather romantic
assumption...(Hagen,301)
Francis Ford Coppola, the screenwriter of the film Apocalypse Now, made the film "loosely based on Joseph Conrad's harrowing short story, Heart of Darkness"(Wallace). However, the overview of the film is totally different from the context in the novella. The whole movie takes place during the Vietnam War in the year 1979 while 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. …