Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now is a film based on Joseph Conrad’s book, Heart of Darkness. The movie was set in the jungles of Vietnam, instead of Africa like in the book. Just like Conrad’s version, the movie also showed that darkness prevails innately in human hearts. The word “apocalypse” in the title pertains to the doom that the darkness of Vietnam setting brings an apocalypse to the hearts of the soldiers deployed there. Coppola stuck with the basic framework of the novel for his film. The novel follows Marlow's expedition through the various Company stations and eventually was lead to Kurtz. On the other hand, Willard, an Army Captain received orders, gathered his men, and slowly moved along the course of the Nung River until he met a defector soldier, Walter Kurtz. Both the Company in the book and the Army in the film want their man, Kurtz dead, for abominating their strategies and approaches. …show more content…
They are both unsystematic group of insincere men, and their loyalties are questioned by the major characters. The army pretended to be greatly troubled upon knowing that Col. Kurtz has detached from their chain of command, fighting with his own methods. The same hypocrisy was displayed by the Company when they paraded themselves as a humanitarian institution, and light-bearers to Africa. While the Army charged Col. Kurtz with the murder to terminate his command, Willard, figured out that this was just a way out for his superiors. On the other hand, the Company’s Manager fakes deep concern over Kurtz's health in the book. The Army’s General also faked the same level of that Walter Kurtz has reached his breaking