From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!tektronix!tekecs!waltt
Newsgroups: net.books
Title: Use of Joseph Conrad as a base for Apocalypse Now.
Article-I.D.: tekecs.1080
Posted: Tue May 10 10:25:09 1983
Received: Thu May 19 19:16:08 1983


  It might be interesting to note that the recent television screening
of Apocalypse Now bears an inescapable parallel to a short (50 pages)
story written by Joseph Conrad at the turn of the century.

  The story is called "Heart of Darkness" and deals with an ivory trader
named Kurtz (get the parallel) who has gone wacko and set up an empire
deep in the heart of Africa.  A man is sent up the river to either kill
him or bring him back.  In the end, Kurtz is killed. His last words are
"the horror! the horror!" (the same as Brando at the end of Apocalypse).

  After watching "Apocalypse", I closely watched the credits for some
acknowledgement to Conrad.  No luck.