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Subject: Re: Quote (Help!)
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Date: Thu, 9-May-85 03:23:08 EDT
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>Also notic the strong similarities to Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" 
>(i.e. Kurtz, "the horror, the horror", etc).   Someone said that in one
>of the scenes Kurtz had "Heart of Darkness" on his bookshelf.  I didn't
>catch it myself.
>
>The whole movie seems to be almost an update of "Heart of Darkness".
>The parallels are fascinating.
>
>                             -- Walt Tucker

"Apocalypse Now" is based, very very loosely, on "Heart of Darkness".  The
central plot element (a trip up a river in a primative country to confront
a government operative who has gone crazy and formed his own private empire)
is the same.  The theme is different, and the attempt to deal with the
Vietnam war was necessarily different from the Dutch African  colonies in
the late 19th century, but "Heart of Darkness" was acknowledged as the
inspiration all along.  I don't recollect if Conrad was listed in the credits,
but I doubt it.
-- 
        			Peter Reiher
        			reiher@ucla-cs.arpa
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