Vietnam was a war fought by the unwillingly, for the ungrateful, led by the unqualified. Apocalypse Now is Coppola's film based on Heart of Darkness, but set in the Vietnam jungle. The major theme in the novel is the examination of America's involvement, militarily, in Vietnam. However, like Conrad's novel, it also shows the potential inherent darkness in all human hearts. Coppola retains the basic structure of Conrad's novel for his film. As Marlow, in Heart of Darkness, travels up the Congo eventually to find Kurtz, similarly, Captain Willard the protagonist in Coppola's film travels up the Nung River to meet his Kurtz. Both the Company and the Army want their Kurtzes dead. Kurtz exposes his superior's real motives and methods and the Army does not want the truth to be known. Willard becomes more perceptive to the moral darkness around him: this causes him to question his real purpose, or goal in what he is doing. Eventually, after killing Kurtz, Willard realizes the Darkness that......

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Title: Apocalypse Now Review
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Approximate Pages: 6 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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