To win the top award at the Cannes Film Festival and be nominated for eight awards at the Academy Awards is an outstanding feat. Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now did not only that, but won Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Sound. Coppola can not take all the credit for this enlightening movie. The film was loosely based off of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Though Conrad was not credited in Apocalypse Now, his novella has a great impact on Coppola's cinematic masterpiece.
Captain Benjamin Willard of Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness's Marlow are very much alike. Both are sent on a mission to find Kurtz, a well respected man. In the novella, Kurtz is an exceptional ivory trader and not only a musician, but a painter as well. Coppola's Kurtz is also revered for his military achievements. The two men are at the top of their games, appreciated by many, but both follow a dark, twisting path.
Each Kurtz abandons his duties and becomes mentally unstable. The......

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Title: Heart Of Darkness Vs. Apocalypse Now
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