Appropriation: Heart of Darkness- Apocalypse Now

<Tab/>When Joseph Conrad set out to write his novella about the physical and psychological experiences traveling to the heart of the African continent in "Heart of Darkness", he never would have imagined that some eighty years latter, a young Francis Ford Coppola would set the cinematic world on fire. His appropriation of Conrad's text, whilst fundamentally similar, would take on a completely new form, as an expose into the madness of the Vietnam War. The texts share thematic, narrative and character based connections but differ greatly on setting, techniques and context. How…