A Thesis Statement

An “adaptation” is something that while having name changes, story changes, or even setting, still manages to echo themes of the work it is adapting. In this regard, Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now manages to be an adaptation that differs from Conrad’s Heart of Darkness with its transplantation from Darkest Africa to Vietnam, yet still manages to capture the sense of dread, darkness, and fear that such primitive places have over men. Like in Conrad’s seminal novel, the end result of the movie is an apocalypse where the mind, physical body, and souls of men are completely and utterly destroyed by their situations.

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