Appreciating The Equivalence Ironically, although Coppola wanted to draw the greatness of the film from the greatness of the novel, the section most like Heart of Darkness is the weakest because he makes the rather romantic assumption...(Hagen,301) Francis Ford Coppola, the screenwriter of the film Apocalypse Now, made the film "loosely based on Joseph Conrad's harrowing short story, Heart of Darkness"(Wallace). However, the overview of the film is totally different from the context …showed first 75 words of 1520 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1520 total…my river, my...' everything belonged to him"(49). His evilness is his greed inside of him that enables him to goes insane. Coppola paralleled both two works in many aspects, but, to distinguish from the book as he wished, he added his own interpretation into the end of the movie because "the ideas of what Kurtz represents are so big that when you try to get a handle on them they are almost undefinable"(Hagen, 300).