Comparing "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad and Its Film Adaptation "Apocalypse Now" by Francis Ford Coppola

All adaptations are not created equally. According to Absolute Shakespeare ., "sixty one film adaptations and twenty one TV adaptations alone have been made of Hamlet, the earliest being in 1907 and the latest in 2000" Many adaptations do not even come close to what an adaptation should be. The closer they come to portraying the original Authors' views, the better that adaptation is. Francis Ford Coppola adapted Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to the big screen and called it Apocalypse Now. He blended a conventional war film with the themes of Heart of Darkness, making it one of the greatest films of all time. Coppola incorporated all the characteristics of a great adaptation to make his adaptation of Heart of darkness a very effective adaptation as well as a great film.…