{"id":2896759,"date":"2020-05-21T05:13:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T12:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/?p=2896759"},"modified":"2020-05-21T05:13:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T12:13:33","slug":"an-industry-of-adaptations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/an-industry-of-adaptations\/","title":{"rendered":"An Industry of Adaptations"},"content":{"rendered":"

An incredible amount of films are book-to-movie adaptations. Some of the highest grossing films, like Avengers: Endgame<\/em> and Gone with the Wind, <\/em>are sourced from other material. Apocalypse Now <\/em>is a twisted book-to-movie adaptation\u00a0<\/em>based on Joseph Conrad\u2019s novel Heart of Darkness. <\/em>Both works follow a man travelling into a haunted realm with the goal of finding the mysterious Kurtz, who integrated himself with a primitive civilization.<\/p>\n

Coppola and Conrad<\/h2>\n

Francis Ford Coppola is careful doing Heart of Darkness <\/em>justice by keeping its core principles in his film. For instance, as Marlow travels farther down the river in the novel, his sanity slips further away.\u00a0Captain Willard in\u00a0Apocalypse Now<\/em> experiences\u00a0the same horrors but associated with the Vietnam War. Before he even makes it to Kurtz, he is a different man. Coppola uses innovation in cinematography, direction, and sound to build a sense of dread and urgency. Conrad\u2019s diction throughout the novel conveys the same feelings, leaving the reader exposed to also tumble into the devolution the protagonist experiences. Coppola\u2019s plentiful action and Conrad\u2019s narration are both highly effective in producing the raw emotion of Marlow and Willard.<\/p>\n