Video Heart of Darkness

The most famous adaptation of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 movie Apocalypse Now, which translates the context of the narrative from the Congo into Vietnam and Cambodia.

The history begins...

The story opens with four men, apparently old friends, on a boat on the Thames. One man, Charlie Marlow, begins telling a story of a job he took as captain of a steamship in Africa. He describes how his "dear aunt" used many of her contacts to secure the job for him. When he arrives at the job, he encounters many men he dislikes, as they strike him as untrustworthy. They speak often of a man named Kurtz, who has quite a reputation in many areas of expertise. He is somewhat of a rogue ivory collector, as well as a skilled painter.Marlow learns that he is to travel up the river to retrieve Kurtz (if he is alive), who was evidently left alone in unfamiliar territory. However, Marlow's steamer needs extensive repairs, and he cannot leave until he receives rivets, which take a suspiciously long time to arrive. Marlow suspects the manager of deliberately delaying his trip to prevent Kurtz from stealing the manager's job.Marlow is finally able to leave on his journey with five other white men and a group of cannibals they have hired to run the steamer. He notes that the cannibals use a respectable amount of restraint in not eating the white men, as their only food source is a small amount of rotting hippo meat, and they far outnumber the white men, or "pilgrims" as Marlow refers to them.

Marlow

Marlow is a thirty-two-year-old sailor who has always lived at seaMarlow's chief qualities are his curiosity and skepticism. Never easily satisfied with others' seemingly innocent remarks, he liked telling stories he was more confortable at sea then on land.

First day in africa

I sailed for Africa in a French steamer. I watched the coast as we sailed along. I could see the beginnings of the jungle. we stopped. The soldiers and customs officers got off, and then we sailed away. We enter the jungle and they all were going with guns. When we arrive to the trading post, there were pieces of ruined machines lying on the ground. There was a group of african prisoners working there. They were tied together with chains, and they loocked weak and ill. while I was see this place I heard an explosion. The company was excavating near the river. Every few minutes there was another explosion. I walked on. I was see many black bodies lyin go on the ground, were going to die. It was horrible. I walked back to the company trading post and I was see a man, he told me about kurtz. Tomorrow I will go to see kurtz.

Second day in Africa

One evening I saw fire in the station. Into the station there are Calico, Cotton prints and beads. I walked in the darkness. After I saw two men. They talking. I was very surprised when I saw the manager and the other man, an agent. This last, invited me for drink on his room. I was very surprised when in the wall, of the room I saw a picture of a woman with a torch. I discovered who was the author of this picture “Mr. Kurtz”. The agent said me that I was of the team of the virtue. I´m very surprise with this words because he explained me why this man is very important.

Third day in Africa

When I went back on board the steamer I talked with the boilermaker. The boilermaker was a good worker. After the three months arrived Eldorado Expedition. This consisted of little groups of men who arrived at the station. They were ivory hunters and they work journey. There was always a white man in charge that gave orders to the native carriers while he was sitting on a donkey. They were like men on a pilgrimage. One of the pilgrims was the station manager's uncle and he was fat and dishonest. There were no rivets for our steamer. I think that Kurtz had come to Africa with some moral idea to give him strength and if his ideas were as strong as they had been at first