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Originally Posted by Ryobi
I have that book. I've read it a couple times, and I feel the same way. It was different at 17 than it is at 37.
Have you seen the movie? "Apocalypse Now". I think it's the movie that has changed the book for me.
And now 'The End' by The Doors is stuck in my head! LOL.
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Originally Posted by Rufusboi
I haven't seen that film, but need to/want to. I forgot how heavy handed the symbolism is in Heart of Darkness. A very dark book but very true. I realized that it still remains popular because we can apply this book and its themes to a lot of what happens today.
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I feel the same as Ryobi--
Apocalypse Now helped change how I viewed
Heart of Darkness. Conrad's novella is, like Rufus says, pretty heavy handed with the symbolism; the film helped me put all that abstractness into more "real" terms ("The Horror!").
And, if you ever get the chance to see it, I encourage you to watch the mini-documentary by Francis Ford Coppola (and his Ex-wife Eleanor) that they made during the turbulent filming. Between mortgaging everything they owned to make the film, numerous health crises (Sheen almost had a heart attack), a typhoon, and difficulties with Brando, doubled filming time (and six hours of tape to edit)--the film truly was a labor of love.
The new editions of the film probably (and if it doesn't, it should) include the documentary
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