Apocalypse Now (1979) Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979) and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899) both undoubtedly chart the descent of European men into imperial spaces where conquest is framed as both inevitable and just as morally ambiguous. While Conrad embeds Marlow’s Congo journey in the rhetoric of civilization and trade, Coppola decides to … Continue reading Desire, Dispossession, and a Whole Crack Pot of Darkness: The Colonial Legacies Explained in Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness