- Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness have many scenes that have surrealistic qualities that forcefully convey the war's/situation in Africa's incomprehensibility. The "moral darkness" (uses demonic doubles to show this) is evident through the criminal colonization, nationalism, class hatred, racism, and misogyny. Conrad and Coppola use both narration and their narrative structure to create a "textual performance" of moral implication that ultimately proves a point to the reader/viewer.
- The idea of winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese and "improving" the Africans vs. the cold killing of each. What were their true intentions? Both stories are trying to express the main idea of the imposition of one culture on top of another culture. Colonialism is a "movable horror" that is prone to repetition.
- The quest for adventure is not exactly what Marlow/Willard had hoped for.
" Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one. It was a real choice mission, and when it was over, I never wanted another." - Willard
- Jungle "fever" connection
Emotional and mental breakdowns - Heart of Darkness: Doctor
Apocalypse Now: Playboy Bunny scene (cowboys and Indians)
- Juxtapose British/America values to their current surroundings. The British/American ideals are absurd in Africa/Vietnam. (ex: Accountant and his ridiculously clean outfit, Kilgore's passion for surfing)
French man-of-war firing into the invisible and unresponsive jungle, the daily reconstruction of the Do Lung Bridge "Every night the bridge is rebuilt, an the Vietcong blow it up again."
- Both share main idea that colonial adventurism is "senseless brutality, waste, destructiveness of enterprises" with misguided and hypocritical goals and badly planned strategies.
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