Apocalypse Now

Francis Ford Coppola · 1979 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

An army captain waiting in a Saigon hotel is given orders to take a patrol boat up a river into Cambodia and terminate a decorated colonel who has gone renegade with an army of his own. The trip upstream takes him past a surf-obsessed air cavalry raid, a USO show in the jungle, and a bridge nobody appears to command. Conrad's river relocated to the Vietnam War; a voyage upstream into the heart of human darkness.

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Lineage

• adapts ↑ Heart of Darkness
  Joseph Conrad · 1899 CE · Novel
• alludes to ↑ The Hollow Men
  T. S. Eliot · 1925 CE · Poem

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Closest analogues

• Heart of Darkness
  Joseph Conrad · 1899 CE · Novel

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• The Lord of the Rings
  J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954 CE · Novel

  41% · 11 shared
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• The Aeneid
  Virgil · 19 BCE · Poem

  36% · 9 shared
  WarWar & ViolenceVoyage and ReturnHero's JourneyCall to AdventureBelly of the WhaleAtonement with the FatherFireEpic
• The War of the Worlds
  H. G. Wells · 1898 CE · Novel

  36% · 9 shared
  WarWar & ViolenceNature vs CivilizationEverymanShadowThe RiverFirevs NatureEpic
• Star Wars: A New Hope
  George Lucas · 1977 CE · Film

  35% · 11 shared
  FilmGood vs EvilContemporaryShadowHero's JourneyCall to AdventureCrossing the ThresholdBelly of the WhaleLight & DarkEpicModern / American
• Lawrence of Arabia
  David Lean · 1962 CE · Film

  35% · 11 shared
  FilmWarWar & ViolenceThe SublimeContemporaryShadowVoyage and ReturnFirevs Selfvs NatureEpic