Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness

I watched Apocalypse Now before reading the last part of Heart of Darkness and I was able to some similarities and some differences. The most notable difference was that the first hour and a half of the movie was pure violence. It became hard to pay attention because of all the blood and gore. Also, another small difference was the way Kurtz looked. In the movie, while its clear he isnt sane, he doesnt seem unhealthy or sick. Maybe I was missing something, but in the book they seem to describe him as sickly and kind of scrawny. The first scene where we really meet Kurtz he's being carried out on a stretcher and I didn't see that side of him in the film. One scene that matched up perfectly was the skulls that Kurtz placed to intimidate people, which was seen in both the movie and book. Another difference is that the relationship between Kurtz and Marlow or captain willard in the movie is much more indirect and quiet. Right away in the book, Marlow threatens Kurtz, but in the movie I did not see this. The way the Kurtz's territory is in the movie was very similar to the description in the book. Another difference is that Captain Willard's mission is to kill Kurtz, while Marlow just has to find him. This expands the story in the book because Kurtz and Marlow develop a different bond on the steamer back home and Kurtz actually trusts Marlow with some papers. I thought it was really interesting how they kept small details from Heart of Darkness, like Kurtz saying, "the horror." While first watching the movie, it was hard to see how to two lined up because the beginning plots seem very different. In the movie, Willard is pretty much presented to us as crazy as the beginning, but I never got that from Marlow in the book. However, the biggest similarties are seen within the themes of the two, like imperialism.