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2 unusual facts about Heart of Darkness


Steff Gruber

2009 Gruber started work on his new feature film "Fire, Fire, Desire!" - a love odyssey in Southeast Asia, which is inspired by Joseph Conrad's short novel Heart of Darkness.

The Actors' Gang

The Gang's latest production is an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, adapted and performed by Brian T. Finney and directed by Keythe Farley.


Alienist

It is used in Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness to describe the doctor in the Company headquarters in Belgium.

American Photojournalist

The photojournalist is the film's equivalent of the "harlequin" or Russian sailor in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

Behind the Singer Tower

It has been suggested that the story was influenced by Gustave Flaubert's Salammbô and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow

In his essays, Fawcett makes frequent references both to the short Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness, and to the movie Apocalypse Now.

College Roomies from Hell!!!

The phrase "The horror! The funky horror!" is one of the catchphrases in the comic – adapted from the last lines of Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now: "The horror... the horror...", which in turn was adapted from Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness.

Dammit Janet!

The line "I say you he dead" is also a reference to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

Downward to the Earth

It is a tale of the quest for transcendence (a frequent Silverberg theme) set on another planet, and includes references to Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad's classic tale of colonialism, including the name of Kurtz.

Great Belize Productions

It had a hand in the creation of several 1980s and 1990s motion pictures, including "Dogs of War" (1980), "The Mosquito Coast" (1986), "Caribe" (1987) and "Heart of Darkness" (1993).

Leon Rom

In King Leopold's Ghost, author Adam Hochschild speculates that Rom was the inspiration for the character of Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness.

The Amalgamation Polka

The New York Times has compared the story to the obvious Heart of Darkness, but has said the following as well: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a better bet (on the plot). Most of the people Liberty meets (and not just in the South) are what the Cheshire Cat would call 'mad,' from a shaggy hermit to the Georgia farmer who secedes from the Confederacy by reclaiming his little plot of land in the name of the Union."

The Big Nowhere

The epigraph for The Big Nowhere is a passage from a novel; "It was written that I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice- Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness."

This Is My Best

He began with an adaptation of Heart of Darkness, something he had previously adapted for The Mercury Theatre on the Air and The Campbell Playhouse, and which he had attempted to make as his first film in 1940 before turning his attention to Citizen Kane.


see also

ISSSC

International Society for the Suppression of Savage Customs, a fictional society in the novel Heart of Darkness intended to mock the Berlin Conference

Pere Ubu

Pere Ubu's debut single (their first four records were singles on their own "Hearthan" label) was "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" (inspired by the "Doolittle Raid" and named after a film depicting the raid), backed with "Heart of Darkness"; followed by "Final Solution" in 1976.

SS Patna

It's a fact that at least two groups White Fathers (second and fourth caravan from Zanzibar) have travelled on the real SS Patna from Algiers to Aden on their way to Zanzibar, on the way to the later Heart of Darkness.