Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse "Tropic Thunder" parodies both "Hearts of Darkness" and "Apocalypse Now". The animated series "Eek! The Cat" also did a parody episode "Eekpocalypse Now!" Season 2, Episode 5A. Other documentaries about troubled movie productions: Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse is a 1991 American documentary film about the production of "Apocalypse Now," the 1979 Vietnam War epic directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The title is derived from the Joseph Conrad novella "Heart of Darkness", the source material for "Apocalypse Now". Using behind-the-scenes footage, and narrated by Eleanor Coppola, the documentary chronicles how production problems—among them
Heart of Darkness the Belgian soldier Léon Rom is the most important influence on the character. Aboard the "Nellie", anchored in the River Thames near Gravesend, England, Charles Marlow tells his fellow sailors about the events that led to his appointment as captain of a river steamboat for an ivory trading company. As a child, Marlow had been fascinated by "the blank spaces" on maps, particularly by the biggest, which by the time he had grown up was no longer blank but turned into "a place of darkness" (Conrad 10). Yet there remained a big river, "resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its