  Thus far in the movie Apocalypse Now , it is somewhat easy to see the similarities between the movie and the book Heart of Darkness , on which it is based.&nbsp; In the beginning, you meet the main character, Cap.
Willard, who in the book is represented as captain Marlow.&nbsp; Both of these characters are sent on basically the same mission,&nbsp;(Marlow is sent by a business Manager that employed Kurtz, and Cap.
Willard who is sent by the military to assassinate&nbsp;Kurtz)&nbsp;to go after the same person; Kurtz (a character in the book, as well as the movie), and it for very similar reasons.&nbsp; These similarities are key to the story, both in the book and the movie, because it establishes the long and dangerous&nbsp;journey that Marlow and&nbsp;Cap. Willard must go through in order to find&nbsp;Kurtz, who is hidden deep into the tretcherus jungles of&nbsp;Africa/Vietnam. 
