I guess I hit the PANIC BUTTON on this one.
The most obvious, but I believe also most important, difference between the novel and movie was the change of setting. Heart of Darkness was set in the Congo during the imperialist colonial era. In Apocalypse Now, the story was moved to the Vietnam War. This change shows that the problems in Leopold's Congo can translate to any enterprise of conquer, in any place, for any reason, and with any people. Conquerers inevitably see those whom they conquer as different from them, and usually, therefore, less human than them. In the struggle for power, in the craziness of political conquer, participants can do insane things. A character like Kurtz seemed equally possible in both the Congo and Vietnam, and this shows he could pop up anywhere.
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