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Back to category: Movies Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. Joseph Conrad’s Film-ability Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness lends itself, in some ways, to be easily adapted to film, but in other ways makes it very difficult to put on a feature-length production. The concentrated descriptions of every element of this novel make it very easy to imagine it in a film. There are very intent descriptions of the characters, especially Marlow. He is described as having “sunken cheeks, a yellow complexion, a straight back†(66). This makes it very easy to picture him, and thus easy to cast the appropriate actor and apply the appropriate make-up and costuming. The scenery, in addition, also is described in detail, particularly the boat and the bodies of water. The Chapman lighthouse, in fact, is described as “a three-legged thing erect on a mud-flat†(67). These details would make it very easy for a... Posted by: Jessica Linton Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. |
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