About Adapting Conrad’s Prose to Film

Joanna Skolik

About Adapting Conrad’s Prose to Film

Publication date: 2021

Yearbook of Conrad Studies, 2019, Vol. 14, pp. 93 - 107

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843941YC.19.005.13231

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On the example of Apocalypse Now by F. F. Coppola, Heart of Darkness by N. Roeg, The Duellists by R. Scott, The Shadow Line by A. Wajda, and Secret Sharer by P. Fudakowski, I would like to show that Joseph Conrad’s prose is a cinematic trap for film directors. This being so, I attempt to answer the question as to why it is so difficult to make a film of something that is so cinematic, when it is being read, and why film adaptations that closely follow Conrad’s narratives are less Conradian than films which are “merely” inspired by Conrad’s works.

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Conrad, film adaptation, semantic dominant, “The Secret Sharer, ” Apocalypse Now

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Information: Yearbook of Conrad Studies, 2019, Vol. 14, pp. 93 - 107

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/20843941YC.19.005.13231

Article type: Original article

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Joanna Skolik

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9218-7535

University of Opole

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