The original lead (Harvey Keitel) was fired after a week, and his replacement, Martin Sheen, eventually suffered a heart attack on set.
Marlow visits the Company’s office in a city resembling Brussels, which he calls a "whited sepulchre"—beautiful on the outside but full of death and hypocrisy. This critiques the "civilizing mission" of European powers as a thin veil for brutal profit extraction. 7. Hearts of Darkness (1)
Both works argue that civilization provides the "restraint" needed to keep inner darkness at bay; without it, as seen with Kurtz, the human psyche can fracture. The original lead (Harvey Keitel) was fired after
Director Francis Ford Coppola famously stated, "My film is not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam". The first phases of production in the Philippines were plagued by "logistical horrors". Production Disasters: and his replacement