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"APOCALYPSE NOW"
This is an auction for a color copy of the ENTIRE movie script from the movie.
These are autographs of:
MARLON BRANDO, MARTIN SHEEN, ROBERT DUVALL, DENNIS HOPPER, HARRISON FORD, LAURENCE FISHBURNE, SCOTT GLENN FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA!!
SUMMARY
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 Academy Award, Cannes Palme d'Or and Golden Globe winning adventure war film set during the Vietnam War. It tells the tale of Army Captain Benjamin L. Willard who is sent into the jungle to assassinate United States Army Special Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (played by Marlon Brando), who has gone AWOL and is believed to be insane. The film has been viewed as a journey into the darkness of the human psyche.
The film was directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script by Coppola, John Milius and Michael Herr, based on Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness (1899), as well as drawing elements from Herr's "Dispatches" (1977), and from Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972); Coppola himself has noted, "Aguirre, with its incredible imagery, was a very strong influence. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention it."
The film stars Martin Sheen as Captain Ben L. Willard (based on Marlow in Conrad's novella), Marlon Brando as Col. Kurtz, Dennis Hopper as a photojournalist, and Robert Duvall in an Oscar-nominated turn as the wild Lt. Colonel Bill Kilgore. The movie became notorious in the entertainment press due to its lengthy and troubled production. In the end, Coppola had to finance the film with his own money.
U.S. Army Captain Benjamin L. Willard has returned to Saigon; a seasoned veteran, he is deeply troubled and apparently no longer fit for civilian life. A group of intelligence officers approach him with a special mission: journey up the fictional Nung River into the remote Cambodian jungle to find Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, a former member of the United States Army Special Forces. It is 1969 and the war is at its height.
They state that Kurtz, once considered a model officer and future general, has allegedly gone insane and is commanding a legion of his own Montagnard troops deep inside the forest in neutral Cambodia. Their claims are supported by very disturbing radio broadcasts and/or recordings made by Kurtz himself. Willard is ordered to undertake a mission to find Kurtz and "terminate... with extreme prejudice."
Willard studies the intelligence files during the boat ride to the river entrance and learns that Kurtz, isolated in his compound, has assumed the role of a warlord and is worshipped by the natives and his own loyal men. Another officer, Colby, sent earlier to kill Kurtz, may have become one of his lieutenants.
Willard begins his trip up the Nung River on a PBR (Patrol Boat, Riverine), with an eclectic crew composed of obstinate and formal Chief Phillips, a Navy swiftboat commander; GM3 Lance B. Johnson, a tanned all-American California surfer; GM3 Tyrone, a.k.a. "Mr. Clean", a black 17-year-old from "some South Bronx shit-hole"; and the New Orleanian Engineman, Jay "Chef" Hicks, who Willard describes as "wrapped too tight for Vietnam... probably wrapped too tight for New Orleans."
The PBR arrives at a landing zone where Willard and the crew meet up with Lt. Colonel Bill Kilgore, the eccentric commander of the regional AirCav unit, following a massive and hectic mopping-up operation of a conquered enemy town. Kilgore, a keen surfer, befriends Johnson. Later, he learns from one of his men, Mike, that the beach down the coast which marks the opening to the river is perfect for surfing, a factor which persuades him to capture it. The problem is, his troops explain, it's "Charlie's point" and heavily fortified. Dismissing this complaint with the explanation that "Charlie don't surf!", Kilgore orders his men to saddle up in the morning so that the AirCav can capture the town and the beach. Riding high above the coast in a fleet of Hueys accompanied by H-6s, Kilgore launches an attack on the beach. The scene, famous for its use of Richard Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" theme, ends with the soldiers surfing the barely claimed beach amidst skirmishes between infantry and VC. After helicopters swoop over the village and demolish all visible signs of resistance, a giant napalm strike in the nearby jungle dramatically marks the climax of the battle. Kilgore exults to Willard in a famous speech in which he eulogises "I love the smell of napalm in the morning", which he says smells "like...victory."
The lighting and mood darken as the boat navigates upstream and Willard's silent obsession with Kurtz deepens. Incidents on the journey include a run-in with a tiger while Willard and Chef search for mangoes. The boat then moves up river and watches a USO show that goes out of control. Chief then spots a sampan and against Willard's advice they make the boat stop and inspect it. Chef hostily searches the sampan and one of the civilians makes a sudden movement causing Clean to open fire on the wooden boat, killing all the civilians save for one badly wounded survivor. An argument breaks out between Willard and Phillips over whether to take the survivor to someplace where she can receive medical attention. Willard ends the argument by shooting her, then calmly stating "I told you not to stop."
The boat moves up river to a surreal stop at the American outpost called the Do Long bridge, the last U.S. Army outpost on the river. The boat arrives during a North Vietnamese attack against the wood bridge under construction. Upon arrival Willard receives the last piece of the dossier from an officer named Lt. Carlson. Willard and Lance go ashore and they make their way through the trenches where they encounter many shellshocked soldiers who constantly scream and yell at him. Willard then asks a .50 caliber machine gunner who the commanding officer is; the gunner's reply is "Ain't you?." As they talk a North Vietnamese soldier who is lying under a pile of dead NVA bodies is screaming obscenities at them. The gunner finds his friend called "Roach" (Herb Rice) who is armed with a tiger striped M-79 grenade launcher. He fires and kills the NVA. Willard decides it's not worth it to look for the CO and he and Lance return to the PBR with no fuel but extra ammunition. As the boat departs the NVA launch an artillery strike on the bridge destroying it.
The next day the PBR is ambushed by Viet Cong hiding on a tree filled river side which results in Clean's death. Chief, who had a father-son relationship with Clean, becomes openly hostile to Willard. Things get worse when the boat passes under the tail of a downed B-52 Stratofortress implying that they are in territory held by the North Vietnamese army. As they approach the outskirts of Kurtz' camp, Montagnard villagers begin firing toy arrows at them. The crew opens fire until Chief is hit by a real spear and dies, but not before trying to force Willard onto the spearhead as well.
After arriving at Kurtz' outpost, Willard leaves Chef behind with orders to call in an air strike on the village if he does not return. They are met by a borderline-psychotic freelance photographer (Hopper) who explains Kurtz's greatness and philosophical skills to provoke his people into following him. Brought before Kurtz and held in captivity in a darkened temple, Willard’s constitution appears to weaken as Kurtz lectures him on his theories of war, humanity, and civilization. Kurtz explains his motives and philosophy in a famous and haunting monologue in which he praises the ruthlessness of the Vietcong.
While bound outside in the pouring rain, Willard is approached by Kurtz, who places the severed head of Chef in his lap. Coppola makes little explicit, but we come to believe that Willard and Kurtz develop an understanding nonetheless; Kurtz wishes to die at Willard's hands, and Willard, having subsequently granted Kurtz his wish, is offered the chance to succeed him in his warlord-demigod role. Juxtaposed with a ceremonial slaughtering of a water buffalo, Willard enters Kurtz's chamber during one of his message recordings, and kills him with a machete. This entire sequence is set to "The End" by The Doors, as is the sequence at the very beginning of the film. Lying bloody and dying on the ground, Kurtz whispers "The horror... the horror," a line taken directly from Conrad's novella. Willard walks through the now-silent crowd of natives and takes Johnson (who is now fully integrated into the native society) by the hand. He leads Johnson to the PBR, and floats away as Kurtz's final words echo in the wind as the screen fades to black.
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