"This is the end" "Beautiful friend" "This is the end" "My only friend" "The end" "Of our elaborate plans" "The end" "Of everything that stands" "The end" "No safety nor surprise" "The end" "I'll never look into your eyes" "Again" "Can you picture" "What will be" "So limitless and free" "Desperately in need" "Of some" "Stranger's hand" "In a" "Desperate land" "Lost in a Roman" "Wilderness of pain" "And all the children" "Are insane" "All the children" "Are insane" "Waiting for the summer rain" "Yeah" "Saigon." "Shit." "I'm still only in Saigon." "I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle." "it was worse." "and there'd be nothing." "I hardly said a word to my wife until I said yes to a divorce." "I wanted to be there." "all I could think of was getting back into the jungle." "I'm here a week now." "Waiting for a mission getting softer." "I get weaker." "he gets stronger." "the walls moved in a little tighter." "fuck Yeah yeah fuck Yeah baby fuck fuck come on" "all right" "Yeah yeah" "Yeah yeah" "Yeah" "Everyone gets everything he wants." "I wanted a mission they gave me one." "Brought it up to me like room service." "Captain Willard?" "Are you in there?" "I'm comin'." "It was a real choice mission." "I'd never want another." "Captain?" "What does it look like?" "505th Battalion?" "Affirmative." "173rd Airborne?" "Yeah." "gonna shut the door?" "We have orders to escort you to the airfield." "What are the charges?" "Sir?" "Captain." "You have orders to report to ComSec Intelligence at Nha Trang." "I see." "All right?" "for me?" "That's right." "Captain." "You still have a few hours to get cleaned up." "I'm not feeling too good." "Captain?" "come here and give me a hand." "We got a dead one." "Captain." "Let's take a shower." "Don't be an ass." "Get a hold of him good." "Captain." "In we go." "Captain." "I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet." "Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Kurtz." "It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory any more than being back in Saigon was an accident." "There is no way to tell his story without telling my own." "If his story is really a confession sir." "then so is mine." "sir." "Stand at ease." "General." "You want a cigarette?" "sir." "sir." "sir." "Not personally." "I have." "Your report specifies intelligence" "I" Corps." "sir." "Did you not work for the CIA in "I" Corps?" "sir." "Did you not assassinate a government tax collector 1968?" "Captain?" "I am unaware of any such activity or operation nor would I be disposed to discuss such an operation sir." "I thought we'd have a bite of lunch while we talk." "Captain." "I notice that you have a bad hand there." "You wounded?" "sir." "sir." "But you're feeling fit?" "You're ready for duty?" "sir." "and usually it's not bad." "and pass it around." "we might pass both ways." "I don't know how you feel about this shrimp but if you'll eat it you'll never have to prove your courage in any other way." "why don't I just take a piece here?" "you've heard of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz?" "I've heard the name." "Fifth Special Forces." "please?" "Captain." "King." "These were monitored out of Cambodia." "This has been verified as Col. Kurtz's voice." "I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor." "That's my dream." "That's my nightmare." "slithering along the edge of a straight razor" "and surviving." "0500 hours." "King." "But we must kill them." "We must incinerate them." "Pig after pig." "Cow after cow." "Village after village." "Army after army." "And they call me an assassin." "What do you call it when the assassins accuse the assassin?" "and we have to be merciful for those who lie." "Those nabobs." "I hate them." "I do hate them." "Walt Kurtz was one of the most outstanding officers this country's ever produced." "He was brilliant." "He was outstanding in every way." "a humanitarian man." "A man of wit and humour." "He joined the Special Forces." "And after that his methods" "became unsound." "Unsound." "Now he's crossed into Cambodia with this" "Montagnard army of his that worship the man like a god however ridiculous." "I have some other shocking news to tell you." "Col. Kurtz was about to be arrested for murder." "sir." "Murdered who?" "Kurtz had ordered the execution of some Vietnamese intelligence agents men he believed were double agents." "So he took matters into his own hands." "Willard things get confused out there." "the old morality and practical military necessity." "But out there with these natives it must be a temptation to be God." "Because there's a conflict in every human heart between the rational and the irrational between good and evil and good does not always triumph." "Sometimes the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature." "Every man has got a breaking point." "You and I have them." "Walt Kurtz has reached his." "he has gone insane." "sir." "Obviously insane." "Your mission is to proceed up the Nung River in a navy patrol boat pick up Col. Kurtz's path at Nu Mung Ba learn what you can along the way." "infiltrate his team by whatever means available and terminate the colonel's command." "Terminate the colonel?" "He's out there operating without any decent restraint totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct commanding troops." "Terminate with extreme prejudice." "that this mission does not exist nor will it ever exist." "How many people had I already killed?" "There were those six that I knew about for sure close enough to blow their last breath in my face." "But this time it was an American and an officer." "That wasn't supposed to make any difference to me but it did." "Shit." "Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500." "I took the mission." "What the hell else was I gonna do?" "But I really didn't know what I'd do when I found him." "Did you check the tank?" "Yeah." "I was being ferried down the coast in a navy PBR a type of plastic patrol boat a pretty common sight on the rivers." "They said it was a good way to pick up information and move and that was okay." "I needed the air and the time." "Only problem was I wouldn't be alone." "Captain." "The crew were mostly just kids rock and rollers with one foot in their graves." "How old are you?" "Seventeen." "The machinistthe one they called Chefwas from New Orleans." "He was wrapped too tight for Vietnam." "Probably wrapped too tight for New Orleans." "on the forward fifties was a famous surfer from the beaches south of L.A." "you wouldn't believe he'd ever fired a weapon in his life." "Clean Mr. Clean was from some South Bronx shithole and I think the light and the space of Vietnam really put the zap on his head." "the chief." "There's about two points where we can draw enough water to get into the Nung River." "They're both hot." "Belong to Charlie." "Don't worry about it." "Don't smoke." "I've pulled a few special ops in here." "About six months ago" "I took a man who was going up past the bridge at Do Lung." "He was regular army too." "Heard he shot himself in the head." "At first I thought they handed me the wrong dossier." "I couldn't believe they wanted this man dead." "top of his class." "about a thousand decorations." "et cetera." "and it really put the hook in me but I couldn't connect up that voice with this man." "he had an impressive career." "perfect." "He was being groomed for one of the top slots in the corporation anything." "he returned from a tour with Advisory Command in Vietnam and things started to slip." "His report to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Lyndon Johnson was restricted." "Seems they didn't dig what he had to tell them." "he made three requests for transfer and was finally accepted." "Airborne?" "He was 38 years old." "Why the fuck would he do that?" "joins Special Forces returns to Vietnam." "what's that?" "Arc light." "What's up?" "B52 strike." "Yeah?" "What's that?" "Arc light." "something terrible happens." "man." "There they are." "Concussion will suck the air out of your damn lungs." "Something terrible is gonna happen." "Smoke!" "Secondary burning." "Hueys over there." "Lots of Hueys." "Chief." "It was the AirCav." "First of the Ninth" "That's them." "our escorts to the mouth of the Nung River." "But they were supposed to be waiting for us another 30 kilometres ahead." "Air Mobile." "Those boys just couldn't stay put." "come on." "Get down." "Come on." "First of the Ninth was an old cavalry division that had cashed in its horses for choppers and gone tearassing around 'Nam looking for the shit." "They'd given Charlie a few surprises in their time here." "What they were mopping up now hadn't even happened yet an hour ago." "Just keeping running by." "We're for television." "Don't look at the camera." "Just keepGo on." "Keep going." "This is for television." "Don't look at the camera." "like you're fighting." "Don't look at the camera." "It's for television." "Just go through." "Just go by." "Keep on going." "Keep going." "Don't look at the camera." "Go on." "Keep going." "come on." "Go." "Right here." "Yes." "Over here." "Over here." "Where can I find the CO?" "That's the colonel comin' down!" "The CO's on that chopper." "bomb that tree line back about 100 yards!" "sir!" "Body cards!" "Sir?" "Bring my body cards!" "sir!" "I'm the Fourth Tank commander." "I got five tanks broken down." "Captain." "Captain Willard!" "II Corps." "I understand Nha Trang has briefed you on the requirements of my mission." "What mission?" "I haven't heard from Nha Trang." "your unit is supposed to escort us into the Nung!" "We'll see what we can do." "Colonel!" "Captain." "let's see what we have." "Let's see what we have." "four of diamonds eight of spades." "There isn't one worth a jack in the whole bunch." "Four of diamonds." "what's that?" "Death cards!" "What?" "Death cards!" "Death?" "Lets Charlie know who did this." "son." "We will not hurt or harm you." "Fire in the hole!" "Fire in the hole!" "This is an area that is controlled by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese." "Jim." "We are here to help you." "We are here to extend a welcome hand Come on." "to those who would like to return Everybody in?" "to the arms of the South Vietnamese government." "Get in." "Hurry up." "Move it out." "This is an area that is controlled by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese." "Hey!" "What's this?" "What is this?" "sir." "is that pot lid." "Yeah?" "What do you have to say?" "This soldier is dirty VC." "He wants water." "He can drink paddy water." "Get outta here!" "Give me that canteen." "He's VC!" "Any man that's brave enough to" "Get outta here!" "I'll kick your fuckin' ass!" "He killed a lot of our people!" "Any man brave enough to fight with his guts strapped on him can drink from my canteen." "the surfer." "Where?" "Here?" "You sure?" "Down there." "Yeah?" "Here." "Repeat." "We have a body count." "We have sailor?" "Gunner's Mate Third Class Johnson." "Gunner's Mate Third Class sir." "It's an honour to meet you." "I've admired your nose riding for years." "I like your cutback too." "I think you have the best cutback there is." "sir." "You can cut out the "sir" crap." "I'm Bill Kilgore." "I'm a goofy foot." "This guy with ya?" "Yeah." "I want you to meet some guys." "This is Mike from San Diego." "Far out." "hi." "Far out." "None of us are anywhere near your class though." "No way." "We do a lot of surfing around here." "I like to finish operations early." "Fly down to Yung Tau for the evening glass." "Been riding since you got here?" "No way." "I haven't surfed since I been here." "our Lord from Whom all good things come through Him in the unity of the Holy Spirit." "Almighty Father." "Let us bring our iniquities to the Father in the words our Saviour gave us." "hallowed be Thy name." "Thy kingdom come." "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." "Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." "but deliver us from evil." "Kilgore had had a pretty good day for himself." "They choppered in the Tbones and the beer and turned the LZ into a beach party." "The more they tried to make it just like home the more they made everybody miss it." "Make my meat rare rare but not cold." "I guess." "and you felt safe with him." "He was one of those guys that had that weird light around him." "You just knew he wasn't gonna get so much as a scratch here." "What happened to your mission?" "Nha Trang forget all about you?" "Airborne." "two places we can get into the river." "Yeah." "Here and here." "but these are the only two spots I'm sure of." "That village you're pointing at is kind of hairy." "sir?" "It's hairy." "Got some pretty heavy ordnance." "I lost a few recon ships in there now and again." "What's the name of that goddam village?" "Vin Drin" "Dop." "Dop or Lop?" "Damn gook names all sound the same." "you know anything about this point at Vin Drin Dop?" "That's a fantastic peak." "Peak?" "About six foot." "It's an outstanding peak." "It's got both the long right and left slide with a bowl section that's unbelievable." "It's just tube city." "Why didn't you tell me that before?" "A good peak." "There aren't any good peaks in this whole shitty country." "It's all goddam beach break." "It's really hairy in there." "That's where we lost McDonald." "They shot the hell out of us there." "That's Charlie's point." "we can go in there tomorrow at dawn." "There's always a good offshore breeze in the morning." "We may not be able to get the boat in." "The draught at the mouth of that river may be too shallow." "We'll pick your boat up and put it down like a baby where you want it." "son." "Air mobile!" "I can take that point and hold it as long as I like." "young Captain." "a sixfoot peak." "Take a gunship back to the division." "go with Mike and let him pick out a board for you." "the eightsix." "soldier?" "It's hairy in there." "It's Charlie's point." "Charlie don't surf!" "you ain't gonna believe this." "Look." "man!" "They're pickin' up the boat!" "sir!" "let 'er rip." "Let's go!" "I never have got used to a light board." "I can't get used to one." "it's a real drag." "You prefer a heavy or light board?" "Heavier." "Really?" "Yeah!" "I thought all the young guys like lighter boards." "You can't ride the nose on those." "Big Duke Six." "This is Eagle Thrust Seven." "We've got it spotted." "Duke Six to Eagle Thrust." "Put on heading twosevenzero." "Assume attack formation." "Big Duke." "We're going in." "we'll come in low out of the rising sun." "we'll put on the music." "I use Wagner." "Scares the hell out of the slopes." "My boys love it." "they're gonna play music!" "How come all you guys sit on your helmet?" "So we don't get our balls blown off." "Big Duke Six to Eagle Thrust." "Put on psy war op." "Make it loud." "This is a Romeo Fox Trot." "Shall we dance?" "sir!" "Come on!" "All right." "Fire." "We got a couple at that tree line." "We're taking fire from the holes." "Charlie!" "This should make everything burn." "We got a couple of people ahead here." "What's going down here?" "We got an automatic!" "Shoot to kill!" "Shoot to kill in the open!" "I spotted a large weapon down below." "We're gonna go down and check it out." "this is Fox Trot." "We're pullin'in." "What a shot." "Red Team." "Outstanding." "Get you a case of beer for that." "we're over the village right now." "I think I see a vehicle down in the courtyard." "I'm gonna check it out." "Hawks." "Well done." "Want some twenty Mike Mike Vulcan along those tree lines." "Ripple the shit out of 'em." "50 calibre on board." "He's moving across to resupply the weapon." "clear the area." "I'm coming down myself." "Don't these people ever give up?" "Bill." "all right!" "It's just a flare!" "It's a flare!" "Gotta get outta here!" "Unass that shit." "Get it outta here!" "Get it out." "It's just a flare." "It's all right." "Everybody all right?" "Lance?" "I'm fine!" "Get down!" "I'm not going!" "I'm not going!" "I'm not going." "We just got a secondary down there in the plaza." "Hold on to your position." "we've got wounded down there." "Get a stretcher over here!" "You're all right." "God!" "Help me!" "Give him some morphine." "My God!" "Oh!" "Seven four two!" "Where's that duster?" "I want my wounded out of there and in the hospital in 15 minutes." "I want my men out." "Somebody stay in there tight with Big Duke." "throw 'em on and get out." "She's got a grenade!" "She's got a grenade!" "The whole thing blew up." "She blew the shit Fucking savages." "she's a SAP." "I'm gonna get that dink bitch." "Johnny." "Roll that right skid right up her ass." "We gotta get some air in these trees." "It's goddam eatup with enemy down here." "I'm taking fire." "I'm taking hits all over." "Three o'clock!" "I'm drawing heavy fire!" "I'm hit!" "Mayday!" "Mayday!" "I'm goin'in." "My tail rotor's out." "I got control." "man." "right." "Look at that." "Breaks both ways." "Watch." "Watch." "Look!" "Good sixfoot swells!" "Lance." "Incoming!" "sir." "Maybe you ought to surf somewhere else." "Major?" "You're from goddam New Jersey." "Come here!" "Come here!" "sir?" "I wanna see how rideable that stuff is." "Go change." "It's still pretty hairy out there." "sir." "'cause you either surf or fight." "That clear?" "Get going." "I'll cover for 'em." "And bring a board for Lance." "We can't do shit until the boat gets here." "I'll bet you can't wait to get out there." "What?" "See how they break both ways?" "simultaneous." "What do you think?" "We ought to wait for the tide to come up." "Come here." "Look." "Incoming!" "The tide doesn't come in for six hours!" "You wanna wait here for six hours?" "Yo!" "Chief!" "Chief!" "quit hiding." "Come on!" "Let's go!" "Don't you think it's a little risky for R and R?" "it's safe to surf this beach!" "I'm not afraid to surf this place!" "I'll surf this fuckin' place." "soldier." "this is Big Duke Six." "Goddam it!" "I want that tree line bombed!" "stand by." "son!" "no!" "Let me take care of this." "Get that out of here!" "I'm sorry." "Come here now." "All right." "ma'am." "Sorry!" "Jimmy!" "Dove OneThree." "They need some napalm in the tree line." "Can you put it down there?" "OneThree." "We're fixin' to fuck with 'em." "What's the target?" "We're trying to suppress some mortar fire off the tree line down there." "Roger." "Here we come." "Good." "Give it all you got." "Bring in all your ships." "Put him in my chopper." "Get him back to the hospital." "you got to go with him." "Come on!" "Go!" "Go!" "Get it outta here!" "Tell my guys I want my board!" "this is Dove OneThree." "The jets are inbound now." "You got about 30 seconds to bomb station." "Get your people back and heads down." "This is gonna be a big one." "Don't worry." "son." "Don't you worry." "Give me those shorts." "a present from me and the boys." "I want to see you do your stuff in 'em out there." "You smell that?" "Do you smell that?" "What?" "son." "Nothing else in the world smells like that." "Come on." "Move it!" "Move it!" "Move it!" "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." "one time we had a hill bombed for 12 hours." "I walked up." "not one stinking dink body." "that gasoline smell." "The whole hill smelled like victory." "Someday this war's gonna end." "Lance!" "The wind!" "Huh?" "The wind!" "What?" "It's blowin' onshore!" "It's gonna blow this place out." "It's gonna ruin it!" "Not cool!" "It's gonna blow out!" "It's the goddam napalm!" "That's what's doin' it!" "Colonel." "I'm afraid that does it." "The kid's got a reputation." "You can't expect him to surf those sloppy waves." "Bill." "I couldn't surf that stuff." "I apologize." "It's not my fault." "The waves are gettin' blown out by the napalm." "Don't get me wrong" "It was the bombs causing a vortex with the wind." "I accept your apology." "But if you could hang around 20 minutes" "Bill." "Just 20 minutes!" "I'm an artist." "Keep walking." "guys." "One goes left and one goes right." "Lance." "You through surfing?" "Yeah!" "Wanna say goodbye to the colonel?" "No." "You sure?" "Yeah!" "Get the fuck outta here." "It's the napalm." "Just wait 20 minutes!" "Damn!" "Fuck!" "They've been lookin' for ya." "Don't leave without me!" "Where the fuck you goin'?" "Here!" "Incoming!" "That's the colonel's surfboard!" "get the fuck off me!" "It's mine!" "You fucking Airborne!" "man." "Come on." "Let's get high." "man." "Light up." "Someday this war's gonna end." "That would be just fine with the boys on the boat." "They weren't looking for anything more than a way home." "I'd been back there and I knew that it just didn't exist any more." "Buddha time." "Here." "you motherfuckers." "Yeah." "If that's how Kilgore fought the war" "I began to wonder what they really had against Kurtz." "It wasn't just insanity and murder." "There was enough of that to go around for everyone." "he never was hurtin' for pussy." "I'm not here." "I'm walking through the jungle gathering mangos." "I meet Raquel Welch." "I make a nice mango cream pudding." "kind of spread it around on us." "She's into mangos too." "She's like one limb above me." "Chief." "Yeah?" "Here comes that colonel guy again." "You know how hard it is to find a board you like." "I will not hurt or harm you." "I will not hurt or harm you." "Lance." "and I like it." "You know how hard it is to find a board you like." "He's a determined motherfucker!" "I will not hurt or harm you." "I will not hurt or harm you." "Lance." "and I like it." "You know how hard it is to find a board you like." "I will not hurt or harm you." "Jesus Christ." "man." "Do you think he would have shot us?" "He wouldn't have shot us on the beach but he would have shot us if he saw me taking his board." "Let's go surfin' now Everybody's learnin'how" "Let's get this board out of my turret." "Sucker." "How am I going to shoot him the next time he comes around?" "make some room back there for the board." "Lance." "I wonder if that's the same chopper." "He's probably got them all over the river with that recording." "Chief." "Lance." "He won't follow us too far." "What makes you say that?" "You think that big Cav colonel wants everyone upriver to know we stole his board?" "I didn't steal it!" "Captain?" "Hmm?" "Just how far up this river we goin'?" "Chief." "I can't tell ya." "We're goin' up pretty far." "Is it gonna be hairy?" "probably." "hairy?" "Fuck." "Maybe you'll get a chance to know what the fuck you are in some factory in Ohio." "okay?" "I'll take" "I'll go with him." "Chef?" "sir?" "How come they call you that?" "sir?" "Chef." "I'm a real chef." "I'm a saucier." "Saucier?" "I come from New Orleans." "a great saucier." "What's a saucier?" "You specialize in sauces." "Gotta be a mango tree here somewhere." "I was supposed to go to Paris study at the Escoffier school." "But then I got orders for my physical." "I joined the navy." "Heard they had better food." "Cook school that did it." "how's that?" "You don't wanna hear about that." "They lined us up in front of a hundred yards of prime rib." "lined up lookin' at it." "Magnificent meat." "Really!" "Beautifully marbled." "they're throwing the meat into these big cauldrons all of it boiling it!" "man." "It was turning grey." "I couldn't fucking believe that one." "but then they gave me" "What is it?" "Charlie?" "It's a tiger!" "man!" "It's a tiger!" "up front." "Get on your 60!" "Got it." "come on!" "come on!" "Let's hop in and go!" "Let's go!" "You were right." "Never get out of the boat." "Bring that 60 forward!" "Why never get out of the boat?" "I gotta remember!" "Never get out of the boat!" "Never get out of the boat!" "How many is it?" "A fuckin' tiger!" "What?" "A tiger?" "man!" "You can kiss my ass on the county square because I'm fuckin' buggin' out." "I didn't come here for this." "I don't fuckin' need it!" "I don't want it." "I didn't get out the goddam eighth grade for this kind of shit!" "All I wanted to do was fuckin' cook!" "man!" "bro?" "You're all right." "You're gonna be all right." "All right?" "It's gonna be all right?" "Never get out of the fuckin' boat." "tiger!" "Goodbye!" "Never get out of the boat." "Absolutely goddam right unless you were going all the way." "Kurtz got off the boat." "He split from the whole fuckin'programme." "How did that happen?" "What did he see here that first tour?" "Thirty eight fucking years old." "If you joined the Green Berets there was no way you'd ever get above colonel." "Kurtz knew what he was giving up." "The more I read and began to understand the more I admired him." "His family and friends couldn't understand it and they couldn't talk him out of it." "and he put up with a ton of shit." "they gave it to him." "The next youngest guy in his class was half his age." "They must have thought he was some farout old man humping it over that course." "I did it when I was 19." "It damn near wasted me." "A tough motherfucker." "He finished it." "He could have gone for general but he went for himself instead." "Dear Eva" "Today was really a new one." "Almost got eaten alive by a fuckin' tiger." "you know?" "up the river but he hasn't told us yet where we're taking him." "baby" "Thought you might have heard by now from Elwood." "October 1967." "On special assignment" "II Corps." "Kurtz staged Operation Archangel with combined local forces." "Rated a major success." "He received no official clearance." "He just thought it up and did it." "What balls." "They were gonna nail his ass to the floorboards for that one." "But after the press got a hold of it they promoted him to full colonel instead." "the bullshit piled up so fast in Vietnam." "You needed wings to stay above it." "This sure enough is a bizarre sight in the middle of this shit." "Expecting us this time?" "Damned if I know." "Hello." "Hello." "Jesus" "Wow." "It goes back up into the truck." "What?" "We gotta get all that stuff up." "Chef?" "I bet you we can score up here." "Lance." "Suzuki." "Yeah!" "Sukiyaki." "man." "This is something." "Please!" "This must be the guy." "Right over there." "Sergeant." "Sergeant." "PBR five man!" "Move!" "We don't have time." "One hour." "That's all." "What do you want?" "I'll get you Panama Red." "Sergeant?" "Destination?" "I don't have no destination." "I can't do a goddam thing without a destination." "Sarge?" "Sarge?" "I need a destination!" "I can't do a thing about it with a destination." "These guys are with me." "Destination's classified." "I carry priority papers from ComSec Intelligence." "it's a real big night." "Eight bucks for that Hey!" "All right." "Damn." "Just give him some fuel." "You got it." "Captain." "I'm really sorry about tonight." "It's really bad around here." "Just take this over to the man at the supply desk and you got it." "Would you guys like some seats some press box seats for the show?" "The show out here." "bunnies." "Playboy bunnies?" "You got it." "You gonna be here?" "on the house." "huh?" "How ya doin'out there?" "how ya doin'out there?" "Wanna say hello to you from all of us up here to all of you out there who work so goddam hard in Operation Brute Force!" "all you paratroopers out there!" "And the marines!" "And the sailors!" "We wanna let you know that we're proud of you!" "We know how tough and how hard it's been." "To prove it we're gonna give you entertainment you're gonna like." "Miss Sandra Beatty." "Miss Terri Teray!" "Yeah!" "Miss Carrie Foster!" "Yeah!" "Yo!" "Whoa!" "Susie Q" "Susie Q" "I love you Hello!" "Susie Q" "I like the way you walk" "I like the way you talk" "I like the way you walk" "I like the way you talk Susie Q" "Susie Q" "Susie Q" "I love you" "Susie Q" "I love you!" "Come on!" "What's the matter?" "baby!" "Grease my gun!" "baby!" "Come on!" "All right!" "You're cute." "I like you." "baby!" "I'm here!" "Yeah!" "You fucking bitch!" "Take it off!" "Take it off!" "lover!" "You want us to come over!" "I sure do!" "Sign my centrefold!" "Sign my centrefold!" "baby!" "Goddam!" "Start her up." "Hey!" "Get out of my way!" "Come on!" "Will you sign these?" "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "Hurry!" "So long!" "Charlie didn't get much USO." "He was dug in too deep or moving too fast." "His idea of great R and R was cold rice and a little rat meat." "He had only two ways home death or victory." "No wonder Kurtz put a weed up Command's ass." "The war was being run by a bunch of fourstar clowns who were gonna end up giving the whole circus away." "that was farfuckingout." "Chief." "man." "I even wrote to the cunt." "She didn't write me back." "man just like that cat in the delta." "you better believe it." "What cat?" "The one that went up for murder." "He was an army sergeant." "man." "Dig it." "man." "man!" "he was workin' ARVN patrols." "One of them cocky gook asshole lieutenants and shit" "One day the gook took his magazine and wouldn't give it back." "Give me my magazine back." "You shut up." "I have you courtmartialed." "Typical fuckin' ARVN." "Yeah!" "Then the gook starts to go too far." "Chef." "Take the wheel." "This dude started to stick pinholes in the lady's tits." "Take the wheel." "He started sticking pinholes and mutilating the centrefold." ""You better not do that to her." "You leave your shitty little gook hands off of that girl." "Don't do her like that." "Gook say "Fuck you" in Vietnamese." "Damn." "The sergeant couldn't handle it no more." "He just picked up his iron flipped it to rock and roll and" "Boom!" "Gave that little zero a long burst straight through the Playboy mag." "It blew his ass clean off of the dock." "There wasn't no more lieutenant that day." "That was it for his ass." "man." "They stuck his ass in the LBJ." "It's too bad he didn't get no medals or nothin'." "man." "They should have killed the fuck." "Should have given the fucker a Silver Star." "ain't it?" "Vietnam." "I'm Army Specialist Zack Johnson on AMVN." "also very humid." "We have an important message for all GI's who are living off base from the mayor of Saigon." "He'd like you to hang your laundry up indoors instead of on the windowsills." "The mayor wants you to keep Saigon beautiful." "Now here's another blast from the past going out to Big Sam 35th Infantry and dedicated by the fire team to their groovy CO." "Satisfaction. " All right!" "Clean!" "bubba!" "I can't get no" "Satisfaction" "Lance!" "I can't get no" "Satisfaction" "'Cause I try and I try bubba!" "And I try and I try" "I can't get no" "I can't get no" "Yeah!" "When I'm drivin'in my car" "Lance." "He's tellin'me more and more" "I see you is right on target." "About useless information" "Work out!" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "All right!" "Lance!" "That's what I say" "Commitment and Counterinsurgency by Col. Walter E. Kurtz." "As long as our officers and troops perform tours of duty limited to one year they will remain dilettantes in war and tourists in Vietnam." "rock and roll and all the other amenities remain the expected norm our conduct of the war will gain only impotence." "and better." "this war could be won with a fourth of our present force." "Shit." "Chicken time." "bro." "They're motherfucking'." "Who is that?" "Lazzaro?" "Don't chicken out." "Lazzaro!" "Come on!" "Fire on the canopy!" "I got it!" "Get outta there!" "Yeah!" "I got it!" "I got it!" "I got it!" "get down!" "man!" "What the fuck they think they're doin'?" "autumn 1968." "Kurtz's patrols in the highlands coming under frequent ambush." "The camp started falling apart." "November." "Kurtz orders assassination of three Vietnamese men and one woman." "Two of the men were colonels in the South Vietnamese army." "Enemy activity in his old sector dropped off to nothing." "Guess he must have hit the right four people." "He joined the Special Forces." "After that his" "The army tried one last time to bring him back into the fold." "methods If he'd pulled over it all would have been forgotten." "unsound." "But he kept going." "Now he's crossed into Cambodia He kept winning it his way." "with this Montagnard army of his And they called me in." "however ridiculous." "They lost him." "He was gone." "Nothing but rumours and random intelligence mostly from captured VC." "and they were scared of him." "He and his men were playing hit and run all the way into Cambodia." "I know what I'm doin'." "I'm goin' to the White House to have dinner with the president of the United States." "That's where I'm goin'." "put the cover on that." "Clean." "How long has that kid been on this boat?" "Seven months." "He's really specializing in busting my balls." "he thinks the same of you." "Chief?" "I don't think." "My orders say I'm not supposed to know where I'm taking this boat so I don't!" "wherever it is." "We're going upriver about 75 clicks above the Do Lung Bridge." "Captain." "That's classified." "but that's where I'm going." "You just get me close to my destination and I'll cut you and the crew loose." "Captain." "Dear Son" "I'm afraid that both you and your mother will have been worried at not hearing from me during the past weeks but my situation here has become a difficult one." "I have been officially accused of murder by the army." "The alleged victims were four Vietnamese double agents." "We spent months uncovering them and accumulating evidence." "we actedwe acted like soldiers." "The charges are unjustified." "and in the circumstances of this conflict quite completely insane." "there are many moments for compassion and tender action." "There are many moments for ruthless action what is often called ruthless but may in many circumstances be only clarity seeing clearly what there is to be done and doing it come in." ""directly" "Alpha." "Looking at it. " Request dustoff." "maybe four KIA 's." "Over." "I trust you to tell your mother what you choose about this letter." "I am unconcerned." "come in." "and so I am beyond caring." "do you read?" "Over." "You have all my faith." "Your loving father." "Jesus." "No wonder I couldn't get 'em on the radio." "What a dump." "Hi there!" "How ya doin'?" "Wow." "That's a nice little boat you got there." "Never seen one up here before." "We called in a request for Medevac." "You receive it?" "Medevac?" "No." "We passed a downed Huey with some KIA's." "On your way here?" "Yeah." "You goin' up this river?" "Way up." "Way upriver?" "Forget it." "Why?" "We want to send some people downriver." "Just forget it." "What the fuck was that?" "you'll be back." "Captain?" "Why don't you see what you can do with that engine?" "I'm gonna look around." "All right." "don't leave without me." "where's your CO?" "man." "you asshole!" "Asshole!" "where's the CO?" "He stepped on a land mine about two months ago." "He got blown to hell." "Who's in charge here?" "Charge?" "man." "I'm just the night man." "Just do what I'm told." "Shit." "I'm just a working girl." "fella?" "I'm telling you it's gonna jam." "You mark my words." "Keep it in that condition Get off my back!" "I'm telling you Lay off!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Come here!" "Is that your boat?" "Come on inside." "What do you want?" "Come on inside." "I want to talk to you." "Come on!" "Get out of the rain." "Get off me!" "come on." "Captain?" "I want you to meet some people." "I got your ass." "Your ass is shit." "your ass is shit!" "man." "you motherfucker!" "Chef." "You smartass." "guys." "I got you!" "I got your ass!" "fellas." "guys." "I just made a deal with the people from Hau Phat." "I negotiated two barrels of fuel for a couple of hours with the bunnies." "Whoa." "Whoa." "Captain!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "You shitting' me?" "I'm not." "Grab a couple of barrels and get up to that big tent." "Come on!" "Captain." "You're giving away our fuel for a playmate of the month?" "Chief." "baby!" "Warm 'em up!" "we get in a fire fight and run out of fuel" "I want you to tell me how she was." "Chief." "How about you?" "You got some mamas in there?" "Some what?" "Captain." "I'll stay with the boat." "Captain!" "Give me a hand." "I got a" "I got every one of your pictures." "the playmate's review the playmate of the year runoff." "I even got the calendar." "oiseau." "How come you got a bird?" "I used to be the bird girl at Busch Gardens." "Busch Gardens?" "I used to train birds there." "You are aren't you?" "Miss May." "Is it coming?" "Miss December has black hair." "It's over there." "He's not one of my regular birds." "baby." "Snack?" "Snatch a crack." "Come here." "Being playmate of the year is the loneliest experience I can imagine." "It's like You try to express your feelings to someone and show them your heart" "I want to hear about your bird act." "I'd love to hear about your bird act." "But would you mind just puttin' this please?" "And there's this glass wall between you this invisible glass." "They can see your mouth moving." "I used to train birds for at least two years" "That's beautiful." "at Busch Gardens." "This was cascading over your right shoulder." "This was open here." "But they can't hear what you're saying." "I used to train them to stand on their head and ride a bicycle" "Your right hand was" "Chef!" "man!" "Come on!" "Does he want to talk to you?" "Later." "Give me 15 minutes." "You can never really make them hear what you're trying to say." "You okay with kind of bending?" "That's it." "fuck off!" "Fifteen minutes!" "That's why I tried so desperately to show somebody that I had some talent." "Little baby macaws." "Have you ever seen a baby macaw?" "That's kind of open there." "would you?" "man!" "They make you do things you don't wanna do this picture here." "I started feeling repulsed with myself." "You were just kind of bending forward." "Your ass kind of out a bit." "I love training birds." "That's it." "That's it." "That's very That's it." "Voila." "You're beautiful." "I just want to" "I can't believe it." "J. Hicks." "I can't believe I'm really here." "Maybe I'm unfit to have a relationship innocent boy." "if it hadn't been for the Vietnam War" "Miss December." "Miss May." "I wish I wish I could find just one person" "that could share my point of view." "you kiss like a bird!" "God!" "Kiss me!" "Kiss me!" "Who is that?" "You're drivin' me crazy!" "Kiss me!" "I love birds!" "You finished yet?" "Oh!" "Fuck!" "Like a bird!" "Take me like a bird!" "baby!" "Cock it to me!" "Fly!" "I can fly like an eagle!" "Fly like an eagle!" "It drives me crazy!" "It drives me crazy!" "that was somebody's son." "there were things that they made me do that I didn't want to do." "Pull the ribbons between your legs." "I didn't want to do it." "But they said that was what was expected of me that that's what people wanted to see." "ma'am." "I didn't know it was a cherry." "fuckup." "I'd take you to New Orleans." "fuck you." "Introduce you to cherry boy." "You're a fuckin' dog!" "ya prick." "Chef." "You're the only fuckin' prick I see around here." "I'll play with my own." "Lay off!" "cherry boy?" "I said lay off!" "knock it off!" "Give him a break!" "What do you think I said?" "Then give your jaws a rest!" "This ain't the army." "You are a sailor!" "So get out of that frizzly army looking shirt and stop smoking that dope!" "You hear me?" "what's with all the green paint?" "Camouflage." "How's that?" "Chief." "man." "You got a job to do." "Sampan off the port bow." "Sampan off the port bow." "Let's take a look." "Lance." "get a 16." "get on that 60!" "Chief?" "Captain." "We're gonna take a routine check." "let's forget routine now and let 'em go." "Captain." "I'm gonna take a look." "My mission's got priority." "You wouldn't even be in this part of the river if it wasn't for me." "you're just on for the ride." "asshole." "All right." "Come on." "Let's bring it over." "Look in that forward hooch." "Bring the people out of there." "motherfucker!" "you too." "Chief." "Chief." "that's them." "That's them." "They're okay." "Board and search it." "It's just a fuckin' boat." "There ain't nothin' on it." "Board it and search it." "fuckin' bananas." "Ain't nothin' on it." "Chef?" "What's wrong?" "Search it." "There's the goat and some fish." "Chef!" "Fuckin' vegetables man!" "Get on it!" "All right!" "asshole!" "Goddam it!" "mangoes!" "What's in the rice bag?" "Fuckin' rice!" "Look in there!" "Some fuckin' fish!" "More coconuts." "Rice." "Here's rice." "What's in that vegetable basket?" "Get out of here!" "Come on!" "Check that vegetable basket!" "slope!" "There ain't nothin' in here!" "What's in the boxes?" "Look in that rusty can." "Nothing!" "Just fuckin' rice!" "There ain't nothin' on it!" "Check the yellow can!" "She was sittin' on it." "What's in it?" "Chef!" "Motherfuckers!" "Motherfuckers!" "Hold it!" "Come on!" "Let's kill them all." "Motherfucking cocksuckers mothers!" "Hold it!" "Hold it!" "Let's kill all the assholes!" "Shoot the shit outta all of'em." "Hold it!" "Why not?" "Jesus Christ." "Why the fuck not?" "Clean?" "I'm good." "Lance?" "Shit!" "Fuck!" "Shit!" "Chef!" "Look what she was hiding!" "You all right?" "See what she was runnin' for?" "It's a fuckin' puppy." "It's a fuckin' puppy." "Give me that dog!" "Give me that dog!" "No!" "You're not gonna get it!" "asshole!" "Fuck you!" "Fuckin' mango too!" "Chef You want that?" "She's moving behind you." "She's alive." "Check her out." "Chef!" "She's moving behind you." "Check her out!" "Clean!" "Goddam it!" "She's not dead." "She's wounded." "Give him a hand." "Just take it easy." "Take it easy!" "wait a minute." "Bring her up." "Is she breathing?" "She's hurt." "She's bleedin'." "Bring her on board." "We're taking her to an ARVN." "What are you talking about?" "We're taking her to some friendlies." "She's wounded." "She's not dead." "Get out of there." "The book says" "Fuck you." "Fuck 'im." "I told you not to stop." "Now let's go." "It was a way we had over here of living with ourselves." "We'd cut 'em in half with a machine gun and give 'em a Band Aid." "It was a lie." "And the more I saw of them the more I hated lies." "Those boys were never gonna look at me the same way again but I felt like I knew one or two things about Kurtz that weren't in the dossier." "Do Lung Bridge was the last army outpost on the Nung River." "there was only Kurtz." "What do you think?" "It's beautiful." "Huh?" "What's the matter with you?" "You're acting kind of weird." "you know that last tab of acid I was saving?" "I dropped it." "You dropped acid?" "Far out." "Friendly!" "Friendly!" "Friendly!" "Take me home!" "Goddam it!" "you wanna die?" "Don't keep goin'!" "You fuckin' police!" "Don't leave me!" "Fuck you!" "You'll get what you deserve!" "Is there a Captain Willard on board?" "Yeah." "Captain Willard?" "sir." "Get that light off me!" "sir." "Expected you here a little sooner." "This is mail for the boat." "Don't know how happy this makes me." "Why?" "if I can find a way." "Captain." "where you going?" "See if I can find some fuel and get some information." "Pick me up at the other side of the bridge." "Somebody go with him." "Chef." "I'll go." "I wanna go." "man." "Where can I find the CO?" "son of a bitch!" "Get down here!" "You still got a commanding officer here?" "Beverly Hills." "What?" "there's a concrete fucking bunker called Beverly Hills!" "Where the fuck else do you think it would be?" "Goddam it!" "You stepped in my face." "I thought you were dead." "damn it!" "didn't I?" "nigger?" "soldier?" "What the fuck ya think I'm shootin' at?" "sir." "There are gooks out there by the wire." "But I think I killed them all." "You ain't shot shit." "Listen." "shit." "He's trying to call his friends." "Send up a flare." "huh?" "stupid." "There's one still alive underneath them bodies." "Who's the commanding officer here?" "Ain't you?" "You think you so bad?" "nigger!" "I got something for you now!" "man." "Go get the Roach for me." "nigger!" "Go get the Roach." "Roach." "Roach." "man." "You hear 'em?" "Do you hear 'em?" "GI!" "We'll bust 'em!" "fuck you!" "GI!" "GI!" "man?" "GI!" "You need a flare?" "man." "He's real close." "GI!" "I kill you!" "GI!" "fuck you!" "GI!" "GI" "Motherfucker." "soldier." "Do you know who's in command here?" "Holy shit." "man." "Two guys just got blown off that bridge." "man." "You're gonna be okay." "man." "Mail." "Later on the mail." "Watch them trees." "but I picked up some ammo." "Let's move out." "Captain?" "There's no fucking CO here." "Let's just get goin'." "Captain?" "Chief." "Captain." "Still wanna go on?" "It's like this bridge." "Charlie blows it right back up again just so the generals can say the road's open." "Think about it." "Who cares?" "Just get us upriver!" "on the bow." "Clean." "Let's go!" "I got some too." "Whose package is that?" "Clean." "No shit?" "Wait a minute." "Is that it?" "That's it for you." "Lance." "there you go." "man." "All right." "I've been waitin' for this one." "I got another one." "I got a box from Eva." "Lance." "I'm fine." "I'm fine." "Sue and I went tripping in Disneyland." "Sue skinned her knee." "I wanna get back to Antoine's." "I remember the time we went up to" How could I fucking forget?" "Beautiful." "or could there?" "Let me know." "it's here." "It really is here." "There has been a new development regarding your mission which we must now communicate to you." "a man was ordered on a mission which was identical to yours." "We have reason to believe that he is now operating with Col. Kurtz." "Saigon was carrying him MIA for his family's sake but they assumed he was dead." "Then they intercepted a letter he tried to send to his wife." "Captain Richard Colby." "He was with Kurtz." "Disneyland." "this is better than Disneyland." "Charles Miller Manson ordered the slaughter of all in the home anyway as a symbol of protest." "ain't it?" "put away that smoke." "man." "get a good whiff." "Eva can't picture me in Vietnam." "She pictures me at home having a beer watching TV." "man." "hot potato." "I'm so glad you decided to join the navy." "you know." "000 fucking miles away trying to keep a relationship with my ass." "That's much more than I can say for some of your friends." "If this tape is any good" "I will have Dad and the family send you a tape of their own." "Fuckers!" "There!" "Over there!" "Motherfuckers!" "There." "Over there!" "he's hit." "Clean's hit." "Where'd the dog go?" "Lance!" "Lance!" "They got Clean." "Where's the dog?" "We gotta go back and get the dog." "Clean." "Hey." "bubba." "you fucker!" "bubba." "And so I'm hoping that pretty soonnot too soon but pretty soon I'll have a lot of grand children to love and spoil." "she'll be mad with me." "Even Aunt Jessie and Mama will come to celebrate your coming home." "Granny and Dad are trying to get enough money to get you a car but don't tell 'em because that's our secret." "do the right thing stay out of the way of the bullets and bring your heinie home all in one piece because we love you very much." "Mom." "Hold on." "Throw me the glasses." "take a 16 on the bow." "Chef." "Chef." "On the 60." "Fuck me." "Cover the captain." "Lance." "Cover the captain." "They're French." "They're French." "Pick up that weapon!" "Pick it up!" "Pick it up!" "Stand fast." "Captain." "you men." "Put down your weapons." "We lost one of our men." "We French always pay respect to the dead of our allies." "You're all welcome." "My name is Hubert DeMarais." "This is my family's plantation." "It has been such for 70 years." "And it will be such until we are all dead." "accept the flag of Tyrone Miller on behalf of a grateful nation." "the sauces." "can I speak with the chef?" "The chef speak only Vietnamese." "No kidding?" "He cooks like this and he can't even speak French?" "the chef's a slope." "This is Baudelaire." "It's a very cruel poem for children." "'cause life sometimes is very cruel." "As you can see." "Attack repels by the family." "Just for this war." "12." "11." "six?" "there were perhaps mistakes." "May I present Captain Willard." "He is of a paratroop regiment." "Madame Sarrault." "Captain." "Captain." "It was just a little story about Paris and people starving during the war." "and there was a silence and somebody say" "An angel is passing by." ""Let's eat it." "Oh." "How long can you possibly stay here?" "We stay forever." "no." "I mean why don't you go back home to France?" "Captain." "you're" "You don't understand our mentality the French officer mentality!" "we lose in Second World War." "but we lose." "Papa we lose." "we lose!" "But here we don't lose!" "we keep it." "We will never lose it." "Never!" "You Americans." "yeah your President Roosevelt didn't want the French people to stay in Indochina." "So you Americans implant the Vietminh." "What's he mean?" "that's true." "The Vietcong were invented by the Americans." "The Americans?" "And now you take the French place and the Vietminh fight you." "And what can you do?" "Nothing." "Absolutely nothing." "The Vietnamese are very intelligent." "You never know what they think." ""Come and give us their money." "give us guns." "We are all brothers." "They hate the Chinese!" "Maybe they hate the American less than the Russian and the Chinese." "if tomorrow the Vietnamese are Communists they will be Vietnamese Communists." "you American." "I don't know." "Maybe in the future we can make something with the Vietminh." "Don't you understand?" ""Go away." "Go away." "That's finish for all the white people in Indochina." "that's all the same." "Captain." "this is the truth." "An egg." "The white left but the yellow stays!" "I spoke to an American politician." "Look." "Vietnam." "the Philippines then maybe Europe." "Come on." "Why not Europe?" "Look what happened in Czechoslovakia recently." "Even before Second World War Americans knew exactly what was going on." "They don't want that shit to take over!" "LeFevre!" "All you white people are shit." "They are fighting fighting for freedom." "Freedom?" "Bullshit." "French bullshit." "American bullshit." "that serious." "All soldiers know they are already dead." "You know anything about Dien Bien Phu?" "you don't." "Not really." "Dien Bien Phu was an error." "A military mistake." "A mistake?" "A voluntary mistake!" "Voluntary!" "All the soldiers knew." "We knew we would be dead." "The generals and the colonels believe it's impossible for the Viets to get the cannon up there in the mountains." "But they do." "Then they wait for the rain to come." "no aeroplane can fly there." "And our paratroopers jump at 90 metres." "90 metres70 metres." "that's crazy." "No army in the world can do that." "And they only do that to be dead with their friends." "The French Army was sacrificed." "Sacrificed by the politicians safe at home." "They put the army in an impossible situation where they couldn't win." "The students are marching in Paris demonstrating." "They stab the soldiers in their back." "it wouldn't work." "A piece of paper would fall" "Union of French Women." "We are for the Viets." "Traitors!" "Communist traitors at home." "okay." "huh?" "No one care." "No one want from our mistakes?" "your strength you could win if you want to!" "You can win." "I'm sure we can make something here." "you know?" "I never do something wrong to the people here." "but the Communist at home have never been traitors." "Communist!" "Socialist!" "you know." "We can stay." "I know that we can stay." "We can." "we always helped the people." "We work with the people." "we are agreed." "when my grandfather and my uncle's father came here" "there was nothing nothing." "The Vietnamese were nothing." "So we worked hard and brought and then plant it here." "work with them make something something out of nothing." "Captain we want to stay here because it's oursit belongs to us." "It keeps our family together." "we fight for that." "you are fighting for the biggest nothing in history." "Captain." "I will see if your men need any help to repair your boat so that you can go on with your war." "Captain." "We have all lost much here." "Hubert his wife and two sons." "And I have lost a husband." "I understand." "You are tired of the war." "I can see it in your face." "It was the same in the eyes of the soldiers of our war." "We called them "Les Soldats Perdus" "The Lost Soldiers." "we can have some cognac." "I have to to see about my men and" "The war will be still here tomorrow." "I guess you're right." "I noticed you had no wine at dinner." "I don't drink wine." "but I don't want any now." "Thank you." "Well then I I must drink alone." "Will you go back after the war to America?" "Then you're like us your home is here." "Do you know why you can never step into the same river twice?" "Yeah. 'Cause it's always moving." "I used to prepare a pipe for my husband." "It was the morphine he took for the wounds he suffered in his heart." "my lost soldier." ""There are two of you." "Don't you see?" "One that kills and one that loves." "And he said to me" "I don't know whether I'm an animal or a god." "But you are both." "You want more?" "All that matters is that you're alive." "Captain." "That's the truth." "don't you see?" "One that kills and one that loves." "Can't see nothing." "We stopping'." "Chief." "Captain." "I'm stopping this boat." "I ain't riskin' no more lives." "goddam it." "You'll do what I say." "Chef?" "man?" "Chief." "Got a stump." "On the fifties." "He was close." "He was real close." "but I could feel him as if the boat were being sucked upriver and the water was flowing back into the jungle." "Whatever was going to happen it wasn't going to be the way they called it back in Nha Trang." "Arrows!" "Fire!" "open up!" "Fire!" "fire!" "it's okay." "Quit firing." "They're just little toy arrows." "Cut it out!" "Quiet!" "tell them to hold their fire!" "They're just little sticks." "They're just trying to scare us." "Quiet!" "and now you can't get us out do ya?" "Do ya?" "You son of a bitch!" "You bastard!" "get the wheel!" "You savages!" "Come and get it!" "You son of a bitches!" "A spear?" "My mission is to make it up into Cambodia." "There's a Green Beret colonel up there who's gone insane and I'm supposed to kill him." "That's fucking typical!" "Shit!" "Fuckin' Vietnam mission!" "I'm short and we gotta go up there so you can kill one of our own guys?" "man." "Shit!" "That's fuckin' crazy." "I thought you were going in to blow up a bridge or some fuckin' railroad tracks or somethin'." "wait." "Wait." "on the boat." "We'll go with you." "but on the boat." "Okay?" "Part of me was afraid of what I would find and what I would do when I got there." "I knew the risks or imagined I knew." "But the thing I felt the most much stronger than fear was the desire to confront him." "Just keep movin'." "keep your hands away from the guns." "It's all right!" "It's all right!" "It's all been approved!" "I ain't comin' in there!" "Them bastards attacked us!" "man." "Zap 'em with your siren." "There's mines over there and mines over there too." "I'll tell you." "that's a pretty one." "Move it right in towards me." "I'm an American." "Yanks." "Hi." "American." "American civilian." "It's all right." "And you got the cigarettes." "And that's what I've been dreaming about." "Who are you?" "Who are you?" "I'm a photojournalist." "I've covered the war since '64." "Cambodia and 'Nam." "man." "Who are all these people?" "they think you've come to to take him away." "And I hope that isn't true." "Take who away?" "Him!" "Col. Kurtz." "as far as you can see." "out here we're all his children." "Could we talk to Col. Kurtz?" "mac." "You don't talk to the colonel." "you listen to him." "The man's enlarged my mind." "He's a poet warrior in the classic sense." "sometimes he'll right?" "He'll just walk by you and he won't even notice you." "Then suddenly he'll grab you and he'll throw you in a corner and he'll say" "Do you know that 'if' is the middle word in 'life'?" "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming you." "If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you." "I'm a little man." "I'm a little man." "He's a great man." "I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas." "I mean Stay with the boat." "okay?" "I wanna get a picture." "He can be terrible and he can be mean and he can be right." "He's fighting the war." "He's a great man." "I mean you know." "I wish I had words." "the other day he wanted to kill me." "Something like that." "Why'd he want to kill you?" "Because I took his picture." "If you take my picture again" "I'm gonna kill you." "And he meant it." "just lay cool." "Lay cool." "Lay back." "Dig it." "He gets friendly again." "He really does." "But you don'tyou don't you don't judge the colonel." "You don't judge the colonel like an ordinary man." "watch it now." "These are Americans." "Americans!" "You can feel the vibe of this place." "hello." "Hello." "Could you hold up a minute?" "Colby." "The heads." "You're looking at the heads." "uhSometimes he goes too far." "He's the first one to admit it." "wrong!" "If you could have heard the man just two days ago" "God" "You were gonna call him crazy?" "Fuckin' A!" "I just wanna talk to him." "he's gone away." "He's gone away." "He disappeared out in the jungle with his people." "I'll wait for him." "He feels comfortable with his people." "He forgets himself with his people." "He forgets himself." "Captain?" "Maybe we should wait back at the boat." "Chef." "We'll go back to the boat for a while." "stay with Lance." "man." "He's worse than crazy." "He's evil!" "man!" "It's fuckin' pagan idolatry." "Look around you!" "he's loco." "Then you'll help me?" "I'll help you." "I'll do anything to get out of this joint." "Good boy." "We could blow all them assholes away." "they wouldn't even know it." "I ain't afraid of all them fuckin' skulls and altars and shit." "I used to think if I died in an evil place then my soul wouldn't be able to make it to Heaven." "fuck as long as it ain't here." "So what do you wanna do?" "I'll kill the fuck." "Chef." "check the place out." "okay?" "what do you want me to do?" "Here." "You take the radio and if I don't get back by 2200 hours you call in the air strike." "Air strike?" "The code is "Almighty coordinates zeroninertwosix foursevenonetwo." "It's all in there." "Zeroninertwosix foursevenonetwo." "Everything I saw told me that Kurtz had gone insane." "The place was full of bodies" "Cambodians." "it was because he wanted me that way." "It smelled like slow death in there malaria and nightmares." "all right." "Willard?" "sir." "Were you born there?" "sir." "Whereabouts?" "sir." "How far are you from the river?" "sir?" "About 200 miles." "I went down that river once when I was a kid." "There's a place in the river I can't remember" "Must've been a gardenia plantation or a flower plantation at one time." "It's all wild and overgrown now." "But for about for about five miles you'd think that heaven just fell on the earth in the form of gardenias." "Have you ever considered any real freedoms?" "Freedoms from the opinion of others?" "Even the opinions of yourself?" "Willard?" "Why they wanted to terminate my command?" "sir." "is it?" "What did they tell you?" "They told me that you had gone totally insane" "and that your methods were unsound." "Are my methods unsound?" "I don't see any method sir." "I expected someone like you." "What did you expect?" "Are you an assassin?" "I'm a soldier." "You're neither." "You're an errand boy sent by grocery clerks" "to collect the bill." "huh?" "Why would a nice guy like you wanna kill a genius?" "huh?" "Why?" "Do you know" "Do you know that the man the man really likes you?" "He likes you." "He really likes you." "But he's got something in mind for you." "Aren't you curious about that?" "I'm curious." "I'm very curious." "Are you curious?" "man." "man." "I know something that you don't know." "Jack." "The man is clear in his mind but his soul is mad." "yeah." "I think." "He hates all this." "He hates it." "But the man's" "all right?" "And a voice a voice" "He likes you 'cause you're still alive." "I'm not gonna help you." "man." "You're gonna help him." "huh?" "he dies." "What are they gonna say about him?" "What are they gonna say?" "He was a kind man?" "He was a wise man?" "He had plans?" "He had wisdom?" "man!" "Am I gonna be the one that's gonna set them straight?" "Look at me." "Wrong!" "You." "Almost eight hours." "I'm asleep." "I'm asleep and dreaming I'm on this shitty boat." "Fuck." "Has it been eight hours?" "Hello." "Almighty." "Almighty." "This is PBR Street Gang." "Radio check." "Over." "this is Almighty standing by." "Over." "Jesus!" "Christ!" "Time magazine." "The weekly newsmagazine." "1967." "Volume 90 number 12." "The War on the Horizon." "The American people may find it hard to believe that the US is winning the war in Vietnam." "Nevertheless one of the most exhaustive inquiries into the status of the conflict yet compiled offers considerable evidence that the weight of US power twoandahalf years after the big buildup began is beginning to make itself felt." "White House officials maintain the impact of that strength may bring the enemy to the point where he could simply be unable to continue fighting." "Is this familiar?" "Because Lyndon Johnson fears that the US public is in no mood to accept its optimistic conclusions he may never permit the report to be released in full." "he is sufficiently impressed with the findings and sufficiently anxious to make their conclusions known to permit experts who have been working on it to talk about it in general terms." "Time magazine." "Sir Robert Thompson who led the victory over Communist guerrillas in Malaya is now a RAND corporation consultant recently returned to Vietnam to sound out the situation for President Nixon." "He told the president last week that things felt much better and smelled much better over there." "soldier?" "You'll be free." "You'll be under guard." "Read these at your leisure." "Don't lose them." "Don't try to escape." "You'll be shot." "We can talk of these things later." "We are the hollow men." "We are the stuffed men leaning together at peace filled with straw." "our dried voices when we whisper together are quiet and meaningless as wind in dry grass or a rat's feet over broken glass in a dry cellar." "He's really out there." "Shape without form shade without colour paralysed force" "gesture without motion." "Do you know what the man's saying?" "Do you?" "This is dialectics." "It's very simple dialectics." "no fractions." "you know with fractions." "What are you gonna land on?" "Onequarter?" "Threeeighths?" "What are you gonna do when you go from here to Venus?" "okay." "there's only love and hate." "You either love somebody or you hate 'em." "Mutt!" "You mutt." "This is the way the fucking world is." "man!" "Not with a bang." "A whimper." "Jack." "I thought that the minute I looked at him" "I'd know what to do." "But it didn't happen." "I was in there with him for days." "Not under guard." "I was free." "But he knew I wasn't going anywhere." "He knew more about what I was going to do than I did." "If the generals back in Nha Trang could see what I saw would they still want me to kill him?" "probably." "And what would his people back home want if they ever learned just how far from them he'd really gone?" "He broke from them and then he broke from himself." "I'd never seen a man so broken up and ripped apart." "I've seen the horrors horrors that you've seen." "But you have no right to call me a murderer." "You have a right to kill me." "You have a right to do that." "But you have no right to judge me." "It's impossible for words to describe" "what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means." "Horror." "Horror has a face." "And you must make a friend of horror." "Horror and moral terror are your friends." "If they are not then they are enemies to be feared." "They are truly enemies." "I remember when I was with Special Forces." "Seems a thousand centuries ago." "We went into a camp to inoculate some children." "We'd left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio." "and he was crying." "He couldn't say." "We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm." "in a pile a pile of" "little arms." "And I remember" "III cried." "I wept like some grandmother." "I wanted to tear my teeth out." "I didn't know what I wanted to do." "And I want to remember it." "I never want to forget it." "I never want to forget." "And then I realized like I was shot like I was shot with a diamond a diamond bullet right through my forehead." "the genius of that." "The genius." "The will to do that." "pure." "And then I realized they were stronger than me because they could stand it." "These were not monsters." "These were men trained cadres." "These men who fought with their hearts who have children who are filled with love that they had the strength the strength" "to do that." "If I had ten divisions of those men then our troubles here would be over very quickly." "You have to have men who are moral" "and at the same time who are able to" "utilize their primordial instincts to kill without passion" "without judgment without judgment." "Because it's judgment that defeats us." "I worry that my son might not understand what I've tried to be." "Willard" "I would want someone to go to my home and tell my son everything." "Everything I did." "Everything you saw." "Because there's nothing that I detest more than the stench of lies." "you you will do this for me." "this is Almighty." "Over." "this is Almighty standing by." "Over." "this is Almighty standing by." "How do you copy?" "They were gonna make me a major for this and I wasn't even in their fuckin' army any more." "Everybody wanted me to do it." "Him most of all." "I felt like he was up there waiting for me to take the pain away." "He just wanted to go out like a soldier standing up." "ragassed renegade." "Even the jungle wanted him dead." "And that's who he really took his orders from anyway." "baby take a chance with us" "baby take a chance with us" "baby take a chance with us" "And meet me at the back of the blue bus tonight" "Blue bus tonight" "Blue bus tonight Blue yeah" "We train young men to drop fire on people but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck on their aeroplanes because it's obscene." "The horror." "The horror." "Calling PBRStreet Gang." "this is Almighty." "Do you read me?" "Over." "PBRStreet Gang?" "this is Almighty" "The horror." "The horror." "Subtitles ßy MühàmmáÐ Ü§mâñ"