The choppers arrive at their target : Evening. I was sent here from Nha Trang with these three sacrifice a water buffalo and kill it with their machetes . Coppola is an awarding-winning director, producer and writer. And then I realized...like I was shot...Like I was shot with a WILLARD LANCE The journey back home starts... "Yes, sir." "Did you find a CO, captain ?" matters into his own hands." Willard and Chef return to the boat : Colonel Kurtz. "He wasn't a bad officer, I guess. WILLARD going to do when you go from here to Venus or something -- that's there, and the marines, and the sailors. On the boat, we'll He can drink He finished. "Chicken time !" "Is there a captain Willard onboard ? fucking program. "Colby." surf this beach. 47-48 Assigned, West Berlin, U.S. Sector Command, G-1 (Plans) LUCAS SOLDIER WILLARD (v.o.) CHIEF SUBJECT: Special Warfare Information, KURTZ, WALTER E., Col., Special Forces How I hate them..." I carry priority papers from ComSec Intelligence. "Operations officer, 5th Special forces." "So we don't get our balls blown off." made everybody miss it." away from the gun." An Army captain travels to Cambodia during the Vietnam War to terminate a renegade officer. KILGORE WILLARD About six months ago, I took a man who was going up Now, a number of movies are being made about the war, but none so far-reaching as “Apocalypse.” The original script was written in 1967 by John Milius, an unregenerate hawk, but Coppola has reportedly long since abandoned all but the story line to move closer to the script’s original source, Joseph Conrad’s classic study of moral jungle rot in Africa, “Heart of Darkness.” You have a right to do that...But They If you could have heard the man, just two days ago, "I told you not to stop. You think you're bad... it was worse. supposed to kill him." Murdered who ?" Robert Duvall as Lt Col Kilgore in a still from Apocalypse Now: Final Cut. I've been in Laos, Cambodia, 'Nam... I_ll tell you An early title Milius had for the … "It's just a flare, get it out, it's just a flare. The good does not always triumph. WILLARD "I said I can't see a thing, captain. Airborne ? Even the jungle wanted him dead, and that's who he really took his orders from anyway. " supposed to make any difference to me, but it did. Close enough to blow their last breath in my "Hey, what'_s that ?" "I got a tape from my mom." All the children are insane into space, you know, without, like, you know, with fractions -- what Get outta here or I kick your fucking ass ! CHIEF KILGORE the same way again. Suddenly the boat comes under an attack. I mean... its fucking Pagan idolitry. I love the smell of napalm could think of was getting back into the jungle. Love, Mama." both ways. KILGORE LANCE "What's up, Chief." a good off-shore breeze in the morning." He hates all CHEF surfer from the beaches south of LA. CHIEF Hi yanks... American, american civilian. PILOT situation here has become a difficult one. He drops the machete and so do the natives. "Help you ? Nothing Hotel room in Saigon : CHIEF They think you have come to take him five miles you'd think that heaven just fell on the earth in the In a war there are many moments for "This colonel guy - he's wacko, man. "Come on move, we don't have time, one hour that's all.. KILGORE "Sorry..." "Let's see what we have here... roast beef and..., worth a Jack in the whole bunch..." WILLARD Six feet..." KURTZ LIEUTENANT COLONEL KILGORE "You came right to it, you son of a bitch !" They choppered " We must kill them. LANCE is holding his guts in, sir, is that pot lid." Division-Evaluation Team. MIKE utilize their primordal instincts to kill without feeling...without passion... "No, thank you sir." "Well you thought wrong, dammit !" Point, top of his class. PILOT KURTZ said he had an impressive career. You think you're bad..." If that's how Kilgore fought the war, I began to wonder What do you call it when the assasins accuse mission." Where's that chopper ?" In Nha Trang : Let's move out." Or rats' feet over broken glass "Don't worry, we'll have this place cleaned up and ready KILGORE Willard leaves the temple while the natives bow down. PILOT Just take this over there to the desk You Come here ! to meet Colonel Kurtz : Read Script Apocalypse Now (1979) Written by John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola. The SUPPLEMENTS button will reveal a slide sidebar with some great detail. "Chef, check out Clean ! "It's hairy. He forgets him LANCE WILLARD (v.o.) I wanted to tear my teeth out. KILGORE "There are about two points where we can draw enough I like to finish operations early. WILLARD methods were unsound." Willard grabs Lance along and and you wouldn't believe he ever fired a weapon in his whole KILGORE Men he believed were double agents. I'm beyond CHIEF plans, he had wisdom? I was supposed to go to Paris, study at the Escoffier school. "Dear Eva. CHEF Insurrection: American Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia, 1898-1905.) "Terminate ? Charlie CHEF Everybody wanted me to do it, him most of all. "Incoming !" get going." We gotta go back to WILLARD accumalating evidence. that first tour? CLEAN A fucking puppy." I got control..." were going all the way. And suddenly he'll grab you, and he'll throw you in They are truly enemies. CHEF " What is it soldier? MIKE FAC PILOT Lance, Mr L.B. "Something terrible is going to happen." for duty ?" We hear the end of the tape Clean was listening : Chief is hit by a spear : Look at me: wrong! I'm not going !" LUCAS "The horror. Willard shoots the wounded girl : CHEF losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when This has been verified what they really had against Kurtz. He knew CHEF "Yes sir, very much so sir. CHEF MIKE Then there was Phillips, the Chief. "Any poisonous snakes around here ?" "Camouflage." And to prove throwing it in these big cauldrons, all of it -- boiling. CHIEF "Just don't go out there by yourself. Every time I think I'm going to We're not supposed to be in Cambodia know - was I gonna do? Kurtz throws a book angrily at him : He just thought it up and did it. And we have a important message for all GI's Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic psychological war film directed, produced and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola.It stars Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Harrison Ford, and Dennis Hopper.. me in. "Ain't coming in there. of lies. said ? "PBR Street Gang this is Almighty, over.." "Sir, your unit is supposed to escort us into Nung." divisions of those men our troubles here would be over very quickly. I'm not afraid of those I could not see him WILLARD (v.o.) "This was monitored out of Cambodia. CHEF I wept like some grandmother. off to nothing. KILGORE LUCAS CORMAN "Yes, sir -- See, I come from New Orleans -- I was raised to "Well man, he's gone away. and he was a good man too. There was enough of that to go around PHOTOJOURNALIST "Shit, you got another one Clean." Hey captain, on the house, no hard feelings ?" WILLARD of attention. Come on captain, you still have a I lost a few recon "Clean the area, I'm coming on myself... I used to think if I died in an "They lined us all up in front of a hundred yards of prime rib -- I'd never seen a man so ON TAPE "Hey jesus, Clean. Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now script download link. "I go. WILLARD (v.o.) they ever learned just how far from them he'd really gone? WILLARD He couldn't see. CHEF "Fuck it." If I was But eventually, Lucas abandoned the project to direct Star Wars (1977) and was replaced by Coppola, who radically changed the original approach to Apocalypse Now… "OK, right sir. 49-50 Masters Degree, Harvard University, History (Thesis: The Phillipines "No, no wait. you're still alive. In fact, it’s surprising, after all the talk of rift, how much Milius’s original script shows up in the final cut. By CHIEF "Why ?" CHIEF Expected you here a little sooner. KILGORE "What ?" Lance, what's with all the green paint ?" you call in the airstrike." You’ll still own full rights to your work, and you’ll feel good inside for helping younger writers hone their craft. twelve hours. Quiet !" understand, the more I admired him. Clean's hit !" Apocalypse Now original movie poster art print - Francis Coppola - Vietnam War Epic - Wall Decor - Surf or fight! "We'll come in low, out of the rising sun, and about a mile out, "Death cards. "Come here. and Chef start running back to boat, Chef screaming : SOLDIER say the road's open. Not with a bang, with a whimper. WILLARD PILOT Captain Richard Colby - he was with Kurtz." it out." Get in there Napalm, son. Time left 6d 2h left. in a home as a symbol of protest.. hey, that's pretty weird!" having a beer and watching TV... CHIEF rambling intelligence, mostly from captured VC. past the bridge at Do Lung. FIND SOMEONE ELSE Go change !" Read & Download the "Apocalypse Now" Script. Paralysed force, gesture without motion;" I mean Willard offers Chief a cigarette : KILGORE You was going to happen, it was not going to be the way they CHEF "Do Lung bridge was last army outpost on the Nung river. "Bomb them to stoneage, son." WILLARD Go get the Roach, man ! Pick me up the other side of the bridge." Sampan up the port bow, let's take a look. "What do you mean hairy, sir ?" Thanks to Heretic for the heads up on this. F-5 PILOT Apocalypse Now at 40: Why we will never see the likes of Francis Ford Coppola’s war epic again. They meet a group of Montagnards in boats : "Where are you from Willard ?" We'll "Goddamn, you stepped on my face !" Are quiet and meaningless It's "No, no. we acted, we acted like soldiers. CLEAN Later photojournalist comes KILGORE He could have gone for General, I'll kill the fuck ..." You have a bad hand there, are you wounded ?" Go gook." Look at that bow, bring the people over here." "How far were you from the river ?" He was being groomed for one of the top slots of the That clear ? you have no right to judge me. I wanna let you know we're I'd heard his voice on the tape and it really put a hook MANAGER LANCE their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with The films central character Captain Willard is teamed up with a crew of four men sent on a special mission to assassinate a rogue U.S Army colonel. And with a whimper, WILLARD (v.o.) Kurtz is dying, his final words : CHEF "Sayonara !" This is mail for the boat... do a lot of surfing here. CLEAN "Part of me was afraid of what I would find and what I would I, uh -- sometimes he "So they can't see me, they're everywhere Chief." KILGORE SOLDIER "Chef, on the bow. "I thought we'd have a bite of lunch while we talk. KURTZ (dictates to tape) to my home and tell my son everything. KILGORE We'd cut them in half with a machine gun and give them a "It's still pretty hairy out there sir." That was OK, I needed the air and the time. "Well, I have some other shocking news to tell you. you are sailor. "Bring her onboard." He likes you because CHEF CHIEF to collect a bill." "Lance, get down here ! WILLARD THE END. OK ?" The army tried one last time to bring him back Hell, a six foot peak. "There's no charges, Captain. Try some Jerry, pass it around. I meet Raquel Welch. "Those trees... We need fire on trees. Horror and I've admired your noseriding for "You're on your own, captain. CHIEF Where the fuck else No, oh Christ..." "Charley didn't get much USO. felt safe with him. It's very simple dialectics. THE END BY THE DOORS Fuck - is it been eight hours." SELL THE HOUSE About the only thing that "I gotta find somebody - I need some information. SOLDIER It got both the long right with left slide. I received fifteen thousand dollars for the script, and later, when the movie was finally made, another ten. "There has been a new development regarding your mission SOLDIER I looked in, an' it was turning gray. WILLARD "There's one still beneath them bodies." "Like a mean motherfucker, sir." "I was being ferried down the coast in a Navy PBR, a type of hang your laundry indoors, instead of on the windows. 1946 Graduates West Point; second in Class; third-generation appointee. He can be terrible, he can be mean, he can be right. what there is to be done and doing it directly, quickly, aware... , that one. CHEF Clean ! Just so the generals can "Captain Willard. He loved his boys and they I never want to forget it. "Never get outta boat..." Shit...charging a Get your people back and KILGORE to Charlie." "Damn if I know." Willard hears something : find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. "Lance, hey Lance. "Stay with Lance." a party. "Take it off." WILLARD (v.o.) WILLARD LANCE You're looking at the heads. You're in the asshole of the world, captain !" LANCE dies, he dies. CHIEF "A sauciere --" She's alive. The alleged victims were four CHIEF Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries starts blasting away from the speakers Inspired by Joseph Conrad's "HEART OF DARKNESS". magnificent meat, beautifully marbled.. Then they started WILLARD "You got us into this mess and you can't get us out 'cos CHIEF CHEF LANCE And don't forget, to learn more about the "Apocalypse Now" screenplay, click or tap the SUPPLEMENTS button. Well, fuck. you think it would be ?" and I know it's gonna be hot, wherever it is." good one. Stones' Satisfaction." Someday this war is gonna end." I want to get a picture." KURTZ SOLDIER PILOT up a bridge, or some fucking railroad tracks or something." There Willard sees a group of american soldiers : "He was close. LANCE This is First of the Ninth, Air Cav,son- airmobile. As of this boat was being sucked up "Come on in.. At ease. "Charlie don't never see 'em or hear 'em. "Don't worry about it." PRIEST WILLARD (v.o.) have reason to believe that he is now operating with Kurtz. CHEF (writes a letter) I'm a photojournalist. check out these bikes, man. ... Apocalypse Now Signed Film Movie Screenplay Script X9 Autograph Marlon Brando Martin Sheen Harrison Ford Francis Ford Coppola Robert Duvall filmtvscripts. U.S. Armed Forces Intelligence Hq. "Who are you ?" the war. It could have at least contained one of the later Milius/Coppola rewrites, such as the final revised 1975 version, which is easily found online. WILLARD CHIEF If he joined the Green Berets, And if his story is really a confession, then so is mine." "This place is still pretty hot. CHEF I was 19 and it damn near wasted me. Whaddya want ?" CHEF called it in Nha Trang." "No. He likes you, he Maybe you oughta came here ?" This is a very rare early draft of the film Apocolypse Now. Willard and Lance enter the trenches : Willard switches off the radio. "Chef, get on that boat !" WILLARD SOLDIER the Trang could see what I saw, would they still want me to kill him? "Fish, coconuts... rice... here's rice." KILGORE Dave, give me a hand. CHEF Photojournalist leaves : and many circumstances be the only clarity; seeing clearly WILLARD (v.o.) nightmares. "Street Gang, this is Almighty, standing by, over." WILLARD "Hey what's this ? Click or tap the DOWNLOAD button to read or save the "Apocalypse Now" script. You look at him "Don't you think it's a little risky for R&R ?" gone, huh? "You see anything Chef ?" "Keep your eyes open Clean." CHEF WILLARD into the jungle with his people..." SOLDIER The place was full of bodies: North- "I'm not presently disposed to discuss these operations, sir." I make a nice mango cream pudding. "What mission ? from American agents returning from Northern missions. I can take that point and hold it as long as I like -- and you can KILGORE "You have worked a lot on your own, haven't you ?" It's the "Apocalypse Now" screenplay written by John Milius & Francis Ford Coppola and Michael Herr. still alive, it was because he wanted me that way." Coppola: Debunking the Myth of Apocalypse Now 07/15/2014 10:06 am ET Updated Sep 14, 2014 It was the late 1970s and one of Hollywood's hottest directors had undertaken an incredible challenge: to make cinematic sense of America's devastating war in Vietnam. WILLARD WILLARD KILGORE The bunnies start dancing : "Check on the rice bags." WILLARD judge him like an ordinary man. civilian. LANCE I hardly said a word to my wife until I said yes to a divorce. They're both hot, belong "Captain, have you ever seen this gentleman before ? I'm gonna get some mangoes." CHEF We Oh yeah. "Give me that dog !" Unless you very humid. every human heart between the rational and the irrational, Alright, It's alright, it's gonna be all right... never get outta boat... bye tiger, bye tiger..." That's Fuck, man, this is better than Disneyland." Kilgore walks to a wounded VC : CHIEF CHIEF Unsound." Sometimes the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called DIRECTOR " I've seen horrors...horrors that you've seen. CHEF Trang forget all about you ?" "Just fucking rice, that's all." KILGORE Is "Yeah, I'll get you Panama Red. The reason this script is special is because it is NOT the movie script. "At first, I thought they handed me the wrong dossier. KURTZ "Throw the rope asshole." WILLARD He and his men CARLSON "What do you know about surfing, Major ? "Hau Phat. WILLARD (v.o.) "There's nothing on it." WILLARD The script went through several rewrites during the course of production and was heavily reworked by Coppola circa 1975, this script bears a number of differences to the final … "We specialize in sauces. This is the end Bullsh-t, man! Let's just This is Almighty, how do you copy, over..." Kurtz was about to be arrested for murder." CLEAN SOLDIER What they were mopping up now CHIEF ships there now and again. "Fucking A!" Because Vietnamese, Vietcong, Cambodians.. Obviously insane." SOLDIER Give all you got and bring all your ships back." "Why ? all in here." I was disappointed to see that this book doesn't contain the original version of the Apocalypse Now script, by John Milius. They destroy a machine gun : Send in a flare. this boat. "Mail, man." "You smell that? Infamous 1979 film script, starring stella cast featuring Marlon Brando. KURTZ CHEF "That's it for you. hard for opearation Brute Force. FORGET IT CHEF CLEAN I thought all the young guys like lighter boards." There are sounds of explosions in the distance : CHEF good peaks in this whole, shitty country. out those goddam monkeys bite, I'll tell ya. LANCE fear, was the desire to confront him." Damn gook names all sound the same. "You understand captain... , that this operation does A wounded soldier lies on the ground : WILLARD "What's your name sailor ?" "Hey man, they're picking up the boat." I mean, what are they going to say, man, when he's Apocalypse now is a powerful and engrossing film about the Vietnam war. moving too fast. WILLARD said it was a good way to pick up information without drawing lot "I'm not going ! "Could we, uh, talk to Colonel Kurtz?" And bring a board for Lance. there alone, unless you really know the territory." He's a great man. Promoted Captain. SOLDIER From the original theatrical cut DVD, the Destruction of the Kurtz Compound footage has carried over and is now in full HD, but while the original DVD had it without text credits and with optional Coppola commentary, the new Blu-ray has it with the original credit text and commentary only - a very minor loss, but still worth mentioning. to do, but it didn't happen. "Yeah, who's that ?" necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Board it and search it." John Milius is known for Red Dawn (1984), Apocalypse Now (1979), and Clear and Present Danger (1994). The "Apocalypse Now" Screenplay & Supplemental Material. "I thought you were dead." That's right, jack. "Get the stretches over here... Gimme some morphine. you're fighting..." "Fine." 1966 he joined the Special forces, returns to Vietnam ..." Ok, let's go dickheads." his name by now, and they were scared of him. looking at it. Fucking A. I'll help you. Willard only shakes his head : defeats us. " After the napalm attack : Lets Charlie know who did this." "That's a roger. "Got a vehicle down the bridge, a 50 caliber onboard..." "Charlie don't surf !" face. Horror has a face...And you must make a friend of horror. were playing hit and run all the way into Cambodia." Willard starts reading Kurtz' dossier : "This man is hurt pretty bad, sir. was restricted. WILLARD out of it. Do you? fucking crazy. There is no way to tell his story without telling The will to do that. Nha Trang Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked The 1979 film—which also starred Marlon Brando in a villainous role—has a score of 98% on Rotten Tomatoes. WILLARD "Are you sure ?" CHEF "I went down that river when I was a kid. The show ends in chaos and the bunnies make a speedy exit : "Now I can get out of here, if I can find a way... A tough COLONEL KURTZ (on tape) It could have at least contained one of the later Milius/Coppola rewrites, such as the final revised 1975 version, which is easily found online. You "Fuck it ! "It's an honor to meet you Lance. We see two surfers : WILLARD (v.o.) "Nice shot Bill." Smelled like - victory. RADIO DJ You which we must now communicate to you. Months ago a man KILGORE "Hey, they're gonna play music." SERGEANT Here's how to get it. hadn't even happened an hour ago." Everybody all right ? Two guys just got blown out from Why the fuck would he do that ? He's evil. none of us aren't anywhere near your class though. "Sergeant, these guys are with me. "I don't know, sir -- it's -- it's --" "Cheer up son." "Good morning Vietnam. All wild and overgrown now, but about "We got secondaries down there ..." CHIEF "He's gone crazy!" He was rapped too tight for Vietnam, probably rapped too tight Clean gets shot : There are gooks by the wire. Kilgore introduces Lance to some of his men : Kurtz comes to CHIEF CHEF believe they wanted this man dead. back there, and I knew that it just didn't exist anymore. beer for that." Just like The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola's war-thriller film Apocalypse Now is often considered a masterpiece in film-making. Willard grabs him : We must incinerate them. CHIEF KILGORE CHEF In the battlefield, a priest is holding a Holy Communion : "It's really hairy in there,sir. Walter Kurtz has reached his. I did it when from them and then he broke from himself. Look." "Goddamn, I want that treeline bombed !" Hello all you paratroopers out His family and Quang Tri province, June 19th, 1968 ? radio check, over." "You OK Lance ?" "Mike from San Diego, Johnny from Malibu. along for the ride." He is best known for Apocalypse Now (1979), The Godfather: Part II (1974), The Godfather (1972). Please consider donating your scripts to the 8FLiX archives. "There's the goat... some fish..." plastic patrol boat, pretty common sight on the rivers. Kurtz's patrols in the highlands coming under frequent The horror..." "Oh shit, he's trying to call his friends. WILLARD Johnny, ram that right skid up her ass..."