APOCALYPSE NOW

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APOCALYPSE NOW
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• Vietnam

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Opening scenes (hotel)

• Apocalypse Now opens in Saigon in 1968. The army
  captain and special
• intelligence agent Benjamin Willard is in a hotel
  room, drank and
• desperate to get back into action.
• He was back from war and went home sad and sick
  of civilization.
• He divorced, and returned to Vietnam for a second
  tour, waiting for a new
• mission.

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At the headquarter to learn about the mission

• Two officers arrive to escort Willard to Nha
  Trang, where he meets with two
• military superiors and a CIA operative, who
  informs him about a dishonest
• colonel named Walter E. Kurtz.
• They ask Willard find and terminate Kurtz, who
  has become crazy and
• committed murder with the help of a native
  Montagnard army.
• Kurtz is now at an outpost in Cambodia with the
  Montagnards, who treat him as
• a god.

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Sailing the river and bomber strike

• To reach Kurtz, Willard joins the crew of a Navy
  river patrol boat (abbreviated PBR, as in Patrol
  Boat River), to get to the Nung River to
  Cambodia.
• The boats crew consists of four men Chief,
  Chef, Lance, and Clean. With Willard on board,
  the crew meets the Ninth Air Cavalry, who have to
  escort the PBR to the mouth of the river.
• The crew members find themselves in the middle of
  a B52 bomber strike. Willard encounters the
  cavalrys commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel
  Bill Kilgore, who assures Willard they will get
  safely to the river.
• At dawn, Kilgore orders an air attack on a
  Vietcong-controlled village, and one of the
  films most memorable sequences begins.
• From this point on, Willard and the crew embark
  on a journey consisting of a number of episodic
  encounters connected by Willards narration.

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In the jungle, after the bomb attack

• The first episode takes place in the jungle.
• Chefs desire of mangoes leads him and Willard to
  disembark and explore the
• jungle. Among tall trees and dense vegetation, a
  tiger attacks them. Chef and
• Willard run back to the boat.
• Chef has a nervous breakdown and darkens the
  crews mood.

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Disembarking at the US depot and playboy
performermance

• Sailing up the river, the crew meets a U.S. base
  supply depot. They disembark
• and collect fuel, cigarettes, and other supplies,
  then join the crowd of men in an
• amphitheatre that has been erected by the river.
• Soon, a helicopter arrives and drops three
  Playboy Playmates onto the stage to
• perform in a USO (United Service Organization)
  show. The Playmates perform
• to Flash Cadillacs song Suzie Q and excite the
  soldiers with seductive
• moves.
• When some of the soldiers run onto stage, the
  show is cut short and the
• Playmates are quickly evacuated.

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Mock war with boats

• The crew returns to the PBR, and the boat soon
  meets other patrol boats
• coming in the opposite direction, with whom they
  engage in mock warfare.
• As the crew continues on and tension rises up
  more frequently, Willard
• reviews Kurtzs dossier.
• Lance and Chef are continually under the
  influence of drugs, and Lance in
• particular hardly speaks and paints his face.

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Killing civilians in a boat for a puppy

• One day, Chief insists on stopping a small boat
  carrying several Vietnamese
• peasants and supplies.
• At Chiefs command, Chef boards the boat and
  searches it. Chief orders Chef
• to look inside a rusty yellow can that a peasant
  woman on the sampan was
• sitting on when Chef does, the woman makes a
  sudden move toward the can.
• Clean starts shooting at random, killing all the
  civilians on board except the
• woman. Once the shooting ends, Chef looks inside
  the can and finds only a
• small puppy.
• Noticing the woman is still alive, Chief orders
  Chef to bring her on board,
• saying the crew will take her to a friendly
  hospital nearby. Willard steps
• forward, points his gun at the womans chest, and
  fires, killing her so that his
• mission can proceed without a detour. The rest of
  the crew begins to see him in
• a different light.

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Bridge ouptost under fire letter about the
previous mission against Kurts

• Continuing upriver, the crew reaches an army
  outpost under fire for an
• American-held bridgethe last military outpost
  before the Cambodian
• border.
• Willard is unable to find a commanding officer
  onshore but is given a packet of
• mail for the boat.
• One of the letters in the packet informs Willard
  that the U.S. military previously
• sent another man on the same mission to retrieve
  Kurtz but that the man is now
• operating with Kurtz.
• As Clean listens to an audiotape letter from his
  mother, the PBR comes under
• a surprise attack by Vietcong, and Clean is
  killed.

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Another attack Chef is killed with a spear
reaching Kurtss camp (American photojournalist)

• The boat continues upriver and meet another
  surprise attack.
• Primitive natives onshore shoot a storm of arrows
  at the PBR.
• Chief is impaled with a spear and dies.
• The survivors at last reach Kurtzs camp, a
  macabre site in which countless
• dead bodies and severed heads around.
• A hyperactive American photojournalist who had
  joined Kurtz, greets the boat.

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At Kurts camp

• Willard and Lance disembark to find Kurtz,
  leaving Chef with instructions to call in an air
  strike if they are not back at the boat by a
  specified time.
• The natives under Kurtzs control drag Willard
  through the mud and agree he can talk to Kurtz,
  who imprisons Willard in a tiger cage.
• During the night, Kurtz throws Chefs cut head
  into Willards chest.
• Willard is freed the next day and given freedom
  to walk around Kurtzs area. He listens to
  Kurtzs story and theories for several days.
• In split scenes, Kurtzs natives perform a ritual
  sacrifice of a caribou, while the film intercuts
  with images of Willard emerging from the river
  and approaching Kurtzs quarters.

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Kurtz is slaughtered

• As the caribou is slaughtered,, Willard
  slaughters Kurtz with a large knive. Kurtzs last
  words are the horror, the horror. When Willard
  emerges, the natives acknowledge him as their new
  leader and god. He throws down his knife, finds
  Lance amidst the Montagnard, and returns to the
  boat. Willard shuts off the radio, and he and
  Lance leave the shore as rain begins to fall.
  Kurtzs last words are repeated in an echo as the
  film fades to black.

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