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Synopsis: In Vietnam in 1970, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) takes a perilous and increasingly hallucinatory journey upriver to find and terminate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once-promising officer who has reportedly gone completely mad. In the company of a Navy patrol boat filled with street-smart kids, a surfing-obsessed Air Cavalry officer (Robert Duvall), and a crazed freelance photographer (Dennis Hopper), Willard travels further and further into the heart of darkness.
Genre: Drama, War
Production: United Artists
  Won 2 Oscars. Another 18 wins & 31 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.5
Metacritic:
94
Rotten Tomatoes:
96%
R
Year:
1979
147 min
Website
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CHARLIE:

... It's crazy -- sugar is up to

200 dollars a ton -- sugar !

LAWYER:

What about oil ?

CHARLIE:

Food, oil --look, let me show you

something. This is the economy of

the United States in two years --

He takes a newspaper, draws a circle.

CHARLIE:

(continuing)

This is West Germany.

(he draws another,

bigger circle)

This is Japan.

(another , bigger)

This is Italy.

(a dot)

This is Iran.

(a very big circle)

And this is Saudi Arabia... In

two years ?

(a gigantic circle)

Do you understand ?

ACCOUNTANT:

What's to prevent it ?

CHARLIE:

Maybe nothing. But I'll tell you,

I didn't build a two-billion-dollar

company in the last twenty years

by doing nothing. We can protect

our interests.

(pause, for a drink)

We are still the most powerful

nation in the world. Militarily.

He leans to his associates, in a half-whisper.

CHARLIE:

(continuing)

You know bodyguard; he was a

captain in Viet Nam. You talk to

him, except he won't talk. This

kind of man can kill you with his

pinky. A nice quiet fella, though.

The VIEW BEGINS TO PULL AWAY from this group.

CHARLIE:

(continuing)

Carries a attache case at all

times. You know what's in it ?

(another sip)

An Ingram Machine pistol.

Gradually, Charlie's voice softens as we MOVE AWAY, and a

NEW VOICE, the voice of someone thinking, COMES IN OVER it :

CHARLIEWILLARD (V.O.)

I don't tahe chances, andBullshit. You can kill

neither should this country.with the ridge of your

If we're strong, we shouldhand to the throat; you

protect our interests, andcan crush a skull with

we should have the respectyour knee... but you

of the world, even if itcan't kill anybody with

takes another war.your pinky.

The VIEW MOVE ALONG the guests of this small party :

Pictures being taken, some people are swimming. It is the

good life. Now WILLARD'S VOICE TRACK DOMINATES.

WILLARD (V.O.)

The attache case has been empty

for three years, but it makes him

safe to think there's a machine

pistol in it.

I don't like automatic weapons.

They jam.

I saw a friend of mine get

ripped open because he flicked his

M-16 to automatic, and it jammed.

How much money did the contractors

make on the M-16 ?

Our VIEW IS MOVING through the people on the boat; some

reading, flirting, drinking.

WILLARD (V.O.)

(continuing)

He likes to hear stories about Nam.

I tell him I can't; they're not

cleared. The truth is he wouldn't

understand.

We can now SEE A MAN with his BACK TO US, looking the

opposite way. An attache case resting near to him. We

MOVE CLOSER.

WILLARD (V.O.)

(continuing)

There's no way I can tell them...

what really happened over there.

I wouldn't've believed it if

someone'd told me.

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Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He was part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. more…

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