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Film Story
During the Vietnam War in 1969, ArmySpecial Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz has gone insane and now commands his ownMontagnard troops, inside neutral Cambodia, as a demi-god. Colonel Lucas andGeneral Corman, increasingly concerned with Kurtz's vigilante operations,assign Army Captain and Studies and Observations Group veteran Benjamin L.Willard to terminate Kurtz with extreme prejudice.
Willard, initially ambivalent, joins a NavyPBR commanded by Chief, with crewmen Lance, "Chef", and "(Mr.)Clean" to head upriver. They rendezvous with surfing enthusiast LieutenantColonel Bill Kilgore, 1st Cavalry commander, to discuss going up the Nùng.Kilgore scoffs, but befriends Lance after discovering his surfing experienceand agrees to escort them through the Nùng's Viet Cong-held coastal mouth. Theysuccessfully raid at dawn, with Kilgore ordering a napalm sortie on the localcadres. Willard gathers his men to the PBR and journeys upriver.
Tension arises as Willard believes himselfin command of the PBR while Chief prioritizes other objectives over Willard's.Slowly making their way upriver, Willard reveals his mission partially to theChief to assuage his concerns about why his mission should precede. As nightfalls, the PBR reaches the American Do Lung Bridge outpost on the Nùng River.Willard and Lance enter seeking information for what is upriver. Unable to findthe commander, Willard orders the Chief to continue as an unseen enemy launchesa strike on the bridge.
The next day, Willard learns from dispatchthat another SOG operative, Captain Colby, who was sent on an earlier missionidentical to Willard's, had joined Kurtz.[a] Meanwhile, as the crew readletters from home, Lance activates a smoke grenade, attracting the attention ofa camouflaged enemy, and Mr. Clean is killed. Further upriver, Chief is impaledby a spear thrown by the natives and attempts to kill Willard by impaling him.Willard suffocates him and Lance buries Chief in the river. Willard reveals hismission to Chef but despite his anger towards the mission, he rejects Willard'soffer for him to continue alone and insists that they complete the missiontogether.
The PBR arrives at Kurtz's outpost and thesurviving crew are met by an American freelance photojournalist, who manicallypraises Kurtz's genius. As they wander through they come across anear-catatonic Colby, along with other US servicemen now in Kurtz's renegadearmy. Returning to the PBR, Willard later takes Lance with him, leaving Chefbehind with orders to call in an airstrike on Kurtz's compound if they do notreturn. Chef is later killed by Kurtz.
In the camp,Willard is subdued, bound, and brought before Kurtz in a darkened temple.Tortured and imprisoned for several days, Willard is released and given thefreedom of the compound. Kurtz lectures him on his theories of war, the humancondition, and civilization while praising the ruthlessness and dedication ofthe Viet Cong. Kurtz discusses his family, and asks that Willard tell his sonabout him after his death.
That night, as the Montagnards ceremoniallyslaughter a water buffalo, Willard stealthily enters Kurtz's chamber, as he ismaking a recording, and attacks him with a machete. Mortally wounded, Kurtz,whispers "...The horror... the horror..." and dies. All in thecompound see Willard departing, carrying a collection of Kurtz's writings, andbow down to him. Willard then leads Lance to the boat and the duo motor away.Kurtz's final words echo eerily as everything fades to black.
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