Apocalypse Now Redux Page #10

EXT. THE SKY - NEW VIEW - DAY

Moving behind an assault column of helicopters.

INT. COMMAND COPTER - DAY

Kilgore monitoring the transmission.

CLOSE VIEW ON WILLARD

watching the spectacle.

CLOSE VIEW ON KILGORE

calm and very effective. Seems almost like an astronaut.

Willard looks down at this incredible battle.

WILLARD'S POV - AERIAL VIEW - THE VILLAGE

The village under attack. The invincible cavalry charges

in, hurling all its fearful weaponry, blasting out the

Wagner.

INT. POV BEHIND PILOT - DAY

PILOT:

(to Kilgore)

We've spotted a large weapon down

below. We're gonna go down and

check it out.

The helicopter shakes as we SEE the smoke of the rocket

shoot ahead of us.

REVERSE ANGLE:

A Vietnamese house goes up in flames.

MEDIUM CLOSE UP - GUN SHIP

sweeping down, its mini-guns FIRING. V.C. scatter.

INT. COMMAND COPTER - DAY

KILGORE:

Outstanding, Red Team.

(to Pilot)

Get you a case of beer for that

one.

COPTER'S POV ON SQUARE - HIGH ANGLE

Watching Vietnamese loading ammunition into an old Citroën

car. The copter circles over them.

PILOT #1

We're over the village right now.

I think I see a vehicle down in

the courtyard. I'm gonna check it

out.

KILGORE:

Well done, Hawks. Well done.

Want some twenty-Mike-Mike-Vulcan

right along those tree-lines.

Ripple the sh*t out of them.

PILOT #2

Got a vehicle on the bridge, fifty

caliber on-board. He's moving

across to resupply weapon.

KILGORE:

Big Duke Six. Clear the area.

I'm coming down myself.

(to himself)

Don't these people ever give up?

VIEW - THE COMMAND COPTER

It circles the area. Gunships hit the Citroën that's trying

to cross the bridge. The car bursts into flame and the

ammunition is EXPLODED.

LANCE:

(to Kilgore)

Nice shoot, Bill!

The copter suddenly lurches over to the right. The ship

is jostled around badly. There are some flames and smoke

and it looks as though the copter has been seriously hit.

There is confusion and we realize that the bullets have

hit a box of flares which have gone off inside the copter.

KILGORE:

(to soldiers)

Un-ass that sh*t and get it out of

here! It's just a flare, it's

alright, it's just a flare.

Everybody all right? Lance, you

all right?

LANCE:

I'm fine!

EXT. VILLAGE - COPTERS LANDING - DAY

A small group of copters come down and land, kicking up

clouds of dust. Soldiers start to jump off, run for cover,

as shells hit the ground. All jump out except for one

YOUNG SOLDIER.

YOUNG SOLDIER:

I'm not going! I'm not going!

I'm not going!

Another soldier comes back, grabs him by the arm, and pulls

him out of the copter.

NEW VIEW - AMERICANS ON THE GROUND

proceed in driving to the V.C> from the village, firing

into houses. One soldier fires his rifle into a row of

storage jars in front of a house. They explode. A black

soldier so thrown by the blast.

SOLDIER (OVER RADIO)

We got some secondaries down there

in the plaza.

SOLDIER #2 (OVER RADIO)

Hold onto your positions.

SOLDIER (OVER RADIO)

Duke Six, Duke Six. We've got

wounded down there.

VIEW ON THE COURTYARD

Soldiers huddle around the severely wounded black G.I.,

who is screaming out. The RT man is frantically calling

for a medevac as two Vietnamese elders babble on for their

lives, explaining that they didn't know the booby trap was

near their house.

MEDIC:

Get a stretcher over here!

WOUNDED SOLDIER:

Please, God, help me!

MEDIC:

Let's give him some morphine.

SOLDIER (OVER RADIO)

Zero-three-seven-seven-four-two.

MEDIC:

Where's that duster?

INT. COMMAND COPTER - DAY

Kilgore looking out the door as he flies from the river

down over the courtyard.

KILGORE:

(into radio)

I want my wounded out of there and

in the hospital in fifteen minutes.

I want my men out.

COPTER'S POV OF COURTYARD

SOLDIER (OVER RADIO)

Somebody stand tight there with

Big Duke.

SOLDIER #2 (OVER RADIO)

This is Ten-Ten, we're going to be

in there and get out.

EXT. THE COURTYARD - DAY

As a medevac helicopter comes down landing by the smoke.

They carry the wounded G.I. into the helicopter.

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