Apocalypse Now Redux Page #18

The band starts its rock 'n' roll amp, playing the Creedence

Clearwater Revival rendition of "Suzy Q".

AGENT:

Miss August, Miss Sandra Beatty!

Miss Nay, Miss Terri Tersay! And

the Playmate of the year, Miss

Carrie Foster!

Two very beautiful PLAYMATES in exotic, brief costumes

come out of the helicopter. They are TERRI and SANDRA,

and they start swaying to the music.

SANDRA:

Hello, out there!

The two playmates jump down and dance to the front of the

stage. The G.I.s go crazy and the girls dance their erotic

dance. In the meantime. The two Green Berets at the

helicopter help out the PLAYMATE OF THE YEAR, CARRIE FOSTER.

The Berets carry the Playmate out on their rifles to the

center of the stage, and put here down. She dances forward

and joins the other two girls and the front. Carrie is

dressed in a Western outfit. They all dance to "Suzy Q".

VIEW OF THE CROWD

Appropriately, they go wild.

MARINE:

I'm here, baby! I'm here!

LANCE:

(to Terri)

You f***ing b*tch!

MEDIUM CLOSE SHOT - THE AGENT

Looking at little worried.

ANGLE ON WILLARD AND THE CHIEF

watching the spectacle. Willard takes a drink from the

bottle that was given to him by the supply sergeant.

HIS POV:

The three Playmates going through all their gyrations.

MEDIUM CLOSE SHOT - WILLARD

Reacting, shaking his head. Chef, Lance, and Clean all

think it's fantastic.

VIEW ON THE CROWD

Audience continues to react as the three Playmates sway

and hump. Fights are breaking out. Some of the G.I.s

pull out centerfolds of the three girls from under their

uniforms.

MARINE:

Sign my centerfold!

He leaps madly, climbing up on the stage. Other guys start

to follow him. The M.P.s try to stop them but to no avail.

Before you know it, a mba is storming the stage.

VIEW ON AGENT:

Knows the show is over.

AGENT:

(to Pilot)

Start her up.

(to M.P.s)

Get the girls! Let's go!

(to crowd)

So long!

The Playmates are helped back into the helicopter. The

rotors whine and the Huey lifts off just as the first of

the enthusiast mob reaches it. The agent sets off a smoke

bomb to disperse the crowd. Some guys are even hanging

onto the skids of the helicopter. They finally let go and

fall into the water below, as the helicopter flies away.

WILLARD (V.O.)

Charlie didn't get much U.S.O. He

was dug in too deep or moving too

fast. His idea of great R and R

was cold rice, and a little rat

meat. He had only two ways home-

death, or victory.

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. HAU PHAT - DAY

As the PBR pulls away from the Hau Phat area, Willard looks

back at the clean-up operations, a helicopter hovers over

the littered area, shirtless men sweep and mop up the stage,

burn trash; others dismantle the floating lights.

WILLARD (V.O.)

No wonder Kurtz put a weed up

Command's ass. The war was being

run by a bunch of four-star clowns,

who were gonna end up giving the

whole circus away.

EXT. PBR - DAY

Chief is steering the boat. Chef is looking at a Playboy

magazine centerfold of Terri.

CHEF:

You know, man, that was far f***ing

out. I collected every picture of

her since she was Miss December.

(showing Clean the

centerfold)

Hey, Clean, look at that. She was

here, man! I even wrote to the

c*nt. She didn't write me back.

CLEAN:

You can get really hung up on these

broads, like that cat in the delta.

CHEF:

Yeah. What cat?

As Clean talks, Chef tears the centerfold out of his

Playboy, then kneels down by the bulkhead in back of the

wheel. He tapes the centerfold onto the bulkhead.

CLEAN:

The one that went up for murder?

He was an army Sergeant. This

cat, he really dug his Playboy,

man.

As he continues, Lance moves to the back of the boat and

starts unwrapping the plastic from his new water skis.

CLEAN:

I mean, this cat, when the thing

arrived, he was there to meet it,

man!

CHEF:

(indicating photo)

Look at these beautiful f***ing

jugs, man!

CLEAN:

Anyway, he was working ARVN patrols,

had one of them cocky gook a**hole

lieutenants, and one day the gook

took his magazine and wouldn't

give it back! Cat said "Gimme my

magazine back!" Good said, "You

shut up. I have you court-

martialed", you know?

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