Apocalypse Now Redux Page #33

He rises from the table.

DEMARAIS:

Come on, Philippe. It's enough

now.

Philippe goes and picks up an egg from the basket, returns

to the table.

PHILIPPE:

Look, this is the truth...

He breaks the egg in his hand, the contents dribble out.

PHILIPPE:

An egg, the white leaves, but the

yellow stays!

He turns and walks away.

DEMARAIS:

(in French)

Come on, stay with us. What's

going on?

PHILIPPE:

(calling back)

They don't want to face the truth.

He points to the dining room, turns and exits, LaFavre,

playing his accordion, walks toward the dining room.

CHRISTIAN:

When I was in Saigon, I spoke to

an American politician, and he

explained it very well. He said,

"Look, Yesterday it was Korea,

today Vietnam, tomorrow Thailand,

the Philippines, then maybe Europe."

LaFavre enters, playing the accordion.

CHRISTIAN:

Come on, why not Europe? Look

what happened in Czechoslovakia

recently. And even before the

Second World War, the Americans

knew exactly what was going on!

They don't want that sh*t to take

over!

(to LaFavre, who is

playing the

accordion)

LaFavre! LaFavre, stop it!

LAFAVRE:

All you white people are sh*t.

CHRISTIAN:

They are fighting. Fighting for

freedom.

LAFAVRE:

Freedom? Bullshit. French

bullshit. American bullshit.

(to all)

Dine Bien Phu, that's serious!

All soldier know they are already

dead.

(to Willard)

You know anything about Dine Bien

Phu?

WILLARD:

Yeah, I know.

DEMARAIS:

No, you don't. Not really.

TUTOR:

A milliary mistake.

DEMARAIS:

A mistake? A voluntary mistake!

Voluntary!

LAFAVRE:

All the soldiers knew, we knew we

would be dead.

DEMARAIS:

The generals and the colonels

believe it's impossible for the

Viets to get the cannon up there

in the mountain. But they do.

Then they wait for the rain to

come. When it comes, no airplane

can fly there, and our paratroopers

jump at ninety meters! I mean,

you know, ninety meters! Seventy

meters! That's crazy! Nobody in

the world can do that! And they

only do that to be dead with their

friends.

LaFavre starts playing "The Star Spangled Banner!

DEMARAIS:

The French Army sacrificed.

Sacrificed by politicians safe at

home. They put the army in an

impossible situation where they

couldn't win!

TUTOR:

You exaggerate.

DEMARAIS:

The students are marching in Paris,

protesting, demonstrating. They

stab the soldiers in their back!

The soldier would open a grenade,

it wouldn't work. A piece of paper

would fall, "Union of the French

Woman." "We are all for the Viets."

Traitors! Communist traitors at

home!

LAFAVRE:

Dine Bien Phu, okay. The French

is sh*t. No one care. No one

want to--

CHRISTIAN:

You are bothering me, LaFavre!

(to Willard)

Why don't you Americans learn from

us, from our mistakes? My God,

with your army, your strength,

your power...you could win if you

wanted to!

As LaFavre leaves, he falls down some steps that lead out

of the dining room.

DEMARAIS:

(in French; to

Christian)

Be kind and help this poor LaFavre

who fell, please.

CHRISTIAN:

(to Willard)

You can win!

He rises and goes to help the sergeant. As they leave,

his wife Anne-Marie sits there nervously, then rises,

excusing herself.

OLD UNCLE:

You know, I'm sure we can make

something here. I'm sure about

it, you know? I never do something

wrong to the people here.

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