MpegMan
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I haven't gotten this yet, but here is whats on my workingprint that isn't on he redux version.
-A longer opening montage, the entire song "The End" by The Doors is heard. It intercuts longer helicopters/jungle images with Willard in the hotel room in a drunken rage, as well as a scene where he is with a prostitute.
-The scene where Willard is given his assignment is longer and contains much more dialogue. The general informs Willard that the mission is purely voluntary and he can decline it. The general also offers Willard a promotion to major upon completion of the mission. For some reason Colonel Kurtz is referred to in this scene as "Colonel Leeva".
-A brief scene where Willard is introduced to the crew of the Navy P.B.R.
-A much longer first cavalry "Ride of Valkyrie" attack scene. ·A longer playboy bunny's performance. ·Various extended scenes on the boat, and alternate takes and shots.
-Many more songs by The Doors are played throughout the film.
-None of the narration or dossier voiceovers are in this version.
-When the P.B.R. reaches Do-lung bridge, the solider that greets them gives a more detailed explanation of the chaos around the bridge.
-More dialogue between Willard and the photojournalist when they first reach the Kurtz compound. The Journalist reveals that it was HE who was able to get the montangnards to break off their attack on the boat in the previous scene.
-The character of Colby, (the solder who was sent before Willard to kill Kurtz, played by Scott Glenn) has a much more substantial role in this version. As Willard inspects the compound, Colby tells Willard that the night before, NVA soldiers had attacked (which explains all the bodies laying about the compound). Willard then enters Kurtz's house, much to the dismay of the journalist. Willard sees Kurtz empty bed and his medals, also his journal with the inscription "Drop the bomb, exterminate them all" (many of these scenes were in the final version but re-inserted in different places).
-In this version. The first time Kurtz appears is the scene where a mud caked Willard is tied up (seated) to a pole in the rain. Kurtz appears tattooed faced, Willard asks...."Why he is being mistreated?" and tries to bluff his way past Kurtz by telling him that he had just completed a secret mission in Cambodia, and only stopped for supplies. Kurtz says nothing to him, but plants Chef's head in his lap. (Only a portion of this scene was in the original version).
-The scene where Willard meets Kurtz in his bed chamber contains more dialogue....as Kurtz makes it clear that he knows why Willard is there.
-A scene where Kurtz talks to Willard in the bamboo cage. He tells him that Willard is "like the politicians in Washington, they want to win the war, but don't want to be seen as cruel human beings".
-A lengthy scene where the montangnards pick up the bamboo cage (with Willard inside) and poke him with sticks (Lance and Colby participate in this).
-A much longer version of the scene where Kurtz reads the poem "The Hollow Men", intercutting between his reading and the journalist talking with Willard.
-A scene where the journalist meets Willard to tell him that he thinks Kurtz is about to kill him because he took his picture again. During which Colby comes behind the journalist and shoots him three times, killing him. Colby then turns the gun on himself, but before he dies he asks Willard to express affection to his family for him and asks him to kill Kurtz.
-During the assassination scene at the end, before Willard enters Kurtz's home, one of the guards confronts him. Willard picks up a spear to defend himself as the guard picks up a child to shield himself. Willard runs the spear right through the child and into the guard.
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01-29-2004 01:56 AM
