Tuesday, September 30, 2008

odyssey into Cambodia


ROXANNE
Do you miss your home, Captain?
Have you someone there?
WILLARD
No. Not really.
I was discharged from the army
four years ago. I went home,
wasted some time, bought a Mustang
Mach 1, drove it a week. Then
I re-upped for another tour. No,
everything I love is here.
ROXANNE
Then you are like us.

She reaches out to him; indicating that he sit.
ROXANNE
(continuing)
What will you do after the war?
WILLARD
I just follow my footsteps, one
at a time, trying to answer the
little questions and staying away
from the big ones.
The entire 1975 Apocalypse Now screenplay here.