Many screenplays, with a section for War screenplays, are available for free on (Internet Movie Script Database). Heres APOCALYPSE NOW: Original screenplay by John Milius. This draft by Francis Ford Coppola. December 3, 1975. imsdb/scripts/Apocalypse-Now.html SCENES 46 to 100: Some of you Combat Fans may have a keen interest to read how a movie script describes a combat scene, and compare the original vision in the script (1975) with the film (1979). Scroll down to Scene 46, when Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) joins Robert Duvalls Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore (Robert Duvall) attack helicopter squadron. In the shooting script, director Coppola envisioned 100 helicopters... can you imagine that without CGI special effects? SCENE 53 FULL SHOT - HELICOPTERS From the water we SEE the massive grouping of Hueys -- gun- ships -- troop carriers -- medevac and recon -- ROAR over low in battle formation BLARING out Ride of the Valkyries. ... to ...Kilgores (Duvalls) iconic line... SCENE 96 KILGORE (continuing; nostalgically) I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
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