COLONEL LUCAS
"Come on in.. At ease. Want a cigarette ?"

WILLARD
"No, thank you sir."

LUCAS
"Captain, have you ever seen this gentleman before ? Met the
general or myself ?"

WILLARD
"No, sir. Not personally."

LUCAS
"You have worked a lot on your own, haven't you ?"

WILLARD
"Yes, sir. I have."

LUCAS
"Your report specify intelligence, counter-intelligence,
with ComSec I Corps."

WILLARD
"I'm not presently disposed to discuss these operations, sir."

LUCAS
"Did you not work for the CIA in I Corps ?"

WILLARD
"No, sir."

LUCAS
"Did you not assassinate a government tax collector in
Quang Tri province, June 19th, 1968 ? Captain ?"

WILLARD
"Sir, I am unaware of any such activity or operation - nor would
I be disposed to discuss such an operation if it did in fact exist, sir."

GENERAL CORMAN
"I thought we'd have a bite of lunch while we talk. I hope
you brought a good appetite with you.
You have a bad hand there, are you wounded ?"

WILLARD
"A little fishing accident on R&R, sir."

CORMAN
"Fishing on R&R... But you're feeling fit, ready
for duty ?"

WILLARD
"Yes, general. Very much so sir."

CORMAN
"Let's see what we have here... roast beef and...,
usually is not bad. Try some Jerry, pass it around.
Save a little time when we'll pass both ways. Captain,
I don't know how you feel about this shrimp, but if you'll
eat it, you never have to prove your courage in any
other way... I'll take a piece here ..."

LUCAS
"Captain, you heard of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz ?"

WILLARD
"Yes, sir, I've heard the name."

LUCAS
"Operations officer, 5th Special forces."

CORMAN
"Luke, would you play that tape for captain, please.
Listen carefully."

ON TAPE
"October 9th, 0430 hours, sector PBK."

LUCAS
"This was monitored out of Cambodia. This has been verified as colonel Kurtz's voice."

COLONEL KURTZ (on tape)
" I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my
dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a
straight razor, and surviving. "

ON TAPE
"11th transmission, December 30th, 0500 hours, sector KZK."

KURTZ (on tape)
" We must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig, cow after
cow, village after village, army after army. And they call me an
assassin. What do you call it when the assassins accuse
the assassin ? They lie.. they lie and we have to be merciful
for those who lie. Those nabobs. I hate them. How I hate them..."

CORMAN
"Walt Kurtz was one of the most outstanding officers this country
has ever produced. He was a brilliant and outstanding in every way
and he was a good man too. Humanitarian man, man of wit, of humor.
He joined the Special forces. After that his ideas, methods have
become unsound... Unsound."

LUCAS
"Now he's crossed to Cambodia with his Montagnard army, who
worship the man, like a god, and follow every order however ridiculous."

CORMAN
"Well, I have some other shocking news to tell you. Colonel
Kurtz was about to be arrested for murder."

WILLARD
"I don't follow sir. Murdered who ?"

LUCAS
"Kurtz had ordered executions of some Vietnamese intelligence
agents. Men he believed were double agents. So he took
matters into his own hands."

CORMAN
"Well, you see Willard... In this war, things get confused
out there, power, ideals, the old morality, and practical
military necessity. Out there with these natives it must be
a temptation to be god. Because there's a conflict in
every human heart between the rational and the irrational,
between good and evil. The good does not always triumph.
Sometimes the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called
the better angels of our nature. Every man has got a
breaking point. You and I have. Walter Kurtz has reached his.
And very obviously, he has gone insane."

WILLARD
"Yes sir, very much so sir. Obviously insane."

LUCAS
"Your mission is to proceed up to Nung river in a Navy
patrol boat. Pick up colonel Kurtz' path at Nu Mung Ba,
follow it, learn what you can along the way. When you find
colonel infiltrate his team by whatever means available and
terminate the colonel's command."

WILLARD
"Terminate ? The colonel ?"

CORMAN
"He's out there operating without any decent restraint.
Totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct.
And he is still in the field commanding his troops."

CIVILIAN
"Terminate with extreme prejudice."

LUCAS
"You understand captain... , that this operation does
not exist, nor will it ever exist."
SŁOWNICTWO:


assassin - zabójca, morderca

to assassinate - zabić, zamordować, dokonać zabójstwa

at ease - spokojnie

breaking point - punkt krytyczny

command - rozkaz

conduct - prowadzenie, sposób prowadzenia się

counter-intelligence - kontrwywiad

courage - odwaga

decent - porządny

disposed - skłonny

duty - obowiązek, służba

fit - sprawny fizycznie

incinerate - spalić, spopielić

infiltrate - infiltrować, szpiegować

insane - szalony, nie przy zdrowych zmysłach

intelligence - wywiad

merciful - miłosierny

nabob - człowiek bogaty i wpływowy

native - autochton, miejscowy

necessity - potrzeba

nightmare - koszmar senny

to overcome - przezwyciężyć

pale - granica

personally - osobiście
prejudice - uprzedzenie

razor - brzytwa

restraint - powściągliwość, pohamowanie

shrimp - krewetka

to slither - ślizgać się

temptation - pokusa

terminate - zakończyć, położyć kres

unaware - nieświadomy

unsound - niezdrowy, nieprawidłowy

wit - dowcip, humor

wounded - ranny



GRAMATYKA:


Humanitarian man, man of wit, of humor.


Gdy chcemy powiedzieć, że jakiś człowiek uosabia pewną cechę używamy konstrukcji “man of sth” (podobne do polskiego „człowiek honoru”, „człowiek wielkiej wiary”)

Man of honor
Man of courage


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