This document provides a timeline and summary of key events in the story: 1) It outlines the main characters and their roles on a boat crew. 2) It then charts the story over 10 days, noting important events like encounters with tigers, a crew member being killed, and the group reaching their destination. 3) Accompanying the timeline are notes on the main character's state of mind and sanity levels, showing his declining mental state over the course of the story.

1. Real
Story
Time/Frame

2. IMPORTANT COLORS BY SCENE

5. Boat Crew Sanity Chief Phillips
GM3 Lance Johnson
Tyrone “Mr. Clean”
Jay “Chef” Hicks
encounter reach “do
Death
tiger lung bridge”
received aircav boat on mr. clean
mission attack fire killed imprisoned
taking the see death chief killed observes goes to kill
river’s entry on shore kurtz kurtz
USO reach colonel
show kurtz
high
Sanity
low
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
days

6. Colors, Events, and Millard’s State of Mind
encounter reach “do
tiger lung bridge”
received aircav boat on mr. clean imprisoned
mission attack fire killed
taking the see death chief killed observes goes to kill
river’s entry on shore kurtz kurtz
USO reach colonel
show kurtz
high
mission clarity
low
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
days

7. 1 2 3 4 5
02:30 11:58 19:46 27:15 34:33
6 7 8 9 10
44:20 51:56 59:43 1:09:50 1:14:32
5
4
8 9
6
7
3
10 1
10 X 10MIN TAKES
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1 2 4 8 16

8. FOLLOWING THE ROPE
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em up, that’s all. - 55:40
Why, it’s only a piece of rope, Philip. An
ordinary household arti
cle. Why hid e it? It belongs
in th e kitchen dr
awer! - 15:
08
1
2:30
2
Well go on, yank it out.
>I can’t.
If Mrs. Wilson was here, she
would yank it out for you. - 12:56
1 2 4 8 16
1 2 3 4 5

9. Philip tries to
shoot Rupert.
Fear
Rupert places Philip breaks glass. The Rope
The Hat cigarette case “Which is the cat and
which is the mouse?”
Rupert hypothesizes
The Realization
on how they could
have killed David
The Close Call
Rupert asks once
Suspicion
Rupert returns for more about David
cigarette case
Rupert questions
Philip about David
“Just what exactly is
going on here” - Janet
“She’s just missing
David. As a matter of The Books
Philip breaks fact I’m starting to miss
the glass Conversation on the him myself” - Rupert
when Mrs. justifiable murder
Atwater
mistakes him Strangling
“Rupert Cadell is the
for David Chickens
one man most likely
to suspect.” - Philip
“I’d Trust you to
Irony
find a new use for
a chest.” - Rupert
Decision to use
trunk as “altar”
for the “feast” “These hands
will bring you
great fame”
“Your chances -Mrs. Atwater
with Janet will be
better” - Brandon Story of girl who
dies in chest.
David is Rupert opens
murdered the trunk
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SUSPENSE OVER TIME

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CHEF WILLARD
_machinist prof. soldier_
_cook deep internal struggle based on military history_
_tolerant cont. moral dilemma with inner self _
_sceptical
sets direction for course_
_high reasoning
INITIALLY: NO DIRECT AUTHORITY ON BOAT_
UNKNOWN FACTOR: CLASSIFIED MISSION_
The Boat_Progression of Self_Discovery Part I

15. Nodes of Common Underlying Themes
internal struggle/the horror
personal experience/background
political undertones/context
Voiceover Patterns_Character/Plot Development
V.O. #7 V.O. #16 V.O. #20
history V.O. #10 colby broken
& #11
Kurtz
V.O. #2 V.O. #6 file #2 V.O. #13 V.O. #19
mission file file #3 insane
V.O. #5 V.O. #9 V.O. #15
the crew home? bridge
War/
Context
V.O. #4 V.O. #8 V.O. #12
the boat air_cav charlie
V.O. #3 V.O. #17 V.O. #21
bodycount close death
Willard
V.O. #1 V.O. #14 V.O. #18
saigon lies confront
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