]With brilliant forethought, Zeffirelli gambled by filling he two starring lead roles with two young unknown and fresh-faced eenage actors: 15-year old Olivia Hussey as the stunningly beautiful, dark-haired Juliet (just a few years older than Shakespeare""s Juliet - a "fortnight and odd days" from 14), and 17-year old, slender and blue-eyed Leonard Whiting as Romeo.Rico explains how he hasn""t had an opportunity to ""be somebody"" yet.He speculates about his criminal ambitions and future as a racketeer:I could do all the things that fella does, and more, only I never got my chance.And good does not always triumph.Sometimes the Dark Side overcomes what Lincoln called ""the better angels of our nature."" Therein, man has got a breaking point.You and I have.Walter Kurtz has reached his.And very obviously, he has gone insane.The noise of a chopper interrupts the judgement that has been pronounced.The mission involves a pilgrimage, a journey on a U.S.Navy patrol boat with a four-man crew up the jungle-lined Nung River into off-limits Cambodia to follow Kurtz""s path to his remote stronghold island.""] A rectangular-shaped red dormitory or bunkhouse, a hundred yards away, serves as the drop-off point.Rhodes rearmed himself and then found himself face-to-face with Bub shooting at him in the hallway (one bullet struck him in the shoulder and another in the leg).