(According to Miramax, which released the new version, this new cut totals 197 minutes.)The vibrant film with a remastered, fuller soundtrack used original material and reintegrated scenes excised from the 1979 version (to include greater character detail for Willard, his crew, and Colonel Kurtz (in a scene where he reads from an actualTimeMagazine and shows how the American public was lied to), an expandedPlayboyPlaymates sequence after their helicopter is downed, and an additional French colonial plantation sequence).He was in the midst of negotiations for the release of the four Chinese prisoners, one of whom was his brother.As he drives by a cemetery, he reveals that he is a serial killer on an earthly mission who receives divine inspirations o first marry, and then murder and rob vain and wicked women (usually rich lonely widows who do not see the menacing perversity in him):Well now, what""s it to be Lord? Another widow? How many has it been? Six? Twelve? I disremember.Charlie""s projected, rough and scratchy Super 8 mm home movies played under the title credits (provided in a yellow upper/lower case typewriter font on a black background) - providing a flashback to the past when things were better with his Littly Italy Mafioso buddies.