Bobbie Wygant interviews R. Lee Ermey for "Full Metal Jacket" The Full Metal Jacket Screenplay. Stanley Kubrick, l'exposition. Le mystère Stanley Kubrick | Stanley Kubrick | Cinéma. Kubrick 1987 Interview. `Full Metal Jacket': Kubrick's view of Vietnam. Relentlessly harsh in its images and language, ``Full Metal Jacket'' is nonetheless the most artful film yet made about the Vietnam war. Directed by the provocative Stanley Kubrick, it's more controlled than ``Platoon'' and subtler in its visual impact than ``The Deer Hunter'' and ``Apocalypse Now.'' This doesn't mean it will be as popular as its predecessors.
It's more concentrated and streamlined, and Mr. Kubrick keeps its emotions - from humor to horror - on a very tight leash. Subscribe Today to the Monitor Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS ofThe Christian Science MonitorWeekly Digital Edition Conspicuously missing is the sweat-and-blood visual style of the hugely successful ``Platoon,'' shot on location in the Philippines and celebrated for its authenticity. The story of ``Full Metal Jacket'' is divided into two distinct parts, linked by the presence of Private Joker, a young recruit.
The scene changes to Vietnam, where Joker works in a journalism unit. One forgives Mr. FULL METAL JACKET - Ruthless Reviews. The totality of war, from the loss of self to ultimately the loss of life, has never been as thoroughly examined as in Kubrick’s much misunderstood Full Metal Jacket. Other films, of course, exist that portray the brutality (Platoon), the senselessness (Apocalypse Now) or even the joy (Patton) that is to be found in slaughtering your fellow man. But no film takes us through “the shit” from beginning to the sick, sick end like Jacket does. Our guide along the path to hell is Modine’s Joker; a young but scrappy Marine recruit with his eyes wide open. To me, one of the greatest joys in cinema is, for lack of a better term, character development. Watching a person transform from something to something else due to circumstance is, well, rewarding. Joseph Campbell termed it as “the hero’s journey.”
Shorthand, think of either Luke or Han in Star Wars; they start out thinking and believing one ideal, and exit the narrative knowing and following another. One, two, three, four! Full Metal Jacket. All Critics (70) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (66) | Rotten (4) | DVD (26) If his considerable achievement in this long- awaited film falls short of his Olympian standards, there is a reason that ought to give Kubrick some satisfaction. The world has caught up with Kubrick and what he has to say.
It may seem too spare, too clinical, its moments of war even too familiar for some. But, aiming for minds as well as hearts, Kubrick hits his target squarely. What gives this story its power is not really its originality, but the relentlessness of Kubrick's black-comic vision and the tightness of his focus. There is a real fear at the heart of this monstrously armored, desperately defensive film. It's a great piece of filmmaking, diminished only by a second act that fails to live up to the first act of the Marines in training.
Full Metal Jacket is not a realistic film -- it is horror-comic superrealism, from a God's-eye view -- but it should fully engage the ordinary movie grunt. Full metal jacket - La critique. Full Metal Jacket (Philosophical Films) PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES: Ethics, Personal Identity, Free Will, Philosophy of History CHARACTERS: Private Joker (Matthew Modine), Animal Mother (Adam Baldwin), Private Gomer Pyle (Vincent D'Onofrio), Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey), Rafterman (Kevyn Major Howard), Private Cowboy (Arliss Howard) OTHER FILMS BY DIRECTOR STANLEY KUBRICK: Eyes Wide Shut (1999), The Shining (1980), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Spartacus (1960) SYNOPSIS: Full Metal Jacket follows a group of aspiring young men as they endure the trials of basic training in their quest to become Marines and, ultimately, soldiers in the Vietnam War.
In the first half of the film, Privates Joker and Pyle struggle through the mentally and physically tiring stresses which are intensified by the strict guidance of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. The second half of the film is set in Da Nang, Vietnam near the time of the Tet Offensive. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Being a soldier myself, I love Full Metal Jacket.