Full Metal Jacket

Full Metal Jacket is a film by Stanley Kubrick from 1987. The story is based on the novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford. The movie title refers to a particular type ball in which a lead core surrounded by a copper coating: the so-called volmantel patterns.

Full Metal Jacket in 1988 was nominated for the Academy Award for best adapted script, BAFTA Awards for best sound and best special effects and a Golden Globe for best supporting actor (r. Lee Ermey). The film ends with the song Paint It, Black by the Rolling Stones.



Content
[hide] *1 origin of the film  ==Origin of the film[ Edit] == After the success of The Shining in 1980 Kubrick wanted to make a movie about the war in Viet Nam. The u.s. military did not want to cooperate, and he then took up entirely in England. An abandoned gasworks was converted into shattered city and Kubrick left a real palm trees and rice fields happen to counterfeit to mimic Viet Nam .As a result, it took more than seven years before the movie appeared in theaters in 1987. ==Story[ Edit] == Like the book, the film is divided into two parts.
 * 2 Story
 * 3 Cast
 * 4 Trivia
 * 5 external links

In the first part is to see how a group of American youths trained to marine. The training is inhumane heavy and places high physical and mental demands on the young soldiers in training. Drill instructor Hartman (r. Lee Ermey) shows no sympathy for its recruits. He makes them out for everything dirty and dirty and his will is law. In particular the put Private Pyle (Vincent D'Onofrio) is laughing stock of Hartman. This is going just as long as until this at night by Private Joker (Matthew Modine) found in the latrine, where he goes insane, army routines compulsive Executive and gibberish folding. When Hartman on the DIN once again the skin full of causative Pyle coming, as those are order for depositing the rifle shoots him down, after which do not follow Pyle. Then he put the gun to his mouth and shoots himself in the head.

The second part follows the trained group, now marine, on their inglorious agony by the ruins of Viet Nam. Many soldiers have since been mentally complete the get lost by all the misery and they are guilty of numerous war crimes. They also committed one blunder after another because they have not been prepared for the incalculable Viet Nam and her fighting techniques. This enables a sniper quite thin the group when they think an abandoned ruined city to enter.

The whole movie is told from the point of view of Joker, a young soldier who in first instance as war correspondent propaganda must write about his experiences in the training and war. ==Division Of Roles<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Matthew Modine - Private Joker
 * Adam Baldwin - Animal Mother
 * Vincent D'Onofrio - Private Pyle
 * R. Lee Ermey - Sergeant Hartman
 * Dorian Harewood - Eightball
 * Arliss Howard - Private Cowboy
 * Ed O'Ross - Lieutenant Touchdown
 * John Terry - Lieutenant Lockhart
 * Kieron Jecchinis - Crazy Earl
 * Kirk Taylor - Payback
 * Tim Colceri - Doorgunner
 * Jon Stafford - Doc Jay
 * Ian Tyler - Lieutenant Cleves
 * Peter Edmund - Snowball
 * R. Lee Ermey was reportedly originally not at all for the role of drill instructor Hartman attracted, but he was initially hired for the auditions and training of the actors. He showed only fit so well, that he got the role on the spot. Ermey was a former instructor of the U.s. Marine Corps.