Full Metal Jacket

original title:
Full Metal Jacket
country / year of production:
Great Britain / 1987
original length:
116 min. , color
premiere:
26 June 1987
genre:
Thriller
based on:
Gustav Hasford. The Short-Timers. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.
director:
Stanley Kubrick
film script:
Michael Herr , Stanley Kubrick , Gustav Hasford
producer:
Jan Harlan
cinematographer:
Douglas Milsome
editor:
Martin Hunter
composer:
Mick Jagger
cast (role):
Matthew Modine (Private Joker) , R. Lee Ermey (Gunnery Sergeant Hartman) , Vincent D'Onofrio (Pvt. Gomer Pyle (Leonard Lawrence)) , Adam Baldwin (Animal Mother) , Dorian Harewood (Private Eightball) , Matthew Modine , R. Lee Ermey , Vincent D'Onofrio , Adam Baldwin , Dorian Harewood
more:
plot synopsis:
The film concentrates on a group of raw Marine volunteers. The first half details the volunteers' harrowing boot-camp training where under the profane, power-saw guidance of drill instructor Sgt. Hartman the recruits` personalaties dehumanize.
The second part takes place in the city of Hue in Vietnam, as seen through the eyes of the now thoroughly indoctrinated marines. One of them, Joker, covers the war as a correspondent for Stars and Stripes, focusing on the Tet offensive.
keywords:
volunteers , boot-camp , war correspondent , drill
war:
Vietnam War (1946-1975)
literature:
M. Felker. "Back to Vietnam". In: Jump Cut 33 (1988), 28-30.

Greg Jenkins. Stanley Kubrick and The Art of Adaptation. Three Novels, Three Films. Jefferson: MacFarland & Co, 1997.

Michael Klein. "Historical Memory, Film, and the Vietnam Era". In: Linda Dittmar/ Gene Michaud (Eds.). From Hanoi to Hollywood. The Vietnam war in American Film. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1990, 19-40.

Stanley Kubrick/ Michael Herr/ Gustav Hasford. Full Metal Jacket. The Screenplay. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

Michael Pursell. "Full Metal Jacket. The Unraveling of Patriarchy". In: Mario Falsetto (Ed.). Perspectives on Stanley Kubrick. New York: G.R. Hall & Co., 1996, 317-326.

Paula Willoquet-Maricondi. "Full-Metal-Jacketing, or Masculinity in the Making". In: Cinema Journal 33 (1994), 2, 5-21.
remarks:
More information about the novel under:
www.short-timers.com
availability:
VHS, DVD