Full Metal Jacket Deluxe Edition

Director

Stanley Kubrick

Genres

Action, Classic

DVD Relese Date

1987

Description

A superb ensemble cast falls in for action in Stanley Kubrick's brilliant saga about the Vietnam War and the dehumanizing process that turns people into trained killers. The action is savage, the story unsparing, the dialogue spiked with scathing humour. Full Metal Jacket, from its rigors of basic training to its nightmare of combat in Hue City, scores a cinematic direct hit.

Cast

Adam Baldwin, Arliss Howard, Dorian Harewood, John Terry, Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio

Fun Film Info

Former US Marine Corps Drill Instructor R. Lee Ermey was not originally hired to play Gunnery Sgt. Hartman but as a consultant for the Marine Corps boot camp portion of the film. He performed a demonstration on videotape in which he yelled obscene insults and abuse for 15 minutes without stopping, repeating himself or even flinching - despite being continuously pelted with tennis balls and oranges. Stanley Kubrick was so impressed that he cast Ermey as Gunnery Sgt. Hartmann.

Quotes

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? Didn't Mommy and Daddy show you enough attention when you were a child? Private Joker: Are those... live rounds? Private Gomer Pyle: Seven-six-two millimeter. Full. Metal. Jacket.

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