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Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick Collection 2001 Release) (DVD)
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Genre | Drama, Military & War |
Format | NTSC, Closed-captioned, Color, Multiple Formats, Full Screen |
Contributor | Adam Baldwin, Dorian Harewood, Kirk Taylor, John Terry, Matthew Modine, Stanley Kubrick, Arliss Howard, Vincent D'Onofrio, Tim Colceri, Michael Herr, Kevyn Major Howard, Jan Harlan, Kieron Jecchinis, Lee Ermey, Gustav Hasford, Ed O'Ross, Jon Stafford See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 56 minutes |
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Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick Collection 2001 Release) (DVD) Director Stanley Kubrick rips the skin from the face of war to expose the dehumanizing effect of the military on the people fed to its emotional meat grinder in Full Metal Jacket. Through the eyes of an 18-year-old recruit--from his first days in the seeming hell of Marine Corps boot camp as his superiors try to strip of him his individuality and re-create him as a Marine, to the hell of the 1968 Tet offensive, Kubrick reveals the damage done to the collective human soul by the inhumanity of war. Based on the novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford.
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Stanley Kubrick's 1987, penultimate film seemed to a lot of people to be contrived and out of touch with the '80s vogue for such intensely realistic portrayals of the Vietnam War as Platoon and The Deer Hunter. Certainly, Kubrick gave audiences plenty of reason to wonder why he made the film at all: essentially a two-part drama that begins on a Parris Island boot camp for rookie Marines and abruptly switches to Vietnam (actually shot on sound stages and locations near London), Full Metal Jacket comes across as a series of self-contained chapters in a story whose logical and thematic development is oblique at best. Then again, much the same was said about Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, a masterwork both enthralled with and satiric about the future's role in the unfinished business of human evolution. In a way, Full Metal Jacket is the wholly grim counterpart of 2001. While the latter is a truly 1960s film, both wide-eyed and wary, about the intertwining of progress and isolation (ending in our redemption, finally, by death), Full Metal Jacket is a cynical, Reagan-era view of the 1960s' hunger for experience and consciousness that fulfilled itself in violence. Lee Ermey made film history as the Marine drill instructor whose ritualized debasement of men in the name of tribal uniformity creates its darkest angel in a murderous half-wit (Vincent D'Onofrio). Matthew Modine gives a smart and savvy performance as Private Joker, the clowning, military journalist who yearns to get away from the propaganda machine and know firsthand the horrific revelation of the front line. In Full Metal Jacket, depravity and fulfillment go hand in hand, and it's no wonder Kubrick kept his steely distance from the material to make the point. --Tom Keogh
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 7.75 x 5.75 x 0.53 inches; 0.01 ounces
- Item model number : 116311
- Director : Stanley Kubrick
- Media Format : NTSC, Closed-captioned, Color, Multiple Formats, Full Screen
- Run time : 1 hour and 56 minutes
- Release date : May 15, 2007
- Actors : Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood
- Producers : Stanley Kubrick, Jan Harlan
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1), Unqualified
- Studio : WarnerBrothers
- ASIN : B000P0J09C
- Writers : Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #60,730 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #895 in Military & War (Movies & TV)
- #10,229 in Drama DVDs
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When I eventually saw it, I thought it was interesting, but it took me several viewings and a few courses at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh (RIP) to fully appreciate Kubrick’s messages and symbolism.
This film probably has the most subtle and not so subtle messages and symbolism out of all of his movies. Every time I think of a certain scene , or watch the film again, and consider the details therein, I realize there’s another thing I missed. There is so much here to analyze. The Kubrick Site is the best resource or collection of resources and articles that I know of, that cover his movies. There is at least 1 article there about FMJ. But an entire book (300 pages, say) would be the bare minimum amount of space necessary to cover everything just in this movie.
As far as its realism, I have spoken with at least 1 Vietnam veteran who said that this is the best movie about that war. The most realistic. There are several pop culture events or news items that are mentioned. Such as CBS News reporter Walter Cronkite stating that the war is not winnable. He really did say that, so I’m not spoiling anything for you.
The one issue about this film, that SK definitely intended, is the racist jokes. And there are a lot. A LOT. Young people of today, who are more sensitive to such “humor”, are more likely to be offended. Although, in my case, even when I told them 40 years ago, I knew they were distasteful (I stopped telling them before I graduated from high school. No one is perfect).
There are also a few lines of dialogue that reference other movies (Apocalypse Now, for one) which may or may not be intentional on SK’s part.
The film is quite brutal, in several respects (violence, racist jokes, racism specifically concerning Asian people, sexist jokes and observations). This movie is definitely not for those with weak stomachs or who are easily offended. But none of SK’s films starting with Lolita are (other than 2001, and Dr. Strangelove, more or less).
Highly recommended, if any of the 3 things I mentioned in the subject line are of interest to you.
There are so many things wrong with that stance that I would have trouble finding where to begin. But I will say this: Each of these films is its own world, and each is very much a product of its director's style and vision, and each does different things. "Apocalypse Now" is Francis Ford Coppola's take on the war, and it's the most surreal and deliberately absurd. Michael Cimino's "The Deer Hunter" benefited from its significant focus on the home front during the war -- while the director did present the trauma suffered by soldiers, he also succeeded in depicting the hurts the war inflicted on loved ones, families, even an entire community. Oliver Stone's "Platoon" was, oddly, the most "realistic" of the four films, and in my opinion the least imaginative, though I still think it's a fine film.
And then we have Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket." More than any of the other three films, it is a character study. The character in question is Joker, who has joined the Marine Corps, he claims, because he wants to kill. But there is much more to him; he is, in fact, a very sensitive individual and, compared with his peers, an intellectual who quotes Carl Jung and ponders "the duality of man."
Many commentators have declared the film consists of two acts, but actually, it's a classic three-act structure. Act One is the boot camp sequence. Act Two follows Joker as he deals with his assignment as a military journalist. Act Three begins with the Tet Offensive, and ultimately forces Joker to give up his stance as journalist/observer in favor of soldier/participant.
I do agree with people who say the first act of this film is so impressive and overwhelming that the rest of the picture can seem anti-climactic. Much of the reason lies with R. Lee Ermey, whos portrayal of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman is one of the most unforgettable performances in cinema history. Hartman's view, apparently, is that boot camp should be as hellish as possible, the better to prepare these would-be Marines from what they'll face in Vietnam. And the irony is he's right; it's just that he takes it to such an extreme that it results in two tragic deaths. Prior to that, though, Hartman unleashes upon his trainees a nonstop stream of profanity, verbal abuse, physical punishment and general humiliation.
The result is a sequence that is both funny and horrible. Hartman is a brutal man, but his endless invective is laced with comments that one can't help but be amused by. Ermey was originally hired as a consultant on the film, and told Kubrick the original dialogue should be changed because it was unrealistic. Ermey, with the idea of playing the role of Hartman himself, performed part of the script to show Kubrick how he thought it should be done. Kubrick gave him the role.
His favorite target is Leonard Lawrence, whom he calls "a disgusting fatbody," among other terms of endearment. Unfortunately, the slow-witted Leonard, or "Private Pyle," as Hartman calls him, cracks under the constant pressure.
SPOILER ALERT! Skip the next paragraph if you haven't seen the film.
Leonard shoots Hartman, then himself. The sole witness to the carnage is Joker.
The film immediately shifts to Act Two, in Vietnam. Joker has attained the rank of sergeant and is a correspondent for "Stars and Stripes." Although he seems to like the job, he questions his superior about the euphemisms that are being used by U.S. forces to describe their actions in Vietnam. "Search and destroy," for example, becomes "sweep and clear."
One of Joker's pals is Rafterman, a combat photographer who is frustrated with simply taking pictures; he wants to see the action, the front lines. Joker, who outranks him, basically tells him that, if he has his way, Rafterman won't get his chance. Rafterman's mother, Joker jokes, would do him physical harm when he returned to the States if he'd let anything happen to her son.
Then comes the Tet Offensive, which changes both men's lives. The North Vietnamese attack on what is usually a holiday cease-fire. In the midst of the resulting carnage, Joker's superior orders him to go to Phu Bai to report on the situation. Rafterman asks to go with him; Joker tells his superior he doesn't want Rafterman along. His superior overrules him; Joker and Rafterman head for the combat zone.
Act Three concerns their experiences on the battlefield. They meet up with a squad that includes Cowboy, who went through boot camp with Joker. Cowboy is now a sergeant. As the squad moves out on a patrol, accompanied by Joker and Rafterman, the squad leader is killed. Cowboy, now a sergeant, is ordered by headquarters to lead the platoon. In the sequence that follows, a sniper starts picking off members of the squad, one by one -- including Cowboy.
The survivors finally find the sniper. And it is there, in the movie's penultimate scene, that Joker must face a moral choice -- or, more accurately, a dilemma, as there is no good choice to be made. Still, he must decide -- and makes a decision that surely will haunt him for years to come.
"Full Metal Jacket" ends with the Marine squad marching through the ravaged war zone, glad to be alive, singing the theme song to "The Mickey Mouse Club." It's one last, absurd commentary on the grim absurdity we call "war."
This is a terrific film. Over the years, it has grown in stature, with critics and audiences alike finding more and more to like. I heartily recommend it.
One of those movies that really makes us thankful and appreciate what all military, both vets as well as active duty, have sacrificed and went through is the horrible torments of war on body, mind and soul!
THANKS TO ALL MILITARY, VETS AND ACTIVE DUTY AS WELL!! ALWAYS IN OUR PRAYERS!!
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In Vietnam we see some cute and very funny Vietnamese prostitutes - followed by a helicopter transfer to a battle zone - with a half crazy character with a machine gun - shooting maniacally at Vietnamese peasants in the paddy fields below.
The finale is a tragic patrol in which several members of the platoon are killed by a sniper.
Kubrick takes extraordinary care to create an authentic masterpiece.