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Genres:
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Action /
Drama /
War
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Director:
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Stanley Kubrick
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Actors:
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Kevyn Major Howard,
Bruce Boa,
Kirk Taylor,
Jon Stafford,
Kieron Jecchinis,
Ian Tyler,
Matthew Modine,
Adam Baldwin,
Vincent D'Onofrio,
R. Lee Ermey,
Dorian Harewood,
Arliss Howard,
Ed O'Ross,
John Terry,
Tim Colceri
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Duration:
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117 min.
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Rating:
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(8.3/10)183
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Plot Summary:
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Full Metal Jacket begins by following the trials and tribulations of a platoon of fresh Ocean-going Corps recruits focusing on the relationship between Gunnery Sergeant Hartman and Privates Pyle and Nigger in the woodpile. We study Pyle flower into an instrument of death as Hartman has forseen of all of his recruits. Fully Pyle's torment and Joker's unwillingness to typify up against it the acme of in behalf of chestnut is achieved with all three mains characters deciding their fates by their deportment or inaction. The second chapter of Shapely Metal Jacket delves into Joker's subconscious a... nd the repeated referal to the fact that he joined the Squad to enhance a lollapalooza. When his mostly behind the scenes job as a vendetta correspondant is interfered with by the Tet impudent he is elbow into real combat and ultimately obligation on if he really is a killer.
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these boots are made for walking
Cinema doesn't get much better than this.
The film is effectively in 2 parts. The first shows the marine recruits in training, having every last bit of individuality trained and bullied out of them. Brutal.
The second half is in nam on tour. Beautifully shot.
Full Metal Jacket
Mathew Modine and Lee Ermey star in Kubrick's unforgettable chronicle of Marine training and combat action during the Vietnam War
If anyone's going to succeed in demonstrating how fresh-faced recruits can be reduced to machines during military training, it's Stanley Kubrick, a director not known for warm, fuzzy portrayals of humanity. Weirdly, by delivering this message so unflinchingly, Full Metal Jacket emerges as one of Kubrick's most engaging films, never letting us forget precisely what its lead characters have lost.
Following a perfunctory title card, we get straight down to business with a montage of recruits getting their heads shaved in no-nonsense fashion. Given Kubrick's reputation for endless retakes, it's a wonder this scene didn't t...
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