<p dir="ltr">“Where the hell are you from anyway, private?”</p>
<p dir="ltr">“Holy dog shit! Texas? Only steers and queers come from Texas, Private Cowboy, and you don't look much like a steer to me, so that kinda narrows it down. Do you suck dicks?’</p>
<p dir="ltr">Gunnery Sergeant Hartman</p>
<p dir="ltr"></p>
<p dir="ltr"></p>
<p dir="ltr">There are a not many film makers that are so easily recognized as Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick has graced us with unique practice and visualization on every film. With very little output, Kubrick has made so many great films in different genres, which no other film maker has probably ever done. Some of his films range from science fiction (A Space Odyssey) to historical drama (Barry Lyndon), to comedy (Dr. Strangelove), horror (The Shining) and war films (Full Metal Jacket).  Out all his movies Full Metal Jacket should be preserved for Kubrick two segment story which follows young men from basic training to the lethal fight of Vietnam.</p>
&nbsp;
<p dir="ltr">In 1983 Kubrick obtained the rights to the novel The Short Timers which was written by author Gustuv Hasford in 1979 who was a combat correspondent in Vietnam. Kubrick felt he should change the title from the book The Short Timers to Full Metal Jacket, a term describing a bullet encased in a copper jacket which helps it feed through a rifle. With Kubrick wearing all three hats: director, producer, and screenplay he brought in help to get a better insight of how the military is and on the war itself. Michael Herr was asked to collaborate with him on the screenplay since he wrote Dispatches. Dispatches were one of the first pieces of American literature that allowed Americans to understand the experiences of soldiers in the Vietnam War.  Lee Ermey was hired as a technical advisor and to instruct the extras into the military-like atmosphere of the production for his 11 years in United States Marine Corps which he served 14 months in Vietnam should be enough. Kubrick was so impressed with Ermey’s presence and barrages of insults that he decided to cast him as the drill sergeant.  Kubrick wanted to enhance the realism of the boot camp scenes; he did not let Ermey rehearse with the other actors. He claimed this created strong, real emotions when the scenes were filmed. When Kubrick and Warner Bros were ready to cast for the film, they placed ads throughout the US for young aspiring actors, requesting them to send in videotapes of themselves performing a scene about Vietnam. The film takes place in Parris Island, SC and Hue, Vietnam, but the entire movie was shot in England. Boot camp was built on an industrial site in Enfield, while Parris Island was recreated at a British Army base in Bassingbourne, with Lee Ermey’s supervising. The battlefield scenes were a 1930s abandoned coke-smelting plant in Beckton, a suburb of East London. The buildings there were designed by the same French architects who had worked in Hue, Vietnam. While all the original music in the film was credited to "Abigail Mead," a stage name for Vivian Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick’s daughter.</p>
<p dir="ltr">When the movie came out on June 26, 1987 it was another movie based in or on the Vietnam War. The 80’s seemed to be the decade of war movies. Some other notable movies are Platoon (1986), Hamburger Hill(1987), and Heartbreak Ridge .  Hamburger Hill “A brutal and realistic war film focuses on the lives of a squad of 14 U.S. Army soldiers of B Company, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division during the brutal 10 day (May 11-20, 1969) battle for Hill 937 in the A Shau Valley of Vietnam as they try again and again to take the fortified hill held by the North Vietnamese, and the faults and casualties they take every time in which the battle was later dubbed "Hamburger Hill" because enemy fire was so fierce that the fusillade of bullets turned assaulting troops into shredded hamburger meat.” As you can see a few difference about the two movies is Full Metal Jacket follows the Marines from boot camp all the way through their tenure in Vietnam as for Hamburger Hill it follows Army soldiers from B Company. With Hamburger Hill basing the storyline off a factual battle scene that is very popular in the Vietnam War history, the battle in Full Metal Jacket is unknown of and can’t be said to be accurate. Hamburger Hill was scripted by Vietnam War vet Jim Carabatsos, as Full Metal Jacket had Lee Ermey.  Both movies utilized a cast of unknowns, director John Irvin( Hamburger Hill) and Stanley Kubrick .</p>
<p dir="ltr">I really enjoy this movie and can relate to this movie being a veteran and deploying to another country. I have to say when I saw this movie again after I joined the military; I think I laughed harder, just being able to relate to guys in boot camp. Those saying and actions of the drill instructor  are just same as when I went through boot camp, defiantly brought back some good memories.  It also goes to show that I wasn’t the only one that enjoyed this movie. Full Metal Jacket earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay along with nine other awards. The average critic scores a 3.099 on Top Ten Reviews.com with Full Metal Jacket scoring a 3.071. When you look at all the different reviews from numerous people and sites you see that everyone still enjoys this movie as much if not more than they did then.</p>
&nbsp;
<p dir="ltr">Cited</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/628478/Vietnam-War">http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/628478/Vietnam-War</a></p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://movies.toptenreviews.com/reviews/mr4353.htm">http://movies.toptenreviews.com/reviews/mr4353.htm</a></p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093137/plotsummary?ref_=tt_stry_pl">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093137/plotsummary?ref_=tt_stry_pl</a></p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://kubrickfilms.warnerbros.com/video_detail/fmj/">http://kubrickfilms.warnerbros.com/video_detail/fmj/</a></p>
<p dir="ltr"></p>