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Full Metal Jacket Quotes
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Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 film that follows a group of recruits through a brutal Marine boot camp through their tour of duty in Vietnam. Written and directed by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford . In Vietnam The...


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Full Metal Jacket Information
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Full Metal Jacket (1987) is an Oscar-nominated[1] Stanley Kubrick film based on the novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford. The title refers to the type of ammunition used by infantry riflemen. The film portrays the urban Vietnam War fought by the...


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The Washington Post
Full Metal Jacket
08/07/1988: 536 words, approx. 2 pages
Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. 1987. R. CC. (Warner, Hi-Fi stereo, 116 Min., $89.95; LV disk, CX stereo, $34.98) "Full Metal Jacket" is a brilliantly eccentric piece of movie-making that plays better on video...
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National Review
Full metal jacket.
08/14/1987: 1,508 words, approx. 5 pages
Full Metal Jacket IN HIS Esquisse d'une psychologie ducinema (1976), Andre Malraux wrote: "The silent film knew sections [les parties]; the sound film no longer knows them, and editors encounter a permanent obstacle there. For the sound film does not want empty spaces...
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True Grit: A RobertDuvall Quiz
10/8/2007: 292 words, approx. 1 pages
Question 1 of 10:In the1950s, the penniless Duvall shared a flat with two other wannabe actors: Gene Hackman and who else? Jack Nicholson Dustin Hoffman Al Pacino Clint Eastwood Question 2 of 10: Duvall 's breakthrough film was ‘To Kill...
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5/1/2007: 418 words, approx. 1 pages
Bathtub filmmakers in New York can score face-time and pointers from Tribeca-bound Hollywood brass—gratis—through Sunday, May 6. Having hosted discussions with directors like Fargo’s Joel and Ethan Coen and American Psycho’s Mary Harron, the “Filmmaker Talks” workshops at the Apple Store Soho, presented by Apple...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Thomas Doherty
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In the following essay, Doherty places Full Metal Jacket within the context of the Vietnam War film, contending that it “exemplifies the Vietnam War film in its mature stage, a stage whose distinguishing quality is its reliance on cinematic, not historical, experience.”
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Critical Essay by Gerri Reaves
3,243 words, approx. 11 pages
In the following essay, Reaves contrasts Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket with the novel from which it is adapted, Gustav Hasford's The Short-Timers.
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Critical Essay by Rich Schweitzer
3,163 words, approx. 11 pages
In the following essay, Schweitzer asserts that Full Metal Jacket's “ability to convey a nuanced historical argument through an artistic medium—in effect, to address simultaneously the audience's hearts and minds—is unique and deserves attention.”
 
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Me Vs. Myself, Full Metal Jacket
2,262 words, approx. 8 pages
It goes into explaining the theories behind Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket and reasons behind the irony.


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