Full Metal Jacket
Stanley Kubrick returned to one of his most potent themes—the senseless, dehumanizing devastation of warfare—with this unflinchingly intense plunge into the inferno of the Vietnam War. Based on the writings of Gustav Hasford and Michael Herr, Full Metal Jacket follows a band of U.S. Marine recruits as they are systemically broken down in the crucible of boot camp—an experience that destroys some and hardens others into callous killing machines to be unleashed on the battlefields of Da Nang and Huế. Capturing the chaos and carnage with his exactingly controlled camera, Kubrick delivers one of cinema’s most blistering statements on the nature of war, a caustic, feverishly disturbing portrayal of combat as a relentless ritual of moral degradation.
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Cast
- Matthew Modine
- Private Joker
- Adam Baldwin
- Animal Mother
- Vincent D’Onofrio
- Private Pyle
- R. Lee Ermey
- Gunnery Sergeant Hartman
- Dorian Harewood
- Eightball
- Kevyn Major Howard
- Rafterman
- Arliss Howard
- Private Cowboy
- Ed O’Ross
- Lieutenant Touchdown
- John Terry
- Lieutenant Lockhart
- Kieron Jecchinis
- Crazy Earl
- Kirk Taylor
- Payback
- Tim Colceri
- Doorgunner
- John Stafford
- Doc Jay
- Bruce Boa
- Poge Colonel
- Ian Tyler
- Lieutenant Cleves
- Sal Lopez
- T.H.E. Rock
- Gary Landon Mills
- Donlon
- Papillon Soo Soo
- Da Nang sex worker
- Peter Edmund
- Snowball
- Leanne Hong
- Motorbike sex worker
- Ngoc Le
- Viet Cong sniper
- Tan Hung Francione
- Pimp
Credits
- Director
- Stanley Kubrick
- Screenplay
- Stanley Kubrick
- Screenplay
- Michael Herr
- Screenplay
- Gustav Hasford
- Based on the novel The Short-Timers by
- Gustav Hasford
- Executive producer
- Jan Harlan
- Coproducer
- Philip Hobbs
- Associate producer
- Michael Herr
- Assistant to the director
- Leon Vitali
- Director of photography
- Douglas Milsome
- Editor
- Martin Hunter
- Production designer
- Anton Furst
- Sound editor
- Nigel Galt
- Sound editor
- Edward Tise
- Special-effects supervisor
- John Evans
- Special-effects senior technician
- Peter Dawson
- Special-effects senior technician
- Jeff Clifford
- Special-effects senior technician
- Alan Barnard
- Casting
- Leon Vitali
- First assistant director
- Terry Needham
- Second assistant director
- Christopher Thomson
- Production manager
- Phil Kohler
- Unit production manager
- Bill Shepherd
- Production cocoordinator
- Margaret Adams
- Costume designer
- Keith Denny
- Montage editing engineer
- Adam Watkins
- Video operator
- Manuel Harlan
- Camera assistant
- Jason Wrenn
- Art director
- Rod Stratford
- Art director
- Les Tomkins
- Art director
- Keith Pain
- Technical advisor
- R. Lee Ermey
- Steadicam operator
- John Ward
- Steadicam operator
- Jean-Marc Bringuier
- Assistant to the producers
- Emilio D’Alessandro
- Assistant to the producers
- Anthony Frewin
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