Full metal jacket
| Movie | |
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| German title | Full metal jacket |
| Original title | Full metal jacket |
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| Country of production | United Kingdom , United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1987 |
| length | 116 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Stanley Kubrick |
| script | Stanley Kubrick Michael Lord Gustav Hasford |
| production | Stanley Kubrick |
| music |
Vivian Kubrick (as Abigail Mead ) |
| camera | Douglas Milsome |
| cut | Martin Hunter |
| occupation | |
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Full Metal Jacket is a British - American anti-war film from the year 1987 and the second last film by Stanley Kubrick . The name Full Metal Jacket refers to the English name for the FMJ (full metal jacket bullet) . The film, which is set in a US Marines training camp and in Vietnam , was shot largely in the London area; archival material and aerial photographs have also been incorporated.
The film, based on the novels The Short-Timers (German title: Höllenfeuer ) and Dispatches (German title: betrayed to hell ) describes in two sections the training of a group of marines and their subsequent deployment in Vietnam. The film is one of the best-known representatives of its genre, along with works such as Michael Cimino's Those Going Through Hell (1978), Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) and Oliver Stone's Platoon (1986).
action
The plot describes the experiences of private James T. Davis, known as Joker , in 1967/1968, initially in the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island , the training camp of the US Marines , and in the subsequent Vietnam War deployment. The film begins with the recruits having their heads shaved.
Parris Island
One training unit is under the command of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, who treats the young men in a draconian way and gives them derogatory nicknames. Above all, he takes on the overweight and not very intelligent Leonard Lawrence, whom he calls Paula . Since he constantly makes mistakes and seems unsuitable for training as a marine, Joker should take care of him. However, when Paula's mistakes persist, Hartman proceeds to punish not him but the rest of the team for each of his missteps. For this, she takes revenge on Lawrence by subjecting him to a blanket party one night , i.e. beating him up with bars of soap wrapped in towels. After a moment's hesitation, Joker also takes part in this attack.
From this point on, Lawrence begins to change: he starts talking to his rifle and turns out to be a very good shot. Hartman concludes from this that Lawrence is now developing into a useful soldier after all, but overlooks his psychological changes.
Joker has to keep a fire watch the night before the soldiers leave for Vietnam. He meets the armed Lawrence in the toilet room of the accommodation, who can no longer withstand the psychological pressure of the training. When the sergeant appears, Lawrence shoots him and then himself before Joker's eyes.
Vietnam
After training, Joker and his comrades are transferred to various units and sent to Vietnam. Joker becomes war correspondent for the army newspaper Stars and Stripes and is initially deployed far behind the front lines, which he increasingly complains about over time. After the Tet offensive in the spring of 1968, a great success for the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese army despite heavy losses , the fortunes of war turned to the disadvantage of the Americans.
Joker is then supposed to report with his comrade Rafterman about the fighting in the destroyed city of Huế . Joker is reluctant to take Rafterman with him because he doesn't want to endanger him, and in fact it soon looks as if Rafterman is not up to the conditions at the front. On the helicopter flight to the front, the machine gunner shoots civilians indiscriminately, which causes rafterman to vomit. In Huế, Joker meets Cowboy again, one of his comrades in training, and his group , which he accompanies for the following days. He experiences how the leading members of the unit are killed one after the other by snipers , mines and booby traps, so that cowboy as the highest ranking has to take over the leadership of the group. The mood among the soldiers is tense. So on the very first day, Joker clashes with Animal Mother, the group's machine gunner.
The group gets lost during a patrol through the ruins of the city. Shortly afterwards, their scout Albino is shot by a sniper and seriously injured. Cowboy calls for tank support over the radio, but it is a long time coming. He does not allow the group to rescue the injured person because he is in the free field of fire. Another soldier in the group resists this and tries to get Albino out of the danger zone, but is shot himself in the process. Thereupon Animal Mother also refuses to obey the group leader, since he assumes a single sniper. He can find out the approximate position of the sniper from the injured before he finally kills them.
A short time later, Cowboy is also hit through an opening in a wall and fatally injured. The decimated group searches the building where the shooter is supposed to be. Joker finds him upstairs and discovers that it is a young Vietnamese woman. Rafterman injures her with several shots. Mortally wounded, she lies on the ground and is surrounded by the group. With her last strength she says a prayer and the words "Shoot me!" The Marines discuss what to do with her. Finally, Joker gives her the coup de grace .
At the end of the film, only a few of Joker's friends are still alive. On the way back they sing the Mickey Mouse Club song.
production
Preparations
The film is based on two publications by war correspondents. Large parts of the story and many of the figures took Kubrick the book The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford . In this work, published in 1979, Hasford processed his experiences as a sergeant in the Marine Corps. Trained on Parris Island, South Carolina by a drill instructor named Gerheim, he first served in Vietnam with the soldiers' newspaper The Stars and Stripes and later in a combat unit. His battle name was like that of the main character in the movie Joker . Hasford and Kubrick only met once and, according to Michael Herr, didn't like each other very well.
The second person involved, Michael Herr , first met Kubrick in 1980 while he was pondering a film on the Holocaust . But he dropped this idea in favor of a Vietnam War film. According to Herr's statements, Kubrick didn't want to make an anti-war film with Full Metal Jacket , but a film that simply depicts reality. At first, Mr. was hostile to the idea of going back to his experiences in Vietnam. He himself had participated in the Vietnam War as a war correspondent for Esquire magazine and processed his experiences in the book Dispatches . Over the next three years, however, Kubrick tried to persuade Mr. to work together. Mr. described those three years as "three years of intermittent telephone conversation." Finally he agreed to work together; In the end, only a few passages are taken from Herr's book, but he was significantly involved in the creation of the script.
In 1983, Kubrick finally began to find out about the Vietnam War with documentaries, experience reports and photos from the Library of Congress , to write a script and to look for locations that were as authentic as possible.
Filming and equipment
Like all Kubrick's films since Lolita , Full Metal Jacket was shot in the UK, in this case entirely in the London area . The scenes at Parris Island training camp were filmed on a former Royal Air Force base in Cambridgeshire about 18 kilometers southwest of Cambridge . For the ruins of the city of Huế , a decommissioned gas works planned for demolition with an area of around 220 hectares in Newham , a district in east London, was available. The buildings corresponded to the functionalism style of the 1930s, which also dominated the cityscape in the 1960s. Kubrick's art director spent six weeks working the gas works with a wrecking ball and explosives according to his wishes and creating authentic ruins of a destroyed city.
In order to create an equally authentic appearance of the flora and fauna of Vietnam, Kubrick had 200 palm trees flown in from Spain and several thousand plants of all kinds from Hong Kong . A Belgian colonel who was a fan of Kubrick's did him a favor by providing four M41 tanks for the shoot. In addition, several Westland-Wessex helicopters were used and, for reasons of historical authenticity, painted in the marine green customary at the time. In addition, a wide range of weapons, including M79 grenade launchers and M60 machine guns such as those used in the Vietnam War, were purchased from a licensed arms dealer. Overall, a realistic environment was created that corresponded very closely to the real models. The only exception is the shared toilet shown in the film in the unit's accommodation, which was recreated in a studio in London. This does not correspond to the real models in Parris Island. Kubrick called this "artistic freedom", it just struck him as "funny and absurd".
The shooting itself was described by Matthew Modine in his book Full Metal Jacket Diary as extremely grueling. The air in the vicinity of the gasworks had become unbearable due to asbestos fibers and the remains of some gases. In an interview, he also described it as "not exactly pleasant" to be yelled at by R. Lee Ermey for about ten hours every day and to have all of the hair shaved off every week. This sometimes created tension between the cast of the recruits and Ermey. Overall, however, the atmosphere on the set was relaxed. To make sure the soldiers' reaction to his performance was as compelling as possible, Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio, and the other cast members of the Recruits and R. Lee Ermey never met before filming. Kubrick also made sure that the other actors in his scenes could not familiarize themselves with him during the breaks.
In the opening scene, in which Sgt. Hartman insults the recruits, he formulates the sentence: “I bet you're the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach- around! ”(“ You are definitely the kind of guy who fucks someone in the ass and then doesn't even have the decency to at least jerk someone off! ”). According to an anecdote, director Kubrick interrupted the shoot after this shot to ask Ermey what the last word meant. At the explanation he is said to have burst out laughing and decided to leave the sentence in the film.
During the shooting there was a car accident Ermeys in Epping Forest north of London. Ermey broke several ribs in the process and was unable to take part in the filming for four and a half months. This dragged on for over a year.
occupation
Private joker
Matthew Modine plays the lead role of Private Joker. The entire plot mostly relates to him or is told from his point of view. The production company Warner Bros. advertised in the United States, among other things, with classifieds in newspapers and asked applicants to send them recordings of themselves, each of which was to play a scene on the Vietnam War . Among the numerous videos submitted was an application from Matthew Modine. Kubrick looked at the material and was initially not entirely convinced of Modine's performance, but changed his mind after seeing footage included on the video in which Modine acted naturally instead of acting.
Private Paula
Vincent D'Onofrio was chosen for the role of the mentally unstable Leonard Lawrence (in the original: Private Pyle, after Gomer Pyle , a character from the Andy Griffith Show ). D'Onofrio was a bouncer at the time and had only played a few roles in film and theater. He and Matthew Modine had become friends at a joint theater performance. After Modine got a role, he suggested his friend to Kubrick for an indefinite role. Kubrick gave him the role of Private Paula. He thought D'Onofrio was in too good shape, however. D'Onofrio then put on 30 kilograms and is still in the Guinness Book of Records for the greatest weight gain an actor had for his role.
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman
R. Lee Ermey , who previously participated in the Vietnam War as a staff sergeant, originally only acted as a technical advisor on the set, but was later cast by Kubrick for the role of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. How Ermey ultimately got the role is unclear. In an interview with the Washington Post , Kubrick himself mentions that he saw Ermeys screen tests for several minutes, insulting extras without repeating himself. He goes on to say: "I was quite sure that Ermey would be perfect for the role". Ermey had previously appeared on set with a 150-page notebook full of possible insults that he had actually written down for Tim Colceri , who was originally intended for the role. According to Kubrick's statements, about 50 percent of what Ermey says in the film is from himself, especially the numerous fecal words.
Supporting roles and cameos
Vivian Kubrick , Stanley Kubrick's daughter, appears in the film as a camera assistant in the scene at the mass grave just before Private Joker is confronted by an officer about his peace badge. Kubrick had previously cast his wife and daughter for smaller cameo appearances . He himself also has a brief cameo. He lent his voice to the naval officer named Murphy on the other end of the radio, well into the end of the film. The cast of the remaining recruits and other supporting roles were mostly found in the approximately 2000 application videos sent to Warner Bros.
music
Stanley Kubrick's daughter Vivian, who worked under the pseudonym Abigail Mead , was jointly responsible for the music for the film . For the remaining songs, which occur throughout the film, Kubrick and his team searched the respective Billboard Hot 100 from 1962 to 1968. A single called Full Metal Jacket (I Wanna Be Your Drill Instructor) was also released for promotional purposes who cited numerous insults to Sergeant Hartmans; it stayed in the British charts for a total of ten weeks and even reached second place for two weeks.
- Chris Kenner - Like It Like That
- Johnnie Wright - Hello Vietnam
- Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made for Walkin '
- Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs - Wooly Bully
- The Dixie Cups - Chapel of Love
- The Goldman Band - The Marines' Hymn
- The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black (credits)
- The Trashmen - Surfin 'Bird
synchronization
As in his previous films A Clockwork Orange , Barry Lyndon and Shining , Kubrick oversaw the dubbing and selected the voice actors himself. Due to the numerous insults, for which there are not corresponding equivalents in every language, the synchronization turned out to be difficult. There are a few small inconsistencies in the German version: In one scene during training on Parris Island, Sergeant Hartman yells at Private Pyle to hold his rifle "ten centimeters" in front of his chest, but only holds four fingers up - in the This is because the original version is "four inches " (four inches), and one inch corresponds to about 2.5 centimeters. Furthermore, shortly before the end of the training, the voice of the first-person narrator (Private Joker) speaks of his corps “No. 30-92 ”, in English Thirty-Ninety-two - which should mean“ thirty-ninety -two ”in German; Instead, however, the English number sequence is incorrectly translated as "Thirty-Ninety-Two" (30-90-2).
| role | actor | Dubbing voice |
|---|---|---|
| Sergeant Hartman | R. Lee Ermey | Franz Rudnick |
| joker | Matthew Modine | Michael Roll |
| Leonard "Private Paula" Pratt | Vincent D'Onofrio | Pascal Breuer |
| Private "Snow White" Brown | Peter Edmund | Jan Odle |
| Animal Mother | Adam Baldwin | Pierre Peters-Arnolds |
| albino | Dorian Harewood | Heiner Lauterbach |
| Lt. Cleves | Ian Tyler | Ulf-Jürgen Wagner |
| Lt. Lockhart | John Terry | Erich Hallhuber |
| Lt. Touchdown | Ed O'Ross | Gudo Hoegel |
| cowboy | Arliss Howard | August Zirner |
| Daytona Dave | Herbert Norville | Tobias Lelle |
| Payback | Kirk Taylor | Helmut Zierl |
| Poge Colonel | Bruce Boa | Mogens von Gadow |
| Rafterman | Kevyn Major Howard | Gerhard Acktun |
| THE rock | Sal Lopez | Tobias Lelle |
| TV journalist | Peter Merrill | Peter Thom |
reception
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On the Rotten Tomatoes website , which collects numerous reviews from the best-known English-language film critics, 97% of 58 listed reviews are marked as positive, with an average rating of 8.2 out of 10 points.
US reviews
In the United States, at the time of its release in June 1987 , Full Metal Jacket received almost exclusively positive reviews, but critical voices were not lacking. Above all, they criticized the fact that the second section of the film, which describes the events in Vietnam, is not only weaker compared to the first section, but also partly includes scenarios in previously released Vietnam war films such as Apocalypse Now , Platoon or Die durch die Hell go to very similar and worse staged than this. Roger Ebert even wrote in his review for the Chicago Sun-Times that some scenes looked like "from the bottom drawer"; He emphasized that the film was staged solidly overall, but looked very weak compared to the examples mentioned above. In his opinion, the only surprise and at the same time further disappointment of the film is the fact that Kubrick simply drops the sexual metaphor that is present at the beginning of the film after the end of the first section. Overall, he was disappointed with one of the most "shapeless" Kubrick films and only awarded two and a half stars out of four. In his show Siskel & Ebert , hosted together with Gene Siskel , in which the two critics rated films together, Siskel was surprised at Ebert's assessment of the film. Siskel himself listed the film in second place in its top ten of the year.
Other critics were much more benevolent towards the film. Jonathan Rosenbaum, also a critic for a Chicago newspaper, in this case the Chicago Reader, described Full Metal Jacket as Kubrick's finest work since Dr. Strange and equally as terrifying; only the first section accomplishes what Shining failed over the entire duration. At the end of the year, he listed the film in third place in his personal top ten from 1987. Vincent Canby , at the time chief critic at the New York Times , praised the performances of all the leading actors as "brilliant", and R. Lee Ermey in particular was an "overwhelming surprise". He also emphasized that the second half of the film may seem conventional, but it is not at all. It was not unmentioned, however, that some scenes in Vietnam seemed quite familiar to him from other films; but perhaps this was even intended by Kubrick.
German-language reviews
The reviews in Germany were similarly positive. The lexicon of international films saw a film that, by detaching itself from the historical reality of Vietnam, denied any concrete political, historical or ethical perspective. Full Metal Jacket is “a relentless film about the reality of the war”, which challenges the audience to confrontation with what is shown. The television magazine prisma praised the authenticity that the film gained primarily through the portrayal of R. Lee Ermey. The editors awarded the highest rating of three stars and described the film as "one of the meanest, but also the truest films about the mechanisms of war and killing."
Ulrich Behrens wrote in his review that Kubrick described the training of recruits in Parris Island with an intensity that he had seldom seen in a film. In addition, Full Metal Jacket is "an unpatriotic film that in no way glorifies war." "Kubrick's film reveals two worlds that obey different rules, although the world of war arises from the world of non-war." Behrens also awarded the highest rating , in this case five stars. Dietrich Kuhlbrodt even describes the film as the best of all films about Vietnam: “ Full Metal Jacket is the best of all Vietnam films, also and precisely because you need too many words to justify it.” “ Full Metal Jacket has all the Vietnam films which have been in vogue for several years, presupposes that he is not satisfied with saying something about the Vietnam War, but that he is advancing, if not explicitly, at least lastingly, to Vietnam-in-us. "
Awards
At the 1988 Academy Awards , Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford were nominated for their screenplay adaptation in the Best Adapted Screenplay category, but could not win the award. R. Lee Ermey was for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman with a nomination for the Golden Globe Award in 1988 as Best Supporting Actor intent, but also could not win.
Further nominations followed for the BAFTA Film Award 1988 in the categories of Best Sound (Nigel Galt, Edward Tise, Andy Nelson) and Best Visual Effects (John Evans).
Stanley Kubrick was awarded the Japanese Kinema Jumpo Prize for Best Foreign Language Director for his directorial work . Awards for best director from the Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC) and the London Critics' Circle followed . The BSFC also recognized R. Lee Ermey as Best Supporting Actor of 1987. The Italian film award David di Donatello for best producer of a foreign language film also went to Kubrick.
Full Metal Jacket also ranks 95th on the American Film Institute's 2001 list of the 100 Best American Thrillers. A poll conducted by Empire magazine to find the best films of all time took part in 10,000 magazine readers, 150 Hollywood filmmakers and 50 film critics . In the resulting list of the 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time , Full Metal Jacket is at number 457.
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
References in pop culture
In the course of the years after its release, Full Metal Jacket became a " cult film ", which is mainly due to the first section of the film. It is also to which large parts of the pop cultural references refer.
For example, the film is referred to several times in the television series South Park . In the third episode of the eleventh season, laustrophobia (original title: Lice Capades ), Cartman calls on his friends to stuff bars of soap into socks and use them to wash his friend Kenny, who he suspects lice. In the 13th episode of the second season, Coole Kühe (original title: Cow Days ), Cartman suffers from a head injury and considers himself a Vietnamese prostitute. There is also a quote from Full Metal Jacket in the film for the series . The names of the characters Kyle and Cartman are also reminiscent of Private Pyle and Sergeant Hartman.
Another well-known television series, the Simpsons , also features parodies of the film. In the 5th episode of the eighteenth season, GI Homer (original title: GI D'oh ), Homer joins the army and among other things has to eat donuts while his comrades do push-ups. At the beginning of the training, Homer also asks his instructor whether he would ask him about his worst quality. In the German dubbing, however, this allusion is lost. In the English original, Homer uses the same words as Sergeant Hartman, shortly before he is shot by Private Pyle: "What is your major malfunction?"
In the film The Frighteners , Gunnery Sergeant Hartman appears as a ghost in a cemetery. He behaves to the main character Frank Bannister, portrayed by Michael J. Fox , as well as to the recruits in Full Metal Jacket .
Full Metal Jacket is also often quoted in music. For the most part, statements by Sergeant Hartman, a Vietnamese prostitute, and the Marines' night prayer were cut into the songs concerned. These quotes can be heard in songs by Ministry , Front Line Assembly , Fear Factory , 2 Live Crew ("Me So Horny: What'll we get for ten dollars? Every 'ting you want! Everything? Every' ting!" ), Grendel and Combichrist . The Sodom album Code Red opens with a piece of music from the film. The American band Metallica used parts of the prayer the soldiers pray before they go to bed and the dialogue after Pyle shoots himself several times to introduce their song One at concerts.
There are also numerous new dubbing of individual passages of the film, mostly the first scenes in the training camp, on video platforms such as YouTube . Such as the version uploaded under the name Full Metal Disney , in which the actors' voices were replaced by those of well-known Disney characters such as Donald Duck . There is also a complete re-synchronization of the film, in which the protagonists speak with a strongly pronounced Bavarian accent . These and similar videos have already been viewed more than 5.5 million times.
Despite the ambiguous attitude towards war and politics, Full Metal Jacket remains one of the favorite films of US soldiers. Watching this film is a common ritual before leaving for recruit training.
Analysis and interpretation
First section - Parris Island
The first part of the film, which shows the brutal training of the new recruits by Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, is mostly viewed as a kind of sexual metaphor. What is striking is "the link between male sexuality and violence", as it is also in Uhrwerk Orange or Dr. Strange to find. Hellmuth Karasek even titled his commentary on the film in the Spiegel with the words “The war as the highest male fantasy”. This is shown above all by the insults of Sergeant Hartman, which "almost always have sexual content and are mostly highly obscene", and a scene in which the recruits shoulder their weapon with one hand and embrace their genitals with the other. In this scene the weapon is "completely sexualized" and at the same time "the sexuality of the young men is diverted to the weapon"; "Lust and violence should be identified."
Since the ultimate goal of the training in the film was “The violent metamorphosis of the private in killer machines”, comparisons were made with 2001: A Space Odyssey : “At the end of the training, a particularly brutal man who was trained as a fighting machine shoots the sergeant who trained him to kill . This is reminiscent of the 'HAL' computer revolt in '2001'. In both cases, a robot rises up against its master. ”Kubrick said that although he did not consciously shoot the scene because of it, there was certainly a similarity. It was also noted that the film lacks “the patriotic superstructure that Hollywood otherwise never forgets.” The recruits are not trained to fight for their fatherland, freedom or their families, but solely to kill. Kubrick actually turns this moral into the opposite by having Sergeant Hartman "show with pride, using examples like Charles Whitman and Lee Harvey Oswald , what a Marine is capable of with his rifle."
Second section - Vietnam
Hartman's and Private Pyle's deaths are followed by a hard cut to Vietnam, and Nancy Sinatra's These Boots Are Made for Walkin ' sounds . “The contrast couldn't be greater,” says Siegfried König. The background music in the second half of the film received a lot of attention. Dietrich Kuhlbrodt wrote in the November issue of 1987 for the magazine concretely that "image and music become infected tricky each other in the film." “ Full Metal Jacket puts the murderous excess next to the familiar, which leads to the result that one hears Nancy Sinatra's songs [...] with horror from now on. On the other hand, thanks to the music of the sixties, the atrocities of war in Vietnam no longer seem so strange to us [...] ”. In general, Kubrick's goal is possibly the connection of pop culture with the war in Vietnam and the resulting dissolution of clear lines between friend and foe. This is also evident from the fact that Private Joker is wearing a peace badge in Vietnam. “The symbol that is supposed to paralyze and banish the various enemies is no longer the Christian cross, but the graffito and the button of pop culture. What 'Born to Kill' is supposed to conjure up has its tradition in the USA. "
In Siegfried König's opinion, Kubrick also refuses to accept the common conventions and clichés known from other war films. “In a war film made according to Hollywood standards, Joker would reflect critically on the events; in the end he would find a justification or uncover grievances, which of course would only be the misconduct of individual people. But such a pseudo-critical attitude, in which the system is ultimately justified by holding individuals who committed abuse accountable, is the last thing Kubrick wants. ”Ulrich Behrens also notes the parallels between the two sections of the film. Private Joker tried to maintain his moral standards both during his training and in Vietnam, but failed in both cases. The attempt to maintain these ideas is just as pointless in Kubrick's film as the war itself. In addition, both sections end with the death of several participants.
More motifs
There are also a number of recurring motifs in the film. Among other things, the character of Mickey Mouse appears several times: First in the last scene of the first half of the film, in which Joker finds his comrade Pyle in the communal toilet; when Sergeant Hartman joins and wonders about the situation, he uses (in the original version) the words "What is this Mickey Mouse shit?" The term Mickey Mouse stands in American slang for a thing or a situation that is viewed as particularly pointless or stupid. In the editorial office of Stars and Stripes magazine, a Mickey Mouse figure can be seen behind Private Joker in front of the window. The motif finally appears a third and final time at the end of the film when the soldiers sing the Mickey Mouse Club song.
Joker says several times in the film: “Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me? " (German: "Are you maybe John Wayne? Or is that me?"). This is a nod to the Hollywood film industry's glorification of the US Army and war . In numerous war films, especially on the subject of World War II , John Wayne played the role of the patriotic war hero.
In one of the last scenes in the film, Private Cowboy's Death, a burning black object can be seen in the background that closely resembles the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey . Kubrick described this as an extraordinary coincidence. As Private Joker mentally prepares to shoot the Vietnamese sniper , his peace sign on his chest gradually fades into the background, while the "Born-to-Kill" lettering on his helmet slowly only refers to the "Kill" limited.
publication
When Full Metal Jacket premiered in select theaters in the United States on June 26, 1987, it brought in just $ 2.2 million of its $ 30 million production cost. With its nationwide theatrical release on July 10, 1987, he again brought in 6.0 million US dollars and only had to admit defeat to the movie charts for the shallow comedy Die Supertrottel . In West Germany , the film opened in cinemas on October 8, 1987 and not only had the sixth best opening weekend with 305,749 viewers, but also became the fourteenth most successful film at the German box office in 1987 with 1,586,030 admissions.
After the film was first released on VHS in Germany on October 11, 1991 , the first DVD was released on October 23, 2001. Since December 7, 2007, the film has also been available as a special edition on DVD and Blu-ray .
literature
- Gustav Hasford: Hellfire: Novel for Stanley Kubrick's film Full Metal Jacket. Goldmann, 1987, ISBN 978-3-442-08896-6 .
- Matthew Modine: Full Metal Jacket Diary. Rugged Land, 2005, ISBN 1-59071-047-9 .
Web links
- Full Metal Jacket in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Full metal jacket . in the German dubbing index
- Full Metal Jacket in the dictionary of international films
- Full Metal Jacket atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- The Kubrick Corner: Deconstructing Masculinity by Jason Francois, Padraig Henry, Sex, Smoking and Soldiering. Masculinity in Full Metal Jacket ( Memento from April 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- The Short-Timers on GustavHasford.com (English)
- The Making of - Video for the production of the film with information, for example, on the length of the shooting
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Full Metal Jacket in the Lexicon of International Films
- ^ Forget all the myths about honor and glory ... this is the real war. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 23, 2012 ; accessed on August 30, 2011 (English).
- ↑ a b Interview in the Guardian
- ↑ a b c d e f Lloyd Rose: Stanley Kubrick, at a Distance . In: Washington Post . June 28, 1987, accessed February 20, 2017. (English)
- ↑ Interview with Matthew Modine. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 6, 2012 ; accessed on August 30, 2011 (English).
- ^ Grover Lewis: The Several Battles of Gustav Hasford. In: Los Angeles Times Magazine. GustavHasford.com, June 28, 1987, accessed May 11, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c d e IMDb: Trivia - Full Metal Jacket
- ↑ a b c d Tim Cahill: Interview in Rolling Stone magazine . In: visual-memory.co.uk . 1987.
- ↑ a b c Documentation: Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil , USA 2007.
- ↑ a b Trivia on Full Metal Jacket ( Memento from September 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Full Metal Jacket (I Wanna Be Your Drill Instructor) in the Official UK Charts (English)
- ↑ German synchronous index - general information. Retrieved September 1, 2011 .
- ↑ German synchronous files.
- ↑ Full Metal Jacket in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ^ Full Metal Jacket (1987). In: Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved August 29, 2011 .
- ↑ Roger Ebert on Full Metal Jacket . Retrieved August 29, 2011 .
- ↑ YouTube: Siskel & Ebert: Full Metal Jacket. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 24, 2011 ; accessed on August 29, 2011 .
- ^ Gene Siskel - Top Ten of 1987. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 17, 2011 ; accessed on August 29, 2011 .
- ↑ Jonathan Rosenbaum on Full Metal Jacket . Retrieved August 29, 2011 .
- ↑ Jonathan Rosenbaum - Top Ten of 1987. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 7, 2011 ; accessed on August 29, 2011 .
- ↑ Vincent Canby on Full Metal Jacket . Retrieved August 29, 2011 .
- ^ Criticism on prisma.de . Retrieved September 1, 2011 .
- ↑ a b c Analysis by Ulrich Behrens
- ↑ a b c Analysis by Dietrich Kuhlbrodt
- ↑ AFI's 100 YEARS ... 100 THRILLS. Retrieved September 1, 2011 .
- ↑ EMPIRE Magazine - The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time. Retrieved September 1, 2011 .
- ^ Movie connections for South Park Lice Capades . Retrieved September 1, 2011 .
- ^ Movie connections for South Park Cow Days . Retrieved September 1, 2011 .
- ^ Movie connections for South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut . Retrieved September 1, 2011 .
- ^ Movie connections for The Simpsons GI D'oh . Retrieved September 1, 2011 .
- ↑ Me So Horny - Lyrics at lyricsondemand.com
- ^ Full Metal Disney on YouTube. Retrieved September 1, 2011 .
- ↑ Full Metal Jacket in Bavarian. In: YouTube. Retrieved September 1, 2011 .
- ↑ a b c d e analysis by Siegfried König
- ↑ Hellmuth Karasek : The war as the highest male fantasy . In: Der Spiegel . No. 41 , 1987 ( online ).
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