Thursday, 4 March 2010

Film of the day.......

Full Metal Jacket




Directed by Stanley Kubrick and released in 1987, Is a war film based on the book The Short-Timers.
Set during the Vietnam war, Follows a group of marines who are at Pullis Island.
They are trained by a strict drill instructor called Gunnery Sergent Hartman.
He be lives that verbally and physically insulting them will De-sensitise and harden them for the war.
The training follows Pvt.Joker and Pvt.Pile who get most of Hartman's abuse.
The intro to the film follows them training to be part of the United States Marine Corps and has quite a shocking and harrowing end.
The film then goes on to follow Pvt.Joker who is a military journalist who has been sent to Vietnam and him as an enemy attacks.....



"Let me see your war face!"



Pvt.Joker and Pvt.Pyle




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