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Full Metal Jacket
Full Metal Jacket
Just watching the film. It was filmed in the UK!!!!!
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Review
Stanley Kubrick's penultimate film is a harrowing, foul-mouthed and violent Vietnam War drama.
While its message is simple ? innocent young Americans are taught to be machine-like killers ? its technique is extraordinary.
Because Kubrick refused to travel any distance, it was shot entirely in Britain, with palm trees uprooted from Spain and Matthew Modine and a cast of relative unknowns uprooted from Hollywood.
Renting a disused gasworks in Beckton, east London, Kubrick created a huge and spectacular outdoor set, though some sequences, it must be said, lack tropical realism.
The performances are superb, especially Lee Ermey as the drill sergeant with a colourful vocabulary, Vincent D'Onofrio as the pathetic Private Pyle and Modine as the cynical recruit called Joker.
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Filmed in: 1987
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