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  1. Budget. $16.5–30 million [3] [4] Box office. $120 million [5] Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war drama film directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick, who also cowrote the screenplay with Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford. The film is based on Hasford's 1979 novel The Short-Timers and stars Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio and Adam ...

  2. Aug 7, 2012 · 5) The film was the unlikely inspiration for two hit singles. Stanley Kubrick was not known, in his earlier films, for a keen interest in pop and rock music, but the 1960s setting of “Full Metal ...

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  4. Based on Gustav Hasford’s novel The Short-Timers, the 1987 movie—co-written by Kubrick, Hasford, and Michael Herr—left a lasting impact. 1. THE PHRASE "FULL METAL JACKET" APPEARS NOWHERE IN ...

  5. Vivian Kubrick, daugh­ter of the late, great film­mak­er, shot a behind-the-scenes movie about the mak­ing of The Shin­ing (1980) at the ten­der age of 17. For Full Met­al Jack­et (1987) – Stan­ley Kubrick’s next movie — Vivian not only com­posed the score under the pseu­do­nym Abi­gail Mead but she also shot 18 hours of footage for anoth­er planned ...

  6. Vivian Vanessa Kubrick was born on August 5, 1960, to filmmaker Stanley Kubrick and German-born actress Christiane Kubrick (née Harlan). She had an elder sister, Anya, born April 6, 1959, and an elder half-sister, Katharina, from her mother's first marriage. [1] : 42 Her father's family is Jewish.

  7. Nov 4, 2022 · But one song which did reach #2 on the charts in the United Kingdom in October of 1987 was a dance track entitled "Full Metal Jacket (I Wanna Be Your Drill Instructor)," featuring audio clips of ...

  8. May 3, 2020 · Full Metal Jacket thus becomes the story of an impossible resistance, of the incompatibility between the human being and the war machine. Something more than a fierce criticism of the war or the social mechanisms that revolve around it, something closer to a profound analysis of mankind. This is why, after the first viewing, many people miss ...