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    selected this movie simply because it reflects the pain marine recruits endure while entering basic training. In the film, "Full Metal Jacket" produced in 1987 by Stanley Kubrick. His purpose is to observe the humiliation, exhaustion, physical, and psychologically effects young men face when entering the marines rather than being clueless, and what it takes to become a full fledge veteran. His effectiveness was resilient he formulates the importance of brutal boot camp training to initially

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    Masculinity in Movies: Full Metal Jacket Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 film which portrays the early careers of U.S. Marine Corps recruits preparing for the Vietnam War. Throughout the movie, one recognizes concepts covered in the TV and film analysis film class; specifically the issue of masculinity. The first part of this movie is an accurate representation of recruit training, enforcing the well known mantra “tear down then build up.” Present in this leadership style widely

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    more specifically the Marine Corps, in his 1987 film Full Metal Jacket is arguably unmatched by any other film to date. Full Metal Jacket’s glorification of violence, justified brutality, and superb realism are more accurate than most would like to believe during such a controversial period of American history. From the opening scenes at Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD) Parris Island to the far off, dangerous lands of Vietnam, Full Metal Jacket embodies the

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    Transition in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket "These are great days we're living, bros. We are jolly green giants, walking the Earth with guns. These people we wasted here today are the finest human beings we will ever know. After we rotate back to the world, we're gonna miss not having anyone around that's worth shooting." In Full Metal Jacket, Stanley Kubrick's portrayal of the Vietnam War and the US Marines is immense. His "Boys to Men" theme brought forth the transition these

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    Full Metal Jacket was a masterpiece of recreating what soldiers had to go through during basic training and breaking boying into becoming killing machines for the Vietnam War. This movie was accurate in how they displayed the physiological conditions that they had to confront in boot camp and out in the field. But the movie scenery wasn't accurate, the Vietnam area wasn't as jungle like and is more focused on the urban areas of Vietnam. Dates and locations are accurate including the Tet offensive

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    Full Metal Jacket

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    Military Unit Perspective Meets Animation Full Metal Jacket and Watership Down explain how military influence natural reactions to environmental changes. As individuals we learn to adapt to our surroundings in order to survive and procreate. Charles Darwin explained that the environment doesn’t favor everyone and certain species adapt and survive, others aren’t so lucky, which may cause a specie to become extinct. Adaptation comes with trial and error, watching others make the mistakes and in turn

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    Auteurs, or filmmakers who give meaning to their works, intentionally try to send messages about different worldly issues to the audience. Stanley Kubrick, the director of Full Metal Jacket, stands as an example of this because he employs referential, explicit, implicit, and symptomatic meaning to enhance his storytelling. By analyzing the film on a closer level, viewers can dissect the director’s intentions and how it applies to real life and culture in the world. The simplest way a viewer can

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    Full Metal Jacket Duality

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    As we begin to search and find our purpose in this world, we discover these personalities and have to make a “good vs. evil” decision about what type of person we want to project ourselves as in our day to day interactions. In many ways, Full Metal Jacket displays every human’s inner struggle of shaping these personalities in one way or another. At the beginning of the film, Sergeant Hartman immediately begins shaping the young soldier’s own internal battle with a tone that helps the viewer understand

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    There are two types of jacketed bullets, Full metal and Hollowpoint. I will be using the BBS100 textbook, and the Bullet Swaging in a nut shell by Corbin swaging on Corbins.com as a reference for this discussion board. In this discussion board I will explain the difference between the two and the uses for them as well. Full Metal Jacket: Like the name implies it is a fully wrapped lead core. This bullet is designed with a enclosed tip to prevent expanding when it reaches its target. These bullets

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    occurs when one is placed into a role such as Phillip Zimbardo’s famous prison guard experiment, and the role that is in authority over the other begins to abuse their power. (Myers 2014, p. 461) Another great example of this is in the movie Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick) Hartman is given a role over the cadets. His brutality perfectly demonstrates the Lucifer effect, as he verbally and physically abused the cadets. Hartman constantly called the cadets killers, and Private Pyle took heart to that. He

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