
Becoming lost in the city, the squad is ambushed by a Viet Cong sniper who kills two members. During the Battle of Huế, a booby trap kills the squad leader, leaving Cowboy in command. The following morning, Joker and Rafterman are sent to Phu Bai where Joker searches for and reunites with Sergeant "Cowboy", a friend he met at Parris Island. The Tet Offensive begins and Joker's base is attacked, but holds. Hartman is awoken by the commotion and attempts to intervene, but Pyle shoots and kills him before committing suicide, leaving Joker horrified.īy January 1968, Joker is a sergeant and is based in Da Nang for the newspaper Stars and Stripes alongside his colleague Private First Class Rafterman, a combat photographer.

After the recruits graduate and the night before they leave Parris Island, Joker discovers Pyle in the barracks latrine loading his service rifle with live ammunition, executing drill commands, and loudly reciting the Rifleman's Creed. This pleases Hartman but worries Joker, who believes Pyle may be suffering a mental breakdown after seeing Pyle talking to his rifle. Following this, Pyle appears to reinvent himself as a model recruit, showing particular expertise in marksmanship. The next night, the recruits haze Pyle with a blanket party, in which Joker reluctantly participates. As he inspects it for signs of theft, he discovers a jelly doughnut inside, blames the platoon for Pyle's infractions, and adopts a collective punishment policy in which any infraction committed by Pyle will earn a punishment for everyone else in the platoon. One evening while doing a hygiene inspection, Hartman notices that Pyle's footlocker is unlocked. Davis, who receives the name "Joker" after interrupting Hartman's introductory speech with an impression of John Wayne.ĭuring basic training, Hartman names Joker as squad leader and puts him in charge of helping Pyle improve. Among the recruits is the overweight and dim-witted Leonard Lawrence, whom Hartman nicknames " Gomer Pyle", and the wisecracking J.T. Drill instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartman uses harsh methods to train them for combat. Plot ĭuring the Vietnam War, a group of recruits arrive at the United States Marine Corps training facility at Parris Island. In 2001, the American Film Institute placed the film at number 95 in its poll titled " AFI's 100 Years.100 Thrills".
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The film received critical acclaim, grossed $120 million against a budget of $16 million, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Kubrick, Herr, and Hasford. It was the last of Kubrick's films to be released during his lifetime.

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released Full Metal Jacket in the United States on June 26, 1987. The film's title refers to the full metal jacket bullet used by military servicemen. The second half portrays the experiences of Joker and other Marines in the Vietnamese cities of Da Nang and Huế during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War. Davis and Leonard Lawrence, nicknamed "Joker" and "Pyle", who struggle under their abusive drill instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. Marines through their boot camp training in Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, primarily focusing in the first half of the film on privates J.T.

Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio and Adam Baldwin. The film is based on Hasford's 1979 novel The Short-Timers and stars Matthew Modine, R. Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war drama film directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford.
