Full Metal Jacket (1987)

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Parents Guide:

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Country:

UK | USA

Language:

English | Vietnamese

Release Date:

26 June 1987 (USA) See more »

Also Known As:

Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket See more »

Filming Locations:

Bassingbourn Barracks, Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire, England, UK See more »

Budget:

$17,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$2,217,307 (USA) (28 June 1987) (215 Screens)

Gross:

$46,357,676 (USA)

Production Co:

Natant, Stanley Kubrick Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures See more »

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Runtime:

116 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Trivia

According to director John Boorman, Stanley Kubrick wanted to cast Bill McKinney in the role of Gunnery Sgt. Hartman. However, Kubrick was so unsettled after viewing McKinney's performance in Deliverance that he declined to meet with him, saying he was simply too frightened at the idea of being in McKinney's presence. Kubrick then hired Tim Colceri to play Hartman. Colceri never got to play the role, as former US Marine Corps Drill Instructor R. Lee Ermey, consultant for the Marine Corps boot camp portion of the film, performed a demonstration on videotape in which he yelled obscene insults and abuse for 15 minutes without stopping, repeating himself or even flinching - despite being continuously pelted with tennis balls and oranges. Stanley Kubrick was so impressed that he cast Ermey as Hartman. Colceri was bitter but accepted Kubrick's consolation prize of a small role as a helicopter door-gunner. See more »

Goofs

Continuity: When Joker and his photographer travel in a Sikorsky UH-34 helicopter to report on the action at the front, there are several exterior shots of the trees rushing by underneath them. During these shots, the shadow is of a Bell Jet Ranger, a different, newer helicopter. See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be "Sir". Do you maggots understand that?
Recruits: [In unison in a normal speaking tone] Sir, yes Sir.
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Bullshit I can't hear you. Sound off like you got a pair!
Recruits: [In unison, much louder] SIR, YES SIR!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon. You will be a minister of death praying for war. But until that day you are pukes. You are the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human fucking beings. You are nothing but unorganized grabastic pieces of amphibian shit! Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair. There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here you are all equally worthless. And my orders are to weed out all non-hackers who do not pack the gear to serve in my beloved Corps. Do you maggots understand that?
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Connections

Referenced in The Graveyard (2006) See more »

Soundtracks

"Chapel Of Love"
Written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector
Performed by The Dixie Cups
By Arrangement with Shelby Singleton Enterprises c/o Original Sound Entertainment See more »