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Facts About Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket

FACTS ABOUT STANLEY KUBRICK'S 77 FULL METAL JACKET 1) The movie was based on Gustav Hasford's bestselling novel "The Short-Timers". Kubrick changed the title to "Full Metal Jacket", inspired by the name of a kind of bullet commonly used by Marines in Vietnam. Like many of Kubrick's movies Full Metal Jacket was shot in England, the Marine boot camp and Vietnamese city were recreated in the countryside and the Parris Island sequences were shot at the Bassingbourn Barracks army base. 3) To make England look more like tropical Vietnam, Kubrick said he flew in 200 PALM TREES FROM SPAIN 100,000 PLASTIC JUNGLE PLANTS FROM HONG KONG The part of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman was played by Ronald Lee Ermey who was a real life Parris Island Marine drill sergeant during the war and Kubrick allowed him to write his own lines. 5 The doughy Private Gomer Pyle was played by the actor Vincent D'Onofrlo in his 1 st major film role - he packed 70 pounds onto his muscular frame, ballooning up to 280 pounds to play the part. 6) Matthew Modine who played private Joker wrote that he and the other actors playing Marines underwent realistic boot camp training, which included being yelled at by Ermey for up to 10 hours a day. 7) Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis turned down roles in the film. Schwarzenegger claimed he was too busy to play Animal Mother and Willis couldn't do it because it conflicted with him doing the TV show Moonlighting. 8. The part of the film with the Da Nang hooker played by Papillon Soo Soo where she says "Me so horny. Me love you long time" was used in a rap song by 2 Live Crew which reached no. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Rap Tracks chart. "Full Metal Jacket" According to Box Office Mojo, the film cost an estimated $30 million to make. It earned back $46.4 million in North America and earned just one Oscar nomination, for its adapted screenplay. It also got nominated for a Golden Globe and nominated for **** went on to make a lot of cash from rentals. two BAFTA awards. BUY METAL ONLINE buymetalonline.co.uk

Facts About Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket

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