Saturday, January 31, 2015

January 31 -Full Metal Jacket

Today’s film is a war movie with a scene that happens on January 31. Watch it tonight and enjoy.

FULL METAL JACKET      

A group of marine recruits arrive at Parris Island and are placed under the command of Sgt. Hartman. One recruit, nicknammed “Gomer Pyle” fails at training, eventually kills Hartman and commits suicide. One of the recruits “Joker” is sent to Vietnam as a reporter for Stars and Stripes, where on January 31, 1968 [53:38 to 57:54], the Vietcong launch the Tet offensive. Joker joins a squad commanded by “Cowboy” a former fellow recruit in the Battle of Hue. After a sniper kills several members of the squad, the sniper, a teenage girl is wounded. Joker shoots her in a mercy killing.

Fire in the Streets by Eric Hammel (Contemporary Books, Chicago, 1991) at pages 34-35 gives the date the attack was launched  

Director - Stanley Kubrick

Producer - Stanley Kubrick

Screenplay - Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford

Awards – The film was nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar

Released – June 17, 1987

Runtime – 1 hour 56 minutes

Starring -

Matthew Modine as Private/Corporal/Sergeant James T. "Joker" Davis
Vincent D'Onofrio as Private Leonard "Gomer Pyle" Lawrence
R. Lee Ermey as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman
Arliss Howard as Private/Sergeant Robert "Cowboy" Evans
Adam Baldwin as Sergeant "Animal Mother"
Dorian Harewood as Corporal "Eightball"
Kevyn Major Howard as Private First Class "Rafterman"
Ed O'Ross as Lieutenant Walter J. "Touchdown" Schinoski
John Terry as Lieutenant Lockhart
Kieron Jecchinis as Sergeant "Crazy Earl"
John Stafford as Doc Jay
Peter Edmund as Private "Snowball" Brown

Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015



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