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
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