Stanley Kubrick's

Full Metal Jacket

Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999)

● A famous director :– The Shining

– A Clockwork Orange

– Dr. Strangelove

– 2001 : A Space Odyssey

– Spartacus

– (...)

Plot of the film

● A platoon of U.S. Marines:

– Training in the USA– Actions in Vietnam

● The main characters :

– Private James « Joker » Davis (then sergeant Joker)

– Private Leonard « Pyle » Lawrence

In first:A barbaric training

This is my rifle, this is my gun !

This is for fighting, this is for fun !

The baptism of fire :the battle of Huế, Vietnam

Techniques of the shot

Long shotClose shot

Low angle shot

Effects researched by Kubrick to convey his point of view about the war

Kubrick uses cynism to denounce the absurdity of war. The training part of the Marines is humoristic but ends tragically. He makes fun of the horror of the training camps, even if the rest of the film is completely different from the beginning, the events told in the second part, about the Vietnam war, being treated seriously and with realism. Kubrick amplifies the treatments inflicted to the privates by the drill instructors until the suicide of “Pyle” at the end of the first part.

The Vietnam Conflict (1956-1975)

●Why did we choose this film?

● History of the United States: the Vietnam war.● Interesting, humoristic, good actors. Incredible

dialogues (with some « funny » expressions)● Private « Pyle »● A Kubrick's film