Full Metal Jacket's Production Was Almost More Than A Nearly 60-Year-Old Stanley Kubrick Could Take

Dec 23 2022 by /Film

 

One might find that there are very few films that venerate and celebrate the Vietnam War (1955 - 1975). Filmmakers looked at the quagmire in Southeast Asia, and discovered no small amount of horrendous violence, idiotic governmental bluster, and soul-hollowing atrocities. Oliver Stone's "Platoon" won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1986, and that film seemed like Hollywood's final exposé on the topic. The following year, however, Stanley Kubrick came in to deal a death blow to any...

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