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    Stanley Kubrick uses his film‚ Full Metal Jacket to say that people today are brainwashed products of decades of conditioning. Kubrick strongly encourages us to relish individual thought. He expresses that society’s ideology encourages conformity‚ which can eventually cause fatality. Also the article "You Cant Hack It Little Girl: A Discussion Of The Covert Psychological Agenda of Modern Combat Training" by R Wayne Eisenhart realizes the extreme repression on individuality in the Marines.

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    Full Metal Jacket Analysis/Summary During the first part of the film‚ it was the training of the drafted soldiers. I did not have any idea how brainwashed a soldier got after training. In the movie‚ Sergeant Hartman was very rude and insulted the soldiers most of the time‚ if not all the time. He would give mean nicknames to all soldiers‚ making fun of them. Nobody dared to talk back to him or answer him in any other manner than what he ordered. The soldiers got pushed to their limit‚ perfecting

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    Full Metal Jacket In the movie Full Metal Jacket‚ directed by Stanley Kubrick‚ the plot evolved around a training camp before the Vietnam War. In the training camp the soldiers learned about‚ teamwork‚ and acceptance. The group ostracizes one soldier and he kills their drill sergeant. The Movie focuses on the horror and pressure of going to war and connects with “the things they carry”‚ by Tim O’Brien. In Full Metal Jacket‚ many uncomfortable areas are addressed. The majority of this film develops

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    An Analysis of Background Movement‚ Symmetry in Full Metal Jacket A Study of the First Half of Kubrick ’s Stanley Gruesome Anti-War Film Jason Cangialosi Jason Cangialosi‚ Yahoo Contributor Network Nov 15‚ 2005 "Share your voice on Yahoo websites. Start Here." More: Full Metal Jacket Squad FlagPost a comment There are two elements in the first half of Full Metal Jacket making it undeniably Kubrickian. One is the symmetrical background imagery and it ’s use through movement

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    Full Metal Jacket And Lighting Stanley Kubrick typically had worked with John Alcott in cinematography. However‚ Alcott’s right hand man - Douglas Milsome – made his debut in cinematography working on Kubrick’s film Full Metal Jacket in 1987. Full-Metal Jacket has a wide range of cinematography and lighting. Depending on the given situation and time the lighting compliments the cinematography. The techniques of lighting and camera-work are complementary of certain moods – comedy‚ gloomy‚ sad

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    The Women of Full Metal Jacket In Stanley Kubrick’s "Full Metal Jacket"‚ it is difficult to determine the role that women play simply because of the glaring lack of female characters. In total‚ only three women actually appear in the movie‚ and two of those are prostitutes; the third isn’t revealed as a woman until the final 10 minutes of the film‚ and none of them are given names. In fact‚ until the sniper’s gender is revealed‚ women only play a role as objects for the soldiers’ amusement. In all

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    Film Analysis Within every man resides good and evil; which quality manifests itself is determined by how one is raised and views the world. Stanley Kubrick’s film Full Metal Jacket takes the concept of good or evil in man and shows how war‚ the marines‚ and government blur soldiers’ ideas of right or wrong. By injection of propaganda from these sources a misidentity is created within the solider. Once this misidentity has taken place it is the soldiers’ job to figure out what he is: a killing machine

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    Ironically it was Cimino who reminded Stone of nothing he experienced in Vietnam‚ and talked him into resurrecting “Platoon”. Stone portrays the war as more of a conflict between American soldiers internally rather than a conflict with the Vietcong. Platoon tells the story of Vietnam from the point of view of a naïve young soldier. The first thing he sees when arriving is rows of bodies being readied to be ship back to the United States. He finds out that other soldiers don’t associate with the

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    you can research a topic and have a good idea or grasp on the topic‚ but never the full understanding. When it comes to something like war where there is untold feelings and emotions trapped inside‚ there is a lot that goes by the wayside. Military films do their best to portray what life was like during the rough times fighting for Uncle Sam‚ but none of them can compare to Full Metal Jacket. . Full Metal Jacket is the best military film to come out of the 80’s. Released in 1887‚ director Stanley

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    Having viewed in class five of Stanley Kubrick’s films and a documentary about him‚ a decent understanding of Kubrick’s process and vision is learnt; the two films Spartacus and Full Metal Jacket were the most inspirational and significan films of the bunch. Spartacus is about a rebellious (slave of the same name) purchased by Lentulus Batiatus‚ owner of a school for gladiators. For the entertainment of corrupt Roman senator Marcus Licinius Crassus‚ Batiatus’ gladiators fight to the death. On the

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