But in Full Metal Jacket, one of the film’s most unforgettable sequences - the boot camp barrage of insults hurled by Gunnery ...

A little more than seven years later, he presented Full Metal Jacket to the world. Based on Gustav Hasford’s novel The ...

The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking, and has led filmmakers for ...

“Full Metal Jacket” carries those films’ themes of dehumanization into an even more brutal place. Split between the harrowing boot-camp tyranny of R. Lee Ermey’s drill instructor and the ...

The 1987 release, Full Metal Jacket, portrays the harrowing impact ... But the performance garnering significant acclaim is R. Lee Ermey’s portrayal as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman.