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How Full Metal Jacket's R. Lee Ermey ad-libbed his way to movie history
As Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, R. Lee Ermey's unscripted, ad-libbed performance became ...
Unscripted moment in Full Metal Jacket led to iconic scene
But in Full Metal Jacket, one of the film’s most unforgettable sequences - the boot camp barrage of insults hurled by Gunnery ...
Vietnam War's trauma echoes through half a century of cinema
The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking and has led filmmakers for ...
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10 movies that defined the Vietnam War on the big screen
“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 ...
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10 movies that defined the Vietnam War on the big screen
“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 urban ...