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lineage (lineage):
Dead Presidents → Full Metal Jacket.
Allen Hughes made a VHS of Vietnam scenes; Tate was assigned Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, Platoon.
“So I watched Full Metal Jacket.”
The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:43 · Lorenz Tate (0.80 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Full Metal Jacket → Stanley Kubrick.
The boot-camp first hour is cited as one of the great first halves of any movie; the Vietnam second half is very good with Kubrick hallmarks.
“that 1st hour is funny, terrifying, emotionally wrenching.”
The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:46:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
A Star Is Born → Full Metal Jacket.
Offered as a second answer to best half-movie: everything up to the first time she sings Shallow is dynamite.
“everything leading up to the 1st time she sings shallow on stage, which is like, I think an hour, maybe a little bit less.”
The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:47:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them) -
career (project that led to another):
Wartime Lies / Aryan Papers (unmade Kubrick project) → Full Metal Jacket.
The speaker says Full Metal Jacket came out of Kubrick searching for the right Holocaust material.
“Full Mal Jack comes out of him searching for the right Holocaust material.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:29:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
people (typecasting shorthand):
Full Metal Jacket → R. Lee Ermey.
Anyone who casts Ermey assumes the audience has seen the film and is either paying homage or pulling the rug out.
“anyone who uses him in a movie is like, well, you've seen full metal jacket. So we're either doing an homage to that or kind of pulling the rug out from that.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:08:16 · Jon Gabrus (0.70 sure it was them) -
people (performance parallel):
The Silence of the Lambs → Full Metal Jacket.
Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs is a similar case of a performance that explains a whole career.
“Hopkins and Silence of the Lambs is like a similar thing.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:10:34 · Jon Gabrus (0.60 sure it was them) -
unmapped (boot camp shadow):
Full Metal Jacket → The Inspection.
The Inspection is set in basic training and knows not to mess with Full Metal Jacket's drill sergeant; the speaker says it is not a ripoff.
“But I think it knows because every movie knows that it's like, it's everyone knows full metal jacket.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:12:25 · Jon Gabrus (0.80 sure it was them) -
people (drill sergeant casting):
Full Metal Jacket → Hacksaw Ridge.
Hacksaw Ridge gets around the Ermey shadow by casting Vince Vaughn, a different kind of motor mouth.
“But like Hacksaw Ridge is one of the only movies I think to get around this where it's like, oh, get Vince Vaughn, he's like a different type of motor mouth.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:13:25 · Jon Gabrus (0.80 sure it was them) -
unmapped (subversion):
Full Metal Jacket → Major Payne.
The answer to how to subvert the drill-sergeant movie is to do it with children, as in Major Payne.
“Now, which your answer is do it to children.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:15:10 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (boot camp comparison):
Stripes → Full Metal Jacket.
Compared as boot-camp movies, though Stripes loses interest after basic.
“It's it's a little bit like stripes, except the differences.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:18:12 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
unmapped (praise):
Billy Wilder → Full Metal Jacket.
Wilder is quoted calling the first 45 minutes the best movie ever made.
“I found some quote that like Billy Wilder said that he thought the 1st 45 minutes were the best movie ever made.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:20:09 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them) -
lineage (adaptation):
The Short-Timers (novel) → Full Metal Jacket.
Kubrick's film is based on Gustav Hasford's novel and keeps its three-part structure.
“Stanley Kubrick's film, 1987, based on the novel, The Short Timers by Gustav Hasford.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:25:08 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
unmapped (generational template):
Full Metal Jacket → Jarhead.
Jarhead is described as trying to be the Full Metal Jacket of the Iraq war generation.
“like jarhead feels like it's very much trying to be the full metal jacket.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:27:21 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them) -
theme (contemporary comparison):
Platoon → Full Metal Jacket.
At release critics said Platoon's visceral combat made Kubrick's sound-stage Vietnam look less real.
“Kubrick doing this on sound stages isn't the same.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:30:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
people (co-writer carried over):
Michael Herr → Full Metal Jacket.
Kubrick kept Herr, the writer from one piece of material, to help adapt a different one.
“Yeah, so he sort of absorbs the writer from one piece of material to help them adapt a different piece of material.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:37:57 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them) -
unmapped (scheduling conflict):
Aliens → Full Metal Jacket.
Rico Ross had to choose between two tyrannical directors with overlapping holds and picked Aliens.
“And eventually it was just like, you're dealing with 2 different tyrannical control freaks.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:46:53 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Full Metal Jacket:
The 3000 open video auditions produced a viral clip of a man at a Sears with a ladder saying hello Mr. Kubrick.
“This was an early case of letting people submit auditions through videotape, like having a pretty open audition because they needed young people and they got 3000 submissions.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:50:18 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
programming (thematic pairing):
The Woman King → Full Metal Jacket.
Both films are about how much you have to break your brain to survive training for war.
“But it's the thing that like Woman King goes into a lot as well of like, how much you have to break your brain to survive an environment like this, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:56:40 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them) -
theme (character parallel):
Black Hawk Down → Full Metal Jacket.
Eric Bana's Black Hawk Down character is like Animal Mother: scary, but useful when the shooting starts.
“Eric Bana's character is sort of similar where everyone's like, look, that guy freaks me out,”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:59:03 · Jon Gabrus (0.60 sure it was them) -
unmapped (considered for Hartman):
Robert De Niro → Full Metal Jacket.
Kubrick considered De Niro and Ed Harris for Hartman.
“So Kubrick considered a number of actors to play Gunner Sergeant Hartman, Robert De Niro, which is interesting to imagine, Ed Harris, who probably would be good.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:04:56 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
lineage (source of the dialogue):
R. Lee Ermey → Full Metal Jacket.
Per the dossier Hartman's insults came right from Ermey, whom Kubrick had write down what he screamed.
“No, obviously this guy is perfect and would write down everything he said because all the insults came right from him”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:05:50 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Full Metal Jacket:
The opening head-shaving was shot months after wrap, so the actors' misery was real.
“The opening of all of their heads being shaved was shot like 4 months after they thought they had wrapped.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:11:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
people (casting echo):
Full Metal Jacket → The Frighteners.
Ermey plays the ghost version of the drill sergeant in The Frighteners.
“he plays the ghost version of this in the Frighteners.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:20:08 · Jon Gabrus (0.60 sure it was them) -
what-if (what-if casting):
Ted Levine → Full Metal Jacket.
A speaker thinks Ted Levine would work in this film.
“Ted Levine would work in this.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:30:14 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Full Metal Jacket:
The battlefield was Beckton Gasworks, a huge plant scheduled for demolition, so the crew could blow it up.
“They're shooting at what's called the Bechton Gasworks, which was the largest gas plant in the world and was basically scheduled for demolition.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:43:19 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
industry (Oscar attention):
A Clockwork Orange → Full Metal Jacket.
Clockwork Orange got Oscar attention, but The Shining, Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut were ignored.
“obviously, the shining full metal jacket and eyes wide shut are all basically ignored by the Oscars.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 2:00:28 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them) -
people (pseudonymous composer):
Vivian Kubrick → Full Metal Jacket.
The score is credited to Abigail Mead, who is Kubrick's daughter Vivian.
“the score is credited to Abigail Mead, but that is Kubrick's daughter.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 2:02:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Full Metal Jacket:
The score was credited to Abigail Mead (Vivian Kubrick) and disqualified from Oscar consideration for being too short, about 22 minutes.
“It was disqualified from Oscar consideration.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 2:02:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
people (same actor, opposite bodies):
Full Metal Jacket → Adventures in Babysitting.
D'Onofrio is Pyle and a Thor-lookalike beefcake in two films opening the same summer.
“Dino Frio is on, you know, different screens in your multiplex in completely different bodies.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 2:15:07 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them) -
unmapped (least hair):
THX 1138 → Full Metal Jacket.
Fewest hairs in any covered film since THX 1138.
“this is like almost the least hair in any movie we've covered since THX. 1138.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 2:23:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
career (career sequence):
Holocaust movie (Kubrick's unmade film) → Full Metal Jacket.
Full Metal Jacket came out of Kubrick failing to crack a Holocaust movie, as Barry Lyndon came out of Napoleon.
“it does feel similar to Full Metal Jacket coming out of him trying to make a Holocaust movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:23:33 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
theme (location myth):
2001: A Space Odyssey → Full Metal Jacket.
Kubrick's later sets-bound movies rewrote the memory of the earlier location-shot ones.
“it just sort of changed the perception of the earlier works”
Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:34:28 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (theme: killing at a distance):
Paths of Glory → Full Metal Jacket.
The firing squad of Paths of Glory is set against the sniper of Full Metal Jacket as the gun advances.
“Well, what's the difference between the firing squat, the end of paths of glory and the sniper at the end of Full Metal Jacket?”
Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:47:20 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Paths of Glory → Full Metal Jacket.
Full Metal Jacket shows how systems hype young men up for war before reality hits; Paths of Glory shows the illusion falling apart.
“the thing that I think full Metal Jacket does particularly well, is you sort of understand the way these systems are built to hype these young men up”
Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:55:14 · Griffin Newman (0.85 sure it was them) -
what-if (what-if):
Anthony Michael Hall → Full Metal Jacket.
Kubrick, a Hughes fan, wanted Hall as Joker and negotiated for over half a year.
“decided he wanted Anthony Michael Hall in full metal jacket.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:21:57 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them) -
what-if (what-if):
Matthew Modine → Full Metal Jacket.
After Hall did not take Joker, the role went to Modine.
“and he went to Modine.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:22:14 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)