The first segment follows Joker, Pyle and others as they progress through the hell of USMC boot-camp at the hands of the colorful, foul-mouthed Gunnery Sergeant Hartman.
This is the sort of thing that gives historians a rampant case of the smugs, because if we were commanding the operation we would have spotted it. A two-segment story that follows young men from the start of recruit training in the Marine Corps to the lethal cauldron known as Vietnam. Though many Americans assumed the Vietnamese would never attack during Tet, there was a famous precedent in 1789, when Nguyen Hue launched a surprise attack on Chinese forces in Vietnam during that same holiday. "They say the same thing every year," growls his commanding officer, Lockhart (John Terry). "A bro in intelligence says Charlie might try to pull off something big during the Tet holiday," he says.
Joker (Matthew Modine) has become a military reporter. The graduates go on to Vietnam, where the Tet holiday is looming. David Prowse wore the suit and conveyed Vader’s intimidating physical presence, while James Earl Jones provided the character’s rich, unmistakable voice. Though it qualifies as fiction rather than history, its point – that marine training was no picnic – is doubtless valid. The role of Darth Vader is so powerful and iconographic that it took two performers to bring the Sith Lord to life. The first half of the film follows a group of United States marine recruits training in South Carolina. Full Metal Jacket is still as popular today as it was when it was released 30 years ago, possibly more.
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We need a holiday … Joker gets journalistic ammo From 2014 to 2018, the BFI marked the centenary of World War I with a massive programmes of key films, archive TV, rereleases and archival discoveries, including the re-release of Frank Borzage’s A Farewell to Arms (1932).