Full Metal Jacket
Kubrick movies just keep getting better and better with each repeated viewing.
The Paris Island bathroom scene gets creepier ever time. D'Onofrio had only been a bit player in a couple of low budget flicks before FMJ. He gained 70 pounds to play the role (which is more than DeNiro gained in Raging Bull). Both he, and Lee Emery were nominated for multiple awards.
Emery was originally cast as the crazy dude in the helicopter shooting VC civilians. Kubrick was so impressed with him he gave him the lead role as drill instructer and most of his dialogue was improvised.
Kubrick hated to fly so he filmed the movie in England. He flew in 200 palm trees and a few thousand fake tropical plants to help make things authentic.
The only downside to the movie is that a number of scenes use the same location sets over and over again.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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