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A painting that played a key role in making Vincent van Gogh internationally famous and which was later owned by the American millionaire on whom Ian Fleming modelled his arch-villain Goldfinger is to go on sale at TEFAF Maastricht, the world's greatest art fair.
Basquiat Auction by Christie's Is Postponed
The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat filed a complaint against Christie's on 4 March, concerning its online sale "Jean-Michel Basquiat: Works From The Collection Of Alexis Adler". The artist's two sisters have accused the auction house of offering works for sale that have not been authenticated by the estate, and could therefore potentially be fakes.
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The 71-year-old man who sold 4,500 forged Anton Heyboer etchings to two gallery owners in Amsterdam will be subpoenaed. The two art galleries who were suspected of selling forged artwork by Anton Heyboer, will not be prosecuted.
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The 2012 NBA Playoffs are over for the New York Knicks. The Knicks forced a fifth game with a narrow victory on Sunday, sending the series back to Miami on Wednesday night. Ultimately, Miami's troika of LeBron James, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh proved to be too much, and the Knicks lost the elimination game by a final score of 106-94.
James led the Heat with 29 points and eight rebounds. He also made 13-of-15 free-throw attempts. Bosh and Wade both had 19 points.
Carmelo Anthony led the Knicks with 35 points. Amare Stoudemire had 14 points before fouling out.
Miami led at halftime, 55-44, and the Heat held a double-digit lead almost the entire second half.
"We had opportunities but you have to give the Miami Heat credit because every time we made a run and cut the lead to ten or eleven points, they made plays coming back the other way. That is what great teams do," said Knicks interim coach Mike Woodson.
The Knicks have not won a playoff series since 2000. After a suspenseful season that ranged from the highs of Linsanity to the lows of a coaching change, there will doubtlessly be some serious reflection about what happens next for the Knicks.
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Actuaries use statistics to determine the probability of risks and the financial consequences of those risks; it's the perfect position for someone who loves numbers. Actuaries come up with numbers for insurance companies, working with accountants and underwriters to determine what insurance rates should be based on these risks and their financial outcomes.
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Published on May 14, 2013 | Book Reviews
Lindsay Adler and Erik Valind have written a beginner's guide to photographic lighting centered around an unusual conceit. By structuring a book around a list of common challenges, they are able to give simple, understandable, and achievable solutions that add up to a 'lighting 101' guide.
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A mixture of personal anecdote and practical advice, 'Envisioning Family: A Photographer's Guide to Making Meaningful Portraits of the Modern Family' by Tamara Lackey should be of interest to anyone who wants to add a little something extra to their family portraits. Adam Kaplan takes a look.
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So modern digital video cameras are so good at high ISO sensitivities that you don't need to use lights? Experienced director and camera operator Evan Pugh argues that the truth is quite the opposite. Here's his quick guide to lighting for DSLR video.
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Creative and dramatic studio lighting does not have to involve a lot of gear. In this article, photographer Thomas Park demonstrates a range of creative possibilities that can be achieved using a single light in the studio.
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Whether it's on a recreational level or part of the pro race scene, access to mountain bike photography is usually very straightforward. A DSLR with a standard zoom lens is all the kit you need and if you read the technique tips in this article you are ready to get started.
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With their final debate behind them, President Obama and Mitt Romney are storming the battleground states for a full-court press on undecided voters. On his America Forward tour, Obama will visit six states in two days. Romney won't be far behind. – Joyce Jones
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Posted on September 7, 2012
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released a plan to guide management of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge for the next 15 years. The 59,000-acre refuge is located 25 miles northwest of Lawton, Oklahoma, and was originally established as a Forest Reserve in 1901. The draft plan calls for the continuation of elk and deer hunting to manage population levels.
The NRA would appreciate its hunter-members taking a few minutes to send a message in support of keeping elk and deer hunting as core values of this national wildlife refuge. Public comments are being requested by September 10th, and can emailed to email@example.com. Please include "Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge draft CCP and EA" in the subject line of your message.
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Based on | The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford |
Starring | Matthew Modine Adam Baldwin Vincent D'Onofrio Lee Ermey Dorian Harewood Arliss Howard Kevyn Major Howard Ed O'Ross |
Music by | Vivian Kubrick credited as Abigail Mead |
Cinematography | Douglas Milsome |
Editing by | Martin Hunter |
Studio | Harrier Films Natant |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release dates |
Running time | 116 minutes |
Country | United States United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | $30 million |
Box office | $46.3 million[1] |
Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war film directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay by Kubrick, Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford was based on Hasford's 1979 novel The Short-Timers. The film stars Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood, Arliss Howard, Kevyn Major Howard and Ed O'Ross. The story follows a platoon of U.S. Marines through their training and the experiences of two of the platoon's Marines in the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War. The film's title refers to the full metal jacket bullet used by infantry riflemen. The film was released in the United States on June 26, 1987.
The film received critical acclaim, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Kubrick, Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford. In 2001, the American Film Institute placed Full Metal Jacket at No. 95 in their "AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills" poll.
In 1967, during the Vietnam War, a group of new U.S. Marine Corps recruits arrives at Parris Island for boot camp. After having their heads shaved, they meet their austere Senior Drill Instructor, Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey). Hartman employs draconian tactics to turn the recruits into hardened Marines prepared for combat. Among the recruits are Privates "Joker", "Cowboy" and the overweight, bumbling Leonard Lawrence, who earns the nickname "Gomer Pyle" after attracting Hartman's wrath.
Unresponsive to Hartman's discipline, Pyle is eventually paired with Joker. Pyle improves with Joker's help, but his progress halts when Hartman discovers a contraband jelly doughnut in Pyle's foot locker. Believing that the recruits have failed to motivate Pyle, Hartman adopts a collective punishment policy: every mistake Pyle makes will earn punishment for the rest of the platoon, with Pyle being spared. In retaliation, the platoon hazes Pyle with a blanket party, restraining him to his bunk and beating him with bars of soap wrapped in towels. Shortly after this incident Pyle shows a strong aptitude for marksmanship with his M14 rifle, impressing Hartman. But Joker becomes worried as he witnesses Pyle showing increasing signs of obsession and mental breakdown, such as talking to his rifle.
Following their graduation the recruits receive their Military Occupational Specialty assignments; Joker is assigned to Basic Military Journalism. During the platoon's final night on Parris Island, Joker discovers Pyle in the latrine, loading his rifle with live ammunition. Joker attempts to calm Pyle, who responds by loudly executing drill commands and reciting the Rifleman's Creed. The noise awakens the platoon and Hartman. Hartman confronts Pyle and orders him to surrender the rifle. Pyle shoots Hartman, and then commits suicide.
In January 1968, Joker, now a sergeant, is a war correspondent in Vietnam for Stars and Stripes with Private First Class Rafterman, a combat photographer. Rafterman wants to go into combat, as Joker claims he has done. At the Marine base, Joker is mocked for his lack of the thousand-yard stare, indicating his lack of war experience. They are interrupted by the start of the Tet Offensive as the North Vietnamese Army attempts to overrun the base.
The following day, the journalism staff is briefed about enemy attacks throughout South Vietnam. Joker is sent to Phu Bai, accompanied by Rafterman. They meet the Lusthog Squad, where Cowboy is now a sergeant. Joker accompanies the squad during the Battle of Huế, where platoon commander "Touchdown" is killed by the enemy. After the area is declared secure by the Marines, a team of American news journalists and reporters enter Huế and interview various Marines about their experiences in Vietnam and their opinions about the war.
During patrol, Crazy Earl, the squad leader, is killed by a booby trap, leaving Cowboy in command. The squad becomes lost and Cowboy orders Eightball to scout the area. A Viet Cong sniper wounds Eightball and the squad medic, Doc Jay, is wounded himself in an attempt to save him against orders. Cowboy learns that tank support is not available and orders the team to prepare for withdrawal. The squad's machine gunner, Animal Mother disobeys Cowboy and attempts to save his comrades. He discovers there is only one sniper, but Doc Jay and Eightball are killed when Doc attempts to indicate the sniper's location. While attempting to call, once again, for tank support, Cowboy is shot and killed when the sniper finds a direct sightline to the squads shelter.
Animal Mother assumes command of the squad and leads an attack on the sniper. Joker discovers the sniper, a teenage girl, and attempts to shoot her, but his rifle jams and alerts her to his presence. Rafterman shoots the sniper, mortally wounding her. As the squad converge, the sniper begs for death, prompting an argument about whether or not to kill her. Animal Mother decides to allow a mercy killing only if Joker performs it. After some hesitation, Joker shoots her. The Marines congratulate him on his kill as Joker stares into the distance, displaying the thousand-yard stare. The Marines march toward their camp, singing the Mickey Mouse March. Joker states that despite being "in a world of shit," he is glad to be alive and no longer afraid.
- Matthew Modine as Private/Corporal/Sergeant James T. "Joker" Davis. The narrator who joined the U.S. Marine Corps to see combat, and later becomes an independent-minded combat correspondent. Joker wears a peace-sign medallion on his uniform as well as writing "Born to Kill" on his M1 Helmet, which he explains as an expression of Jungian philosophy concerning the duality of man.
- Vincent D'Onofrio as Private Leonard "Gomer Pyle" Lawrence. An overweight, clumsy, slow-witted recruit who becomes the focus of Hartman's attention for his incompetence and excess weight. D'Onofrio was required to gain weight for the role and added 70 pounds (32 kg; 5 st 0 lb) to his frame, for a total weight of 280 pounds (130 kg; 20 st 0 lb). This weight gain broke the record for the largest weight gained for a role, set by Robert De Niro for Raging Bull (1980). It took D'Onofrio nine months to shed the excess weight.[2][3]
- R. Lee Ermey as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, a Parris Island drill instructor who trains his recruits to transform them into Marines. R. Lee Ermey actually served as a U.S. Marine drill instructor during the Vietnam War. Based on this experience, he ad libbed much of his dialogue in the film.
- Arliss Howard as Private/Sergeant Robert "Cowboy" Evans. A Texan who attends boot camp with Joker and Pyle. He becomes a rifleman and later encounters Joker in Vietnam, where Cowboy takes command of a rifle squad.
- Adam Baldwin as Sergeant "Animal Mother," the nihilistic M60 machine gunner of the Lusthog Squad. His helmet bears the inscription: "I Am Become Death," a quotation from the Bhagavad Gita.
- Dorian Harewood as Corporal "Eightball." An African-American member of the Lusthog Squad, insensitive about his ethnicity (e.g. "Put a nigger behind the trigger"), and Animal Mother's closest friend.
- Kevyn Major Howard as Private First Class "Rafterman." Rafterman works as a combat photographer in the Stars and Stripes office with Joker.
- Ed O'Ross as Lieutenant Walter J. "Touchdown" Schinowski. The commander of the Lusthog Squad's platoon. His nickname comes from having "played a little football for Notre Dame."
- John Terry as Lieutenant Lockhart: The PAO officer in charge and Joker's assignment editor.
- Kieron Jecchinis as Sergeant "Crazy Earl": The squad leader, he is forced to assume platoon command when Schinowski is killed. As in the novel he carries a BB gun, which is visible just before he dies.
- John Stafford as Doc Jay: A U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman attached to the Lusthog Squad.
- Tim Colceri as the door gunner of the helicopter transporting Joker and Rafterman to the Tet Offensive front. He was initially cast to play the role of "Gunnery Sergeant Hartman," which ultimately went to R. Lee Ermey.[4] In flight, he shoots at civilians while enthusiastically repeating "Get some!", boasting "157 dead Gooks killed, and 50 water buffaloes too." When Joker asks if that includes women and children, he admits it stating, "Sometimes." Joker then asks, "How could you shoot women and children?" to which the door gunner replies, "Easy, you just don't lead 'em as much!" This scene is adapted from Michael Herr's 1977 book Dispatches.
- Peter Edmund as Private "Snowball" Brown, an African-American recruit, the butt of Hartman's racial jibes.
- Bruce Boa as a belligerent colonel, who demands to know why Joker wears a peace symbol on his body armor when he also has the words 'Born to Kill' written on his helmet.
Kubrick contacted Michael Herr, author of the critically acclaimed Vietnam War memoir Dispatches (1977), in the spring of 1980 to discuss working on a film about the Holocaust, but eventually discarded that in favor of a film about the Vietnam War.[5] They met in England and the director told him that he wanted to do a war film but he had yet to find a story to adapt.[6] Kubrick discovered Gustav Hasford's novel The Short-Timers while reading the Virginia Kirkus Review[7] and Herr received it in bound galleys and thought that it was a masterpiece.[6] In 1982, Kubrick read the novel twice and afterwards thought that it "was a unique, absolutely wonderful book" and decided, along with Herr,[5] that it would be the basis for his next film.[7] According to the filmmaker, he was drawn to the book's dialogue that was "almost poetic in its carved-out, stark quality."[7] In 1983, he began researching for this film, watching past footage and documentaries, reading Vietnamese newspapers on microfilm from the Library of Congress, and studied hundreds of photographs from the era.[8] Initially, Herr was not interested in revisiting his Vietnam War experiences and Kubrick spent three years persuading him in what the author describes as "a single phone call lasting three years, with interruptions."[5]
In 1985, Kubrick contacted Hasford to work on the screenplay with him and Herr,[6] often talking to Hasford on the phone three to four times a week for hours at a time. [9] Kubrick had already written a detailed treatment.[6] Kubrick and Herr got together at Kubrick's home every day, breaking down the treatment into scenes. From that, Herr wrote the first draft.[6] The filmmaker was worried that the title of the book would be misread by audiences as referring to people who only did half a day's work and changed it to Full Metal Jacket after discovering the phrase while going through a gun catalogue.[6] After the first draft was completed, Kubrick would phone in his orders and Hasford and Herr would mail in their submissions.[10] Kubrick would read and then edit them with the process starting over. Neither Hasford nor Herr knew how much they contributed to the screenplay and this led to a dispute over the final credits.[10] Hasford remembers, "We were like guys on an assembly line in the car factory. I was putting on one widget and Michael was putting on another widget and Stanley was the only one who knew that this was going to end up being a car."[10] Herr says that the director was not interested in making an anti-war film but that "he wanted to show what war is like."[5]
At some point, Kubrick wanted to meet Hasford in person but Herr advised against this, describing The Short-Timers author as a "scary man."[5] Kubrick insisted. They all met at Kubrick's house in England for dinner. It did not go well, and Hasford was subsequently shut out of the production.[5]
Adaptation of novel to film[edit]
Film scholar Greg Jenkins has done a detailed analysis of the transition of the story from book to film. The novel is in three parts, while the film largely discards Part III, and massively expands the book's relatively brief first part about the boot camp on Parris Island. This gives the film a duplex structure of telling two largely separate stories connected by the same characters, one which Jenkins believes is consistent with statements Kubrick made back in the 1960s of wanting to explode the usual conventions of narrative structure.[11]
Sergeant Hartman (renamed from the book's Gerheim) is given an expanded presence in the film. The film is more focused on Private Pyle's incompetence as a presence that weighs negatively on the rest of the troop. In the film, unlike the novel, he is the "sole problem recruit".[12] The film omits "Hartman's" disclosure to other troops that he thinks Pyle might be mentally unstable, a "Section Eight." By contrast, Hartman congratulates Pyle that he is "born again hard". Jenkins believes that to have Hartman be in any way social with the troops would have upset the balance of the film, which depends on the spectacle of ordinary soldiers coming to grips with Hartman as a force of nature embodying a killer culture.[13]
Various episodes from the book have been both cut and conflated with others in the film. Sequences such as Cowboy's introduction of the "Lusthog Squad" have both been drastically shortened and supplemented by material from other sections of the book. Although the book's final third section was largely dropped, pieces of material in it have been inserted into other episodes of the film.[14] The climactic episode with the sniper is a conflation of two episodes in the book, one from part two, and another from part three. Jenkins sees the film's handling of this episode as both more dramatic but less gruesome than its counterpart in the novel.
The film often has a more tragic tone than the book, which often falls back on callous humor. Joker in the film remains a model of humane thinking, as evidenced by his moral struggle in the sniper episode and elsewhere. His struggle in the film is to overcome his own meekness, rather than to compete with other Marines. Hence, the film omits his eventual domination over Animal Mother.[15]
The film omits the death of the character Rafterman. Jenkins believed this allowed viewers to reflect on his personal growth in the film, and speculate on his further growth afterwards. Jenkins also believed it would not fit into the film's plot structure.[14]
Through Warner Bros., Kubrick advertised a national search in the United States and Canada. The director used videotape to audition actors. He received over 3,000 videotapes. His staff screened all of the tapes and eliminated the unacceptable ones. This left 800 tapes for Kubrick to personally review.[6]
Former U.S. Marine Drill Instructor Ermey was originally hired as a technical adviser and asked Kubrick if he could audition for the role of Hartman. Kubrick, having seen his portrayal as Drill Instructor Staff sergeant Loyce in The Boys in Company C, told him that he was not vicious enough to play the character. In response, Ermey made a videotape of himself improvising insulting dialogue towards a group of Royal Marines while people off-camera pelted him with oranges and tennis balls. Ermey, in spite of the distractions, rattled off an unbroken string of insults for 15 minutes, and he did not flinch, duck, or repeat himself while the projectiles rained on him.[6] Upon viewing the video, Kubrick gave Ermey the role, realizing that he "was a genius for this part."[8] Ermey's experience as a real-life Drill Instructor during the Vietnam era proved invaluable, and he fostered such realism that in one instance, Ermey barked an order off-camera to Kubrick to stand up when he was spoken to, and Kubrick instinctively obeyed, standing at attention before realizing what had happened.[citation needed] Kubrick estimated that Ermey came up with 150 pages of insults, many of them improvised on the spot—a rarity for a Kubrick film. According to Kubrick's estimate, the former drill instructor wrote 50% of his own dialogue, especially the insults.[16]
The original plan envisaged Anthony Michael Hall starring as Private Joker, but after eight months of negotiations, a deal between Kubrick and Hall fell through.[17] Kubrick offered Bruce Willis a role, but Willis had to turn down the opportunity because of the impending start of filming on the first six episodes of Moonlighting.[18]
Kubrick shot the film in England: in Cambridgeshire, on the Norfolk Broads, and at the former Millennium Mills and Beckton Gas Works, Newham (east London). A former RAF and then British Army base, Bassingbourn Barracks, doubled as the Parris Island Marine boot camp.[8] A British Army rifle range near Barton, outside Cambridge, was used in the scene where Private Pyle is congratulated on his shooting skills by Hartman. The disused Beckton Gas Works a few miles from central London portrayed the ruined city of Huế. Kubrick worked from still photographs of Huế taken in 1968 and found an area owned by British Gas that closely resembled it and was scheduled to be demolished.[16] To achieve this look, Kubrick had buildings blown up and the film's art director used a wrecking ball to knock specific holes in certain buildings over the course of two months.[16] Originally, Kubrick had a plastic replica jungle flown in from California but once he looked at it was reported to have said, "I don't like it. Get rid of it."[19] The open country is Cliffe marshes, also on the Thames, with 200 imported Spanish palm trees[7] and 100,000 plastic tropical plants from Hong Kong.[16]
Kubrick acquired four M41 tanks from a Belgian army colonel (a fan), and Westland Wessex helicopters painted Marine green to represent Marine Corps Sikorsky H-34 Choctaw helicopters. Although the Wessex was a licensed derivative of the Sikorsky H-34, the Wessex substituted two gas turbine engines for the H-34's radial (piston) engine. This resulted in a much longer and less rounded nose than that of the Vietnam era H-34. Kubrick also obtained a selection of rifles, M79 grenade launchers and M60 machine guns from a licensed weapons dealer.[8]
Modine described the shoot as difficult: the filming location for Vietnam, Beckton Gas Works, was a toxic and environmental nightmare for the entire film crew. Asbestos and hundreds of chemicals poisoned the earth and air. Modine documents details of shooting at Beckton in his book, Full Metal Jacket Diary. During the 'Boot Camp' sequence of the film, Modine and the other recruits had to endure the rigors of Marine Corp training, including having Ermey yelling at them for ten hours a day during the shooting of the Parris Island scenes. For film continuity, each recruit had to have his head shaved once a week.[20]
At one point during filming, Ermey had a car accident, broke all of his ribs on one side and was out for four-and-half months.[16] Cowboy's death scene shows a building in the background that resembles the famous alien monolith in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick described the resemblance as an "extraordinary accident."[16]
During filming, Hasford contemplated legal action over the writing credit. Originally the filmmakers intended Hasford to receive an "additional dialogue" credit, but he wanted full credit.[10] The writer took two friends and sneaked onto the set dressed as extras only to be mistaken by a crew member for Herr.[9]
Kubrick's daughter Vivian — who appears uncredited as a news-camera operator at the mass grave—shadowed the filming of Full Metal Jacket and shot eighteen hours of behind-the-scenes footage for a potential "making-of" documentary similar to her earlier film documentary on Kubrick's The Shining; however, in this case, her work did not come to fruition. Snippets of her work can be seen in the 2008 documentary Stanley Kubrick's Boxes.
Compared to Kubrick's other works, the themes of Full Metal Jacket have received little attention from critics and reviewers. Michael Pursell's essay "Full Metal Jacket: The Unravelling of Patriarchy" (1988) was an early, in-depth consideration of its two-part structure and its criticism of masculinity, arguing that the film shows "war and pornography as facets of the same system."[21] Most reviews have focused on military brainwashing themes in the boot camp training section of the film, while seeing the latter half of the film as more confusing and disjointed in content. Rita Kempley of The Washington Post wrote, "it's as if they borrowed bits of every war movie to make this eclectic finale."[22] Roger Ebert explained, "The movie disintegrates into a series of self-contained set pieces, none of them quite satisfying."[23] Julian Rice in his book Kubrick's Hope sees the second part of the film as continuing the psychic journey of Joker in trying to come to grips with human evil.[24]
In addition to her work preparing a documentary, Vivian Kubrick, under the alias "Abigail Mead," wrote the score for the film. According to an interview which appeared in the January 1988 issue of Keyboard Magazine, the film was scored mostly with a Fairlight CMI synthesizer (the then-current Series III edition) and a Synclavier. For the period music, Kubrick went through Billboard's list of Top 100 Hits for each year from 1962–1968 and tried many songs but "sometimes the dynamic range of the music was too great, and we couldn't work in dialogue."[16]
- Johnnie Wright – "Hello Vietnam"
- The Dixie Cups – "Chapel of Love"
- Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs – "Wooly Bully"
- Chris Kenner – "I Like It Like That"
- Nancy Sinatra – "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'"
- The Trashmen – "Surfin' Bird"
- Goldman Band – "Marines' Hymn"
- The Rolling Stones – "Paint It Black" (end credits)
A single, "Full Metal Jacket (I Wanna Be Your Drill Instructor)," credited to Mead and Nigel Goulding, was released to promote the film. It incorporates Ermey's drill cadences from the film. The single reached number two in the UK pop charts.[25]
Box office[edit]
Full Metal Jacket received a limited release on June 26, 1987 in 215 theaters.[1] Its opening weekend saw it accrue $2,217,307, an average of $10,313 per theater, ranking it the number 10 film for the June 26–28 weekend.[1] It took a further $2,002,890 for a total of $5,655,225 before entering wide release on July 10, 1987, at 881 theaters—an increase of 666.[1] The July 10–12 weekend saw the film gross $6,079,963, an average of $6,901 per theater, and rank as the number 2 grossing film. Over the next four weeks the film opened in a further 194 theaters to its widest release of 1,075 theaters before closing two weeks later with a total gross of $46,357,676, making it the number 23 highest grossing film of 1987.[1][26]
Home video[edit]
The film was released on Blu-ray on October 23, 2007 in the US and other countries.[27] On April 9, 2012, Warner Home Video announced that they would release the 25th anniversary edition on Blu-ray on August 7, 2012.[28]
Critical reception[edit]
Full Metal Jacket received positive responses from critics following its release. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes retrospectively collected reviews to give the film a score of 94% based on reviews from 70 critics, with an average rating of 8.4 out of 10.[29][30] Another aggregator Metacritic gave it a score of 78 out of 100, which indicates a "generally favorable" response, based on 18 reviews.[31] Reviewers generally reacted favorably to the cast, Ermey in particular,[32][33] and the film's first act in recruit training,[34][35] but several reviews were critical towards the latter part of the film set in Vietnam and what was considered a "muddled" moral message in the finale.[36][37] It ranks #95 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills.[38]
Richard Corliss of Time called the film a "technical knockout," praising "the dialogue's wild, desperate wit; the daring in choosing a desultory skirmish to make a point about war's pointlessness" and "the fine, large performances of almost every actor," believing, at the time, that Ermey and D'Onofrio would receive Oscar nominations. Corliss also appreciated "the Olympian elegance and precision of Kubrick's filmmaking."[32] Empire's Ian Nathan awarded the film 3 out of 5 stars, saying that it is "inconsistent" and describing it as "both powerful and frustratingly unengaged." Nathan felt that after leaving the opening act following the recruit training, the film becomes "bereft of purpose" but summarized his review by calling it a "hardy Kubrickian effort that warms on you with repeated viewings." Nathan also praised Ermey's "staggering performance."[35] Vincent Canby of The New York Times called it "harrowing, beautiful and characteristically eccentric." Canby echoed praise for Ermey, calling him "the film's stunning surprise...he's so good - so obsessed - that you might think he wrote his own lines". Canby also said that D'Onofrio's performance should be noted with "admiration," and called Modine "one of the best, most adaptable young film actors of his generation." Canby concluded that Full Metal Jacket was "a film of immense and very rare imagination."[39]
Jim Hall writing for Film4 in 2010 awarded the film 5 out of 5 stars and added to the praise for Ermey, saying his "performance as the foul-mouthed Hartman is justly celebrated and it's difficult to imagine the film working anything like as effectively without him." The review also preferred the opening training to the later Vietnam sequence, calling it "far more striking than second and longer section." Film4 commented that the film ends abruptly but felt that "it demonstrates just how clear and precise the director's vision could be when he resisted a fatal tendency for indulgence." Film4 concluded that "Full Metal Jacket ranks with Dr. Strangelove as one of Kubrick's very best."[34] Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader called it "Elliptical, full of subtle inner rhymes...and profoundly moving, this is the most tightly crafted Kubrick film since Dr. Strangelove, as well as the most horrific."[40] Variety called the film an "intense, schematic, superbly made" drama "loaded with vivid, outrageously vulgar military vernacular that contributes heavily to the film's power," but felt that it never develops "a particularly strong narrative." The cast performances were all labeled "exceptional" with Modine being singled out as "embodying both what it takes to survive in the war and a certain omniscience."[33]
Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert held a dissenting view, calling the film "strangely shapeless" and awarding it 2.5 stars out of 4. Ebert called it "one of the best-looking war movies ever made on sets and stage" but felt this was not enough to compete with the "awesome reality of Platoon, Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter." Ebert also criticized the film's second act set in Vietnam, saying the "movie disintegrates into a series of self-contained set pieces, none of them quite satisfying" and concluded that the film's message was "too little and too late," having been done by other Vietnam war films. However, Ebert also gave praise to Ermey and D'Onofrio, saying "these are the two best performances in the movie, which never recovers after they leave the scene."[37] Time Out London also disliked the film saying "Kubrick's direction is as steely cold and manipulative as the régime it depicts," and felt that the characters were underdeveloped, adding "we never really get to know, let alone care about, the hapless recruits on view."[36]
British television channel Channel 4 voted it number 5 on its list of the greatest war films ever made.[41] In 2008, Empire placed Full Metal Jacket number 457 on its list of the The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time.[42]
Full Metal Jacket was nominated for eleven awards worldwide between 1987 and 1989 including an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay,[43][44] two BAFTA Awards for Best Sound and Best Special Effects,[45] and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for Ermey.[46] Ultimately it won five awards, three from organisations outside of the United States: Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom. The film won Best Foreign Language Film from the Japanese Academy, Best Producer from the David di Donatello Awards,[47] Director of the Year from the London Critics Circle Film Awards,[48] and Best Director and Best Supporting Actor from the Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, for Kubrick and Ermey respectively.[49] Of the five awards won, four were awarded to Kubrick.
Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Result | Ref. |
1987 | BAFTA Awards | Best Sound | Nigel Galt, Edward Tise and Andy Nelson | Nominated | [45] |
Best Special Effects | John Evans | Nominated | [45] | ||
1988 | 60th Academy Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford | Nominated | [43][44] |
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards | Best Director | Stanley Kubrick | Won | [49] | |
Best Supporting Actor | R. Lee Ermey | Won | |||
David di Donatello Awards | Best Producer - Foreign film | Stanley Kubrick | Won | [47] | |
Golden Globes | Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | R. Lee Ermey | Nominated | [46] | |
London Critics Circle Film Awards | Director of the Year | Stanley Kubrick | Won | [48] | |
Writers Guild of America | Best Adapted Screenplay | Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford | Nominated | ||
1989 | Kinema Junpo Awards | Best Foreign Language Film Director | Stanley Kubrick | Won | |
Awards of the Japanese Academy | Best Foreign Language Film | Stanley Kubrick | Nominated |
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It was 8 degrees above freezing when I went out this morning, and Our Evergreen World was shimmering with hoarfrost. Every, twig, stem and pine needle was encrusted with diamonds. Our entire landscape shimmered like Tiffany's window. Backlit by the rising sun, each tree and shrub was a scintillating piece of jewelry.
Over the years, I've written columns in February about historical African-American figures with Colorado connections in observation of Black History Month. The stories I told were about people who had lived and died before I was born. As this February is the first Black History Month in which we have an African-American president, I've found myself thinking about the contemporary black history I've personally observed.
It's not news that the state budget is in crisis. Loose, some would say reckless, government spending in the good times along with lower revenues have contributed to an approximately $600 million hole in the budget. While many services will be affected, higher education will take the biggest hit.
Jefferson County officials are hoping a panel of county residents can offer fresh ideas on how to grapple with more than $277 million in construction, equipment and maintenance costs through 2013.
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In that vein, it's not hard to guess what freshman Rep. Mike Coffman's focus is right now in Congress.
The Evergreen girls swim team finished off the 2008-09 campaign with a 19th-place finish at the Class 4A state swim meet. It's the highest finish for an Evergreen team since 2003.
"It was a little bit of a surprise," said Evergreen junior, Carrie Latimer. "Everyone swam really hard at state and it was a good ending to our season."
The scene was set for an epic Class 4A Jefferson County League boys basketball battle between Evergreen and D'Evelyn on Feb. 20. The props were in place, the actors were prepared and the anticipation was palpable.
In a game that featured two evenly matched teams that were equal in league record and both riding high on win streaks, everything was in place for a fight to the finish.
Evergreen resident Kenneth G. Berry, 65, has been charged with 11 counts of securities fraud in Colorado in connection with selling shares of stock in a reportedly non-existent company called Biotech Information Systems Inc.
Berry's wife, Anne Wakeford Berry, is listed as a co-defendant in the case.
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An informal town hall meeting came together in the Evergreen Middle School cafetorium at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 19 in front of a lively crowd of about 60 people.
Participants included freshman state Rep. Cheri Gerou of Evergreen and state Sen. Dan Gibbs of Silverthorne. Topics ranged from an update on the pine bark beetle to the latest transportation legislation just passed in the state Senate.
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Editor's Note: Kay Senter's opponent in the upcoming election, Tom Wallace, declined an offer to interview for his own candidate profile story.
Morristown City Councilmember Kay Senter says she's seeking a fifth term in office to continue a legacy of achievement and preserve the advances in city government made over the past three years.
"I'm running for office because I thoroughly enjoy serving the people of Morristown," Senter said. "Working together, we have been successful and productive over the past years.
"I believe the people I work with will tell you I'm honest, dependable, prepared – a person of integrity. I want to ensure the progress that we've made under the leadership of City Administrator Tony Cox is continued."
Senter says choosing Cox over the other city administrator candidates was a no-brainer, and he hasn't disappointed during his three years at the helm of city government.
She pointed out the city administrator went from a negative fund balance to reserves of more than $10 million.
Senter said that working with councilmembers, Cox has developed a long-term plan for improving the sanitary sewer system, reconstructing the wastewater-treatment plant, and complying with federal stormwater regulations, as well as paving more than 20 miles of city streets, the candidate said.
An oversight ommittee has also been formed to ensure Morristown doesn't fall behind in making future improvements to the sewer system.
Senter says she believes effective communication will go a long way towards resolving conflict among councilmembers. She pointed out that votes on issues are unanimous the overwhelming majority of the time, yet sometimes-bitter disagreements continue.
"I really don't see hard-and-fast divisions among councilmembers," she said. "What I don't see is an ability to agree and disagree and move on to address the city business without dragging history along. City leaders should be able to agree and disagree and respect the opinions of others.
"I think we're going to have to work on communication and chain of command," she added. "I think we're going to have to determine what our goals and objectives are as a council as how we're going to accomplish them. This can't be accomplished without equal respect and communication among all councilmembers. Communication and leadership begin with the mayor."
Senter says she understands city residents' opposition to the $10 monthly garbage fee, but added it's an issue that councilmembers addressed last budget season.
Senter says council-members were faced with the dilemma of raising property taxes or raising the garbage fee.
"I'm not for raising property taxes to pay for garbage collection because the fee for this service is a fairer way of spreading the cost among the users," she said.
Suggesting the money could be taken from the general fund runs counter to city council's established policy of maintaining a healthy reserve fund. Also, she says, the Tennessee General Assembly is considering legislation to require municipalities to make the garbage fund a self-supporting utility, and that's what Morristown is already doing.
Senter opined that shifting operational responsibility for the sanitary sewer system to Morristown Utility Systems makes sense to her.
"At the city's request, MUS has taken control of the lift stations for the sewer system," she said.
This coordination of the responsibilities for the sewer could turn out to be the first step in the overall assumption of the responsibilities of the sewer system by MUS.
"I think it's a logical step," she added. "MUS has the equipment and knowledgeable employees who already work on the sewer lines, which are generally in close proximity to the sewer. Of course, the final decision to move all responsibilities of the sewer to MUS will be a council decision."
Senter is a retired English teacher who taught at Morristown-Hamblen High School East for 38 years.
She was married to the late Jim Senter. They had one son, Jimmy, who lives in Knoxville with his wife, Brooke, who have two children.
She is the daughter of the late Dr. John Kinser and his long-time wife, the late Betty Kinser.
Senter says she has risen to the top of her field in both her professional and public service life.
She was named president of the Tennessee Municipal League while serving on council.
She has also served on the board of the TML Bond Fund and TML Risk Management pool. Senter was named East High and Hamblen County teacher of the year and was among six of finalists for Tennessee Teacher of the Year. Senter continues to serve on the Morristown-Hamblen Healthcare System board. She was named First Lady of Morristown and was inducted in the Hurricane and Hamblen Women's halls of fame.


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