![]() Kubrick's Vietnam is primarily an abandoned gas-works near the Thames. Most significant, he built his own Vietnam, D.W. Kubrick's screenplay (cowritten with novelists Gustav Hasford and Michael Herr) is an adaptation of Hasford's "The Short Timers," and Kubrick, who is not a veteran, ingested countless films, videotapes and books for background. Ironically, "Jacket" is the most synthetic "Vietnam film" thus far. ![]() ![]() ![]() Resurfacing like a cinematic cicada after a seven-year absence, the American expatriate has overtaken the homegrown Viet Pack of Coppolas, Ciminos and Stones to make the most eloquent and exacting vision of the war to date. There's a major star in "Full Metal Jacket": Stanley Kubrick's direction.
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