What Joker calls 'the phony-tough and the crazy-brave' are here to be given a military oil change, to be wiped clean of their piss and vinegar and turned into reliable automatons, though Joker qualifies, 'The Marine Corps does not want robots. Lee Ermey) immediately supplant their real names (in a sort of visual analogue, Kubrick includes a dissolve that conjures the numbers on a rifle range over the heads of marching marines). The nicknames issued by Parris Island drill instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R.

'Joker' Davis (Matthew Modine), Robert 'Cowboy' Evans (Arliss Howard), and Leonard 'Gomer Pyle' Lawrence (Vincent D'Onofrio, in an astonishing debut). The live by the rifle/die by the rifle first act introduces a corps of cadets that includes tough-nut narrator James T. Strangelove.) in country, the Marines are twice seen negotiating for prostitute poontang (hence, the immortal line 'Me so horny. 'This is my rifle, this is my gun.' the Marine recruits sound off, in description of their weapons both metallic and fleshy (with practiced poker face, Kubrick recalls his more overtly jokey satire of militaristic phallic imagery in Dr.

To describe Kubrick's cinematic discourse on war as being foreplay and intercourse is a reading encouraged by the filmmaker's plain treatment of hungry masculine thrillseeking as inseparable from sex drive (meant to be sublimated into killing) and sexual humiliation (rushing in a vulgar stream from one's drill sergeant). Kubrick's free adaptation, marked by his unwavering rigor, reconstructs the Vietnam war in a bipartite structure of mad anticipation and equally mad consummation: Marines training for action, then finally seeing it. Herr shares screenwriting credit with Kubrick and Gustav Hasford, whose novel The Short-Timers provided the inspiration for the film (theirs was not a happy polygamous marriage: the erratic Hasford proved more than Kubrick could handle). In the conclusion to his seminal Vietnam book Dispatches, war correspondent Michael Herr recounts photojournalist Tim Page (who had been maimed in Vietnam) scoffing at a publisher's suggestion: ''Take the glamour out of war! I mean, how the bloody hell can you do that?' Herr helped Stanley Kubrick to do just that with the director's twelfth feature, the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket.

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