Seven-six-two millimeter. Full Metal Jacket.

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas report for basic training in our next episode in our WAR, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?... HOLLYWOOD MOVIES!

It's our third tour in Vietnam, and we are talking another one of the heavy hitters with Stanley Kubrick's FULL METAL JACKET (1987). Who could have predicted that an anti-war film, or at the very least, a film showing the futile nature of war would be responsible for riling up a generation of young marines?

We explore how these young men were mesmerised by the foul-mouthed Gunnery Sergeant, tremendously played by the late R. Lee Emery, and somehow missed the horror in Vincent D'Onofrio's performance of "Gomer Pyle" or the anti-war stance by Matthew Modine's "Joker". 

A film of two halves, Full Metal Jacket exhibited what it was like for recruits training for war like no other movie ever has, or ever will, and then takes the viewer on a ride into Hue, for some of the more intense city-based Vietnam battles ever put to film; all shot right here in London.

Join us, as we explore one of Stanley Kubrick's more underrated films...

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