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{{quote|''"What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? [[Freudian Excuse|Didn't mommy and daddy show you enough attention when you were a child?]]"''|'''
'''''Full Metal Jacket''''' is the story of the [[Vietnam War]] seen through the eyes of a US Marine known to the audience as "Joker". The movie, directed by [[Stanley Kubrick]], is split into two parts. The first part follows Joker alongside his fellow Marine recruits through Boot Camp as they suffer under the colorful [[Drill Sergeant Nasty|Gunnery Sergeant Hartman]] (played by [[R. Lee Ermey]] in his most famous role), and the second part follows Joker's struggle to keep his humanity while he covers the Vietnam War as a combat correspondent.
The film is [[The Film of the Book|based on the semi-autobiographical novel]] "The Short-Timers" by former Marine Gustav Hasford published in 1979. The novel is split into three sections (the film merges the second and third into a single part) and features more complex writing as the story progresses. The book was the first in a planned trilogy. A sequel came in 1990 called "The Phantom Blooper". The reason for the gap between publishing being that Hasford began writing for other publications as well as serving three months of a six month sentence for theft in 1988. Hasford died in 1993 of heart failure before the third book could be completed. The first two books are currently out of print but text copies are available on the author's site.
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