With an all-star ensemble directed by the great Stanley Kubrick from boot camp to deployment, FULL METAL JACKET (1987) earned a place among the American Film Institute’s ranking of the art form’s greatest thrills. Initially hired as a technical advisor, former drill sergeant R. Lee Ermey was videotaped interviewing a group of British Territorial Army paratroopers who were being considered to portray Marines – but Kubrick was impressed by Ermey’s intimidation tactics and cast him in the film, even including some of his best lines and insults as dialogue.
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