Full Metal Jacket: Vietnam

        Joker (Matthew Modine) is the main character in the movie. He had many different roles in the movie he played the role of being funny and tell jokes no matter whoever was in front of him and he even joked in front of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman so Gunnery Sergeant Hartman named him as joker, he had a caring and helpful role that cared about Leonard 'Private Pyle' Pratt who wasn’t that good in training and joker cared of and helped him in everything for an example when the Leonard 'Private Pyle' Pratt was hit by all soldiers with the soaps and towels and he didn’t want to hit but he was focused to hit and he also had a serious and independent role that was shown when the general focused him to believe in Virgin Marry but he didn’t change his point of view and this shows that he wasn’t scared of anything. In the war he made jokes of enemies to make everyone happy.

        Stanley Kubrick described the attitude of American soldiers to the enemy was quiet friendly it was shown when the Vietnamese soldier was asking to kill her but American soldiers did not want to kill her even though she killed two American soldiers cruelly and the director showed the Vietnamese were unkind for example the places they set the booty traps to kill their enemies and the two American soldiers got killed by the Vietnam woman solider in a harsh way that happened in the last scene of the movie. This means that Vietnamese didn’t even care about young kids and women. American soldiers were also shown caring people, the best example for it is when sniper who was a girl shot Americans and Americans couldn’t kill her but in the training they were told to think Vietnamese as animals and dehumanize them so it was easy to kill them and all the soldiers cared about their partners who got shot by enemies.

        Green Beret and Full Metal Jacket are two different films but they both are based on Vietnam and in many ways they r the same. John Wayne director of Green Beret described the Americans more caring than in Full Metal Jacket. The different between Green Beret and Full metal jacket are that in Full Metal Jacket there were women soldiers of Vietcong but Americans didn’t care about women they shot her well enemies are enemies no matter who they are and what sex they are. This shows that either of the directors have the same opinion about the war. John Wayne was also a soldier himself while Stanley Kubrick was only a director.

        What I personally think is Stanley Kubrick is right in some ways about the war like training and treating of soldiers at camps though John Wayne didn’t have anything like it in his film. So I liked the Full Metal Jacket it was well set up by Stanley Kubrick, he showed all step by step. First the soldiers trained hard and then went to war to fight their enemy although it was not shown in Green Beret. Stanley Kubrick shown many good examples of war in the movie like booty trap one when the American soldier blew up when he held the doll.

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