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Full Metal Jacket (1987)

dir: Stanley Kubrick

The film divides into two parts. In the first part, a group of new recruits in the United States Marine Corps have just arrived at Parris Island for recruit training. After they have their heads shaved, they meet their drill instructor, Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey), who wastes no time in starting the process of making the civilians into Marines. The Vietnam War is in full swing, and his job is to produce trained warriors. The film's first section focuses on the physical and psychological treatment of the recruits: Hartman is extremely tough, intimidating and hard, in particular to Leonard Lawrence (Vincent D'Onofrio), whom Hartman derisively nicknames "Pvt. Pyle".

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