{"id":6607,"date":"2022-05-14T03:11:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T07:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shatpod.com\/movies\/?p=6607"},"modified":"2024-09-08T12:43:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T16:43:27","slug":"full-metal-jacket-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shatpod.com\/movies\/full-metal-jacket-1987\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Metal Jacket (1987)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Full Metal Jacket Quote: &#8220;You talk the talk. Do you walk the walk?&#8221; &#8211; Animal Mother<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border:none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/23108486\/height\/100\/width\/\/thumbnail\/no\/render-playlist\/no\/theme\/custom\/tdest_id\/414995\/custom-color\/de4a20\" height=\"100\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" 0=\"allowfullscreen\" 1=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" 2=\"mozallowfullscreen\" 3=\"oallowfullscreen\" 4=\"msallowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p>&#8220;When it comes to the greatest Vietnam war movie of all time, two films come to mind: Francis Ford Coppola&#8217;s &#8220;Apocalypse Now&#8221; and Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s &#8220;Full Metal Jacket.&#8221; Longtime listener Hot Sauce Steve was kind enough to commission the latter.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone remembers the belly laughs and jaw-dropping surprises in &#8220;Full Metal Jacket,&#8221; R. Lee Ermey&#8217;s unforgettable performance, Vincent D&#8217;Onofrio&#8217;s body transformation, and the wealth of dark humor. But we don&#8217;t always take the time to celebrate the film&#8217;s sets or dig deeper into Kubrick&#8217;s themes of dehumanization, indoctrination, and whether man can withstand the unnatural conditions of war.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode, the Shat Crew hears Big D&#8217;s Sapper School Tales, explores sex-worker inflation, outlines the economics of short-time versus long-time, debates slow-motion deaths, and plans Ash&#8217;s Chaturbate career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Plot Summary: \u201cFull Metal Jacket&#8221;<\/strong> Stanley Kubrick\u2019s take on the Vietnam War follows smart-aleck Private Davis (Matthew Modine), quickly christened \u201cJoker\u201d by his foul-mouthed drill sergeant (R. Lee Ermey), and pudgy Private Lawrence (Vincent D\u2019Onofrio), nicknamed \u201cGomer Pyle,\u201d as they endure the rigors of basic training. 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