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Im Jahr werden im Rekrutenausbildungszentrum Parris Island in South Carolina junge Männer auf ihren Einsatz im Vietnamkrieg vorbereitet, unter ihnen auch der junge J. T. Davis, genannt Private Joker. Der sadistische Ausbilder Sergeant Hartman. Full Metal Jacket ist ein britisch-amerikanischer Antikriegsfilm aus dem Jahr und der Matthew Modine (Private Joker) gelang mit Full Metal Jacket der Durchbruch fungierte ursprünglich nur als technischer Berater am Set, wurde später allerdings von Kubrick für die Rolle des Gunnery Sergeant Hartman besetzt. Besetzung und Stab von Full Metal Jacket, Regisseur: Stanley Kubrick. Besetzung: Matthew Modine, Arliss Howard, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey. Man könnte meinen, Matthew Modine feierte mit seiner Leistung als Private Joker seinen großen Durchbruch – immerhin spielte er die Hauptrolle. Full Metal Jacket Schauspieler, Cast & Crew. Liste der Besetung: Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio u.v.m. Full Metal Jacket von Stanley Kubrick gilt als einer der besten Anti-Kriegsfilme und zeigt auf Full Metal Jacket folgt dem jungen Private Joker (Matthew Modine) durch seine brutale Ausbildung, Besetzung & Crew von Full Metal Jacket. Full Metal Jacket: Sendetermine · Streams · DVDs · Cast & Crew.

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Best of Full Metal Jacket - Boot Camp/Basic Training Joker, Animal Mother, Gomer, Eightball, Cowboy und die anderen - sie alle landen in der Hölle der Grundausbildung, wo sie ihr Bulldoggen-Drill-Sergeant in. Kubrick a eu ce petit malheur de passer sur la question du Viêt-Nam après beaucoup d'autres, ce qui fait que ce «Full Metal Jacket» n'a pas forcément connu.Full Metal Jacket Besetzung - Schauspiel
Gary Landon Mills. Set-Dekorateur Anton Furst. Bei einer Patrouille durch die Ruinen der Stadt verirrt sich die Gruppe. HD SD. Auch Arliss Howard hat den Sprung ganz nach oben nie geschafft, hält sich bis heute aber stets mit attraktiven Carmen Electra 2019 im Rampenlicht. Jan Harlan. Auch wenn der Film zum gefühlt tausendsten Mal im Fernsehen ausgestrahlt wird, ist doch das Besondere an Kultfilmen wie Kubricks Ausflug ins Kriegsfilmgenre, dass sie selbst beim x-ten Mal unterhaltsam und interessant bleiben. Private Cowboy 4 Fans. Ihr Kommentar wurde abgeschickt. Dort belegte er Kriminologie und Schauspiel. Ein weiterer Soldat der Gruppe widersetzt Captain Marvel Shazam dem und versucht, Albino aus der Gefahrenzone zu bringen, wird dabei jedoch selbst angeschossen. Der schmale Grat. Jetzt streamen:.
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Full Metal Jacket (1987 movie clip) Hartman and Pyle's death Private Joker versuche sowohl während der Ausbildung als auch in Vietnam seine Moralvorstellungen aufrechtzuerhalten, scheitere aber in beiden Fällen. Jetzt auf DVD, Blu-ray und digital! Gary Landon Mills. Joker muss erkennen, dass es weder einen T-Bag Krieg gibt, noch, dass ihn eine noch so harte Ausbildung darauf vorbereiten kann. Donlon 0 Fans.
Stanley Kubrick. Stanley Kubrick has smartly balanced the rigorous rules and requirement of duty with the nasty violence embedded in military life. Full Metal Jacket is illustrious in how close it portrays the psychological impact on Marines whose faces are shown up close. Drehbuchautor Gustav Hasford. According to Kubrick, he found the stark quality of the Bang Bang Club almost poetic. Payback Kirk Taylor. The film was released on Blu-ray on October 23, It contains the remixed audio and, for the first time since the original DVD release, the theatrical mono mix.
It was a critical success with publications praising image and audio quality, calling the former exceptionally good and faithful to the original theatrical release and Kubrick's vision, while noting the lack of new extras and bonus content.
The summary states, "Intense, tightly constructed, and darkly comic at times, Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket may not boast the most original of themes, but it is exceedingly effective at communicating them.
Richard Corliss of Time called the film a "technical knockout", praising "the dialogue's wild, desperate wit; the daring in choosing a desultory skirmish to make a point about war's pointlessness", and "the fine, large performances of almost every actor", believing, at the time, that Ermey and D'Onofrio would receive Oscar nominations.
Corliss appreciated "the Olympian elegance and precision of Kubrick's filmmaking". Nathan felt that after leaving the opening act following the recruit training, the film becomes "bereft of purpose", but he summarized his review by calling it a "hardy Kubrickian effort that warms on you with repeated viewings".
Nathan praised Ermey's "staggering performance". Canby echoed praise for Ermey, calling him "the film's stunning surprise Canby said D'Onofrio's performance should be admired, and he called Modine "one of the best, most adaptable young film actors of his generation".
Canby concluded: Full Metal Jacket was "a film of immense and very rare imagination". Jim Hall, writing for Film4 in , awarded the film 5 out of 5 stars and added to the praise for Ermey, saying his "performance as the foul-mouthed Hartman is justly celebrated and it's difficult to imagine the film working anything like as effectively without him".
The review preferred the opening training to the later Vietnam sequence, calling it "far more striking than the second and longer section".
Film4 commented that the film ends abruptly but felt "it demonstrates just how clear and precise the director's vision could be when he resisted a fatal tendency for indulgence".
Film4 concluded: " Full Metal Jacket ranks with Dr. Strangelove as one of Kubrick's very best. Strangelove , as well as the most horrific.
He appears to view it as the exclusive product of environmental conditioning, only very marginally influenced by concepts of subjectivity and interiority, by all whims, shades and modulations of personal expression".
Not all reviews were positive. Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert held a dissenting view, calling the film "strangely shapeless" and awarding it 2.
Ebert called it "one of the best-looking war movies ever made on sets and stage" but felt this was not enough to compete with the "awesome reality of Platoon , Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter.
Ebert gave praise to Ermey and D'Onofrio, saying "these are the two best performances in the movie, which never recovers after they leave the scene.
British television channel Channel 4 voted it number 5 on its list of the greatest war films ever made. Film scholar Greg Jenkins has done a detailed analysis of the adaptation of the novel as a screenplay.
The novel is in three parts. This gives the film a twofold structure, telling two largely independent stories connected by the same characters acting in each.
Jenkins believes this structure is a development of concepts that Kubrick has had since the s. At that time, Kubrick talked about wanting to explode the usual conventions of narrative structure.
Sergeant Hartman renamed from the book's Gerheim has an expanded role in the film. In the film, Private Pyle's incompetence is presented as weighing negatively on the rest of the platoon and in the film, unlike the novel, he is the only under-performing recruit.
In contrast, Hartman praises Pyle, saying that he is "born again hard". Jenkins says that the character of Hartman could not have been portrayed as having a warmer social relationship with the troops, as that would have upset the balance of the film, which depends on the spectacle of ordinary soldiers coming to grips with Hartman as a force of nature embodying a killer culture.
Various episodes in the book have been cut from the screenplay or conflated with others. For example, Cowboy's introduction of the "Lusthog Squad" has been both markedly shortened and supplemented by material from other sections of the book.
Although the book's final, third section was largely dropped, elements from this section were inserted into other episodes of the film. Jenkins thinks the film presents this passage more dramatically but in less gruesome detail than in the novel.
The film often has a more tragic tone than the book, which relies on callous humor. Joker in the film remains a model of humane thinking, as evidenced by his moral struggle in the sniper episode and elsewhere.
He works to overcome his own meekness, rather than to compete with other Marines. The film omits the book's showing his eventual domination over Animal Mother.
The film omits the death of the character Rafterman. Jenkins believed this allowed viewers to reflect on Rafterman's personal growth in the film and speculate on his future growth after the war.
The line of dialog "Me so horny. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For the type of bullet, see Full metal jacket bullet. Theatrical release poster.
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Fine Books. The New York Times. Retrieved April 30, Fox News Channel. Retrieved October 23, April 17, Lee Ermey created his memorable Full Metal Jacket role".
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Matthew Modine. Arliss Howard. Vincent D'Onofrio. Lee Ermey. Adam Baldwin. Dorian Harewood. Kevyn Major Howard.
Ed O'Ross. Lockhart John Terry. Crazy Earl Kieron Jecchinis. Hand Job Marcus D'Amico. Doc Jay Jon Stafford. Daytona Dave Herbert Norville. Rock Sal Lopez.
Payback Kirk Taylor. Camera Thief Nguyen Hue Phong. Motorbike Hooker Leanne Hong. VC Sniper Ngoc Le. Chili Costas Dino Chimona. Poge Colonel Bruce Boa.
Herr found it to be a masterpiece while Kubrick was so drawn to the dialogue, finding it entirely unique, Stanley read the book twice. According to Kubrick, he found the stark quality of the dialogue almost poetic.
Kubrick started his research on the film in , watching past documentaries and footage, studying hundreds of photographs, reading Vietnamese newspapers on microfilm from the era.
Earlier Herr was not inclined in revisiting the Vietnam experiences, but Kubrick convinced him after three years. Then in , Hasford was asked by Kubrick to work on the screenplay with Herr and himself, and they frequently talked over the phone.
Herr then wrote the first draft. After completion of the first draft, Both Herr and Hasford sent their submissions to Kubrick who read and edited them and this process was repeated by the team.
Kubrick wanted to meet Hasford in person Herr advised against it describing the author as scary. Full Metal Jacket was filmed in Cambridgeshire, England.
Kubrick acquired four M41 tanks from a Belgian colonel who happened to be his fan. A lot of effort and creativity were put to depict the war in the most efficient manner.
Kubrick described the filming as difficult. Full Metal Jacket is told in two acts. The film starts with the dehumanization which takes place during the basics training of the corps.
Focusing on a cluster of aspiring U. Marines and how they are pushed through the basics by their merciless drill sergeant, Hartman and sent off to Vietnam.
Kubrick had hired R. Lee Ermey as a military technical advisor on the film. Ermey had the background of being a Marine drill instructor which made him a sound prospect for the role and Kubrick hired him for the iconic role of Hartman.
The first act involves showing each of the recruits and their relentless sergeant who happens to have no problem with public humiliation and degradation of each and giving them names based on their demeanors or actions thus the character like the Cowboy, the Joker, etc.
It closely depicts how the American boys are overworked and thrashed by the mechanism which is the Marine Corps. Unless they are nothing but hardened, combat-ready, bald-headed men of mass destruction in uniforms or in the case of one private, a nut case.
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FULL METAL JACKET 4K ULTRAHD BLU-RAY REVIEW - MORE KUBRICK 4K!!Kubrick's daughter Vivian —who appears uncredited as a news-camera operator at the mass grave—shadowed the filming of Full Metal Jacket.
She shot 18 hours of behind-the-scenes footage for a potential "making-of" documentary similar to her earlier film documentary on Kubrick's The Shining , but in this case did not make the film.
Snippets of her work can be seen in the documentary Stanley Kubrick's Boxes Compared to Kubrick's other works, the themes of Full Metal Jacket have received little attention from critics and reviewers.
Michael Pursell's essay " Full Metal Jacket : The Unravelling of Patriarchy" was an early, in-depth consideration of the film's two-part structure and its criticism of masculinity, arguing that the film shows "war and pornography as facets of the same system".
Most reviews have focused on military brainwashing themes in the boot camp training section of the film, while seeing the latter half of the film as more confusing and disjointed in content.
Rita Kempley of The Washington Post wrote, "it's as if they borrowed bits of every war movie to make this eclectic finale.
Tony Lucia, in his July 5, , review of Full Metal Jacket for the Reading Eagle , looked at the themes of Kubrick's career, suggesting "the unifying element may be the ordinary man dwarfed by situations too vast and imposing to handle".
Lucia specifically refers to the "military mentality" in this film. He said further that the theme covered "a man testing himself against his own limitations", and he concluded: " Full Metal Jacket is the latest chapter in an ongoing movie which is not merely a comment on our time or a time past, but on something that reaches beyond.
British critic Gilbert Adair wrote: "Kubrick's approach to language has always been reductive and uncompromisingly deterministic in nature.
He appears to view it as the exclusive product of environmental conditioning, only very marginally influenced by concepts of subjectivity and interiority, by all the whims, shades and modulations of personal expression".
Michael Herr wrote of his work on the screenplay: "The substance was single-minded, the old and always serious problem of how you put into a film or a book the living, behaving presence of what Jung called The Shadow, the most accessible of archetypes , and the easiest to experience War is the ultimate field of Shadow-activity, where all of its other activities lead you.
In a review, Dan Schneider alleged that Kubrick took the cinematic idea of a recruit being broken down in boot camp and driven to suicide from the epic film series The Human Condition — Kubrick's daughter Vivian Kubrick , under the alias "Abigail Mead", wrote the film's score.
For the period music, Kubrick went through Billboard 's list of Top Hits for each year from to and tried many songs, but "sometimes the dynamic range of the music was too great, and we couldn't work in dialogue".
It incorporates Ermey's drill cadences from the film. The single reached number two in the UK pop charts. Full Metal Jacket received a limited release on June 26, , in theaters.
The film was released on Blu-ray on October 23, It contains the remixed audio and, for the first time since the original DVD release, the theatrical mono mix.
It was a critical success with publications praising image and audio quality, calling the former exceptionally good and faithful to the original theatrical release and Kubrick's vision, while noting the lack of new extras and bonus content.
The summary states, "Intense, tightly constructed, and darkly comic at times, Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket may not boast the most original of themes, but it is exceedingly effective at communicating them.
Richard Corliss of Time called the film a "technical knockout", praising "the dialogue's wild, desperate wit; the daring in choosing a desultory skirmish to make a point about war's pointlessness", and "the fine, large performances of almost every actor", believing, at the time, that Ermey and D'Onofrio would receive Oscar nominations.
Corliss appreciated "the Olympian elegance and precision of Kubrick's filmmaking". Nathan felt that after leaving the opening act following the recruit training, the film becomes "bereft of purpose", but he summarized his review by calling it a "hardy Kubrickian effort that warms on you with repeated viewings".
Nathan praised Ermey's "staggering performance". Canby echoed praise for Ermey, calling him "the film's stunning surprise Canby said D'Onofrio's performance should be admired, and he called Modine "one of the best, most adaptable young film actors of his generation".
Canby concluded: Full Metal Jacket was "a film of immense and very rare imagination". Jim Hall, writing for Film4 in , awarded the film 5 out of 5 stars and added to the praise for Ermey, saying his "performance as the foul-mouthed Hartman is justly celebrated and it's difficult to imagine the film working anything like as effectively without him".
The review preferred the opening training to the later Vietnam sequence, calling it "far more striking than the second and longer section".
Film4 commented that the film ends abruptly but felt "it demonstrates just how clear and precise the director's vision could be when he resisted a fatal tendency for indulgence".
Film4 concluded: " Full Metal Jacket ranks with Dr. Strangelove as one of Kubrick's very best.
Strangelove , as well as the most horrific. He appears to view it as the exclusive product of environmental conditioning, only very marginally influenced by concepts of subjectivity and interiority, by all whims, shades and modulations of personal expression".
Not all reviews were positive. Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert held a dissenting view, calling the film "strangely shapeless" and awarding it 2.
Ebert called it "one of the best-looking war movies ever made on sets and stage" but felt this was not enough to compete with the "awesome reality of Platoon , Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter.
Ebert gave praise to Ermey and D'Onofrio, saying "these are the two best performances in the movie, which never recovers after they leave the scene.
British television channel Channel 4 voted it number 5 on its list of the greatest war films ever made. Film scholar Greg Jenkins has done a detailed analysis of the adaptation of the novel as a screenplay.
The novel is in three parts. This gives the film a twofold structure, telling two largely independent stories connected by the same characters acting in each.
Jenkins believes this structure is a development of concepts that Kubrick has had since the s. At that time, Kubrick talked about wanting to explode the usual conventions of narrative structure.
Sergeant Hartman renamed from the book's Gerheim has an expanded role in the film. In the film, Private Pyle's incompetence is presented as weighing negatively on the rest of the platoon and in the film, unlike the novel, he is the only under-performing recruit.
In contrast, Hartman praises Pyle, saying that he is "born again hard". Jenkins says that the character of Hartman could not have been portrayed as having a warmer social relationship with the troops, as that would have upset the balance of the film, which depends on the spectacle of ordinary soldiers coming to grips with Hartman as a force of nature embodying a killer culture.
Various episodes in the book have been cut from the screenplay or conflated with others. For example, Cowboy's introduction of the "Lusthog Squad" has been both markedly shortened and supplemented by material from other sections of the book.
Although the book's final, third section was largely dropped, elements from this section were inserted into other episodes of the film.
Jenkins thinks the film presents this passage more dramatically but in less gruesome detail than in the novel. The film often has a more tragic tone than the book, which relies on callous humor.
Joker in the film remains a model of humane thinking, as evidenced by his moral struggle in the sniper episode and elsewhere.
He works to overcome his own meekness, rather than to compete with other Marines. The film omits the book's showing his eventual domination over Animal Mother.
The film omits the death of the character Rafterman. Jenkins believed this allowed viewers to reflect on Rafterman's personal growth in the film and speculate on his future growth after the war.
The line of dialog "Me so horny. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For the type of bullet, see Full metal jacket bullet. Theatrical release poster.
Natant Harrier Films. Warner Bros. Release date. Running time. United Kingdom United States [2]. Navy and Marine Corps usage, See Glossary of nautical terms article.
British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved January 14, British Film Institute. Archived from the original on July 11, Retrieved October 20, Box Office Mojo.
Retrieved August 1, September 29, Rutgers University Press. Archived from the original on February 8, Da dieser ständig Fehler begeht und für die Ausbildung zum Marine ungeeignet scheint, soll Joker sich um ihn kümmern.
Als jedoch die Fehler Paulas anhalten, geht Hartman dazu über, für jeden seiner Fehltritte nicht ihn, sondern den Rest der Mannschaft zu bestrafen.
Dafür rächt sich diese an Lawrence, indem sie ihn eines Nachts einer blanket party unterzieht, also mit in Handtücher gewickelten Seifenstücken verprügelt.
Nach kurzem Zögern nimmt auch Joker an diesem Übergriff teil. Ab diesem Zeitpunkt beginnt Lawrence sich zu verändern: Er fängt an, mit seinem Gewehr zu sprechen, und entpuppt sich als sehr guter Schütze.
Dabei trifft er im Toilettenraum der Unterkunft auf den bewaffneten Lawrence, der dem psychischen Druck der Ausbildung nicht mehr standgehalten hat.
Joker und seine Kameraden werden nach der Ausbildung zu verschiedenen Einheiten versetzt und nach Vietnam entsandt. Joker wird Kriegsberichterstatter für die Armeezeitung Stars and Stripes und wird zunächst weit hinter der Front eingesetzt, worüber er sich mit der Zeit zunehmend beklagt.
Joker nimmt Rafterman nur widerwillig mit, da er ihn nicht gefährden möchte, und tatsächlich sieht es schon bald so aus, als ob Rafterman den Bedingungen an der Front nicht gewachsen sei.
Dabei erlebt er, wie die führenden Mitglieder der Einheit nacheinander von Heckenschützen , Minen und Sprengfallen getötet werden, so dass Cowboy als Ranghöchster die Führung der Gruppe übernehmen muss.
Die Stimmung unter den Soldaten ist angespannt. Bei einer Patrouille durch die Ruinen der Stadt verirrt sich die Gruppe. Ihr Kundschafter Albino wird kurz darauf von einem Heckenschützen angeschossen und schwer verletzt.
Cowboy ruft über Funk nach Panzerunterstützung, die aber auf sich warten lässt. Er erlaubt der Gruppe nicht, den Verletzten zu bergen, da dieser sich im freien Schussfeld befindet.
Ein weiterer Soldat der Gruppe widersetzt sich dem und versucht, Albino aus der Gefahrenzone zu bringen, wird dabei jedoch selbst angeschossen.
Daraufhin verweigert auch Animal Mother dem Gruppenführer den Gehorsam, da er von einem einzelnen Heckenschützen ausgeht. Kurze Zeit später wird auch Cowboy durch eine Öffnung in einer Mauer getroffen und tödlich verletzt.
Die dezimierte Gruppe durchsucht das Gebäude, in dem der Schütze sich aufhalten soll. Joker findet ihn im Obergeschoss und stellt fest, dass es sich um eine junge Vietnamesin handelt.
Rafterman verletzt sie mit mehreren Schüssen. Tödlich verwundet liegt sie am Boden und wird von der Gruppe eingekreist.
Am Ende des Films leben nur noch wenige von Jokers Freunden. Der Film basiert auf zwei Veröffentlichungen von Kriegsberichterstattern.
Sein Kampfname lautete wie der der Hauptfigur im Film Joker. Herr zeigte sich zunächst ablehnend gegenüber der Vorstellung, erneut auf seine Erfahrungen in Vietnam einzugehen.
Er hatte selbst als Kriegsberichterstatter für das Magazin Esquire am Vietnamkrieg teilgenommen und seine Erfahrungen in dem Buch Dispatches verarbeitet.
Im Laufe der folgenden drei Jahre versuchte Kubrick allerdings durchgehend, Herr zu einer Zusammenarbeit zu überreden. Kubricks Artdirector verbrachte sechs Wochen damit, das Gaswerk mit einer Abrissbirne und Sprengstoff nach dessen Wünschen zu bearbeiten und authentische Ruinen einer zerstörten Stadt zu kreieren.
Zusätzlich wurden mehrere Westland-Wessex -Hubschrauber verwendet und aus Gründen der historischen Authentizität im damals üblichen Marinegrün lackiert.
Insgesamt wurde also eine realistische Umgebung geschaffen, die den realen Vorbildern sehr genau entsprach. Eine Ausnahme bildet lediglich die im Film gezeigte Gemeinschaftstoilette in der Unterkunft der Einheit, die in einem Studio in London nachgebaut wurde.
Diese entspricht nicht den realen Vorbildern in Parris Island. Lee Ermey angeschrien zu werden und wöchentlich die gesamte Kopfbehaarung abrasiert zu bekommen.
Dadurch kam es manchmal zu Spannungen zwischen den Darstellern der Rekruten und Ermey. Insgesamt sei die Atmosphäre am Set allerdings locker gewesen.
Lee Ermey vor dem Dreh nie begegnet. There's no nonsense that he's doing it for the men's own good. Everything is made subordinate to ''the corps,'' to which end the recruits are humiliated, beaten, exhausted, tricked, lied to, subjected to racial slurs and drilled, constantly drilled, physically and psychologically.
They recite by rote creeds, prayers and obscene couplets intended to detach them from all values from the past. On Christmas they sing ''Happy birthday, dear Jesus,'' and laugh at their own impertinence.
They sleep with their rifles, to which they've been ordered to give girls' names. The training is a kind of ecstatic, longed-for washing of brain and body, defined by Mr.
Kubrick in a succession of vignettes so vulgar and so outrageous that one watches in hilarity that, boomerang-like, suddenly returns as shock and sorrow.
The effect of this part of the film, photographed and played with an unnatural cleanliness that reflects the nature of the training iself, is so devastating that one tends to resist the abrupt cut to Vietnam, where order is disorder and truth is simply a matter of language.
At one point Private Joker, who has become a Marine combat correspondent, respectfully notes that henceforth ''search and destroy'' missions are to be described as ''sweep and clear.
Even the sky is a different color. Though the first half seems complete in itself, the point of ''Full Metal Jacket'' is made only through the combat mission that ends the film in the ruins of the city of Hue, which, as seen by Mr.
Kubrick, is both a specific place and the seat of judgment for all that's gone before. Sergeant Hartman's ghost looks on. The performances are splendid.
Modine ''Birdy,'' ''Mrs. Soffel,'' ''Streamers'' must now be one of the best, most adaptable young film actors of his generation. The film's stunning surprise is Mr.
Ermey, a leathery, ageless, former Marine sergeant in real life. He's so good - so obsessed - that you might think he wrote his own lines, except that much of his dialogue comes directly from Mr.
Hasford's book, adapted by the novelist with Mr.
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