16 Things You May Not Know About ‘Full Metal Jacket’
By the timeThe Shiningwas exhaust in theater , Stanley Kubrick had already decide that for his next labor he wanted to make a cinema thatdepicted what warfare was like . A little more than seven years later , he presentedFull Metal Jacketto the world . Based on Gustav Hasford ’s novelThe Short - Timers , the 1987 movie — co - written by Kubrick , Hasford , and Michael Herr — leave behind a lasting encroachment ....