Full Metal Jacket Vs Vietnam

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Vietnam wasn’t a place for weak minded people, only the toughest people would make it through Parris Island. I chose the movie Full Metal Jacket because it is a classic humorous war movie that takes place at MCRD Parris Island and Vietnam.

The evaluation that I will be doing will be on the characters and how tough they are. There are 5 main characters in this movie 2 of which something unheard of happens between them.

Pvt. Joker was mentally tough because he joined the Corps to kill. He was given the name Joker from Gunnery Sergeant Hartman his drill instructor after he made a John Wayne reference when D.I Hartman was talking to someone else. Gny. Sgt Hartman was a tough man that was trying to make his company into killers. Pvt. Pyle