Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Directed by Stanley Kubrick · Cinematography by Douglas Milsome
R116 min59 frames
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In Vietnam, the wind doesn't blow. It sucks.
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What is Full Metal Jacket about?
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war film directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick from a screenplay he co-wrote with Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford. The film is based on Hasford's 1979 autobiographical novel The Short-Timers. It stars Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Baldwin, Dorian Harewood, and Arliss Howard.
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What does the cinematography of Full Metal Jacket look like?
Across 59 sampled frames, Full Metal Jacket builds its coverage from wide compositions (39% of the sample), with medium shots (31%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Douglas Milsome keeps 47% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Daylight carries most of the picture. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 68% of the frames.
What is the color palette of Full Metal Jacket?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Full Metal Jacket (1987) are #31322d, #535449, #a9a891, #8f9077, #77796e, #586350 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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