The following is excerpted from Blu-ray Extras [Full Metal Shell: Between Good and Evil]
1. John Calley, former Warners executive: I think Kubrick is interested in the transition from young boy to killer;
2. Kubrick first read The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford in 1979, and he thought it was humorous, crazy, and slanted. Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" appeared that year;
3. Mathew Modine's performance in the audition tape did not impress Kubrick, but Director Kubrick saw his real state of non-performance at the end of the tape, so he asked him to play Private Joker;
4. Lee Ermey himself is a retired Marine Corps. Sgt Hartman, who starred in this film, is a very nice person. After wearing a uniform, he became a "devil". All kinds of vulgar language in the film are thought up by Lee, and there seems to be an endless thesaurus that ordinary playwrights can't write.
5. Producer Jan Harlan: Kubrick didn't like to travel, so he finally decided to shoot in England. In the east of London, there is a gas factory called Beckton, which was abandoned after the First World War. At that time, it was planned to be completely razed, and it was finally used as the "Vietnam Battlefield" set in the second half of the film. To make the set look more like Vietnam, Kudao airlifted a lot of palm trees
6. Steadicam photographer John Ward: Originally my contract was only 18 weeks, but it ended up being 17 months.
7. The actors are well-recognized: an average of 30 shots per shot, so Lee often shoots with a scratchy throat.
8. Lao Ku is most interested in the loss of humanity, so the soldier's helmet reads "Born to Kill" but wears a peace badge
9. At the end of the credits everyone marches and sings "MICKEY MOUSE MARCH" to symbolize a return to childlike innocence, which many Marines often say is the most accurate expression of their film.
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