1. American Cinema And The Vietnam War
... the war itself, Full Metal Jacket was legendary director Stanley Kubrick's attempt at making the seminal Vietnam film. Shot entirely on location in England, Kubrick used still photographs of the city of Hue to build his own warzone in London's Docklands, where Becton (an abandoned 1930s gaswork town) became Kubrick's Vietnam. Full Metal Jacket is his representation of Vietnam, and it ... -war protest, and as a result bring America to the negotiating table. On January 31st 2nd Battalion 5th marines were dispatched to Hue, where the North Vietnamese Army had captured the city. This became ...
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