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Full Metal Jacket Original Screenplay

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Full Metal Jacket Original Screenplay
Full Metal Jacket (1987) - This is an original shooting script from Stanley Kubrik's 1987 war drama film. It comes with a blue construction paper cover featuring the title with a black helicopter with soldiers jumping out of it. It is bound with metal fasteners. The title page features: "Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Michael Herr with additional dialogue by Gustav Hasford". Gustav Hasford was a United States Marine Corps veteran and novelist. His semi-autobiographical novel The Short-Timers (1979) was the basis for the film Full Metal Jacket (1987). Hasford is credited as one of the screenwriters. He worked with Stanley Kubrick and Michael Herr to adapt The Short-Timers for the screen. The script has 55 white colored pages up to scene 33. After that page 55a starts the deleted scenes that are yellow colored pages featuring deleted scenes 34 and 35 (pages 55a-161). These deleted scene pages are very rare. The script was used throughout production and shows minor wear with some rust inside the cover from the metal fasteners, small curls at the edge of the cover and a few slight creases down the right side of the cover page. Some smuding in the middle of the word "Metal".

This screenplay comes directly from the estate of Nick Frewin. Nick worked with Stanley Kubrick on most of his films in the prop department and as a designer for Kubrick for over twenty-five years. Comes with a letter of provenance. Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war drama film directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford. The film is based on Hasford's 1979 novel The Short-Timers and stars Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio and Adam Baldwin.

The film is divided into two parts. The first part follows a platoon of U.S. Marines through their boot camp training in Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, primarily focusing in the first half of the film on privates J.T. Davis and Leonard Lawrence, nicknamed "Joker" and "Pyle", who struggle under their abusive drill instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. The second part of the film takes place during the Vietnam War. Joker is now a combat photographer, and he witnesses the horrors of war firsthand. He also sees the effects of war on Pyle, who has become a hardened killer. Full Metal Jacket is a powerful and disturbing film that explores the dehumanizing effects of war. It is a harsh and unflinching look at the human cost of conflict. This is a great complement for any Stanley Kubrick collector and especially the significance of having an original production script from Full Metal Jacket.