At the most recent election campaign meetings, Trump has played by a video in which the film’s iconic Drill Sergeant Hartman, played by R. Lee Ermey, berates the Marine Corps recruits.
He does so in a vulgar and sometimes racist way – even though the character in the 1987 film says he sees everyone as “equally worthless”.
The AP news agency writes that the Republican presidential candidate is using the “Full Metal Jacket” clip to show how he wants a tougher American defense – and to make fun of the Biden administration’s support to openly gay soldiers.
The Trump campaign alternates the clip of the drill sergeant captioned “then” with footage of people supporting LGBTQ rights and drag queens captioned “now.” And ends with the Maga-inspired call “Let’s make our military great again”.
Ermey, who died in 2018, was a former sergeant and himself served in Vietnam. The film’s director, Stanley Kubrick, died in 1999, but his daughter Vivian Kubrick believes her father would have supported Trump and forgiven him for using an anti-war film to make the point of a forceful defense.
– That’s what “Full Metal Jacket” is about, the shocking and complicated paradoxes of human nature, She wrote on X.
Vivian Kubrick is a defense friend, and believes that the film clips were used for their realistic portrayal of recruit training in contrast to “demoralizing and inappropriate woke ideology” in today’s US defense.
– I agree with that and I’m sure my father would agree with that, she rounds off her support for Trump, and recalls that Stanley Kubrick in his time supported Ronald Reagan.
Matthew Modine, who plays the private soldier called “Joker” in “Full Metal Jacket”, however, completely disagrees.
– It is ironic how Trump has turned Kubrick’s powerful anti-war film into a perverse, homophobic and manipulative propaganda weapon, he says to Entertainment Weekly.
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