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Alnilam is, as its dust jacket proclaims, a "novel by the author of Deliverance," the 1970 best seller that launched Dickey out of poetry circles and into the celebrity void. He was good, fast-drying copy. Big and burly as a stereotypical Southern sheriff (a role he played in the movie of Deliverance), he strummed a guitar, partied hard and shot at deer with a bow and arrow. His collection of poems, Buckdancer's Choice, won a 1966 National Book Award, but he was also a member of the warrior class, having flown Black Widow night fighters against the Japanese...
Stanley Kubrick' s first film in seven years, Full Metal Jacket, is a Viet Nam horror show with a dynamite first act and a fizzle finale...
Full Metal Jacket...
...while this line comes from the most recent of the Vietnam films, Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, Kubrick injects the line with an ironic twist which is indicative of the tone of the film. "I am living in a world of shit," one Vietnam recruit says, "But at least I am alive...
...action, inflicting on them the confusion that the soldiers themselves sense as he weaves them in and out of combat situation. But the confusion of the physical environment has entered the soldiers' souls, reflected best by one young recruit nicknamed Joker, who wears a peace symbol on his jacket while letters on his helmet boldly declare "Born to Kill...