Editing Full Metal Jacket (section)

===Filming===
[[Principal photography]] began on August 27, 1985, and concluded on August 8, 1986.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://thecinemaholic.com/where-was-full-metal-jacket-1987-filmed/ |title=Where Was Full Metal Jacket (1987) Filmed? |last=Handore |first=Pratik |date=March 28, 2022 |publisher=Cinemaholic |access-date=May 16, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-03-06 |title=Full Metal Jacket (1987) - Misc Notes - TCM.com |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/75816/full-metal-jacket#notes |access-date=2023-10-18 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306080339/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/75816/Full-Metal-Jacket/misc-notes.html |archive-date=March 6, 2016 }}</ref> Scenes were filmed in [[Cambridgeshire]], the [[Norfolk Broads]], in eastern London at [[Millennium Mills]] and [[Beckton Gas Works]] in [[London Borough of Newham|Newham]] and on the [[Isle of Dogs]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.information-britain.co.uk/movies/fullmetaljacket.htm|title=Movies, films TV locations in the UK Film and TV Set information, - Full Metal Jacket|website=www.information-britain.co.uk|access-date=January 1, 2021|archive-date=September 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928034030/https://information-britain.co.uk/movies/fullmetaljacket.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> Kubrick hired [[Anton Furst]] as the production designer, impressed by his work on ''[[The Company of Wolves]]'' (1984).<ref name="BOMB Magazine">{{cite magazine | url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/anton-furst|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171103185346/http://bombmagazine.org/articles/anton-furst/|archivedate=November 3, 2017|url-status=dead | title=Anton Furst |magazine=BOMB Magazine| date=April 1990 }}</ref> [[Bassingbourn Barracks]], a former [[Royal Air Force]] [[RAF Bassingbourn|station]] and then a [[British Army]] base, was used as the Parris Island Marines boot camp.<ref name="rose" /> A British army rifle range near Barton, Cambridge was used for the scene in which Hartman congratulates Private Pyle for his shooting skills. Kubrick and Furst worked from still photographs of Huế taken in 1968. Kubrick found an area owned by [[British Gas plc|British Gas]] that closely resembled it and was scheduled to be demolished. The disused Beckton Gas Works, a few miles from central London, was filmed to depict Huế after attacks.<ref name="cahill"/><ref>{{Cite news |last=Wise |first=Damon |date=2017-08-01 |title=How we made Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/aug/01/how-we-made-full-metal-jacket-stanley-kubrick-matthew-modine |access-date=2023-10-18 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref name="BOMB Magazine"/> Kubrick had buildings demolished and the film's art director used a [[wrecking ball]] to knock holes in some of the buildings over the course of two months.<ref name="cahill"/> Kubrick had a plastic replica jungle delivered from California, but once he saw it, he dismissed the idea, saying; "I don't like it. Get rid of it."<ref name="watson" /> The open country scenes were filmed at marshland in [[Cliffe-at-Hoo]]<ref>{{cite web|author=Kent Film Office|url=http://kentfilmoffice.co.uk/1987/09/12208/|title=Kent Film Office Full Metal Jacket Article|access-date=September 25, 2015|archive-date=September 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926011045/http://kentfilmoffice.co.uk/1987/09/12208/|url-status=live}}</ref> and along the [[River Thames]]. Locations were decorated with 200 palm trees imported from Spain<ref name="clines" /> and 100,000 plastic tropical plants from Hong Kong.<ref name="cahill" />

Kubrick acquired four [[M41 Walker Bulldog|M41 tanks]] from a Belgian army colonel who was an admirer of his work.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1987/06/28/stanley-kubrick-at-a-distance/543f1135-e5ab-44ba-ad83-37c539057f13/|title=Stanley Kubrick, At a Distance|last=Grove|first=Lloyd|date=June 28, 1987|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=November 3, 2017|archive-date=November 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171115205805/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1987/06/28/stanley-kubrick-at-a-distance/543f1135-e5ab-44ba-ad83-37c539057f13/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Westland Wessex]] helicopters, which have a much longer and less-rounded nose than that of the Vietnam era H-34, were painted Marines green to represent [[Sikorsky H-34 Choctaw]] helicopters. Kubrick obtained a selection of rifles, [[M79 grenade launcher]]s and [[M60 machine gun]]s from a licensed weapons dealer.<ref name="rose"/>

Modine described the filming as difficult. Beckton Gas Works was a toxic environment for the film crew, being contaminated with [[asbestos]] and hundreds of other chemicals.<ref>Modine; ''[[Full Metal Jacket Diary]]'' (2005)</ref> During the boot camp sequence of the film, Modine and the other recruits underwent Marine Corps training, during which Ermey yelled at them for 10 hours a day while filming the Parris Island scenes. To ensure that the actors' reactions to Ermey's lines were as authentic and fresh as possible, Ermey and the recruits did not rehearse together.<ref name="lobrutto" />{{rp|468}} For film continuity, each recruit had his head shaved once a week.<ref name="linfield"/>

Modine fought with Kubrick about whether he could leave the set to be with his pregnant wife in the delivery room. Modine threatened to cut himself and get sent to the hospital himself to force Kubrick to relent.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sokol |first=Tony |date=2019-06-26 |title=Full Metal Jacket and Its Troubled Production |url=https://www.denofgeek.com/books/full-metal-jacket-and-its-troubled-production/ |access-date=2023-10-18 |website=Den of Geek |language=en-US}}</ref> He also nearly fought with D'Onofrio during filming the boot camp scenes after he taunted D'Onofrio while laughing with the film's extras between takes.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/matthew-modine-interview-wrong-turn-stranger-things-b1804216.html | title=Matthew Modine interview: 'America has never dealt honestly with what its history is' | website=[[Independent.co.uk]] | date=February 22, 2021 }}</ref>

During filming, Ermey was injured in a car crash and broke several ribs, leaving him unavailable for four and a half months.<ref name="cahill"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.denofgeek.com/books/full-metal-jacket-and-its-troubled-production/|title=Full Metal Jacket and Its Troubled Production|first=Tony|last=Sokol|date=June 26, 2019|website=Den of Geek}}</ref>

During Cowboy's death scene, a building that resembles the alien monolith in Kubrick's ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' (1968) is visible. Kubrick described this as an "extraordinary accident".<ref name="cahill"/>

During filming, Hasford contemplated legal action over the writing credits. Originally, the filmmakers intended Hasford to receive an "additional dialogue" credit, but he fought for and eventually received full credit.<ref name="carlton"/> Hasford and two friends visited the set dressed as extras but was mistaken by a crew member for Herr. Hasford identified himself as the writer of the source material.<ref name="lewis"/>

Kubrick's daughter [[Vivian Kubrick|Vivian]], who appears uncredited as a news camera operator, shadowed the filming of ''Full Metal Jacket''. She filmed 18 hours of behind-the-scenes footage for a potential "making-of" documentary that went unmade. Sections of her work can be seen in the documentary ''[[Stanley Kubrick's Boxes]]'' (2008).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/322890808|title=Stanley Kubrick's Boxes|publisher=[[Vimeo]]|accessdate=February 25, 2024|at=34:34-35:15, 35:21-38:36}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Crow |first=Jonathan |date=20 February 2014 |title=Behind-the-Scenes Footage of Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket |url=https://www.openculture.com/2014/02/watch-behind-the-scenes-footage-of-stanley-kubricks-full-metal-jacket.html |access-date=24 June 2024}}</ref>