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|³|MA3K

The Marine training camp life, bullying and lead up to a recruit's sucide in the film Full Metal Jacket(1987) is a direct reference to the second episode(1959) of Masaki Kobayashi's epic film series 'The Human Condition'.

I was saving this to watch in a time when I'd not have decent internet and my brain had exploded from too much reading(ie now).

Over nine hours of post-war Japanese cinema if you are into that sort of thing.

I love discovering stuff like this.

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chez_jay in reply to @|³|MA3K

Indirect, perhaps, as it's from a novel: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Short-Timers. Out of print, a PDF can be found easily.

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|³|MA3K in reply to @chez_jay

Yeah I just got a copy for the plane, thanks.

I was right though, the two film scenes (esp. the suicide one) have more in common than the passages from the book. Probably Kubrick saw the earlier film and thought an American version of that would work better.

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