Full Metal Jacket and Platoon are clearly two of the biggest movies ever made about the

Vietnam War; therefore, they will always be compared and contrasted to each other.

Platoon was based on Oliver Stone's own experience so he used simple war movie

techniques to give a realistic sense of what jungle warfare was like. Kubrick's Full Metal

Jacket was based on Gustav Hasford's experience, but Kubrick wanted to use the story to

explore what made people into killers. These two films take very different approaches

and if we are to compare them it should be in the capacity to understand what war means

to the average person.

Both of the films are very detailed in depicting what actual warfare is like; however,

Platoon gives a great sense of the environment: miserably hot, extremely intense, disease

filled, and a very scary environment no one would readily want to visit. Full Metal Jacket

explores this too, but focuses a lot attention on the......

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