Vietnam in England: The Story Behind Kubrick’s Massive Set | Full Metal Jacket

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The second half of Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket takes place in several locations around Vietnam. For a variety of reasons, Kubrick wanted to do all of the filming near his home in England, but how do you make a Vietnam movie in England? By sheer chance, the production managed to find an abandoned gasworks just outside of London that they could shoot in and because the gasworks was already set for demolition, Kubrick was able to turn the location into perhaps the biggest and most unusual movie set in the history of cinema. This is the story of how Kubrick managed to recreate Vietnam in England.
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This video essay was written, edited, and narrated by Tyler Knudsen.
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Sources:
Cinephilia & Beyond - Run Through the Jungian: Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Full Metal Jacket’, a Phenomenological Treatise on War - bit.ly/3fconoP
[FMJ Diary] Full Metal Jacket Diary by Matthew Modine - www.fullmetalja...
[NY Times] What They Say About Stanley Kubrick By Peter Bogdanovich - nyti.ms/3kDAXk3
[AC] American Cinematographer: Full Metal Jacket - by Ron Magrid - bit.ly/3fconoP
[Becton Wiki] bit.ly/32VPWQu
[Guardian] How we made Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket by Damon Wise - bit.ly/3j8jG2h
[Siskel] Candidly Kubrick, by Gene Siskel, 1987 From Chicago Tribune 21 June 1987.
[Film 87] How Docklands became Vietnam - bit.ly/2FXwg5J
[Bomb Magazine] Anton Furst by Lynn Geller [Bomb Magazine] - bit.ly/2ZYrDPM
[NY Times] Furst Obituary - nyti.ms/303F4OC
[Martin Hunter] Revisiting “Full Metal Jacket”: An Interview with Stanley Kubrick's Editor, 2014 - cinematyler.com...
[A Voix Nue] A Voix Nue - Interview with Stanley Kubrick - bit.ly/33LUMik
[Cahill] The Rolling Stone Interview: Stanley Kubrick in 1987 By Tim Cahill
Clips:
Stanley Kubrick's Boxes (2008 dir. Jon Ronson)
The Making of Full Metal Jacket
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001 dir. Jan Harlan)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999 dir. Stanley Kubrick)
A Clockwork Orange (1971 dir. Stanley Kubrick)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Spartacus (1960 dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Kubrick Remembered (2014 dir. Gary Khammar)
Brannigan (1975 dir. Douglas Hickox)
For Your Eyes Only (1981 dir. John Glen)
The Company of Wolves (1984 dir. Neil Jordan)
Barry Lyndon (1975 dir. Stanley Kubrick)
The Shining (1980 dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Batman (1989 dir. Tim Burton)
Music:
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[@KapiteinKrentebol]

Francis Ford Coppola films Apocalypse Now, production is in the Phillipines and a total hell to shoot which takes over 3 years. Stanley Kubrick films Full Metal Jacket in his own back yard and is always home in time for diner. Anyway FMJ is one of the most quotable movies in history. :D

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

Having been to the Philippines I fully understand Coppola’s problems there - the place is a logistics nightmare. But the film is a classic because the sweaty jungle atmosphere feels so right. Could Coppola have filmed it in the east end of London? Absolutely not! (Anyways, the Full Metal Jacket scenes have always bothered me. The atmosphere just felt wrong. The real city of Hue is far more densely built up and it’s just so darn hot and sweaty!)

[@FreeManFreeThought]

The quoteable part is mainly Kubrick having a stage play mindset to his films. The dialogue is the first and foremost element for him, especially in Full Metal Jacket that was one of his biggest frustrations. He is quoted as wishing he could use British actors because they "learn their f*ing lines". His environments were also calculated to match the scenario, to 'feel real' as opposed to being based on reality.

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

@@FreeManFreeThought - Well sadly, Hue-in-east-London didn’t feel right for me. My suspension of disbelief plonked to the ground.

[@FreeManFreeThought]

@@sirrathersplendid4825 while a legitimate concern, for most of the world that doesn't know the area's it didn't matter. I grew up near Vancouver, BC in Canada, and I am used to seeing local landmarks as standins for nearly everywhere on earth. It is just the nature of film production being centered on a few locations worldwide. LA, Vancouver, and London being three of the main hubs in the English speaking film world.

[@Ribulose15diphosphat]

And Werner Herzog filmed Aguirre, Wrath of God (the original Apocalyspse now) in Peru. It was not only a hell to shoot, it was even a worse hell to work with Klaus Kinski. Marlon Brando was a nice nice and unproblematic actor compared to Kinski.

[@barrycohen311]

This was great man. I really mean that. Means a lot to us Kubrick fans.

[@CinemaTyler]

Thank you! Comments like yours really means a lot to me!

[@kishascape]

Love the clip of good ole Roger Ebert as well. Guess he was always a hateable hack even back in the day.

[@barrycohen311]

@@kishascape I know two people who worked with Roger at the Chicago Sun-Times. They confirm your hypothesis.

[@davidcoon3602]

Stanley Kubrick is my favorite movie director and possibly the best of all time. Particularly 2001:A Space Oddessey. Mind-blowing.

[@stevenmorley1639]

Kubrick's Genius was to make different Genres of Movies look spectacular and classical.

[@paulclarke1207]

I served in the British Army for some years. I did my basic training at ATR (Army Training Regiment) Bassingbourn, which Kubrik had used as his Pariss Island. When the troops go marching around the camp, singing "I love working for Uncle Sam..." etc, you can see the British road markings. I didn't discover this little fact until after I'd finished my training there. It blew my mind.

[@timh3576]

Thanks for your service, Paul!

[@bluesrocker91]

Interesting... Bassingbourn was also a major USAAF bomber field during the war. The Memphis Belle was based there, and the original 1944 documentary about it shows a lot of footage of the then RAF station and surrounding countryside.

[@paulclarke1207]

@@bluesrocker91 Lots of old WW2 airbases got turned into Army barracks after the war. I have particularly unpleasant memories of being ragged around the old concrete runway with a full pack and rifle. I didn't know the Memphis Belle flew out of Bassingbourn though. You live and learn.

[@bluesrocker91]

@@paulclarke1207 Yeah, I believe there's now a memorial there with one of the original propellers on the gate.

[@limedickandrew6016]

Snap, me too. Did my training 1978-79 as a junior soldier. Another connection I had was the RSM at Bassingbourne at the time of the filming, was my Company Sergeant Major when I was stationed in West Berlin 1981-82. I was company clerk, so he and me worked together in the same office.

[@sawyerstudio]

Kubrick was such a madman, and genius. One of a kind.

[@cut--]

I WAS SOOOO pissed when he died! --for selfish reasons I admit. :\

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

Mad? I think he just had a bad case of OCD.

[@thomasdaily4363]

Narrator: "It was scheduled for demolition." Kubrick: "We'll help!!"

[@isaacmartinez6904]

Stanley Kubrick really hated flying and I can't blame him. I give him props for making an abandond gas works into a Vietnamese city for this movie.

[@paulblartmemecop7218]

Funny thing was he had a pilot’s liscense

[@davidjames579]

@@paulblartmemecop7218 He stopped flying after he realized how much could go wrong, from being a pilot.

[@jsXanatos]

i said something like this on that kubrick subreddit and one of his daughters shut me down, hard. i think the fear of flying thing is greatly overblown

[@davidjames579]

@@jsXanatos He attended the New York premiere of 2001 by travelling there by ship in place of flying. David Bowie's someone else who didn't fly. He once went from a gig in L.A to the first leg of an Australian Tour by ship. His tours had time gaps between locations to allow him time to get between without flying.

[@jsXanatos]

@@davidjames579 argue with his daughter, not me. thanks

[@JustSheilz]

This was one of your best videos on this film!

[@garrycowan4394]

You always make the subject matter really interesting 👍

[@cisbio682]

Pretty sure the shooting range shown 2.40 was actually located in fields outside Barton village near Cambridge.

[@thetooner8203]

Yes, it's Barton range, a great facility for the recruits training at Bassingbourn Bks. for decades.

[@canturgan]

Beckton gasworks is in East London. I took pictures there of my 7 year old son on set after filming. Coincidentally I used to drive regularly to Huntingdon and passed Bassingborn barracks on the way there and noticed there were palm trees placed along the roads on the base and old helicopters. I didn't know why at the time.

[@MrDanmjack]

Clock work orange was filmed at Brunel university. Just 5 min walk from my childhood home.

[@NDKY67]

Nice work, very well informed

[@ericscottstevens]

Kubrick's rendition was an American Stalingrad. Far into a campaign not going well, with geopolitical aspirations, politicians directing the war effort, and yet the soldiers fight on to survive and for each other. This is a knock out fight within the urban setting that is unsettling for viewers. Dust, glass, and instant death. Foes inches from each other and yet not knowing they were there. Advantage rests with who has the most bullets and can storm the entry ways despite the casualties.

[@leehankin5784]

I lived and went to school in Beckton when this film was made. I would have been about 13 and with my mates we used to spend hours dodging Security Guards on this set collecting spent cases and bits an bobs from the shoot. And I can confirm the trees were in skips!!. Fasinating and good times

[@GrahamSimons]

Bassingbourn - pronounced 'Bass' not 'Base' -was also where much of Hollywood director William Wyler shot 'Mempbis Belle' back in 1943!

[@paulaharrisbaca4851]

Your stuff is great and it's the exact kind of KZbin stuff I'd have made myself in college if it was as easy to create and be seen as you guys have the ability to do I read magazines like Cinefex and drove around looking for locations like the ones in Vertigo and The Birds and take photos and so forth (I saw most of Kubrick's films in the theater with my mom who adored "Dr Strangelove" (I wasn't around for that but she took me to see "2001" at the Fox in San Francisco in Cinerama I think, and it was $5 a ticket, which was a lot of money, especially to take a 6 year old kid and my hippie big brother, and I will always remember the quiet at the end when the Star Child appears. People dressed up to see that movie. It was a huge deal. And at the end it felt like a religious experience, the way people rose from their seats, silent after applauding and then as we left the cinema the talking began to grow in volume. It was quite a thing.

[@definewrath2791]

Hey Tyler I know I'm quite late just wanted to say I relate with the story you told from your childhood. I walked in on my parents during suicide scene and was haunted by it for many years. Anyways enjoyed the video thx.

[@bodge6886]

Bassingbourn barracks is where I trained in 1975😂😂

[@ddraig1957]

Full Metal Jacket was an amazing achievement. Being an old industrial site,the gasworks wasn't a very healthy location to work in. I guess you have to suffer for your art.

[@matthewaustin5292]

If you're Kubric you've got the green to get your top choice in everything. The Vietnam war

[@ThePdeHav]

Hi Tyler, love your video essays. I knew Anton Furst. My girlfriend and I house sat for him and Jill just before he tragically took his own life. If you’d hit me up on FB I might have some insights into the films that interest you, on which Anton worked.

[@joelgalvan8358]

Hartman, made the story real. Do, is there to guide recruits. They get physical, to harden , and to teach. Those slaps Pyle got ,were nothing compared to what we received, daily. Body shots, chocking, slammed into walls,etc. It all had a rhyme and a reas

[@firsteerr]

my father and i were driving home and i saw from the flyover a tank moving and palm trees , we pulled over and watched it for an hour or so and often wondered what the hell was going on !!! it wasnt until i was TOLD thats where the city of whey (spelled that wrong ) battle scene was filmed years later

[@cooljackster7390]

17:19

[@somethingelse4878]

1:00 I watched a documentary called Stanley where his Italian driver and all round dogs body told all. Yes he did have a driver, a racing car driver The driver had to take jack Nicholson around while he stopped to pic up women while filming the shining

[@georgejones8481]

Cool thing about Full Metal jacket is it shows the urban warfare of the Vietnam war. Generally people just think it was jungle guerilla warfare due to most other Vietnam films that stick to jungle settings.

[@Activated_Complex]

Yep. Hue City was arguably the place where the war was lost. No reflection on the men who served there, and elsewhere. The Tet Offensive was a military disaster, on the whole, for the NVA and VC. But Walter Cronkite saw a historically and culturally important city fall to the Communists, who resisted its recapture for a time, and concluded that the war was un-winnable with the current strategy. LBJ’s reaction summed it up. “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America.”

[@robzilla730]

@@Activated_Complex it was all bullshit. No disrespect to the Brave Troops who went but that war was b.s. Johnson was a globalist, Cronkite was a globalist. They repeated the globalist/ Vietnam playbook in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[@ClaytonStone895]

Romeo Alpha “Cronkite was a globalist.” WTF does this mean?

[@robzilla730]

@@ClaytonStone895 he was a mouthpiece for the globalists. Their propagandist. JUST LIKE most news "reporters" are today. Nothing's changed. Got it?

[@jayj266]

hue looked way different

[@MrDaddynomates]

I live in England. When I found out this movie was made here I was like wtf? How? They made good use of the 3 weeks of sunshine we get each year 😆

[@jdb47games]

They avoided our three weeks of sunshine, as Kubrick wanted every scene to be overcast. Therefore our weather was mostly obliging.

[@ventarfield7115]

I was very surprised to learn this movie was shot in England. This man was an absolute genius and true mad lad.

[@MyHentaiGirl]

Well of course you guys thought it was in Vietnam since you have never been there , like no shit

[@alexeip6792]

@@jdb47games Shooting when it is overcast is better sometimes, because sunlight is more intense in South East Asia compared to Europe. But overcast weather looks the same everywhere in the world

[@annetteslife]

​@@ventarfield7115 I thought it was filmed in the states

[@kremesauce]

I can’t believe after all these years since the films release there’s so much to talk about. Thank you for these videos and for teaching/helping me appreciate cinema more and more Tyler! Ps. Thank you for introducing me to stalker and Tarkovsky.

[@CinemaTyler]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@lucaviggiani2189]

My grandfather worked for North Thames Gas Board at Beckton as a boiler maker. He met his favourite actor, John Wayne when he was filming Brannigan.

[@CinemaTyler]

So cool!

[@admiralcraddock464]

I stod in the same place in the signal box where John wayne kicked the door in and said "Knock, knock"

[@plasticweapon]

is that you, john wayne? is this me?

[@jamesdrynan]

Kubrick never seemed to suffer from budgetary constraints. As well as creating an England- based Vietnam, he was able to portray the entire universe in 2001. A true visionary director who aimed for perfection in his craft.

[@davidlean1060]

He was, in fact, very good at stretching the budget he had. This is why he was afforded so much time by Warners. He never used a large crew and he was savvy when it came to production expenses. An example for you. On a location shoot (I can't name the movie off hand) the set needed staff toilets. Rather than waste money and hire portable loos, he bought what he needed. Later, once is own film was finished, he could rent out those loos to other film productions.

[@Mario_N64]

His movies were "prestige" films for studios. They didn't make huge amounts of money, but won a lot of awards and critical acclaim.

[@alomaalber6514]

Always the same mansion in Paths of Glory, Space and also Eyes Wide.

[@adamgardiner5869]

My main takeaway... Roger Ebert was an idiot. Having travelled extensively thru Vietnam, the older urban areas in many cities look exactly like the architecture of the old gasworks location

[@robw4ltz408]

Roger Ebert what a chump

[@MyHentaiGirl]

@Spanky Harland mate it is that cold in Vietnam, especially in the Northern province

[@ryanproudlove5946]

Agreed, Siskel gets it

[@Luca-bv5ic]

@Troy Krentz roger Ebert did like the godfather a lot. Do you mean the Godfather part 2? He gave that only 3 stars out of 4, which means good, but ye the godfather part 2 is a masterpiece.

[@tonywords6713]

michael bay said something similar when ebert criticized peal harbors historical authenticity "he's seen too many movies"

[@artistphilb]

I used to live around here when they made this film, we used to ride motocross bikes around the gas works, because it was hardly fenced off (until the film was in production, one thing I remember was that parallel to the sniper scene, someone placed a huge pile of sand about 40 feet high, not sure if it was to block the view over the river Thames or if that was just a coincidence, but it was a huge amount of sand, hundreds of yards long.

[@leehankin5784]

Yes I remember this and yes it was easy to get onto the set. I lived and went to school in Beckton while the film was made, would have been about 13 at the time

[@markhamanderson2656]

24 years in the Marine Corps. I had been in the Corps for four years when Kubrick began production. We had some visitors to Camp Pendleton and to Parris Island to get tips. I can honestly say that FMJ portrays the Marine Corps correctly and brutally honest. The breakdown of Pyle hit close to home as we had a suicide in our platoon at MCRD in 1981. The savage nature of the psychological aspect of our training.....is very real. Thank God in his infinite wisdom, Stanley promoted Lee Ermey from tech advisor to the role of Gunnery Sgt. Hartman.

[@IbnShahid]

Weirdly, Stanley Kubrick when he’s let his facial hair grow, reminds me a bit of Salman Rushdie.

[@MrGeoffHilton]

I thought exactly the same.

[@JohnDoe-yr4wc]

Yes!

[@PaulieWalnuts1776]

“Do you see a Lion, a witch or a wardrobe?” “Oh yeah like the kids book” “Yeah by Salman Rushdie” “It’s not by Salman Rushdie” “Of course it is”

[@residentelect]

Good read "The Satanic Verses" Made a point of getting hold of a copy back in 1990, just because it pissed of Ayatollah "Konami" so much. Any book which results in its author and entire publishing staff receiving a Fatwa is worth investing my spare time in...

[@thetooner8203]

Salman Rushdie wears a beard because he's a big fan of Stanley Kubrick. (I just made that up so it could be true but I don't know if it is. I wonder if Rushdie is still alive.)

[@Tazza81]

As a movie buff of over 20 years, this has to be one of the most concise and informative videos I have seen about the making of Full Metal Jacket. Well done!

[@jsXanatos]

the other ones are better. this is just about a minor part in the making of FMJ

[@biggstavros5876]

This video is full of lies and questionable non-facts.

[@RighteousBrother]

@Alistair as a movie buff wouldn't you have already known this information?

[@LoveFilmExist]

Following a screening of 'Full Metal Jacket' to an adult night-class back in the 2000s, one student said to me: 'Before this I used to study meteorology, and this film wasn't shot in South East Asia. The cloud formations you see can only occur in the Western hemisphere.'

[@kiarashforooharpak3332]

Damn Kubrick’s going to be furious!

[@TheStockwell]

People like that seem to have fun showing off how they ruin films for themselves. 😐

[@hanniffydinn6019]

As a cloud freak I didn’t even notice that. So not an issue. 🤯🤯

[@ArmyJames]

I’m calling bullshit on that one.

[@kkikke2003]

That meteorologist is full of crap

[@NorseGraphic]

The best part of the movie was the Mickey Mouse-song at the end.

[@a.jlewissonicski5278]

Okay how did Time-Warner Company Get out of this one by putting in a Disney joke tune in next time

[@SpinTheWords]

You should probably place text on what you’re quoting because it’s difficult to catch when you run off the quote and back into your commentary.

[@peteranderson037]

Gustav Hasford: _Writes a fictionalized account of his experience in the US Marines fighting in the city of Hue during the Tet Offensive._ Stanley Kubrick: _Wanting to keep his film as close to the source material as possible he chooses the Beckton Gas Works because the architecture is similar to that of the industrial area of Hue._ Literally every film critic: "You see, what Kubrick was trying to do by taking the film out of the jungles of Vietnam was to say that this could be any war-torn country anywhere. It could be Sarajevo or Africa." Me: [Visible confusion intensifies]

[@ckm-mkc]

I don't see what's confusing about this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@jdb47games]

Critics often write the same pretentious nonsense in a herd, as they have to pretend to have insights which we 'laymen' don't.

[@leeenfield703]

I kind if let that slide wheh I was first watching thia video....but now I realize what he said was pure bullshit.

[@plasticweapon]

@@ckm-mkc you'd make a great critic.

[@johndonaldson3619]

Mate, you produce such well crafted vids (research, clips, narration) I feel crummy about my $5 month subscription

[@CinemaTyler]

Thanks so much for your support! Every little bit helps!

[@yeoremuthare677]

I hope to one day be well enough of to be able to support content creators like this. You buy this guy a drink every month, you help keep him going. You're very humble to feel crummy about your subscription, because I'm sure it's of great importance to him.

[@RJM1011]

I remember this film being made when I was still at school in the UK people knowing it was made in the UK made more people wanting to go and see the film when it came out. They also found homes for the palm trees after the film was finished being made. Thank you for the video and thumbs up.

[@davie8906]

by uk you mean englistan. it wasn't shot in Scotland,Wales or Northern Ireland..you people are sooo ashamed to name your cuntry

[@joeloates1685]

@@davie8906 what are you on about? "Englistan"?

[@Dezzasheep]

When I first saw this in my teens, I always wondered why the road markings at 'paris island' were the opposite way around.

[@jdb47games]

I've often wondered why Kubrick was so careless about that.

[@Mario_N64]

@@jdb47games Oh Kubrick fanboys always find excuses for those mistakes, like it's some deep message or something.

[@dantesinfernal0]

This movie was one of the first R rated movies I was able to see in the theater by myself. That final scene was so well done that it filled me with a level of anxiety that I had yet to experience at that point in my life.

[@charisma7312]

I like to pretend I’m Kubrick

[@Bluehawk2008]

It's certainly helped to adapt only two sections of the novel where relatively no jungle is to be found, and to omit the third chapter of the novel which takes place exclusively in the jungle.

[@Jin-Ro]

Ebert is why I never listen to film critics. They did the same slating of 2001 Space Odyssey. Only when the fans loved it did the critics suddenly and miraculously change their mind and call it a masterpiece. In the age of the internet, 'professional' film critics are redundant.

[@babscabs1987]

I went through basic training at base they filmed the Sgt Hartman scenes. They march past the parade ground I graduated from.

[@stewartbloomfield8035]

So true. Stew fmj crew.

[@15kilkenny]

Bassingbourn? I did my basic for the Royal engineers there in 97

[@stewartbloomfield8035]

@@15kilkenny I think also Lee's obstacle course was still there too. stew fmj crew.

[@15kilkenny]

@@stewartbloomfield8035 that's right it was 👍

[@babscabs1987]

I was there i ln 2004

[@pablovi77]

Siskel gives Ebert a lecture about film critique! Ebert is the most overrated critic in history!

[@user-zh4cp5tq8w]

It's ridiculous how high quality these are. The voice over, the editing, the research, all way above anything else on here.

[@inco9943]

Great video - Stanley was ahead of his time, London and England are becoming top spots for shooting films now as Hollywood begins to price itself out

[@LoganWood121]

Please do a series on Batman 89. Your in-depth and extremely well done videos would be a massive treasure for fans of Batman 89.

[@scottburns2600]

Nowadays this stuff would be produced by CGI. The art of visual film making is extinct

[@ckm-mkc]

Not really, a bunch of recent films have been done in real locations. The opening scene LaLa Land required shutting down an entire freeway onramp in LA. They could have easily done it in CGI, but wanted to do it iRL....

[@kinhamid9665]

Someone hasn’t seen the Lighthouse

[@sshep86]

No doubt CGI is now very popular. But I wouldn't say practical effects and set design has disappeared. It's just a little more niche. Also, there's no doubt that sometime in the future it will become vogue and 'original' again.

[@franmadaraki616]

Because it take less money you can control the time it can also looks great specially mixing it with practical effects

[@davemustaki134]

CGI only looked good in Forrest Gump

[@TheAverageGuy12]

Lived and worked in Hue...put me off this movie big time! Can't say you are going for realism in the movie(doc style) with boot camp, as you said in that video and then say "oh, but for Vietnam just stylise it". Think the problem had much more to do with Stanley's fear of flying. If you want to "smell" Vietnam in a movie, Apocalypse Now is the one, albeit an allegory of reality.

[@ryangettig274]

Cinema Tyler-One of the consistent nice guys of YT:)Wherever Stanley is he would appreciate the attention and probably ask you CT,"Are You A Chess Man?""Are You A Computer Man?":)

[@ryangettig274]

Your Making of Apocalypse Now deserves an eventual Theatrical Release.It's a stellar companion piece to Hearts Of Darkness:A Filmmaker's Apocalypse!:)

[@CinemaTyler]

Thanks so much!

[@robinhooduk8255]

pinewood is not enfield, its elstree. i live in enfield no idea how you came up with enfield as the location of barracks when everyone says its pinewood studios and that isnt near enfield about a 30min drive.

[@sorryrocco]

Pine wood field tree

[@TheByard]

Pinewood is in Bucks, Elstree is in Herts. there used to be several studios there but one by one closed down. My bother ran garages in Elstree and supplied cars to the studios, worked on 3 Bond Movies and Brannigan that was filmed at Becton Gas Works as stated in the video.

[@MrDanmjack]

Pinewood is in iver. A small village just out side the m25 near Uxbridge.

[@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi]

Who cares its all the same wet sad old country hahaha

[@robinhooduk8255]

@@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi presume you are american google about the time we nuked you, 2 years in a row.

[@InDepthCine]

Another very interesting documentary on a master filmmaker. Thanks for the content. I appreciate all the research this kind of video must take to make.

[@BlakeThePerson]

I love your work. If you want to devote yourself to really understanding this movie, you should try to get your hands on the behind the scenes footage shot by his daughter, Vivian. There's 18 hours of footage that's probably never been scanned and digitized, but I swear that I saw footage at the LACMA Kubrick exhibit that showed clips from those reels I've never seen elsewhere. If would be very hard to find and scan the original negatives, but someone scanned a significant portion of it and its never been made public. Also, if you pour over multiple Kubrick/FMJ documentaries, they all seem to have different pieces of the original footage. I've never figured out what their source is or if there are multiple sources. This would be a sort of Holy Grail for FMJ/Kubrick fandom because, besides The Shining, this is the only project where we have extensive BTS footage of Kubrick at work. I'm ranting here - but I'd love to see you track some of this down!

[@CinemaTyler]

Thanks! I'm obsessed with the idea that there is so much footage out there that has remained unseen. For this series, I cut together all the BTS clips I could find in Kubrick Remembered, A Life in Pictures, and SK's Boxes. If I ever somehow get to talk to Vivian Kubrick, Jan Harlan, or Leon Vitali, that'll be the first question I ask!

[@BlakeThePerson]

@@CinemaTyler I think Leon Vitali is somewhere in Los Angeles. I saw him at the Arclight, though this was years ago. If you're in LA, you could probably track him down. Or figure out who the current curator of the Kubrick archive is.

[@robzilla730]

Always liked FMJ Miles above Platoon.

[@tonywords6713]

yeah they also released a TON of new audio of kubrick speaking in interviews for the Kubrick by Kubrick French film that released recently. I'm always amazed when we get weird little random uploads with no source from "Stanley and Us" or "Eyes on Cinema" or whatever, There was some bits in a Joe Turkel speech from, I think it was the Shining, that I'd never seen before ... just nonchalantly tossed in there. Im like hold the phone! where the fuck did these come from!! they definitely exist, despite Vitali claiming they destroyed all of it.

[@tonywords6713]

also in the Taschen Kubrick archives there's an interview where he dispells the "hermit/recluse" myth and says he likes to make mini-documentaries of countries he's visited... little things like that send my mind spinning

[@TarpeianRock]

One thing Kubrick got wrong with the set is those “exotic” trees : they’re all date trees standing in for coconut palms , a pity.

[@bigmart932]

He also had "exotic ryegrass", which was really just lawngrass. Really poor effort Kubrick, that ruined the film for me.

[@saginawdan]

@@bigmart932 Grass would ruin a film for you? What a pity.

[@TarpeianRock]

@@bigmart932 right ! I guess we’re out-Kubricking Kubrick in the details aren’t we ?

[@Enevan1968]

I think there is something wrong with the helicopters as well. They look like Westland license built H-34's...

[@apenza4304]

They got the vegetation wrong but he got the message right.

[@KP-viking88]

The training part and some rural scenes were filmed at Bassingbourn barracks (Cambs). At the time it was the Queens Division HQ and training barracks for the same. I did my infantry training there in 1988 and served with some guys who were paid extras during filming there.

[@alanhill7965]

I did my training there in 1980 and was in Salerno platoon went back in 85 as an extra on the film the first thing i did was run around the parade square ,,,,something that was outlawed when i was there first time round i think a fine per step

[@stewartbloomfield8035]

Awesome. stew fmj crew.

[@MrGeoffHilton]

It must have been a dream job for SK working on this film and being so close to your home life, certainly beats working on location and living in a strange place for months or years.

[@williamtomkiel8215]

I just got the 4K Ultra HD annivesary re-issue In my 7.4.6 ATMOS HT, upmixed into DSU STUNNING

[@bringbackmy90s]

and nowadays only crappy CGI

[@hanniffydinn6019]

I love how Kubrick made everything in the U.K. ! Quite fascinating when you dig into his films. I mean those Shining sets are astounding....🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@BigPinkJohn]

Paris Island and the training grounds where NOT shot in North East London. They used Bassingbourn Barracks in Cambridgeshire

[@robbiehales]

And the range was at Barton just outside of Cambridge

[@smilesforcinephiles]

I grew up near to St Albans and Childwickbury Manor. There is a fantastic cinema in the City now, its name is very apt... It has beautiful architecture, repertory film showings in comfy seats AND they serve alcohol during showings! And I don't mean just in like no paper cup. I'm talking about a glass of beer..... Definitely worth Googling the cinema.... I now live not 10 minutes from Bassingbourn Barracks, every time I drive past it I relive the best boot camp cinema ever saw. I am glad Kubrick hated to fly. Thank you for your awesome content. You inspire me to make more.

[@CinemaTyler]

Interesting! Thanks for sharing!

[@shaggycan]

9:40 I really wish we could move past Siskel and Ebert. Their reviews, especially Ebert's are just hot garbage. Not worth referencing. I know they were one of the few reviewers on video back then, but the quality of review is so poor it cancels it out. Their fame for trashing films now considered classics is nearly legendary.

[@erichwashausen4602]

I always see people saying things to the effect of "the first part of this movie is soooo much better than the last part and it's the only part worth watching", but 16:10 explains perfectly why I disagree with those comments.

[@mixererunio1757]

Very similar thing (but on a substantially smaller scale ofc) was done for polish war film "Karbala" based on defense of City Hall in Karbala by Polish and Bulgarian forces during Iraq War. They built set in remains of old car factory in Żerań, suburbs of Warsaw. So similarly Polish factory became Iraqi city.

[@mardukmd6729]

kubrick is gone. in his place we have a bunch of leslye headland and rian johnson types. 😔 cinema is dead.

[@slimdawge6567]

I remember them buildings on the gas works like it was yesterday, as kids we use to go over there and play run outs. There was an epic building there we use to call the buzzing building. It was a tilted building and we went thru the underground tunnels many times. It was a crazy place. Brings bk so many memories

[@TrOLLKiLLeRs1]

This film was superb. The fighting within the City was spot on to the reality of Hue. I actually did not realize that this was filmed in and around London so my god the cinematography is brilliant.

[@jesamani75]

FMJ is filmed as a war documentary for the most part.

[@kamandi1362]

2001 was shot mainly at MGM Elstree not Shepperton.

[@AtheistOrphan]

Correct.

[@karlhungus5554]

I'd always thought Kubrick was brilliant, but videos like this one (and another you also made) gave me an entirely new appreciation for him, his tenacity and intellect, and the remarkable amount of work that went into his films.

[@kiaandavids755]

cinema tyler has literally shown me a completely different universe. He showed me Kubrick and Tarkovsky, which led me to watch Scorsese films. Cinema Tyler is the best!! I’m watching 2001 in a cinema on the 21st because of you!

[@petedudson6671]

Roger Ebert sure isn't much of an historian. What a complete drop kick.

[@Potts1966]

I did see Full Metal Jacket at the cinema when it was released in the UK and couldn't help but notice that when they are marching about during the training scenes that the give way lines painted on the roads are on the left rather than the right. At the time it brought me out of the film as I assumed that parts of it were filmed in the US and this was obviously the UK. Now every time I watch the film I can't help but see the wrong road markings. It's a small mistake, but it annoys me given Kubrick's usual attention to detail.

[@AtheistOrphan]

I noticed that too!

[@Largentina.]

And this is why I think Stanley Kubrick will never make it in this town as a director!

[@davie8906]

that always bothers me,i'd though kubrick woul have caught that

[@AtheistOrphan]

@@davie8906 - Well to be fair the biggest audience for the film would be the USA, and they probably wouldn’t notice little details like that. It’s just screamingly obvious to us Brits because of the road markings.

[@ftswarbill]

You repeat alot of information from other videos so it feels like we are always watching the same video.

[@tommyhemlock7915]

One of my all time favourite movies and it was filmed a couple of miles from where I lived at the time., but I never knew that until now. I knew the training camp scenes were filmed here from another video, but not the battle scenes.

[@gm5564]

I'm going to say I can't stand Roger Ebert, he was a nobody to me and had no business rating movies, FMJ was an extraordinary movie.

[@ferris-nk4rv]

I feel like Roger Ebert's jaw cancer was karma for all his horrible takes over the years

[@hanniffydinn6019]

I noticed immediately at the barracks the roads markings ( yellow lines et al ) were British not American. So I knew it was all shot in UK. This took me out of the movie and really annoyed me when I first saw it as a kid. 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@davidjames579]

From a young age, I thought the Barracks didn't look like somewhere in America. It looked very British to me.

[@damienf5006]

he recreates new york in england for eyes wide shut

[@罗念-o8r]

Yeah, but i felt that the recreation of Vietnam in FMJ was more convincing that the New York in EWS. But I like both movies.

[@TheStockwell]

@ . . . which was probably deliberate. The Kubrick who accurately produced the worlds of "2001" and "Barry Lyndon" could've made a New York that would've impressed Scorsese. He chose not to. It's that "magical realism" people talk about. Have a great and interesting week. 🐧

[@mickeymouse-om4lz]

So did Michael Winner for "Death Wish 3".

[@AtheistOrphan]

Thanks for repeating exactly what he says (and shows) in the video.

[@damienf5006]

@@AtheistOrphan i didn’t watch the video entirely because I’m French

[@15kilkenny]

I did my basic training in the army at Bassingbourn barracks in 97. The building where they match past next to the parade square is where we did I classroom work.

[@ronstarm3]

Same here J, 2000 Alpha Troop next to the NAAFI. Weird seeing the film and how they made it look "American", I just remember it being horrendously grey and miserable haha

[@SonofPhobos]

I did my basic training at ATR Bassingbourn, they had FMJ playing on our arrival.

[@timh3576]

Thanks for you service, Woody!

[@SonofPhobos]

@@timh3576 I wouldnt thank me, I only signed up to escape unemployment, and it was shit!

[@cut--]

Great JOb! stuff I never knew about one of my top 5 films !

[@jsXanatos]

if kubrick doesnt want to live in LA, what does that tell you

[@mikebizzleuk]

If you can't stand the heat....

[@jsXanatos]

@@mikebizzleuk oh, its not the heat.

[@mikebizzleuk]

@@jsXanatos must be the satanists then 😆

[@jsXanatos]

@@mikebizzleuk you can call them pedophiles instead. instead of turning it into one big joke

[@mikebizzleuk]

@@jsXanatos I could do a lot things. Lifes better with a smile on my face. Maybe you should try it

[@lionofjudea4146]

This guy, who made this video, is a student of the art. Im from a film family and would recommend him as an A.D. off the bat, so as to discuss what our day of shooting should be looking to sieze upon. Bravo.

[@anadin0612]

Have always loved, full metal jacket. Even more impressed after watching this. Phenomenal work

[@StormofSteelWargaming]

It ended a while ago, but did you get to see the Kubrick exhibition in London?

[@jeffgoesrandom4217]

This was an amazing study. Thank you for your good work. -Jeff Goes Random

[@pastichiorocker]

FMJ is a great movie, but it always irked me that the Vietnam part doesn't look (and feels) like they're in Vietnam. Anyone who has been in Vietnam would agree.

[@positivebuoyancy8841]

Fu;ll Metal Jacket or Apocolypse Now ?

[@chrisdavies73]

Both are great studies on the insanity of war. Apollo and Dionysius!

[@andrewmanford]

Kubrick is one of my favourite directors but Apocalypse Now is better imho.

[@jamesgrey1227]

Effing, loved this film. "GET THE F"*'OFF OF MY OBSTACLE, PRIVATE PYLE!!!"

[@NickP]

Impressive research and presentation.

[@fordprefect4345]

Did they really have such industrial concrete bunker type buildings in Vietnam. The palm trees look as if they just arrived from a gardening centre and were just plonked on the ground.

[@Verbalaesthet]

It is a bit hard to believe that this monolith was "just there" burning in the background while he chose each of the 120 trees individually for the background.

[@swizzarmygrizz]

Roger Ebert was such a contrarian. He could not allow himself to fairly evaluate any movie that had any sense of hype about it. He had to eat crow on so many movies that he called boring, unoriginal. Almost like he was a failed director who couldn’t stand to see anyone else succeed.

[@thermionic1234567]

I’ve always appreciated Kubrick’s attention to detail; but as a botanist, his ignorance of the flora of Vietnam makes this movie visually unwatchable to me.

[@duartesimoes508]

Fortunately for him, you must be one in one million. But as I once read, “in the audience there is always a specialist for everything “...

[@chrisdavies73]

He did have a driver actually from 1970 onwards. Emilio. Read his book, amazing :-) Great research, thanks. I finally saw the film properly on my home projector which for years I considered one of his inferior films. Not anymore! Is that a native American over Jokers shoulder outside the cinema? Gotta love dim critics LMMAO.