What is A Clockwork Orange / Full Metal Jacket about?

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, 1971, Warner Bros., 137 min. Master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick was so stunned by Malcolm McDowell's debut in IF... that he was reportedly unwilling to begin his film adaptation of Anthony Burgess' savagely brutal, futuristic satire until he could be assured of McDowell's participation. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE proved to be more prophetic than anyone dreamed, as the punk explosion and skinhead-fomented violence in the later 1970s witnessed. FULL METAL JACKET, 1987, Warner Bros., 116 min. Dir. Stanley Kubrick. A remarkably faithful and powerful adaptation of Gustav Hasford’s novel The Short Timers, flavored with equal parts black humor and pathos, follows green Marine recruits Mathew Modine and Arliss Howard from basic training to Vietnam inferno. Includes some of the most jawdropping portrayals of military madness ever to grace the screen, courtesy of raw recruit Vincent D’Onofrio and real-life drill sergeant R. Lee Ermey.

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What is A Clockwork Orange / Full Metal Jacket about?: A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, 1971, Warner Bros., 137 min. Master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick was so stunned by Malcolm McDowell's debut in IF... that he was reportedly unwilling to begin his film adaptation of Anthony Burgess' savagely brutal, futuristic satire until he could be assured of McDowell's participation. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE proved to be more prophetic than anyone dreamed, as the punk explosion and skinhead-fomented violence in the later 1970s witnessed.
FULL METAL JACKET, 1987, Warner Bros., 116 min. Dir. Stanley Kubrick. A remarkably faithful and powerful adaptation of Gustav Hasford’s novel The Short Timers, flavored with equal parts black humor and pathos, follows green Marine recruits Mathew Modine and Arliss Howard from basic training to Vietnam inferno. Includes some of the most jawdropping portrayals of military madness ever to grace the screen, courtesy of raw recruit Vincent D’Onofrio and real-life drill sergeant R. Lee Ermey.