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Stanley Kubrick during the filming of Barry Lyndon (1975).
The film Full Metal Jacket (1987) was based on the 1979 novel The Short-Timers, written by Gustav Hasford.1
The screenplay for the film was a collaborative effort between director Stanley Kubrick, war correspondent Michael Herr, and Hasford himself.1