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Full Metal Jacket - Made in England
At Boot Camp (supposedly Ellis Island) they are jogging down the road singing gung-ho songs. The traffic signs and lane markings show that driving is on the left (it was shot in England).
In Vietnam the temperature must have been in the 80's but no-one sweats and their breath can be seen when they breath out (as in cold weather).
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Scrooge on 05-03-2001
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smokey writes:
Research what you say. The name of the place where they did the training was done at Parris Island, SC. at the old 1st Battalion barracks. I should know because I am in the military and I was there!
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Mr. Bojangles writes:
first off....its not ellis island.....its paris island. And it does get that cold in vietnam. Just like it gets that cold in the middle of the sahara desert.
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joe writes:
the training sequence was set at Parris Island, not Ellis Island.
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Doug writes:
In the Nam, it does get cold enough at night to see your breath. Good heads up on the road signs though, I missed that.
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Gary Lynch writes:
Kubrick preferred shooting in England. It gets REALLY unconvincing when the guys are supposedly fighting in a destroyed urban environment near the end. It's clearly some manky old English industrial estate, and clearly nothing like an Oriental cityscape. It really killed the film for me, because the Parris Island stuff was great.
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Johnny H. writes:
After Spartacus Kubrick never made another movie in the US, because of the Hollywood beuracracy (sp?). The scenes throughout were all filmed in England, Kubrick even had palm trees flown in for the scenes involving the Vietnamese sniper in Huay.
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