Q 01/05

Who directed Full Metal Jacket?

A) Oliver Stone

B) Stanley Kubrick

C) Francis Ford Coppola

D) Brian De Palma

Answer · why

B) Stanley Kubrick

It was the last of his films released in his lifetime, arriving twelve years before Eyes Wide Shut.

Q 02/05

The film is based on which 1979 autobiographical novel?

A) Dispatches

B) The Things They Carried

C) The Short-Timers

D) Fields of Fire

Answer · why

C) The Short-Timers

Kubrick found it in the Kirkus Review, read it twice and called it 'a unique, absolutely wonderful book'.

Q 03/05

Who wrote the source novel and shared screenplay credit on the film?

A) Michael Herr

B) Tim O'Brien

C) Philip Caputo

D) Gustav Hasford

Answer · why

D) Gustav Hasford

He had been a Marine combat correspondent during the Tet Offensive of 1968.

Q 04/05

Michael Herr, Kubrick's co-writer, was the author of which Vietnam memoir?

A) A Rumor of War

B) Dispatches

C) Chickenhawk

D) If I Die in a Combat Zone

Answer · why

B) Dispatches

Kubrick first contacted him in 1980 to discuss a Holocaust film before switching to Vietnam.

Q 05/05

The film's title refers to what?

A) A Marine dress uniform

B) A body-armour vest

C) A type of bullet

D) A brand of helmet

Answer · why

C) A type of bullet

A full metal jacket round has a soft core encased in harder metal.