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Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (1987) is comprised of two very different segments. The first segment of the film gives a realistic portrayal of the boot camp experience of newly drafted Marines. The audience is given a glimpse of the process that dehumanizes the young recruits and shapes them into the cold-blooded killers that stereotypically are created by such a process. Private J.T. “Joker” Davis (Matthew Modine) is introduced and will remain an integral character throughout the film. He is a skinny young recruit whose brain overpowers his brawn and who, upon graduating from boot camp, joins the war as a correspondent for Stars and Stripes, the military newspaper. Gunnery Sgt. Hartman (Lee Ermy) is the drill sargeant that nearly pushes the recruits over the edge as he is forced to deal with Leonard "Gomer Pyle" Lawrence (Vincent D'Onofrio). Private Pyle is, according to Sgt. Hartman, a “worthless piece of shit” and a “disgusting fat body.” Private Pyle must deal with the constant agony of Hartman’s insults and punishment until the drill sergeant finally reaches the end of his rope and begins punishing the rest of the recruits for mistakes Pyle makes. Thus begins Private Pyle’s metamorphosis from incapable