![]() He's a young man who made a bad turn on his way to college, he says at one point, dumb enough to sign a contract, he says later, and ended up going to The Suck, Saudi Arabia 1990.īut before that Mendes lets us know what the movie will be about, and submerges us in these soldiers lives, not before they joined but during their training camp (purposely like Full Metal Jacket), and as they violently watch Apocalypse Now on the big screen, the helicopter raid scene with Ride of the Valkyries at maximum volume. ![]() Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford, the real life soldier who wrote his memoirs from the war into the book the movie is based in, of the same title, adapted for the big screen by Apollo 13 and Cast Away's scribe William Broyles Jr. It's not anti-war like many are claiming, but is not a war movie either, and there's some political commentary but not much. Here, the story is about a rookie Marine going to fight in the First Gulf War, or going to not fight actually because that's what they did, and the movie is all about that. ![]() The nickname the Marines get after the way their hair grows because of how it's cut when they enlist, Jarhead is Sam Mendes' follow up to the great crime drama Road to Perdition.
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