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Leben. Bekannt wurde sie vor allem durch ihre Arbeit mit ihrem Vater Stanley Kubrick bei Full Metal Jacket, für dessen Soundtrack sie verantwortlich zeichnete. Für diesen Film verwendete sie jedoch statt ihres eigenen Namens das Pseudonym Abigail Mead, eigener Aussage nach auf dem Namen jenes Hauses basierend, in dem die Kubricks ...
Vivian Vanessa Kubrick (born August 5, 1960), also credited under the pseudonym Abigail Mead, is an American filmmaker and composer. She is the daughter of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick.
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Abigail Mead. More images. Real Name: Vivian Vanessa Kubrick. Profile: The name Abigail Mead is actually a pseudonym for Vivian Kubrick (Stanley Kubrick's daughter, born August 5, 1960, in Los Angeles, California, USA). According to her, the name was based on Abbott's Mead, the mansion where the Kubricks lived between 1965 to 1979.
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During the Vietnam War, a group of recruits arrive at the United States Marine Corps training facility at Parris Island. Drill instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartman uses harsh methods to train them for combat. Among the recruits is the overweight and dim-witted Leonard Lawrence, whom Hartman nicknames "Gomer Pyle", and the wisecracking J.T. Davis, wh...
Matthew Modine as Private/Sergeant J. T. "Joker" Davis, a wise-cracking young Marine. On set, Modine kept a diary that in 2005 was adapted into a book and in 2013 into an interactive app.Adam Baldwin as Sergeant "Animal Mother", a combat-hungry machine gunner who takes pride in killing enemy soldiers. Arnold Schwarzenegger was first considered for the role but turned it down in fav...Vincent D'Onofrio as Private Leonard "Gomer Pyle"[a] Lawrence, an overweight, slow-minded recruit who is the subject of Hartman's mockery. D'Onofrio heard from Modine of the auditions for the film....Lee Ermey as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, a harsh, foul-mouthed and ruthless senior drill instructor. Ermey used his actual experience as a U.S. Marine drill instructor in the Vietnam War to ad lib mu...Development
In early 1980, Kubrick contacted Michael Herr, author of the Vietnam War memoir Dispatches (1977), to discuss work on a film about the Holocaust but Kubrick discarded that idea in favor of a film about the Vietnam War. Herr and Kubrick met in England; Kubrick told Herr he wanted to make a war film but had yet to find a story to adapt. Kubrick discovered Gustav Hasford's novel The Short-Timers (1979) while reading the Kirkus Review. Herr received the novel in bound galleys and thought it a mas...
Casting
Through Warner Bros., Kubrick advertised a casting search in the United States and Canada; he used videotape to audition actors and received over 3,000 submissions. Kubrick's staff screened the tapes, leaving 800 of them for him to review.: 461 Former U.S. Marine drill instructor Ermey was originally hired as a technical advisor. Ermey asked Kubrick if he could audition for the role of Hartman. Kubrick, who had seen Ermey's portrayal of drill instructor Staff Sergeant Loyce in The Boys in Com...
Filming
Principal photography began on August 27, 1985, and wrapped on August 8, 1986. Scenes were filmed in Cambridgeshire, the Norfolk Broads, in eastern London at Millennium Mills and Beckton Gas Works in Newham, and in the Isle of Dogs. Kubrick hired Anton Furst as the production designer after being impressed by his work on The Company of Wolves (1984). Bassingbourn Barracks, a former Royal Air Force station and then British Army base, was used as the Parris Island Marine boot camp. A British Ar...
Michael Pursell's essay "Full Metal Jacket: The Unravelling of Patriarchy" (1988) was an early, in-depth consideration of the film's two-part structure and its criticism of masculinity, saying the film shows "war and pornography as facets of the same system". Most reviews have focused on military brainwashing themes in the boot camp section of the ...
Kubrick's daughter Vivian, under the alias "Abigail Mead", wrote the film's score. According to an interview in the January 1988 issue of Keyboard, the film was scored mostly with a Series III edition Fairlight CMI synthesizer and a Synclavier. For the period music, Kubrick went through Billboard'slist of Top 100 Hits for each year from 1962 to 196...
Box office
Full Metal Jacket received a limited release on June 26, 1987, in 215 theaters. During its opening weekend, it accrued $2.2 million, an average of $10,313 per theater, ranking it the number 10 film for the weekend June 26–28. It took a further $2 million for a total of $5.7 million before being widely released in 881 theaters on July 10, 1987. The weekend of July 10–12 saw the film gross $6.1 million, an average of $6,901 per theater, and rank as the second-highest-grossing film. Over the nex...
Home media
The home media release history of Full Metal Jacket is summarized in the following table. Minor cuts to the 1h 57m theatrical version were made to comply with the censor boards overseeing the various territories in which the film was released. For technical reasons the PAL mastering standard speeds up playback by around 4% compared with NTSC, leading to slightly shorter runtimes (around 1h 52m) in releases mastered for territories other than the US and Japan. The 2020 4K UHD release uses a ne...
Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes retrospectively collected reviews to give the film a score of 90% based on reviews from 84 critics and an average rating of 8.3/10. The summary states; "Intense, tightly constructed, and darkly comic at times, Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket may not boast the most original of themes, but it is exceeding...
Film scholar Greg Jenkins has analyzed the adaptation of the novel as a screenplay. The novel is in three parts and the film greatly expands the relatively brief first section about the boot camp on Parris Islandand essentially discards Part III. This gives the film a twofold structure, telling two largely independent stories that are connected by ...
The line "Me so horny. Me love you long time", which is uttered by the Da Nang street prostitute to Joker, became a catchphrase in popular culture and was sampled by rap artists 2 Live Crew in their 1989 hit "Me So Horny" and by Sir Mix-A-Lot in "Baby Got Back" (1992).
Für die Musik zum Film zeichnet Stanley Kubricks Tochter Vivian mitverantwortlich, die unter dem Pseudonym Abigail Mead arbeitete. Für die restlichen Songs, die über den ganzen Film verteilt vorkommen, durchsuchten Kubrick und sein Team die jeweiligen Billboard Hot 100 der Jahre 1962 bis 1968. [8]
Vivian Vanessa Kubrick, nota anche con lo pseudonimo di Abigail Mead ( Los Angeles, 5 agosto 1960 ), è una regista, compositrice e musicista statunitense, nota per le sue collaborazioni col padre, il regista Stanley Kubrick . Indice. 1 Biografia. 2 Discografia. 3 Filmografia. 4 Note. 5 Collegamenti esterni. Biografia.
19. Feb. 2017 · Abigail Mead a.k.a. Vivian Kubrick (born August 5, 1960) is an English filmmaker and composer, known for her work with her father, filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick was born in Los Angeles, California; her mother is Stanley Kubrick's widow, Christiane Kubrick. Vivian wrote the score to … read more. View all tags.
