full metal jacket

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Meaning

a lead bullet that is covered with a jacket of a harder metal (usually copper)

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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket. Vincent D'Onofrio

Film4 concluded: "Full Metal Jacket ranks with Dr. Strangelove as one of Kubrick's very best." Source: Internet

Canby concluded: Full Metal Jacket was "a film of immense and very rare imagination". Source: Internet

The filmmaker worried that the book's title might be misread by audiences as referring to people who only did half a day's work and changed it to Full Metal Jacket after discovering the phrase while going through a gun catalogue. Source: Internet

This certain review angered Gene Siskel on their television show At The Movies ; he criticized Ebert for liking Benji the Hunted (which came out the same week) more than Full Metal Jacket. Source: Internet

Kubrick had been given a copy of the Mike Zwerin book Swing Under the Nazis after he had finished production on Full Metal Jacket, the front cover of which featured a photograph of Schulz-Koehn. Source: Internet

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