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Full Metal Jacket Analysis

 

I will analysis one of my favourite part of this movie which is Gomer Pyle go crazy and kill Drill Instructor then suicide.

 

SCENE OVERVIEW

Gomer Pyle is a fat guy and he always make mistake during their training. therefore he becomes the guy who is jeered and repaired by sergeant frequently.But Private Joker who is his leader take care of him patiently.But the Gomer Pyle can not stop make mistakes all the time. so that angery sergeant punish the whole team, all of his comrade punch and hit him when he was sleeping. This is one of the most important reason why gomer Pyle become strange in his marine life. In another hand when they are training shotting. Drill happen to see he get shot of talent, Drill also appreciate Pyle that he can finally become the great "killing machine" to proceed to the Vietnam War battlefield but unfortunately before the night they going to war this disappointed sence happened.

 

Sound:

There are diagetic and non-diagetic both sound. The most important sound in this scene is a “ding ding ding” it go through all this scene, it can give audience kind of mysterious feeling, and what gonna happen then...

I get another sound effect is when Pyle shot Drill, there is a sound effect like monster shout when falling down. Obviously in this movie Drill is a monster who is training whole bunch of young guy to be another killing monster.And the other sound we heard about is that conversation and the gun.

 

Contrast Dominants:

Apparently, Joker and Drill is wearing hat but Pyle doesn’t. I thought that stand for Joker and Drill is Pyle superior.

As we known, Pyle used to be a smile guy, but at last he go crazy and become a devil, at first of this scene Joker came into toliet and saw Pyle was sitting on closestool and there is strange expression on Pyle’s facial and say hi to Joker, he has become a kill mechine from a smile guy. He become worse when he shoot sergeant I think he is try release all his anger and dissatisfaction through his gun. After that Joker trying to calm Pyle down, i thought he calm down a little bit,cos he does not shoot Joker before he suicide.maybe Pyle consideration that Joker used to help him a lot so Pyle does not shoot him.

 

Character Movement:

 

In this scene characters are not move a lot except when Jocker is patrolling.

 

Lighting:

 

The lighting in this scene is very low key. There is a light come through the window and Joker hold a flashlight when patrolling, the whole scene color is dark, give audience kind of feeling scary and match with character feeling. then nothing much.

 

 

camera movement

 

In this scene most of used camera movement is tracking shot and stationary.

For example private joker is patrolling and that is tracking shot, then he got into toliet start conversation with Gomer Pyle, start use stationary until kill drill master and suicide.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

camera angle

at first Pyle was sit to talk joker,camera angle is LA and HA, drictor want give audience kind of feeling-Joker is better than Pyle, and Pyle is a loser. Then Pyle stood up and show his gun skill, camera angle is change to OTS until Pyle suicide, that means Pyle feel equality between Joker, Drill.

 

Transition:

Most of transitions was used between shots are regular jump-cuts it could let this conversation going continuity and keep audience fevered feeling all the time.

 

short type

In this scene is just medium shot and long shot, and most of the colour is black and white and the lighting is just use artifical light from outside and torch.

 

Mise-en-scene:

This scene was interior scene and set in real place. there is just dark night, light, gun with bullet in this scene, and three main character, all that stuff give audience scarey feeling.

 

This movie use a lot panning and tracking shot give audience a strong visualimpact. As we all known vietnam war is heartless and merciless, drictor trying his best to express him feeling show his viewpoint of this war.In this movie I saw the process how young man become a kill machine under the training of instructor. When I saw Pyle go crazy I felt so sympathetic. Second part I saw private jocker get back his own humanity during the war I am so gratified at this result.

Anyway above is my little analysis about this movie, thanks for reading.