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Jarhead (DVD, 2011)

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Swofford's 2003 book on his experiences in the first Gulf War, and enlists William Broyles Jr a former Lieutenant who fought in Vietnam to convert it into a screenplay. Mendes's film strays into FULL METAL JACKET territory as it opens, with young recruit Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal) undertaking some rigorous basic training under the steely, watchful eye of Staff Sgt. Sykes (Jamie Foxx). Impressed, Sykes invites Swofford to join his team, and partners him with Troy (Peter Sarsgaard), ultimately taking them to Saudi Arabia to fight in the first Gulf War. But once they arrive in the punishing heat of the desert, the long wait for battle sends many of the Marines dangerously close to the brink of insanity. Drawing on the experience of acclaimed cinematographer Roger Deakins (THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION) to help viewers get a close-up taste of the Marines' punishing life in the desert, Mendes's film enters into deeply unsettling territory, the likes of which many cinemagoers won't have experienced since Martin Sheen lost his tenuous grip on reality in APOCALYPSE NOW. Indeed, Mendes deploys a few similar tactics to those that made Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film so effective: a hip soundtrack that uses songs from artists as varied as Public Enemy and the Rolling Stones, and a feeling of disillusionment and futility among the troops that really digs in when the battle finally blackens the desert skies. Avoiding any overt antiwar sentiments, Mendes instead provides a thoughtful account of life as a modern day soldier, demonstrating how technology has made the average Marine's job all but redundant, and created disaffected troops who are as much a threat to each other as the enemies they wait to face in the trenches.

Product Identifiers

Producer
Lucy Fisher, Douglas Wick
EAN
5050582425437
eBay Product ID (ePID)
52975967

Product Key Features

Film/TV Title
Jarhead
Actor
Mike Akrawi, Wade Williams, Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Skyler Stone, Jake Gyllenhaal, Dennis Haysbert, Peter Sarsgaard, Katherine Randolph, Jacob Vargas, Matthew Atherton
Director
Sam Mendes
Format
DVD
Language
English
Release Year
2011
Features
Commentary By Director Sam Mendes\Commentary By Screenwriter William Broyles Jr And Author Anthony Swofford\Swoffs Fantasies\News Interviews In Full\Deleted Scenes, Closed Caption
Genre
War
Run Time
118 Mins

Additional Product Features

Certificate
15
Number of Discs
1
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States of America
Reviews
Uncut - An exceptionally smart war movie, the more so for the relative absence of any war, The Guardian - Stunning to look at and to listen to, with elegantly chosen pop songs unspooling on the soundtrack under each fresh new horror, Sight And Sound - Quizzical, visually striking... JARHEAD provides some kind of reportage of a war whose consequences we haven't yet begun to understand, Entertainment Weekly - An eye-opening experience....[Mendes] forges, perhaps, a new kind of drama: a portrait of war stripped of all glamour and design.... JARHEAD is an existential docudrama: cool and funny, vivid and remote at the same time, BBC - JARHEAD takes a perverse pleasure in confounding your expectations of what a war movie should be
Hearing Impaired
English
Movie/TV Title
Jarhead
Composer
Thomas Newman
Sound source
Dolby Digital 5.1
Screenwriter
William Broyles, Jr.

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