The Farm Podcast Mach II

Full Metal Jacket & the Cult of the USMC w/ Vincent Treewell & Recluse

12.25.2023 - By ReclusePlay

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Download on the App StoreGet it on Google Play

Full Metal Jacket, Stanley Kubrick, United States Marine Corps (USMC), basic training, indoctrination, brainwashing, pop culture in Vietnam, The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle USMC, Batman & Robin, R. Lee Emery, how R. Lee Emery got his part, Kubrick's recreation of Vietnam in the UK, Carl Jung, the "Duality of Man," Kyros, Mannerbund, basic training as a modern form of initiation, warrior cults, Marines as killers and not robots, urban combat, parallels to Full Metal Jacket and post-Cold War US military engagements, JFK assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, Charles Whitman, the breakdown of the chain of command, First Blood, Rambo, Platoon, Kubrick's views on violence in entertainment, A Clockwork Orange, Kubrick's criticism of cartoons, cartoons as indoctrination, cartoons in Full Metal Jacket, pop culture as a form of indoctrination, Is Full Metal Jacket an anti-war movie, Full Metal Jackets cult following in the USMC, the USMC as a cult, the Joker character as a stand-in for Daniel Ellsberg, co-opting the anti-war movement

Music by: Keith Allen Dennis https://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/

Additional Music by: The Octopus https://www.amazon.com/Supernatural-Alliance-Octopus/dp/B0794L5SMZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=463TJEZ9DGDU&keywords;=the+octopus+supernatural+alliance&qid;=1703298274&s;=music&sprefix;=the+octopus+supernatural+alliance%2Cpopular%2C110&sr;=1-1 Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

More episodes from The Farm Podcast Mach II