9. Full Metal Jacket
Full Metal Jacket is a war film released in 1987. Produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, the screenplay was based on Hasford’s novel The Short-Timers.
It received critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Kubrick, Herr and Hasford.
The exact details about the cost of the various sets that were constructed for Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket are unknown.
And their biggest and most complex set constructed specifically for the production was the ruined Vietnamese town of Hue.
The director managed to secure an abandoned gasworks and dockyard that was due to be demolished.
Together with the art director, the director, spent two months blowing up various buildings, constructing new ones and using hired wrecking ball to damage buildings in the exact same way as photographs he had.
For more authenticity, he was also able to buy a collection of M41 tanks and Westland Wessex helicopters for the set.
