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Filming the Stanley Kubrick Viet Nam movie
Rugged Land
October 2005
Featuring: Matthew Modine
304 pages
ISBN: 1590710479
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Despite the infamous reputation of the enigmatic Stanley
Kubrick, Matthew Modine couldn’t refuse his offer. Faced
with the prospects of a career-defining role and mentorship
by a cinematic great, the 24-year-old Hollywood actor
arrived in London armed with a large-format Roliflex camera–
inspired by Kubrick’s early career as a Look photographer–
and a notebook to record his own on-set reportage;
preparation for his starring role as a Marine Corps
journalist. But expectations eroded as a strange, creeping sickness
pervaded the set, a horrific accident sidelined a
principal, and an unexpected rivalry arose with a co-star.
And as the months dragged on, take-by-take, Modine realized
he was falling victim to a manipulative mind-game of the
Grand Master himself. By the time his tour of duty ended a year and a half later,
Modine had shot hundreds of photos and written countless
entries. Only now–after two decades and the death of
Kubrick–can Modine look back on his images and words. The
result–a coming-of-age drama set against the backdrop of a
seminal Vietnam saga. A book like no other, Stanley Kubrick would have been the
first in line to buy Full Metal Jacket Diary.
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