Michael Herr
Dispatches (1977), Apocalypse Now script (1979), Full Metal Jacket script (1987), and an early draft of The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996).
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first kill
first kill. 2001. vietnam war documentary. the excitment and cruelty of combat. our complicated feelings towards war. director/researcher Coco Schrijber / 2001. dutch production. michael herr.
one of the intervieews may have inspired tropic thunder’s sargeant ‘four leaf’ tayback.
a scary man, a big, haunted marine
Two books by Gustav Hasford online. The Short-timers and its sequel, The Phantom Blooper.
“Hasford was, by Herr’s own description, ‘a scary man, a big, haunted marine’, whom Kubrick was determined to meet. ‘I advised him against it,’ recalls Herr. ‘I told Stanley I didn’t think they’d get on.’ Kubrick insisted, Hasford duly came over to Britain and there was a dinner during which Kubrick passed Herr a note saying: ‘I can’t deal with this man.’ From then on, Hasford was dismissed from the maestro’s presence. ” (from http://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/jul/16/film)
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the short-timers pdf at http://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/i2l/shorttimers.pdf
the phantom blooper html at http://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/Vietnam/blooperall.html