That two people don’t fight if one doesn’t want to was a lie. One of the great problems of the increase in social tension that seeks to drown us is the insistence with which those who complain about ties tighten the noose.
This is what we have seen in a new case described as “censorship of political correctness” in which Prime Video, one of the multi-million dollar brands that rule our world, modified the original poster for ‘Full Metal Jacket’ (Stanley Kubrick, 1987), a work of art created by Philip Castle in which we saw the helmet of the soldier Jester (Matthew Modine) with a badge with the peace symbol along with the motto “Born to kill”, that is, “Born to kill”.
For a few days, the original poster remained in the thumbnail shown on Prime Video, but In the image that appeared on the list of the best war films in the history of cinema, “Born to Kill” had disappeared..
“Who decided to eliminate “BORN TO KILL”?” Matthew Modine himself asked on his networks. “Not only did they alter an iconic work of art by Philip Castle, but they completely misinterpreted the meaning of it being there. The Jester soldier wears the helmet with “BORN TO KILL” and the peace button as a statement about the duality of man.
“What’s that supposed to be, some kind of bad joke?” A colonel asks Private Jester when he discovers his helmet in the movie. “No sir. The duality of man. The Jungian, sir“.
This absurd error of self-censorship, born from decisions of high offices and filtered by algorithms, commercial interests and very complex performance studies, has angered a public that has not been slow to raise the torches against “the dictatorship of political correctness”, a term created to be able to fight against an enemy that continues without doing anything. “The Jungian, sir.”
Prime Video has already corrected the error and, in Spain, you can enjoy this war gem, one of Stanely Kubrick’s best films (as if any were not) in the Max catalog.
“Kubrick remained faithful to his style, which consisted of inflating the obvious to make it appear classy,” noted our review of ‘Full Metal Jacket’. “The brutality of the Vietnam War is the pretext for a story that revels in violence despite attempting to denounce it. These important limitations do not prevent the result from having a strange brilliance.”
The movie begins with Ronald Lee Ermey’s unforgettable impromptu ranta real retired sergeant who participated in the film, and takes out a sniper among the devastated buildings of Vietnam, giving away some of the best shots sequences with steadicam of the director while satirizing militarism.
That year, the academics awarded another production that is on Prime Video, won 9 Oscars and is an “unmatched” film that critics defined as a visual masterpiece. However, and as time heals everything, popular culture has embraced with much greater force other titles from 1987 that were far from the radar of those in charge of distributing gold statuettes. They were also present that night already eternal films such as ‘Empire of the Sun’ (Steven Spielberg), ‘The Untouchables of Eliot Ness’ (Brian De Palma), ‘Radio Days’ (Woody Allen), ‘Fatal Attraction’ (Adrian Lyne), ‘Good Morning , Vietnam’ (Barry Levinson), ‘Wall Street’ (Oliver Stone), ‘Moonstruck’ (Norman Jewison), and, of course, ‘Full Metal Jacket’ (Stanley Kubrick).
Ricardo Rosado is a film critic, cultural journalist, expert in North American comedy, horror films of any kind and everything that happens between genres and formats. Raised on Steven Spielberg films, and spoiled since he encountered David Lynch, he has been writing for a decade about the art he consumes.
In FOTOGRAMAS you will read him commenting on the latest theatrical releases, promoting peace between Marvel and DC fans, reviewing all the Star Wars news or diving into the depths of the Netflix, HBO Max, Prime Video and Filmin catalogues. He also likes to make galleries and rankings of movies and series, but no one trusts his judgment too much.
After studying Audiovisual Communication at the Complutense University of Madrid, he created a film review blog with the hope of attending film festivals and press screenings for free. Now, after seven years writing in FOTOGRAMAS about the latest theatrical releases, current series and any content available on the different streaming channels, she still thinks it was worth it.
Frontman of two embarrassing musical projects, director of various video clips by heavy metal bands from Madrid and author of many short films hidden in the Internet, he is the editor and one of the proud members of the cultural podcast ‘Los de al lado de Pumares’ , a space that has allowed him to participate as a collaborator in other radio formats such as ‘Vamos de cine’ (Castilla-La Mancha Media) and ‘El Faro’ (Cadena SER), in addition to having made him one of the main voices of the videos of FRAMES.
