Original Full Metal Jacket Movie Posters

Full Metal Jacket movie posters — Full Metal Jacket (1987) — Stanley Kubrick's Vietnam War film starring Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey as the volcanic Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, and Vincent D'Onofrio in the film's most harrowing performance — divided its attention between the brutal Marine training sequences at Parris Island and the Battle of Hué, producing campaign materials that had to communicate both of these very different tonal registers. Buy an original Full Metal Jacket one-sheet and you're acquiring campaign materials for one of the great war films — and one of the most demanding viewing experiences in Kubrick's catalogue. The American campaign used R. Lee Ermey's drill sergeant face and the "Born to Kill" peace sign helmet imagery to communicate the film's central irony without revealing its structural division. British quad posters approach the same material with a different visual economy. R. Lee Ermey's performance as Hartman — a former real Marine drill instructor who improvised many of his most brutal monologues — is documented across the campaign materials as the film's primary selling point. The Parris Island section, with its claustrophobic visual grammar, translates differently to poster advertising than the Hué urban combat sequences, and the different national campaigns make different choices about which to foreground. The British quad, with its distinctive horizontal format, is among the most graphically powerful variants in the Kubrick catalogue. Genuine first-release theatrical prints from the 1987 Warner Bros. Browse alongside our Vietnam War and Stanley Kubrick collections. All Film/Art Gallery movie posters and items are authenticated originals.