Better Tagline: I am in a world of shit.
Not So Brief Plot Synopsis: In the early 1980s, all South African males age 16-60 were conscripted into the South African Defence Force to defend their country s apartheid regime against Soviet-backed Angola. One new recruit, Nicholas van der Swart (Kai Luke Brummer), has to contend not only with the brutal training, but hiding the fact he s gay (derogatorily referred to as a moffie in Afrikaans) from both military command and his brothers-in-arms. Critical Analysis: There s an adage that says the best time in history to live as a woman (or person of color, or LGBTQ) is right now. The next best time is tomorrow. Those fond of pining for the good old days tend not to fall into those categories, for reasons that should be obvious.
How Iceman Helped Pvt. Joker Get the Part in Full Metal Jacket
Would Matthew Modine have gotten the role of Pvt. Joker in Full Metal Jacket if Top Gun star Val Kilmer had kept his mouth shut?
15 Dec 2020
Life is full of accidents and mistakes, but Top Gun icon Val Kilmer made a giant blunder one morning while enjoying breakfast at West Hollywood s famous The Source restaurant back in the 80s, according to a recent interview for Collider’s interview series MasterWork.
Matthew Modine, enjoying a hot start to his career with the movies Streamers, Vision Quest and Birdy, was having breakfast with his friend, fellow actor David Alan Grier. Over at another table, Kilmer was giving Modine the hairy eyeball while enjoying his own breakfast.