Hollywood Legend Weighs In On Trump Military Ad — Probably NOT How You Think!
It was a high-risk, high reward ad that took guts to produce... they couldn't have expected this response
Full Metal Jacket is not an obvious choice to take clips from in a campaign ad… especially the drill instructor scenes… but the Trump team took a chance to make a bigger point.
The scenes of a drill instructor hurling abuse at raw recruits to turn them into the kind of men who might actually survive on a battlefield makes for a hell of a contrast to the actual drag queen social medial ‘influencers’ that have cropped up among military leaders in the Biden years.
That’s the contrast the ad was looking for… and it hit hard.
In an X post captioned ‘We will not have a woke military.’ Trump posted the following video:
WE WILL NOT HAVE A WOKE MILITARY! pic.twitter.com/zpWZhSKcEs
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 13, 2024
Many replies made fun of the campaign team’s choice of using Full Metal Jacket footage, because of the anti-war message in the original film, but one person in particular did not. And her opinion is worth a lot more than whatever some rando might have to say about it.
If anyone could weigh in (intelligently) on the Trump team’s use of the late Stanley Kubrick’s footage in a campaign ad, it might be his own children.
That’s where Vivian Kubrick enters the story. While others were mocking this decision, she took a different position and took the time to articulate it well. Here is her response in full… as well as a LINK for anyone wanting to see the original tweet.
TO THOSE WHO THINK MY FATHER WOULDN’T HAVE WANTED #TRUMP TO USE FMJ FOOTAGE
Here are my thoughts: I agree in principle that an anti-war movie is incongruous with promoting the idea of a tough non-woke US military and thus war itself – however – these are very dangerous and strange times and thus using this footage is doubtless pure expedience.
Because I’m sure the irony of using FMJ footage is not lost on Trump or his team – Trump is always seeking to end wars and use peaceful methods. However, that’s primarily what FMJ is about, the shocking and complicated paradoxes of human nature.
And thus, on this tooth and claw planet, you need a very strong military – so I’m going to stick with the idea that FMJ footage was used primarily because of its powerful, realistic portrayal of boot camp, juxtaposed with the entirely demoralizing and inappropriate injection of WOKE ideology into the USA military. Which I agree with myself and which I’m certain my father would have agreed with.
Truthfully, I believe my father (who supported Reagan), would very much approve of saving America, indeed the world, from the highly destructive Globalist forces threatening to take over this planet. And if that footage from FMJ helps Trump make the point that the US military needs properly trained, super tough, focused, dedicated warriors, and not introduce the demoralizing effects of woke-ism, and attracting people to join up simply to have their sexual reassignments paid for, then Trump has my blessing.
Finally, knowing my father very well, I can assure you he had a profound grasp of how paradoxical human nature is! Which accounts for how at the same time he made anti-war films, he had a great passion for guns (self-defense not hunting) and he had quite a few!
My father had a great respect for life – his movies being unimpeachable evidence of his love for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness! So on that basis, I feel very confident he would be a Trump supporter and would forgive using FMJ incongruously, if it helps the cause of freedom!
Capisce?
She ended by tagging a few big names on the right.
Of course, you’d know exactly where her reply was going if we’d led with this screenshot of her ‘X’ bio page:
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