Stanley Kubrick's daughter approves use of Full Metal Jacket footage by Trump

In response to a video posted by 2024 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump featuring footage of Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 film Full Metal Jacket, the late filmmaker’s daughter, Vivian, said she supported the use of the film by the GOP nominee and said her father would have too.

"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," Kubrick wrote in a post Sunday.

Kubrick added that "I’m sure the irony of using FMJ footage is not lost on Trump or his team," noting that 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," she continued. "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."

Kubrick was responding to a video posted to the social media platform by Trump, in which clips from Full Metal Jacket’s boot camp scenes are contrasted to current clips of the US military, including drag queens and trans-identified male Admiral Rachel Levine, the current Assistant Secretary for Health for the US Department of Health and Human Services. The scenes from Full Metal Jacket represented the military under Trump, while the modern clips show the military under "Comrade Harris."

Kubrick continued: "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."

She said her father "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."