Full Metal Jacket dressed as extras, only to be mistaken by a crew member for Herr when Hasford identified himself as the writer whose work the film was based on. Kubrick's daughter Vivian—who appears uncredited as a news-camera operator at the mass grave—shadowed the filming of "Full Metal Jacket." She shot 18 hours of behind-the-scenes footage for a potential "making-of" documentary similar to her earlier film documentary on Kubrick's "The Shining" (1980), but in this case did not make the film. Snippets of her work can be seen in the documentary "Stanley Kubrick's Boxes" (2008). Compared to Kubrick's other works, the themes of
Full Metal Jacket episodes of the film. For instance, the climactic episode with the sniper is a conflation of two episodes in the book, from Parts II and III. Jenkins thinks the film presents this passage more dramatically but in less gruesome detail than in the novel. The film often has a more tragic tone than the book, which relies on callous humor. Joker in the film remains a model of humane thinking, as evidenced by his moral struggle in the sniper episode and elsewhere. He works to overcome his own meekness, rather than to compete with other Marines. The film omits the