Full Metal Jacket of Film Critics Awards, for Kubrick and Ermey respectively. Of the five awards won, four were awarded to Kubrick. Film scholar Greg Jenkins has done a detailed analysis of the adaptation of the novel as a screenplay. The novel is in three parts. The film greatly expands the relatively brief section in Part I, about the boot camp on Parris Island, and essentially discards Part III. This gives the film a twofold structure, telling two largely independent stories connected by the same characters acting in each. Jenkins believes this structure is a development of concepts that Kubrick has had since
Red Jacket (film) the contributors held a history with Tretchikoff. The independent production was screened to national audiences on the state broadcaster, SABC in 1998. Since then it has been distributed for educational purposes by the Western Cape Provincial Library Service who issued a VHS/DVD version. It is commonly used as a resource for art students. The film has since been rebroadcast, most recently on SABC 2 on 17 July 2011. In 2011, the film was projected in a small antechamber at the South African National Gallery as part of a Tretchikoff exhibition. Red Jacket (film) Red Jacket is a 1998 documentary film