Who Dares Wins (film) has been disputed by Kubrick's assistant Anthony Frewin, saying that, "Lloyd, as the gunnery [sergeant] in Full Metal Jacket would say, is blowing smoke up our asses. That film is the antithesis of everything Stanley stood for and believed in." Stewart Lee later described the film as "one of the nastiest films ever made, coming off like Richard Littlejohn writing "The Professionals", married SAS man Collins goes undercover with peaceniks to gallantly probe their firebrand leader [...] only to murder her in cold blood later. Fairport Convention appear as some kind of beardo commie new wave band, playing a weird
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