Comments on: Kubrick’s Use of Mickey Mouse Song in ‘Full Metal Jacket’ is Genius!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:21:15 +0000

Mickey mouse is a direct refrence to Mk-Utra mind control being used by the elites. Also Full Metal Jacket is not really about vietnam (If you look closley it looks nothing like vietnam- its really about Kubrick predicting future wars in the middle east e.g compare the pictures of the urban battalfield to Iraq). Also this movie touches on the phantom bullet theory about JFK conspiracy theory (for more info check it out here: http://www.collativelearning.com/FMJ%20pt%2015.html )

Eyes wide shut: Really About Mk-ultra and secret societies (more information:http://www.konformist.com/flicks/eyeswideshut.htm and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2N14Zv7omE)

THE shining:Kubricks confession of the faked moon landing and genocide of native Americans (more infromation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivFs8SKHW7k )

By: Yesfx

Yesfx — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:22:31 +0000

I feel it is also a connection to the concept of the Duality of Man “the Jungian thing” as war is a mans business and the Mickey Mouse club it a show for children.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:10:51 +0000

What about the Mickey Mouse reference when Hartman storms in on Joker and Gomer Pyle in the head at the conclusion of the first part of the movie.
What do you think the connection is?

By: kdeazy

kdeazy — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:40:53 +0000

there is also a mickey mouse figurine in the newspaper meeting room

By: Ryan M

Ryan M — Sat, 01 May 2010 02:12:45 +0000

I also loved this scene, and last night I found out where Kubrick got the idea. I was reading “The Doom Pussy” a book by journalist Elaine Shepard about the Vietnam War which was published in 1967. On page 167 several Air Force flyers have started their own “Mickey Mouse Club” in a bar in Saigon and they sing, beer in hand and Mickey Mouse ears on their heads, the song. Several verses of the song are spelled out in the text. This in and of itself made me think that Kubrick must have read the book, but then, on page 168, after the song has finished, one of the airmen, Tors, says “I hope the producer of Strangelove never gets a hold of that.” The bar owner responds, “Why, didn’t you know? It’s just possible that Dr. Strangelove lives in Peking.”

Twenty years later Kubrick used the song in his Vietnam epic. A tribute to “Doom Pussy,” or maybe a little inside joke? The world may never know.

By: Lauretta

Lauretta — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:07:53 +0000

http://collativelearning.com/FMJ%20contents.html

the best analysis of FMJ i have come across… great observations regarding the final scene!

…”what is this mickey mouse shit!?”–sgt. hartman…another reference to mickey mouse right before private pyle commits suicide.