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Michael Herr, the author of the searing 1977 Vietnam War book “Dispatches,” co-wrote a screenplay with Gustav Hasford and the director Stanley Kubrick for a movie that was based on Hasford’s own 1979 autobiographical Vietnam novel, “The Short-Timers.” What was the name of the film?
- A “Full Metal Jacket”
- B “Platoon”
- C “Apocalypse Now”
- D “The Deer Hunter”
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From Bruce Weber’s 2016 obituary for Michael Herr:
The war in Vietnam and its dehumanizing effect on its participants figured widely in Mr. Herr’s writing life. He contributed the narration to “Apocalypse Now,” Francis Ford Coppola’s epic adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” and with the director Stanley Kubrick and Gustav Hasford wrote the screenplay for “Full Metal Jacket” (1987), adapted from Mr. Hasford’s novel (“The Short-Timers”).
