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Jarhead
Promotional poster for Jarhead
Directed by	Sam Mendes
Produced by	Douglas Wick Lucy Fisher Bobby Cohen Sam Mercer
Written by	William Broyles Jr. (screenplay) Anthony Swofford (book)
Starring	Jake Gyllenhaal Peter Sarsgaard Lucas Black Jamie Foxx Chris Cooper
Music by	Thomas Newman
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	November 4, 2005 (USA)
Running time	123 minutes
Language	English, Arabic
Budget	$70,000,000 (estimated)
IMDb profile

Jarhead is a 2005 film based on U.S. Marine Anthony Swofford's 2003 Gulf War memoir Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Swofford. The title comes from the semi-derogatory slang term used to refer to Marines (sometimes by Marines themselves). The film was directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes, most famous for his 1999 film American Beauty. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (511x755, 37 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Sam Mendes Samuel Alexander Mendes, CBE (born August 1, 1965) is an English stage and film director born in Reading, Berkshire, England. ... Douglas Wick is an American movie producer whose work includes producing the 5 Academy Award-winning 2000 film Gladiator, Stuart Little, and the 3 Academy Award-winning Memoirs of a Geisha. ... Bobby Cohen is an American film producer whos credits include The Cider House Rules and Memoirs of a Geisha. ... Sam Mercer is a producer of many Hollywood films such as Signs, The Sixth Sense and Van Helsing. ... William Broyles Jr. ... Anthony Swofford is the author of the book Jarhead, published in 2003. ... Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal[1] (born December 19, 1980) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ... Peter Sarsgaard (born March 7, 1971) is a Golden Globe Award-nominated American film and stage actor. ... Lucas York Black (born November 29, 1982) is an American film and television actor. ... Jamie Foxx (born December 13, 1967) is an American actor, singer, and stand-up comic. ... Christopher W. Cooper (born July 9, 1951) is an Academy Award-winning American film actor. ... Thomas Montgomery Newman (born October 20, 1955 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film score composer. ... Universal Pictures is the main motion picture production/distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. ... is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2005. ... This article is about motion pictures. ... The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the United States military responsible for providing power projection from the sea,[1] utilizing the mobility of the U.S. Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces. ... Anthony Swofford is the author of the book Jarhead, published in 2003. ... See also: 2002 in literature, other events of 2003, 2004 in literature, list of years in literature. ... For other uses, see Iraq war (disambiguation). ... As a literary genre, a memoir (from the French: mémoire from the Latin memoria, meaning memory) forms a subclass of autobiography, although it is an older form of writing. ... Jarhead cover Jarhead is a Gulf War memoir by author Anthony Swofford. ... Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal[1] (born December 19, 1980) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ... For other uses, see Slang (disambiguation). ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... Sam Mendes Samuel Alexander Mendes, CBE (born August 1, 1965) is an English stage and film director born in Reading, Berkshire, England. ... The year 1999 in film involved some significant events. ... American Beauty is a 1999 drama film that explores themes of love, freedom, self-liberation, the search for happiness, and family against the backdrop of modern American suburbia. ...

Plot

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Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows "Swoff" (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand against an enemy they can't see for a cause they don't fully fathom... Foxx portrays Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford's scout/sniper platoon, while Sarsgaard is Swoff's friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA-their elite Marine Unit. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ...

Response

The film received mixed reviews from critics, registering a 61% Tomatometer rating (53% Cream of the Crop) on Rotten Tomatoes. Roger Ebert gave the movie 3 1/2 out of 4 stars, crediting it for its unique portrayal of Gulf War Marines who battled more boredom and a sense of isolation rather than enemy combatants. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone and Richard Schickel of Time Magazine also filed positive reviews. Other critics, however, such as David Denby in The New Yorker, cited an unstructured plot. In an interview with the UK film magazine Empire Mendes stated he thought Jarhead would be his most misunderstood film. Nathaniel Fick, another author who served in the Marines, gave the film a mixed review (and panned the book on which it is based) in Slate.^[1] This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ... Peter Travers is the film critic for Rolling Stone magazine. ... This article is about the magazine. ... Richard Warren Schickel (b. ... (Clockwise from upper left) Time magazine covers from May 7, 1945; July 25, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003. ... For other uses, see New Yorker. ... Nathaniel Fick is a former United States Marine Corps officer who has gained fame for his writing on military life and the current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. ... Slate is an online news and culture magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley and owned by Microsoft (as part of MSN). ...

Awards

The movie was liked but not lauded like Mendes' first two films. It primarily received technical praise.

Wins

• San Diego Film Critics Society Special Award (Jake Gyllenhaal for Body of Work) (also for Brokeback Mountain and Proof)

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Nominations

• Art Directors Guild Excellence in Production Design Award for Contemporary Feature Film (Dennis Gassner, Stefan Dechant, Christina Wilson, Marco Niro, A. Todd Holland, Christopher Tandon)
• Black Movie Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Jamie Foxx)
• Satellite Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama (Jake Gyllenhaal)
• Satellite Award for Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role, Drama (Peter Sarsgaard)
• Satellite Award for Outstanding Film Editing (Walter Murch)
• Satellite Award for Outstanding Screenplay, Adapted (William Broyles Jr.)
• Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Motion Picture (Pablo Helman, Jeanie King, Grady Cofer, Brett Northcutt)
• Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor (Peter Sarsgaard])

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Characters

Lance Corporal Anthony Swofford "Swoff" (Jake Gyllenhaal) - The protagonist. Swoff comes from an odd family: His father is a still-shellshocked Vietnam War veteran who may have PTSD, his mother seems to have a form of depression, and his sister is in an insane asylum for an unknown reason. He joins the Marine Corps and after going through a lengthy training process, he becomes a scout sniper and his spotter is Troy. When they are part of Operation Desert Shield, Swoff struggles with boredom and the fact that he does not know if his girlfriend is cheating on him. He receives a letter confirming his suspicions. He often has Fergus take his watch for him, which leads to an explosives accident on Christmas, resulting in Swoff's demotion. When the war begins, Swoff and the others taunt Troy upon learning that he is a drug dealer. While they are under heavy artillery barrage, Swoff has to run through a gauntlet of explosions twice for radio batteries. He and Troy desperately want to shoot the two Iraqi Army colonels they were assigned to kill during a mission towards the end of the war, but an airstrike takes them out instead. At the film's end he learns from Fergus his friend Troy is dead. He attends Troy's funeral where he reminisces about the war. Anthony Swofford is the author of the book Jarhead, published in 2003. ... Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal[1] (born December 19, 1980) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ... Combatants Republic of Vietnam United States Republic of Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam People’s Republic of China Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Strength US 1,000,000 South Korea 300,000 Australia 48,000... Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), is a term for the psychological consequences of exposure to or confrontation with stressful experiences, which involve actual or threatened death, serious physical injury or a threat to physical integrity and which the person found highly traumatic. ... On the Threshold of Eternity. ...

Corporal Troy (Peter Sarsgaard) - A drug dealer who joined the corps illegally. He joined the Marine Corps so he could make something of himself. He is more sensitive than the other Marines, as shown when he is the only Marine to keep the others from watching the video Dettman's wife sent him. Troy is Swoff's spotter during the war. Right before the invasion, Sykes tells Swoff that Troy will be unable to reenlist after the invasion because he lied about a criminal record on his first enlistment forms. He melts down when they are not allowed to shoot an Iraqi colonel, as this may be his first and last chance to get a kill. The penultimate scenes of the film show Fergus informing Swoff about Troy's death, and Troy's funeral. The movie does not say that Alan Troy was a drug dealer, however the character implies it in one small scene. The real-life Marine upon whom the character was based was Troy Collier from Greenville, MI and he was killed in a car accident just two months after returning from the Gulf War in December 1991. He was 22 years old. In reality he was not a drug dealer, but was not allowed to reenlist due to a failed drug test. Peter Sarsgaard (born March 7, 1971) is a Golden Globe Award-nominated American film and stage actor. ...

Staff Sergeant Sykes (Jamie Foxx) - A gung-ho sergeant who leads the Scout Snipers. He disciplines the Marines by drilling them randomly for things like gas attacks. Sykes demotes Swoff after he has Fergus take his guard duty and accidentally cause an explosion. He comforts Swoff several times over the conflict, including telling him about Troy's life before the war, when the troops are on the bombed highway, and when Fowler plays with a dead corpse. At one moment he explains to Swoff that he could have a better paying job and a family, but he loves being a Marine, and he thanks God for every day that he has in the Corps. He is the only character that stays in the Marine Corps and fights in the next conflict in Iraq. Jamie Foxx (born December 13, 1967) is an American actor, singer, and stand-up comic. ...

Kruger (Lucas Black) - A Marine who is vehement about his rights. He is the marine who questions their censorship in the reporter scene, and when they have to take pills that were not tested. He thinks that the war is only about oil and thinks more about the war's political side. After the war, he is shown to be a business executive. Lucas York Black (born November 29, 1982) is an American film and television actor. ...

Fowler (Evan Jones) - A Marine and gun enthusiast. Fowler is clearly uneducated, possessing a level of intelligence that is clearly below that of the average human being. He loves describing what a bullet does to a camel's head (and this seems to indicate that he did actually kill some Saudi civilians' camels), and he also teases Swoff about his girlfriend back home. He also refers to whites as the "master race" and mistreats Iraqis, harassing the civilians; later he is found playing with dead Iraqis. Sykes tells Swoff that Fowler will get kicked out of the Marines when they return from the war, and after the war he is shown in a bar with what appears to be a prostitute. Evan Jones spent a part of his life in South Carolina, USA. He received his first part in the 1998 TV movie On the Line which also starred rapper and actor, Coolio. ...

Cortez (Jacob Vargas) - Another Marine. His wife is pregnant with a child when he goes to Iraq, and it turns out to be a boy. He joined the Marines to protect the rights given to him. After the war, he is shown to have another child, a girl, and enjoying life. Fergus was one of his friends in boot camp. Jacob Vargas (born on August 18, 1971) is a Mexican-American actor. ...

Escobar (Laz Alonso) - A Marine who is one of Cortez's friends. He is also fighting to protect the rights he was given as a United States citizen. He is religious and often prays over a picture of the Virgin Mary. After the war, he is a super market worker and does not appear happy with his life. Lazrecent picture. ...

Private Fergus O'Donnell (Brian Geraghty) - A nerdy Marine from a small town. He gets off to a bad start with Swoff. He is not very close to any of the marines until the end of the war. He is very passive so the Marines usually have him take their guard duties while they party. On Christmas, he dozes off on Swoff's guard duty and accidentally causes an explosion. Swoff breaks down in front of him and aims a gun at him, saying he could kill him and it would "only be an accident". Troy rebukes Swoff for this incident and Fergus and Swoff have a better relationship by the war's end. During civilian life he is shown as being a hippie type and he tells Swoff about Troy's death. Brian Timothy Geraghty (born 1975 in Toms River, New Jersey) is an American film actor. ...

Pinko (Iván Fenyö) - A Marine from Hungary, which is where he got the nickname of Pinko. In deleted scenes, he is shown as enjoying being an American, but still reads and writes in Hungarian. Even though he is older, he enjoys the Marines' shenanigans like scorpion fights. He is shown as getting particularly drunk in the Christmas party scenes. His life after the war is not shown. Most of his character is shown in deleted scenes on the DVD. Pinko is a derogatory term for a person sympathetic to a Communist Party, but not necessarily a communist. ...

Bryan Dettman (Marty Papazian) - One of Troy and Swoff's friends. His wife sends him a copy of The Deer Hunter, but it is shown to be taped over with his wife having sex with his neighbor. This only deepens Swoff's concerns over his girlfriend's faithfulness. Marty Papazian Marty Papazian sometimes credited as Martin A. Papazian, is a television and film actor. ...

Lt. Colonel Kazinski (Chris Cooper) - The leader of the Scout snipers' unit, he is optimistic about their mission and tells the Swoff and Troy "not to go Rambo" on their assassination mission. Christopher W. Cooper (born July 9, 1951) is an Academy Award-winning American film actor. ... John Rambo redirects here. ...

Major Lincoln (Dennis Haysbert) - A Marine officer who played American football in College where he suffered an unspecified injury. He has an apparent disdain for Scout Snipers, calling in an air strike instead of letting Swoff and Troy shoot the Iraqi officers. This causes Troy to break down, the Major almost seeming to take a sadistic amusement in Troy's despair, calling him and Swoff "weird motherfuckers." Dennis Dexter Haysbert (born June 2, 1954) is an American film and television actor. ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ...

Trivia

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• During the scorpion-fighting scene, LCPL Cortez can be seen holding a new 5 dollar note from the back side.
• Filmed in the Imperial Valley in Southern California, which features conditions very similar to Iraq. Marines did use Brawley, California, for training purposes due to similarities to Iraq. Some of the scenes filmed in the Imperial Valley had the mountains in the background digitally removed. Additional desert scenes were also filmed in Mexico. Some of the desert scenes were also shot on a Universal sound stage with lights doubling as burning oil wells. The lights were digitally replaced with burning wells in the film by Industrial Light and Magic.
• While shooting the scene where Swofford, having a breakdown, tells Fergus to shoot him in the face, the rifle bounced into actor Jake Gyllenhaal's mouth, chipping a tooth - A similar injury to what Anthony Swofford suffered during the event that inspired the scene, where Swofford is alone and has his gun in his own mouth whilst contemplating suicide.
• The video game Metro is mentioned in the movie. A game where the player played a police officer patrolling the streets in a squad car. Upon reaching the "Ninth level" as mentioned in the movie, the game would repeat itself over again.
• The quote "Yea, I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for I'm the baddest motherfucker in the god-damned fucking valley" is a homage to the movie Casualties of War which depicted a soldier's experiences in the Vietnam War. It is a profane parody of Psalm 23.
• The word "fuck" and its variants are used 278 times in this film. See also: List of films ordered by uses of the word "fuck".
• When the Marines are celebrating the end of the war firing their weapons, Troy is shown pulling down on the trigger of his M16A2 Rifle, letting off a prolonged burst when the A2 version should only fire a maximum of 3 shots per trigger pull, unless he had the A1 version. Also during this scene Swoff is first shown firing his M40A1 Sniper rifle, then after a cut away he is shown firing an M249 SAW (Squad Automatic Weapon).
• In the outtakes Swofford dreams of shooting the Iraqi officer in the control tower.
• The Major who denies Swofford his shot at the Iraqi officer mentions an injury he suffered playing football in college, which establishes The Major as a composite character. In the book, this officer is unnamed and no details (about injuries or otherwise) are given, but there is another, similar Captain with a football injury who denies Swofford the privilege of calling in air support.
• Chris Cooper, who plays Col. Kaczynski, also starred in Sam Mendes' earlier film American Beauty. In American Beauty he played a retired, homophobic Marine colonel.
• The M1 Abrams tanks seen during Desert Shield and the artillery barrage at the start of Desert Storm in the film are the same visually modified Centurion tanks used in the film Courage Under Fire.
• All coalition vehicles are seen wearing chevrons to prevent friendly fire and identify parent units.
• Staff Sergeant Sykes creates an alias of Saddam Hussein (Sodom Insane).
• Coincidentally, Peter Sarsgaard, who portrays a combatant of Operation Desert Storm in Jarhead, played a character who collected "Desert Storm trading cards" in the movie Garden State.
• The scene in which Staff Sergeant. Sykes directs Swofford to play reveille with his mouth was filmed at the former George AFB, CA, a fighter base that closed in 1992 and was located two hours north of Los Angeles near Victorville. It is now the Southern California Logistics Airport. The water tower in the background displays the emblem of the Tactical Air Command (later Air Combat Command), a strong indication that the scene was not actually Camp Pendleton.
• In the scene where they are watching a movie and calling out the beats to Ride of the Valkyries is a scene from Apocalypse Now

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Differences from the Book

• In the book, Staff Sergeant Sykes is actually pronounced Sikes, spelled Siek, and he has a very small role in the book.
• The sniper tower scene didn't actually happen as it did. In the book, Swafford and Johnny were supporting some Marine Infantry taking the airfield, they were not interrupted by anyone. They were only ordered not to take the shot.
• Troy was not a drug dealer in reality, he died in a car accident on the way to work after he left the Marine Corps.
• The book goes into Swafford's childhood up until he joined the Marines, however in the film his upbringing is only explained in brief detail.
• The entire oil scene when they dig in the oil wells did not happen in the book.

DVD release date

Released: March 7, 2006 The movie is available as a single disc standard version (in both fullscreen and widescreen) and a 2-disc Collector's Edition. Oddly, the Collectors Edition was discontinued immediately following release, and is considered a rare item. It was available for only one week. While there has been no official word as to why, the second disc does contain a lot of political content which may be considered as controversial. is the 66th day of the year (67th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A 2. ... The inner box (green) is the format used in most pre-1952 films and pre-widescreen television. ...

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See also

• United States Marine Corps

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Footnotes

Nathaniel Fick is a former United States Marine Corps officer who has gained fame for his writing on military life and the current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Slate is an online news and culture magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley and owned by Microsoft (as part of MSN). ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Official webpage
• Jarhead at the Internet Movie Database
• Jarhead at Rotten Tomatoes
• Richard D. North How fair is Jarhead to US marines? Social Affairs Unit Web Review, February 2006
• Thoughts on Jarhead US Marine First Lt. Jeffrey D. Barnett reviews Jarhead