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"...and not even have the God-damned common courtesy to give him a reach-around." If that was unscripted, a lot of credit has to be given to the guys for being able to keep straight faces.
it was scripted....decade upon decade in the military by numerous drill instructors and expanded upon in various ways depending on the training situation
Boss Cheese Emery wasn't in charge, but remaining in character, he might have just kept going with the scene and dished it out to the amused trainee. "What's so God-damned funny, you little nugget of rabbit shit?..." etc.
R Lee Ermy is pretty well known for ad-libbing lines, and sometimes scenes entirely. He was originally brought into movies as an advisor, but impressed the big wigs so much he started acting also. For him, I would imagine, some of this stuff is memory as much as acting.
Fortunata Pacheco R. Lee Ermy was a former Drill instructor in the Marines, therefore what he said is typical stuff said by them to recruits. His entire dialog was his alone and not scripted.
+therealdeadpen R. Lee Ermey's an actual drill sergeant. They were probably terrified of him while he was screaming and yelling. Although one guy is smiling while Ermey's screaming at him during this scene, lucky that corpsing worked out for that fella.
HOw you ask? Stanley Kubrick was a notorious perfectionist who wouldn't hesitate to shoot hundreds of takes until he got the perfect shot. I am sure it was funny at first but after hours... and days... and weeks of getting yelled at by a genuine drill instructor and put through PT etc... that they were well sick of being there at all.
R Lee Ermey was just an an advisor on the set of Full Metal Jacket. He put together a tape on how a Drill Instructor is suppose to lay into new recruits for the actor to study and play. Kubrick saw and sent the actor home. He then allowed Ermey to write and ad-lib all his own scenes. Which we all know today is pure memerable gold! Ermey also played a D.I. in "The Boys in Company C" years before. He is so great at it because he acutally was a Drill Instrutor when he served our country in the Marine Corps.
0:54 It's crazy how yesterday at the exact same time Robin Williams was experiencing his last moments on earth, I was watching his improvised scene in Good Will Hunting, and I was laughing with actual tears in my eyes. Even in his last breath, Robin managed to make someone, somewhere in the world, laugh. Your legacy will always be remembered. R.I.P.
In scene 20 with Joker, the explosion pause was NOT scripted, it was a pyrotechnics malfunction. Ledger genuinely saved the scene by staying in character. And they only had one take to do this in. Scene 8 was "allegedly" improvised. In fact Woody Allen sneezed on purpose for comedic effect but the other actors didn't know he was going to do that. So it's not really improvised.
Douchy McDouche Do you even know the meaning of improvised? If the other actors or director didn't know he was going sneeze, it was improvised by him. Therefore, the scene was improvised
They were not improvised. Ermy wrote the Paris Island boot camp dialog himself. This was tye first time Kubrick let ANYONE touch his work and redefine his vision.
@@spaceballs44 Ermey was originally supposed to be an advisor for the boot camp scenes. The actor who was supposed to be Hartmann ended up as the crazy machine gunner in the helicopter scene because Ermey was so good at showing how a real drill instructor acted and spoke, so Kubrik gave him the part instead and gave Ermey full reign to improvise. As a Marine myself during that time period R. Lee Ermey absolutely nailed it. It looked authentic because it was authentic.
@deadbutdreaming Wtf are you on about. The bulk of the monologue was slightly altered by Hauer and the `lost in time, like tears in rain, time to die` were added by Hauer the night before, as the original monologue was to verbose and full of as "opera talk" and "hi-tech speech". What kind of conspiracy BS are you going on about.
They didn't mention that the last scene, the one from "Full Metal Jacket" was acted by a former drill instructor. ". . . and not even have the common courtesy of giving him a reach around." Maybe he made that up on the spot or maybe it was from his DI days. Haha.
Hell yeah "Gunny" was a DI! I think he really made FMJ a MUCH better movie, just as Capt. Dale Dye, retired USMC, made the Band of Brothers series a "REAL" gem in terms of making the story more genuine.
That lines comes from a long history of USMC DIs instructing at both MCRD and OCS. I doubt that there has been a new line in the USMC DI repertoire in decades neither in training nor a film.
That's because R. Lee Ermey WAS a real Marine Corps Drill Instructor long before he started doing film, starting with his role as a DI in "The Boys in Company C". It wasn't hard to improvise something he knew by heart. Kubrick actually had Ermey on set of FMJ just as an advisor, but he was so good at it that Kubrick gave him full reign to improvise his own dialog, and as you said, it made the movie a classic. Personally, I loved him in "Siege of Firebase Gloria".
The same tone he uses Dave chapelle uses in making da band episode when he says “ breast milk, you made my daaaay” lol i just noticed rn. Never seen that movie but now I see. Or making a good guess
Blade Runner's impovised line is poetry. I think the other are memorable and so quotable and the situation is so absurdly rare for being memorable that I can understand why they're higher on the list. But my personal favorite is Blade Runner's line here. It's just so beautiful and fitting to the scene. And the acting was so perfectly eloquent and concise. Not saying a lot but saying so much with perfect pacing and punch to the line. God, I love it. I'm gonna replay it a few more times before clicking on another video :')
My dad said the audience he saw Full Metal Jacket with never laughed at anything he said. They were all terrified and in complete awe. It’s only funny after years and years of being so iconic.
Thanks for not filling the video with annoying commentary about each individual scene, I really do enjoy watching this scene after scene without a bunch of useless knowledge about the randomness of each improv
Rutger Hauer has publicly said that the tears in rain monologue was not improvised. I think it has become a myth because what really took place was that he spontaneously wrote the speech off hand late in his trailer the night before filming and showed it to Ridley Scott. The director was so amazed that he scrapped the original dialogue and replaced it with Hauer's monolgue... Which is I think actually equally as cool as the speech being improvised.
Not only is this 100% accurate- but the way this was cut together- this is how a complication _should_ be done. This deserves a freaking Oscar or some kind of award in of itself. 100% well done.
Lil funfact about the "Reach around" line from Full Metal Jacket. After Ermey said it, Kubrick stopped the take to ask the Sergeant what the hell a reach around was. Ermey explained and Kubrick's response was, "Ah, carry on."
It's extremely likely he was so good at "improvising" because he was an actual Marine sergeant. Wouldn't be surprised if he'd used every one of his lines while on duty, or had them used on him.
Kubrick gave Ermey free rein because he wanted it to be as realistic as possible. He probably said all those things at some time when he was in a drill instructor. That's why Full Metal Jacket is one of the best war films of all time.
The scene in "Alien" when the alien itself bursts through the guy's chest kinda fits in this list. It was scripted... but the actors in the scene were not told what was going to happen, so their horror faces were legit, from the actual shock XD
im surprised that the monty python scene from the life of Brian where Michael Palin is talking about Biggus Dickkus isnt in there.......that was unscripted to a point, the people playing the roman soldiers were told not to laugh at whatever he said.
Would Martin Sheen's scene in Apocalypse Now count as "unscripted"? He showed up to the set drunk, the scene in the bedroom was shot whilst he was drunk and he smashed a mirror, basically went nuts.
The reason R.Lee Ermey is so brilliant in that scene in the barracks on Full Metal Jacket is because he was just being himself--he used to be a Drill Instructor in real life and just played the part as it came natural to him since obviously the character he plays in the film is just second nature to him..He was indeed brilliant in the part and played it beautifully--very authentic! This is how it used to be and is much different than what is allowed today with a new recruit going thru boot camp...Full Metal Jacket is hands down one of THE BEST war films of all time! You can also catch him being himself again as a DI in the great film "The Boys In Company C" as he is training recruits going thru Boot Camp on their way to serving in combat in the Vietnam war..he plays these parts extremely well and with such authenticity due to his many years of service in the Marine corp. He also can be seen in 2 of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre films and one can easily see again his brilliance as he plays the twisted sheriff in both films. I will say that he is probably most recognized as being The Face of "Marine Corp Strong" and an avid supporter of the men and women of the US armed forces..a true patriot!
Awesome list, and this came out before "Django Unchained was released, so you couldn't have put it in here but still; When Leonardo DiCaprio hits his hand on the table, and accidentally hits a glass cup (with whiskey in it, or some alcoholic drink I believe) with his bare hand was purely an accident! BUT, he kept character, and continued his dialog while peeling the glass out of his hand like a badass! BTW, "The Wolf of Wall Street" comes out next month, so I'm sure there will be plenty of improvised moments in that movie.:)
I actually have the entire audio of the Full Metal Jacket scene on my ipod - so many good lines in there. Absolutely brilliant. About the most accurate representation of actual boot camp I've ever seen in a movie.
Where is the "Funny how?" scene from Goodfellas. Joe Pesci won an Oscar for that very reason and it I personally think it is one of the most suspenseful moments in all the movies I've watched.
The Matt Damon scene from Saving Private Ryan that you mentioned is actually word for word from the book. I'd hardly call that "unscripted" when the rest of the film was the closest adaptation I've seen.
What's with the other Dark Knight Scene where Joker is sitting in his jail cell and just slapps in his Hands without talking? That was uncsripted too! :)
It's not in here, but imho the best improvised scene ever is in the Italian Job, by Seth Green ("Lyle") - that whole bit about what "Handsome Rob" and "Becky" are saying.
