I was always struck by what a fine figure of a man R. Lee Ermey was. Good posture, trim waist, smooth confident stride. The perfect model for a military uniform catalog. R.I.P. R. Lee.
That’s exactly what Marine Corps Drill Instructors look like. That’s exactly what my Drill instructors looked like. It gave me something to strive for and want to emulate. Then they made my life a living hell for 3 months and wanted nothing but to never see them again lol. R.I.P. Gunny 🇺🇸
After being drafted, I went through Army basic training at Fort Campbell, Kentucky in early 1969. All my DIs were former 101st paratroopers and Vietnam combat veterans, who were the clone of THE Gunny. Remember ,there was a serious shooting war going on and these DIs were required to get you ready for being deployed to Southeast Asia. That was a monumental task given the attitude of the recruits and the resentment of the war. I survived and met my DI 4 years later in Fort Bragg, he was my platoon Sergeant, as I was a 2nd Lieutenant. I will always be grateful to him for his service.
Yeah... All the Ole School D I s Articulations used for the Same Rhetoric & Insults... We heard the very same jack in the MC way before the movie... I think the Army can be more Supportive to the Hard Workers... & the Cor will just give you more work & duty to do... Love Self, Protect Life, Cultivate the Beauty, Peace...!!! Yeah... Even the Russ.. Use, Hooorah...!!!! as a Motivator.. Gong Ho = Work together...Chi...
@@rujackswing618 You are right my Brother. I might have been career Army, but I swore my son into the Corps at 17 years old. He retired from the Corps. Grandson 3d overseas tour with Air Force at the 15 year mark.
Thank you very much for your service, Sir. I was born in June of '68 when it was really bad over there. My half brother's uncle was Byron Holley. He wrote a book about his time in Vietnam. "A Battalion Surgeon in Vietnam". He was my eye doctor when I was a kid. A great man. I had a good relationship with my drill sergeants in '86. I did JROTC in HS so I went in a PFC knowing what to do and how to act. I did 16 weeks of basic and AIT at Ft Knox (19K, M1A1 Tanker). I was the platoon leader the entire time except for 3 weeks. Got busted for giving a weed an "attitude adjustment" upside his head. I don't like bullies. It was 16 weeks of fun for me. Like summer camp with weapons. If I were 18 I'd do it all over again. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇸🤜☠🇷🇺☠🤛🇺🇦
@@sinisterhilbily8198 nothing you said was even remotely true. In the United States, military conscription, commonly known as the draft, has been employed by the U.S. federal government in six conflicts: the American Revolutionary War, the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The fourth incarnation of the draft came into being in 1940, through the Selective Training and Service Act. It was the country's first peacetime draft.[1] From 1940 until 1973, during both peacetime and periods of conflict, men were drafted to fill vacancies in the U.S. Armed Forces that could not be filled through voluntary means. Active conscription in the United States ended in 1973, when the U.S. Armed Forces moved to an all-volunteer military.
I had always heard that Ermey got the job as the DI after Kubrick watched his audition tape and commented that he'd never heard someone curse for 15 minutes and never repeat himself. Ermey was a real piece of work and I've enjoyed every character I've seen him play throughout his acting career. RIP, Gunny
Actually Ermey didn’t audition for the part. When he tried he was told the part was already filled. So instead he signed on as a technical adviser as a way to show what he could add to the part. Kubric was so impressed by what he saw that they replaced him with Ermey and the other actor ended up with a bit part as a door gunner in a helicopter.
Having been there, Paris Island, in May of '69, I can tell you that this is the most realistic representation of Marine boot camp & DI's I've Ever seen.
My 1965 boot camp experience was pretty much like this movie, and our DI could swear like Hartman too. I’m no worse the wear for it and many of those boot camp lessons have guided me throughout my 75 + years.
I 'm 83 and I spent 6 years in the US Army infantry I never heard anyone refer to the word Boot Camp in my days it was called Basic Training and AIT Advanced Infantry training 2nd 8 weeks. Maybe they changed the word after I was discharged in 1964
To bad our military has lost so much in just a very few years, it has been eroded so badly that our military is a shell of it's former self and glory...
@@vampirerevin I know in my days in the old Army we never went out in our field uniform (FATIGUES) we always when we left the post, we had to be in Class A'S and spit shined low quarters, so it surprises me to only see the Marines in their Class A Uniforms.
There is an episode of Homicide that features him as a guy pinned under a subway car. Once they move him he’ll die. He just wants to see his girlfriend one last time. The cops scour the city for her. She’s out jogging and runs right past the site as he dies. Vincent gave a stellar performance.
As a young soldier I was stationed for a while where the boot camp chapter of the movie was filmed. I've run down the very same roads that the squad does in the movie. If you look carefully you will see the road markings are for right hand drive traffic as it is in the UK. It was a former air force base near Cambridge called Bassingbourn. This was the air base that the B17 bomber Memphis Belle flew out of during WW2.
D'Onofrio in FMJ is amazingly different and almost not recognizable as the character in Law & Order. It's a testament not only to his body transformation, but his scary facial expressions. Fantastic video. Even more awesome movie.
Ermey was actually a really humble, approachable guy. A friend of mine happened to have a boat in the same marina and Ermey would always invite him to hang out on the boat.
I met him when I was a kid. I had no idea who he was. But, him and my dad (navy vet) chatted up for a bit. They just talked military stuff. He never mentioned anything about acting. Than mail call came out and my dad was like (THAT'S THAT OLD MARINE FROM A FEW YEARS BACK!)
@@bradyryan5105 My DIs at Parris Island in the 90s were all in their early to mid 20s...maybe the Heavy was 34, and my Sr. DI, SSgt. Perez, maybe 26, 2nd Bn, Platoon 2077 in 1994...Ermey looked too old, and he was a Gunnery Sgt, I never saw, or heard of, a Gunnery Sgt DI...we had a Series Gunnery Sgt, who was in charge of all 3 platoons in a Battalion series...
I think most who haven't served don't realize it's a job to them. They are there to get you ready and it's not personal. Our instructors here in Canada were just as scary.
I always loved how R Lee Ermey was nothing more than Kubricks Technical Adviser in the beginning and he ended up portraying one of the most iconic characters ever created. Whereas Tim Colceri went on to play a small but also significant role as the door gunner
I too was drafted in 71 and flew from LA to Ft Leonard Wood for basic. We had a lead drill Sgt who was very cool and one other who was a clone of Sam Elliott in both appearance and voice. Thanks for your guidance. The population of the USA back then was around 207 million yet only a very small percentage (8 M) actually served in the Vietnam theater of operations. I always wonder what fate befell those of you that endured. I salute you.
This is one of those movie with a superb script and screenplay. Also the actors played their roles as well as anyone could ask for. Truly a masterpiece of war movies.
We had a recruit in our platoon that was a Pyle. It pissed me off every time I saw him limping on light duty. They should have kicked him out but for some reason he not only was kept in but graduated on time. He did absolutely nothing the entire time. To make matters worse he had a picture of a good looking "girlfriend" on the Hog Board, as it was called. At one point everyone had to vote who had the best looking girlfriend/wife and whoever won got a free phone call. His girlfriend wasn't the best looking but so far out of his league that he got the most votes. Afterwards we found out it was his sister. He probably wound up a General.
We called them "problem child" and every platoon has got at 1 (sometimes more!). The "hog board", haven't heard that term in a while! My girl almost won it!
I really liked this movie. I was in country with the Marines 1967/68 radio operator Echo Co. 2/3. The thing that kind of bugs me about most Nam movies is most of the actors are in their mid 20's or 30's. It would seem more accurate if they were 18 or 19 as most of us were. Semper Fi to all who made it back, I think every day of the one's who didn't.
You jarheads never backed up. Thanks for your service from an old Army grunt from the old army when we got gigged for having dinosaur shit on our spears. I was also in an E company 2nd battle group 6th infantry Berlin Command/ Berlin Brigade.
It's actually for the best that Arnie wasn't cast as Animal Mother. FMJ was supposed to be as realistic a depiction of the Vietnam war as possible, so a hulk with a strong German accent may have made it look a bit...off.
"Full Metal Jacket" refers to the "projectile", of a bullet, not the casing. F.M.J means a soft core (often lead) encased in an outer shell ("jacket") of harder metal, such as gilding metal, cupronickel, or, less commonly, a steel alloy.
the idea of full metal jacket rds for the military was actually meant to make warfare more humane...as the entrance and exit wounds would remain the same, unlike the big all lead rds that had come before...it was felt it would be better to wound a soldier rather than kill him and that would actually be a benefit to the opposing side as it would take more men off the line to care for them
"Always remember this, Marines die, that's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever. And that means you live forever.” Happy birthday USMC and semper fi brothers.
"God has a hard on for Marines, because we kill everything we see. He plays his game, we play ours. To show our gratitude for so much power, we keep Heaven packed with fresh souls!! " Man R. Lee Ermy was one of a kind. Semper Fi Gunny!
i trained a lot of trainees at Fort Dix NJ in 1963 after 4 years overseas and I never laid a hand on one except when one pointed an old M1 Garand at me on the firing range trying to unjam it I kicked him as hard as I could to save my life we lost a Sgt E6 on the grenade range from a trainee panicking and dropping a live grenade in the grenade pit you had to be careful with training young trainees They can be as dangerous as the enemy You had to be on your toes at all times. US ARMY Infantry 1958-1964
I finished my AIT in in November 1958 and shipped out to Germany that month and year and it was cold on that North Atlantic on that old liberty troop ship when I arrived in Berlin the snow was at least 3 foot high I stayed there 4 years after all that I now live in Florida. @@jodan4
I would like to send a shout out to my Sgt. in Basic. It was early 1969 and we all knew where we were going to end up. So did the Army. His name was McDaniels, and in 9 weeks I never saw anything close to a smile on his face. He was professional and knew what he had to do. He knew where he was going and what we were getting into, we didn't. On the last night, we were cleaning our rifles for turn in. Mt parents showed up and were apparently lost. I ask McDainels if I could go to the car and guide them to the visitors barracks. Unsuprisingly he said no. He said there was still one day of basic left and we were not being trained to be visitor guides. I was a squad leader in basic and thought I did pretty good. As you can imagine, it was never good enough. He rode us relentlessly and never missed even the slightest mistake. Well, almost all of us ended up in the infantry and Vietnam. After a month out there my impression of Sgt. McDaniels changed a lot. You see, all that pressure, intimidation, training, and lessons were to prepare us for this. One of his tips actually saved my life. And so, I admit I was wrong and he of course was correct. I thank McDaniels and am sure many other of our troops owe him a debt of gratitude and maybe their life. I have a picture of our graduation day, the entire platoon. McDaniels is in the picture wearing the same scowl we came so used to. I wonder how may lives that scowl saved?
@@keithmarlowe5569 He told me never be part of a group. Groups were targets. One day the boys found a cool stream and we decided to take a bath and clean up. I was maybe 50 yards from the group and started to go down and join them. I saw Mac's face in my mind and turned around and started going back up the hill. Just then some little fellow decided to shoot an RPG at us. He wasn't a good shot and went over the group. The round hit where I was standing a few minutes ago. If I had continued down to the group, it would have hit right where I was and I wouldn't be typing this. True story.
@@GTSN38 Well, I wouldn't say that it is soft as butter. The training is still good, but losing focus. The military is not civilian life and shouldn't be treated as such. The military has one purpose. To defend the country by armed conflict. As Einstein said, "you cannot simultaneously prepare for war and peace". They try and prepare you for something they cannot. But think what it would be like if they sent you with no training at all? As a football coach once said, we win the game in practice, the game is just an extension of the last practice. We will be all right as long as we have the men and women willing to give part of their lives to take that training and risk it all in our defense. As I have said before, the real heroes are the ones who took that training and gave their lives. The rest of us are just fortunate survivors.
Kubrick was such a perfectionist, he had the palm trees numbered, and would actually ask for a specific tree to be placed exactly correctly before shooting a scene.
The battle scenes were filmed in what is now London City Airport about a mile from where I was born and the boot camp scenes filmed at Bassingbourn barracks in Cambridgeshire where I did basic training. In fact I was there just before they arrived and there were rumours of a film crew due in. Unfortunately I was posted away before filming started. However many of the facilities used in the film are familiar to me to this day. You know, people go on about Spielberg being brilliant just remember: Spartacus Full Metal Jacket Dr Strangelove 2001 Clockwork Orange Paths Of Glory The Shining Eyes Wide Shut Kubrick was magnificent 👌
Kubrick preferred to shoot in England, no doubt so her could be close to his family. There is a scene at the end of Paths Of Glory where a woman in a cafe is singing to the rowdy bunch of soldiers. Suddenly they were transfixed by her singing. So was Kubrick. He married her.
@huskydude300 Good memories but all Bassingbourn is famous for now is the Iraqi troops that were trained there and then went AWOL and tried to rape some teenage boys.
Bassingbourn yes, London City Airport no. At the time of filming the airport area was full of warehouses which were still very much in use. The battle scenes were actually filmed at the disused and partially-demolished Beckton Gasworks.
@AtheistOrphan The white building where the female sniper hid was the Spillers flour mill just to the east of the airport and across the dock from the Excel Centre. It's still there. My home when on leave was half a mile from the filming location. My late mother and my brothers watched the film being made.
I truly think that every platoon has a Pvt. Pyle. I only wish they had shown what they really did to handle these Pyles in boot. The "blanket party" was a true event / last ditch effort to "Straighten up" the recruit. ( soap in the sock beat down) Yes it really did happen and much, much more . One motto was to break you down and then build you back up. This was one time in my life I will never ever forget. You learn a great deal of life's lessons in those 3 months of ass kicking to carry you through until your dirt again. Semper Fi ! 75-79 P Island
USN, 75-79! You're so right about the boot camp time. At the end of boot camp, (San Diego), they told us were part of a program- we could get out of the service anytime we wanted, just put in a request chit. As i remember, it was people who had entered the service during a certain period. After 2y 8 m 15 days, I had enough. My ship was going into the yards for SLEP in Norfolk and I wanted no part of that...Looking back, what intense years! I had some great shipmates who were Marines - Mardet on the carrier!
I.loved it when he said he shot women and children He said he didn't have to.lead them as much. I.know that didn't represent a typical soldier but I.tjought it was funny.
Not to be picky, but at 17:13, 'full metal jacket' does not refer to the "brass shell", or cartridge casing, but rather to the copper cladding of the bullet itself. Loved this video FMJ stands as one of the best war movies of all time.
@ernestwilliams268 Ball, yes! I’m Gen X and probably heard the term from my dad or something. Anyway, I’ve been surprised when buying ammunition and asking for “ball” and getting puzzled looks. Like “You know, FMJ.” It’s only been within the last 10 years but I wonder if that term is old school now 🤷🏻♂️
Shelley Duvall was driven into a breakdown from Kubrick’s unrelenting drive for perfection. In The Shining’s infamous baseball bat staircase scene he made her reenact it a total of 127 times.
It's hard to stay focused after a few takes...the one time I did it I got bored pretty quickly....then all of a sudden on the 4th or 5th take the star of the flic is standing right next to me instead of his stand-in....that sharpened me up pretty quickly....
R. Lee Ermey. RIP "Gunny" Born: March 24, 1944, Emporia, KS Died: April 15, 2018 (age 74 years) He was medically retired for the injuries he received during his service. But it was in 2002, that Marine Corps Commandant James L. Jones promoted Ermey to E-7, Gunnery Sergeant, the rank he became so well-known for. It was the first and only time the Corps has promoted a retiree.
I went to boot camp ( basic training) we had one of those metal trash cans but could not put trash in it. Our company commander (drill instructor) would kick it around in the morning as the alarm clock. When I saw that in FMJ I laughed so hard that people around me thought I was going crazy.
This is 100% a true story. I joined the Navy 30 years ago, just a few years after the movie came out and I probably had seen the movie a half dozen times or so & it never really crossed my mind when I was signing up or in the Delayed Entry Program. Well that Sunday before I was to ship out I was in the hotel flipping through the channels & landed on HBO while they were in between movies so I let it sit there to see what was coming on next. From the opening music I knew it was Full Metal Jacket but like an idiot I decided to watch. I was already nervous about going to basic but unlike before it my nervous lever went from a 2 to 10 and I had to keep telling myself it’s just a movie & that was the Marines. Well while we were in the airport waiting to catch our plane I found out I wasn’t the only idiot to watch this movie which is absolutely the worse movie to watch right before you go to basic. The funny thing is that opening speech we got on the first day was about 75% exactly like what is seen in the movie and the CC (same as a Drill Instructor/Sergeant in the Marines/Army) told us that at the time we were lower than whale 💩
This post made my head hurt. Just to make it clear this post is bullshit. Joined the Navy, good on you. Should have chosen to be a Corpsman. Best of both worlds there. You get to be a Marine and stay in the Navy. Get shot at a lot pulling our sorry asses out of fire when we get hit though, that kinda' sucks.
I enlisted in the Marine Corps via delayed entry program in early 1990 while a senior in high school. The first time I ever saw (or heard of) the movie Full Metal Jacket was while I was already serving in the Marines. I am glad I didn’t see the movie until after boot camp!
Yes Sir.... I went to Navy boot camp at San Diego NRTC in 1983, and that was just the way I remember it.... The movie came out in 1987 and when I first saw it, I could see the people that were in boot camp with me in the characters of the movie. The movie is harsh but accurate for sure. I still watch it from time to time and the boot camp scenes always take me back to that innocent young man that was my father's son as I began my lifelong military career.
Just so you know, he's not a Drill Sergeant, but Drill Instructor. DSs are Army, and DIs are Marines, and as a son of a female DI, at Parris Island, they take it extremely seriously!
the Army has a Drill Instructor Academy, it isn't Drill SGt. Academy. I was in the Army and all my sgt's were titled drill instructor, not drill Sargent. The boss was a Senior Drill Instructor, SDI fro short, although we called them Drill Sargent when we addressed them.
@@dbeaus maybe so but in the Marine Corps at both Parris Island and San Diego they are always referred to as Drill Instructor rank and last name any time a recruit would speak to them with the lead instructor having Senior added to the beginning. A recruit would never say Drill Sergeant unless they wanted to to get chewed out and go through an intensive workout. So as an example it would be Drill Instructor Sergeant Williams or Senior Drill Instructor Staff Sergeant Jones. You always called out the entire title that way.
My cousin pointed that out too when he went to Parris Island, SC for basic training. He and I are same age and tried to join together but, the Marines unfortunately turned me down due to me health history. My cousin and I share all the same health issues except one, the same one for which they denied my admittance.
I used to only watch the first half when I was younger, the second half made me uncomfortable. That’s why it’s more acceptable to watch the first half, because even though it goes crazy at the end, you can kind of see it coming. The second half truly shows war, and all it’s hellish brutality. It is truly a masterpiece.
I saw this movie shortly after it was release, seventeen years after my experience in Basic Training. While I was not impressed with the Vietnam portion of the movie, the basic training part was practically a documentary.
If anyone is interested the Vietnam scenes particularly the battle scenes were filmed in Beckton East London between the A13 and the River Thames . The old concrete warehousing and industrial buildings near the gasworks were being demolished to make way for the new sewage treatment plant . Later the whole area was redeveloped to provide housing shops etc and practically the whole area in which Vietnam was recreated is now under tarmac and buildings .
Went through PI about the same time period of the movie. This is absolutely the closest portrayal of Marine Boot Camp back then that I've seen. Other than not showing interactions with the Assistant DI's who rotated duty with the Senior, it could have been taken right from my time aboard PI. R. Lee Ermey was the man.
Scottish actor Ian Wilson while filming Clockwork orange, was forced to repeat his lines 80 times . After filming Ian phoned his agent saying I will never work for that director Stanley Kubrick. The film Spartacus Stanley asked a Spanish extra can he speak English he said yes after 250 takes the Spanish extra walked up to him and punched him in face for mental torture alot of Hollywood actors avoided him for that practice.
I remember going with my dad when I was young to watch this movie at the theater and I loved it so much even as a kid ...and it still is and always will be one of my favorite movies ever!!
Was lucky enough to have met R Lee Ermy got my picture taken with him and autographed too was a real gentleman and a marine Semper Fi one of my most prized possessions
Kuberick referenced his films in his other films. When Alex goes into the music shop in Clockwork Orange, the score album for 2001 a space Odyssey sitting in the rack when he checks on mini tapes he ordered, of the glorious 9th by Beethoven. You’ve got to realize Kubrick fans have watched these movies forward and backwards, over and over again. I’ve never done that with any of the Director but he was that good.
Great movie. Reminds me so much of " boot camp" or "General Service Training" I did in the Australian RAAF as a 16 year old recruit - and the four superiors in charge of us were all hard core Vietnam Vets.
I was an Active Duty Marine when we saw this movie on a ship after it came out. And most guys laughed at the scenes of Vietnam. And a few guys even knew the Drill Instructor from having him in boot camp.
Closest thing I can find to a flaw in this movie, in the scene where Hartman invites Pvt. Joker to come over and have intercourse with his sister, he winds up and delivers a punch to Joker with his left hand, the scene cuts and shows Hartman ending the punch right-handed. I always wonder if Kubrick, the ultra-stickler for detail, ever noticed but just decided, for whatever reason, that this just looked right.
The movie really does put you back on Parris Island in very convincing fashion, other than the fact you can't smell it(and nothing smells like all that new deuce[782] gear). I can't speak to what Viet Nam felt like.
Imagine having the kind of pull that they are ok with not flying in one person for a movie, and allow over 100 thousand items to make the movie. Kubrick was fricken awesome
I don't thing Ed Harris or the other prospect could have played Hartman with the combination of brutality and sheer hilariousness that Emery brought to the role.
@@thairificallyre-thai-ere-nd8co Frank Sutton was awesome! Gomer Pyle would've just been a silly show that didn't last long if it weren't for the ever angry and ever put-upon Sgt Carter. His role was the perfect counter to Pyle's good-hearted ineptitude. Also, Frank Sutton was a Sergeant in the ARMY, during WWII.
I worked with a guy who was a Marine in Nam in the 60's. I asked him what was the most realistic Vietnam War film and he laughed, saying the boot camp in FMJ. He never answered about whether the war scenes were accurate, but i sensed from hearing his stories that no film has ever really shown the horrors he saw. He told me they got pinned down in a rice paddy (no place to hide) and his good friend got shot in the head and killed right next to him. He was the smallest guy in his platoon so they gave him the automatic rifle, the thinking being he was the smallest target and most difficult to hit. i remember he said was stoned all the time with pot leaves on his helmut for camoflage. The last story i remember is that his leader told him to shoot a Vietnamese who was running away, but stipulated not to kill him, as they wanted to interrogate him. But he fired off a clip and the last round was a tracer and it hit the guy in the head and killed him and he told his officer, sorry. He was the most sane and undamaged Viet Vet i ever met. He said, they killed my friends and i killed them.
FYI, if you meet another. Don't ask that fuckin' shit. You don't know if they've worked through it, what kinda shit you're dragging up that they don't wanna think about. Does your wife like anal sex? That's about as appropriate as your behavior.
Every time I watch this movie, I get goosebumps when I see the barracks. They look exactly the same as when I was in Parris Island in '95. I don't know if they still do it but they made us watch this movie in boot camp, yeah, ya know the outcome after he shot the drill sergeant. We all screamed with joy and straight to the pit it was, lol. The memories!!!
Kubrick's certifiable. Man can't skip work to go see his wife'/baby's surgery on a day he doesn't even shoot but he sends everyone home cause of 4 dead bunnies.
Ermy inspired my TI (Air Force, back when they could still rough us up, immediately after 911, when things were still confused, and before politics got involved). TSgt Perez was an animal. Arms the size of most our chests. Had a photo of him dual wielding 240Bs in each hand, ammo belts like a real life Rambo. He would say things that terrified you and made you want to bust out laughing at the same time. And his TI Tornadoes were out of hell (thats when the TIs would ransack the dorms and you had to clean it all up. Him being 350lbs of muscle meant he could toss wall lockers like a football). Oddly enough, I never got a full chewing out. He would try to trick you with personal questions, and he was inspecting my locker, saw my license with long hair. "So you some kind of war hating hippie?" He said, and I gave my reporting statement, and shouted it out, that I was not a hippie, but a metal head. He kept asking what kind of music, and eventually, while keeping military bearing, I told him I was in a band, and the kind of music I liked. After that, we had to polish boots, and other Sunday activities in the dorm, while he was blaring Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Megadeth from his office. Man knew his thrash. To this day I smile watching FMJ. Years after, it became a thing for washing aircraft. We never got to the vietnam part, just because we would show up, waiting until the aicraft was in the hangar and the prep work took just about as long as the first part. Good times. I dont regret any of it, even though Im busted up bad now, and still deal with injuries and cancer and heart attacks at my age.
Great job on the video. I first saw FMJ in 1987 when I was just 16 years old. Because of it and other films, I've served over 21 years now in the US military. Get Some!!
Nice mini-doc. Full Metal Jacket had a significant impact on me as a teenager. Along with Don McCullen a real combat photographer, Matthew Modine's character wants to share the real story of war while the higher up's in the US advisors want the positive narrative of a win without any news story.
Government subsidized lunacy,, on an industrial level....who wouldn't like that?? And when we used to read those KIA lists at Ft Benning...somehow all the war movie romance went out of us. there's a big gap between reality and the big screen...
During the monkeybar scene in the basic training part, there was either a script error or dialog error. When Hartman said "It should take you no LESS than 6 seconds to complete this obstacle." He should have said "It should take you no MORE than 6 seconds to complete this obstacle." He said it wrong twice in that scene.
You're right about that. Years ago when I got the movie on tape. I replayed it several times to make sure I heard this correctly. Being Kubrick allowed Ermey to ad lib. I can understand letting it fly. My Company Commander likely screwed up many of his routine harassment lines he fired at us, but who the hell had the guts to laugh or point out his mistakes?
Pretty sure he said " 10 seconds. it should take you no less than 10 fucking seconds to negotiate this obstacle. There aint one swinging dick private in this platoon gonna graduate until they get this obstacle to less than 10 fucking seconds ."
@@lifebybill1326 Do you not see the obvious contradiction in the.two sentences you wrote? ...take no less than... ...complete this obstacles in less than... The first sentence should be ...take no MORE than.... Then the second sentence is correct.
Interesting details! I served and remember boot camp all to well! We didnt have a Drill Instructor like Emery, but as a 17 y.o. I was already scared, mostly of failing and not earning my stripes. I did, even made Honor Recruit of my barracks. Love this movie even more now!
First time I saw that movie, was when I was a junior in H.S. with Marine ROTC, and we were on a bus to march in the Mardi Gras parade, we watched it on the bus :D
*Another "You Didn't Know" video that should be titled, "Things I Just Learned About This Movie, So I Just Assumed No One Else Knows These Common-Knowledge Things."*
You should do one on 9th Company, is a Soviet era setting based on a true story and it’s like this movie, first half in boot camp, second half in combat in Afghanistan.
