@@luisitocomunista546 Oh yeah it's usually not a problem for a decently-sized Hollywood film to have a real tank. But shooting ammunition of sufficient force to actually rock the tank back....you usually don't see that in the movies (for obvious safety reasons)
And few people ever talk about Kubrick taking a lead from Leone here, but the edit results in the activities on-screen synching perfectly with the score. I mean, I know he didn't edit it in camera, nor did he have the score playing on set during shooting AFAIK, but the end result is very similar. I just think it's great; punctuating action with the score is one thing, but tying the scene to it like this is next level. You sadly don't see it enough.
@@danbremer7010 ok enough fun i need to do my book of job here ok so thats a white key when somebody cant figure out and in a white key they dont get ammunition
I love the stages of emotion on Earl's face in this scene, immediate shock and relief, followed by happiness, he looks around to see if anyone caught what he just did, looking for approval. When looking back at the bodies of the men he has just slain the realization of what exactly just transpired sets in and the smile fades from his face
I do believe the gent handling the camera was the movie's credited DP. Of course keeping fully in mind that in a Kubrick movie Kubrick was the uncredited DP.
There were four M41 tanks used in the film and they were all operated by the Belgian army with real training ammo (as opposed to fireworks in the barrels or mock-up tanks). A Belgian Army colonel admired Kubrick’s earlier works and lent him the tanks.
@@user-tt5pt5zh5k Yes, that's what he said. It's called an oxymoron. He even left an explanation in parenthesis for people like you who wouldn't get it and you still didn't get it.
This was actually filmed in London, in the abandoned docklands area which was 'regenerated' recently. The palm trees were imported from North Africa, and a lot of the foliage is actually plastic.
True, and its mostly because Kubrick was afraid of flying! Can you imagine that? All the added costs to production that would entail? Well this is back in the days when directors had more creative freedom. Nowadays studios would tell a director to fuck off if they tried something like that lol
And the whole goddam thing was filmed in a ruined industrial area of the South London Docklands. Stanley Kubrick preferred to work close to his country estate.
Up until recently the bit where sniper sequence was shot was still standing and could still see Vietnamese writing on Wall going towards Dlr was on the left in front of Beckton sewage works. I watched it filmed from just above Windsor terrace. Worked for texas homecare. Watched from garden center racking. Film crew used our cafetiere in store for food. It's now primark.and from Windsor terrace to Thames now built on. But was all open in earlier eighties.
Hi I'm Peter Griffin. You know there's an issue facing many Americans today that i know concerns a great number of us. According to Gallop polls 1 in 12 Americans is unaware that the Bird is the Word. I for one dream of a America where everybody knows that Bird is the Word. AH BA BA BIRD BIRD BIRD THE BIRD'S A WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@notrius7754 I mean modern "local" wars where, for example, US and RF are involved. Tell to veterans and bereaved civillians about this "awesomeness".
Probably one of the three best films with a war theme ( "Paths of glory", "Apocalipse now", "Full jacket metal" ). Stanley´s Kubrick film is a masterpiece, especially the first part : the dehumanization of recruits and their transformation in killing machines.
@@zogwort1522 The movie is up for interpretation. The author of the book was a ex Marine who served in the Vietnam war. The book and the movie definitely have themes of young men being turned into killing machines.
For anyone who loved this film, you REALLY need to read the 1979 novel it was based on, The Short Timers by Gustav Hasford. He also wrote a sequel in 1990 called The Phantom Blooper. Joker is captured and spends almost a year in a VC controlled village just north of the DMZ. It's an amazing look at the war from the VC's point of view. Hasford was such a brilliant writer. He was a Marine and served in Vietnam as a journalist for Stars And Stripes. He said that Joker was loosely based on him. His writing was as graphic as it was hilarious. He wrote one last novel, an LA detective story called A Gypsy Good Time. Sadly after being diagnosed with advanced diabetes, Hasford went to a small resort island off of Greece and basically drank himself to death.
jack....I will look him up, thanks. I will remember your last sentence when my time comes. that would be easily accomplished with help from RU-vid. Beats blowing my brains out I guess.
Kubrick always got it right . Everytime I rewatch a Kubrick film I see something new. His films never get old. He had a uncanny sense for music and film. And most importantly Semper Fi to all the war dogs out there!
He did the same thing at the end with Micky mouse. I took it as a "even though I'm in a world of shit I can still bear my suffering and be humerous and ironic"... just my thoughts.
Another classic Kubrick tracking shot - this time THREE actions going on at the same time. The tanks firing in the background, the Marines crossing left to right, and the camera crew moving right to left I wonder how many takes this took. Kubrick was a genius.
Hi I'm Peter Griffin. You know there's an issue facing many Americans today that i know concerns a great number of us. According to Gallop polls 1 in 12 Americans is unaware that the Bird is the Word. I for one dream of a America where everybody knows that Bird is the Word. AH BA BA BIRD BIRD BIRD THE BIRD'S A WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Private Joker: Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me? Private Cowboy: Hey, start the cameras. This is "Vietnam - the Movie." Private Eightball: Yeah, Joker can be John Wayne. I'll be a horse. Donlon: T.H.E. Rock can be a rock. T.H.E. Rock: I'll be Ann-Margaret. Doc Jay: Animal Mother can be a rabid buffalo. Crazy Earl: I'll be General Custer. Private Rafterman: Well, who'll be the Indians? Animal Mother: Hey, we'll let the g**ks play the Indians!
The hand coming back in at 1:48 to pull the camerman down a little lower. Great touch. And, in other news, scientists have suggested that the Bird is equal to or greater than the Word.
Something about when the song breaks into the "BABABABA" and the tracking shot switches position to the faces of the cameramen is just so fcking cool man.
Hi I'm Peter Griffin. You know there's an issue facing many Americans today that i know concerns a great number of us. According to Gallop polls 1 in 12 Americans is unaware that the Bird is the Word. I for one dream of a America where everybody knows that Bird is the Word. AH BA BA BIRD BIRD BIRD THE BIRD'S A WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was a helicopter pilot in Nam in 69 and chuckled when these clean aircraft with no bullet hole patches came in. My best buddy would be 72, but came back in a box at age 20.
"We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves." Lyndon B. Johnson
Pretty stupid considering they didn't want our help in the first place. Kinda like Afghanistan and Iraq. If somebody flew from the other side of the planet to tell me how to live, I'd shoot at them too.
@@grill6411 THANK YOU for noticing! I have only found one other person point that out. What do you think it is supposed to mean? If there _is_ anything to it.
@@knightscroftsquire-muldoon Rob Ager pointed out this little detail in his analysis of FMJ, iirc something to do with the motif of ghosts or the recurring Jungian shadow theme present in the film. The wooly bully scene for example (which also has a lot of subtle musical cues) where they play with the dead VC's body ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iH5R4tgGdDk.html ), there are very obvious editing "mistakes" where the body noticeably moves after each cut. Knowing Kubrick, the continuity mistakes in the scene were probably intentional. Ager has a much more thorough 1-hour long analysis of the film on his website Collative Learning behind a $3.50 paywall. He reaches sometimes but he seems pretty knowledgeable on Kubrick's filmmaking style, and he has some clips of the full analysis on his youtube channel
There seems to be an absence of a certain ornithological piece. A head line regarding the mass awareness of a certain avian variety. Have you not heard? It was my understanding that everyone had heard.
My favorite musical queue of all time. Kubrick's got such a fine sense of detail, like how the paramedics and the filmers walk by so carefully, all hunched over, and the guy with napalm burns all over his body walks through like he doesn't give a shit. Truth is, he's been through so much hell, he probably doesn't.
This is one of the most powerful scenes in film history, let alone war films. The image of the waving soldier with his face heavily bandaged as he walks from left to right in front of the film crew just before the "BABABABA...." part of the song "Surfing Bird" is truly one of the most surreal scenes on film. Just a couple of notes: the M41 Walker "Bulldog" tanks Kubrick acquired for this scene were actually used by the ARVN troops. The main US battle tank was the M48 Patton. Also, 9 out of 10 times when an H-34 Choctaw landed to extract the wounded, ammo and other supplies would be thrown out of one side, as the wounded were put in the other side. No biggie, no director could get every detail perfect...
Hi I'm Peter Griffin. You know there's an issue facing many Americans today that i know concerns a great number of us. According to Gallop polls 1 in 12 Americans is unaware that the Bird is the Word. I for one dream of a America where everybody knows that Bird is the Word. AH BA BA BIRD BIRD BIRD THE BIRD'S A WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Is that you John Wayne? Is this me?" I always interpreted that as a way of mocking the so called "toughest guy" on the planet cliche. By looking into the camera and shouting "Is that you John Wayne?" they are directly addressing the toughest man in the world who is most likely watching from the safety of his country. When they say "Is this me?" they are pointing out the obvious fact that John Wayne is probably watching these poor bastards from the safety of his home. Meanwhile they are in the middle of an actual warzone.
+Watchtower Reviewz He ; private JOKER says that same line at the beginning when they're being introduced to the great R. LEE ERMEY as their drill sergeant ! a scene which still makes me laugh and feel their pain at the same time!!
+pvtrichter88 Drill Sergeants are soldiers. Drill Instructor is the proper term. Gunny Hartman says himself "I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your Senior Drill Instructor." Drill Instructors are Marines.
Vasili Kamarov Thanks for the info !! and yes ERMEY improvised most of that scene one of the best debuts in any military movie or drama for that matter !!
I saw a third of this movie in 1987. Near the end of my US Army basic training, we were granted a pass and taken to the theater at Noon as the company's first platoon to see the initial opening weekend showing. The DI escorts shut down the theater and marched us back to base, with all follow-on passes canceled that weekend. The next weekend the entire company including my platoon were granted an alternate pass and taken to see the movie Mannequin.
It never ceases to amaze me that this, the greatest Vietnam war film ever made, was filmed in England, of all places!!! Look it up yourself if you don't believe me.
The battle of Hue was fought actually in cold, foggy weather believe it or not. I have watched tv docs about the battle. So London was not a bad match for this battle.
The man in th bandages that you're all curious about was (if I remember correctly) meant to be a 'ghost' man, Kubrick put it in on purpose and knew only a few people would notice, it might just represent a burn victim but note how the music goes to that creepy sound when he passes
Still holds up today because these were real effects, not some quick made cheap shit CGI that everyone is using even to make car crash scenes these days. Movies arent what they used to be.
Hi I'm Peter Griffin. You know there's an issue facing many Americans today that i know concerns a great number of us. According to Gallop polls 1 in 12 Americans is unaware that the Bird is the Word. I for one dream of a America where everybody knows that Bird is the Word. AH BA BA BIRD BIRD BIRD THE BIRD'S A WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love how you got the camera panning across and everybody is quiet and serious until you get to the Marines who all start cracking jokes like nothing's going on
Stanley Kubrick is a master at juxtaposition, creating scenic moments more memorable by placing music that gives off the complete opposite vibe to what we’re seeing. Psychologically speaking, we unintentionally tend to remember the unfamiliarity. The Vietnam War and the song “Bird is the Word” go hand in hand without us even really knowing. As Stanley Kubrick once said in terms of filmmaking; “Real is good, Interesting is better.” And Kubrick’s dark humour and cold-shoulder directing style fits this story quite perfectly. Full Metal Jacket is one of my favourite films ever and I will show it to as many people as I can.
When the song hits the surfing bird line.. a guy in bandages walks by and salutes the camera.. almost like the mummy or invisible man.. Forgot the “Kubrick Conspiracy”.. but, once you see it.. you’ll notice it every time
Starting at 01:35 when the dialogue begins: Matthew Modine says that Kubrick took so many takes of this particular scene, on the regular, that he still remembers the trauma of doing it to this day. Seeing it, finally, with the musical soundtrack, the insanity of the tanks, and the perfect timing of the horrible comedy of just surviving the insanity--you can see what he was going for. The first times I saw it (including in the theater on opening release) it was just overwhelming. Now I can't stop laughing every time I see it, and I feel sick to my soul that it's so darn funny. Aces
FearMe410 It's a 76mm. If it was a 76cm that would be 760mm... No tank gun is 760mm. Not even a battleship cannon is 760mm, the USS Iowa for example has 406mm cannons.
I'm assuming the comment: "Is that you John Wayne, is this me?" refers to the fact that Wayne dodged military service and yet continued to extol the virtues of serving in the military? It's what I remember off the top of my head so don't flame if I'm wrong. I mean, many stars did "serve" in WWII, but there were some like Jimmy Stewart who put their money where their mouth was and actually fought in the war.
....well he didnt volunteer that is correct. I think he was conflicted about it as he had a young family and had only just gotten a break when the war started. He was popular and it was a small number that got shirty with him.
Wayne did try to volunteer several times, even with John Fords photographic unit and the OSS. but the studios threatened him with crippling lawsuits if he walked out on his contracts. It was something that haunted him the rest of his life and made him excessively patriotic...
Pick your favorite excuse. Another one is John claimed a shoulder injury but that didn't stop him from doing stunts. He was in love with Marlene Dietrich and didn't want to leave her.
He's referring to another part earlier in the movie whilst they're at basic training, the D.I. is making racist remarks towards a black recruit and so he says that quote which causes the D.I. to give him the nickname "Pvt Joker"
As a retired Army Infantryman who’s fought in two wars, this has a lot,of truth in it, Platoon is a lot closer though. I despised humping through the jungle!
I remember this scene in the late 80s when I was 5 or 6 and my dad was watching it on HBO. I just remember the song and the helicopters in some sort of war. I was about 17 when I actually watched the whole movie.
Stanley Kubrick got to transform a anti-war movie in recruiting movie. The scenes in training camp and urban combat got to encourage the warrior instinct. He got to do it when camera follows the movements of soldiers when they go to find coverage and when marines invade the city on tanks. There were stories of conscript that watched the movie and got to decision to be marines. Also in the recruitment post, there were the stories where recruitiment officers to show R. Lee Ermy's scenes as Sergeant Hartmann to candidates. If you could to watch the Hartmann's scenes and you didn't feel fear so you could to be a marine.
