I respect anyone who served in a combat zone. I have mad respect for combat vets. R. Lee Army was a supply sergeant in Vietnam, so I respect his service
There is where he got his fame he was there to be a advisor instead he took over the role when the actor couldn't do the job. R.Lee Ermey RIP sir yes sir.
@@chriswilliams5982 That's why this is an anti-war film though, to us civilians this is unhinged because the drill instructor is trying to toughen up these men so they can be killers
@@chriswilliams5982 I believe Ermey said the weren't supposed to hit them either, but at the height of Nam they had cut about a 1/4 of basic training out to get them out faster. So, they used the physical stuff as a shortcut for the time of proper training!
@@Nic-ye2yz I agree. I was twice wounded in a firefight three months into my 2nd tour in Nam. I saw guys crack under the weight of battle. Guys who had endured the baptism of fire, and I never saw them as anything but victims of a pointless war. I remember watching Full Metal Jacket and being disgusted and angry because Stanley Kubrick caught the brutality and inhumanity of not only Vietnam, but all war. From boot camp to the battlefield it just shows the insanity of it all.
That's why D.I.s aren't like this anymore. Today's generation are such snowflakes, they'd last about 2 minutes in the Marines with R. Lee Ermey as their D.I.
This is one of the funniest scenes in the HISTORY OF CINEMA! Slays me every time! So I was really surprised to see just how many reactors (men and women alike), being shocked and scared instead of amused. I don't know if it's where I grew up, how I grew up, or WHEN I grew up, but all the women I know laugh as hard as I do at this scene!
Well, seeing how 4:20 spotted Vincent Donofrio as the Kingpin, he also played Edgar the roach in the original Men in Black, and he played Detective Goren on Law and Order Criminal Intent. Gomer Pyle was a singer from back in the day and I think he was a Marine. Another few famous Marines include Gene Hackman (Lex Luthor in the Christopher Reeve Superman movies, Harold the blind guy in Young Frankenstein), Harvey Keitel(Satan in Little Nicky, Winston Wolf in Pulp Fiction), and Adam Driver(Kylo Ren)
I was a Drill Sergeant in the Army from 86-89. I was taking a communications class in college where the teacher asked all of us to give some background. When I mentioned that I was a Tanker/Cav Scout and a Drill Sergeant several people actually gasped and one of them asked me why we are so mean. I told them that the training soldiers in a combat arms specialty means I am training people to kill people and if they run they not only get killed, they get people who depend on them killed as well. If they can't take me yelling at them they definitely can't take people shooting at them so they need to be weeded out to save lives and help us to win. After that they seemed to understand why we do what we do.
You have to program them (recruits) to act think eat sleep shit run and BE a soldier. When yer 17-19. You have NOT A CLUE on how to BE All You Can BE. Thats ANY of the 5 branches. Semp Fi 👊
That's about how it was. I served 20 years in the Marine Corp and two combat tours in Vietnam. The first tour as a machine gunner (0331) in 1965-66 and the second as a Platoon commander (0369) in 1970-71. I retired after 20 years and had a 30 year career as a California police officer ( Marin County). What I learned in the Marine Corps has helped me all my life. I highly recommend it to anyone needing direction and wishing to learn self discipline . Tom Boyte GySgt. USMC, retired Bronze Star, Purple Heart
03, Bronze Star, Purple Heart: no need to say more: respect. Semper Fi Gunny & Welcome Home. What I'll add to what the Gunny said, that the USMC helps those who need direction is: I thought I had no interest in being a teacher because as a young man I thought only a job with a big salary was worth pursuing. But eventually I discovered from my time in the service that I really enjoyed helping Marines pass annual rifle qualification. Talking them through remaining calm, drilling the technique, and succeeding to hit the bullseye with some urgency. Looking back I spent many hours sweating in the field doing nothing but observing the sun cross the sky or insects crawl along the sand. Hurry up and wait. But I believe that I did make a difference improving Marines' rifle marksmanship, and some of them later deployed to Iraq. Hopefully I contributed some to them coming home and their enemies going to hell. Discovering that purpose led me to pursue teaching as a profession. I don't know that I'd have followed that path if I had only ever been a civilian. The Marines give you a lot of responsibilities at a younger age than nearly any other job and you may find unexpected capabilities within yourself.
What do you think of the new path the last commandant set the Marines on? Retired the heavy armor and the bridging units. He turned the marines into a decentralized Island coastal defense force. I know some old Marine officers who are livid about this. FYI, I was Army not Marines which I left to my younger brother.
I’m not from the military, but I used to work as server at the Edson Range for 6 yrs. I’ve seen A LOT. 😂 just by watching the bootcamp scene, it brings back memories. One of the many stories I remember, there was a recruit that was in trouble, don’t exactly know what he did, but I had a front row seat serving the desserts. The senior staff sergeant told him to “Beat his face” he paused and stared at the senior sergeant and repeated the order, he yells, “ARE YOU DEAF!? Get on the ground and beat your face!” So this recruit proceeded to wail punches on his face. 😂🤣 Senior staff sergeant screams, “NOOO!! YOU FUCKING DUMBASS! DO PUSH-UPS!” He needed someone to take over before he cracked. Lolz
they would have to live it to believe it. when I went to fort Knox in 1989 I was humbled real quick. cattle truck pulled up we threw our bags on and strapped on the duffle packed with my clothing issue and off we wnet jogging to the billets. i remember thinking what have my 18 year old fresh out of high school ass gotten myself into!😂😂😂😂😂😂
R Lee Ermey was NOT originally supposed to be this character in the movie. He was just there to write insults, but after he wrote over 100 lines, they decided he should be the character. The actor who was SUPPOSED to be the drill instructor ended up being the guy shooting people out of the helicopter.
R Lee Ermey always wanted to be cast in a Stanley Kubrick movie, and initially settled as a consultant. When the original actor wasn't cutting it, Kubrick let him do some blocking on camera, and everyone was so impressed that he was cast on the spot.
As a Marine who served from 87-92.. I can tell you that the opening sequence of recieving day is very realistic. Its not funny when your there.. but after a time and when you look back Drill Instructors are funny AF! Yes they are hard. Yeas they are calous.. The enemy we will confont in battle wont be giving out hugs and saftey pins.. SFMF
R. Lee Ermey said in an interview, he was actually portraying how a drill sergeant is NOT supposed to act in this movie. He said a real drill sergeant would be able to tell that Private Pyle was going insane.
My one dislike of the film was Sgt Hartman's reaction to Private Lawrence/Pyle in the insanity scene. Marine Drill Instructors are like psychologist - he would have tried to talk him off the ledge. Glad to hear Ermey said the same thing. I actually met him in 2005 or 2006 but didn't think to bring it up.
When my son was 5, I told him that his mother used anger to intimidate and get her way. And I didn't want that for him. So I had him stand in the garage for 5 seconds while I yelled and threatened him. I told him I would be asking if he felt anything tightening or any reactions. He said he did not and asked if he could go go play. 13 years later, he came home from basic and said that was the best thing I ever taught him. He saw grown men break down and cry because the DI yelled at them. He had THREE DIs yelling and simply thought, "They are not mad at me. It's a game." They recommended him for OCS, Officers Candidate School, which he declined.
@@emzee586 He says now that it did not happen. But I remember the time and place when he told me. Maybe trying to make dad proud ? But thanks for calling me a liar.
This is also one of the first things they do to new inductees to Scientology, during their Training Rundown exercises. Somehow Lewis Carroll's book Alice in Wonderland is involved, I think maybe you have to recite passages from it while someone is yelling at you or something similar, but I may be getting two of the TRs mixed up in my head.
@@stevejette2329 The question of whether he qualifies for OCS would have been handled prior to his assignment to basic training, possibly during initial recruitment, depending on his level of education. Whatever memory you're looking for is going to be from the time period before he got his head shaved, if that helps.
This movie portrays the drill sergeant's actions as negative and he gets directly killed because of it. His "tough training" leads to a man's suicide and his own death.
@@TheMojoWorks No it didn't, it led a mentally unstable young man to crack and have a psychotic episode. This never would have happened in real life. This is screened for and one of the reasons Marine instructors are this hard on recruits. If you can't handle this kind of stress you can't handle combat in the manor of a US Marine. Ermy said he portrayed his character as an example of how not to be an instructor because real instructors would have spotted Pyle losing it very early and he likely would have been rejected within the first phase. We weren't allowed to keep our weapons like portrayed here, certainly not access to live rounds. Real boot camp they're not allowed to put hands on you like this, nor to use racial targeting. This is meant to wed out the weak and train for specific traits. There's a reason they say the few the proud.
@@TheMojoWorks so many opinions but so little knowledge 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️Glad I'm the son of an instructor or I would've been just as soft as the new age hairless iPhone midgtes
I don't use that, but I will say, "Well, any day" or "Sometime today" for people moving slow. I was not a Drill Instructor, but every Marine has the "Drill Instructor Voice", which can be used to motivate people from time to time.
A humanitarian is always a hypocrite, was observed by Kipling and his later commentary developed into : People sleep peaceably in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. - used by Churchil
Civilians don't understand how vital this kind of training is. The whole point is to keep recruits under constant and increasing physical and psychological pressure throughout training until they adapt and can carry out their tasks stressed exhausted and barely coherent. This prepares them to survive in combat when stress will be much higher and sleep will become a distant memory. Unfortunately civilians keep interfering in a process they don't understand and see as cruel constant trying to restrict the armies ability to prepare soldiers for war. For example Pvt. Joker talked back undermining the instructors authority allowing the instructor to strike him something no longer allowed but Pvt. Pile hadn't done anything to justify physical punishment which is why the instructor ordered him to choke himself using the instructor's hand therfore obaying the letter of the regulation but still making his point. Instructor's constantly have to find creative ways to maximise the training while avoiding breaking stupid rules made by politicians who don't understand the reason for the training. If you're not stressed and exhausted and in constant fear/hatred of your instructor the training has no value and will not prepare you for combat. While some drill instructor's are malicious psychopath's who enjoy bullying recruit's for fun they are a tiny minority and usually despised by the others. Being selected as a DI for training new recruits is a sign your commander's see real leadership potential in a soldier because they are literally being trusted with the future of the army. So almost all are smart dedicated and utterly professional knowing their performance as an instructor will define their future career.
This movie portrays this character's actions as negative though. In this movie, he pretty much bullies a man until he breaks, kills himself, and this drill sergeant. This movie disagrees with you. The soldiers that don't die in combat are taught how to kill themselves emotionally, kill others physically, and in alot of cases, eventually kill themselves physically after they get home from the war. Did the training make them better soldiers? Probably. But it often irreversibly damages their minds, and ever since WWII, America hasn't been in a war that makes the dehumanizing of thousands of young boys a necessary sacrifice for the sake of humanity. It just isn't worth it.
I once heard a Navy officer say something that an Air Force sergeant later corroborated. The most important thing to learn in training, and if you learn nothing else, is to make good decisions in highly stressful environments.
@@TheMojoWorks Which shows you've entirely missed the point of that characters story. During the Vietnam war the government lowered recruiting standards. His character was clearly mentally impaired and should never have been allowed to join. Usually a recruitment officer would have identified that and rejected his enlistment or the instructor would have marked him as a failure and given him an administrative discharge. Unfortunately during war time with the minimum standards lowered they didn't have that option. PTSD isn't caused by military service or training. It tends to be caused when the training fails to prepare the soldiers for the experiences they suffer in combat and a lack of adequate support afterwards. While no training can ever hope to prepare men to deal with everything they might face tougher training weeds out those who are not mentally strong enough to cope and strengthens those with the capacity to handle the pressure. And if given proper treatment recover. But by far one of he biggest causes of mental illness in veterans is loss of belief that their sacrifices were justified. When snotty little liberal arts students and hand wringing politicians betray them for power and virtue signaling abandoning the mission before it's complete it makes all their suffering and the loss of their friends worthless.
Absolute wives' tale horseshit, entirely ahistorical, and the type of speculative uninformed bullshit that buck privates and other junior enlisted personnel tell each other to appear knowledgeable and wise to their buddies. All of those decisions are made within the chain of command. The only input that any civilians have comes in the form of general orders issued by the president, who is the only civilian empowered to issue any orders whatsoever, when so directed though laws enacted by the Congress. Members of Congress do not have enough floor time in each legislative session to micromanage such granular concerns by legislative fiat. If they pass a law that says, in essence, "don't be so mean to the recruits because it gives us a big ol' wet boo-hoo," its specific implementation is left entirely up to the officers and enlisted ranks responsible for the areas affected by it as part of their regular duties. If you want to wax melancholic about how all the pussies among the general public are preventing you from hanging a pair of truck nuts on your chevrons, there is nothing stopping you from knowing what the fuck you're talking about first.
Doesnt it make it more enjoyable to see the younger people react? I laugh because this verbal stuff is so true LOL. Its been said and then some. I miss some of the yelling I was subjected to now that I look back haha.
I was about 3 feet away from R. Lee Ermey on my 3rd day of boot camp (still in receiving) in December 2004. He was obviously retired from the Corps and well into his acting career, but he still seemingly had free rein to hang around MCRD in San Diego as he saw fit. It was one of the few times I ever saw multiple DIs let their guard down as they all admired and aspired to be like him. They mess with you from the second you get off that bus and I hadn’t slept yet, and the whole thing didn’t feel entirely real.
God, I remember receiving, hectic, loud....you knew immediately after leaving those yellow footprints that you were in a whole new world. I remember the receiving Drill Instructors were nicer and more calm, but still firm. They were instructors who were rotating out and it was used as part of the reintegration process for them. I remember that first haircut, looking in the mirror as they were telling us how to shave. Not sleeping for the first day and a half. I remember being shocked that that as the first graduating class of the new year we were allowed to watch the Rose Bowl, as it coincided with the phase where we were getting put back into human mode. They had a Jack in the Box on the base...so good
@@helmedon There was a Burger King just a couple of blocks from 2nd Bn on Parris Island. It had a little gift shop in there too. I still have a set of sweats that I bought there. You mentioned the Rose Bowl. Every year the Marine Bandsmen in that area put together the USMC West Coast Composite Band, and march in the Parade.
R. Lee Ermey had been a film consultant for many years, and was a consultant on this film. When the actor playing the drill instructor was not giving the performance that Kubrick wanted, he asked Ermey to demonstrate, and Ermey essentially improvised this scene. Kubrick released the other actor and replaced him with Ermey who was given a great deal of free reign to do what he thought was appropriate - something that was very rare in a Kubrick film since he normally planned out scenes so meticulously.
In an interview, R. Lee Ermey said that he considered Vincent D'Onofrio to be the best part of the film, easily. He also said in other interviews that as hard and abusive as DIs could be, they'd also be in the mess hall every day, reading the names of soldiers who'd died in Vietnam. They took the losses very personally.
Ermey was originally hired as a technical advisor for the movie, but his intensity was so great they gave him the role. i wonder if anyone recognizes private pile, he was the bug in men in black
Also started in Law and Order spinoff Criminal Intent where he played a whip smart detective with a lot of personal baggage. Tremendously nuanced performances.
The ending is crazy. The female sniper was just picking them off one by one. Then after they got her, they just let her bleed out and walked off singing the Mickey Mouse song 😂
My father told me a story about his drill Sargent when he joined the Army prior to Vietnam. When we were watching this together he said the drill Sargent said the same "Only steers and queers come from Texas! And I don't see any horns!", to him(We're from Texas). According to Dad, he somehow indicated is groin and said something like, "My horn is down there." Don't know if it's true, but I guarantee Dad didn't give a F. So I believe him.🤣
Until this film came out, no one had seen a monologue like this except for the Marines who had gone through boot camp during this time period. It is not an exaggeration to say that this scene shocked the whole nation. It instantly became legendary, and in the period between the film's release in theaters and its first television broadcast on cable TV (on the HBO premium channel if I am remembering correctly), it was spoken of in hushed tones of reverence and awe usually reserved for shameful family secrets or tales of great daring or luck during one's criminal adventures.
😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂 This was my boot camp!!! All older Marine vets just laugh watching this movie! What these young people don't understand this was 100% accurate. Semper Fi
4 year Army Vet here.. Im not a Marine but my Drill Seargent was just as rough as this guy, except he was African American, lol.. We called him "DS Damn" because he would say something crazy to you and say Damn 3 times in one sentence.. lol.. awesome compilation!
I went through basic training in 1983 and I would say it was about 25% less abusive than this, but no more than that. From the drill sergeant giving 'remedial training' behind the barracks, to telling us how to deal with troops among us who failed to shower frequently enough.... which involved Comet cleaner and toilet brushes. What a great movie.
Lee said he went way over the top on purpose, after he saw the movie for the first time, he felt crappy about it, but glad the people like his character.
I had the same problem with people washing at Ft. Sam Houston TX. This paticular zero was so bad that people running behind him in formation would get nauseous and fall out! I had two retread Air Policemen in my platoon, I took his uniforms to the laundry and these two scrubbed him down with floor brushes and soap while he bitched and cried like we were breaking his heart. 🙄🤢
@@johncox6321 We went to the drill to complain about it. He told us he 'wasn't going to be there everytime a smelly trainee got toilet brushed with Comet in the shower after us drills are gone for the night'.... with a shit eating grin that told us everything we needed to know. I later became a US Weapons instructor, and it constantly made me ask myself 'was I this damn stupid when I came through here?' Yeah, I was.
That is a classic. Everybody in it was perfect. All drill sergeants, afterwards in real life, that drilled after the movie came out, had a whole new level in excellence in "burns and bars" to achieve to.
I’m a little surprised at some of the naive reactions. In boot camp, they train people to go to war. They psychologically break people down and rebuild them for war, it’s no joke. Solders have been subjected to this sort of training since the ancient Greeks and Spartans, if not longer.
It’s an anti-war film; their reactions are exactly what Kubrick wanted. No part of this movie is romanticized for the sake of visuals, the horrors are laid plain and the casualness at which it was committed is kept. The average person is supposed to be disgusted because war is disgusting. Whatever reasons you can come up with to justify the horror and cruelty are just that: justifications that the film does not agree with.
Yep, but he's right about the naive part... they just don’t have a clue. I'm 55, and i've watched this movie in theatre when it came out. I was 18 and i thought "The drill instructor is too much over the top, he's a unbelievable character". Later i went into the army, there was the civil war in the balcans and my company was among the ones included in the nato expeditionary force in a war zone At that point, i learned the hard way that the movie was spot on about drill instructors.
To characterize it as only an "anti-war" film I think does it injustice. It's more complicated than that. Yes war is cruel and horrible and should be avoided whenever possible. But the film captures a duality that exists in mankind regarding war and destruction. Joker symbolizes this with the peace sign on his helmet while having Born To Kill written on it as well. Joker realizes he is against the war but may well have to kill in order to get back home alive. Same thing with Animal Mother and Joker. Animal Mother is the version of what Joker would have become had he not snapped in boot camp. I think the film tells us not to glorify war as it is a terrible thing. Humans however have gone to war throughout our history and will continue to do so. To say war is not a part of the human condition is to shy away from a fundamental truth about ourselves.
Perhaps I should clarify my original post. I was referring to some very specific reactions. I am not trying to be critical of the individual reactors either. They just struck me as very naive (innocent, unaware) of what goes on in boot camps and why. As if, perhaps, they never even thought about or considered boot camps, military training, and war in their lives. 3:00 “Why is he saying that?”; 3:48 “Why do they have to yell at them like that?”; 8:50 “He’s so mean”; 9:40 Look at his face, he’s going to laugh…that would be me…”; 15:41 He shouldn’t curse like this in the military…It’s tough but, I think we should have manners”.
I love to watch how the reactors stop laughing when Hartman torments Private Pyle. And as Spanish I say it, you must try to watch this movie in the dub from Spain, because the strong language in the scenes of Sergeant Hartman hear in Spanish language is terrific in the best way. And R. Lee Ermey was a true gem who after Full Metal Jacket did a great carrier with titles as David Fincher's Seven or spoofing himself in Peter Jackson's The Frighteners. Such a talented actor. RIP.
I graduated boot camp at Parris Island in June 1985. With a few exceptions, this is spot on. The biggest difference is that there would have been at least 2-3 other drill instructors screaming at everyone.
Right. One senior drill instructor and usually 2 or 3 juniors. The other oddity in this movie is that I have NEVER seen a drill instructor that held the rank of Gunnery Sergeant. There were a very few Corporals and a few Staff Sergeants (always a Senior DI from my experience). The vast majority of DIs were Sergeants. While I went through Boot Camp (SD), my Senior was promoted to Staff and another (that we all looked at as the least intimidating and least experienced) was promoted from Cpl to Sgt.
I had a weird company where after the first couple of weeks we were down to only one drill sergeant (Army, not USMC). Thankfully he was as tough as a plank of teak and could teach archery to a rock, but in hindsight I realize that was way too much for one guy to have to shoulder week after week. We probably had a more relaxed final phase in some ways because he simply couldn’t be everywhere to torment us with grenade simulators, but he put in crazy hours to keep my band of miscreants evolving out of our primordial scum (his words, minus some Anglo-Saxon). You really need a pair, bare minimum, three is better.
@@kingleech16 Wow! Training/Controlling a platoon of recruits is WAY too much work for a single DI/DS! It would be interesting to know the story behind why his Command would allow that to happen.
I think R. Lee Ermey said in a past interview that D.I. Hartman was a representation of some the bad DIs in Vietnam. Under pressure from their commanding officers to send bodies to Vietnam. A Good D.I. would have recognized that Leonard aka Private Pyle, Vincent D'Onofrio's character, was not fit and either sent to pre-boot to improve or removed all together from the corps before becoming a complete liability.
I was in the Air Force and basic wasn't that intense but there was a lot of yelling. Basic is how the military weed out soldiers that wouldn't be able to follow orders. Also, when I was in, they weren't able to touch you. It's also funny to hear some of the reactors saying that they would be able to keep a straight face. It is actually very hard not to be scared because this is what your time in basic can be like if you can't follow orders and that first day/night is the scariest.
R. Lee Ermy actually damaged his vocal cords from not just screaming his lines, but because it’s a Kubrick film he did the scene dozens and dozens of times.
This movie was set during Vietnam, things were a lot different back then. I went through Army basic training in 1986, it's all an act. The drills are trained to do this. I experienced this sort of thing throughout basic except they weren't allowed to touch you. Now the Marines definitely take it up a few notches, so I can't speak for them. Basic is intense as it should be, they couldn't touch you, but they could train your ass into the ground. It forces you get in shape, pay attention, learn fast and work together. For us basic was turned up to 11 until about week 5 or 6 (8 weeks total) then it tapered off and the drills got a bit less intense leading up to graduation.
1980 Parris Island, the Drill Instructors were not allowed to touch us either. BTW did I tell you about the time a recruit got kicked and suffered a rupture, or the time I got beat with a broom stick? Things happened. I've seen this movie multiple times, I found it more funny than sadistic, but it's the reactions of the young people watching that scares me.
I once heard a Navy officer say something that an Air Force sergeant later corroborated. The most important thing to learn in training, and if you learn nothing else, is to make good decisions in highly stressful environments.
The Vietnam (ALL) War is still fukn up people & will continue long after im/we're gone. My dad volunteered at 17 in '64. Got blown up & went back for more. He knew this mofo from Camp Pendleton. He came back & became a drill-seargent himself. I had this in my face as his only son since i was born. When i try to explain the reason im the way i am to people i show them this scene cause that was "daddy"! 🤗💕 Only thing that kept me out of military school was my threats of what id do when first got my hands on live rounds.😅 I had to rebel or i wouldn't have had a life. Got my a** kicked daily. Im not a bad mofo, but when you're raised like this scene fear tends to not be a problem. So much ptsd i can hardly write my name, & wouldn't wish it in my worst enemy, if i had one, but I've had the blessed opportunity, when it mattered most, to save a couple of lives in my day. Thats not a boast or pat on the back, friends. It was a Gift to me & i only bring it up because it was automatic due to dad. There was no thought to what had to be done whatsoever, only action. Is only thing that made all my hell worth it. ...This is why i dont watch reactions to this flick by my fave & GOAT film-smith Kubrick. I cant help but get emotional & carried away.😅 Love this channel though. It's genius! B.I.H. L.B.J.👹🔥 See ya. ✌️🌎❤️
My group went in there all kinds of guys and when it was over….we were different, organized, neat and a team. The drill instructors were brutal but when we finished? They treated us as brothers. It was unreal. Worse thing happened to me at the time……best thing over time. I am 57 and my company has done well and whenever things got tough….I can think back and say….nothing can stop me and this setback is nothing to my time during desert storm. That’s why guys my age see the…whatever they are on tv today, we shake our heads and think……well I won’t say
In the mid-nineties they didn’t use slurs or curse as much in my experience but the relentless & volume of the berating was still in FULL EFFECT. I know I’m a dick for this but sometimes I would be dying laughing inside when someone got singled out even if there was blowback on the rest of us.
That is what the Drill Instructor did in real life and the only thing he applied for. Also, alot of his lines were not written in. They gave him free rein and filmed him.
I remember when my dad was a Drill Sgt back when I was a kid in Ft Knox in the early 70s. When a new group would come in, Dad would intentionally eat breakfast loaded with onions, garlic (or ramps), so when he got into a new recruits face his breath would be absolutely rank. I really miss old school Drill Sgts and Drill Instructors.
For any reviewers or watchers who think this DI was nasty and rude ... imagine what they might experience in they become POWs ... this x 100 ? Then death ?
I’m 54 years old and this is how my father talk to me on a daily basis…. Kids today I love you reactions but tough love works freedom of speech works and sensitivity issues are for the sensitive…R Lee Erney what is a real drill, instructor for the marines… and the reason why he’s talking to them the way he is cause she’s preparing these boys for death. Remember, this is probably the Vietnam war they’re getting trained for. My father and both my uncles are all Vietnam veterans and we’re all drafted on their 19th birthdays have a choice to serve, but it was their duty as Americans. My father was spec five communications army my Godfather. 82nd airborne Ranger one tour and then 187th infantry second tour. And my uncle United States Marines grunt who had malaria three times and jungle rot his feet so bad he had a tie parachutes around his feet to the flies, eating them at night when they were dry out their boots how is that for reality?
This should be a "try to watch without laughing" video, it's impossible. This movie is brilliant, I was in the Army Cadets in Scotland UK in 1995 till 1998, and a bunch of us used to runt o the cadets 5 miles from our home together singing the some about "Ho Chi Mihn being a son of a b!tch lol, but R Lee Ermey was hilarious in this movie.
8:50 "He's so mean".............. NO, the enemy is mean, blood thirsty, and torturously evil. A drill instructor wants his recruits to think he's the worst and the enemy a bunch of everything he called them. Sigh................the young today, know nothing about how they have the freedom to do ...........................what ever it is they do here on YTube. Freedom..................it's a bloody battle to get it. Patton rolls in his grave at what the world has become. Prayers and hard respect to all who serve so we can bs around in our lives freely. You will always be better than I, ....and so many of us. Bless you.
I have my own personal basic training story I would like to share with everyone. On my first day, one of my drill sergeants told me to take something and put it in a pile of Contraband items, which I did while screaming a hearty, yes, drill sergeant. I was not looking where I was going and ran headfirst into another drill sergeant whom I bowled over completely. I stood there paralyzed then suddenly every drill sergeant in the room focused in on me, screaming at the top of their lungs I was going to be going to prison for assault and battery on a non-commissioned officer. I was only 18, so I really didn't know what to say, I ended up doing go back front and more push-ups, and you'll ever know. I think my hand prints are permanently imprinted in the concrete, but I made it. Believe it or not, I was having trouble with BRM, which is basic rifle marksmanship because I was not wearing my glasses. The drill sergeant from my first day was the one who encouraged me and helped me to qualify as a marksman. It was my first accomplishment in the army but not the last.
In 1972 when I got drafted(army)drill sergeants weren't allowed to physically abuse recruits. It was all mental. I don't know about The Marine Corp, they were a different breed
R. Lee Ermey told Stanley Kubrick that no D.I would physically assault recruits like that. But it's what Stanley Kubrick wanted. So it's what Stanley Kubrick got.
R. Lee. Ermey was an actual Drill Instructor in the Marine Corps at Parris Island. The first movie he was in was The Boys in Company C. The way he was talking in this movie is how boot camp was like for me at Parris Island. They were not supposed to hit you in 1980 but they did and no one said anything because you were to scared. Gunny is missed by all Marines. Marines don’t die, we just go to hell and regroup. See you there Gunny.
This is a good representation of boot csmp til the late 80's early 90's. Have to remember these boys might be going to war. Even this looks tough it still doesn't prepare one for it, but, back then the did there best.
R. Lee Ermey was the real deal. He was a Marine Drill Instructor in real life. His audition was on videotape, with him giving this kind of monologue while his kids threw tennis balls at him, and he never broke. He had objected to Stanley Kubrick about punching Pvt. Joker in the stomach, stating the DIs never punched the trainees, but would give them a backhand to the sternum, but Kubrick insisted on the punch because Hartman was supposed to be more sadistic than the average DI.
This is a pretty perfect depiction of Marine Corps bootcamp. The only thing missing is a giant dip in his mouth, so that he spews chew and chew spit all over your face when he screams at you. It stings like crazy when it gets in your eyes and you can't even move to rub it out. You just have to stand there and eat it. Oh and if they see your eyes watering or tearing, you're getting mocked and then punished. On the upside when you get out of there, there is an iron in your spine and a pride in your heart that never leaves you. It's an insane but amazing thing.
My dad was in the Marines from 1960-64 and went to basic at Camp Pendleton. His D.I. slugged him in the gut for no reason one time and he had to stay standing at attention. Another time, he left the whole platoon out in the summer sun standing at attention for 4 hours.
Every time I watch this scene, I can't help but laugh at the size of this squadbay. It's at least 50% bigger than the real ones on Parris Island. And he's a Senior Drill Instructor, not a "Drill Sergeant."
My father went to Army boot camp in 1970. He said his drill instructor said some things that were so funny, he wouldn't punish recruits if they snickered.
This takes me back to the Army, Ft. Jackson, SC Basic Training 1984. It was exactly like this. I even got a "shower conference" punch to set me straight. It wasn't until afterwards that I realized nothing was personal, the drills had a job to do, a difficult one but a necessity. Spent 9 yrs in until injured. R. Lee Ermey, RIP...a legend.
Takes years to perfect a good war face. You know you've got it when you can tell someone you're about to do it and they still take an involuntary step back when you do.
The Gunney has such an interesting past.; it's worth exploring. What he is doing is real, though a few things are prohibited by more recent regulations. God bless you Gunney. Godspeed. BTW, does this begin to clue you as to why the US Marines are the best fighting force on the planet? Oo-rah!
The “Is that you John Wayne? Is this me?” Line was an accident, the actor was supposed to just say “is that you John Wayne” in a southern accent, without thinking he said it in a John Wayne voice, so he added the “is this me” as a sorta joke acknowledging his mess up. Stan K liked it and decided to leave it in the Final Cut
The DIs broke my glasses during this phase at Parris Island, took me two weeks to get another pair. That was 1974, it was very much like this in boot camp.
My dad was an Army DI in the 1960s they did the break down to retrain them, to get rid of the way of thinking that society and their parents put on them to make them better soldiers or Marines.
I swear, they must have every candidate in drill sgt school takes comedy courses. Some of the stuff they said during basic was hilarious…As long as it wasn’t directed at you LOL.
My Grandpa was a Gunnery Sgt. in the Marines Corp also served 2 tours in Korea 3 Purple Hearts Bronze metal . And these scenes is the old Corp. and brought a smile to my grandpa when he 1st saw this movie . Because this was him and reminded him of the Marines that he knew 👍🏼
