They have more than one person screaming at you and Leonard would have been send to a doctor . 10 mil men were drafted during Vietnam war , only 2,5 mil served in Vietnam , Famous people drafted that were by 3 US army doctors mentally too ill to serve , NRA LaPierre and Ted "Poop pants" Nugent ,
R. Lee Ermey was hired to be a consultant on the film. He had actually been a marine drill instructor. He was able to convince Kubrick to let him replace the original actor hired to play the DI. The original actor played the gunner that was shooting people from the helicopter.
Sort of true. Once he saw Ermey in action Kubrick offered him the roll and Ermey noted that he wasn't an actor and Kubrick told him to be himself. The original actor for the roll was the guy that played the gunner in the helicopter scene.
@@gandr.e.5136- Actually, Ermey had already been in several films previously, and he was purposely trying to get the role of Gunny Hartman. He recorded his “advisor” sessions with the original actor Tim Colceri, knowing full well that Kubrick would be watching them.
Ha ha! Just noticed this comment a half hour after I said almost exactly the same which beat me by at least an hour. I agree with you 100%, sir! I was thinking someone must have already said it but...lazy me...
*before this movie, R. LEE ERMEY WAS A DRILL INSTRUCTOR IN MOVIE **_"BOYS IN COMPANY 'C' "_** , 3-4 ACTIVE-DUTY military, including Ermey, helped in filming it & **_Officer & Gentleman_** down at Camp Pendleton in the early-mid 70s.*
@@fearxile Most movies arent shot in sequence. Most movies will have reshoots after filming wraps to tie up things. Tell me you know nothing about filming movies without telling me. They had already grown their hair back after fimling. Thats why they were so mad.
I had the honor of meeting Gunny Ermey, (Senior Drill Instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartmann in the movie), a few years before he died. I still have the challenge coin he gave me, and it's one of my most prized possessions. He was a very sincere, down-to-earth guy.
He came through Fort Knox when I was in basic and they were filming some stuff for Mail Call. No, I'm not in the episode. I looked. He talked to us later for a few minutes and thanked us for joining up. Two of our drills made sure to inform us beforehand to shut up and not talk, bother, or look in his direction unless he spoke to us first and to pretend he did not exist and that no one was there filming, or we would regret it. By this point in time we had all learned to listen to them when they gave us those types of warnings. Still was a huge thrill just seeing him in person.
My best friend did 2 tours of duty in Vietnam as a combat Marine. He didn't talk much to his friends.....actually not at all...about the war. He did talk to his wife, especially after a bad dream. She once told me that Jim was mostly haunted by civilian casualties, especially one little girl. Jim died in 1997 a victim of Agent Orange. Thanks to President Lyndon Johnson my friend , thousands of young Americans, and millions of Vietnamese died or were seriously wounded. His lies got us into the quagmire that so many had warned us of.
Well Nixon perpetuated it. He actually told the North Vietnamese to not make any treaties, that they would get a better a deal when he was elected President. I'm not absolving Johnson by any means, but how many more boys died because Nixon had to get elected?
@@hopcat500 Ahh Trump Delusion Syndrome on display here fellas. Trump escalated our support of Saudi Arabia in the Yemeni civil war and genocide. Trump escalated our interference in the Syrian civil war and the was vs ISIL, including the total destruction of Mosul on the Iraqi side of things. Trump escalated our off the books war in Africa, famously getting a bunch of Green Berets massacred in the Tongo Tongo ambush. Trump gave Israel carte blanche with his endorsement of Israeli settlements and moving the Embassy to Jerusalem. They even named a settlement after him. Trump escalated the drone war to levels not before seen. In four years, he carried out more drone strikes than EVERY PRESIDENT BEFORE HIM, guys who had 8 years in office. Trump tried to start a war in Iran. Trump said he'd get us out of Afghanistan, but then like everything else he said, he didn't actually follow through. Biden is the only president in recent decades to actually slow down the drone program, and he also is the only guy who actually got us out of one of our many wars. So, while Biden hasn't been a great President, facts literally don't care about your feelings there cupcake. You lied. Trump escalated our overseas adventurism. Biden has rolled it back. No new wars have started under Biden. He ended Afghanistan. He ended the drone war. Facts. Trump advocated for Saudi genocide in Yemen. Trump let MBS gape him when the Saudis hacked a journalist apart. Trump tried to start a war with Iran. Trump leveled Mosul. Trump occupied parts of Syria for oil. What a peacenik that guy was.
I graduated from Parris Island in 1986 and drill instructors never run out of material. Not to be picky but Marines don't like to be called soldiers, we're Marines. This is definitely an anti-war film by Stanley Kubrick and he does an amazing job. It's important to keep a sense of humor when in combat because it helps you maintain your sanity.
Yeah stop splitting hairs. First one in, last one out. And you guys don’t even come in the water. How can you be a marine, and not be considered a tip of the spear soldier. You must have been the ones that just got sent to Okinawa and still tried to run boot on everyone below you.
Take just a second to appreciate that the actor who played Pvt Pyle, Vincent D'Onofrio, was also the bug in the Edgar suit in Men in Black, the lead detective in the Law and Order series, the man-bear Jack Horne in The remake of The Magnificent Seven and many more.
Seeing Mr. D'onofrio playing this character is a testament to his talent because he is one of the nicest guys you can ever hope to meet. I thought it was hilarious that he was upset that my cat and I got invited to a cat b'day party and he and his dog don't get invited anywhere. Getting to pick his brain about Shakespeare characters and books is something I very much enjoyed.
Omg finally a reactor that realize Pvt Pyle is special needs. In real life I'm sure he was drafted and maybe the military didn't have a diagnosis for autistic individuals. Great acting but the scenario is truly heart breaking. He should've never been in the military, the Marines especially!
@@justwatching6186 He's up there with Stephen Root as far as actors that create a character in a world where the role is usually just another vehicle for an actor. As good as Tom Hanks, Keanu, or Bruce Willis, etc are, all their roles were just them as that character. Root and D'Onofrio create characters that are unto themselves with not a smidge of the actor portaying them. That is a rare and incredible talent. 🤣🍻
I once saw an interview with Adam Baldwin (Animal Mother, Jayne Cobb) about the making of this movie. Apparently Kubrick was quite demanding on the cast, making them do multiple takes and giving lots of direction. The actors got exhausted and started to gripe. At one point Kubrick said "Let's go again", and Adam Baldwin grumbled "Jeez, what does he want now?" And Stanley Kubrick, this larger-than-life genius director, leans from behind the camera and goes: "How about better acting?"
@@Hum0ng0us no that is true. He upstaged the original actor for the role. But don't make it sound like he made up the lines on the spot. He also wrote dirty poetry for the Drill Sergeant that was never used. But Kubric is famous for taking dozens of takes to get a scene perfect. That's not very conducive to comedic adlibs. But not all the lines were known to Kubrick. For instance He didn't know what a Reach Around was. He laughed for 15 minutes after he was told.
@@scottneil1187 So you didnt see that it was awkward laughter? Not very observant, yes they do make quips and jokes. But none of it is unnecessary. It helps to keep people watching.
@@scottneil1187Bro those scenes are suppose to be funny and this is a reaction video, they’re suppose to react to what they’re watching, how is that disrespectful?
The scene where they got their heads shaved in the beginning was actually filmed last. Their hair had grown back by then and all of them were pissed to have it shaved again.
Just want to say thanks for not overly censoring this movie. Some other channels, they bleep out every "bad" word and blur guns (wtf?) .. and you literally lose 50% of the dialogue in the first half..
We only blurred out what we knew would get this video blocked. After upload it was hit with limited ads by UA-cam. We asked for a manual review and it was allowed. So even what we showed, pushed the limits.
The guy playing Gunnery Sgt Hartman (R.Lee Ermey) only died recently and he was an actual former drill sgt in the Marine Corps Reserve.he was hired as an advisor for the actor who was to get the part but when the producers saw him in action they offered him the part.....and the actor who got the part of the helicopter door gunner was the actor originally chosen for the drill sgt part.@YouMeTheMovies
Hartman's job was to weed out people physically or mentally unable to handle the pressure. He did that but it cost him, if Pyle slid through he could have killed an entire platoon
True drill instructors are usually chosen because they are the best and brightest because they are being entrusted with the future of the unit. While occasionally you find one who's just an a hole who gets off on the power most are genuinely good guys doing their best to prepare new recruits for a successful future in uniform. Centuries of tradition and experience backed up by medical and psychological testing have turned military training into a science and the DI is the most vital part of the machine he must be harsh but fair feared and respected keep morale high while remaining the authority figure and weed out any who are physically or mentally unfit to serve. It's an incredibly demanding job often made more difficult by political interference when soft hearted idiots decide they're being too harsh.
I enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1977. I was just 5ft 1 1/2in tall and 117lbs. At the beginning of bootcamp, I could do just 3 pullups. 13weeks later, I could do 10. And I ran the 3 miles in 22 minutes and 20 seconds. I served for 6 years as a 7011; Expeditionary Airfield Equipment Technician. Still performing military funerals in two states.
My older brother was enlisted in the army reserves when this came out. I remember watching at home, my mom asked, “do they really get in your face and scream?” He responded, yes!
It was like that up until the early 80s from the guys I talked with. Hell cursing was still common when I enlisted in the mid 90s. No choking yourself or other physical abuse, though the option was made available to go around back and get the crap neat out of you by our heavily decorated infantry DI; no one volunteered and it could’ve been BS. No racial stuff either and all the nasty cadences were dropped as we had females in our boot.
The framing of Cowboy when he dies is absolutely perfect. Kubrick uses the soldiers to create the frame around him to show that he is still a part of the team.
Oh boy...welcome to the Kubrick insanity version of Vietnam...it definitely makes an impression, doesn't it? I have never seen it specifically stated by Kubrick anywhere, but Private Pyle is a clear representation of a real program that the Defense Department ran in the 1960s. It was called "Project 100,000" and it was a test to see whether the mental and physical parameters for serving in the US military could be widened to make the pool of potential service people larger. Between escalation in Vietnam and all the other military commitments of the Cold War in those days, the military was concerned about a shortage of people to serve. So they started testing whether recruits who were normally just a bit below the normal standard for IQ, or emotional stability, or physical fitness could be turned into effective military personnel. The same program probably would have led to Forrest Gump being recruited and serving in Vietnam. The program had various nicknames including "McNamara's Misfits" and "McNamara's Morons" in honor of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.
The program wasn't necessarily due to a shortage of people but rather a way to get cannon fodder so they didn't have to get soldiers from the middle class and elites in a growing unpopular war. More than half of the 27 million men eligible for the draft during the Vietnam War were deferred, exempted or disqualified and the DoD was worried the unpopularity of the war would escalate if they changed the rules about deferments.
Kubrick's best film deals with the theme of "that Jungian thing" when Joker kills that sniper girl, half of his face is illuminated, the other half in shadows, Joker manages to end his internal war between light and darkness by integrating his Shadow .
How was R. Lee Ermey not even nominated for best supporting actor for his role as the D.I. in this movie?? His portrayal as Staff Sgt Hartman is unforgettable.
I serve this country proudly. To all those that have come before thank you for your service and sacrifice. You are not forgotten! You gave us the freedom we have today! Aim High! Fly, Fight, Win! USA! 🇺🇸
@@emilianosintarias7337 I never said Vietnam was a necessary. Your comment has nothing to do with what i’m referring to. I’m only 26 buddy! This is a general comment. Jeez nobody has any respect for service members anymore. Think before you comment! Sorry that i actually treat Memorial Day like it should be and actually remember why it exists and not brush it off as “just another day off” like some many others do!
@@khughes1997 I respect people in the military enough not to peddle myths about their use and abuse. You actually made a bunch of claims in your statement, with a go USA chant, which is posted as a comment under a movie about vietnam . But now you act like all you were saying is let's respect soldiers who passed away. Maybe you are the one who should think before he comments? Vietnam was 2 million mowed down civilian souls out of 8 million the french and american states' decided to make an example out of through sanctions, famines, and repression. Plus all the american and vietnamese soldiers (yes marines are soldiers) that died. Would you thank the japanese who did pearl harbor for their service to japan and say they are what keeps japan free? Should we celebrate the red coats? Just try to have some tact, this isn't Normandy, this was one big 9/11
It used to be that the Marines only took men who wanted to be in the Marines. If you were drafted and you wanted to be in the Marines, they put you in the Marines. If you didn't want to be in the Marines they put you in a different branch of the service. The other services complained that the Marines were taking the best men and leaving the worst for everyone else, so in Vietnam they used a quota system and forced many draftees into the Marines. Old school Marines like Sergeant Hartman didn't want men like Leonard in the Marines, but were forced to accept them.
By Vietnam, many Marine veterans, including the NCOs were from the Korea, and even many older vets, from WW2; both eras of combat where the vast majority of Marines were enlisted. To them, for a vet to be force to take in a draftee, especially an overtly unwilling draftee, was more than just a slap in the face, it’s was introducing unnecessarily risky elements, at a time of the initial cohesion of a unit; essentially making training even more of a hurdle when trying to convince grown men who didn’t want to be there(for whatever their reasons), to endure hardships that would turn even the most willing recruits away. Also, a whole host of medical reasons for why draftees shouldn’t be in the service were, by matter of course-intentionally downplayed, overlooked and outright ignored, unless the most extremes of circumstances would come about, involving those draftees; i.e. mental breakdowns leading to attempted suicide, murder, and other violent or extreme behaviors, which were deemed too abnormal and far too unacceptable enough, inorder to warrant discharging those recruits/soldiers.
I enlisted during Vietnam and most people avoided the Marines like the plague because it was hyped up to lure "tough guys". Combat Arms Marines didn't have employment options when they got out due to the anti war attitude at that time.
@@nazfrdeWrong, shoot Elvis Presley was drafted in 1957. My Grandfather was drafted in 1944. My dad was drafted in 1967 after getting kicked out of university.
your little one is such a sweetheart. enjoy having her ...i am a dad of three - now - grown kids and i miss those days as much as nothing else on this planet
12:20 Although we never hear it in the movie, we can see right here that Joker's real name is JT Davis. JT Davis was the name of a real marine. On the morning of Dec. 22, 1961, James T. Davis, age 25, the first American to die in a ground combat action at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Vietnam.
I'm a veteran (USMC) and did my annual Memorial day double feature this year with ya'll: Full Metal Jacket and SPR. Fun times and a good watching with you both!
I was going through a DEEP depression when I first watched Full Metal Jacket. Even thought about pulling a Private Pile. It was 2013, my mom was sick, my girlfriend dumped me, I was making $9 an hour working at some Valero even though I had just got my Associates Degree. It was a really dark time for me. But thanks to this movie and "Paint It Black" by the Stones, it pulled me out of that funk and I got through it. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Good for you man. Not as simple as just snapping out of it like everyone tells us to, is it? Also, this is the first time in a comment anywhere that I've seen someone tell about adversity they've faced in life and overcoming it and not credit it to some god no one's ever seen rather than their own strength and willpower and the efforts of others in their life. Don't know you at all but I'm doubly impressed. Keep on living bro.
I went through USMC boot camp in 81. Had no idea what to expect. Kept thinking at the time to myself "Why have I never seen this in a movie?" Thank you Stanley Kubrick.
I dunno, most of Stanley Kubricks movies are dark comedies at heart. This is one of them, Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange has a very sick sense of humour in places. Kubrick had a dim view of humanity's tendencies toward violence, but one of his attitudes seemed to be "we're so violent it's almost hilarious"
Also, fun fact about that ending scene, it's incredibly realistic that the sniper was a girl, there were several female snipers in the Vietcong and the NVA. They were backed by the Soviets, and the Soviets were the grandaddies of badass female snipers. They had an entire female only sniper program in WW2 because they genuinely believed women were better at it. Often underestimated by men so they could blend into a crowd better, smaller profile so they were harder targets, higher tolerance to pain, and easier to train because they had more in control egos. The deadliest woman in modern history, Lyudmilla Pavlachencko, the lady of death came out of that program and racked up over 300 confirmed kills in her career. One of Carlos "White Feather" Hathcock's most notable kills in Vietnam, a sniper called Apache, was a woman. She'd torture people to death at night where the marines could hear it to lure them into traps. Well, one day while cleaning up her latest kill, he found it was a marine and he was more angry than he'd ever been. That same day, he managed to kill her.
I was serving in the British Army, stationed at Bassingbourn Barracks, While they were filming this movie. Most of the training camp scenes were shot there. We were kept at a distance so not to appear in the background.
I went through Marine Corps Recruit Training Oct 2011- Jan 2012 in San Diego, CA. I had four Drill Instructors. The lead Drill Instructor, played by R. Lee Ermey, served in the U.S. Marines as a Drill Instructor during Vietnam. This was adapted from the novel "The Short Timers" by a U.S. Marine veteran
It was a confusing war for everyone, thats the genius of Kubrick to let that show. It was real accurate, he had tons of military advisors including R. Lee Ermy.
it wasn't confusing to the vietnamese. the french had deleted millions of them, the americans, who were attacking pretty much all of SE Asia one way or another, were about to do so but in more gorey fashion.
The end discussion about the fast pace between shot is reminiscent of being in film school. We would have a thought provoking and learning experience discussion after every film watched in class.
You guys need to watch Stanley Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. But, you should watch it in December, as like Die Hard, it's sort of a weird Christmas movie. I watch it every holiday season!
When I first saw the movie as a young teen, I thought that Animal Mother was Pyle and somehow the shooting was going to be some kind of dream sequence.
There's a fan theory that claims Pyle and Animal Mother are the same person. The shooting scene in the Head was Kubrick symbolically showing that Pyle had completely snapped before even going to combat. So Leanord Lawrence/ Pvt Pyle died (his internal identity) and Animal Mother is who he went on to be. It's a bit of a stretch for a theory considering Joker and Animal Mother interact as if they've never meet. Kubrick almost certainly cast the two because of how much they look a like and he probably wanted people to think that a simple minded but innocent person can easily be made into a cold blooded killer if pushed enough.
@@jessecortez9449 I was young when I saw it and was the first time I had seen any other actor and the similarities in looks are easy to be confused. Even in some of the reaction videos I've watched is that some think it's Pyle as well. I do think that Kubrick did do that intentionally to show what a person like Pyle would be like if he actually gets put into combat.
2 Live Crew really did this movie justice with the obscure reference lol Now people will associate that sound clip with their song without even knowing of the movie lol It is always amazing to see people notice it XD
13:17 that was adorable. Being somebody without kids, I can still appreciate their innocence and eventual worth of future generations to our society. I really like the interaction of the parents. They only do something (walk, talk, etc) for the first time once. Don't miss it or you'll regret it.
Kubrick being Kubrick ofcourse filmed the first scene at the very end of filming. Thats why the guys look pissed. Their hair grew back only to be cut again. 🤣
The insane door gunner in the helicopter played by Tim Colceri was originally picked to play Drill Sergeant Hartman. But Stanley Kubrick was so impressed by R. Lee Ermey that decided to have him play the character instead.
@jasonkerest2517 I remember hearing that song before i saw the movie , so i was obviously ''OH THAT'S WHERE IT'S FROM !! '' ☝😃 by now i'm gotten more out of this movie then just that one line .
The Drill instructor R. Lee Ermey was a real Drill Instructor in the Marines during the Vietnam War. This movie was the most realistic film of what the Vietnam War was like.
As in any war, civilians often caught up in events and are killed. But Kubrick made US military look like a bunch of psychotic murderers. Not sure how realistic that is; maybe you know more than me.
@@mdhj67alot of americans was that is a large part of the problems whit vietnam vets PTSD not necessarily that they were psychos but they saw alot of shit, and the fact that the tours was so long not like now at 6-8 months but years, and even if you are a normaly sain person seeing all that shit makes you numb to atrocities and more prone to do them yourself.
@@samolofsson2401 A lot of this also had to do with the guerilla warfare tactics used by the VC, they often used ununiformed civilian soldiers. A couple good examples of this in other movies would be the girl throwing a grenade in the chopper in Apocalypse Now. Or the young boy used as a terrorist agent in Good Morning Vietnam. As the war went on U.S. troops became more and more paranoid and saw the side they were fighting on as the enemy because at least some of them were. This led to brutality on the American soldiers part which in turn helped to recruit more to the VC as the Vietnamese population on both sides started seeing the America soldiers as their enemy. Our soldiers shouldn't have been there in the first place, the whole mess was caused by the French colonizing Vietnam, it should have been them there fighting not us.
A rather underrated but great film. Also would love to see them do Flags of our Fathers. Clint Eastwood directed it but so few reactors cover it and it would be perfect for Memorial Day.
I know so many people request/vote for Full Metal Jacket but I wish for Memorial Day reactions that Taking Chance or Flags of our Fathers would get some love. Taking Chance is rather perfect for Memorial Day considering it's subject matter and it's done so respectfully and beautifully acted. Flags of our Fathers is about the men that raised the flag at Iwo Jima during WWII and how they handled life afterwards. It's directed by Clint Eastwood and yet I don't think any reaction channels cover it. As a retired Marine I love Full Metal Jacket but if we're going for what the day is than there are other films that fit it better.
Yup! I went through in 1991 and had a junior killhat punch me in my back for standing too close to him. He ended up getting relieved after 2nd phase for another incident. Crossed paths 8 years later in Pohang, S. Korea.
@@barrysmith9407 we had one of our junior drilling instructors throw a brush polish can lid at a recruit and hit him in the face and then that drill truck disappeared for a few weeks and then came back right before graduation. Lol.
Save for his first couple early films, Kubrick really did make nothing but iconic masterworks throughout his career. He fires on all cylinders here, especially when it comes to the cinematography: the lighting, zooms, tracking shots, shot compositions.. everything is just impeccable. Also, Joker's "war face" emerging as he sh*oots the sniper is a particularly incredible moment of acting.
Actor Tim Colceri was set to play the Drill instructor but Stanley Kubrick went back on the idea and went with R Lee Ermey who was originally there as a technical advisor. Tim instead ended up playing the Door Gunner who kills the workers in the field. Tim’s performance as Metal Head in Leprechaun 4 is the closest we’d get as to the performance he would have given as R Lee Ermey’s character.
R Lee Ermey is iconic as the drill instructor in this film but not many people have seen The Boys in Company C from 1978. He plays a very similar character in it and it’s one of the most underrated Vietnam films ever.👍
This lady shutting down her husband's advances every time he tries to look cool is absolutely hilarious. Then he just goes back to watching the movie. Lol
You have to understand that the Drill Instructors had been to Vietnam and only had two months to turn innocent kids into killers knowing that if their instructions failed then more of those kids would die.
@@johnrife7134 Actually he is correct. During Vietnam they shortened boot camp from 11 weeks to 8 while also simultaneously increasing the size of the platoons they DI's had to train. That led to the DI's having less time to train recruits and and not being able to spend time on recuits that needed help.
Also because during Vietnam training was shortened in order to rush bodies into Vietnam. R. Lee Ermy talked about how he and the other Drill Instructors would get in the mess hall for lunch, grab the Stars and Stripes, then immediately turn to the obituaries. They would then scan to see if they recognized any of the names. It weighed on them that they were sending men into combat with far less training than they would've liked to have given them.
what an iconic film you can definitely feel it on such a gut level , and many unforgettable lines such as the entire opening monologue from ... R Lee Ermey as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman , it makes me laugh out loud and also feel grateful i'm not on the receiving end of that . i feel like the pacing of the movie is still confusing to me but maybe that is the point , to feel disoriented like you're in a war zone . I enjoyed this reaction as usual thanks to . Happy Memorial Day sending good vibes 🙌
The stuffed animal is a good example of "Booby traps for booby troops". Man is the most curious animal in the animal kingdom. We'll pick up just about any random item we come across.
Marines are Marines and Soldiers are soldiers. Discipline is what Marine Corps boot camp is all about. Great commentary y’all. Great video too. I enjoyed watching it.
Sarge didn't look like he was having fun when he stopped that 7.62 in the latrine...That scene finalized a lot of fantasy for us...We got the crap kicked out of us at Ft Jackson in '67...
@@RedHeadKevin As someone else said, in the military "rifle" and "gun" are two separate things. A rifle is what you carry into combat as a soldier to fight with. When you and your buddies hit a TIC, a gun is what you call to send artillery rounds downrange. The military believes in collective punishment as well. Likely a precursor to that scene was Gunny hearing one of the recruits call their rifle a gun.
@@jasonnicholasschwarz7788I agree. It's a brilliant adaptation of the Anthony Burgess novel of the same name and I count it among my favorites but definitely not the must see everyone claims. I can see how many if not most people just won't understand the film.
The reason that Drill instructors act like this is because “ Do you think the enemy will be any nicer???” Toughen them up and prepare for real abuse. Why doesn’t anyone get this? And think they are just being cruel for no reason? Yikes
Amen. The only people saying that are people who never served in combat. For me, I want Basic to be harder instead of softer. If someone can't hack it, I would much rather find out in Basic and give them a Failure to Adapt Discharge than find out in a hot AO when they are supposed to be watching my back.
Even the most mundane things like standing at attention, not being allowed to just scratch an itch, not using personal pronouns, getting yelled at, etc. in boot is not done because DIs are cruel. They are minor depravations and stressors that teach you to tolerate discomforts. To your point they are minor compared to actual warfare.
People would understand that if they weren't distracted by the fact that the enemy are civilians, and the military are not making people safer. If that part changed, and it really was about national defense, people would get it
I was fortunate to watch this movie with my late dad, a Vietnam Veteran. He said this movie WAS his boot camp experience. We laughed a lot with R Lee Ermey’s performance, he hated his drill instructor too 🥹
Filmed in the UK. RAF Bassingbourn airfield in Cambridgeshire was used as a re-creation of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in South Carolina. The abandoned gasworks at Beckton in East London was used as a location to shoot the famous bombed-out city of Hue in Vietnam. The helicopter scenes were shot in Norfolk Broads, located in East Anglia in England’s east. The vast expanse of rivers and lakes known as the broads was used to double as the Mekong River near Vietnam.
That beating that Private Pyle received is called a "Sock Party". Essentially everyone takes a sock, puts a bar (or two or three or however many) into said sock, and everyone takes turns hitting the recruit that's getting everyone in trouble.
Paused what I was watching and came straight here when I noticed this in the sidebar. A Classic (Anti) War movie, and one of the most quoted films of all-time. I'm surprised that both of Y'all hadn't seen it before. Cheers and a Solemnly Respectful Memorial Day from Canada. 🥃☮❤
FMJ is one of 4 Stanley Kubrick (a favorite filmmaker- genius imo) films I had the privilege of seeing on the big theater screen- the others: The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut and a retro screening of Paths Of Glory. FMJ is unquestionably a masterpiece imo. Great open minded reaction thx, and uncommonly smart. I've seen many reactions to it and I've grown accustomed to it flying sky high over the reaction creators heads
WELCOME TO THE USMC! EVERY SINGLE INSULT YOU HEARD WAS NOT ONLY FUNNY BUT 💯% ACCURATE!!! THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT IN REAL MARINE BOOT CAMP YOU HAVE TWO NOT ONE BUT TWO DRILL INSTRUCTORS SINGING (yelling) DOWN YOUR NECK.
Didn’t quite get how even though Hartman effectively said he was there to gatekeep the useless maggots out of his beloved Corp, he didn’t wash out Pyle for being mentally slow, waaaay out of shape and scared to death of heights. Granted the director/writer needed a “Pyle” type character for the execution of Hartman, it seems like in reality Pyle would have been washed-out fairly soon, 2 weeks maybe. Edit 2; ok, I looked up the “McNamera’s morons” that another commentor suggested and that’s just sad, but answered my question. Edit; AWWW! Pause the vid and give her some hugs…oh, you did. Ok.😁
The training and army barracks scenes were filmed in England. I spent a week there for school work experience, and that assault course was still there with a few alterations. We still had to run the course every morning.
Mrs. movies doesn't need a war face, her neutral unimpressed look is plenty intimidating.
I couldn’t agree more. But I’d still love to see her blow the mic up!
😂😂😂😂 As a married man, I totally feel this comment.
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Resting War Face
Is she ok? Jesus.
the Drill Instructor insults are 100% accurate from personal experience btw
I was gonna say! There's nothing 'dark comedy' about Gunny! He was the real deal ;)
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They have more than one person screaming at you and Leonard would have been send to a doctor .
10 mil men were drafted during Vietnam war , only 2,5 mil served in Vietnam ,
Famous people drafted that were by 3 US army doctors mentally too ill to serve , NRA LaPierre and Ted "Poop pants" Nugent ,
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R. Lee Ermey was hired to be a consultant on the film. He had actually been a marine drill instructor. He was able to convince Kubrick to let him replace the original actor hired to play the DI. The original actor played the gunner that was shooting people from the helicopter.
Sort of true. Once he saw Ermey in action Kubrick offered him the roll and Ermey noted that he wasn't an actor and Kubrick told him to be himself. The original actor for the roll was the guy that played the gunner in the helicopter scene.
@@gandr.e.5136- Actually, Ermey had already been in several films previously, and he was purposely trying to get the role of Gunny Hartman. He recorded his “advisor” sessions with the original actor Tim Colceri, knowing full well that Kubrick would be watching them.
Ha ha! Just noticed this comment a half hour after I said almost exactly the same which beat me by at least an hour. I agree with you 100%, sir! I was thinking someone must have already said it but...lazy me...
*before this movie, R. LEE ERMEY WAS A DRILL INSTRUCTOR IN MOVIE **_"BOYS IN COMPANY 'C' "_** , 3-4 ACTIVE-DUTY military, including Ermey, helped in filming it & **_Officer & Gentleman_** down at Camp Pendleton in the early-mid 70s.*
every actor after R. Lee Ermey just seems like they are trying to doing a R. Lee Ermey impression.
They didn't tell the actors that they were getting their heads shaved. Those are all genuine reactions😂
Nowadays the studio would get sued
And they did it after filming was done. They were called back just to have their heads shaved.
@@angelfishluva291 How did they do this after filming when they are literally in bootcamp with shaved heads? 😂
@@fearxile Bootcamp was filmed after the combat scenes. So they saw combat and then went to training! LOL!
@@fearxile Most movies arent shot in sequence.
Most movies will have reshoots after filming wraps to tie up things.
Tell me you know nothing about filming movies without telling me.
They had already grown their hair back after fimling. Thats why they were so mad.
I had the honor of meeting Gunny Ermey, (Senior Drill Instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartmann in the movie), a few years before he died. I still have the challenge coin he gave me, and it's one of my most prized possessions. He was a very sincere, down-to-earth guy.
Same here, met him when he visited 29 Palms and got a coin and a pic that I keep in the same spot as my dd-214, honorable discharge and medals.
Had a chance to have a good talk with him. He is nothing like you see him in this movie.
He came through Fort Knox when I was in basic and they were filming some stuff for Mail Call.
No, I'm not in the episode. I looked. He talked to us later for a few minutes and thanked us for joining up. Two of our drills made sure to inform us beforehand to shut up and not talk, bother, or look in his direction unless he spoke to us first and to pretend he did not exist and that no one was there filming, or we would regret it. By this point in time we had all learned to listen to them when they gave us those types of warnings. Still was a huge thrill just seeing him in person.
That coin might be the greatest treasure in human history. That’s now a family heirloom.
@@firemedic5100when he’s not a drill instructor that is.
My best friend did 2 tours of duty in Vietnam as a combat Marine. He didn't talk much to his friends.....actually not at all...about the war. He did talk to his wife, especially after a bad dream. She once told me that Jim was mostly haunted by civilian casualties, especially one little girl. Jim died in 1997 a victim of Agent Orange.
Thanks to President Lyndon Johnson my friend , thousands of young Americans, and millions of Vietnamese died or were seriously wounded. His lies got us into the quagmire that so many had warned us of.
Kind of like Bush, Clinton, Bush Jr., Obama, and Biden.
TRUMP got us out of our foreign adventures.....
LBJ was an evil man.
@@hopcat500 And the world was basically at peace.
Well Nixon perpetuated it. He actually told the North Vietnamese to not make any treaties, that they would get a better a deal when he was elected President. I'm not absolving Johnson by any means, but how many more boys died because Nixon had to get elected?
@@hopcat500 Ahh Trump Delusion Syndrome on display here fellas.
Trump escalated our support of Saudi Arabia in the Yemeni civil war and genocide. Trump escalated our interference in the Syrian civil war and the was vs ISIL, including the total destruction of Mosul on the Iraqi side of things. Trump escalated our off the books war in Africa, famously getting a bunch of Green Berets massacred in the Tongo Tongo ambush. Trump gave Israel carte blanche with his endorsement of Israeli settlements and moving the Embassy to Jerusalem. They even named a settlement after him. Trump escalated the drone war to levels not before seen. In four years, he carried out more drone strikes than EVERY PRESIDENT BEFORE HIM, guys who had 8 years in office. Trump tried to start a war in Iran. Trump said he'd get us out of Afghanistan, but then like everything else he said, he didn't actually follow through.
Biden is the only president in recent decades to actually slow down the drone program, and he also is the only guy who actually got us out of one of our many wars.
So, while Biden hasn't been a great President, facts literally don't care about your feelings there cupcake. You lied. Trump escalated our overseas adventurism. Biden has rolled it back. No new wars have started under Biden. He ended Afghanistan. He ended the drone war. Facts.
Trump advocated for Saudi genocide in Yemen. Trump let MBS gape him when the Saudis hacked a journalist apart. Trump tried to start a war with Iran. Trump leveled Mosul. Trump occupied parts of Syria for oil. What a peacenik that guy was.
I graduated from Parris Island in 1986 and drill instructors never run out of material. Not to be picky but Marines don't like to be called soldiers, we're Marines. This is definitely an anti-war film by Stanley Kubrick and he does an amazing job. It's important to keep a sense of humor when in combat because it helps you maintain your sanity.
Yeah stop splitting hairs. First one in, last one out. And you guys don’t even come in the water. How can you be a marine, and not be considered a tip of the spear soldier. You must have been the ones that just got sent to Okinawa and still tried to run boot on everyone below you.
Yea never calk a Marine a soldier
You're a soldier regardless of what you think. Marine is just a classification of soldier, you aren't special.
@@danielmoore3634 stop being dumb.
@@scottneil1187you’re a moron and probably a lil bitch who won’t ever call a Marine a soldier in their face
Take just a second to appreciate that the actor who played Pvt Pyle, Vincent D'Onofrio, was also the bug in the Edgar suit in Men in Black, the lead detective in the Law and Order series, the man-bear Jack Horne in The remake of The Magnificent Seven and many more.
Seeing Mr. D'onofrio playing this character is a testament to his talent because he is one of the nicest guys you can ever hope to meet. I thought it was hilarious that he was upset that my cat and I got invited to a cat b'day party and he and his dog don't get invited anywhere. Getting to pick his brain about Shakespeare characters and books is something I very much enjoyed.
He's the canonical live action Kingpin in my opinion. He did so much to sell Daredevil as a show.
Omg finally a reactor that realize Pvt Pyle is special needs. In real life I'm sure he was drafted and maybe the military didn't have a diagnosis for autistic individuals. Great acting but the scenario is truly heart breaking. He should've never been in the military, the Marines especially!
Also “Thor” in Adventures in Babysitting
@@justwatching6186 He's up there with Stephen Root as far as actors that create a character in a world where the role is usually just another vehicle for an actor.
As good as Tom Hanks, Keanu, or Bruce Willis, etc are, all their roles were just them as that character.
Root and D'Onofrio create characters that are unto themselves with not a smidge of the actor portaying them.
That is a rare and incredible talent.
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The face Joker made when he ended the sniper?
THAT was his war face.
Interesting.
Pretty sure that was meant to be him and Rafter getting their thousand yard stare
The "thousand yard stare".
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I once saw an interview with Adam Baldwin (Animal Mother, Jayne Cobb) about the making of this movie. Apparently Kubrick was quite demanding on the cast, making them do multiple takes and giving lots of direction. The actors got exhausted and started to gripe.
At one point Kubrick said "Let's go again", and Adam Baldwin grumbled "Jeez, what does he want now?"
And Stanley Kubrick, this larger-than-life genius director, leans from behind the camera and goes:
"How about better acting?"
They can't locate the sniper. Which is exactly why they keep doing mag dumps on the face of the building.
R Lee Ermy adlibbed all of that boot camp dialogue.
Based on years of experience as a drill instructor of course
No, the lines were practiced and written beforehand. He worked with Kubricks assistant over and over. Behind the scenes.
Really?? Holy crap I've always heard he was a real Drill Sargent so he just went to town on the actors!!!
Thanks!!
@@Hum0ng0us no that is true. He upstaged the original actor for the role. But don't make it sound like he made up the lines on the spot. He also wrote dirty poetry for the Drill Sergeant that was never used. But Kubric is famous for taking dozens of takes to get a scene perfect. That's not very conducive to comedic adlibs. But not all the lines were known to Kubrick. For instance He didn't know what a Reach Around was. He laughed for 15 minutes after he was told.
@@wyrmshadow4374 stifle yourself Edith.
recruit 5 foot 9
DI: I didn't know they stacked shit that high
jurassic park: hold my beer
"Did your parents have any children that lived?!?!?"
"Sir Yes Sir!!!"
"I'll bet they regret that!"
One of the things i enjoy most about you guys is that you give scenes respect. No unnecessary jokes or talk. You sit and actually watch.
So you didn't see them laughing at the drill sergeants abuse scenes?. Not very respectful, they constantly quip and make jokes too.
@@scottneil1187 So you didnt see that it was awkward laughter? Not very observant, yes they do make quips and jokes. But none of it is unnecessary. It helps to keep people watching.
@@scottneil1187Bro those scenes are suppose to be funny and this is a reaction video, they’re suppose to react to what they’re watching, how is that disrespectful?
I wasn't very impressed with his categorizing the film as "Dark Comedy"...
@@cchavezjr7 what would you categorise it as?
The scene where they got their heads shaved in the beginning was actually filmed last. Their hair had grown back by then and all of them were pissed to have it shaved again.
Just want to say thanks for not overly censoring this movie. Some other channels, they bleep out every "bad" word and blur guns (wtf?) .. and you literally lose 50% of the dialogue in the first half..
We only blurred out what we knew would get this video blocked. After upload it was hit with limited ads by UA-cam. We asked for a manual review and it was allowed. So even what we showed, pushed the limits.
The guy playing Gunnery Sgt Hartman (R.Lee Ermey) only died recently and he was an actual former drill sgt in the Marine Corps Reserve.he was hired as an advisor for the actor who was to get the part but when the producers saw him in action they offered him the part.....and the actor who got the part of the helicopter door gunner was the actor originally chosen for the drill sgt part.@YouMeTheMovies
Hartman's job was to weed out people physically or mentally unable to handle the pressure. He did that but it cost him, if Pyle slid through he could have killed an entire platoon
Interesting.
True drill instructors are usually chosen because they are the best and brightest because they are being entrusted with the future of the unit. While occasionally you find one who's just an a hole who gets off on the power most are genuinely good guys doing their best to prepare new recruits for a successful future in uniform. Centuries of tradition and experience backed up by medical and psychological testing have turned military training into a science and the DI is the most vital part of the machine he must be harsh but fair feared and respected keep morale high while remaining the authority figure and weed out any who are physically or mentally unfit to serve. It's an incredibly demanding job often made more difficult by political interference when soft hearted idiots decide they're being too harsh.
All non-hackers.
I enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1977. I was just 5ft 1 1/2in tall and 117lbs. At the beginning of bootcamp, I could do just 3 pullups. 13weeks later, I could do 10. And I ran the 3 miles in 22 minutes and 20 seconds. I served for 6 years as a 7011; Expeditionary Airfield Equipment Technician. Still performing military funerals in two states.
That’s impressive.
Congratulations you sound like a little bitch loser
we used two do demolition derby with the JG's tow carts
My older brother was enlisted in the army reserves when this came out. I remember watching at home, my mom asked, “do they really get in your face and scream?” He responded, yes!
They yell but do not cuss you out like that. It is pure fiction.
@@xaviergough9359 Pure fiction? You sure about that?
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@@xaviergough9359 Pure fiction? Are you sure about that?
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@@xaviergough9359 Maybe in the 60s and 70s they did.
It was like that up until the early 80s from the guys I talked with. Hell cursing was still common when I enlisted in the mid 90s. No choking yourself or other physical abuse, though the option was made available to go around back and get the crap neat out of you by our heavily decorated infantry DI; no one volunteered and it could’ve been BS. No racial stuff either and all the nasty cadences were dropped as we had females in our boot.
That was not Kiefer Sutherland in the hallway.
The framing of Cowboy when he dies is absolutely perfect. Kubrick uses the soldiers to create the frame around him to show that he is still a part of the team.
I didn't know they could stack reactions that high.
Oh boy...welcome to the Kubrick insanity version of Vietnam...it definitely makes an impression, doesn't it?
I have never seen it specifically stated by Kubrick anywhere, but Private Pyle is a clear representation of a real program that the Defense Department ran in the 1960s. It was called "Project 100,000" and it was a test to see whether the mental and physical parameters for serving in the US military could be widened to make the pool of potential service people larger. Between escalation in Vietnam and all the other military commitments of the Cold War in those days, the military was concerned about a shortage of people to serve. So they started testing whether recruits who were normally just a bit below the normal standard for IQ, or emotional stability, or physical fitness could be turned into effective military personnel. The same program probably would have led to Forrest Gump being recruited and serving in Vietnam. The program had various nicknames including "McNamara's Misfits" and "McNamara's Morons" in honor of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.
The program wasn't necessarily due to a shortage of people but rather a way to get cannon fodder so they didn't have to get soldiers from the middle class and elites in a growing unpopular war. More than half of the 27 million men eligible for the draft during the Vietnam War were deferred, exempted or disqualified and the DoD was worried the unpopularity of the war would escalate if they changed the rules about deferments.
Kubrick's best film deals with the theme of "that Jungian thing" when Joker kills that sniper girl, half of his face is illuminated, the other half in shadows, Joker manages to end his internal war between light and darkness by integrating his Shadow .
Hie peace button disappears at the same time as he takes the shot too
@@BenWillyums I just rewatched the scene, some whiteness of the symbol is still visible during the scene where he takes the shot.
How was R. Lee Ermey not even nominated for best supporting actor for his role as the D.I. in this movie?? His portrayal as Staff Sgt Hartman is unforgettable.
I serve this country proudly. To all those that have come before thank you for your service and sacrifice. You are not forgotten! You gave us the freedom we have today! Aim High! Fly, Fight, Win! USA! 🇺🇸
the movie is about the highly illegal invasion of vietnam, no country was served
@@emilianosintarias7337 I never said Vietnam was a necessary. Your comment has nothing to do with what i’m referring to. I’m only 26 buddy! This is a general comment. Jeez nobody has any respect for service members anymore. Think before you comment! Sorry that i actually treat Memorial Day like it should be and actually remember why it exists and not brush it off as “just another day off” like some many others do!
@@khughes1997 I respect people in the military enough not to peddle myths about their use and abuse. You actually made a bunch of claims in your statement, with a go USA chant, which is posted as a comment under a movie about vietnam . But now you act like all you were saying is let's respect soldiers who passed away. Maybe you are the one who should think before he comments? Vietnam was 2 million mowed down civilian souls out of 8 million the french and american states' decided to make an example out of through sanctions, famines, and repression. Plus all the american and vietnamese soldiers (yes marines are soldiers) that died. Would you thank the japanese who did pearl harbor for their service to japan and say they are what keeps japan free? Should we celebrate the red coats? Just try to have some tact, this isn't Normandy, this was one big 9/11
Matando civiles?
It used to be that the Marines only took men who wanted to be in the Marines. If you were drafted and you wanted to be in the Marines, they put you in the Marines. If you didn't want to be in the Marines they put you in a different branch of the service. The other services complained that the Marines were taking the best men and leaving the worst for everyone else, so in Vietnam they used a quota system and forced many draftees into the Marines. Old school Marines like Sergeant Hartman didn't want men like Leonard in the Marines, but were forced to accept them.
By Vietnam, many Marine veterans, including the NCOs were from the Korea, and even many older vets, from WW2; both eras of combat where the vast majority of Marines were enlisted. To them, for a vet to be force to take in a draftee, especially an overtly unwilling draftee, was more than just a slap in the face, it’s was introducing unnecessarily risky elements, at a time of the initial cohesion of a unit; essentially making training even more of a hurdle when trying to convince grown men who didn’t want to be there(for whatever their reasons), to endure hardships that would turn even the most willing recruits away. Also, a whole host of medical reasons for why draftees shouldn’t be in the service were, by matter of course-intentionally downplayed, overlooked and outright ignored, unless the most extremes of circumstances would come about, involving those draftees; i.e. mental breakdowns leading to attempted suicide, murder, and other violent or extreme behaviors, which were deemed too abnormal and far too unacceptable enough, inorder to warrant discharging those recruits/soldiers.
I enlisted during Vietnam and most people avoided the Marines like the plague because it was hyped up to lure "tough guys". Combat Arms Marines didn't have employment options when they got out due to the anti war attitude at that time.
@@nazfrde Really? 'Cos I doubt a bloke like "Pyle" would have voluntarily enlisted.
@@nazfrdeWrong, shoot Elvis Presley was drafted in 1957. My Grandfather was drafted in 1944. My dad was drafted in 1967 after getting kicked out of university.
Mr:"What can i get for $10?"
Mrs:"Nothing."
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Inflation explained in two sentences. 😅
She said high five, didn't she? 😂
@@Juide80 I was laughing so hard I missed that part.
Such a lowball offer 😂
your little one is such a sweetheart. enjoy having her ...i am a dad of three - now - grown kids and i miss those days as much as nothing else on this planet
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Although we never hear it in the movie, we can see right here that Joker's real name is JT Davis.
JT Davis was the name of a real marine.
On the morning of Dec. 22, 1961, James T. Davis, age 25, the first American to die in a ground combat action at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Vietnam.
I'm a veteran (USMC) and did my annual Memorial day double feature this year with ya'll: Full Metal Jacket and SPR. Fun times and a good watching with you both!
I was going through a DEEP depression when I first watched Full Metal Jacket. Even thought about pulling a Private Pile. It was 2013, my mom was sick, my girlfriend dumped me, I was making $9 an hour working at some Valero even though I had just got my Associates Degree. It was a really dark time for me. But thanks to this movie and "Paint It Black" by the Stones, it pulled me out of that funk and I got through it. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Great. I'm happy for you bro sincerely. Be proud of what you've pulled yourself out of hope you continue to find success in this life.
Good for you man. Not as simple as just snapping out of it like everyone tells us to, is it? Also, this is the first time in a comment anywhere that I've seen someone tell about adversity they've faced in life and overcoming it and not credit it to some god no one's ever seen rather than their own strength and willpower and the efforts of others in their life. Don't know you at all but I'm doubly impressed. Keep on living bro.
I went through USMC boot camp in 81. Had no idea what to expect. Kept thinking at the time to myself "Why have I never seen this in a movie?" Thank you Stanley Kubrick.
This isnt a dark comedy guys lol, dont know where you got that from.
The drill instructor is true to how many of them are like in basic training.
They do not make movies with this level of subject matter and depth anymore, I don't think people recognise what they are watching.
Lots of comedy in the first half.
I dunno, most of Stanley Kubricks movies are dark comedies at heart. This is one of them, Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange has a very sick sense of humour in places. Kubrick had a dim view of humanity's tendencies toward violence, but one of his attitudes seemed to be "we're so violent it's almost hilarious"
Also, fun fact about that ending scene, it's incredibly realistic that the sniper was a girl, there were several female snipers in the Vietcong and the NVA. They were backed by the Soviets, and the Soviets were the grandaddies of badass female snipers. They had an entire female only sniper program in WW2 because they genuinely believed women were better at it. Often underestimated by men so they could blend into a crowd better, smaller profile so they were harder targets, higher tolerance to pain, and easier to train because they had more in control egos. The deadliest woman in modern history, Lyudmilla Pavlachencko, the lady of death came out of that program and racked up over 300 confirmed kills in her career. One of Carlos "White Feather" Hathcock's most notable kills in Vietnam, a sniper called Apache, was a woman. She'd torture people to death at night where the marines could hear it to lure them into traps. Well, one day while cleaning up her latest kill, he found it was a marine and he was more angry than he'd ever been. That same day, he managed to kill her.
Rest in peace, Stanley Kubrick and R. Lee Ermey.
It never caeses to make me smile when your guys' daughter walks in and the audience cheers.
I miss my daughter.
I love you guys.
Saw this in the theater. I was like 20. The audience reaction was nuts, especially to Hartman's monologue
I was serving in the British Army, stationed at Bassingbourn Barracks, While they were filming this movie. Most of the training camp scenes were shot there. We were kept at a distance so not to appear in the background.
I went through Marine Corps Recruit Training Oct 2011- Jan 2012 in San Diego, CA. I had four Drill Instructors. The lead Drill Instructor, played by R. Lee Ermey, served in the U.S. Marines as a Drill Instructor during Vietnam. This was adapted from the novel "The Short Timers" by a U.S. Marine veteran
Yup, devil rah
That first & second sentence is completely irrelevant to the rest of what you say. Pat yourself on the back a little harder bud.
Wtf does R Lee Ermery have to do with your recruit training....also how the fuck is it an adaptation when he was a literal DI....
The officer walking behind the tank got clipped by shrapnel from the exploding shell.
Fun fact = Vietnam scenes shot in London Dockland
Beckton gasworks. Where the "girl" sniper is shooting from is now a tesco supermarket and next door is a toy shop
It was a confusing war for everyone, thats the genius of Kubrick to let that show. It was real accurate, he had tons of military advisors including R. Lee Ermy.
it wasn't confusing to the vietnamese. the french had deleted millions of them, the americans, who were attacking pretty much all of SE Asia one way or another, were about to do so but in more gorey fashion.
This movie was filmed in England (including all the war scenes).
That's why it does not feel "vietnamy" enough for my taste.
Kubrick liked everything done here. Eyes wide shut was set in new York yet filmed in England.
The end discussion about the fast pace between shot is reminiscent of being in film school. We would have a thought provoking and learning experience discussion after every film watched in class.
You guys need to watch Stanley Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. But, you should watch it in December, as like Die Hard, it's sort of a weird Christmas movie. I watch it every holiday season!
I don't get the hate for that movie. I thought it was pretty good...very intense
Animal Mother is the Pvt. Pyle that made it through training.
When I first saw the movie as a young teen, I thought that Animal Mother was Pyle and somehow the shooting was going to be some kind of dream sequence.
There's a fan theory that claims Pyle and Animal Mother are the same person. The shooting scene in the Head was Kubrick symbolically showing that Pyle had completely snapped before even going to combat. So Leanord Lawrence/ Pvt Pyle died (his internal identity) and Animal Mother is who he went on to be.
It's a bit of a stretch for a theory considering Joker and Animal Mother interact as if they've never meet. Kubrick almost certainly cast the two because of how much they look a like and he probably wanted people to think that a simple minded but innocent person can easily be made into a cold blooded killer if pushed enough.
@@jessecortez9449 I was young when I saw it and was the first time I had seen any other actor and the similarities in looks are easy to be confused. Even in some of the reaction videos I've watched is that some think it's Pyle as well. I do think that Kubrick did do that intentionally to show what a person like Pyle would be like if he actually gets put into combat.
2 Live Crew really did this movie justice with the obscure reference lol
Now people will associate that sound clip with their song without even knowing of the movie lol
It is always amazing to see people notice it XD
13:17 that was adorable. Being somebody without kids, I can still appreciate their innocence and eventual worth of future generations to our society. I really like the interaction of the parents. They only do something (walk, talk, etc) for the first time once. Don't miss it or you'll regret it.
That sounds like a Pull Up competition video might be necessary...😂
"This reaction is so good it could be a modern art masterpiece!"
Kubrick being Kubrick ofcourse filmed the first scene at the very end of filming. Thats why the guys look pissed. Their hair grew back only to be cut again. 🤣
The insane door gunner in the helicopter played by Tim Colceri was originally picked to play Drill Sergeant Hartman. But Stanley Kubrick was so impressed by R. Lee Ermey that decided to have him play the character instead.
Notice the Too Live Crew sample…? It gets me almost every time.
@jasonkerest2517 I remember hearing that song before i saw the movie , so i was obviously
''OH THAT'S WHERE IT'S FROM !! '' ☝😃
by now i'm gotten more out of this movie then just that one line .
2,not too
Like for the picture lol What an adorable moment. She'll appreciate that in the future
The Drill instructor R. Lee Ermey was a real Drill Instructor in the Marines during the Vietnam War. This movie was the most realistic film of what the Vietnam War was like.
As in any war, civilians often caught up in events and are killed. But Kubrick made US military look like a bunch of psychotic murderers. Not sure how realistic that is; maybe you know more than me.
@@mdhj67alot of americans was that is a large part of the problems whit vietnam vets PTSD not necessarily that they were psychos but they saw alot of shit, and the fact that the tours was so long not like now at 6-8 months but years, and even if you are a normaly sain person seeing all that shit makes you numb to atrocities and more prone to do them yourself.
@@samolofsson2401 A lot of this also had to do with the guerilla warfare tactics used by the VC, they often used ununiformed civilian soldiers. A couple good examples of this in other movies would be the girl throwing a grenade in the chopper in Apocalypse Now. Or the young boy used as a terrorist agent in Good Morning Vietnam. As the war went on U.S. troops became more and more paranoid and saw the side they were fighting on as the enemy because at least some of them were. This led to brutality on the American soldiers part which in turn helped to recruit more to the VC as the Vietnamese population on both sides started seeing the America soldiers as their enemy. Our soldiers shouldn't have been there in the first place, the whole mess was caused by the French colonizing Vietnam, it should have been them there fighting not us.
no it was not that realistic
Of all the lovely ladies on all the reaction channels I have seen, I have to say Mrs. Movies is the loveliest!
HEARTBREAK RIDGE with Clint Eastwood is an 80s update to this but not as dark with more humor. Would love to see what you think
A rather underrated but great film. Also would love to see them do Flags of our Fathers. Clint Eastwood directed it but so few reactors cover it and it would be perfect for Memorial Day.
I know so many people request/vote for Full Metal Jacket but I wish for Memorial Day reactions that Taking Chance or Flags of our Fathers would get some love.
Taking Chance is rather perfect for Memorial Day considering it's subject matter and it's done so respectfully and beautifully acted.
Flags of our Fathers is about the men that raised the flag at Iwo Jima during WWII and how they handled life afterwards. It's directed by Clint Eastwood and yet I don't think any reaction channels cover it.
As a retired Marine I love Full Metal Jacket but if we're going for what the day is than there are other films that fit it better.
And I was in the Marine Corps from 1989 to 1992 and at that time they were no longer allowed to lay hands on recruits, but sometimes it still happened
Yup! I went through in 1991 and had a junior killhat punch me in my back for standing too close to him. He ended up getting relieved after 2nd phase for another incident. Crossed paths 8 years later in Pohang, S. Korea.
I was in 81 to 85. They just took us into the back room in the squad bay to hit us out of "public view".
@@barrysmith9407 we had one of our junior drilling instructors throw a brush polish can lid at a recruit and hit him in the face and then that drill truck disappeared for a few weeks and then came back right before graduation. Lol.
@@barrysmith9407 brass polish can I mean
Save for his first couple early films, Kubrick really did make nothing but iconic masterworks throughout his career. He fires on all cylinders here, especially when it comes to the cinematography: the lighting, zooms, tracking shots, shot compositions.. everything is just impeccable.
Also, Joker's "war face" emerging as he sh*oots the sniper is a particularly incredible moment of acting.
Movie info of the day.....
The parts in the urban vietnam area were all filmed in the UK as stanley kubrick did'nt want to leave the UK.
Yep. filmed at the old training base north of London and the battle was at the old Beckton Gas Works.
Actor Tim Colceri was set to play the Drill instructor but Stanley Kubrick went back on the idea and went with R Lee Ermey who was originally there as a technical advisor. Tim instead ended up playing the Door Gunner who kills the workers in the field.
Tim’s performance as Metal Head in Leprechaun 4 is the closest we’d get as to the performance he would have given as R Lee Ermey’s character.
Always makes me chuckle that this was filmed in the England, and that the in country scenes are east london-docklands area.
And Kubrick imported all those palm trees too.
the dynamic between you two is incredibly interesting.
This is not a comedy at all. In fact, it's probably the most realistic portrayal of USMC basic training ever put on film.
R Lee Ermey is iconic as the drill instructor in this film but not many people have seen The Boys in Company C from 1978. He plays a very similar character in it and it’s one of the most underrated Vietnam films ever.👍
It's not a dark comedy! The drill Sgt yelling insults is accurate. Some of my friends served in Vietnam.
There wasn’t a “drill Sgt” anywhere in this movie.
This lady shutting down her husband's advances every time he tries to look cool is absolutely hilarious. Then he just goes back to watching the movie. Lol
Guy made me cringe lol
Your little girls Carson intro with the applause never gets old!🤣🤣🤣🤣
You have to understand that the Drill Instructors had been to Vietnam and only had two months to turn innocent kids into killers knowing that if their instructions failed then more of those kids would die.
That's not correct.
@@johnrife7134 so those Vietnam War Marines were wrong?
None of them are kids...
@@johnrife7134 Actually he is correct. During Vietnam they shortened boot camp from 11 weeks to 8 while also simultaneously increasing the size of the platoons they DI's had to train. That led to the DI's having less time to train recruits and and not being able to spend time on recuits that needed help.
@@RiverGenix Yes, but you didn't go to Vietnam after boot camp. You had to have infantry/artillery school (or whatever your specialty was).
I was in the Marine Corps and the reason that they are pushing him so hard is they are trying to still teamwork in the platoon
Also because during Vietnam training was shortened in order to rush bodies into Vietnam. R. Lee Ermy talked about how he and the other Drill Instructors would get in the mess hall for lunch, grab the Stars and Stripes, then immediately turn to the obituaries. They would then scan to see if they recognized any of the names. It weighed on them that they were sending men into combat with far less training than they would've liked to have given them.
what an iconic film you can definitely feel it on such a gut level , and many unforgettable lines such as the entire opening monologue from ...
R Lee Ermey as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman , it makes me laugh out loud and also feel grateful i'm not on the receiving end of that .
i feel like the pacing of the movie is still confusing to me but maybe that is the point , to feel disoriented like you're in a war zone .
I enjoyed this reaction as usual thanks to .
Happy Memorial Day
sending good vibes 🙌
The stuffed animal is a good example of "Booby traps for booby troops".
Man is the most curious animal in the animal kingdom.
We'll pick up just about any random item we come across.
Not me, just prostitutes.
Marines are Marines and Soldiers are soldiers. Discipline is what Marine Corps boot camp is all about. Great commentary y’all. Great video too. I enjoyed watching it.
THIS IS MY RIFLE
THIS IS MY GUN
THIS IS FOR FIGHTING
THIS IS FOR FUN
Sarge didn't look like he was having fun when he stopped that 7.62 in the latrine...That scene finalized a lot of fantasy for us...We got the crap kicked out of us at Ft Jackson in '67...
I never entirely understood that scene. What training or hazing purpose did that have?
@@RedHeadKevin In the Marines, it is a signal error to refer to your rifle as a "gun."
@@RedHeadKevin As someone else said, in the military "rifle" and "gun" are two separate things. A rifle is what you carry into combat as a soldier to fight with. When you and your buddies hit a TIC, a gun is what you call to send artillery rounds downrange. The military believes in collective punishment as well. Likely a precursor to that scene was Gunny hearing one of the recruits call their rifle a gun.
Oh boy, she’s gonna love this one!
Clockwork Orange is a cool film worth watching if you haven't seen it yet.
overrated imho
Agree. Brilliant movie
@@jasonnicholasschwarz7788I agree. It's a brilliant adaptation of the Anthony Burgess novel of the same name and I count it among my favorites but definitely not the must see everyone claims. I can see how many if not most people just won't understand the film.
The reason that Drill instructors act like this is because “ Do you think the enemy will be any nicer???” Toughen them up and prepare for real abuse. Why doesn’t anyone get this? And think they are just being cruel for no reason? Yikes
Soft people don't understand it. People that have grit do.
Amen. The only people saying that are people who never served in combat. For me, I want Basic to be harder instead of softer. If someone can't hack it, I would much rather find out in Basic and give them a Failure to Adapt Discharge than find out in a hot AO when they are supposed to be watching my back.
Even the most mundane things like standing at attention, not being allowed to just scratch an itch, not using personal pronouns, getting yelled at, etc. in boot is not done because DIs are cruel. They are minor depravations and stressors that teach you to tolerate discomforts. To your point they are minor compared to actual warfare.
"Drills should be bloodless battles so that battles become bloody drills"
People would understand that if they weren't distracted by the fact that the enemy are civilians, and the military are not making people safer. If that part changed, and it really was about national defense, people would get it
Stephen Spielberg " Empire Of The Sun "
I was fortunate to watch this movie with my late dad, a Vietnam Veteran. He said this movie WAS his boot camp experience. We laughed a lot with R Lee Ermey’s performance, he hated his drill instructor too 🥹
A bunch of these Vietnam movies came out around the same time. Platoon is another good one.
Filmed in the UK. RAF Bassingbourn airfield in Cambridgeshire was used as a re-creation of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in South Carolina. The abandoned gasworks at Beckton in East London was used as a location to shoot the famous bombed-out city of Hue in Vietnam. The helicopter scenes were shot in Norfolk Broads, located in East Anglia in England’s east. The vast expanse of rivers and lakes known as the broads was used to double as the Mekong River near Vietnam.
I love the flexispot part😁 it's like watching those late night adverts and the shopping channel!..lol!
Greatest war film ever made. Also, please watch Kubrick's other great war film Paths Of Glory. I think Mrs.Movies would really enjoy that one.
That beating that Private Pyle received is called a "Sock Party". Essentially everyone takes a sock, puts a bar (or two or three or however many) into said sock, and everyone takes turns hitting the recruit that's getting everyone in trouble.
We always called it a "blanket party".
I also heard that was an unacceptable disciplinary action especially in today’s time
Paused what I was watching and came straight here when I noticed this in the sidebar. A Classic (Anti) War movie, and one of the most quoted films of all-time. I'm surprised that both of Y'all hadn't seen it before. Cheers and a Solemnly Respectful Memorial Day from Canada. 🥃☮❤
That gun Jayne had was an M-60 a machine gun that was an absolute blast to shoot but it or the ammo was a pain to carry.
And the second you opened up with that pig every enemy and their dog has you as their primary target 😂😂 Good times 😂
FMJ is one of 4 Stanley Kubrick (a favorite filmmaker- genius imo) films I had the privilege of seeing on the big theater screen- the others: The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut and a retro screening of Paths Of Glory. FMJ is unquestionably a masterpiece imo. Great open minded reaction thx, and uncommonly smart. I've seen many reactions to it and I've grown accustomed to it flying sky high over the reaction creators heads
The Marine Corps has Drill Instructors or DIs, the Army has Drill Sergeants.
Enjoying your reactions from the UK. Bruce Willis could have ended up as Joker, but was filming The TV series Moonlighting at the time.
And to think Bob Ross was considered one of the most badass Drill instructors during his time in the Air Force.
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WELCOME TO THE USMC! EVERY SINGLE INSULT YOU HEARD WAS NOT ONLY FUNNY BUT 💯% ACCURATE!!! THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT IN REAL MARINE BOOT CAMP YOU HAVE TWO NOT ONE BUT TWO DRILL INSTRUCTORS SINGING (yelling) DOWN YOUR NECK.
Believe it or not this movie was filmed in East London..
The Siege of Firebase Gloria is a 1989 Australian war film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith, starring Wings Hauser and R. Lee Ermey. It was filmed
Underrated classic! Love seeing Wings Hauser slinging a M-14!!!!
One of the best war films ever made
Didn’t quite get how even though Hartman effectively said he was there to gatekeep the useless maggots out of his beloved Corp, he didn’t wash out Pyle for being mentally slow, waaaay out of shape and scared to death of heights. Granted the director/writer needed a “Pyle” type character for the execution of Hartman, it seems like in reality Pyle would have been washed-out fairly soon, 2 weeks maybe. Edit 2; ok, I looked up the “McNamera’s morons” that another commentor suggested and that’s just sad, but answered my question.
Edit; AWWW! Pause the vid and give her some hugs…oh, you did. Ok.😁
Personally I think "Platoon" is a much more accurate portrayal of the brutality of war and what is does to both evil and good men.
Great movie, that's always a thanksgiving movie for me idk why
Platoon is the best vietnam war movie ever
Full metal had the BEST spot boot camp scenes
The training and army barracks scenes were filmed in England. I spent a week there for school work experience, and that assault course was still there with a few alterations. We still had to run the course every morning.