@@djd620 His rifle actually misfires at the end and he sort of panics and is almost killed by the sniper he was sneaking up on. Rafterman shoots her and saves him. Then they all walk out while singing Mickey Mouse in front of the flames of hell. Joker's voice over: "I am in a world of shit. Yes. But I am alive."
Too much of a pain to keep taking the shit off and putting it back on. I did the same crap with the FN-MAG. Easier to just keep it on until you've shot it all up, or arrived where you were going.
People asked Kubrick if this was an Anti-War or Pro-War movie, but Kubrick always said "Full Metal Jacket" was neither Pro-War or Anti-War. According to Kubrick, "Full Metal Jacket" was supposed to show exactly what war is supposed to be: Hell.
Animal Mother is the perfect soldier. A near sociopath. He only needs to be able to differentiate between his colleagues and his targets. You simply need to provide him with an endless supply of targets.
I served with a sociopath, maybe bat shit crazy, not like Animal in the movie but a pure killer...I am glad he never made it home. The freak was damaged from a young age and not a guy you want on your six.
The song playing, "Wooly Bully," by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs was recorded in 1964, in Memphis, TN, at Sam Phillips Recording Studio at 639 Madison Ave, the successor to Sun Studios. The studio was completely analog, so the song was recorded in a single take, rather than using the more modern method of mixing where each individual instrument is recorded separately and then "mixed" together. Basically, the entire band would play the song while being recorded, so any mistakes would show up on the recording. The end result was a near flawless recording that charted all the way up to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was named Billboard's No. 1 Song of the Year for 1965 despite never coming in at No.1 position on any chart. Wooly Bully was the only song made at the all-analog studio to achieve national success.
It was a garbage bubble-gum song that had the complexity of a donut shop jingle. I'm pretty sure in 1964 there were studios that were messing around with ProTools yet so signifying its all-analog status isn't really that much of a flex
when I was a boy I watched this movie and dreamed one day of becoming a man like animal mother.........but it was not to be. But I became the next best thing - an accountant with a fat wife and 3 kids.
The guy who plays Animal Mother did good, but the guy who struck me as the REAL psycho in the bunch was the dude who wanted the photo guy to take the picture of the dead NK soldier. He creeped me out in a way the Animal Mother could never do.
When I was in the British Army we had a lad like Animal Mother. His name was Gaston. Same build and everything. He had this air of invincibility about him. Man of not many words. When you were with him in a dodgy situation you knew that you would be OK. When I saw this film and Animal I couldn't believe the similarities.
Animal Mother runs Eight Ball down in this and other scenes. But, when Eight Ball is shot by the sniper, only Animal Mother charges to try and save him. A true friend.
Animalmother isn't a "sociopath" like people try to insist on. He's just a hardened killer doing his time in a horrible war. Of course he rushed in to try and save his bros and when he couldn't save them he made sure their killer died. It's just the nature of the beast.. the human beast.
What Animal says to eight ball isn’t racism. It’s bull shitting. Soldiers and marines do it all the time, hell guys in general do it all the time, it’s how we bond and how we deal with hard situations. And these guys were doing both. You can tell they’re close friends buy how eight ball just laughs and says “yeah mother” it’s just bull shit, nothin more.
@@arstulex thanks, i didn't know that particular meme but i was just talking about what i thought when i read this. As a Seinfeld enthusiast, i was even reading it in George's voice haha
"Most people think Animal Mother is crazy. He just had the rotten luck of being born in the wrong century. He'd be right at home on some ancient battlefield swinging an axe into somebody's face. Or in a Roman arena, taking his sword to other gladiators like him. They woulda tossed him girls like Nancy back then."
Not really, he is someone who never should've seen the combat, but did and making a soldier from him killed everything human inside him. He is a broken man, not some sort of natural born warrior.
It's uncanny how accurately this movie depicts Marine Corps grunt life. I was in Iraq and that's exactly how downtime went after missions. A bunch of Marines sitting around making terribly inhumane jokes about life and death, the trauma of war way too fresh to manifest itself as ptsd, so that it's still just a joke.
I too served in Iraq. During downtime, there was nothing much to do but clean weapons, chill out, eat an MRE, talk about bullshit, played spades, and that's about it. We always tried to keep ourselves occupied during downtime to make the day go by.
+jonnyhatter35 People should teach children about not wanting war rather than just showing them what war is.. Then when they grow up they would be wanting to go to war or even allow a war to happen. I feel like we have failed at that. And the Middle East has always failed at that. You should know that in various Middle Eastern countries, they don't even talk about teaching kids about war and making them hateful towards any kind of war so war can be prevented as well as hate. There is no educational system in Iraq, Syria, Palestine ect.. Children grow up without learning except their parents who don't know anything either. They grow up to be monsters generations after generations.. These kids grow up in warzones... You can't expect those kids to become anything else than some kind of a monster once they are fully grown. They just become another soldier, terrorist ect., which the west has to deal with.
Joker was making fun of himself, and that's why the squad was flipping shit. You never make fun of yourself in one of those situations. And Beelzebub is right; its just them fucking around, nobody's screaming or pointing guns, its basically some made-up drama to entertain themselves.
Animal Mother is what they tried to turn Leonard into. Yes he's crazy but he's functional. He knows his way around a war zone and a firefight. The ideal soldier for the time.
Yeah when it’s one of “YOUR BOYS” earnestly trying to guide you in an immediate direction, you listen to them, because they see what’s really up, while you’re all in your feelings and not thinking right. “I don’t know if 8-ball is right or what he’s doing, but he’s doing this for a reason, and he’s my brother, so it has to be for my benefit.”
@@TheFirstSunbreaker I think Animal Mother knew exactly what he was doing though. I am 99% sure he was just sizing up Joker to see if he would be a liability to the platoon or not. Every time we see the platoon in Action Animal Mother proves to be the best they got, and with excellent combat awareness. But yeah, he 100% respects 8 Ball and definitely has the respect of the rest of his platoon.
@@JoePedo Yeah, everytime I see a comment made by an Vietnam vet on a song or something, it's like they think they are Animal Mother. But they are just Private Pyles
No because he’s actually intelligent. Theres a scene where he says that the Vietnam war is pointless. Dudes smart, and hes only trigger happy to protect his squad mates
@@Foobar888 Pile wasn't dumb, he had just been babied his whole life and so couldn't do anything for himself. By the time the boys are a few days from finishing boot, private pile is a well oiled machine, often out performing his other squadmates. But the force of becoming this other person broke his mind. Animal mother is a what if his mind just cracked a little.
@@alonenjerseyThis is a ripoff of my original comment, which has 10k plus replies. But all of my comments were hidden because Google doesn't like those who try to wake the sleepers. "We sleep while they live."
@@Surprise_Inspectiondo you want a cookie you fkn dork. Bro thinks he’s the only one with that opinion bc people replied in the UA-cam comment section.
Despite Animal Mother being a real badass in combat, who was virtually fearless, the insult by Joker still got through to him when you see the reaction on his face.
AM is mentally limited, not stupid, but not brilliant; so when someone says something smart he stops in his tracks, probably thinking about what he just heard
That reaction of Animal Mother was fucking classic. To think that Adam Baldwin who played him was in the t.v. movie Poison Ivy with Michael J Fox 2 years before and was the head counselor at Camp Pinewood
I feel that was like a self confessed Alpha being verbally challenged by an unproven smartass Alpha like Joker hence Mothers observation that Joker was all talk & no action...which was later confirmed when after Jokers last real friend Cowboy was killed & Mother reminded Joker who was actually in charge of their squad & demanding payback for losing his brothers in arms...
@@darania1 Joker wasn't Alpha. He was just trying to be. Animal Mother was the Alpha and if I'm going into combat, I want that guy no more than 6 feet away from me.
His trigger finger was just scaring the crap out of me haha. Im assuming its either the directors have no experience with gun safety or its Adam Baldwin who doesnt hahaha.
"We are jolly green giants with guns. After we rotate out of here we are going to miss these guys because we will not have anyone worth shooting." Pure philosophy, that's soldiering.
"Now, you might not believe it but under fire, Animal Mother's one of the finest human beings in the world. All he needs is somebody to throw hand grenades at him the rest of his life"... what a fucking great line! AWESOME 👏👏
The line comes from a short story called "A Good Man is Hard to Find." A horrible grandmother has gotten her entire family killed by some escaped convicts and then tries to play nice with the killer. Once he's smoked her he says, "She's a good person, she just needed someone to shoot her the rest of her life."
@@GhANeC He was actually, under fire he's the last person who'd leave you to your fate and would risk his life to try and save you. Under all that gruff and racial insults, he refused to leave Eightball to his fate even though his chances for survival were extremely low.
How the fuck do you write such a masterpiece, have it be acted out perfectly, and make two iconic moments in one scene that spans just under 5 minutes. The arrival of Joker is one thing, the standoff between Joker and Animal Mother another, and then the ''this is my buddy'' sequence, which is one of my personal favorite moments in cinema history. It's fucking incredible. The writing, casting, execution of this is perfect, or as close to perfect anyone could ever be.
+Lance Cryor The Vietnam war was televised, right? I never got that joke until I saw a few documentaries about the war and the Top 100 gadgets of All Time. But you don't see as much combat footage of the Afghan War on the news like everyone did with Vietnam back then.
+ttv0 No, America won every battle but lost the war politically. The Tet Offensive was a failure, but the Vietnamese were willing to continue the war no matter how many people they lost - Victory or Death.
As a Viet Nam Veteran I relate to this scene. At 19 years old and I get jerked out of my life to go to war I am very lonely and all of a suddent when Im in Cu Chi Viet Nam I run into a guy from my hometown. I know the feeling. It's something you can't take away
Animal mother was Kubricks representation of how Private Pyle would be if he didn't kill himself. He shot himself and was "Born again Hard" yes I know the actors are different, but this is a deliberate look alike used by Kubrick to show how much war changes people. Also notice how in the seem it seems that Joker and Animal Mother already know each other, and are just trading movie lines like old pals. I believe the "Suicide" scene is merely a representation of Pyle's transformation into a killer.
+Erebus Music Productions Not sure, they were both given 0800 Infantry but not sure if this is a unit number or just an infantry designation. But good catch either way!
+Agrippa Maxentius It's an infantry designation. 0300 is infantry MOS (Military occupation specialty), 0800 is artillery. Their unit is Hotel 2/5, which is H company, 2nd battalion, 5th Marines (regiment), 1st Marine division. I always had the same idea about Pyle and Animal Mother.
+Aaron Smith Thanks Aaron! Yep it was really cool to see I am not just being overanalytical, I think with the overwhelming thumbs up there's no doubt Kubrick meant mother to be Pyle after he was "Born again Hard". He became a true killing machine, just like Gunnery SGT Hartmann promised.
+Welsh Guy That's exactly what I am saying, we agree. "Animal mother was Kubricks representation of how Private Pyle would be if he didn't kill himself. " no one is suggesting that Pyle and mother are the same soldier, just that AM is a perfect representation of what he would be like if he didn't shoot himself and kill Hartmann. Even the scene where Pyle fires his opinion "Hip firing with a rifle" is similiar to how Mother deploys his M60 in battle.
“we are jolly green giants walking the earth with guns. these men we wasted today, are the finest human being we will ever know” best quote in the whole movie in my opinion
Just imagine who he's killed before this. Clearly it's not his first rodeo and even then I think he stopped caring about trigger discipline when everyone he sees besides green boys are his enemies
Man, it's so strange to see an actor capable of embodying the kind of dude that's no longer normal without a weapon in his hands. They don't make movies like this anymore.
I hear ya, but didn't he also cause two more people to get killed because of his refusal to follow Sergeant Cowboy's orders? And they still didn't save Doc C or eight ball. If it comes to pure results, he was more of a liability than an asset.
Good stimulating conversation. I think you guys are correct that he definitely gets the "Balls of Steel" award but since his balls of steel only neutralized one enemy soldier at the cost of 2 more friendlies, I think you'd must also give him the "Brains of Mush" award. I see the value in both balls and brains but if I had to pick whether his decision was overall a success or failure I would say failure. We couldn't win this war with a 10 to 1 kill to death ratio, so even if we would have killed twenty enemies to two American dead we would still equal a ratio that wasn't enough to win the war. The fact that we lost two and only killed one in this engagement shows that overall it was a failure and just more pointless death that helped the enemy win.
The actor portraying animal mother Def has an onscreen presence. He fits into the villain very well, he also stars in The Patriot as someone who defects to the red coats.
@@zchris87v80 Jaaaaaaaayyyyyyyneee............the man they call Jaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyneeee..... He robbed from the rich and he gave to the poor. Stood up to the man and he gave him what for. Our love for him now, ain't hard to explain, The hero of Canton, the man they call Jayne!
“These people we wasted here today are the finest human beings we will ever know. After we rotate back to the world, we’re gonna miss not having anyone around who’s worth shooting.”
He's called "Crazy Earl." In the book, he totes a Red Ryder BB gun along with this M-16 (the BB gun is visible in the film laying next to him, but its never mentioned). He eventually dies after making a suicidal charge while shooting the enemy troops with his BB gun.
I love how Joker is absolutely ready to throw down with Mother in this scene. May not have ended well, but when he saw that things were escalating he was posturing up.
Joker was having to prove himself and probably figured that if it wasn't for Animal Mother being on the scene, he'd easily be alpha-dog in no time. So he was sorta taken aback but going full bore to rumble regardless is my vibe of it.
When I finished 11B OSUT and went to my unit I befriended a soldier who was of German ancestry. We’d make so many racial jokes about each other our mothers would faint if they ever heard them. However, we had each other’s back 24/7 and there are no words that can describe how much I loved him and it was a mutual feeling. A true brother. Every time I see 8 ball and mother I think of him.
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I got in '89 and finished up after Storm: I think we were the last generation that had that kind of earned respect. I can't imagine how you'd earn hard respect now in a company with boys tiptoeing around each other. Boys earn respect to become men, they don't just give it. You have to be willing to die for your brothers and you can't do it the way they are now. The only way to get respect is to say the worst and then get over it: this PC shit just keeps the worst feelings festering.
I love how Animal Mother just materialises into the scene. He's nowhere to be seen in that entire first 1 minute shot, and then he is standing in the middle of the frame like he speedwalked in the 16 seconds we cut away from that archway.
I loved how AM instantly hated Joker simply because he had a soft job in the Marines. And his eyes showed that hatred to a guy that’s totally likeable but he’s a combat correspondent and, for a grunt, that’s absolutely deplorable
Yeah because Kubrick fucked up the novel with this movie and turned it into some anti-war bullshit. The original novel is not about how bad war is but how bad people start to like it.
The message you take from this movie is what you make of it. Kubrik always stated it was neither. I would argue that it's genius, but of course just because you assumed that it's anti-war, you say it's "anti-war bullshit"
I am sincerely sorry. But this movie is no masterpiece. If you make something "okish" out of something fantastic people should not call you master director or genius or whatever the call Kubrick. Most overrated director ever.
kpl455 I never claimed it was a masterpiece and honestly, despite his perfectionism Kubrik failed one some points in each of his movies, though I doubt his ego would have ever allowed him to say that.
he's a fucking legend, my favorite director for sure. a close second is david fincher. it's a bit hard to compare the two though, since they made movies in different times (for the most part). people like them are the ones who inspired me to go into film.
Kubrick's attention to detail is legendary. All the soldiers sitting around looking absolutely exhausted after taking Hue (which, if you know anything about that battle, you'd know why), and the fact the extras are in all the various spots of the courtyard in the background. Brilliant stuff.
3:22 I love the music in this scene, where it reacts to what’s going on. Telling people to watch for the reveal, then be the only one screaming at the sight of a corpse
"All he needs is somebody to throw hand grenades at him for the rest of his life." One of my favorite lines in this movie because Animal Mother is a natural born warrior. Sure he may do well at other things when there isn't a war to fight, but war is his true medium. He is at the peak of his performance and he damn well knows it.
True with a lot of guys, from Ira Hayes to Greg Pappy Boyington. War was the only thing they were good at. Once they got home, they didn't know what else to do with themselves.
@@r5t6y7u8 that's because in training they where broken and turned into soldiers and when the government is done with them they're thrown away, war is hell and for some they're lucky to die in that hell or go to another one.
Joseph Howard It’s kind of funny but it proves to be true in the later scene where the rest of them are hunkered down freaking out and animal mother leads the charge. Animal mother also refuses to leave behind eight ball when he’s getting ripped apart by the sniper
"These are great days we're livin' in, bros. We are jolly green giants walking the earth, with guns." Whoever wrote the script should've gotten oscar for lines like that.
@@BrucknerMotet I'll look it up. And if you haven't read it yet, look up Fields of Fire by James Webb, a former Marine officer (later SecNav and ran for president in 2016), the book was on the Commandant of the Marine Corps recommended reading list at one point.
Crazy Earl's speech is one of the finest monologues I've ever seen. In its own way, it embodies the ancient tradition of chivalry of prior centuries. He considers the Vietnamese to be an adversary worthy of his respect.
Is this the only scene he was in because he seems like a pretty interesting character. That said, maybe it's just me, thought he sounded Irish a tiny bit.
each of that can only hold 1 magazine, and we don't use all of 5 just 3 in the middle, 2 aside are usually epmty. I know it because i've been in Vietnamese military training. (edited) The military training i joined was just a basic militia drills for civilian learning how to operate weapons.
@@brendanforester4601 You forgot The Killing, Lolita, Spartacus, Paths of Glory, Doctor Strangelove? This is a great movie but The Killing, which is never shown on UK TV now, is still an absolute classic and Paths Of Glory (possibly the greatest anti-war movie ever made) is so good it was banned by the French and Spanish governments.
@@peterjoyfilms I come from a family of Marines, so it's special to me. It's also probably Kubrik's most quotable movie, due in no small part to the Gunny himself, R. Lee Ermy.
" We are jolly green giants.. walking the Earth.. with guns." That one sentence sums up the Vietnam war, from the perspective of every grunt. I knew a guy who came home in 1970.. In 6 months he couldn't wait to get back over there. I couldn't understand why... until I saw this scene. Some of us were made to be Jolly Green Giants walking the Earth with guns.
When you're a 20 year old Marine and you're serving in theater, it's the most intense experience of your life. It's fucking boring as hell most of the time, but it's also intense because it's a war. The Marines you're with are your brothers, you look out for each other, and only those guys know what it feels like. You don't worry about stuff that doesn't matter. Rent, car payments, etc., none of that. When you get home you are suddenly surrounded by assholes who worry about bullshit like sports and celebrities and which Star Wars movie is the best and so on, and to you none of that stuff means a god damn thing. The civilians are chasing their tails around in an office rat race, getting old and fat, and they have no connection to what you went through thousands of miles away. Worse, you have ungrateful arrogant shitheads telling you you are a murderer, baby killer, hired mercenary, propping up a racist system, and on and on those fuckers go without end, all hiding behind the very free speech rights you believed you were defending. A lot of combat veterans can't connect with these people and feel like their real life is back with their buddies fighting or training to fight, and that's why your friend signed back up after he was home for a while. He wanted to get back to the real world and be around people he could identify with.
Well I've never been in the military. But I love this scene. I think it tries to display a very primitive aspect of "manliness". Animal Mother sees a newcomer and he immediately goes to confront and intimidate him to establish, or mantain, dominance on his group. And you can clearly see that he is not the kind of man to screw around, the dude is a fucking beast. At the same time, we see Joker, whose character was already stablished in the movie by this point. He is an effective and disciplined soldier but at the same time is humble and human. Still, he doesn't take one step back at Animal Mother's attempt at intimidating him, but instead pushes back very hard (in his own, comic style). He was never intimidated and actually very ready to fight Animal Mother. Cool stuff.
@@Corncan2 You're misunderstanding me. I didn't say "primitive" in a bad way, like "you're being primitive", not at all. Instead, I'm using the term as a way of saying this is a very low-level and basic, but core aspect of masculinity. Masculinity is a complex topic. Some people define masculinity as being able to get the fire going to make some burgers and changing a car tire. They never think about the stuff we're talking about. What you are saying is correct. But I never use Reddit, man.
"Under fire animal mother's one of the finest human beings in the world, now he just needs someone to throw hand grenades at him the rest of his life" 😂 man 8 ball had some of the best lines in this movie
It takes over an hour before Animal Mother even appears in this movie, yet he is probably the most memorable character. Adam Baldwin did an amazing job!
I love when the Joker prepare his riposte to Animal Mother and the music in the same time in the background peaks with the words "watch it watch it. here it comes", and then before the punch line "you got it". Perfect
He'd be the type of grandpa to never pick up calls, and when you go to check on him, you can probably find him sitting in his recliner with a cold cup of coffee, tv on, but him just staring the 1000 yard stare at a random wall, not even acknowledging your presence. Real shit man.
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Private pile dies and then later Animal Mother is introduced, who is somewhot similar to pyle in posture, though now more muscular. The kid died and was replaced by the soldier... there's some well done symbolism in this movie...
@@Pantano63 Well, I think Pyle was only meant to be "recreated" as Animal Mother. Eightball was a character by himself, and not representing Snowball, because he didn't kill himself. But it would make sense that Snowball became Eightball
Also, while other soldiers like joker and cowboy got their nicknames in boot camp. Animal mother is clearly a nickname he received in combat. And we learn later why, his instincts are to protect and avenge his fellow soldiers.
You people are Fing stupid you take everything you see here way too seriously, it was a joke! Of course it’s not a real corpses I think the people who believe that are brainless
@@joshuahamberg6765 the whole movie is about the duality of man. Joker's, Cowboy's and Pyle's. All of them are one in basic training but in the Vietnam they are someone else. Joker was the only one who didn't switch over until the end. Animal Mother was showing only one side until his friend was getting wasted, at that moment he became Pyle for a moment. Watch the movie again.
Ninja Buddha Ok i see what you mean now. I watched it again and their was a part where he risked his life to save his friend and is pretty much the "ideal marine" kind of like how private pyle was except he shot himself. And he was what private pyle could've been if he had survived basic training. I'm guessing the duality of man kind of refers people at their best and at worst like pyle at basic training at his worst and animal mother would've been him at his best.
Potentially the single most interesting and intriguing character in the entire film. According to Kubrick, some of his backstory was originally going to be briefly included in the film - the fact that he was a man with a criminally checkered past who found purpose and a sort of redemption in combat. Kubrick stated that it was decided to deliberately leave this out in order to intensify the mystery surrounding him.
Lmfao i showed this scene in my english drama class in high school and I barely passed with a C. Teacher chewed me out in front of class for showing this scene despite FMJ being on the syllabus. Truly a defining moment in my life haha.
Lol, fuck your teacher. You've just learned a valuable lesson about the real world and the confines of academia, high school and beyond. Go far in life, friend. Hope that makes sense.
I was in United States Marine Corps Recruit Training 50 years ago. I'm now 67 years and 8-months old, and I'll be 67 years and 9 months old next week. Yet, I am actually stronger today than when I was an active-duty United States Marine Corps 0331 M-60 Machine Gunner. Biologically aging hasn't made me weaker, but stronger. I am willing to teach old Marines how this is possible
@GreaterGood510 Less lost more so not caring enough to finish the job. They technically won as they had the North Vietnamese beat by the end of it, but they pulled out of the war and let the South Vietnamese wrap it up.
@@truereaper4572 No we really didn't. if we won Vietnam wouldn't be communist today. We weren't able to win because we couldn't invade the north. Sure they lost a load more troops but that's not how you win a war. We completed no objectives. We pulled out and the South Vietnamese got shit-stomped
Thank god for the sickle cell..... "yeah mother" i love how Animal Mother was spewing all the racist stuff... but when 8ball was down.. he was running to save him with a sniper locked in and he didnt care... had to save his brother
***** It's not his sense of humor...he's not trying to make anyone laugh. It's him asserting himself as the alpha male of the group. Animal Mother's alpha male status is the reason why he confronted Joker. Right away, he's challenging Joker to see what he's made of, to let Joker know he is the man in this group. He displays his status by the gun he carries and the way he wears the bullets criss crossed across his chest. If 8Ball or Joker were also alpha males, they would've have punched Animal Mother as soon as he said something or got in their faces, then they would have it out to see whether the new guy would take over as the bad ass of the group or if Animal Mother would keep his title as the alpha male of the group. 8Ball said, "You might not believe it, but under fire....Animal Mother's one of the finest human beings in the world." They knew Animal Mother had balls and wasn't a bully for hell of it.
when 8 ball went down it was the ONLY time you saw raw emotion from animal, so much that he ran into certain doom to save him. the racist jokes were just two friends shootin the shit together. real marines.
Not really, i'd prefer a smart marine next to me, instead of some dumb fucker with shits for brains and a speech impediment. Can;t have loose cannons next to your side. There's lots of dumbasses in the military. Some of them are even more dangerous than the enemy. Just stay away from them, you'll live longer and even might make it back home. Because coming back home alive is better than coming back home inside a box with the stars and stripes on it.
Back when "you talk the talk, but can you walk the walk?" was a potent come back.
LOL
By the end of the film Joker does actually walk the walk
@@djd620 LOL
@@djd620 His rifle actually misfires at the end and he sort of panics and is almost killed by the sniper he was sneaking up on. Rafterman shoots her and saves him. Then they all walk out while singing Mickey Mouse in front of the flames of hell.
Joker's voice over: "I am in a world of shit. Yes. But I am alive."
When I was a little kid I heard adults saying it like it was something else.
I love how all the other Marines have taken off their gear and are relaxing but Animal Mother still has all his gear, his ammo, and weapon on.
He may be dumb, but he's not stupid.
Animal mother ready to roll on a seconds notice
Too much of a pain to keep taking the shit off and putting it back on. I did the same crap with the FN-MAG. Easier to just keep it on until you've shot it all up, or arrived where you were going.
He's about that action
He's got terrible trigger discipline.
How depressing would this movie be without the soundtrack?
Totally unthinkable!
It's still depressing
@@zombiehalo9588 he didn't say it wasn't depressing
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Paint It Black, brother!
The way Animal mother said "oh, you seen much combat?" is a masterpiece
That boy said it in a killer way no pun intended .
"Well I've seen a little on.... tee vee"
@@Kage999the whole exchange is some of the best dialogue in film ever. It’s campy yet somehow perfect and real ?
He's calling out Joker as the REMF he is.
it just should show how the ignorant big mouth even gets fans on the battlefield when in fact he makes fun about the real in goers@@RCAvhstape
People asked Kubrick if this was an Anti-War or Pro-War movie, but Kubrick always said "Full Metal Jacket" was neither Pro-War or Anti-War. According to Kubrick, "Full Metal Jacket" was supposed to show exactly what war is supposed to be: Hell.
Ain't war hell?
+the Sententious Vaunter Get some! Get some!
+Flyshewoorst
Shaking hands and making peace can be hell too.
I love that you addressed the fact that we do enjoy war sometimes, though in this P.C. age some people are scared to admit it.
so he was just pretentiously saying that it's anti-war, rather than just saying it directly and getting it over and done with.
Imagine a conversation between Animal Mother and Forrest Gump
harharhar
I imagine Forrest would charm animal mother like no one else could.
@Olli Koskiniemi I could hear forest with every word 🤣🤣
Imagine Animal Mother having a conversation with Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore from Apocalypse Now
Or one with Private Pyle.
Animal Mother is the perfect soldier. A near sociopath. He only needs to be able to differentiate between his colleagues and his targets. You simply need to provide him with an endless supply of targets.
sevenrats I guess every faction in WW2 was sociopaths then
I served with a sociopath, maybe bat shit crazy, not like Animal in the movie but a pure killer...I am glad he never made it home. The freak was damaged from a young age and not a guy you want on your six.
George Edward How did you know he was damaged at a young age
@@magicman3163 You are guessing wrong then. Dope.
@@magicman3163 Run along little troll.
The song playing, "Wooly Bully," by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs was recorded in 1964, in Memphis, TN, at Sam Phillips Recording Studio at 639 Madison Ave, the successor to Sun Studios. The studio was completely analog, so the song was recorded in a single take, rather than using the more modern method of mixing where each individual instrument is recorded separately and then "mixed" together. Basically, the entire band would play the song while being recorded, so any mistakes would show up on the recording. The end result was a near flawless recording that charted all the way up to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was named Billboard's No. 1 Song of the Year for 1965 despite never coming in at No.1 position on any chart. Wooly Bully was the only song made at the all-analog studio to achieve national success.
Every time I hear “Wooly Bully”, I think of this scene. F’ng brilliant!
It was a big hit when I was a small boy.
"Watch it now, watch it"
It was a garbage bubble-gum song that had the complexity of a donut shop jingle. I'm pretty sure in 1964 there were studios that were messing around with ProTools yet so signifying its all-analog status isn't really that much of a flex
Thanks for the info man. I remember my dad used to play the ish out of this song back when I was kid. Its was catchy as hell.
when I was a boy I watched this movie and dreamed one day of becoming a man like animal mother.........but it was not to be. But I became the next best thing - an accountant with a fat wife and 3 kids.
Amen
Jay Ray Dude, you just made my day with that! LMAO!
The guy who plays Animal Mother did good, but the guy who struck me as the REAL psycho in the bunch was the dude who wanted the photo guy to take the picture of the dead NK soldier. He creeped me out in a way the Animal Mother could never do.
Yes they were. Try to keep up.
Then how come there are Nazis and Japanese Imperial army characters?
When I was in the British Army we had a lad like Animal Mother. His name was Gaston. Same build and everything. He had this air of invincibility about him. Man of not many words. When you were with him in a dodgy situation you knew that you would be OK. When I saw this film and Animal I couldn't believe the similarities.
Thanks for your service in hell laurence, btw what became of him?
Thanks for your service in hell laurence
"No one's slick as Gaston. No one's quick as Gaston. No one's neck's as incredibly thick as Gaston!"
I left my point to see what happened to Gaston
@@jimmydesouza4375 No one shoots them full of holes and fills them with lead like Gaston.
Boy that vest he's wearing sure has a lot of ammo. It almost looks like he's wearing a *Full Metal Jacket*
Underrated comment
_I hate you._
@@tacticalwannabe6450 That's why you're called Tactical wannabe.
What are we, some kind of…..suicide squad?
Ohh he said it! He said it!
Everyone talks about Animal Mother, but the real psycho is Crazy Earl posing with the dead VC.
psycho? or looking for a Stars n Stripes pic with some VC for a Section 8 back to stateside?
@@jeffrussell777 Crazy Earl literally says in one of the other scenes that he belongs in Vietnam.
@@manco828 good point....but there is a difference between Crazy and Sick in the Head...and hanging out with a dead VC is Sick.
He's not crazy. He's just blowing off stress with gallows' humour. That dead VC would ram a bayonet into him if he was alive and he knows it.
@@tubalcain1039 yea that makes sense....
Everyone's talking about Animal Mother, but it's the guy soliloquizing over the corpse that I always remember from this part.
Crazy Earl I think his name was.
"We won't have anybody around worth shootin'", opines someone who sounds a lot like Robin Williams when he isn't doing a voice.
We're jolly green giants walking the earth, with guns!
Dude same he's like my favorite character in the whole movie
"...Jolly Green Giants walking the Earth, with guns."
Animal Mother runs Eight Ball down in this and other scenes. But, when Eight Ball is shot by the sniper, only Animal Mother charges to try and save him. A true friend.
Well, Doc ran in before Animal mother did, but
And besides cowboy and crew decided to follow-up when they knew it was the sniper and nothing else
As a Marine, that is absolutely realistic.
Animalmother isn't a "sociopath" like people try to insist on. He's just a hardened killer doing his time in a horrible war. Of course he rushed in to try and save his bros and when he couldn't save them he made sure their killer died. It's just the nature of the beast.. the human beast.
What Animal says to eight ball isn’t racism. It’s bull shitting. Soldiers and marines do it all the time, hell guys in general do it all the time, it’s how we bond and how we deal with hard situations. And these guys were doing both. You can tell they’re close friends buy how eight ball just laughs and says “yeah mother” it’s just bull shit, nothin more.
Around the 3 minute marker, Kubrick wanted to add the line “I’m the joker baby” but thought it was too strange for 1980s audience to understand
"We live in a society..." was supposed to be added too.
Hahaha
@@MoonBeamLaser I totally can imagine George Costanza as a soldier haha
The endless search for a good toilet...
@@Mystipaoniz That's not supposed to be a George Costanza reference. It's a reference to the Joker "we live in a society" meme.
@@arstulex thanks, i didn't know that particular meme but i was just talking about what i thought when i read this. As a Seinfeld enthusiast, i was even reading it in George's voice haha
“You seen much combat?” has the same energy as “you can’t fight in here, this is the war room!”
"Most people think Animal Mother is crazy. He just had the rotten luck of being born in the wrong century. He'd be right at home on some ancient battlefield swinging an axe into somebody's face. Or in a Roman arena, taking his sword to other gladiators like him. They woulda tossed him girls like Nancy back then."
Sin city quote. Gotta love it
Marv
Not really, he is someone who never should've seen the combat, but did and making a soldier from him killed everything human inside him. He is a broken man, not some sort of natural born warrior.
@@nonono4160 nice comment
I feel the same about myself sometimes, my skill set is not mordern.
I've probably seen this movie close to 50 times. It's a masterpiece.
I agree full metal jacket is a masterpiece. Coming in close would be platoon.
The ending sucked.
Pfff I've seen it like 51 times
I played this vhs until the tape died
I honestly thought the entire movie was overrated, but especially this scene. Their exchange was cringe.
It's uncanny how accurately this movie depicts Marine Corps grunt life. I was in Iraq and that's exactly how downtime went after missions. A bunch of Marines sitting around making terribly inhumane jokes about life and death, the trauma of war way too fresh to manifest itself as ptsd, so that it's still just a joke.
+Gerald Deliva BAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
+anon94707 That's his kill face at the end too!
***** absolutely. Ironically, over half of the guys in my platoon went on to become cops or firefighters/paramedics after the Marines.
I too served in Iraq. During downtime, there was nothing much to do but clean weapons, chill out, eat an MRE, talk about bullshit, played spades, and that's about it. We always tried to keep ourselves occupied during downtime to make the day go by.
+jonnyhatter35 People should teach children about not wanting war rather than just showing them what war is.. Then when they grow up they would be wanting to go to war or even allow a war to happen. I feel like we have failed at that. And the Middle East has always failed at that. You should know that in various Middle Eastern countries, they don't even talk about teaching kids about war and making them hateful towards any kind of war so war can be prevented as well as hate. There is no educational system in Iraq, Syria, Palestine ect.. Children grow up without learning except their parents who don't know anything either. They grow up to be monsters generations after generations.. These kids grow up in warzones... You can't expect those kids to become anything else than some kind of a monster once they are fully grown. They just become another soldier, terrorist ect., which the west has to deal with.
I met Adam Baldwin in person. He’s an absolute beast. He’s huge. I shook his hand and he crushed it. Lol
Adam 6' 4 Matthew 6' 4 Vincent 6' 4 all tall Stew FMJ Crew.
And almost 20 years later he looked just as intimidating on Firefly/Serenity.
Is he related to the Baldwin who just shot someone?
@@LisaAnn777 nah, he's not from those Baldwins
@@LisaAnn777I think they are distantly related
“I’ve seen a little...on TV”
The squad : ‘OOOHHH HO HO! WHAA!’
*If only roasting was this easy in 2019*
It's not really roasting, it's not meant that way, it's not confrontational. I can't really explain it but it's just something else. It's wartime
Fr
Weird i find you here i actually watched some of your vids a while back.
Well, roasting has to be a little more gentle when everyone is carrying loaded weapons in the middle of a war zone
Joker was making fun of himself, and that's why the squad was flipping shit. You never make fun of yourself in one of those situations. And Beelzebub is right; its just them fucking around, nobody's screaming or pointing guns, its basically some made-up drama to entertain themselves.
Animal Mother is what they tried to turn Leonard into. Yes he's crazy but he's functional. He knows his way around a war zone and a firefight. The ideal soldier for the time.
Animal mother slowly approaches Joker as if he's trying to remember if he's met him before.
* ideal marine
@@jerryrodriguez7261 whine
Animal Mother is Leonard
@@NinjaBuddha503 Watch the movie again.
animal mother was the only one who went back for 8-ball remember that
Actually Doc went first...
Doc J and 8 Ball are wasted!!
sorry yeah doc did go first.
read the book. animal also shoots fellow marines who mess with him.
Hey, asshole, cowboy is dead, you're running out of friends around here.
i love how Animal Mother complied when 8ball pulled him to sit down....shows how close they really are
Yeah when it’s one of “YOUR BOYS” earnestly trying to guide you in an immediate direction, you listen to them, because they see what’s really up, while you’re all in your feelings and not thinking right. “I don’t know if 8-ball is right or what he’s doing, but he’s doing this for a reason, and he’s my brother, so it has to be for my benefit.”
@@TheFirstSunbreaker I think Animal Mother knew exactly what he was doing though. I am 99% sure he was just sizing up Joker to see if he would be a liability to the platoon or not. Every time we see the platoon in Action Animal Mother proves to be the best they got, and with excellent combat awareness. But yeah, he 100% respects 8 Ball and definitely has the respect of the rest of his platoon.
Animal Mother is the most underrated character in this movie
Hes a badass
Trust me.. All Marines think they're Animal Mother.
@@JoePedo Yeah, everytime I see a comment made by an Vietnam vet on a song or something, it's like they think they are Animal Mother. But they are just Private Pyles
@@thevideocommenter3061 Its pretty cringe. Wannabe sociopaths trying to reenact something they saw from a movie made 35 years ago
@@JoePedo loool
Fun fact: Animal Mother is private pile had he not killed himself.
You say.
@@intercommerce look into it.
johnnymcblaze I sense Eddie bravo
No because he’s actually intelligent. Theres a scene where he says that the Vietnam war is pointless. Dudes smart, and hes only trigger happy to protect his squad mates
@@Foobar888 Pile wasn't dumb, he had just been babied his whole life and so couldn't do anything for himself. By the time the boys are a few days from finishing boot, private pile is a well oiled machine, often out performing his other squadmates. But the force of becoming this other person broke his mind. Animal mother is a what if his mind just cracked a little.
"We're jolly green giants walking the earth... with guns."
fuk u
Favorite character in the movie.
"We're gonna miss not having anyone around that's worth shooting!"
These are great days we're livin', bros.
.. jolly green giants walking the soils of other countries & killing their citizens for profit... with guns.
ftfy
Animal Mother is what Private Pyle would have become if he could have mastered the stress.
I believe you 100%.
@@alonenjerseyThis is a ripoff of my original comment, which has 10k plus replies. But all of my comments were hidden because Google doesn't like those who try to wake the sleepers. "We sleep while they live."
@@Surprise_Inspection Get over yourself 😅
@@Surprise_Inspectionyour original one is wrong. Pyle didn’t have shit for charisma like animal mother.
@@Surprise_Inspectiondo you want a cookie you fkn dork. Bro thinks he’s the only one with that opinion bc people replied in the UA-cam comment section.
Joker is holding his own when Mother is testing and trying to intimidate him. Clips like this show that Joker has some warrior in him.
Joker put up when it counted.
Joker was more brave because he knew the other marines would break it up before a actual fight
@@MisfitsFiendClub138 Not always, sometimes you gotta take it to the treeline and just shake hands when its over.
@```` yeah but it seems like he gained Animal Mother's respect. Funny enough, no animosity there!
Pvt joker is silly and ignorant. But he has guts, and guts is enough.
Despite Animal Mother being a real badass in combat, who was virtually fearless, the insult by Joker still got through to him when you see the reaction on his face.
He strives on male dominance and assertiveness so when someone insults/threatens his masculinity, of course it gets to him
AM is mentally limited, not stupid, but not brilliant; so when someone says something smart he stops in his tracks, probably thinking about what he just heard
That reaction of Animal Mother was fucking classic. To think that Adam Baldwin who played him was in the t.v. movie Poison Ivy with Michael J Fox 2 years before and was the head counselor at Camp Pinewood
I feel that was like a self confessed Alpha being verbally challenged by an unproven smartass Alpha like Joker hence Mothers observation that Joker was all talk & no action...which was later confirmed when after Jokers last real friend Cowboy was killed & Mother reminded Joker who was actually in charge of their squad & demanding payback for losing his brothers in arms...
@@darania1 Joker wasn't Alpha. He was just trying to be. Animal Mother was the Alpha and if I'm going into combat, I want that guy no more than 6 feet away from me.
I love how Animal Mother ALWAYS has his finger on the trigger.
His trigger finger was just scaring the crap out of me haha. Im assuming its either the directors have no experience with gun safety or its Adam Baldwin who doesnt hahaha.
Andrew Cho Well, I feel like it's more of a character trait. I feel like the character Animal Mother would never has his finger off the trigger lol
Andrew Cho You are talking about Stanley Kubrick, and as 929Finn stated he was a MANIACAL perfectionist. Definitely intentional.
yup always made me feel uneasy
I don't think the guns were loaded...
"PRIVATE PYLE! WHAT ARE TRYING TO DO TOO MY BELOVED CORP!" Great flick! Great cast! God Bless ya Gunny!
It's "Corps".
OooRAH!
USMC
'65 - '71
"We are jolly green giants with guns. After we rotate out of here we are going to miss these guys because we will not have anyone worth shooting." Pure philosophy, that's soldiering.
Marines philosophy
And he is 100% right
insanity really only successfully used on the very young, you know, 17-21-KIDS...
That' terrorism.
The american version of jihad.
yeaah that's why they tend to get into firefight with the police. Be smart kids go to the airforce.
"Now, you might not believe it but under fire, Animal Mother's one of the finest human beings in the world. All he needs is somebody to throw hand grenades at him the rest of his life"... what a fucking great line! AWESOME 👏👏
The line comes from a short story called "A Good Man is Hard to Find." A horrible grandmother has gotten her entire family killed by some escaped convicts and then tries to play nice with the killer. Once he's smoked her he says, "She's a good person, she just needed someone to shoot her the rest of her life."
“Hey, jungle bunny, thank God for the sickle cell.”
Except no, not even under fire
@@GhANeC He was actually, under fire he's the last person who'd leave you to your fate and would risk his life to try and save you. Under all that gruff and racial insults, he refused to leave Eightball to his fate even though his chances for survival were extremely low.
I can't believe that battle scene was filmed in East London.
East London is much worse than Hue these days. I was in Hue last April and it's one of the most tranquil and peaceful cities I have ever been.
@@marilson84 weird how that works.
That's because the UK is a shithole. Source: I live here
CleanerBen hmmm sounds like you guys need more diversity
No shit! I didn't know that. Those guys are like magicians with the scenery.
How the fuck do you write such a masterpiece, have it be acted out perfectly, and make two iconic moments in one scene that spans just under 5 minutes. The arrival of Joker is one thing, the standoff between Joker and Animal Mother another, and then the ''this is my buddy'' sequence, which is one of my personal favorite moments in cinema history. It's fucking incredible. The writing, casting, execution of this is perfect, or as close to perfect anyone could ever be.
Stanley Kubrick, ladies and gentleman
I thought the acting was fucking atrocious. Not gonna lie.
@@ChefofWar33 the worst was private Pyle. His acting made me cringe
@@paulallen2919 So when did you suffer from irreversible brain damage?
@@ChefofWar33yeah agreed
I really want more movies like this in today's cinemas
Good luck with that.
You do realize that if we don't have more movies like this, we'll never understand exactly how much our troops go through. Think about it.
could you elaborate? do you mean the freshness of the theatrics or the deeper themes and shit
Kale Watson deeper themes and shit
American Sniper...?
"I've seen a little on TV" LOL too good man.
+Lance Cryor The Vietnam war was televised, right? I never got that joke until I saw a few documentaries about the war and the Top 100 gadgets of All Time. But you don't see as much combat footage of the Afghan War on the news like everyone did with Vietnam back then.
+TPDManiacXC626 That's because we got our ass kicked and they didn't want to show people that again
+ttv0 No, America won every battle but lost the war politically. The Tet Offensive was a failure, but the Vietnamese were willing to continue the war no matter how many people they lost - Victory or Death.
Yea Nakamura I like the part when America nuked the hell out of Japan lol that was an awesome display of power.
You do realize of course that I'm Not Japanese.
When i realized Animal Mother is the survived version of Pvt. Pyle, i shit my self... Kubrick is genius...
can u explain that?
Al Pra holy shit this is so true....
Fernando Reyes If Pyle hadn't died. He would be exactly like Animal Mother.
I think Animal Mother was more Chad Pyle was virgin
The first time I watched the movie I immediately thought Animal Mother was Pyle.
I love the warmth of the embrace. Shows what comaradie really is and that most of us will never know it. Beautiful moment in this movie.
"You seen much combat?"
"I've seen a little...ON T.V."
*Insert supahot fire OOOOOHHHHH*
“You’re a real comedian.”
SimpDestroyer “Well, they call me the joker. “
@@jag2570 "Well I gotta joke for you, I'm gonna tear you a new asshole."
SimpDestroyer “Well, pilgrim, only after you eat the peanuts out of my shit”
Jag_25 “You talk the talk. Do you walk the walk.”
As a Viet Nam Veteran I relate to this scene. At 19 years old and I get jerked out of my life to go to war I am very lonely and all of a suddent when Im in Cu Chi Viet Nam I run into a guy from my hometown. I know the feeling. It's something you can't take away
Get over it
@richard rykard you wouldn't last two minutes in combat
@@richardrykard3246 you can talk the talk, but can walk the walk
@Jeff true
@@richardrykard3246 your a weirdo lol
Animal mother was Kubricks representation of how Private Pyle would be if he didn't kill himself. He shot himself and was "Born again Hard" yes I know the actors are different, but this is a deliberate look alike used by Kubrick to show how much war changes people. Also notice how in the seem it seems that Joker and Animal Mother already know each other, and are just trading movie lines like old pals. I believe the "Suicide" scene is merely a representation of Pyle's transformation into a killer.
Wasn't Pyle also assigned the same platoon as cowboy before he shit himself
+Erebus Music Productions Not sure, they were both given 0800 Infantry but not sure if this is a unit number or just an infantry designation. But good catch either way!
+Agrippa Maxentius It's an infantry designation. 0300 is infantry MOS (Military occupation specialty), 0800 is artillery. Their unit is Hotel 2/5, which is H company, 2nd battalion, 5th Marines (regiment), 1st Marine division.
I always had the same idea about Pyle and Animal Mother.
+Aaron Smith Thanks Aaron! Yep it was really cool to see I am not just being overanalytical, I think with the overwhelming thumbs up there's no doubt Kubrick meant mother to be Pyle after he was "Born again Hard". He became a true killing machine, just like Gunnery SGT Hartmann promised.
+Welsh Guy That's exactly what I am saying, we agree. "Animal mother was Kubricks representation of how Private Pyle would be if he didn't kill himself. " no one is suggesting that Pyle and mother are the same soldier, just that AM is a perfect representation of what he would be like if he didn't shoot himself and kill Hartmann. Even the scene where Pyle fires his opinion "Hip firing with a rifle" is similiar to how Mother deploys his M60 in battle.
“we are jolly green giants walking the earth with guns. these men we wasted today, are the finest human being we will ever know” best quote in the whole movie in my opinion
“After we rotate back to the world, we’re gonna miss not having anyone around who’s worth shooting.” That one always stuck with me too
I find it ironic that Animal Mother never kills anybody in the movie. Sure, he exchanges gunfire with the sniper in the climax, but still.
He also sucks at trigger discipline
@@ttrestle Yeah.
I mean tbf he’s supposed to provide suppresive fire.
But yeah he does have bad trigger discipline
Just imagine who he's killed before this. Clearly it's not his first rodeo and even then I think he stopped caring about trigger discipline when everyone he sees besides green boys are his enemies
@@GrosvnerMcaffrey Yeah.
4:04 for some odd reason I absolutely love the eyebrow raise. The whole delivery of this speech was spot on.
@ keep watching
@ 4:06
For a reason crazy earl is one of my favourite in this moment
Kubrick was brilliant at writing and filming monologues.
@@monzasmithNZ that's true
Kubrick was a good director in general
you know a Movie is just legendary, if you always come back to it!
Man, it's so strange to see an actor capable of embodying the kind of dude that's no longer normal without a weapon in his hands. They don't make movies like this anymore.
Colonel John Casey. Same role different show.
@@Karma-qt4ji alex coburn
@@seandaly8943 Dayum I miss that show!!!! XD
ya they do, check out Peter North's Explosive Cum Shots part Deux
"They don't make movies like this anymore". They said that back in the 80's and they'll say it 20 years from now - the cycle just repeats.
8 Is actually right: despite his asshole attitude, animal was Indeed a good soldier, the only One rushing towards enemy line to save a friend
Soldier? Animal Mother is a Marine!
I hear ya, but didn't he also cause two more people to get killed because of his refusal to follow Sergeant Cowboy's orders? And they still didn't save Doc C or eight ball. If it comes to pure results, he was more of a liability than an asset.
Good stimulating conversation. I think you guys are correct that he definitely gets the "Balls of Steel" award but since his balls of steel only neutralized one enemy soldier at the cost of 2 more friendlies, I think you'd must also give him the "Brains of Mush" award. I see the value in both balls and brains but if I had to pick whether his decision was overall a success or failure I would say failure. We couldn't win this war with a 10 to 1 kill to death ratio, so even if we would have killed twenty enemies to two American dead we would still equal a ratio that wasn't enough to win the war. The fact that we lost two and only killed one in this engagement shows that overall it was a failure and just more pointless death that helped the enemy win.
All you got to do is throw hand grenades at animal mother for the rest of his life
How was he good? He achieved nothing, he didn't save anyone and he wasn't even the one to kill the sniper. He put everyone's life at risk for nothing.
The marine with the dead VC reminds me of robin williams. His speech and mannerisms, that is.
Jesus Christ, imagine Robin Williams playing that role!
I agree!
Good morning Vietnam.
He reminds me of Chris Pratt. His appearance at least.
Dead VC reminded me more of Robin Williams.
The actor portraying animal mother Def has an onscreen presence. He fits into the villain very well, he also stars in The Patriot as someone who defects to the red coats.
And is a browncoat in firefly. One season is all it took to cement Adam Baldwin in sci-fi fandom. I only own one beanie; an etsy copy of Jayne Cobb’s.
@@zchris87v80 Jaaaaaaaayyyyyyyneee............the man they call Jaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyneeee.....
He robbed from the rich and he gave to the poor.
Stood up to the man and he gave him what for.
Our love for him now, ain't hard to explain,
The hero of Canton, the man they call Jayne!
he didn't defect to the redcoats. it seems you know literally nothing about the American Revolution
He's also great as the bodyguard in My Bodyguard. Might have been his first movie role in the early 80
s.
“These people we wasted here today are the finest human beings we will ever know. After we rotate back to the world, we’re gonna miss not having anyone around who’s worth shooting.”
I think it's " the finest human beings we will never know"
Sounds like a Fight Club speech.
That's some messed up sh1t. But good though.
@t0desbewusst No empires in this movie.
@Makuta S-V What a vivid imagination you have. No sense of reality though.
"Oh, You've seen much combat?" - love when he says that line 😁
“ I've seen a little on TV ”. 😂😂😂😂
@kevinbabu8919 you're a real comedian
@@misterabel_9017 Well they call me the Joker
2:58 Everyone talks about how Animal Mother is the psycho, but that dude is the real psycho in this scene
He's called "Crazy Earl." In the book, he totes a Red Ryder BB gun along with this M-16 (the BB gun is visible in the film laying next to him, but its never mentioned). He eventually dies after making a suicidal charge while shooting the enemy troops with his BB gun.
@@soubuckeye Does he die in the movie like that? I can't remember.
@@hexagonalawareness3584 Yeah. IED trap...
I mean he's not wrong
Psycho according to who?
I love how Joker is absolutely ready to throw down with Mother in this scene. May not have ended well, but when he saw that things were escalating he was posturing up.
I saw that and couldn't help myself but say "If a war correspondent isn't backin' down from a potential fistfight, you know it's about to go down"
Animal Mother would have killed him. He's already far gone here. That's why his friend rushes in to calm things down.
Joker was having to prove himself and probably figured that if it wasn't for Animal Mother being on the scene, he'd easily be alpha-dog in no time. So he was sorta taken aback but going full bore to rumble regardless is my vibe of it.
Absolutely, it would have been like Barnes vs Taylor 2.0@@SuperRobertoClemente
@@Retro-Future-Land Disagree. Joker thinks it's all a joke: the Marines, Vietnam, all of it. That's why he survives.
When I finished 11B OSUT and went to my unit I befriended a soldier who was of German ancestry. We’d make so many racial jokes about each other our mothers would faint if they ever heard them. However, we had each other’s back 24/7 and there are no words that can describe how much I loved him and it was a mutual feeling. A true brother. Every time I see 8 ball and mother I think of him.
I got in '89 and finished up after Storm: I think we were the last generation that had that kind of earned respect. I can't imagine how you'd earn hard respect now in a company with boys tiptoeing around each other.
Boys earn respect to become men, they don't just give it. You have to be willing to die for your brothers and you can't do it the way they are now. The only way to get respect is to say the worst and then get over it: this PC shit just keeps the worst feelings festering.
Like David and Jonathan.
What battalion on sand Hill? I was 1-50th, Cco, 3rd plt. Roster 340. 2004
Once upon a time men could be men and be each other's brothers and still be hard asses without all the crying.
@@fivemethoxy CS:GO?
"You been gettin any?"
"Only your sister"
"Better my sister than my mom but my mom's not bad."
That’s like wtf :-/
@@petergreen4890 how is that wtf?
Rzr2ffe If you don’t know....then I can’t help you~
@@petergreen4890 It was a logical continuation of the joke
Rzr2ffe Clearly no joke for you
You might not believe it, but animal mother is one of the toughest quarians in the galaxy
Kal Reegar? :O Wow....
You are correct,
Animal Mother is a Trump voter
@Kev Urbie So he's that Quarian from Omega?
Imag N. Eerie
He plays Kal Reegar, I think you come across him in ME 2 on a dying planet where Tali is.
I love how Animal Mother just materialises into the scene. He's nowhere to be seen in that entire first 1 minute shot, and then he is standing in the middle of the frame like he speedwalked in the 16 seconds we cut away from that archway.
i love the idea of him either fading in slowly like a ghost or him walking loudly into scene with his gear clanking and everything
I loved how AM instantly hated Joker simply because he had a soft job in the Marines. And his eyes showed that hatred to a guy that’s totally likeable but he’s a combat correspondent and, for a grunt, that’s absolutely deplorable
This movie taught me more about war and civilization that any history book. War is a hell no matter on which side you are.
Yeah because Kubrick fucked up the novel with this movie and turned it into some anti-war bullshit. The original novel is not about how bad war is but how bad people start to like it.
The message you take from this movie is what you make of it. Kubrik always stated it was neither. I would argue that it's genius, but of course just because you assumed that it's anti-war, you say it's "anti-war bullshit"
I am sincerely sorry. But this movie is no masterpiece. If you make something "okish" out of something fantastic people should not call you master director or genius or whatever the call Kubrick. Most overrated director ever.
kpl455 I never claimed it was a masterpiece and honestly, despite his perfectionism Kubrik failed one some points in each of his movies, though I doubt his ego would have ever allowed him to say that.
i would have raped the sniper girl !
kubrick truly had the gift of crafting iconic scenes. Even after 30 years I still think about Full Metal Jacket.
Neil Amstrom movie and the moon bullshit is his best performance , BY FAR
he's a fucking legend, my favorite director for sure. a close second is david fincher. it's a bit hard to compare the two though, since they made movies in different times (for the most part). people like them are the ones who inspired me to go into film.
Kubrick had the gift of getting one of the best books about the vietnam war by Gustav Hasford. And he turned this gem into an average film at best.
You got that right. Sadly there's not many out there who can craft a film as good as him.
Animal Mother can never die of old age or age at all, he lives all the way into the future, becomes Jayne and boards Serenity.
I think he also got promoted around 1996, and killed some aliens that tried to invade earth.
Pasan Hapuarachchi Haha, right... Independence Day.
chromo48 Then promoted to the Buy More
YourPalAL
He has an adamantium skeleton.
***** dont forget be turned on his country men in the 1770s
Kubrick's attention to detail is legendary. All the soldiers sitting around looking absolutely exhausted after taking Hue (which, if you know anything about that battle, you'd know why), and the fact the extras are in all the various spots of the courtyard in the background. Brilliant stuff.
3:22
I love the music in this scene, where it reacts to what’s going on. Telling people to watch for the reveal, then be the only one screaming at the sight of a corpse
What's the song?
I never thought of that. That’s amazing.
"All he needs is somebody to throw hand grenades at him for the rest of his life." One of my favorite lines in this movie because Animal Mother is a natural born warrior. Sure he may do well at other things when there isn't a war to fight, but war is his true medium. He is at the peak of his performance and he damn well knows it.
True with a lot of guys, from Ira Hayes to Greg Pappy Boyington. War was the only thing they were good at. Once they got home, they didn't know what else to do with themselves.
@@r5t6y7u8 that's because in training they where broken and turned into soldiers and when the government is done with them they're thrown away, war is hell and for some they're lucky to die in that hell or go to another one.
@@joedatius Not true, some already have the mentality of a killer. I met many in bootcamp that didn't need to be 'broken' in.
@@trueshockgaming329 So true
Joseph Howard It’s kind of funny but it proves to be true in the later scene where the rest of them are hunkered down freaking out and animal mother leads the charge. Animal mother also refuses to leave behind eight ball when he’s getting ripped apart by the sniper
You can never make movies like this nowadays lol
Had same thought
I'm somehow catching up to you...
You're far from JoJo videos my friend
Sureee...
If you tried doing this for the Iraq or Afghan Wars, you’d be called unpatriotic or outcasted.
Bullshit propagandized people.
The dialogue between Joker and Animal Mother is ridiculously good
Relax
"These are great days we're livin' in, bros. We are jolly green giants walking the earth, with guns."
Whoever wrote the script should've gotten oscar for lines like that.
If you get a chance, read Dispatches by Michael Herr. It served as the raw material for the script. Great non fiction reading material.
@@BrucknerMotet I'll look it up. And if you haven't read it yet, look up Fields of Fire by James Webb, a former Marine officer (later SecNav and ran for president in 2016), the book was on the Commandant of the Marine Corps recommended reading list at one point.
Crazy Earl's speech is one of the finest monologues I've ever seen. In its own way, it embodies the ancient tradition of chivalry of prior centuries. He considers the Vietnamese to be an adversary worthy of his respect.
I actually love Crazy
ffairlane57 Probably Upper South or Southwestern (i.e. West of the Mississippi). The actor is from the UK though.
If you didn't respect them and their capabilities, well, it wasn't a good decision.
sounds like someone out of fargo
Is this the only scene he was in because he seems like a pretty interesting character. That said, maybe it's just me, thought he sounded Irish a tiny bit.
3:29 That dude was armed to the teeth. Five pouches holding two mags each, that's 300 rounds of 762x39.
Happy Birthday Zipperhead
each of that can only hold 1 magazine, and we don't use all of 5 just 3 in the middle, 2 aside are usually epmty. I know it because i've been in Vietnamese military training.
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The military training i joined was just a basic militia drills for civilian learning how to operate weapons.
Phong Nguyen name checks out
Phong Nguyen hopefully the good side
Phong Nguyen
What are the blanks for
8Ball is from my hometown- Dayton, OH. I actually worked with his nephew. His Father was 8Ball’s brother. It was pretty cool
This movie never gets old thank you Stanley Kubrick
gognetti5079 fb 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, and The Shining are all masterpieces.
But to me, Full Metal Jacket is his magnum opus.
@@brendanforester4601 Why would you say Full Metal Jacket is his best? I like it but I've never been able to get into it as much as the others.
@@brendanforester4601 You forgot The Killing, Lolita, Spartacus, Paths of Glory, Doctor Strangelove? This is a great movie but The Killing, which is never shown on UK TV now, is still an absolute classic and Paths Of Glory (possibly the greatest anti-war movie ever made) is so good it was banned by the French and Spanish governments.
@@peterjoyfilms I come from a family of Marines, so it's special to me.
It's also probably Kubrik's most quotable movie, due in no small part to the Gunny himself, R. Lee Ermy.
@@johnevans388 They're all great movies. Never said they weren't.
Just listed the previous ones as my favorites.
" We are jolly green giants.. walking the Earth.. with guns." That one sentence sums up the Vietnam war, from the perspective of every grunt. I knew a guy who came home in 1970.. In 6 months he couldn't wait to get back over there. I couldn't understand why... until I saw this scene. Some of us were made to be Jolly Green Giants walking the Earth with guns.
@JiveTurkey0001 you're probably right
@JiveTurkey0001 True
When you're a 20 year old Marine and you're serving in theater, it's the most intense experience of your life. It's fucking boring as hell most of the time, but it's also intense because it's a war. The Marines you're with are your brothers, you look out for each other, and only those guys know what it feels like. You don't worry about stuff that doesn't matter. Rent, car payments, etc., none of that. When you get home you are suddenly surrounded by assholes who worry about bullshit like sports and celebrities and which Star Wars movie is the best and so on, and to you none of that stuff means a god damn thing. The civilians are chasing their tails around in an office rat race, getting old and fat, and they have no connection to what you went through thousands of miles away. Worse, you have ungrateful arrogant shitheads telling you you are a murderer, baby killer, hired mercenary, propping up a racist system, and on and on those fuckers go without end, all hiding behind the very free speech rights you believed you were defending. A lot of combat veterans can't connect with these people and feel like their real life is back with their buddies fighting or training to fight, and that's why your friend signed back up after he was home for a while. He wanted to get back to the real world and be around people he could identify with.
@@RCAvhstape Also, every material thing you owned fit in a duffle bag. That was freedom.
@@treke08 Strange but true
Well I've never been in the military. But I love this scene. I think it tries to display a very primitive aspect of "manliness". Animal Mother sees a newcomer and he immediately goes to confront and intimidate him to establish, or mantain, dominance on his group. And you can clearly see that he is not the kind of man to screw around, the dude is a fucking beast. At the same time, we see Joker, whose character was already stablished in the movie by this point. He is an effective and disciplined soldier but at the same time is humble and human. Still, he doesn't take one step back at Animal Mother's attempt at intimidating him, but instead pushes back very hard (in his own, comic style). He was never intimidated and actually very ready to fight Animal Mother. Cool stuff.
Wonderful scene with Matthew and Adam and Arliss...and Dorian and of course Kevin.stew fmj crew.
He maybe silly and dumb but he has guts. And guts is all that he need
@J Hemphill fuck off
Primative? This is peak man. You think its trendy to be some dork on a social mission ? Go to reddit. The hive mind needs its drone back.
@@Corncan2 You're misunderstanding me. I didn't say "primitive" in a bad way, like "you're being primitive", not at all. Instead, I'm using the term as a way of saying this is a very low-level and basic, but core aspect of masculinity. Masculinity is a complex topic. Some people define masculinity as being able to get the fire going to make some burgers and changing a car tire. They never think about the stuff we're talking about. What you are saying is correct.
But I never use Reddit, man.
"Under fire animal mother's one of the finest human beings in the world, now he just needs someone to throw hand grenades at him the rest of his life" 😂 man 8 ball had some of the best lines in this movie
God bless these brave boys who served in London, 1986-1987.
@@olsonbryce777 It was filmed in England
Yes, the actor who played Private Snowball in Full Metal Jacket is English.
@Randall Mellott "fake marines"? I think it's called "actors".
You mean Hollywood is fake?! I'm done with society.
odd that Warner Bros allowed it, Kubrick did have a production company based out of England though.
It takes over an hour before Animal Mother even appears in this movie, yet he is probably the most memorable character. Adam Baldwin did an amazing job!
He was great fun in Firefly and Angel.
I love when the Joker prepare his riposte to Animal Mother and the music in the same time in the background peaks with the words "watch it watch it. here it comes", and then before the punch line "you got it". Perfect
Stanley kubrick in later life very rarely left england and it's hard to believe he created this film somewhere near london...he was a true master.
Funny how you don't even notice the lack of the thick jungle environment Vietnam is very often shown ass
Can you imagine having an old Animal Mother for a grandfather one day
He'd be the type of grandpa to never pick up calls, and when you go to check on him, you can probably find him sitting in his recliner with a cold cup of coffee, tv on, but him just staring the 1000 yard stare at a random wall, not even acknowledging your presence. Real shit man.
He's probably grandfather to a whole bunch of Vietnamese kids
NO. BUT I WILL TRY
Watch Grand Torino. That's Animal Mother as an old man.
@@wrmty56413 of which he'll never know
Animal Mother survived the war and joined the Navy to eventually become captain of a DDG and help rid the world of a pandemic. Good man.
lol
"These are great days we're livin' in, bros. We are jolly green giants walking the earth, with guns."
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I like to think he got the title "Animal Mother" for his habit of caring for orphaned baby animals.
Now this gentlemen... is masterpiece movie.
After we rotate back to the world, we’re gonna miss not having anyone around that’s worth shooting…
this line really applied to a lot of the vietnam vets
Plenty worth shooting in 2020...
how wrong was he.
@@teedee5978 whoosh
But then BLM came along
Private pile dies and then later Animal Mother is introduced, who is somewhot similar to pyle in posture, though now more muscular.
The kid died and was replaced by the soldier... there's some well done symbolism in this movie...
jstadman And Private Snowball becomes Eight Ball?
@@Pantano63 Well, I think Pyle was only meant to be "recreated" as Animal Mother. Eightball was a character by himself, and not representing Snowball, because he didn't kill himself. But it would make sense that Snowball became Eightball
jstadman as for names most come from your D.I. as I was CHICO as I'm a Spaniard ok.
Also, while other soldiers like joker and cowboy got their nicknames in boot camp. Animal mother is clearly a nickname he received in combat. And we learn later why, his instincts are to protect and avenge his fellow soldiers.
I love how under fire Animal Mother is, in fact, one of the finest human beings alive.
03:42 how the hell did that extra play “dead” for so long...jeez. Wouldn’t have been surprisedif Kubrick used a real corpse!!
Burntwood76 because it was a real corpse
The Dodger Dog please tell me you dont believe that
You people are Fing stupid you take everything you see here way too seriously, it was a joke! Of course it’s not a real corpses I think the people who believe that are brainless
Sundance it was a joke you shit head I am sure you believe everything you see on the internet is true! You call me brainless your a dick head!!
Synchronicity Bear this. His pale skin tells me that was a dead corpse. Trust me.
Animal Mother is what Private Pyle would have become if he survived basic.
No
I say they're the same person
No because private pyle didn't have any humanity left but animal mother did.
@@joshuahamberg6765 the whole movie is about the duality of man. Joker's, Cowboy's and Pyle's. All of them are one in basic training but in the Vietnam they are someone else. Joker was the only one who didn't switch over until the end. Animal Mother was showing only one side until his friend was getting wasted, at that moment he became Pyle for a moment. Watch the movie again.
Ninja Buddha Ok i see what you mean now. I watched it again and their was a part where he risked his life to save his friend and is pretty much the "ideal marine" kind of like how private pyle was except he shot himself. And he was what private pyle could've been if he had survived basic training. I'm guessing the duality of man kind of refers people at their best and at worst like pyle at basic training at his worst and animal mother would've been him at his best.
"We're Jolly Green Giants walkin the earth - with guns!" One of my favorite lines.
Crazy Earl nailed it with the oxymorons
Cowboy looks like my old classmate, I miss him since almost 15 years.
I love this scene because it is history.
Potentially the single most interesting and intriguing character in the entire film. According to Kubrick, some of his backstory was originally going to be briefly included in the film - the fact that he was a man with a criminally checkered past who found purpose and a sort of redemption in combat. Kubrick stated that it was decided to deliberately leave this out in order to intensify the mystery surrounding him.
Lmfao i showed this scene in my english drama class in high school and I barely passed with a C. Teacher chewed me out in front of class for showing this scene despite FMJ being on the syllabus. Truly a defining moment in my life haha.
at least it wasn't a D
Lol, fuck your teacher. You've just learned a valuable lesson about the real world and the confines of academia, high school and beyond. Go far in life, friend. Hope that makes sense.
@@jamesryer406 word
Your teacher is a div
I used the Jelly Donut scene in a presentation on the importance of discipline
You talk the talk, do you walk the walk?
I was in United States Marine Corps Recruit Training 50 years ago.
I'm now 67 years and 8-months old, and I'll be 67 years and 9 months old next week. Yet, I am actually stronger today than when I was an active-duty United States Marine Corps 0331 M-60 Machine Gunner. Biologically aging hasn't made me weaker, but stronger.
I am willing to teach old Marines how this is possible
Happy birthday, Zipperhead...
@GreaterGood510 Less lost more so not caring enough to finish the job. They technically won as they had the North Vietnamese beat by the end of it, but they pulled out of the war and let the South Vietnamese wrap it up.
@@truereaper4572 No we really didn't. if we won Vietnam wouldn't be communist today. We weren't able to win because we couldn't invade the north. Sure they lost a load more troops but that's not how you win a war. We completed no objectives. We pulled out and the South Vietnamese got shit-stomped
Thank god for the sickle cell..... "yeah mother" i love how Animal Mother was spewing all the racist stuff... but when 8ball was down.. he was running to save him with a sniper locked in and he didnt care... had to save his brother
***** It's not his sense of humor...he's not trying to make anyone laugh. It's him asserting himself as the alpha male of the group. Animal Mother's alpha male status is the reason why he confronted Joker. Right away, he's challenging Joker to see what he's made of, to let Joker know he is the man in this group. He displays his status by the gun he carries and the way he wears the bullets criss crossed across his chest. If 8Ball or Joker were also alpha males, they would've have punched Animal Mother as soon as he said something or got in their faces, then they would have it out to see whether the new guy would take over as the bad ass of the group or if Animal Mother would keep his title as the alpha male of the group.
8Ball said, "You might not believe it, but under fire....Animal Mother's one of the finest human beings in the world." They knew Animal Mother had balls and wasn't a bully for hell of it.
when 8 ball went down it was the ONLY time you saw raw emotion from animal, so much that he ran into certain doom to save him. the racist jokes were just two friends shootin the shit together. real marines.
StuUngar You need to stop reading so far into shit that isn't there.
***** somebody finally made the point... thank you.
StuUngar I would say you've never had any black friends, then.
Cool Fact: Stanley Kubrick originally approached Arnold Schwarzenegger to play Animal Mother. He turned it down in favor of The Running Man.
You can actually feel the tension here and I am glad one of the guys do come to calm down Animal mother.
Animal Mother might be crazy, but he's loyal. you need guys like that on your squad
And kills civis
Mad enough to do anything, mad enough to be loyal
Not really, i'd prefer a smart marine next to me, instead of some dumb fucker with shits for brains and a speech impediment. Can;t have loose cannons next to your side. There's lots of dumbasses in the military. Some of them are even more dangerous than the enemy. Just stay away from them, you'll live longer and even might make it back home. Because coming back home alive is better than coming back home inside a box with the stars and stripes on it.
you need guys like that in your life.
He is the type of guy that can never return to society afterwards.