I'm sorry but technically this statement is incorrect. The Marine Corps doesn't use drill sergeants they have drill instructors❤ He's the only Marine to be promoted after being discharged and not posthumously Semper Fi
That's about how it was. I served 20 years in the Marine Corps and two combat tours in Vietnam. The first tour as a machine gunner (0331) in 1965-66 and the second as a Platoon commander (0369) in 1970-71. I retired after 20 years and had a 30 year career as a California police officer ( Marin County). What I learned in the Marine Corps has helped me all my life. I highly recommend it to anyone needing direction and wishing to learn self discipline . Tom Boyte GySgt. USMC, retired Bronze Star, Purple Heart
I had the honor of meeting R. Lee Ermey, (Gunnery Sergeant Hartman), a few years before he died. A true gentleman, a pleasure to talk to; he autographed anything and everything the fans brought, and didn't charge them for admission, autographs or photos. I still have the challenge coin he gave me, and the photo of us together. I treasure them. He served in the Marine Corps for eleven years, and then worked tirelessly for military causes for the rest of his life. He contributed so much, for so many years...then thanked me for the 4 piddlin' years I spent in the Navy. That hit me like a ton of bricks.
I had the pleasure of being on a rifle squad during a national shooting match with R. Lee Ermey back in 2011. We spent the entire day together shooting the match. Despite being in a national level match, he stopped for every person that approached him for a photo or autograph. He was a super nice guy, and very funny, too as well as a pretty decent shooter! RIP Gunny!
its a very different persona for him but you should watch saving silverman. pretty funny movie but Ermey was the high school football coach that does goofy funny stuff thru it all. very different role for him but he did it perfectly.
Clockwork Orange is a masterpiece, and I absolutely agree with you. Unless you are prepared for a truly sick film, do not watch. Much of the violence is of a sexual nature. The movie is based on Anthony Burgess' novel of the same name. It is an anti-violence film that is ultra-violent. It presents a fascinating argument about rehabilitating criminals.
I would not say that it's about rehabilitating criminals...that's a gross oversimplification and a bit like saying that Psycho is a story about a mother/son relationship.
This movie was shot in its entirety in England. The Vietnam scenes were made at a large former gas plant in London. The plant was prepared for demolition and Kubrick got permission to shoot the shit out of the place. They got palms and vegetation from Asia. A masterpiece.
The most brilliant outdoor set design. Much more expensive movies try to recreate exotic locations domestically or even abroad in different replacement countries, but they almost always never get it right.
Kubrick did an excellent job of making scenes believable Vietnam, right down to the three legged concrete electrical poles. I never made it to Hue City in my travels, but am told there were not many multistory buildings at the time. I was in and around Danang and at that time the tallest building in town was maybe 4 stories.
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. One of the nicknames that was used for the program was "McNamara's Morons".
@@bravejango12 As noted by others, Forrest would have had to take the ASVAB, which I believe is not just about aptitude testing, but also about IQ testing...so he would not have scored high enough to be an officer, regardless of his degree.
The Pyle gets slapped' scene is made so much more effective because the slap was real, not trickery. And being a real slap was Vincent D'Onofrio's(the actor playing Pyle) idea.
What will amaze you is that Kubrick filmed the entire movie in-and-around London. He made England look like Vietnam. The palm trees were 'brought-in' and the destroyed city (which was the Battle of Hue) was a London factory facility that was being demolished. By this time in his career he didn't leave London anymore...so if you wanted to make a movie with him you had to go to London. Paths of Glory is another masterpiece anti-war movie by Kubrick.
8:13 "Either Leonard is gonna get kicked out soon, or he's gonna end up saving all of their lives. I don't know, I don't know what's gonna happen." No, no you don't know what's going to happen.
oh Addie, you poor sweet child...lol this movie is such a classic, believe it or not as a veteran parts of this movie make me miss my time in the service
Good times and bad times. I actually preferred being in Desert Storm because we had a purpose. When we got back, it was playing games. Lots of working parties, guard duty, inspections, police calls, getting written up for dumb $h1+ 30 years later, I certainly don't regret joining the Corps in high school, but man those 4 years felt like 20 sometimes.
@@jkhoover oh I had seen this a few times when I went to basic, it was kinda funny watching the drill sergeants trying to act like R. Lee Ermey when you could tell that's not anything close to who they really were
Brilliant film and possibly my favourite Kubrick. Saw it first in the theatre back in '87 and made a big impact. And gave us the awesome R Lee Ermey as an actor. RIP.
The Serg role was meant for another actor but Lee wanted it and he made sure he got it by doing his normal Dill instructor job. And Kubrick loved it so much and hired Lee on the spot and gave the actor another part in the movie. That actor can be seen as the door gunner.
I know it's shocking to say, especially to someone after watching this movie for the first time, but R. Lee Ermey is absolutely hysterical (in this movie, and otherwise) and was just a darn treasure in every role he played. Watch him in Saving Silverman and you will only ever smile when you see him on camera.
@@DerekHarrison-d5d - Pretty sure everyone notices. But we all just inherently know not to talk about things behind his back, or to his face for that matter.
Let's give Addie a round of applause for surviving Full Metal Jacket (1987) as her SECOND Stanley Kubrick movie. 👏👏 This is my second favorite Kubrick movie after The Shining (1980). My girlfriend's dad also likes this movie too. I get a good laugh from the entire platoon marching around the barracks and singing "This is my rifle, this is my gun. This is for fighting, this is for fun." while holding their rifles, by the stock, on one hand and their crotches on the other. I even wake up every morning to the sound of Hartman's reveille. Just like The Shining, I own this movie on DVD in 4:3 Full-Screen format, which is also the full aspect ratio of the original camera negative as Stanley Kubrick intended.
Other Kubrick films to watch: (1) Eyes wide shut with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman (2) 2001: A Space Odyssey (3) Dr Strangelove (4) A Clockwork Orange.
3:23 The previous scene is what is known as Tearing Down. The Drill Instructors job is to destroy your preconceptions so they have a blank slat to imprint you War Instructions onto. It looks harsh sure a small percentage of recruits will quit and very very few do harm to themselves or others. The remainder become hard soldiers.
Marine Gulf War vet here. We Marines find humor in some unexpected places. Even now, decades later. Also, amazingly, this movie always makes me miss bootcamp.
During the first half of this movie Lee Ermey the Drill Instructor was a real DI in the Marines and was working as a technical expert on the film. He tried to get the actions across to the actor who was going to play the DI but Stanley Kubrick saw how well he did it Stanley hired Ermey for the role and he let Ermey freelance all the BS he yelled at the recruits without a script. I was in the Navy and our bootcamp was nothing like this. My older brother was in the Marines and he said this movie was very realistic. I'm glad I went in the Navy.
The beating pvt. Pyle endured during boot camp is called a "blanket party". It happened to a guy in my company during boot camp, but, to a lesser degree.
I went to San Diego MCRD in 1989...and blanket parties never happened, because they are not authorized forms of discipline or keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Marine Corps... wink wink
Thank you Addie. I feel like your reactions to this film were genuine, and the best I’ve seen on the Internet. My dad served in Vietnam, and he told me that this movie was one HUNDRED percent real. If you watch some behind the scenes, you’ll love it. More of this movie is real than you might think. The opening scene is 100% real. The actors didn’t know what they were in for, and hadn’t met R. Lee yet. The graduation scene is also very real, when they’re marching, and they all snap their heads forward; that is 100% real, after all the filming and work that R. Lee did with the actors. Also, the “you’re bouncing” that he says is also 100% real, as R. Lee was really marching them. Finally, Stanley threw the script away when R. Lee shifted into DI mode and just improvised all the lines, etc. Thank you again Addie, I loved your genuine reaction and your 4 or 5 jump-scares. That made me smile! :)
Stanley Kuberick had already cast the roll of the drill instructor to Tim Colceri, who then played the helicopter door gunner, and R. Lee Ermey, originally a technical advisor was cast as Gunnery Sergent Hartman. And the rest is history.
R Lee Ermey was originally hired on this film as a military advisor. He went to the Director and stated that the way the actor cast as the DI wasn't doing it right. R Lee had been a Marine DI. So they asked him to demonstrate. They stood him up and told him to do his thing while the crew threw things at him. After several minutes of that, they re-cast him as the DI.
An overlooked movie that stars D'Onofrio is "The Cell". Also stars Jennifer Lopez. He plays a truly monstrous serial killer who goes catatonic when captured. Lopez plays a therapist using an experimental technology to literally enter his mind to locate a kidnapped girl. Visually stunning, thematically horrific.
Strangelove and 2001 are the other essential Kubrick's...Clockwork's first third is very disturbing but essential to understanding the last two-thirds and the movie's important themes.
Not even related to the movie, but I just want to say that I've loved watching your plant grow in the background over the years! It started off so small and now it's past the top of the video! Good work!
The foot locker thing is real. Drill Sergeants HATE seeing one unlocked. When my dad went to Parris Island for boot camp, someone left theirs unlocked and everything was dumped out the window. Then he had to bring everything back in one item at a time as fast as he could.. to the second floor.
I got punished one night for not sounding off to a drill instructor after lights out. He made me scrub the deck with my rifle kit toothbrush but didn't tell me when I could quit so after an hour I went and found some pickup from another platoon who barely spoke English and convinced him that he needed to relieve me😂 I have no idea how long he spent scrubbing that floor but I still feel kinda bad about it..😅
@@mattsmith1318 Doing that as a recruit is bold. A friend joined the Navy and actually read all the rules and learned about passing orders to subordinates. Whenever he was told to give someone pushups he would find someone with a lower rank and tell them to do it. He was a corpsman assigned to a Force Recon unit so he hated Navy officers. Thought they were lazy and out of shape.
MCRD San Diego, when we first met our Drill Instructors, anything and everything was dumped out of our sea bags or footlockers onto the deck and swiftly kicked by the tornado of DI's in to random piles all over the squad bay. It was always fun trying to find your $h1+ afterwards.
one of my buddies left his unlocked and when they all came back from a march the entire barracks was turned over. not just his area. beds tossed upside down and everything.
I remember buying the VHS version of this movie and it came with a mini movie poster which I still have. Both my dad and brother went through Marine boot camp so I've heard all the stories. My brother hated fire watch which is how Leonard was caught with the rifle, he said that duty was spooky as hell.
Definitely continue the kubrick train check out Dr. Strangelove (1964) one of kubricks earlier films and also one of James Earl Jones earlier films. R.I.P James Earl Jones and Stanley Kubrick 🕊♥️
His first actually He got the job when Kubrick saw him in a Shakespeare in the Park performance of Othello. George C Scott also was picked up from the same production for the film
What I love about FMJ reactions on youtube is seeing how the cut jumps straight to 18:08 and for some reason the reactors are all like "yeah I better remember to cut that out" loool
I remember this being shot back in the at the old Beckton Gasworks down the road from where I lived in London. We'd sneak down there as nippers and watch it being filmed. Bloody freezing & miserable it were, a proper British winter!
The craziest Vietnam movie ever made was Apocalypse Now (watch the theatrical cut) Two other, underappreciated but really good Vietnam movies are Hamburger Hill and Tigerland. If you'd like to be scarred by another Kubrick movie, I'd suggest Clockwork Orange Another war movie with Matthew Modine in it is Memphis Belle
just a classic film that everyone should watch atleast once. Another fantastic military movie similar to this but much newer is called "Jarhead" with jake gylenhall. Very good movie about desert storm where it starts with him in boot camp and ends up going to iraq
I went to USMC boot camp while FMJ was still in theatres. We all literally relived this movie. We had a Pyle, I was Smiley, and it was intense. 2/4 of our Drill instructors were "removed" for violence to recruits around week 10. I would not trade that experience for anything!
Watching reactors during the Gunnery Sargent's monologue cracks me up, I think I basically know every word thanks to many samples of that dialogue in music, etc.
My favorite Kubrick movie is "Dr. Strangelove". At first viewing, it seems like an over the top comedy spoof. But if you watch it through several times you pick up pieces that you may have missed before or didn't give any thought to. It is a well crafted piece of art.
I spent a week at that army camp due to high school work experience. Every morning we would go for a 5km jog and then through the assault course. Good time.
Everytime I see the opening sequence of the haircuts, I remember my own experience arriving at MCRD in the 1980's. Then meeting the Senior and his 3 other DI's, and the 11 weeks of nearly non-stop mind games and verbal abuse, the creative ways of inflicting pain through PIT sessions (Personal/Platoon Incentive Training). Thanks, Addie, for not laughing at the one-liners from GySgt Hartman, as nearly all other reactors do. When you're face-to-face with that Smokey pressing into your forehead, it's fear going through you and not that it's funny.
Intense, accurate, and unexpected are appropriate words to describe this movie. #1 "War flick" of all time. Side note: Many of the scenes in this movie were taken from a book I read decades ago from interviews of former Vietnam Vets. When I first watched this movie, 25% of what I saw was what I read in that book (can't remember the title). You could cobble together another movie (or three) from the other 75% of the stories.
Vicent D’Onofrio is such an excellent character actor. You should check him out in Household Saints (1993) and The Whole Wide World (1996), his own passion project on author Robert E. Howard, which he stars with unknown Renée Zellweger (her work in this film ultimately got her hired by Cameron Crowe for the role that made her famous, in Jerry Maguire (1996), opposite Tom Cruise). It is a testament of the quality of actors that were hired by Stanley Kubrick. James Earl Jones, ultimately known as the voice of Darth Vader, debuted on the big screen in the 1964 Kubrick film: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Jack Nicholson in The Shining (1980) and Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange (1972).
Fun fact so when Ermy's character says the bit about the reach around Kubrick yelled cut and asked what that was and R. Lee Ermy had to explain it Kubrick eventually said ok lets keep it.
This movie is a great commentary on how being in the military changes a person, some for the better & some for the worse. Now that you have seen Stanley Kubrick versions of a horror & wart movies I would suggest watching his versions of a social commentary movie with 'A Clockwork Orange' (1971), his version of a Sci-Fi movie with '2001: A Space Odyssey' (1968) which is renowned for it innovation. For a more lighted hearted Stanley Kubrick version of a war movie a must watch is 'Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' (1964) which features the late James Earl Jones who past away at 93 on 09th Sep 2024. R.I.P. James Earl Jones, you are gone but will never be forgotten.
The original M-16s where very prone to jamming as shown in the last scene. It was the result of a lot of cost cutting measures that where fixed in later models. The M-16 was only supposed to be a temporary measure that was going to be replaced with a "do everything" rifle that ran into development problems and was never completed.
@Addie thank you and your patrons that continue to put some of the best films of all time in front of your eyes :). Stanley Kubrick is a top 10 director for many and a top 25 director for almost every cinema fan. I Hope you watch all his films in time as well as my favorite Alfred Hitchcock. Perhaps in 2025 you could do a poll for your patrons to see if you should add like a AFI (American Film Institute) top 100 movies of all time. This film pulls no punches of the horror f war, conformity and what our hero soldiers go through that so many of us could never get through. It was a fun reaction to see.
Addie, I am impressed by your willingness to take on these tough-to-watch movies. I imagine you surprise yourself sometimes. You’re stronger than you know. 96.8k subscribers- you’re almost there.
Lol Addie I love you, if there's ever a meet up please let me know. Your my fav celeb. My kids tease me how many times can I watch the same person watch different movies lol
4:56 I've done that one a few times. The first time I went up, I got up there quite fast and started to throw my leg over, I did freeze for a couple of seconds. It's quite high up there. Somehow, the the idea of going back down was worse than the climbing part. After the first time it was easier.
Ronald Lee Ermey was an American actor and U.S. Marine drill instructor. He achieved fame for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He was also a United States Marine Corps staff sergeant and an honorary gunnery sergeant. Ermey was initially hired by the production only as a technical advisor. His intense familiarity with the role had perfected his delivery and fluency of improvisation to a level you could not hope to discover in a professional actor, no matter how many takes they were given. Seeking authenticity for the war movie, Director Kubrick allowed Ermey to write, edit and improvise his own dialogue. His was the only performance in a Kubrick film that had a significant proportion of improvised dialogue, with Ermey writing more than 50 percent of his dialogue.
There are a lot of movies that show the horrors of war but this one is best at showing the absurdity. I understand why a lot of vets like this film because I"m sure they experienced plenty of the absurd aspects of warfare or being in the military. The little VC girl sniper set out a honey pot - she didn't kill 8-ball and Doc J with her first shot so she could pick more off when they tried to retrieve the first two.
I saw that Addie was going to watch this movie and immediately thought of the bathroom scene and how scarred she will be from watching this movie. But this movie doesnt sugarcoat the reality of war. ❤
There's a lot of duality, and change represented in this movie. Joker, and Cowboy are similar in height, build, and they both wear glasses. Sometimes it's represented magically. Gomer Pyle is the biggest recruit, and changes into a killer. Animal Mother is the biggest in the squad, and is introduced as the most reliable killer. As if Pyle has magically changed into Animal. His helmet reads a line from the Bhagavad Gita "I am become death". It refers to Vishnu urging the prince to do his duty to impress him changes into his many armed form saying "I am become Death. The destroyer of worlds". (It's also what Oppenheimer, head of the Atomic bomb project, says he thought after the first bomb test). Animal has the biggest gun and many other weapons' on him, many arms. What was he before he became Death? Gomer Pyle. Another scene of magical change everybody missed for all the years since the movie came out. They are all firing on a building. They stop firing, and there is a montage of shots of the men listening. During that listening montage the point man's ammo magazine is magically not in his gun. They change their magazines, and the magazine is back in the gun. He drops the magazine out of the gun, and fumbles getting another in missing the first enemies that run out. The whole scene is about changing magazines focusing particularly on the point man, and his magazine. But nobody catches on he has a magical disappearing, and reappearing magazine. The point is it's about duality, and changes that only perceptive people notice. There's more to this that involves me personally, Kubrick, Richard Feynman, quantum mechanics, dark matter, and sorcery, as well as many other things but I won't go into details here.
Fun Facts about the filming of Full Metal Jacket. Kubrick filmed Full Metal Jacket in England in 1985 and 1986. Scenes were filmed in Cambridgeshire, the Norfolk Broads, in eastern London at Millennium Mills and Beckton Gas Works in Newham, and in the Isle of Dogs. Bassingbourn Barracks, a former Royal Air Force station and then British Army base, was used as the Parris Island Marine boot camp. A British Army rifle range near Barton, Cambridge, was used for the scene in which Hartman congratulates Private Pyle for his shooting skills. Kubrick worked from still photographs of Huế taken in 1968; he found an area owned by British Gas that closely resembled it and was scheduled to be demolished. The disused Beckton Gas Works, a few miles from central London, was filmed to depict Huế after attacks. Kubrick had buildings blown up, and the film's art director used a wrecking ball to knock specific holes in some buildings for two months. Kubrick had a plastic replica jungle flown in from California but once he saw it dismissed the idea, saying; "I don't like it. Get rid of it." The open country scenes were filmed at marshland in Cliffe-at-Hoo and along the River Thames; locations were supplemented with 200 imported Spanish palm trees and 100,000 plastic tropical plants from Hong Kong. Kubrick acquired four M41 tanks from a Belgian army colonel who was an admirer. Westland Wessex helicopters, which have a much longer and less-rounded nose than that of the Vietnam era H-34, were painted Marine green to represent Marine Corps Sikorsky H-34 Choctaw helicopters. Kubrick obtained a selection of rifles, M79 grenade launchers, and M60 machine guns from a licensed weapons dealer. Modine described the filming as difficult; Beckton Gas Works was a toxic environment for the film crew, being contaminated with asbestos and hundreds of other chemicals. During the boot camp sequence of the film, Modine and the other recruits underwent Marine Corps training, during which Ermey yelled at them for 10 hours a day while filming the Parris Island scenes. To ensure the actors' reactions to Ermey's lines were as authentic and fresh as possible, Ermey and the recruits did not rehearse together. For film continuity, each recruit had his head shaved once a week. Ermy also has a minor role in Apocalypse Now as a helicopter pilot. It’s also worth reading up on the Mai Lai Massacre; one of the most horrific incidents to take place during the Vietnam War. I highly recommend Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam epic…..Apocalypse Now. Just make sure you watch The Final Cut. Also, the Ken Burns documentary titled ‘The Vietnam War’ is stunning & features interviews with both US & Vietnamese veterans.
I saw that once in my film class in high school, it's incredibly underrated. I find it odd how Spartacus is so much more well known, despite being not nearly as good.
Full metal jacket was my favourite movie but after re-watching it now I know why my friend doesn’t want me to watch it well I’m gonna go watch The Batman again
Great reaction Addie! I luv how open you are to listening to some of the drill instructors cadence songs especially the "this is my rifle this is my gun" song... Addie 'i mean it is catchy'! Haha lol and it is catchy! Thanks for sharing Addie ❤️💛
U gotta type in here, how R Lee Ermy got the part in gull metal jacket! He's done lots of great movies. Like Se7en. His first movie was also as a drill sergeant in the great movie, Boys in Company C! One of the cheats he did to get the part? He typed, single spaced, back and front, 20 sheets of insults dialogue and gave to one of the assistant directors!😮😮😮
R. Lee Ermy was an actual former Marine drill instructor and all the insults he was yelling at the recruits were improvisations.
He also played a prototype version of this character in the underrated Vietnam War film, "The Boys in Company C" (1978).
He was also beautiful AF
I'm sorry but technically this statement is incorrect. The Marine Corps doesn't use drill sergeants they have drill instructors❤
He's the only Marine to be promoted after being discharged and not posthumously
Semper Fi
@@mattsmith1318 The terminology was incorrect, not the statement itself. Thank you for the correction.
Oh really?!?!?! That’s brand new information!
I played the drinking game for every time Addie said, 'Okay.'
I'm in rehab now.
LOL!
You noticed that too?
You’re just lucky to still be alive really 😂.
I died of alcohol poisoning.
Good for you, @martinholt8168, I hope rehab is working out for you. 🙂
That's about how it was. I served 20 years in the Marine Corps and two combat tours in Vietnam. The first tour as a machine gunner (0331) in 1965-66 and the second as a Platoon commander (0369) in 1970-71. I retired after 20 years and had a 30 year career as a California police officer ( Marin County). What I learned in the Marine Corps has helped me all my life. I highly recommend it to anyone needing direction and wishing to learn self discipline .
Tom Boyte
GySgt. USMC, retired
Bronze Star, Purple Heart
Thank you for your service sir!
to think we're the last generation to speak with someone like you,damn
I had the honor of meeting R. Lee Ermey, (Gunnery Sergeant Hartman), a few years before he died. A true gentleman, a pleasure to talk to; he autographed anything and everything the fans brought, and didn't charge them for admission, autographs or photos. I still have the challenge coin he gave me, and the photo of us together. I treasure them. He served in the Marine Corps for eleven years, and then worked tirelessly for military causes for the rest of his life. He contributed so much, for so many years...then thanked me for the 4 piddlin' years I spent in the Navy. That hit me like a ton of bricks.
If you want to get scarred for life, go for the Stanley Kubrick trifecta and watch A Clockwork Orange.
That would scar Addie for life
Yes...yes...she should watch a little bit of "the ol' in and out," and then "try the wine!"😃
That's the movie that came to mind when she (or they) mentioned scarred for life
And Eyes Wide Shut
I had the pleasure of being on a rifle squad during a national shooting match with R. Lee Ermey back in 2011. We spent the entire day together shooting the match. Despite being in a national level match, he stopped for every person that approached him for a photo or autograph. He was a super nice guy, and very funny, too as well as a pretty decent shooter! RIP Gunny!
its a very different persona for him but you should watch saving silverman. pretty funny movie but Ermey was the high school football coach that does goofy funny stuff thru it all. very different role for him but he did it perfectly.
He also played the green army men on Toy Story
If Kubrick scars you, stay away from Clockwork Orange.
Clockwork Orange is a masterpiece, and I absolutely agree with you. Unless you are prepared for a truly sick film, do not watch. Much of the violence is of a sexual nature. The movie is based on Anthony Burgess' novel of the same name. It is an anti-violence film that is ultra-violent. It presents a fascinating argument about rehabilitating criminals.
I would not say that it's about rehabilitating criminals...that's a gross oversimplification and a bit like saying that Psycho is a story about a mother/son relationship.
@@ratmackay I thought that Psycho was about the hazards of showering.
also, moon landing* hahhahaha
Kubrick scars you alright
This movie was shot in its entirety in England. The Vietnam scenes were made at a large former gas plant in London. The plant was prepared for demolition and Kubrick got permission to shoot the shit out of the place. They got palms and vegetation from Asia. A masterpiece.
The most brilliant outdoor set design. Much more expensive movies try to recreate exotic locations domestically or even abroad in different replacement countries, but they almost always never get it right.
Not only that but it was the middle of winter and freezing cold, so much so that the palm trees kept dying 😂
Kubrick did an excellent job of making scenes believable Vietnam, right down to the three legged concrete electrical poles. I never made it to Hue City in my travels, but am told there were not many multistory buildings at the time. I was in and around Danang and at that time the tallest building in town was maybe 4 stories.
All the training parts were filmed at RAF bassingbourn royston kent..I did my own training there.
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.
One of the nicknames that was used for the program was "McNamara's Morons".
I'm shocked that Forest Gump wasn't made an officer seeing as how he had a college degree.
Really? Did you ever wear a uniform,? Or are you so very, very smart?
@@64MDW What's that supposed to mean? Do you know what the ASVAB tests for?
@@bravejango12 His drill sgt did say he was a genius and would be a general one day. 😏
@@bravejango12 As noted by others, Forrest would have had to take the ASVAB, which I believe is not just about aptitude testing, but also about IQ testing...so he would not have scored high enough to be an officer, regardless of his degree.
Kubrick's A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971) is way crazier in the "scar me for life" department. LOL! 🥛😬
Everyone loves a bit of the old ultra-violence me droogie 😉
Probably not addies film
@LordVolkov bit like Taxi Driver having a Ultra Violent and sex
But a film with important themes that any would-be cinephile needs to see...
50 years later and people are still not ready for it.
The Pyle gets slapped' scene is made so much more effective because the slap was real, not trickery. And being a real slap was Vincent D'Onofrio's(the actor playing Pyle) idea.
Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange will scar you more than the Shining!
Fucked up movie. I liked it when I was a kid. Now it makes me puke. No joke.
A lil ol in out in out my droogies!
What will amaze you is that Kubrick filmed the entire movie in-and-around London. He made England look like Vietnam. The palm trees were 'brought-in' and the destroyed city (which was the Battle of Hue) was a London factory facility that was being demolished. By this time in his career he didn't leave London anymore...so if you wanted to make a movie with him you had to go to London.
Paths of Glory is another masterpiece anti-war movie by Kubrick.
The factory was the former Beckton gas works, the O2 arena now stands there.
8:13 "Either Leonard is gonna get kicked out soon, or he's gonna end up saving all of their lives. I don't know, I don't know what's gonna happen."
No, no you don't know what's going to happen.
lmao exactly what i said
oh Addie, you poor sweet child...lol
this movie is such a classic, believe it or not as a veteran parts of this movie make me miss my time in the service
I didn't see this movie before joining the Army. I didn't know where all of my drill sergeants got their lines until way after I was out of basic.
Good times and bad times. I actually preferred being in Desert Storm because we had a purpose. When we got back, it was playing games. Lots of working parties, guard duty, inspections, police calls, getting written up for dumb $h1+
30 years later, I certainly don't regret joining the Corps in high school, but man those 4 years felt like 20 sometimes.
@@jkhoover oh I had seen this a few times when I went to basic, it was kinda funny watching the drill sergeants trying to act like R. Lee Ermey when you could tell that's not anything close to who they really were
Brilliant film and possibly my favourite Kubrick. Saw it first in the theatre back in '87 and made a big impact. And gave us the awesome R Lee Ermey as an actor. RIP.
The Serg role was meant for another actor but Lee wanted it and he made sure he got it by doing his normal Dill instructor job.
And Kubrick loved it so much and hired Lee on the spot and gave the actor another part in the movie.
That actor can be seen as the door gunner.
This movie is beyond good. One of Kubrick's absolute finest.
I know it's shocking to say, especially to someone after watching this movie for the first time, but R. Lee Ermey is absolutely hysterical (in this movie, and otherwise) and was just a darn treasure in every role he played. Watch him in Saving Silverman and you will only ever smile when you see him on camera.
"Really? Me too!"
He was perfect as the sheriff in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake.. Creepy!
@@mattsmith1318 - Amen. He was arguably more unsettling than Leatherface in that movie.
Always makes me laugh that nobody notices that Sgt Hartman has his hat on when he goes in to the head(toilet) to reprimand Pyle.😸
@@DerekHarrison-d5d - Pretty sure everyone notices. But we all just inherently know not to talk about things behind his back, or to his face for that matter.
My father was a NAM vet and absolutely loved this movie. May they both rest in peace.
You want some more scaring? A Clockwork Orange by Kubrick is shall we say, a good bit of "Ultra Violence"
And the contra point in Kubrick movies would be "2001 Space Odyssey" - deep movie and only one lunatic in it (kind of)
Well said me droogie!
I'm worried that film would destroy what little innocence Addie has left.
I'm singing in the rain....
Let's give Addie a round of applause for surviving Full Metal Jacket (1987) as her SECOND Stanley Kubrick movie. 👏👏 This is my second favorite Kubrick movie after The Shining (1980). My girlfriend's dad also likes this movie too. I get a good laugh from the entire platoon marching around the barracks and singing "This is my rifle, this is my gun. This is for fighting, this is for fun." while holding their rifles, by the stock, on one hand and their crotches on the other. I even wake up every morning to the sound of Hartman's reveille. Just like The Shining, I own this movie on DVD in 4:3 Full-Screen format, which is also the full aspect ratio of the original camera negative as Stanley Kubrick intended.
Most vets I know, including myself, like this movie about the military and war the best. For whatever that's worth.
Other Kubrick films to watch: (1) Eyes wide shut with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman (2) 2001: A Space Odyssey (3) Dr Strangelove (4) A Clockwork Orange.
3:23 The previous scene is what is known as Tearing Down. The Drill Instructors job is to destroy your preconceptions so they have a blank slat to imprint you War Instructions onto. It looks harsh sure a small percentage of recruits will quit and very very few do harm to themselves or others. The remainder become hard soldiers.
Marine Gulf War vet here. We Marines find humor in some unexpected places. Even now, decades later. Also, amazingly, this movie always makes me miss bootcamp.
I still can’t believe Pyle is now Kingpin in the MCU lol
Hi Addie. Thank you for coming around and brightening an otherwise very bleak day. Your presence and disposition are very relaxing.
I couldn't imagine sweet innocent Addie watching Full Metal Jacket.😊
Thanks for the reaction,Addie.You're a legend!❤
During the first half of this movie Lee Ermey the Drill Instructor was a real DI in the Marines and was working as a technical expert on the film. He tried to get the actions across to the actor who was going to play the DI but Stanley Kubrick saw how well he did it Stanley hired Ermey for the role and he let Ermey freelance all the BS he yelled at the recruits without a script. I was in the Navy and our bootcamp was nothing like this. My older brother was in the Marines and he said this movie was very realistic. I'm glad I went in the Navy.
U want to b scarred?
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
The beating pvt. Pyle endured during boot camp is called a "blanket party". It happened to a guy in my company during boot camp, but, to a lesser degree.
Did you order the code red?!
@@LordVolkov Actually, during boot camp, it's called a blanket party, only after boot camp is it called a code red.
@@craigwhip 🤔 Interesting distinction
I remember some kid got caught with crackers and they torched the whole Platoon; a few of them gave him a beatdown..
I went to San Diego MCRD in 1989...and blanket parties never happened, because they are not authorized forms of discipline or keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Marine Corps... wink wink
Her villian arc continues hahaha
And I love it! What a great journey we are on with Addie!
I mean a great way to start is BS movies that people think is basically a documentary.
Watch actual Vietnam Vets eyes roll when watch this crap.
Waaaay more intense than 'Private Benjamin'
Congrats on 100k! 😇 Thank you for the reaction, awesome!
Thank you Addie. I feel like your reactions to this film were genuine, and the best I’ve seen on the Internet. My dad served in Vietnam, and he told me that this movie was one HUNDRED percent real. If you watch some behind the scenes, you’ll love it. More of this movie is real than you might think. The opening scene is 100% real. The actors didn’t know what they were in for, and hadn’t met R. Lee yet. The graduation scene is also very real, when they’re marching, and they all snap their heads forward; that is 100% real, after all the filming and work that R. Lee did with the actors. Also, the “you’re bouncing” that he says is also 100% real, as R. Lee was really marching them. Finally, Stanley threw the script away when R. Lee shifted into DI mode and just improvised all the lines, etc. Thank you again Addie, I loved your genuine reaction and your 4 or 5 jump-scares. That made me smile! :)
I think youre ready for A Clockwork Orange
🙏🏽
apparently no reactors are ready for a clockwork orange
@@longfootbuddy lame
Stanley Kuberick had already cast the roll of the drill instructor to Tim Colceri, who then played the helicopter door gunner, and R. Lee Ermey, originally a technical advisor was cast as Gunnery Sergent Hartman. And the rest is history.
R Lee Ermey was originally hired on this film as a military advisor. He went to the Director and stated that the way the actor cast as the DI wasn't doing it right. R Lee had been a Marine DI. So they asked him to demonstrate. They stood him up and told him to do his thing while the crew threw things at him. After several minutes of that, they re-cast him as the DI.
Lol😂watching Addie reactions are priceless..what a good sport she is
An overlooked movie that stars D'Onofrio is "The Cell". Also stars Jennifer Lopez. He plays a truly monstrous serial killer who goes catatonic when captured. Lopez plays a therapist using an experimental technology to literally enter his mind to locate a kidnapped girl. Visually stunning, thematically horrific.
The cell is truly underrated. Maybe because they tried to bennifer it into mainstream
I wasn’t much of a fan of The Cell, but D’Onofrio was definitely one of the better parts of it. 👍
Tarsim Singh makes beautiful movies but they can be strange. The Cell is so twisted but really gorgeous.
Most likely cause Jennifer is in it.
He was brilliant in Men In Black.
Thx Addie, well done for making it through this, best of luck to hitting 100K, Kind regards Chris...
A Clockwork Orange would be different...very different...
Strangelove and 2001 are the other essential Kubrick's...Clockwork's first third is very disturbing but essential to understanding the last two-thirds and the movie's important themes.
Your stunned expression throughout the first barracks scene made my day.
Not even related to the movie, but I just want to say that I've loved watching your plant grow in the background over the years! It started off so small and now it's past the top of the video! Good work!
The foot locker thing is real. Drill Sergeants HATE seeing one unlocked. When my dad went to Parris Island for boot camp, someone left theirs unlocked and everything was dumped out the window. Then he had to bring everything back in one item at a time as fast as he could.. to the second floor.
Woah!
I got punished one night for not sounding off to a drill instructor after lights out. He made me scrub the deck with my rifle kit toothbrush but didn't tell me when I could quit so after an hour I went and found some pickup from another platoon who barely spoke English and convinced him that he needed to relieve me😂
I have no idea how long he spent scrubbing that floor but I still feel kinda bad about it..😅
@@mattsmith1318 Doing that as a recruit is bold. A friend joined the Navy and actually read all the rules and learned about passing orders to subordinates. Whenever he was told to give someone pushups he would find someone with a lower rank and tell them to do it. He was a corpsman assigned to a Force Recon unit so he hated Navy officers. Thought they were lazy and out of shape.
MCRD San Diego, when we first met our Drill Instructors, anything and everything was dumped out of our sea bags or footlockers onto the deck and swiftly kicked by the tornado of DI's in to random piles all over the squad bay. It was always fun trying to find your $h1+ afterwards.
one of my buddies left his unlocked and when they all came back from a march the entire barracks was turned over. not just his area. beds tossed upside down and everything.
Great reaction, really enjoyed it, You were sincere, funny, and articulate..
I remember buying the VHS version of this movie and it came with a mini movie poster which I still have. Both my dad and brother went through Marine boot camp so I've heard all the stories. My brother hated fire watch which is how Leonard was caught with the rifle, he said that duty was spooky as hell.
I hated Firewatch as well. Lost precious sleep!
Definitely continue the kubrick train check out Dr. Strangelove (1964) one of kubricks earlier films and also one of James Earl Jones earlier films. R.I.P James Earl Jones and Stanley Kubrick 🕊♥️
His first actually
He got the job when Kubrick saw him in a Shakespeare in the Park performance of Othello.
George C Scott also was picked up from the same production for the film
0:30 Addie needs to see 2001 A Space Odyssey then, and as soon as possible!
Oh HELL YEAH!
This movie is quite the experience
What I love about FMJ reactions on youtube is seeing how the cut jumps straight to 18:08 and for some reason the reactors are all like "yeah I better remember to cut that out" loool
I remember this being shot back in the at the old Beckton Gasworks down the road from where I lived in London. We'd sneak down there as nippers and watch it being filmed. Bloody freezing & miserable it were, a proper British winter!
The craziest Vietnam movie ever made was Apocalypse Now (watch the theatrical cut) Two other, underappreciated but really good Vietnam movies are Hamburger Hill and Tigerland.
If you'd like to be scarred by another Kubrick movie, I'd suggest Clockwork Orange
Another war movie with Matthew Modine in it is Memphis Belle
just a classic film that everyone should watch atleast once. Another fantastic military movie similar to this but much newer is called "Jarhead" with jake gylenhall. Very good movie about desert storm where it starts with him in boot camp and ends up going to iraq
What's next, A Clockwork Orange?
I will never suggest that film to any reactor. It's a brilliant film, but it's just too brutal.
@@Stogie2112 if they're really film buffs. Nothing should be off limits
@@AbeVicious ... Yes, you're right about that. I am biased by my desire for others to enjoy the films I recommend, and not to be traumatized!
@Stogie2112 it is what it is🤷🏽♂️ I know they're not real buffs as this is all for monetary value.
The first part was a pretty good film. I still haven't seen many reactions to Hamburger Hill.
I went to USMC boot camp while FMJ was still in theatres. We all literally relived this movie. We had a Pyle, I was Smiley, and it was intense. 2/4 of our Drill instructors were "removed" for violence to recruits around week 10. I would not trade that experience for anything!
Watching reactors during the Gunnery Sargent's monologue cracks me up, I think I basically know every word thanks to many samples of that dialogue in music, etc.
My favorite Kubrick movie is "Dr. Strangelove". At first viewing, it seems like an over the top comedy spoof. But if you watch it through several times you pick up pieces that you may have missed before or didn't give any thought to. It is a well crafted piece of art.
Vincent D'Onofrio definitely believes in the method acting technique. He still holds the record for gaining the most weight for a role, over 70 lbs.
I spent a week at that army camp due to high school work experience. Every morning we would go for a 5km jog and then through the assault course. Good time.
Everytime I see the opening sequence of the haircuts, I remember my own experience arriving at MCRD in the 1980's. Then meeting the Senior and his 3 other DI's, and the 11 weeks of nearly non-stop mind games and verbal abuse, the creative ways of inflicting pain through PIT sessions (Personal/Platoon Incentive Training). Thanks, Addie, for not laughing at the one-liners from GySgt Hartman, as nearly all other reactors do. When you're face-to-face with that Smokey pressing into your forehead, it's fear going through you and not that it's funny.
5:54 On all my rewatches of this movie, this is the first time I noticed the background that reminds me of the carpet in The Shining.
You endured that movie like a champ Addie!
Intense, accurate, and unexpected are appropriate words to describe this movie. #1 "War flick" of all time.
Side note: Many of the scenes in this movie were taken from a book I read decades ago from interviews of former Vietnam Vets. When I first watched this movie, 25% of what I saw was what I read in that book (can't remember the title). You could cobble together another movie (or three) from the other 75% of the stories.
This was considered a training film when i was a kid. My dad was a drill instructor in the army around this same time.
Vicent D’Onofrio is such an excellent character actor. You should check him out in Household Saints (1993) and The Whole Wide World (1996), his own passion project on author Robert E. Howard, which he stars with unknown Renée Zellweger (her work in this film ultimately got her hired by Cameron Crowe for the role that made her famous, in Jerry Maguire (1996), opposite Tom Cruise).
It is a testament of the quality of actors that were hired by Stanley Kubrick. James Earl Jones, ultimately known as the voice of Darth Vader, debuted on the big screen in the 1964 Kubrick film: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Jack Nicholson in The Shining (1980) and Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange (1972).
Fun fact so when Ermy's character says the bit about the reach around Kubrick yelled cut and asked what that was and R. Lee Ermy had to explain it Kubrick eventually said ok lets keep it.
This movie is a great commentary on how being in the military changes a person, some for the better & some for the worse. Now that you have seen Stanley Kubrick versions of a horror & wart movies I would suggest watching his versions of a social commentary movie with 'A Clockwork Orange' (1971), his version of a Sci-Fi movie with '2001: A Space Odyssey' (1968) which is renowned for it innovation. For a more lighted hearted Stanley Kubrick version of a war movie a must watch is 'Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' (1964) which features the late James Earl Jones who past away at 93 on 09th Sep 2024. R.I.P. James Earl Jones, you are gone but will never be forgotten.
The original M-16s where very prone to jamming as shown in the last scene. It was the result of a lot of cost cutting measures that where fixed in later models. The M-16 was only supposed to be a temporary measure that was going to be replaced with a "do everything" rifle that ran into development problems and was never completed.
Vincent Donofrio was in Adventures in Babysitting before this movie. In AiB he was fairly cut vs this movie. He transformed his body in 6 months.
@Addie thank you and your patrons that continue to put some of the best films of all time in front of your eyes :). Stanley Kubrick is a top 10 director for many and a top 25 director for almost every cinema fan. I Hope you watch all his films in time as well as my favorite Alfred Hitchcock. Perhaps in 2025 you could do a poll for your patrons to see if you should add like a AFI (American Film Institute) top 100 movies of all time. This film pulls no punches of the horror f war, conformity and what our hero soldiers go through that so many of us could never get through. It was a fun reaction to see.
Addie, I am impressed by your willingness to take on these tough-to-watch movies. I imagine you surprise yourself sometimes. You’re stronger than you know.
96.8k subscribers- you’re almost there.
Lol Addie I love you, if there's ever a meet up please let me know. Your my fav celeb. My kids tease me how many times can I watch the same person watch different movies lol
Addie, if this blew your mind you should try Clockworld Orange, another Stanley Kubrick movie.
Best watched with a tall glass of Milk Plus
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I've done that one a few times. The first time I went up, I got up there quite fast and started to throw my leg over, I did freeze for a couple of seconds. It's quite high up there. Somehow, the the idea of going back down was worse than the climbing part.
After the first time it was easier.
Yeah Adds, this is a classic!!
Ronald Lee Ermey was an American actor and U.S. Marine drill instructor. He achieved fame for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He was also a United States Marine Corps staff sergeant and an honorary gunnery sergeant.
Ermey was initially hired by the production only as a technical advisor. His intense familiarity with the role had perfected his delivery and fluency of improvisation to a level you could not hope to discover in a professional actor, no matter how many takes they were given.
Seeking authenticity for the war movie, Director Kubrick allowed Ermey to write, edit and improvise his own dialogue. His was the only performance in a Kubrick film that had a significant proportion of improvised dialogue, with Ermey writing more than 50 percent of his dialogue.
That's one hell of a sniper to be that accurate with iron sights and no scope
If you are curious, Semper Fi is short for Sempre Fidelis, Latin for Always Faithful.
There are a lot of movies that show the horrors of war but this one is best at showing the absurdity. I understand why a lot of vets like this film because I"m sure they experienced plenty of the absurd aspects of warfare or being in the military.
The little VC girl sniper set out a honey pot - she didn't kill 8-ball and Doc J with her first shot so she could pick more off when they tried to retrieve the first two.
"I don't know if now is time for jokes" I then spit out my coffee~
I saw that Addie was going to watch this movie and immediately thought of the bathroom scene and how scarred she will be from watching this movie. But this movie doesnt sugarcoat the reality of war. ❤
Great reaction Addie to a great war movie. Big thumbs up
There's a lot of duality, and change represented in this movie. Joker, and Cowboy are similar in height, build, and they both wear glasses. Sometimes it's represented magically. Gomer Pyle is the biggest recruit, and changes into a killer. Animal Mother is the biggest in the squad, and is introduced as the most reliable killer. As if Pyle has magically changed into Animal. His helmet reads a line from the Bhagavad Gita "I am become death". It refers to Vishnu urging the prince to do his duty to impress him changes into his many armed form saying "I am become Death. The destroyer of worlds". (It's also what Oppenheimer, head of the Atomic bomb project, says he thought after the first bomb test). Animal has the biggest gun and many other weapons' on him, many arms. What was he before he became Death? Gomer Pyle.
Another scene of magical change everybody missed for all the years since the movie came out. They are all firing on a building. They stop firing, and there is a montage of shots of the men listening. During that listening montage the point man's ammo magazine is magically not in his gun. They change their magazines, and the magazine is back in the gun. He drops the magazine out of the gun, and fumbles getting another in missing the first enemies that run out. The whole scene is about changing magazines focusing particularly on the point man, and his magazine. But nobody catches on he has a magical disappearing, and reappearing magazine. The point is it's about duality, and changes that only perceptive people notice.
There's more to this that involves me personally, Kubrick, Richard Feynman, quantum mechanics, dark matter, and sorcery, as well as many other things but I won't go into details here.
Saw an actor who was in Fawlty Towers and if you haven’t watched that series it’s a must.
As former marine, I love watching reactions to the boot camp portion of this movie.
Oh boy this is going to go over well............edit: handling it very well.......so far
Its the look of shock. That cracks me up
Yes, this is Basic Marine Corp Training on Paris Island, SC. This is what Marines do. God Bless the Corp.
The door gunner on the helicopter was the original actor to play the drill instructor. When R. Lee Ermy got the part he was given the gunner's scene.
Dolls or things in the road are pretty common for IEDs.
Fun Facts about the filming of Full Metal Jacket.
Kubrick filmed Full Metal Jacket in England in 1985 and 1986. Scenes were filmed in Cambridgeshire, the Norfolk Broads, in eastern London at Millennium Mills and Beckton Gas Works in Newham, and in the Isle of Dogs. Bassingbourn Barracks, a former Royal Air Force station and then British Army base, was used as the Parris Island Marine boot camp. A British Army rifle range near Barton, Cambridge, was used for the scene in which Hartman congratulates Private Pyle for his shooting skills. Kubrick worked from still photographs of Huế taken in 1968; he found an area owned by British Gas that closely resembled it and was scheduled to be demolished. The disused Beckton Gas Works, a few miles from central London, was filmed to depict Huế after attacks. Kubrick had buildings blown up, and the film's art director used a wrecking ball to knock specific holes in some buildings for two months. Kubrick had a plastic replica jungle flown in from California but once he saw it dismissed the idea, saying; "I don't like it. Get rid of it." The open country scenes were filmed at marshland in Cliffe-at-Hoo and along the River Thames; locations were supplemented with 200 imported Spanish palm trees and 100,000 plastic tropical plants from Hong Kong.
Kubrick acquired four M41 tanks from a Belgian army colonel who was an admirer. Westland Wessex helicopters, which have a much longer and less-rounded nose than that of the Vietnam era H-34, were painted Marine green to represent Marine Corps Sikorsky H-34 Choctaw helicopters. Kubrick obtained a selection of rifles, M79 grenade launchers, and M60 machine guns from a licensed weapons dealer.
Modine described the filming as difficult; Beckton Gas Works was a toxic environment for the film crew, being contaminated with asbestos and hundreds of other chemicals. During the boot camp sequence of the film, Modine and the other recruits underwent Marine Corps training, during which Ermey yelled at them for 10 hours a day while filming the Parris Island scenes. To ensure the actors' reactions to Ermey's lines were as authentic and fresh as possible, Ermey and the recruits did not rehearse together. For film continuity, each recruit had his head shaved once a week.
Ermy also has a minor role in Apocalypse Now as a helicopter pilot.
It’s also worth reading up on the Mai Lai Massacre; one of the most horrific incidents to take place during the Vietnam War.
I highly recommend Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam epic…..Apocalypse Now. Just make sure you watch The Final Cut. Also, the Ken Burns documentary titled ‘The Vietnam War’ is stunning & features interviews with both US & Vietnamese veterans.
Checkout a forgotten Kubrick film that everyone forgets to mention, Paths Of Glory with Kirk Douglas.
I saw that once in my film class in high school, it's incredibly underrated. I find it odd how Spartacus is so much more well known, despite being not nearly as good.
@LockeDemosthenes2
I hate to say it but I think Spartacus is boring.
So is Barry Lyndon.
Full metal jacket was my favourite movie but after re-watching it now I know why my friend doesn’t want me to watch it well I’m gonna go watch The Batman again
" A Clockwork Orange " Kubrick
leave poor Addie alone!^^
Great reaction Addie! I luv how open you are to listening to some of the drill instructors cadence songs especially the "this is my rifle this is my gun" song... Addie 'i mean it is catchy'! Haha lol and it is catchy! Thanks for sharing Addie ❤️💛
U gotta type in here, how R Lee Ermy got the part in gull metal jacket! He's done lots of great movies. Like Se7en. His first movie was also as a drill sergeant in the great movie, Boys in Company C! One of the cheats he did to get the part? He typed, single spaced, back and front, 20 sheets of insults dialogue and gave to one of the assistant directors!😮😮😮
Also don’t worry the shining scared me as well so whenever someone mentions it I always say don’t mention that dang movie