I met gunny about 4 years ago at a gunshop in Georgia where he was there on a promotional for Glock. Got to speak with him for several minutes and took a picture with him that I still have to this day. He gave me an autographed photo and a coin. Not even a year later he was gone. I'm very thankful for that time to meet R. Lee Ermey, what an honor. Rest in peace Gunny.
It was because he wasn't an actor, but he did it so well they replaced the real actor with him because he was a DI. Just in case you didn't know, either way a great movie.
Yea like the others said, he was brought on as a consultant since he was an actual DS. The guy that fires the machine gun from the helicopter as Joker and his byddy are heading to the lines was the original actor hired. Ermey however being a natural was just showing what it looks like and Kubrick was so fascitnated he changed the actors.
Little known fact: Before doing the part of Hartman, R. Lee Ermey read the script and told Stanley Kubrick that this is not how a Marine drill instructor would talk or train . Basically the whole boot camp scene was rewritten with Ermey supervising.
I was a recruit at Parris Island - Jan-Mar 1966. I believe that was the same year depicted in this movie. The portrayal of life during boot camp is the most accurate depiction of what I went through, the only exception being they did not have Gunnery Sergeants as senior DI's. We had a E6 Staff as senior and 2 E5's as juniors. Also, the famous "Jelly Doughnut" scene could not have occurred as they never had jelly doughnuts at any of the Mess Halls. That was referred to a "Pogey Bait" The weapon shown here is the M14, accurate for the time as the M16 was not yet fully adopted by the Corps. Confidence course was similar and the last 2 day bivouac at Elliot's Beach was pretty close to what took place. Back then was a big, big push to get recruits trained & graduated as they needed warm bodies in Vietnam. The month I graduated (March), Parris Island set the all time record of graduating 11,000 green machines. The training regimen was cut from 11 to 8 weeks and recruit platoon size was increased. My platoon PLT214, had almost 80 recruits. All in all it was a really fun time....Not!
I was thinking the same thing. I went through basic training much later, and we didn't have any jelly donuts lol. I was thinking to myself - man, they had jelly donuts in the 60's, couldn't have been all that bad! The closest thing we had to a dessert was disgusting bread pudding that was made from the left over bread from previous days.
Gunny appeared in quite a few movies after FMJ. He was every bit an actor as he was an actual DI. He was very funny in his portrayal of televangelist Jimmy Lee Farnsworth alongside Chevy Chase in "Fletch Lives". But DI Hartmann was always his defining role. RIP, Gunny!
Ermey and D'Onofrio carried the first half of the movie and made it absolutely iconic. Such a shame they both died right before the second half. The second part isn't as bad as some people portray it, but it surely doesn't even compare to the first half.
Gunny was just like my senior drill instructor, Gunnery Sergeant Otto Williamson Platoon 149 MCRD San Diego March 1967. What a drill instructor he was. We went through boot camp trained by the best. Gunny Williamson, I don't know if you are still with us but thanks for the training.
This movie never got the respect it deserved when it was first released. As with many of Kubrick's films over time it will be regarded as a cinematic masterpiece.
I first saw this movie on a Sunday afternoon in August, before colleges had started classes but the football players were practicing. The whole team from St. Cloud State University came into the theater and you can imagine the laughing, joking, etc that was going on between the nearly 100 college football players. Half way thru the movie you could hear a pin drop.
The addition of that rusty, creaky metal sound in the music.... ingenious touch. It sounds a bit like an asylum-kind of madness; or a junked merry-go-round. Monotonous, alien, and nihilistic. ☠️
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) also had these creepy sound effects in their music that really makes you feel uneasy, the instruments they used were a tuning fork on piano strings to make it sound like whether it would be: an old flash of a camera, a door creek, screeching on a chalkboard, a metal fork rusting on a metal plate or glass.
My old high school history teacher is retired Marine Lieutenant. I remember when I was a junior in high school back in 1990, he said he had a raw deal after returning from Nam. He was treated badly and got his uniform spat on for serving his country and following orders without any politic in his mind. Then the Persian Gulf War started and he was hoping the troops weren’t treated badly at home like his generation.
Times change, lessons learned, It didn't hurt that the average age of a soldier in Vietnam was 18-26 and in the 1st Gulf war was 33yrs old. Drafted army vs a professional, volunteer army. A motivated soldier is almost always more effective than one that is not. There was also 'First Blood' and 'Platoon' to bring the reality of the effects of Vietnam home to those who didn't know. The late 70's was a dark time for the USA in regards to our soldiers. Lesson learned: Don't let politics get in the way of the war.
The reason why R. Lee Ermey played so well the part of a U.S. Marine Corp drill instructor, it's because he was a Marine drill structure himself in real life's. Awesome movie, and amazing actors cast.
A family member went into The Marines a year after this movie was released. Fast foward 30 years to you tube where actual footage of Marine Corps boot camp is posted. The movie was excellent and I always used that movie as a reference to what The Marines are about. After seeing the real life video of boot camp though, a civilian can truly see what difficulty really means. That title of Marine is earned.
Remember that the official videos of boot camp are heavily sanitized for the public, the way that this mash-up was heavily sanitized for general audiences.
He gave an interview about his time as D.I. during the Vietnam war. They had little time to train them so they were as tough as regulations allowed and sometimes tougher. They wanted the kids to come back, tough love.
Gotta have my son's watch this one. We were just talking about this the other night. Ermey rocked the role! Was so happy to see him get Mail Call later on!
@@bobv3973 Let's just say that today's modern military training can be summed up in a few words.... *"It starts in California with Emma and her two moms...."*
@@bobv3973 not at all Joined in 99 and back then I wondered if this was the military training my mom and dad were warning me about. I'm certain it's only gotten worse.
A lot of the boot camp scenes were very close to what I experienced in boot camp. Not all of it, but much of it including the physical abuse. In fact, one of my processing DI's was court martialed for abusing privates. The boot camp scenes still give me skills year later. I love the Corps and loved this movie. Lee Emery was spot on with his performance because he actually lived it.
RIP R Lee Ermey. I used to watch his show “Lock n Load” about the history of military weapons when I was little. My grand-uncle (dad’s uncle) met him once too, as he’s a big military historian in my family.
I was lucky enough to have seen this in the theatre, and it was amazing. I would say I like certain parts, but when you realize how much went into the making of it, you may realize you like the entire movie as a whole. I really love the music in the second half of the movie which was made by Stanley Kubrick's daughter
Ermey did most of that unscripted, and Kubrick who was a perfectionist let him do it, because it was better than perfect. Perhaps the greatest performance in film of all time. DiNiro is only one who can come close but only because of volume of work.
The M14 anyone thats ever heard one will never forget the sound and once converted to semi-auto it wasn’t a bad rifle for the time you just needed to sight it correctly 🇺🇸
The M14 is a great weapon. Much better than the M16 that replaced it. The two Gulf Wars finally got it through the thick heads at the Pentagon that the .223 is not the caliber for war.
Swift unexpected hit to Solar plexus with the drill instructors thumb…changed my life, instantly. Nothing like you think. Other Marines know. 50 years later I gasp for air just writing this comment.☠️
Occasionally some 18 year old kid will ask me if they should join the Army. I always tell them to watch Full Metal Jacket before they make a decision. Fact is, if you sign up to the Army they own you lock, stock, and barrel. You don't get to decide where they deploy you. You are just a resource at their disposal. In every case they lose interest in the military quickly after watching this movie. It's a brilliant movie and Kubrick was a master at creating art via film.
Out of everything in Marine bootcamp I enjoyed the rifle range first time firing the M16 was awesome, I shot expert and shooting my pellet rifle at home paid off 🙂, the DIs weren't always choosing me to the squad bay after qualifying with the rifle, was starting to keep up with the platoon during PT after this obstacle and got My second wind. That pain you get on your side when you're running was just a figment of my imagination yep the Gunny was right, I passed my water survival. I entered@17 years old in 22FEB79 weighed 115 pounds, 5ft 6in the smallest in the platoon, put on double rations in the chow hall luckily some recruits would help me finish my chow cause we only had so long to eat 👍, graduation was on Mother's day and even though nobody in my family was in San Diego, I was excited getting home to San Antonio to prove everyone wrong that I would never be Marine 💓✊.
I went through San Diego MCRD in 1963 when I was just seventeen. Boot Camp was actually worse than they portray it in FMJ. I spent four years in the Corps and was discharged at the rank of sergeant. I served in Vietnam with the 1st Battalion 9th Marines. The Marine's training is tough because war is tough. And the Marines always get the worst jobs with the highest casualties because they are the best killers in the business.
Amazing that his initial involvement with this movie was the script writers not knowing what a genuine d.i. speech sounded like...him, a tape recorder, and a few hours later, and history was made. RIP, sir...Semper Fi...once a Marine, *always* a Marine!
Ok, where are the various profanities in this Quip. Look, I made it through 1968 Marine Boot Camp and Profanity and Beatings were just about 24/7. Alot worse than Full Metal Jacket could ever depict. Once I arrived in NAM, I understood why the Beatings and Profane language was beat into us. I survived the War, but mental wounds will always remain, Semper Fi my brothers.
I love this movie and love R. Lee Ermey the guy killed it as a Drill Instructor this movie and Heartbreak Ridge with Clint Eastwood are two of my favorite Marine movies
Frank Sutton (Sargent Carter) From Gomer Pyle USMC was also a Gunnery Sargent in Marines. Frank Sutton was much more believable as a DI then R Lee Ermey ever was. Fact!! "I can`t hear you!!"
Ermey agreed to be an advisor on set just so he could audition for this role which had already been assigned. He made a video showing the actor what a real drill sergeant is like, and Kubrick was like, uhhh, I think we have our man. Imagine this movie without him.
My own boot in the Army was no where near as hard, mentally, as this was. Personally, I think with every successive generation of "refinement" in training, the absence of physical violence makes the armed forces weaker. You don't know what you're made of until you get punched in the face. Most people I've ever known spend their whole lives being afraid to fight or even get punched. It's a cowardly life to live...to be unaware of your own psychological make-up and what your limits are. When you put people into a situation where they have to fight for their lives and haven't even started to figure that out yet, it's a recipe for a poor outcome
I agree with you. I got my own “physical” test when I was young getting bullied in school. I don’t wish that treatment on anyone it did teach me toughness and solidarity. In a controlled environment such as self defense class, this could be a way for them to learn.
The Texas Department of Corrections conducts outstanding close quarters combat, Weapons manufacture, subtrifuge, interrogation survival technique, survival in enemy territory...I don't know what training the guards are taught though.
Ermey was a D.I. in Hollywood (San Diego). I spent 4 in the Corps. Platoon 265, Parris Island, June 23, 1972 to September 22, 1976. MOS 6712, MCAS El Toro. Semper Fi
The fact that R. Lee Ermey was not scripted to play the role, and literally stole it and made it his own, should have earned him an Oscar... Semper Fi
How about the fact that he's pulled that stunt more than once?
sure was he was brilliant
Aye sir
It earned him a Golden Globe! Just fyi
Your rifle is your woman. Love her.
I met gunny about 4 years ago at a gunshop in Georgia where he was there on a promotional for Glock. Got to speak with him for several minutes and took a picture with him that I still have to this day. He gave me an autographed photo and a coin. Not even a year later he was gone. I'm very thankful for that time to meet R. Lee Ermey, what an honor. Rest in peace Gunny.
I went to his brewery in Lancaster CA. Didnt meet him though
Cool 😎
@@abefroman8821 Ahhh. Beeeerrr 👍
His acting was spot on. He was incredible
Did he insult you too?
R. Lee Ermey should have won an Oscar for this. Few actors took a role to this level.
It was because he wasn't an actor, but he did it so well they replaced the real actor with him because he was a DI. Just in case you didn't know, either way a great movie.
He would have been nominated for an Oscar had he not ordered the recruits to give their rifle a "Girl's" name.
Nah, he wasn't acting - just doing his thing.
He become a legend - it's even better, than some Oscar.
Yea like the others said, he was brought on as a consultant since he was an actual DS. The guy that fires the machine gun from the helicopter as Joker and his byddy are heading to the lines was the original actor hired. Ermey however being a natural was just showing what it looks like and Kubrick was so fascitnated he changed the actors.
Little known fact: Before doing the part of Hartman, R. Lee Ermey read the script and told Stanley Kubrick that this is not how a Marine drill instructor would talk or train . Basically the whole boot camp scene was rewritten with Ermey supervising.
Got to give Stanley credit for heeding his advice.
I'm 74, but I remember when I was 19 and enlisted, I met fellows just like this. They changed my life.........FOREVER!
Are you were in Vietnam?
Just another lucky man. !!
And how you lose in NAM... You remember that...
this is nothing. the drill sergeant was very very kind to those soldiers. they have no idea how bad it gets when the enemy gets them.
Me too
This is , and more likely will always be, one of the most accurate portrayal of boot camp one will ever see.
I can confirm, however this woke generation is now doing gender integrated training so it’s making them softer
Agree
You need to amend your statement.... this USED to be what bootcamp was like. The Corps is not what it used to be.
@@AJxxxxxxxx yea for all 72 different genders.
Not anymore. The military has gone soft unfortunately.
I told a Marine that I was 101st ABN in Vietnam. He said "the Screaming Eagles were F-in' crazy". The best compliment I ever received.
"the tip of the spear" 🇺🇸🤙🏻
@@Cola64 Yep.
Welcome home.
When 101st was AIRBORNE NOR AIR ASSAULT?
@@e.a.corral4713 Yep.
How this film or Lee Ermey didn't win an Oscar is beyond belief
I havent seen one single performance of the nominees in 1988
Don't be silly. The character is too one-sided and stereotypical so as to be its own parody.
Despite of his goat performance, in this film he just being himself, not acting.
Technically he wasn’t acting. He just being his self from when he was a drill Sargent, but yeah he should won an Oscar
I haven't even seen the film and I'm intimidated 😅
This to me is a masterpiece. I remember a couple of my Drill Sergeants quoting lines from this movie.
I was a recruit at Parris Island - Jan-Mar 1966. I believe that was the same year depicted in this movie. The portrayal of life during boot camp is the most accurate depiction of what I went through, the only exception being they did not have Gunnery Sergeants as senior DI's. We had a E6 Staff as senior and 2 E5's as juniors. Also, the famous "Jelly Doughnut" scene could not have occurred as they never had jelly doughnuts at any of the Mess Halls. That was referred to a "Pogey Bait"
The weapon shown here is the M14, accurate for the time as the M16 was not yet fully adopted by the Corps. Confidence course was similar and the last 2 day bivouac at Elliot's Beach was pretty close to what took place.
Back then was a big, big push to get recruits trained & graduated as they needed warm bodies in Vietnam. The month I graduated (March), Parris Island set the all time record of graduating 11,000 green machines. The training regimen was cut from 11 to 8 weeks and recruit platoon size was increased. My platoon PLT214, had almost 80 recruits.
All in all it was a really fun time....Not!
Thank you for your insight!
SEMPER FI!
I was thinking the same thing. I went through basic training much later, and we didn't have any jelly donuts lol. I was thinking to myself - man, they had jelly donuts in the 60's, couldn't have been all that bad! The closest thing we had to a dessert was disgusting bread pudding that was made from the left over bread from previous days.
I've watched this movie so many times, ill never get tired of it
Never gets old. Awesome.
Thank you from everyone on FMJ Stew FMJ Crew.
"Well Joker,...........I've got a joke for you"?,...
He should of got an Oscar for that performance .He made the movie credible.He had been an actual “gunny” in the marine core.
Here we go again why u Americans talk like that.Its he should HAVE got an Oscar not he should OF got an Oscar
Simply one of the greatest movies ever made.
This is one of Kubricks Best, right up there with 2001 and Clockwork Orange.
Gunny appeared in quite a few movies after FMJ. He was every bit an actor as he was an actual DI. He was very funny in his portrayal of televangelist Jimmy Lee Farnsworth alongside Chevy Chase in "Fletch Lives". But DI Hartmann was always his defining role. RIP, Gunny!
Vincent D'Onofrio is the hero of the first 30 min. Freaking chilling.
Ermey and D'Onofrio carried the first half of the movie and made it absolutely iconic. Such a shame they both died right before the second half. The second part isn't as bad as some people portray it, but it surely doesn't even compare to the first half.
@@LucasTheUltimate uh SPOILER!
The best part of this movie, is that R Lee Ermey was only there as an advisor initially.
Gunny was just like my senior drill instructor, Gunnery Sergeant Otto Williamson Platoon 149 MCRD San Diego March 1967. What a drill instructor he was. We went through boot camp trained by the best. Gunny Williamson, I don't know if you are still with us but thanks for the training.
4:58 shouldn't it have been sir goodnight sir.
This movie never got the respect it deserved when it was first released. As with many of Kubrick's films over time it will be regarded as a cinematic masterpiece.
One of the best films ever.
We Salute all Drill Instructors who make MEN out of boys.....carry on
The M-14 is one great long guns. Still used today 9-8-24. Special ops. love it. Power at a long range and reliable.
I first saw this movie on a Sunday afternoon in August, before colleges had started classes but the football players were practicing. The whole team from St. Cloud State University came into the theater and you can imagine the laughing, joking, etc that was going on between the nearly 100 college football players. Half way thru the movie you could hear a pin drop.
This movie is a work of art. I guess you guys were not ready for that.
The addition of that rusty, creaky metal sound in the music.... ingenious touch. It sounds a bit like an asylum-kind of madness; or a junked merry-go-round. Monotonous, alien, and nihilistic. ☠️
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) also had these creepy sound effects in their music that really makes you feel uneasy, the instruments they used were a tuning fork on piano strings to make it sound like whether it would be: an old flash of a camera, a door creek, screeching on a chalkboard, a metal fork rusting on a metal plate or glass.
It's so foreboding &.ominous ..depressing but it works. Rust & metal& death
@@michaelvasques4695 Full METAL Jacket indeed
Vert similar to Chernobyl mini series
whats the name of the music
They should totally release this back out into the theaters!
My old high school history teacher is retired Marine Lieutenant. I remember when I was a junior in high school back in 1990, he said he had a raw deal after returning from Nam. He was treated badly and got his uniform spat on for serving his country and following orders without any politic in his mind. Then the Persian Gulf War started and he was hoping the troops weren’t treated badly at home like his generation.
Times change, lessons learned, It didn't hurt that the average age of a soldier in Vietnam was 18-26 and in the 1st Gulf war was 33yrs old. Drafted army vs a professional, volunteer army.
A motivated soldier is almost always more effective than one that is not.
There was also 'First Blood' and 'Platoon' to bring the reality of the effects of Vietnam home to those who didn't know. The late 70's was a dark time for the USA in regards to our soldiers. Lesson learned: Don't let politics get in the way of the war.
This movie is the closest portrayal to actual boot camp that I've ever seen. SEMPER FI!
excellent mash up. Ermy was a drill sergeant during the Vietnam War.
The reason why R. Lee Ermey played so well the part of a U.S. Marine Corp drill instructor, it's because he was a Marine drill structure himself in real life's. Awesome movie, and amazing actors cast.
R.I.P 😢 🥀
*R. Lee Ermey*
RIP Lemmy too ;)
A family member went into The Marines a year after this movie was released. Fast foward 30 years to you tube where actual footage of Marine Corps boot camp is posted. The movie was excellent and I always used that movie as a reference to what The Marines are about. After seeing the real life video of boot camp though, a civilian can truly see what difficulty really means. That title of Marine is earned.
Remember that the official videos of boot camp are heavily sanitized for the public, the way that this mash-up was heavily sanitized for general audiences.
One of the best war movie ever .
This trailer was absolutely phenomenal, props to whoever edited this.
Why did he not get an Oscar for this?? Real experience shone through over playing a character.
Fact: The gunny wasn’t acting here.
True. And most of his performance was improvised.
He gave an interview about his time as D.I. during the Vietnam war. They had little time to train them so they were as tough as regulations allowed and sometimes tougher. They wanted the kids to come back, tough love.
Gotta have my son's watch this one. We were just talking about this the other night. Ermey rocked the role! Was so happy to see him get Mail Call later on!
iconic acting performance from lee ermy and one of the best scenes in cinema history
Sound off like you've got a pair!!
SIR YES SIR!!!!
I wish I would’ve had this training during my recruit training on Parris Island
They don't train like this anymore?
@@bobv3973
Let's just say that today's modern military training can be summed up in a few words....
*"It starts in California with Emma and her two moms...."*
@@bobv3973 No. The military went soft.
@@bobv3973 not at all
Joined in 99 and back then I wondered if this was the military training my mom and dad were warning me about. I'm certain it's only gotten worse.
They dnt but it’s no cake walk either tbh it depend on ur mindset for my opinion I liked it just wish it was tougher like this guess I’m old school
Vincent D'Onofrio is a great actor
I've watched the first half dozens of times but only saw all of it once.
No expletives can give justice to this movie. Just MAGNIFICENT.
Who better to play a drill sergeant in a movie than an actual drill sergeant. Always and forever Gunny. May you train the angels in heaven well.
Not a drill sergeant in the marines, drill instructor.
up there nothing matters anymore
Marines are spelled with a capital M @@Jisstifer83626
A lot of the boot camp scenes were very close to what I experienced in boot camp. Not all of it, but much of it including the physical abuse. In fact, one of my processing DI's was court martialed for abusing privates. The boot camp scenes still give me skills year later. I love the Corps and loved this movie. Lee Emery was spot on with his performance because he actually lived it.
RIP R Lee Ermey. I used to watch his show “Lock n Load” about the history of military weapons when I was little. My grand-uncle (dad’s uncle) met him once too, as he’s a big military historian in my family.
I got to be honest I loved his other show mail call even more! RIP gunny
R.I.P. every crew and cast who has passed. R.I.P. R. Lee Ermey.
Every Marine knows those barracks and bunks footlockers … I could go on. Legendary film.
I was lucky enough to have seen this in the theatre, and it was amazing.
I would say I like certain parts, but when you realize how much went into the making of it, you may realize you like the entire movie as a whole.
I really love the music in the second half of the movie which was made by Stanley Kubrick's daughter
The best training exercise in the army of full metal jacket ive ever seen 🎉❤
The first half of this movie is pure, acting, editing, directing, producing, perfection....
I got to see the gunny at my USMC graduation. That was a great day. Rest easy Gunny. Pouring a little out for you this moment.
Ermey did most of that unscripted, and Kubrick who was a perfectionist let him do it, because it was better than perfect. Perhaps the greatest performance in film of all time. DiNiro is only one who can come close but only because of volume of work.
Should have been an Oscar nominee/winner...classic role...
The M14 anyone thats ever heard one will never forget the sound and once converted to semi-auto it wasn’t a bad rifle for the time you just needed to sight it correctly 🇺🇸
William w. Johnstone tried to make that weapon famous in his Ashes series.
The M14 is a great weapon. Much better than the M16 that replaced it. The two Gulf Wars finally got it through the thick heads at the Pentagon that the .223 is not the caliber for war.
What a classic!!!
Swift unexpected hit to Solar plexus with the drill instructors thumb…changed my life, instantly. Nothing like you think. Other Marines know. 50 years later I gasp for air just writing this comment.☠️
Brings back Fond Memories - MCRD San Diego 1977 "Hollywood Marine"
“Hit it sweetheart” 😂😂😂😂
First part of that movie is the best.. hands down greatest movie
Occasionally some 18 year old kid will ask me if they should join the Army. I always tell them to watch Full Metal Jacket before they make a decision. Fact is, if you sign up to the Army they own you lock, stock, and barrel. You don't get to decide where they deploy you. You are just a resource at their disposal. In every case they lose interest in the military quickly after watching this movie. It's a brilliant movie and Kubrick was a master at creating art via film.
"Do you think I'm cute Private Pyle ?" "Do you think I'm funny ?"
Private Pyle was a brilliant comedian & acting talent;; it impossible to redo a TV show ;; Addams family ;; I admit did it in the 1990s
Beautiful.
Out of everything in Marine bootcamp I enjoyed the rifle range first time firing the M16 was awesome, I shot expert and shooting my pellet rifle at home paid off 🙂, the DIs weren't always choosing me to the squad bay after qualifying with the rifle, was starting to keep up with the platoon during PT after this obstacle and got My second wind. That pain you get on your side when you're running was just a figment of my imagination yep the Gunny was right, I passed my water survival. I entered@17 years old in 22FEB79 weighed 115 pounds, 5ft 6in the smallest in the platoon, put on double rations in the chow hall luckily some recruits would help me finish my chow cause we only had so long to eat 👍, graduation was on Mother's day and even though nobody in my family was in San Diego, I was excited getting home to San Antonio to prove everyone wrong that I would never be Marine 💓✊.
Our smallest recruit was the platoon “Mouse”. Every now and then you would hear, “MOUSE”. He was the DI’s gopher.
I met him at his brewery in Palmdale CA about 7 years ago. Really down to earth guy, and loves his Marines. Was an honor to meet him
I went through San Diego MCRD in 1963 when I was just seventeen. Boot Camp was actually worse than they portray it in FMJ. I spent four years in the Corps and was discharged at the rank of sergeant. I served in Vietnam with the 1st Battalion 9th Marines. The Marine's training is tough because war is tough. And the Marines always get the worst jobs with the highest casualties because they are the best killers in the business.
Amazing that his initial involvement with this movie was the script writers not knowing what a genuine d.i. speech sounded like...him, a tape recorder, and a few hours later, and history was made. RIP, sir...Semper Fi...once a Marine, *always* a Marine!
Yep the actor who was originally given this part ended up doing the door machine gunner in the Huey helicopter role.
Ok, where are the various profanities in this Quip. Look, I made it through 1968 Marine Boot Camp and Profanity and Beatings were just about 24/7. Alot worse than Full Metal Jacket could ever depict. Once I arrived in NAM, I understood why the Beatings and Profane language was beat into us. I survived the War, but mental wounds will always remain, Semper Fi my brothers.
🙏🙏Thank you for your service 😊
Welcome Home!✌️❤️🩹❤️
That this movie was shot on a set, with 5000 plastic palm trees, still amazes me, it looks so real.
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive. You’re married to this piece….and you will be faithful. What a great movie.
AHHHHH! THAT'S A WAR FACE!
Rest in peace drill Sargent thanks for your service
Thank you to all of you who have served or are currently serving
He was perfect in this role because he was not acting
Our favourite Sgt Lee Ermey perhaps watching us from heaven and smiles.
Throw this in the theater as a preview and 100% of people would show up to see it.
This basic Training..saved...my life...
I love this movie and love R. Lee Ermey the guy killed it as a Drill Instructor this movie and Heartbreak Ridge with Clint Eastwood are two of my favorite Marine movies
Correction: I am your SENIOR Drill Instructor.
Frank Sutton (Sargent Carter) From Gomer Pyle USMC was also a Gunnery Sargent in Marines. Frank Sutton was much more believable as a DI then R Lee Ermey ever was. Fact!!
"I can`t hear you!!"
Still the best war movie ever made thanks the Ermey. RIP.
Um dos melhores filmes de guerra que já assisti. 🇧🇷
Great actor and a great marine he served his country semper fi R.I.P.
Einer der Besten FIlme überhaupt! Und der Drill würde der Jugend von heute nur gut tun !
Ermey agreed to be an advisor on set just so he could audition for this role which had already been assigned. He made a video showing the actor what a real drill sergeant is like, and Kubrick was like, uhhh, I think we have our man. Imagine this movie without him.
This message is Late, but from Western Australia. May you Rest In Eternal Peace "Gunny". Semper Fi Gunnery Sergeant Ermey.
He’s the best thing about the movie
i cant wait till this is rereleased in 8k
I missed the lottery and stayed in college. But I wished I had served in the Marines. I wanted to be a soldier back then and this movie was inspiring.
My own boot in the Army was no where near as hard, mentally, as this was. Personally, I think with every successive generation of "refinement" in training, the absence of physical violence makes the armed forces weaker. You don't know what you're made of until you get punched in the face. Most people I've ever known spend their whole lives being afraid to fight or even get punched. It's a cowardly life to live...to be unaware of your own psychological make-up and what your limits are. When you put people into a situation where they have to fight for their lives and haven't even started to figure that out yet, it's a recipe for a poor outcome
I agree with you. I got my own “physical” test when I was young getting bullied in school. I don’t wish that treatment on anyone it did teach me toughness and solidarity.
In a controlled environment such as self defense class, this could be a way for them to learn.
The Texas Department of Corrections conducts outstanding close quarters combat, Weapons manufacture, subtrifuge, interrogation survival technique, survival in enemy territory...I don't know what training the guards are taught though.
@@stevenserna910 Your comment should be top - the school of hard knocks.... Thank you for your service!
Very nice editing here, it really presents the essence of the film.
The best drill instructor ever
An Amazing Movie
A classic among all classics!
Ermey was a D.I. in Hollywood (San Diego). I spent 4 in the Corps. Platoon 265, Parris Island, June 23, 1972 to September 22, 1976. MOS 6712, MCAS El Toro. Semper Fi
Best scene than scenes from new movies being made today.
Its always fun to read the comments to see who completely missed the point
Goodnight Ladies.
Ermney not winning an oscar for this performance is like Val Kilmer not winning for his roll as Doc Holliday in Tombstone.
ive never seen this movie before but i saw a clip and decided to watch just on his performance!
I couldn't handle being a Marine w a DI like him.