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- FULL METAL JACKET (1987) FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION
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So, Gomer Pyle didn't WANT to be there. He was drafted. The implication is that he was part of Robert McNamera's (the Secretary of Defense at the time) "Project 100,000", which was a directive to lower the IQ, mental health, and physical health standards for draftees in order to recruit 100,000 new troops for the war. This was a tragic mistake, and those troops died at more than three times the rate of draftees who met the previous standards, and consistently had worse post-war experiences with much higher rates of PTSD, substance abuse, divorce, etc.
Pyle wasn't a "fortunate son".
Pyle should never have been in there. He was clearly mentally disabled. In fact, that whole section of the film is based on a Japanese war movie that preceded it; One recruit is clearly physically and mentally unfit to be in the army, ends up enduring the same cruelty and snaps.
Also, anyone else notice how Animal Mother looks very like Pyle, if he had made it through? He's a subtle nod to how Hartman envisioned him becoming "born-again hard".
There is no evidence to support what you are saying, none whatsoever.
@carl32 McNamara believed in eugenics. It wasn't that it was unfortunate... It was intentional.
There is no reason to think he was drafted. Very few draftees went to the Marine Corps during Vietnam.
R. Lee Ermey who played Sgt. Hartman was at one time a real Sgt. and drill instructer in the U.S. Marines. He came up with a lot of his own lines in this movie.
He was nominated for an Oscar for this role
Watch him in "The Boys in Company C". That was his first film. He played a more sympathetic Drill Instructor.
He pretty much wrote all of them. He was originally hired as a technical adviser to help write the lines. Tim Colceri, who wound up being the machine gunner in Joker and Rafterman's chopper, was already cast, but Ermey told Kubrick he wanted the part. Ermey made a bunch of tapes of himself hurling insults and after Kubrick watched them, he changed his mind and cast Ermey as Hartmann. Kubrick told the writers to incorporate Ermey's lines into the script.
May he R.I.P. He was also my favorite spirits in the movie The Frightners
No he didn't, long standing myth lol. He literally spoke the lines from the book, loudly and accurately as a DI would. Only difference is GySgt. Gerheim not GySgt. Hartmann. Don't believe me? Read The Short Timers, by Gus Hasford, the book the movie is based on, his lines are verbatim from the book lol.
PT = Physical Training. Sergeants love that shit. Snipers often don't kill people right away, they'll pretty much torture someone to get their buddies to rush out so they can shoot them too.
Just take them out of action. Not everything has to be a head shot. Of course in this scenario they were using wounded as bait.
Also a tactic to increase the burden on your opponent is to would soldiers rather than kill them, that way resources are spent caring for the wounded rather than fighting you.
The reality of fighting in a war isn't fun like a video game or heroic like many movies portray. Gives you an idea what veterans have to deal with after killing someone or seeing someone getting killed.
Maybe still controversial, but all those people who have seen their friends kill civilians, women and children, raping, abusing and being overall disgusting. Worst part to me is that those who did it and came out alive, are portrayed as heroes. They might be parents, a loving husband or a public figure today.
I think the ones who had/still have it the worst are those that just wanted to get home. Maybe didn't realize what they got themselves into.
PT is physical training
Beat me to it. Navy Veteran here.
@@njd4291also this movie was filmed in England
The locker was unlocked so he could open it in the dark and eat the donut, without needing to see the combination numbers. Stanley Kubrick thinks of everything.
I always loved the scene where Pvt Joker is promoted to squad lead, because there are so many layers to that whole interaction. It's a blessing and a curse/monkeys paw type situation. He respects Jokers backbone and intelligence for standing up for his beliefs in the face of his purposefully rigged question, so he promotes him to squad lead. In the same breath, he assigns the most difficult private to his unit, as a test of his newly given power. Sort of like a "You think you know better, then show me better" type deal. It's classic military methodology executed brilliantly on screen
It always kind of baffled me that scene because we do have freedom of religion afforded by the first amendment of the Constitution and since a Marine corps drill instructor has sworn an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution it seems a little bit awkward and weird that the sergeant would get so angry because private joker did not believe the same as him!!
Unless of course it was intentional rage just to see what kind of character joker really had!!
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@@bernardsalvatore1929 It could also simply be a movie and exaggerated to unknown degrees. For instance, the corps abolished corporal (physical) punishment in 1957, but FMJ is supposed to take place during the Tet Offensive, more than a decade later, and still we see the drill instructor do all kinds of things to the recruits which would have him brought up on charges.
@@Egobyte83 This was during the Vietnam War, and those drill sergeants knew they needed to get these recruits trained as best they could, and on a shortened schedule. They were also overwhelmed at the time...and lines were crossed to get the job done. The actor playing the drill instructor was a drill instructor during Vietnam, and the book this is based off of (The Short Timers) was written by Gustav Hasford, a U.S. Marine combat correspondent that served during Vietnam...sound familiar (he was Joker). According to them, that did happen.
@@bernardsalvatore1929we also have the freedom of speech afforded by the constitution but if you talk back to a senior enlisted or officer they will give you a write up for insubordination. You lose certain rights when you join up. Its the price you have to pay.
R Lee Ermey was a real drill instructor. If I remember correctly, he came up with 150 pages of insults/one-liners. Oh and PT stands for Physical Training, so the pushups, obstacle courses, running, etc. Service members will be expected to meet fitness standards throughout their enlistment.
My dad was in Vietnam and coming from his own mouth, he said this movie is a very good depiction of boot camp along with the war he experienced. I wouldn't wish his experience on anybody. What he told me he experienced is sad and brutal on so many different levels.
The tone is about right; a lot of details are Hollywood or Corps Urban Legend. Example: Rifles had been checked in at the Armory prior to the last night in boot. Although I wend to San Diego instead of Parris Island, the reality was that when we were aboard MCRD, there were no firing pins in the M-14s. Jelly donuts were not served in any USMC mess that I ever ate in, although, especially on boot mess week, people did smuggle food out, it was usually crackers or such. I seem to recall our platoon being put in the pits for some Private smuggling out individual breakfast jelly packets. Another glaring problem with the second half of the movie was, where the rest of the platoon was in Hue. Squads don't lose connection with the rest of the platoon in combat situations unless something very strange has happened. Normally, the rest of the platoon would manuevor to area where one squad ran into an enemy concentration.
My dad also served in Vietnam and said this was one of the best movies he’d seen. Certainly there are things he saw there he never told me about, and out of respect I never asked.
"Did your parents have any children that lived?! I bet they regret that!" is an insult I've said jokingly to many friends (even girlfriends lol)
This is is an anti-war movie, showing the brutal reality of warfare (both sides), not a glorious video game. Platoon, Saving Private Ryan are in a similar genre. This is happening today in Ukraine.
The beginning is probably the Russian boot camp.
Joker had no choice but to participate in the beating of Private Leonard "Gomer Pyle" Lawrence. As squad leader, all disciplinary acts & mistakes fall under his purview, which means he is solely responsible for the squad's actions. Even worse, it comes down to the MAD (mutually assured destruction) policy of the time. Basically, if Joker didnt participate, not only could he be used as a witness against the entire squad, but he would likely be next.
It's all or nothing at that point. Anyone deciding to not participate would get the same treatment. We had a guy like that in our squad and it almost came to this, but we had a 3/5 majority and just didn't have the people willing to do it. Luckily, the squad leader sat him down and it was better.
The Vietnam war had started, my uncle and his classmates had just graduated high school. In the parking Lot they had taken off the caps and gowns and taking pictures etc. The buses were there waiting to take them to boot camp. When this movie came out we went to see it. He couldn't even sit through 10 minutes of it. It just brought back such horrible memories for him
So glad to see that your channel is growing! Thanks for entertaining me with your reactions. Here’s to your success! 🍻
Animal Mother is the alternate universe Gomer Pyle, the kid that got his shit squared away before he broke down mentally like Leonard.
If you think Animal Mother isn't broken down, you missed the entire point of the film. They're all broken.
You both give the most insightful, mature opinions about these films. Thank you for your interesting takes on things.
I feel like at some point, Pyle decided he would finish training and not fail, just so the seargent couldn't win over him. Once he reached that goal, he had nothing else to live on for.
Interesting point that I'd never considered before.
This is the first time I've ever noticed them foreshadowing what Pyle does by talking about a marine being responsible for the Kenedy assassination.
That's a very interesting idea. I think that, from the moment they all beat him, he realised there was nothing else for him.
no
he was broken and that was the result of his breaking
@@zerpblerd5966 not sure who you feel you are contradicting. These things can all be true at the same time.
I’ve watched about a dozen reactions to this movie. The two of you did the best one IMO🙂! Please keep at it your channel will be big! 🙂
Since you ladies watched this, next you need to watch the other really good Vietnam movie called "Platoon". It's actually a harder movie about the war but very well done.
If you two are interested in a modern, and in my opinion very accurate, war series...Generation Kill is a good series and accurate.
PT is physical training.
The entire point of basic training is to break people down then building them back up again. Break them down, then give them confidence, give them trust in their army buddies. This is how you get someone to kill. Teaching most people to kill is VERY hard.
Why American's and others (sometimes intentionally) killed civilians during the Vietnam War: Starting in 1946 as WWII had ended, many countries all over the world sought to claim independence from the west and to end the last vestiges of colonialism.
Vietnam like many countries that were colonized had to fight for that independence. Their war started in 1948 against France. Having to earn everything while fighting against the western capitalist countries, many Vietnamese turned toward Communism. This got some rich Vietnamese involved and soon America got involved.
By the time the war started there were several factions. North Vietnamese Army (NVA), a standing communist army. The Viet Cong, southern Vietnamese people men and women who were either pro-communist, anti-American, and some just didn't want any other country interfering. By day they would have normal jobs and dress up in black at night and shoot at Americans (or bomb them etc.). The richer Vietnamese who were against the communists and pro America, and a whole bunch of people in the middle.
Imagine a bunch of Americans show up in town, and find out that two of the people there are helping the Viet Cong by supplying them with info or supplies. Well the Americans would likely just kill them.
A lot of innocent people also died because the war drove you crazy. All wars are horrible, but looking at someone two feet in front of you and not knowing whether they are just a fisherman, or are they a fisherman or the Vietcong that killed your best friend last night had to play with their minds.
Americans were over there fighting and dying for the Vietnamese people (or so they thought), they really couldn't handle it when the people they were fighting for helped the enemy, or WERE the enemy.
You're never NOT fatigued in boot camp, you might get 5 hours sleep a night, the stress plus regiment an d dramatic lifestyle changes, etc. At least when I went in in the 90s. We got PT'd fors sometimes, especially if our divion didn't get a flag during training with other recruit divisions. So there's a competition amongst the Drill instructor and others (I was in the Navy, we had RDCs)
So envision all that with Vietnam as your destination as you make it through, as here.
What year did you go in? I went in the Navy in 97 at Great Lakes.
when I saw this movie a few years back, I remember the second half of the movie was so hard to focus on because the first half was so jarring to me. It almost felt like 2 movies.
True, not having seen this in a while I almost forget the actual war part of this movie.
Also Pyle wen on to appear in Men In Black and a Law and Order series.
She's a real good sniper. She wounded the first and waited for the other soldier to come to the rescue. Now she's hitting the them in areas on the body to try and flush out the others. Finishing off them before they can give out her position.
Quite good, but she probably should have changed position/retreated when she saw they weren't falling for it after the first guy went out.
Bruh what a transition at 2:04😂😂
One of the most intense opening acts to any movie.
It’s always a delight to see that Jen x Ryl posted another awesome reaction!!!🫶🏽🫶🏽
They becoming my top 5 watching the classics
Love your reactions. You guys need to do Band of Brothers. Only 10 episodes and one of the greatest series ever! As good as any war movie you've seen.
Animal Mother has the Oppenheimer written on his helmet: Now I am Become DEATH.
Your reactions are so legit, good work ladies
4:37 "he's not grinning anymore." 😁
A lot of this was filmed at Bassingbourn Barracks near Cambridge. I was a recruit there at that time. A lot of recruits were extras in the film.
I went through Parris Island in the winter of 1977/78. At just 5ft 1in tall and 117lbs, it was tough. But I made it and ended up serving 6 years as a Expeditionary Airfield Equipment Technician. So proud of my Marine Corps career. After the jelly donut, let the blanket party begin.
Semper Fi
Thank you for your service.
Give them hell forever Devil Dog!
R Lee Emery was an actual Drill Instructor in the Marines during the Vietnam war. DIs were not allowed to abuse the recuits. But they would turn blind eye to a quick jab in the solar plexus. While this sounds brutal. It had its reasons. At this time the Marines basic training was 13 weeks long. But had been reduced to 11 weeks. Yet they still had to madter all the information of the 13 weeks. So fast punch or slap was to make the recuit under learning this is literally life and death.
Prvt Pile is the representation of the US military decision to allow men with an IQ of 48 into the service. At 48 IQ a person is barely able to care for themselves. They will struggle with things like tying their shoes. At an IQ of 48 your looking at a 5-7 year old mentality
section 8 = crazy
20:04 "gonna get married."
sounds great! ryl with the shoulder shake.
3:52 physical training
OHHH SH!T My favorite SOUL SISTAS watching another classic! What are they going to think about boot camp? Love you guys!
A very, very moving, based-on-real-life war movie that you'll never forget: HEARTBREAK RIDGE
" saving private ryan ... " be strong for this one...
Loved this reaction, love binge watching your videos
Stanley Kubrick is a master director, please react to more of his movies.
they should be watched in full appreciation
with good sound, not one ear bud
with focus, not with lights on and having a camera record them
5:25 school = church = military
scary
PT = Physical Training
PT= Poontang
It's delightful to watch you two intelligent women comment on my favorite movies. You seem to get the most of it, and the elaborations in the end are really satisfying. Thank you!. 😉
Great reaction, thanks for sharing.
If you are interested in learning more about the American involvement in Viet Nam and want an overall view of what it was like from the viet cong and the NVA perspective as well as extensive interviews with actual American soldiers that were there, then please do your best to find a book titled "The Tunnels of Cu Chi". Very intense read about a very dark time in American history. Also a quick pretense of Viet Nam from about the 1940's when they were at war with the French until the first landings of American troops. The Americans were heavily engaged in Viet Nam from about 1965-1975. A very chilling book that will open your mind. Beware some of it is tough reading. I was born in 1966 so I knew nothing about the war. I just like to read fascinating non- fiction. Cheers from canada.
More like 1965 to 1971 (If you are talking about ground troops) or 1973 (when the last US Advisors left)
PT = physical training...aka make you exercise a lot. Like pushup or some other exercise. It's usually used as a form of "correction" / punishment. You mess up...they make you do pushups or something. The idea is, pain retains, and you get in shape lol.
I like watching you ladies watch movies ive already seen. Interesting to see a Jamaican impression of various subjects.
Another great reaction! Thanks girls
You did a good reaction ladies, support from Australia 🇦🇺.
Great way to end the weekend… watch you watch a good film…😀
I've been sick with diabetes. My blood sugar went too high and got sick.
I just came across these two beautiful women and decided to give them a chance. They won my heart I must say. Their reactions are great to watch.
Love hearing their accents. Love how they cry over the tender moments of the films.
I binged watched quite a few of their videos. They aren't superficial just down to earth.
I love them!
Really enjoying your reactions and selection of films! New subscriber 😊
Love your reactions, happy to have found you two.
I enjoyed watching FMJ with you. I remember buying the VHS tape release and there was a mini movie poster with the tape.
Jyn and Ryl...my first time seeing your reactions and you were both so good and interesting. Thank you so very much!!!
Its a GREAT "tactic" for a sniper in that situation to only wound a person to try to lure hes buddys in trying to help him and it semi works here too .... ;) One of hes friends cant "resist" to rush in to help him !
Keep hurting him but not killing him will most likely get one or more of hes group to try to rescue him !
3:53 "What is PT?"
Oh. That stands for Physical Training. That's what the US Armed Forces calls working out. In the _civilian_ world, folks say, "I'm going to work out." In the US Armed Forces, we say, "I'm going to do PT."
16:20 Roll Credits!
Great editing and reaction 🫡👍🏾💪🏾
PT is Physical Training.. running push ups etc.
Great reaction ladies. PT = physical training (exercise) and a section 8 is a pyschological discharge.
I liked your both reactions of the movie... it was awesome....and wasn't offended by the language... loved this movie one of my favorites
This movie is shocking and brilliant at the same time. Many people say it is the best "Anti-War Movie" but Stankey Kubrick said once - There is no such thing as a anti war movie. No one in good conscience can seriously defend a war. You can save lives in war, but there are no damn heroes, on either side. Heroes are the roles for the dead.
War is a fundamental thing of humanity and will never change, especially the end of a war. It will always sucks. For everyone. Also this movie deals with many terrible crimes happend in the Vietnam War.
no, war is not a fundamental thing of humanity
fuhk off with your ignorance
My dear ladies, Thank you so much for your insights into a piece of my personal life experience in 1970. I carry the changes to this day, Some for the better, some not so much. God Bless!
just FYI for you ladies the person who did the role of Gomer Pyle gained 80 pounds for the role of Pyle, this was shot in England where the Director Stanley Kuberick was from , they rented an old electric company that was in the process of demolition when they made the movie and shot the whole movie in England including the war scenes and everything that was suppose to be in Vietnam because they could light fires and blow up the buildings because it didn't matter if they damaged the buildings nothing was ever shot in Vietnam , the Marine Training in the beginning had to be harsh and they needed to not be afraid to kill to get them ready to go to Vietnam, the drill instructor was an actual retired Marine drill instrcctor that was hired to be a consultant on the film but won the role because he know how and what to say to the recruits because of so many years of experience, he understood that the drill instructors had to be hard on the recruits to make them had to withstand the brutalities of fighting a war so that they coiuld adapt to the brutal combat they would face there and have the instinc from there training to know how to survive combat.
Nope. The training didn't "have to be harsh", it was intentionally written to be abusive. Drill instructors are not supposed to be abusive lol, they can be stern and hard sure but have to be overall supportive and good. Abusive training doesn't help shit.
We're talking about the training they received in the late 60s early 70s you would have no idea what the training was 50+ years ago I agree the marine training today is nothing like it was then but for people going to the Vietnam war and training back then it was alot different than today's Marines, it's still hard tough training. But nothing what like what it used to be
*Kubrick wasn’t from England, but after a point in the 1960s, he lived in England and barely left England again for the rest of his life. Kubrick was from New York with European Jewish ancestry.
This was during Vietnam Marine corp bootcamp where they were sent the survival rate was low so they had to trained this harsh and borderline abuse. They don't abuse this anymore but still kept tough training for Marines and yeah occasionally behind closed doors they do get physical.
Hey ladies! I want some watermelon too!!! So glad you 2 are reacting to this amazing StanleyKubrick film; almost ever single one of his films is a classic, btw.
The TetOffensive was the moment that most Americans finally realized ameriKa was NOT gonna win this war...And that was despite killing 2-3 million southeast Asians (Laos, Cambodia, & Vietnam). We kids were out on the streets protesting, even fighting the cops, but the war went on&on. It is the utter senselessness of war that this Kubrick film wants to reveal.
I watched to the end, & you 2 did an excellent reaction concerning something that happened long before you were born! I recommend you watch Kubrick's black comedy about nuke war: DrStrangelove!
don't forget Indonesia, where america coordinated the killing of .5 to 1 million people for voting for the wrong party. It wasn't senseless, it was to destroy countries that wanted to be independent and it worked. Vietnam was burned to the ground. The US also supported Pol Pot's group all the way into the early 90s.
This is was my military service for 6 years was like.
I wasnt in combat but I served with guys just like this. Everyone of them. For me, that's what is so realistic about this movie. They way they interact with other and the things they say.
The Vietnamese acted that way, and soldiers let them in a "save face and look like we're trying " at the same time.
Love these ladies! Jamaica 🇯🇲 is awesome.
Classic status now...Great movie....R. Lee Ermey is a long time hero of mine...His real life is more interesting than his film career, but was still awesome in the movies he was in...He plays the Sgt. in a Michael J. Fox movie called " The Frighteners "...Its worth a reaction.
PT means physical training. Its the military way of saying exercise
pause it @9:53 and you will see one of the most accurate stances of a marine core drill instructor. hands on the hips, perfect posture, and the head tilted while staring your every move down. these men are literally the most intimidating people you will ever encounter in your life. R. Lee Ermey was an actual drill instructor so he knew how to do the roll perfect
Joker was sinical and sarcastic throughout the movie, until someone close to him was killed.
Great reactions ladies
you two, just spectacular. thank you for your reviews
great analysis! blessings!
"Don't fall Private Pyle, it would break my effing heart!" hahah
The soap beating is called a blanket party. I always knew about it when I was in bootcamp, but we never did it. No other film ever comes anywhere near this close to being this realistic about bootcamp. It's funny seeing so many try. Stanley Kubrick's films are the absolute highest quality films ever made. Basically all of his films are amazing. I'd love to see you react to Barry Lyndon. No one's really reacting to it. Each frame is like a painting.
I think that basically until films like Apocalypse Now, Platoon and Full Metal Jacket came out in the 1980's, war films were almost all aimed at recruitment. They wouldn't really go into the mental aspect of war. It was tales of heroes. You can watch most any war film of the past and have a blast watching them but more recent war films are too dramatic to really enjoy much of the time.
The greatest thing about war movies, I mean the only reason to watch them is for the comradery, the bond that's formed between the men and what they'll do for each other. They're not trying to earn a paycheck or medals or save the world or whatever, they're just trying to keep each other alive. They risked their lives in this film to save their buddy and avenge the ones the sniper killed.
Well they were part of an invading force...
@@Cheepchipsable That's the main reason WW2 films are so great, it's so clear who the good guys and bad guys are and no one questions it..plus filmmakers are usually too afraid of offending the greatest generation that they leave out all the sick stuff that was actually happening, they even leave out the foul language. They're basically superhero films.
When I was in the navy we had a private Pyle type in my company and some people wanted to give him a blanket party beat him while he slept .
If you want to see one of the best war films ever made, watch "Das Boot" about a German submarine. (1981)
The _Full Metal Jacket_ is what makes the bullets they used deadly. Unlike a cardboard or plastic jacket, the metal ensures that all the explosive energy of the gunpowder goes into propelling the bullet projectile at a high velocity, making it deadly.
The Marine training is to make the recruits 'hard' - to encase _them_ in their own _metal jackets_ - impervious to any sentiment or morality, making _them_ as deadly as the bullets.
The training is necessary, because they none of them, deep down, care a damn about the Vietnam war. That conflict was not a motivator for them.
In stark contrast is the very young _girl_ VC sniper. No-one's had to wrap her up in _metal jacket_ She didn't have to train to hate the American oppressors - it was there to start with. It came naturally.
Their horrific experiences of the Vietnam war, proved the marines' _metal jackets_ pervious after all. They were glad just to be alive. At the end, instead of the 'hard' misogynistic, racist, tough-guy songs taught them by their drill sergeant, they reverted, cast off their _metal jackets_ entirely, expressing their joy and relief by singing the _Mickey Mouse song_
That ending always get me.
Great reaction guys - and interesting chat at the end. A pleasure to watch along with you.
Yess! This Is Such a Great Movie
Drill Sargent is hilarious in this
The production of this movie utilized various locations throughout England to bring Kubrick's vision to life. The majority of the scenes were filmed at two distinct sites. The former RAF Bassingbourn airfield in Cambridgeshire was used as a re-creation of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in South Carolina. Who would have guessed?
Most of these recruits were "drafted" and there only because that had to be. I relative of mine avoided the draft by being enrolled in a Military Academy - I am not sure how this was able to be used as a way out though.
You 2 are doing a great job💯👍🏾
Great reaction! My best friend was in the marines and severed in Vietnam, he came back changed, and not in a good way.
Yeah serving American Imperialism will do that, imagine how it is being an actual victim of it
When Joker said he wanted to "see an ancient culture and kill them..", he was being sardonic, as he was much of the time.
R Lee Ermey was formerly drill instructor and almost all of the insults were unscripted and he just kept rolling out dozens of new ones every take.
Not to be too pedantic, but the way Pvt Pyle, (do you girls know who Gomer Pyle was?), shot himself had a good chance to not be fatal as from the angle of the rifle he would have shot a hole in his neck, rather than his brain. If he hit the spinal column directly then yes, but there are a lot of failed suicides because people don't angle the barrel up in their mouth. (Pro tip there! 😅)
Also, Full Metal Jacket refers to the bullet construction. Domestic bullets are typically all lead, but lead is a soft metal, so some bullets are made with a harder metal casing around a lead core, hence the term.
I just watched something about IQ, and apparently for the Vietnam conflict, they lowered the IQ requirement for soldiers. It was 80 but this was relaxed and it resulted in more failures in training and three time greater fatalities in the low-IQ range.
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The Vietcong didn't wear uniform and often blended in with everyone else, which is why you get the situation of soldiers randomly killing people who look "suss".
Look up the My Lai massacre.
Interesting reaction from you girls, you don't have the immediate knee jerk reactions others do and are able to look at things from both sides.
13:01 "look at his face!"
Interesting fact, it was all filmed in various locations in the U.K.
Oh lawdddd full metal 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🙏🏿
I will never forget my time on the Island. Summer of 89. Man it was hot, miserable and non stop. Great reaction ladies.
R.Lee Ermy wo played the sgt. was once a real marine sgt and came up with his own lines for the movie.
It was estimated that the US expended 50,000 M-16 rounds for every confirmed VC kill in Vietnam. This movie gave you a sense of that.
This is a good reaction channel! Good work, girls!
that punch in jokers stomach was adlibbed by the drill sgt and it was kept in the scene
Fun to watch along with you
The perspective in the film was pretty realistic, really. Most of these kids were just going about their lives and suddenly got scooped up in the draft. They didn't necessarily know much, if anything, about the war, and basic training certainly didn't teach them anything about the geopolitical nuances of the conflict they were about to enter. For the military this doesn't really matter - they're given an objective at the top and the bottom carries it out. "There's the bad guy - go get 'em", as it were.
26:39 "a win is a win."
Actor of Pyle gained some considerable weight for this role, requested by the director Kubrick.
This is why I subbed. You ladies are fun to watch react