Very cool photos by modine during the making of a classic

 

http://cnnphotos.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/06/a-photographic-diary-of-full-metal-jacket/?hpt=hp_c2

Cool pictures awesome movie.

"Private Joker, why did you join my beloved Corps?"

 

"Sir, to kill, sir!"

 

"So you're a killer?"

 

"Sir, yes sir!"

 

"Then let me see your war face!"

 

"Sir?"

 

"You got a war face! AAAAAAAAHH! That's a war face, let me see your war face!"

 

That movie never gets old. Great pics.

Thanks for reminding all of us of this timeless classic

 

Here is the real life Private Joker who wrote the book that was adapted into the film

http://en.wikipedia..../Gustav_Hasford

 

 

 

Novel is available to read here:

http://www.gustavhasford.com/ST2.htm

Oh god I think I could qoute that entire movie from start to finish. By far the best movie ive ever seen

Yes, one of my favs... Ermey autographed a photo from the movie for me when he was in the baracks with the notorious jelly donut. Nice guy...

I love full metal jacket...what annoys me is those guys walking around with grenades on the outside of their vests.

 

A walk through the brush can pull the pin and really ruin your day.

DROP AND GIVE ME TWENTY PYLE!

 

Great movie! R. Lee Ermey played himself, as a D.I., after starting out as a mere technical advisor. And the rest is history............

From what he said, they wanted him just to be an advisor and told them he wouldn't do it unless he got in the movie. He's persistent that way. In quite a bit he does, he refuses just to be on side line.

 

DROP AND GIVE ME TWENTY PYLE!

 

Great movie! R. Lee Ermey played himself, as a D.I., after starting out as a mere technical advisor. And the rest is history............

 

 

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Apparently Gunny wasnt mean enough so he set out to prove that he was:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Metal_Jacket#Casting

 

 

Former U.S. Marine Drill Instructor Ermey was originally hired as a technical adviser and asked Kubrick if he could audition for the role of Hartman. However Kubrick, having seen his portrayal as Drill Instructor SSgt Loyce in The Boys in Company C, told him that he was not vicious enough to play the character.

 

In response, Ermey made a videotape of himself improvising insulting dialogue towards a group of Royal Marines while people off-camera pelted him with oranges and tennis balls. Ermey, in spite of the distractions, rattled off an unbroken string of insults for 15 minutes, and he did not flinch, duck, or repeat himself while the projectiles rained on him.

 

Upon viewing the video, Kubrick gave Ermey the role, realizing that he "was a genius for this part".

 

experience as a real-life DI during the Vietnam era proved invaluable, and he fostered such realism that in one instance, Ermey barked an order off-camera to Kubrick to stand up when he was spoken to, and Kubrick instinctively obeyed, standing at attention before realizing what had happened. Kubrick estimated that Ermey came up with 150 pages of insults, many of them improvised on the spot — a rarity for a Kubrick film. According to Kubrick's estimate, the former drill instructor wrote 50% of his own dialogue, especially the insults

WOW, never knew the entire story! Thanks!

Every Vietnam Era Marine I know experienced deja vu when they saw the boot camp scenes. The only thing they say wouldn't have happened is when they had the guy marching with his pants around his ankles on the parade field. On a back trail yes, but not in public view on the parade field in public view. They said it would piss off the officers.

 

I love full metal jacket...what annoys me is those guys walking around with grenades on the outside of their vests.

 

A walk through the brush can pull the pin and really ruin your day.

 

Yeah but that's what was done then.

 

I do have a story about this though. 3 guys in a jeep. Driver and 2 guys in the back sitting over the rear wheel arches. Some Vietnamese walking alongside the road. Jeep only doing about 10 mph. One of the guys in the back feels something hit his leg and sees a grenade at his feet. He yells "GRENADE" and jumps out of the jeep followed by the other guy in the back. The driver looks over his shoulder and sees the grenade about a foot from his ass. Keep in mind this is a M151 and the driver is also sitting on the gas tank. The driver bails out of the jeep. Now there is an unguided jeep going down the road. The Vietnamese have no idea what's going on with this unpiloted jeep continuing on the road and they scatter or hit the dirt. Surprisingly the jeep goes a couple of hundred meters without human guidance and winds up in a ditch. Nothing happens.

 

The guy who felt the grenade hit his leg figures it out real quick. He looks down and where the grenade hanging from his flak jacket was is a fuse attached to the safety lever. What had happened was the grenade he had hanging on his flak jacket had unscrewed itself from the fuse and hit his leg. That's where the grenade on the floor of the jeep came from.

 

When they walked up to the jeep the grenade without a fuse was still laying there. Only minor injuries to the 3 GIs and the jeep.

 

Yeah but that's what was done then.

 

 

My Step Father, a Marine, was in Khe Sahn 67-68-69, 2 purple hearts. He is the one who pointed it out to me and ever since I see it in a movie it annoys me.

Every Vietnam Era Marine I know experienced deja vu when they saw the boot camp scenes. The only thing they say wouldn't have happened is when they had the guy marching with his pants around his ankles on the parade field. On a back trail yes, but not in public view on the parade field in public view. They said it would piss off the officers.

 

My dad told me the same thing, he took my mom to see this movie in the theaters. (Having been a Marine during Vietnam) he couldn't stop laughing at how realistic it was, my mom and all the others were horrified of how DI Hartman treated Pvt. Pyle.

 

One of my funniest memories of basic training was watching a few minutes of this during a classroom training session, everyone was quoting this movie for the next two months. lol

Every Vietnam Era Marine I know experienced deja vu when they saw the boot camp scenes. The only thing they say wouldn't have happened is when they had the guy marching with his pants around his ankles on the parade field. On a back trail yes, but not in public view on the parade field in public view. They said it would piss off the officers.

I arrived at PI on 8/17/69. Actually there was a lot more that went on at PI than what was in the movie. It's true what used to go on was kept from the officers and of course the public. One of the DI's I had made PI quite a memorable experience. He was a recon sniper, served two tours in Nam. I remember one day there was a brief ceremony to award him the Navy Cross for 60 confirmed kills. He really made our lives hell but I'd do it all over again if I had the chance.

This movie is watched on every base, navy ship, coast guard cutter, barracks, and fort in the US.