Full Metal Jacket

[hdeck]

Originally posted by: love1u0
What a great movie😀

 

[AlienCraft]

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN
the scene where they are getting taken out by a sniper is pretty harsh..i dunno what id do in a situation like that.

First you'ld get scared, then you'ld get Royally Pissed Off. The trick is to not go over the edge and to remember the training that you had and not let your emotions overwhelm you.
Then you go kill the sorry SOB.
or to Cliff note it...
You would do what needs to be done.

 

[DJFuji]

Originally posted by: cavemanmoron
hmm does anyone have a copy the can email me?

this was one kickbutt movie,
I have a cousin who was in Vietnam,he said the movie was very reralisitic about boot camp

Glad i did Not have to go to 'Nam, too young by only a couple years.

your so ugly you could be. LOL



Full Metal Jacket

Full Metal Jacket was filmed in England from August 1985 to September 1986. Shooting took just over 6 months but production was shut down for over 20 weeks due to injuries and accidents. The film was made for $17 million.

Parris Island scenes were shot at a real military training camp in Bassingbourne. The barracks set was built at Enfield.

Becton, an abandoned 1930s gasworks town by the Thames was used as the Vietnam city of Hue. Of creating this "set" where the film's climax takes place, Kubrick has said:

"We worked from still photographs of Hue in 1968. And we found an area that had the same 1930's functionalist architecture. Now, not every bit of it was right, but some of the buildings were absolute carbon copies of the outer industrial areas of Hue...We had demolition guys in there for a week, laying charges...Then we had a wrecking ball there for two months, with the art director telling the operator which hole to knock in which building... I don't think anybody's ever had a set like that...To make that kind of three-dimensional rubble, you'd have to have everything done by plasterers, modeled, and you couldn't build that if you spent $80 million and had five years to do it. You couldn't duplicate, oh, all those twisted bits of reinforcement. And to make rubble, you'd have to go find some real rubble and copy it...no one can make up a rock. I found that out in Paths of Glory. We had to copy rocks, but every rock also has an inherent logic you're not aware of until you see a fake rock. Every detail looks right, but something's wrong. So we had real rubble. We brought in palm trees from Spain and a hundred thousand plastic tropical plants from Hong Kong...All in all, a tremendous set dressing and rubble job." --20

Lee Ermy a former Parris Island drill instructor originally hired as technical advisor was given the part of Sgt. Hartman after Kubrick observed the way he handled actors during casting session improvisations. Most of the outrageous insults he hurls at recruits were Ermy's own creations.

The obstacle courses were near identical replicas to the ones we actually use in boot camp. And Ermey is an unmistakable Marine Corps drill instructor. The DIs of today are not much different than those of vietnam.

>>Master Gunnery Sergeant HARTMAN walks along the line of blank?faced recruits.

I know this is nitpicky, but in the movie Ermey plays Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. That's two ranks below a master gunnery sergeant. Coincidentally, Ermey was a real life Staff Sergeant in the USMC when he was discharged. He was later one of the only Marines in USMC history to be promoted AFTER discharge (by former commandant General James L. Jones) to his current rank of Gunnery Sergeant.