Brutuskend
Lifer
I agree!
Retired marine, who served in NAM, and who was a Marine D.I.
It don't get much badasser than THAT! 😉
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I hate R Lee Erney
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I agree!
Retired marine, who served in NAM, and who was a Marine D.I.
It don't get much badasser than THAT! 😉
quakefiend420
Lifer
i would hafta agree there
NuclearNed
Raconteur
I've always loved this R Lee Ermey trivia from Full Metal Jacket (courtesy of IMDB):
Former US Marines Drill Instructor R. Lee Ermey was hired as a consultant on how to drill USMC style. He performed a demonstration on videotape in which he yelled obscene insults and abuse for fifteen minutes without stopping, repeating himself, or even flinching - despite being continuously pelted with tennis balls and oranges. Director Stanley Kubrick was so impressed that he cast R. Lee Ermey as Gunnery Sergeant Hartmann.
R. Lee Ermey was involved in a jeep accident during the making of the movie. At 1am he skidded off the road, breaking all of his ribs on one side. He refused to pass out, and kept flashing his car lights until a motorist stopped. In some scenes, he does not move one of his arms at all.
R. Lee Ermey hardly blinks at all in any scene.
Much, if not all, of R. Lee Ermey's dialogue during the Paris Island sequence was improvised. While filming the opening scene, where he disciplines Pvt. Cowboy, he says Cowboy is the type of guy that would have sex with another guy "and not even have the goddamned common courtesy to give him a reach-around". Stanley Kubrick immediately yelled cut and went over to R. Lee Ermey to ask him, "What the hell is a reach-around?" R. Lee Ermey politely explained what it meant. Stanley Kubrick laughed and re-shot the scene, telling R. Lee Ermey to keep the line.
Former US Marines Drill Instructor R. Lee Ermey was hired as a consultant on how to drill USMC style. He performed a demonstration on videotape in which he yelled obscene insults and abuse for fifteen minutes without stopping, repeating himself, or even flinching - despite being continuously pelted with tennis balls and oranges. Director Stanley Kubrick was so impressed that he cast R. Lee Ermey as Gunnery Sergeant Hartmann.
R. Lee Ermey was involved in a jeep accident during the making of the movie. At 1am he skidded off the road, breaking all of his ribs on one side. He refused to pass out, and kept flashing his car lights until a motorist stopped. In some scenes, he does not move one of his arms at all.
R. Lee Ermey hardly blinks at all in any scene.
Much, if not all, of R. Lee Ermey's dialogue during the Paris Island sequence was improvised. While filming the opening scene, where he disciplines Pvt. Cowboy, he says Cowboy is the type of guy that would have sex with another guy "and not even have the goddamned common courtesy to give him a reach-around". Stanley Kubrick immediately yelled cut and went over to R. Lee Ermey to ask him, "What the hell is a reach-around?" R. Lee Ermey politely explained what it meant. Stanley Kubrick laughed and re-shot the scene, telling R. Lee Ermey to keep the line.
MisterJackson
Lifer
First off, never call a Marine a "Retired Marine", to them that is truly an insult. "Once a Marine, always a Marine" is how the saying goes.
My dad was Force Recon (Marines call them "Crazy Marines") and a D.I. for a short period down at the Island.
My brother, and even our dog are marines (she's a Belgian Grand Malinois, and a retired Marine bomb dog. I say retired, because she no longer is a working dog). My only regret tis that I was too busy out chasing poon to see the benefits of joining myself.
Growing up in my house was alot like growing up with Ermey, but my Dad wasn't as nice. 🙂
So if anyone ever asks I tell em' I've done 28 years in the corps and counting. My upbringing was the best I could have ever had.
To my Dad, brother, Sheila (my dog), and all others who protect this country under the Eagle Globe and Anchor.........Semper Fi!
My dad was Force Recon (Marines call them "Crazy Marines") and a D.I. for a short period down at the Island.
My brother, and even our dog are marines (she's a Belgian Grand Malinois, and a retired Marine bomb dog. I say retired, because she no longer is a working dog). My only regret tis that I was too busy out chasing poon to see the benefits of joining myself.
Growing up in my house was alot like growing up with Ermey, but my Dad wasn't as nice. 🙂
So if anyone ever asks I tell em' I've done 28 years in the corps and counting. My upbringing was the best I could have ever had.
To my Dad, brother, Sheila (my dog), and all others who protect this country under the Eagle Globe and Anchor.........Semper Fi!
Toasthead
Diamond Member
Full metal jacket.
HE ruled in that movie and will always be awesome because of that single role.
God has a hard on for Marines, because we kill everything we see. He plays His games, we play ours. To show our appreciation for so much power, we keep heaven packed with fresh souls. God was here before the Marine Corps, so you can give your heart to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the corps.
If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon. You will be a minister of death praying for war. But until that day you are pukes. You are the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human, fvcking beings. You are nothing but unorganized grabastic pieces of amphibian sh!t. Because I am hard you will not like me. But the more you hate me the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair. There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on ni**ers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here you are all equally worthless. And my orders are to weed out all non-hackers who do not pack the gear to serve in my beloved Corps. Do you maggots understand that?
How can you not like him??
HE ruled in that movie and will always be awesome because of that single role.
God has a hard on for Marines, because we kill everything we see. He plays His games, we play ours. To show our appreciation for so much power, we keep heaven packed with fresh souls. God was here before the Marine Corps, so you can give your heart to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the corps.
If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon. You will be a minister of death praying for war. But until that day you are pukes. You are the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human, fvcking beings. You are nothing but unorganized grabastic pieces of amphibian sh!t. Because I am hard you will not like me. But the more you hate me the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair. There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on ni**ers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here you are all equally worthless. And my orders are to weed out all non-hackers who do not pack the gear to serve in my beloved Corps. Do you maggots understand that?
How can you not like him??
I'm glad that Wikipedia site FINALLY had the one thing I wanted to point out:
R. Lee Ermey is the only Marine EVER to be promoted during retirement.
That guy is universally revered. He kissed Jack Black in "Saving Silverman," and drove a man insane in "Full Metal Jacket." How can you not like him?
R. Lee Ermey is the only Marine EVER to be promoted during retirement.
That guy is universally revered. He kissed Jack Black in "Saving Silverman," and drove a man insane in "Full Metal Jacket." How can you not like him?
SeminoleMarine
Senior member
Thanks MisterJackson.
btw, Ermey is a bada$$. No explaining needed. When I first saw Full Metal Jacket, I broke out in sweats.**shudder** He was too real to be an actor. I suspected (which was later confirmed) that he was a real D.I. I was sitting in my living room, but I thought I was back in the barricks.
SupaDupaCheez
Platinum Member
Thank you thank you thank you! I've been looking for that for a long time!
Brutuskend
Lifer
BTW: Did anyone ever see him in "The Frighteners"?
Funny as hell!
(However funny THAT is...)
Funny as hell!
(However funny THAT is...)
NikPreviousAcct
No Lifer
R Lee Erney cheapens that show with that stupid "neeerrrrrrrrrrrrrelectricguitarrrrrrrrrrr DON'T CHANGE THAT CHANNEL OR YOU'RE A WUSSY MAN AND I'LL SNAP YOUR NECK NEEERRREEERRRERERERERERER".
I like OCC because I'm just *waiting* for papa to get so pissed he takes someone down with those freakin huge guns.
I like OCC because I'm just *waiting* for papa to get so pissed he takes someone down with those freakin huge guns.
Zanix
Diamond Member
IIRC, he was. Probably listed on that wiki link someone posted. Kubric asked him not to water down the part of DI for Full metal jacket. I think that's why a few people get punched, private pile gets choked, etc...
I think he's funny. I don't think I'd like to meet him at a bar though.
Brutuskend
Lifer
A week or so a buddy of mine met him at a bar. Mail Call was in town doing a story on the B2 (Warrensburg Mo.)
He didn't choke him or ANYTHING!
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