Full Metal Jacket - Bird is the Word

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[@felixtg3834]

Can’t believe this scene was filmed in east London

[@Useaname]

The old Beckton gasworks.

[@Reggie2000]

Yea. I thought it was Downtown Detroit.

[@banjobill8420]

@@Reggie2000 Except they wouldn't have guns, or cameras... Can't have sh*t in Detroit.

[@commodoreluigi1596]

@S oof lmao

[@PhiltheMoko]

Looks like they spruced the place up

[@Gooberpatrol66]

Other people: *Fortunate Son* Me, an intellectual:

[@vadaszsch0360]

Paint it Black

[@tabchanzero8229]

Ride of the Valkyries

[@theguywhoisaustralian1465]

fuck yourself

[@mysoncrumphaseveryinjury3853]

On the Road Again

[@KingLich451]

ascended people: The End

[@UnknownPersono]

"Petah the Vietcong are here" "Bird is the word"

[@tibormolnar1513]

Quick Lois! To the Peter-huey! 🚁

[@chinobino7538]

the 3 guys doing the camera equipment walking going with the song is the coolest piece of videography ever

[@AndrewGivens]

And few people ever talk about Kubrick taking a lead from Leone here, but the edit results in the activities on-screen synching perfectly with the score. I mean, I know he didn't edit it in camera, nor did he have the score playing on set during shooting AFAIK, but the end result is very similar. I just think it's great; punctuating action with the score is one thing, but tying the scene to it like this is next level. You sadly don't see it enough.

[@stevejacobo7112]

Bruh it’s hilarious

[@Blade666324]

john wayne is that you is this me?

[@doughesson]

"OK,guys,you don't yet have your SAG cards so we can't show your faces until you do...."

[@funkeenutz615]

lol that shit gives me chills 😆

[@RamRam.720]

If you look closely at 0:55 you can see the camera crew.

[@solidmind8696]

+MrRamram720 good eye! youd make a good sniper spotter

[@JaxenRossisback]

+MrRamram720 That's literally just the army acting as a camera crew, not taking part as AN ACTUAL film crew.

[@cod6lover38]

+Jaxen Ross is b-a-c-k! No shit Sherlock

[@ghopper150]

+MrRamram720 Wow! You should be on Obama's team!

[@RamRam.720]

George Hopper What team? His football team?

[@PeterDavid7KQ201]

One of the few times in the movies you see a large caliber gun, like on a tank, actually recoiling and rocking the tank back.

[@quantumexo1426]

Maby the tanks were real...

[@luisitocomunista546]

It was a real tank. If I remember correctly some Belgian higher up lent Kubrick some 4 tanks

[@PeterDavid7KQ201]

@@luisitocomunista546 Oh yeah it's usually not a problem for a decently-sized Hollywood film to have a real tank. But shooting ammunition of sufficient force to actually rock the tank back....you usually don't see that in the movies (for obvious safety reasons)

[@gerardfallon2845]

@@quantumexo1426 I mean knowing Stanley kubrick.....

[@gerardfallon2845]

@sgfhk321 it's been said that Elon musk and space x are part of a kubrick memorial

[@diet_dr.demoncore]

I love the stages of emotion on Earl's face in this scene, immediate shock and relief, followed by happiness, he looks around to see if anyone caught what he just did, looking for approval. When looking back at the bodies of the men he has just slain the realization of what exactly just transpired sets in and the smile fades from his face

[@nunbiz7328]

Nah I think he was happy through and through

[@artlover1477]

Sad, toward the end of the movie he gets killed by that stuffed animal boobie trap, urgh!

[@hansgruber6455]

@@nunbiz7328 he went hunting for some slopes............and he got them!

[@theonehappyorc1235]

@@artlover1477 you are sad that he was killed? Why?

[@roguelead72]

And not noticing he used the entire magazine to take out 2 guys.

[@samharpo1421]

I love how the cameraman doesn’t mind the traumatized faces on the soldiers. He just keeps on filming. Classic scene

[@HasniOussama]

we're in 2019 and I can confirm that the bird is still the word

[@mydiscord470]

It's 2020 boi , and ww3 is on brink

[@theshamelesskid2950]

And bird is still the word

[@danerogers177]

The bird is the word, word uuppp.

[@triple666ixx]

Mar 2020 corona virus is the word now

[@aleksacivcic2349]

100th like lol

[@bokehintheussr5033]

Every war movie ever: War is tragedy Stanley Kubrick: War is farce

[@AKickassDuke]

Tommy Two-shoes Butler: War Is a Racket

[@elchamakito336]

francis ford copolla: war is a trip

[@killian9314]

Farce?

[@yernar9185]

It’s war a hell?

[@harishs3878]

Park Chan Wook : Anti War

[@Pladderkasse]

This movie welded this song to my brain as a teen. Will forever conjure up images of chaos, death and dark satire.

[@AWhale.]

I am almost in the opposite situation I am stuck with associating it with family guy

[@stevesilva2780]

I remember the original. When the song came out. I was 10.

[@kurtboyer299]

1:17 The ghoulish face of death waves casually to the audience.

[@pinz2022]

And the whole goddam thing was filmed in a ruined industrial area of the South London Docklands. Stanley Kubrick preferred to work close to his country estate.

[@shaved69fish49]

+pinz2022 what ? the whole VIET NAM WAR ? filmed in south docklands ! I never knew that ! lol

[@1fourcore]

was filmed at the old Beckton gas works. also Beckton marsh before they built on it in East London. I watched it being filmed. was about twenty then.

[@shaved69fish49]

thats cool ! I was being silly ! thought maybe you were a CONSPIRICY theorist or something ! lol but interesting that the film was done there !

[@1fourcore]

Up until recently the bit where sniper sequence was shot was still standing and could still see Vietnamese writing on Wall going towards Dlr was on the left in front of Beckton sewage works. I watched it filmed from just above Windsor terrace. Worked for texas homecare. Watched from garden center racking. Film crew used our cafetiere in store for food. It's now primark.and from Windsor terrace to Thames now built on. But was all open in earlier eighties.

[@pvtrichter88]

+pinz2022 the story goes from about after A Clockwork Orange he never left ENGLAND until the day he left us for the great cinema in the sky!!

[@whitehorse1959]

1:10 This is movie producer genius to have a camera tracking across the scene, while tracking a camera in-shot tracking across the scene. Brilliant.

[@Yo-ww8ph]

Director*

[@Mario_N64]

Francis Ford Coppola did it first in Apocalypse Now.

[@paulgreengod]

Not that brilliant bud

[@beardupbeerdown7355]

@@CHUCKSCHUMACHER someone had to be out there filming all the footage from old wars.

[@johcafra]

I do believe the gent handling the camera was the movie's credited DP. Of course keeping fully in mind that in a Kubrick movie Kubrick was the uncredited DP.

[@retr0_2600]

0:11 The face of pure joy

[@juusifr]

Holy shit i had that sam pfp pic

[@anothertexasboi3146]

Now we're a team.

[@farzanamughal5933]

No its not

[@juusifr]

@@farzanamughal5933 it is

[@farzanamughal5933]

@@juusifr Nope, he frowns right afterwards. Killing people only provides pure joy for psychopaths

[@sayakamaizono5012]

Imagine if Peter was in this scene and is just dancing

[@petergriffin911]

Hi I'm Peter Griffin. You know there's an issue facing many Americans today that i know concerns a great number of us. According to Gallop polls 1 in 12 Americans is unaware that the Bird is the Word. I for one dream of a America where everybody knows that Bird is the Word. AH BA BA BIRD BIRD BIRD THE BIRD'S A WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jaob9024]

Didn't peter canonically server in Vietnam.

[@kingduck3192]

@@jaob9024preter sure it was only quagmire

[@lolahernandez6871]

That would ruin everything.

[@melattika8133]

I'm going to die 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@joshuablackham8682]

Fell asleep watching this film in bed last night, and woke up in a cold sweat wondering what the fuck was happening when this came on.

[@JulioHernandez-wy8nh]

Joshua Blackham Stanley's ghost wanted you to see the flim

[@nomunonsense6499]

Joshua Blackham Best comment

[@asdfasfsdegrf]

0:08 my reaction when i finally kill someone in rising storm 2.

[@runertje550]

Cris think we can all relate

[@Apath002]

Nothing like spraying into some foliage and bagging a lucky kill

[@jaypea30]

@@Apath002 I got a headshot by doing that with a garand

[@Apath002]

J.P. Hats off to you

[@jaypea30]

@@Apath002 thank you dear sir

[@Db--jt7bt]

There were four M41 tanks used in the film and they were all operated by the Belgian army with real training ammo (as opposed to fireworks in the barrels or mock-up tanks). A Belgian Army colonel admired Kubrick’s earlier works and lent him the tanks.

[@user-tt5pt5zh5k]

Real training ammo?

[@youngthaiarfssoldier8732]

​@@user-tt5pt5zh5k that blue projectile, if you can think of one

[@VikingKong.]

@@user-tt5pt5zh5k Yes, that's what he said. It's called an oxymoron. He even left an explanation in parenthesis for people like you who wouldn't get it and you still didn't get it.

[@user-tt5pt5zh5k]

@@VikingKong. I got it Jakey,I was being sarcastic you oxymoron!

[@NoaVanSnick]

Those were probably all the tanks we had 😂

[@LiamDaNoob]

Fun fact: The helicopter shown at 0:35 is actually a Westland Wessex helicopter and not a h-34 Choctaw

[@g00zik97]

how is that a fun fact? whats 'fun' about it?

[@hx20games77]

​​@@g00zik97 its BTS facts and they are fun facts

[@benkata]

one of the greatest music cues in cinema history

[@DrunkenM33rkat]

Watch 2001 Stanley Kubrick is the master

[@benkata]

DrunkenM33rkat Are you kidding me? Who hasn't watched 2001?

[@DrunkenM33rkat]

Benjamin Jack Kata Finau The Blue Danube sequence is amazing

[@benkata]

yes, it is - amazing sequence

[@JavierGonzalez-zg3ep]

hell yeah

[@Sam-nx9ec]

This was actually filmed in London, in the abandoned docklands area which was 'regenerated' recently. The palm trees were imported from North Africa, and a lot of the foliage is actually plastic.

[@sergeantbigmac]

True, and its mostly because Kubrick was afraid of flying! Can you imagine that? All the added costs to production that would entail? Well this is back in the days when directors had more creative freedom. Nowadays studios would tell a director to fuck off if they tried something like that lol

[@GG-lr3gv]

I was under the impression they shot this in inner city Chicago

[@danimayb]

Yep the whole film was recorded in England! Around Norfolk and London. That's Kubrick for ya

[@mudmowercentral1999]

I looked where it was filmed when it was filmed in england I was shocked

[@dragonsword7370]

The factory architecture was reminiscent of french late colonial building styles and ironically were being condemned for demolition... good timing!

[@notrius7754]

Its 2022 and i can confirm that the bird is still the word

[@igornebov]

Neo-imperialism quite not depends of nations.

[@notrius7754]

@@igornebov The hell are you talking about? (btw neo-imperialism is awesome)

[@igornebov]

@@notrius7754 I mean modern "local" wars where, for example, US and RF are involved. Tell to veterans and bereaved civillians about this "awesomeness".

[@notrius7754]

@@igornebov Veterans as much as i respect them, are volunteers. Civilians however i feel bad for as long as they are not muslims

[@volcomguy51]

Confirmed.

[@ramongarcia1771]

Probably one of the three best films with a war theme ( "Paths of glory", "Apocalipse now", "Full jacket metal" ). Stanley´s Kubrick film is a masterpiece, especially the first part : the dehumanization of recruits and their transformation in killing machines.

[@thebeing7033]

​@@zogwort1522 The movie is up for interpretation. The author of the book was a ex Marine who served in the Vietnam war. The book and the movie definitely have themes of young men being turned into killing machines.

[@thebeing7033]

@@zogwort1522 You literally just described killing machines. It's supposed to be metaphorically understood. They continue to kill and hurt others.

[@thebeing7033]

@@zogwort1522 The words killing machines aren't meant to be taken literal. You ducking morons.

[@smithrock876]

1:54 ' I'll be General Custer!' and flashes a lever action rifle...epic.

[@tuckrex2038]

its a bb gun lol

[@kingnothing3523]

@@tuckrex2038 Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle with a compass in the stock and a thing which tells time

[@Activated_Complex]

A bit ironic really. The 7th Cav were outgunned because they brought Springfield breech-loaders and Sitting Bull’s guys brought Winchester lever guns.

[@mikelane2866]

Smithrock wow I don’t even want to know how many times I’ve seen this movie I never noticed that

[@manomonkekingdom9427]

Smithrock it’s a fucking BB gun

[@BradNC11175]

Silly songs and heavy weapons all at once... you just can't beat that combo!

[@alfiemcspitfire5323]

+Derro Farm drink driving is the best

[@narasil199173]

He did the same thing at the end with Micky mouse. I took it as a "even though I'm in a world of shit I can still bear my suffering and be humerous and ironic"... just my thoughts.

[@simonedaishi5290]

that's gotta be why Pumped Up Kicks fits its lyrics so well

[@ab.-]

that's the beauty , death and fun go hand in hand!

[@bogusmogus9551]

@@ab.- So true

[@joelledavis4330]

It's 2023 and the bird is still the word

[@saitofutoshi5169]

Its 2024 and i can confirm that the bird is still the word

[@CantUHearMeKnockin59]

"We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves." Lyndon B. Johnson

[@Republic3D]

Sounds very Trumpian.

[@Donutgames00]

Republic3D he was right though

[@mikuhatsunegoshujin]

Russian boys don't need to go to America to do what Americans should be doing themselves.

[@europeanian6936]

Pretty stupid considering they didn't want our help in the first place. Kinda like Afghanistan and Iraq. If somebody flew from the other side of the planet to tell me how to live, I'd shoot at them too.

[@DoctorDoomsPvP]

"They" did want our help though. They were being invaded by North Vietnam.

[@DanceySteveYNWA]

1:26 this is the sound of the Vietnamese tank starting up...

[@JoaoVitor-xt5hf]

Kkkk

[@carolinadreaming4166]

Bro i pissed myself

[@EduardoHernandez-wr1cd]

hahaha, awesome comment!

[@ilikefriedchicken3026]

Lmao

[@mrturtletail3945]

*DEATH, DESTRUCTION, SADNESS, ANGER ALL PERFECTLY IN ONE PLACE OF WAR* Camera Crew: "Yo, let's get that footage"

[@AndrewGivens]

The hand coming back in at 1:48 to pull the camerman down a little lower. Great touch. And, in other news, scientists have suggested that the Bird is equal to or greater than the Word.

[@thecommonsenseconservative5576]

CHECK IT AGAIN

[@jacktheripoff1888]

For anyone who loved this film, you REALLY need to read the 1979 novel it was based on, The Short Timers by Gustav Hasford. He also wrote a sequel in 1990 called The Phantom Blooper. Joker is captured and spends almost a year in a VC controlled village just north of the DMZ. It's an amazing look at the war from the VC's point of view. Hasford was such a brilliant writer. He was a Marine and served in Vietnam as a journalist for Stars And Stripes. He said that Joker was loosely based on him. His writing was as graphic as it was hilarious. He wrote one last novel, an LA detective story called A Gypsy Good Time. Sadly after being diagnosed with advanced diabetes, Hasford went to a small resort island off of Greece and basically drank himself to death.

[@michaeljensen2013]

jack....I will look him up, thanks. I will remember your last sentence when my time comes. that would be easily accomplished with help from KZbin. Beats blowing my brains out I guess.

[@ninetoedlizard6650]

In school and when we go to the library I was already planning on getting it

[@RCAvhstape]

Do yourself a favor and read Fields of Fire by James Webb. Another great story about Marines in Vietnam.

[@tarkus2455]

thanks, i think i'll read the book!

[@Marketdude]

I remember the novels where suppost to be a trilogy

[@casbah1982]

"FREEDOM??? If I'm gonna die for a word, my word is pooooontang!"- Animal Mother

[@181baddog]

Better you than me

[@vanveenbussum6162]

We're mean Marines, sir...

[@cbaile]

There seems to be an absence of a certain ornithological piece. A head line regarding the mass awareness of a certain avian variety. Have you not heard? It was my understanding that everyone had heard.

[@reptilian5651]

love that smile on crazy earl's face after he shoots the guys trying to cross. he was my favorite life taker from the lusthog squad. oh and the bird IS the word!

[@roguelead72]

I just noticed he used an entire 20 round magazine to shoot 2 people(the bolt was open afterwards).

[@petergriffin911]

Hi I'm Peter Griffin. You know there's an issue facing many Americans today that i know concerns a great number of us. According to Gallop polls 1 in 12 Americans is unaware that the Bird is the Word. I for one dream of a America where everybody knows that Bird is the Word. AH BA BA BIRD BIRD BIRD THE BIRD'S A WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@SpaceForce635]

@@roguelead72 20 rounds to kill two enemy is completely fine.

[@KillerKane0]

Another classic Kubrick tracking shot - this time THREE actions going on at the same time. The tanks firing in the background, the Marines crossing left to right, and the camera crew moving right to left I wonder how many takes this took. Kubrick was a genius.

[@silent6648]

I love that kind of directing in films, a simple camera dolly, minimal editing and having all this scale happening near and far. Love it

[@paulgreengod]

@@silent6648 good for you little man

[@lr8621]

@@paulgreengod lol getting lonely in your moms basement eunuch!🥱🤫😒

[@Mike-ch9ln]

This was like the scene in Apocalypse Now with the camera crew filming the soldiers.

[@GreasyRockabilly]

"Did your parents have any children that lived???!"

[@ShoesOnGamer]

SIR, YES SIR!!!

[@wwetitle818]

skyguy tv I bet they regret that! You're so ugly, you could be a modern art masterpiece!

[@chronicvidz4119]

lawrence that name sounds like royalty are you royalty?

[@ShoesOnGamer]

SIR, NO SIR!!!!

[@thelittlebitchthatwontshut4542]

+chronic vidz SIR NO SIR!!

[@RBaezTello50]

Peter Griffin - "Oh have you not heard?" Full Metal Jacket - 0:10 ……

[@petergriffin911]

Hi I'm Peter Griffin. You know there's an issue facing many Americans today that i know concerns a great number of us. According to Gallop polls 1 in 12 Americans is unaware that the Bird is the Word. I for one dream of a America where everybody knows that Bird is the Word. AH BA BA BIRD BIRD BIRD THE BIRD'S A WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@peterb.7448]

“You know, Dude, I myself dabbled in pacifism once. Not in 'Nam of course...“

[@mikaelkastamungas9333]

One of the most realistic & psychotic war scenes. Stanley Kubrick was a genius!!

[@oldgrunt0311]

Yea, all the new, clean utilities, boots and faces. War is hell.

[@schnapps2241]

@@oldgrunt0311 missing the point

[@JM-dy4ty]

Half the scenes in apocalypse now are most psychotic than this one

[@paulgreengod]

@@schnapps2241 yes, I am missing the point of this being a realistic and psychotic war scene, because it isn't. 🤣

[@paulgreengod]

Genius genius huuuh duuuh genius bro! Shut the hell up.

[@ShadowMoon878]

Private Joker: Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me? Private Cowboy: Hey, start the cameras. This is "Vietnam - the Movie." Private Eightball: Yeah, Joker can be John Wayne. I'll be a horse. Donlon: T.H.E. Rock can be a rock. T.H.E. Rock: I'll be Ann-Margaret. Doc Jay: Animal Mother can be a rabid buffalo. Crazy Earl: I'll be General Custer. Private Rafterman: Well, who'll be the Indians? Animal Mother: Hey, we'll let the g**ks play the Indians!

[@harshbansal7982]

Just saying joker is a sergeant while cowboy is prolly a staff sgt

[@Nintendofan570]

@@BigguBosu117 exactly what I was thinking

[@ShadowMoon878]

@@BigguBosu117 Coz my comment got auto deleted if i wrote the whole word

[@luizfelipeferro2679]

@@ShadowMoon878 *Alt acc here:* Mine didn't, lol

[@coffee4682]

@@BigguBosu117 It’s a racial slur, it’s the same as censoring the hard R.

[@ramonencarrizo2681]

This film reflexes perfectly my military life into the Argentine Air Force, even my companions and corporals resemble enormously the film characters

[@geronimozarza8495]

Peleaste en Malvinas?

[@josemarino4270]

One of my top 3 favorite films and this song is amazing in this clip.

[@UrFaceLand]

Something about the duality of man...

[@lionelhutz5137]

Who's side are you on, son?

[@whatwhat4052]

Also the funniest fucking movie i've ever seen. "Joker can be John Wayne, i'll be a horse!"

[@BratoLocoLudiBrat]

UrFaceLand What the hell is that supposed to mean, some kind of a sick joke?

[@Profile.4]

@@whatwhat4052 it ain't that funny

[@raphuscucullatus7845]

*T h e j u n g i a n t h i n g s i r*

[@nichmiller455]

look at the ghost walk across the screen at 1:16

[@abe_janh1483]

That's Not a Ghost, It's a Marine who Was Injured....

[@MrSwagonator]

+TheVietnamGamer It was a joke m8

[@user-hw1cr5uq4z]

It's the Mummy. He's got a M-16 and he's kicking ass and takin' names!

[@abe_janh1483]

HES GOT A GUN! GET DOWN!

[@user-rr9ng9bo9l]

It's a mummy!!

[@kingpiece5705]

Something about when the song breaks into the "BABABABA" and the tracking shot switches position to the faces of the cameramen is just so fcking cool man.

[@petergriffin911]

Hi I'm Peter Griffin. You know there's an issue facing many Americans today that i know concerns a great number of us. According to Gallop polls 1 in 12 Americans is unaware that the Bird is the Word. I for one dream of a America where everybody knows that Bird is the Word. AH BA BA BIRD BIRD BIRD THE BIRD'S A WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Tiresias55]

1:38 "Start the cameras this is Vietnam the movie" I just love this rediculous exchange in the midst of war.

[@mikesitzler1106]

We need to talk about how at 1:22 the tank and the exploding turret sync perfectly with that section of Bird is the Word!

[@grill6411]

And 1:18 when the mummy-like soldier appears, the singer stops to growl kind of like a monster would?

[@jamiemellors6760]

I feel like it's because the music died down momentarily and the sounds of war rang out over the top of the kids messing around for a second.

[@knightscroftsquire-muldoon]

@@grill6411 THANK YOU for noticing! I have only found one other person point that out. What do you think it is supposed to mean? If there _is_ anything to it.

[@grill6411]

​@@knightscroftsquire-muldoon Rob Ager pointed out this little detail in his analysis of FMJ, iirc something to do with the motif of ghosts or the recurring Jungian shadow theme present in the film. The wooly bully scene for example (which also has a lot of subtle musical cues) where they play with the dead VC's body ( kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3mYg2eqnKyXes0 ), there are very obvious editing "mistakes" where the body noticeably moves after each cut. Knowing Kubrick, the continuity mistakes in the scene were probably intentional. Ager has a much more thorough 1-hour long analysis of the film on his website Collative Learning behind a $3.50 paywall. He reaches sometimes but he seems pretty knowledgeable on Kubrick's filmmaking style, and he has some clips of the full analysis on his youtube channel

[@knightscroftsquire-muldoon]

@@grill6411 I saw one of his videos that pointed out the figure but I never got to hear what he thought it meant. Thank you for the info!

[@RuiLuz]

0:11 that smile.

[@poppady3929]

Rui Luz He was like "Fuck Yeah"

[@DoctorDoomsPvP]

Killed two commies I'd be smiling too

[@alfiesimpson9054]

He got a double kill, that's why. Especially commies

[@williammason475]

He was like" Yeah, got two kills!!!

[@Tmp866]

He was like "Hell yeah! Got two." Then you can see his face and he just realized he killed two people

[@andydober743]

Can’t believe this was filmed in Kiev 2022

[@RoboCop-zn8bt]

Kubrick always got it right . Everytime I rewatch a Kubrick film I see something new. His films never get old. He had a uncanny sense for music and film. And most importantly Semper Fi to all the war dogs out there!

[@watchtowerreviewz7978]

"Is that you John Wayne? Is this me?" I always interpreted that as a way of mocking the so called "toughest guy" on the planet cliche. By looking into the camera and shouting "Is that you John Wayne?" they are directly addressing the toughest man in the world who is most likely watching from the safety of his country. When they say "Is this me?" they are pointing out the obvious fact that John Wayne is probably watching these poor bastards from the safety of his home. Meanwhile they are in the middle of an actual warzone.

[@IFZEX09]

It because John Wayne was a draft dodger.

[@pvtrichter88]

+Watchtower Reviewz He ; private JOKER says that same line at the beginning when they're being introduced to the great R. LEE ERMEY as their drill sergeant ! a scene which still makes me laugh and feel their pain at the same time!!

[@carlosmurray2647]

+InfernoFlameZERO No, John Wayne was 4 F......

[@archdornan6053]

+pvtrichter88 Drill Sergeants are soldiers. Drill Instructor is the proper term. Gunny Hartman says himself "I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your Senior Drill Instructor." Drill Instructors are Marines.

[@pvtrichter88]

Vasili Kamarov Thanks for the info !! and yes ERMEY improvised most of that scene one of the best debuts in any military movie or drama for that matter !!

[@MarkGarza94]

0:50-1:39. No expression/serious faces. (No speaking) 1:40. A BIG JOKE.

[@novaqne]

Lol and obviously Joker started it all

[@notaethug3983]

1:16 ghost soldier

[@thunderchicken1552]

O H S H I T

[@pedrobarbosaduarte3704]

The greens vs the veterans

[@homeygfunkoffacherryfruitl4971]

That's war for ya. Shit was the same in Afghanistan, can't be dead serious all the time.

[@thegadflygang5381]

Still my favorite transition in film. Kubrick could do theater of the absurd when he wanted to

[@vasiu1813]

we're in 2022 and I can confirm that the bird is still the word

[@customedge1]

would have been awesome if it was Kubrick holding the camera in this scene

[@gbonkers666]

Actually I think it was...

[@shahab8838]

Like francis ford cappola in apocalypse now

[@Cleon29Warrior]

@@shahab8838 Coppola came to my mind too. Maybe Kubrick didn't want to hold camera in this scene so it wouldn't look like he was doing a copy of FFC

[@case3270]

Nobody: Rappers making gun sounds 1:25

[@charley1188]

Sire Sheep lmao accurate

[@Panzer_Runner]

Papapapapa

[@joe-xk8nl]

I would shoot you for making a "nOboDy" meme but this one was funny ngl.

[@noahmay7708]

@@joe-xk8nl was it really though?

[@case3270]

@@joe-xk8nl Nobody memes are a bit unusual but I had no other idea on how to word it

[@Captain-Solo]

Peter Griffin absolutely loves it!

[@artistaprimus7080]

Awesome movie. I watch it every chance I get.

[@IntenseSkills]

0:18 I just love this shot of the tank convoy. Just the camera angle and quality makes it so real like I am actually there. Beautiful shot.

[@tico5058]

​@@SubwaySam10 They're talking about the cinematography of the shot. What's the confusion?

[@hennessyblues4576]

1:53 He has a lever action rifle in his hand.

[@hungerofsylar7842]

Daisy Red Ryder BB gun.

[@lkotof]

Might've been a trench gun.

[@RT42069]

Hell I'd snipe with my Marlin 336. The 35REM is a hell of a round.

[@bbb462cid]

And an M16 by his knee. Levergun looks like a Winchester to me.

[@marcdewey3848]

In Platoon,Bunny (Kevin Dillon) carried a 12 gauge pump shotgun.

[@Reckall]

Knowing Kubrick, he calculated to the hundredth of second the fly time of the tank shot from the gun to the target.

[@twofiveb]

01:22 How the singer does that gasp of excitement right after the tank round blasts the building 😂 Kubrick was a f_cking genius!

[@charliegreer4507]

1:17 Mans lookin like Micheal Myers out here

[@joecobb1529]

Glad i’m not the only one that noticed that.

[@queagradablesujeto7643]

an albino soldier

[@knightscroftsquire-muldoon]

And the shift in music to monstrous noises. Looks like either a Ghost or Mummy also.

[@allister-malister9179]

He served in veitnam right before the events of Halloween and started killing due to ptsd

[@c.mcxrdle5224]

@@allister-malister9179 bahaha

[@TH3PLA1NP1L0T]

0:00 Everyone’s reaction to their first kill in Rising Storm 2

[@unknown_spy_1984]

@@RealWhore woah woah. The GI won at the end calm your tits.

[@commando7238]

When you kill a guy with a flamethrower

[@camerondavis6659]

@@unknown_spy_1984 he's talking about a game you stupid fuck

[@thebarch7594]

Máscara they didn’t anyway they pulled out like they have in every war for the past 50 years

[@MrRikardoe]

Máscara Incase you diden’t know the US lost in the end. Why do you think the biggest city in vietnam is Ho-Chi-Minh city?

[@intotheradius17]

East London? Not shocked.

[@MrBejkovec]

September 2022 and the bird is still the word.

[@W.Stryker]

The only bird that camera crew would see is a middle fucking finger

[@fishskipper5727]

🖕🏼 lol

[@petergriffin911]

None of this would have happened if NOBODY STOLEN MY FUCKIN SURFIN BIRD RECORD

[@W.Stryker]

@@petergriffin911 funny

[@jeffreymliss]

Pyle: "Seven six two millimeter full metal jacket."

[@emilykoleos8485]

Bang!

[@Firespectrum122]

"Hhhhhiiiiiiiiiiii Jokerrrrrrrrrr..."

[@TheRockstarFreak9]

It's funny, because the M41 (The tank you see in the video) uses a seven six millimeter (76 mm) gun. 

[@natejacobs6571]

FearMe410 It's a 76mm. If it was a 76cm that would be 760mm... No tank gun is 760mm. Not even a battleship cannon is 760mm, the USS Iowa for example has 406mm cannons.

[@TheRockstarFreak9]

Walrus Walruss Omg, silly me. I meant off course millimeter.

[@spartyontop]

Peter dancing in the back be like:

[@charlotterose7374]

Peter griffin associates the breakdown with a seizure, I associate the breakdown with a tank round going boom

[@petergriffin911]

PA PA PA OMA MOW MOW MOW PA PA

[@EliWurth]

This is one of the most powerful scenes in film history, let alone war films. The image of the waving soldier with his face heavily bandaged as he walks from left to right in front of the film crew just before the "BABABABA...." part of the song "Surfing Bird" is truly one of the most surreal scenes on film. Just a couple of notes: the M41 Walker "Bulldog" tanks Kubrick acquired for this scene were actually used by the ARVN troops. The main US battle tank was the M48 Patton. Also, 9 out of 10 times when an H-34 Choctaw landed to extract the wounded, ammo and other supplies would be thrown out of one side, as the wounded were put in the other side. No biggie, no director could get every detail perfect...

[@MrGamelover23]

Maybe not but I would have tried my damnest to get every detail perfect.

[@petergriffin911]

Hi I'm Peter Griffin. You know there's an issue facing many Americans today that i know concerns a great number of us. According to Gallop polls 1 in 12 Americans is unaware that the Bird is the Word. I for one dream of a America where everybody knows that Bird is the Word. AH BA BA BIRD BIRD BIRD THE BIRD'S A WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@astarteswillum5259]

Someone theorized that's supposed to be a ghost.

[@kilogee5502]

The man in th bandages that you're all curious about was (if I remember correctly) meant to be a 'ghost' man, Kubrick put it in on purpose and knew only a few people would notice, it might just represent a burn victim but note how the music goes to that creepy sound when he passes

[@JoJo-lj6kk]

Raban Rendon best of luck!

[@lingsley5892]

Timestamp?

[@pacingthecage]

@@lingsley5892 1:17

[@PacoOtis]

I was a helicopter pilot in Nam in 69 and chuckled when these clean aircraft with no bullet hole patches came in. My best buddy would be 72, but came back in a box at age 20.

[@realmechanicalstorm]

I love how you got the camera panning across and everybody is quiet and serious until you get to the Marines who all start cracking jokes like nothing's going on

[@nickydel8506]

1:54 "I'll be General Custar" guy is holding a Red Rider BB gun in his hands. You can see it in an earlier strapped to his gear

[@jonassavimbi8202]

imagine being killed by a marine with a BB Gun

[@fallguye6011]

Shoot his eye out also.

[@danieltorreyo]

Thats a grenade launcher

[@nickydel8506]

@@danieltorreyo no it's a bb gun.

[@danieltorreyo]

@@nickydel8506 look up m79 grenade launcher

[@vigilantslacker6039]

My favorite musical queue of all time. Kubrick's got such a fine sense of detail, like how the paramedics and the filmers walk by so carefully, all hunched over, and the guy with napalm burns all over his body walks through like he doesn't give a shit. Truth is, he's been through so much hell, he probably doesn't.

[@ShreddedSteel]

Its 2022 and the Bird, Is in fact, Still.... The word

[@petergriffin911]

Hi I'm Peter Griffin. You know there's an issue facing many Americans today that i know concerns a great number of us. According to Gallop polls 1 in 12 Americans is unaware that the Bird is the Word. I for one dream of a America where everybody knows that Bird is the Word. AH BA BA BIRD BIRD BIRD THE BIRD'S A WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@killerfrank8974]

It never ceases to amaze me that this, the greatest Vietnam war film ever made, was filmed in England, of all places!!! Look it up yourself if you don't believe me.

[@dragonsword7370]

True. Because no one sweats in while they're supposed to be in Vietnam. I mean that's how you can tell.

[@artlover1477]

The battle of Hue was fought actually in cold, foggy weather believe it or not. I have watched tv docs about the battle. So London was not a bad match for this battle.

[@lordseelenfresserdemonking1168]

If you play this song during a battle your enemy will be so confused they might just surrender

[@chris-hz1pc]

Probably one of the best scenes ever shot

[@Chris.in.taiwan]

Peter Griffin would agree with this soundtrack

[@connormclernon26]

I'm assuming the comment: "Is that you John Wayne, is this me?" refers to the fact that Wayne dodged military service and yet continued to extol the virtues of serving in the military? It's what I remember off the top of my head so don't flame if I'm wrong. I mean, many stars did "serve" in WWII, but there were some like Jimmy Stewart who put their money where their mouth was and actually fought in the war.

[@phapnui]

You remember correctly. Wayne was booed off stage when he visited troops in Hawaii in WWII. The wounded troops had no time for his Hollywood bullshit.

[@allybally0021]

....well he didnt volunteer that is correct. I think he was conflicted about it as he had a young family and had only just gotten a break when the war started. He was popular and it was a small number that got shirty with him.

[@nonameblues]

Wayne did try to volunteer several times, even with John Fords photographic unit and the OSS. but the studios threatened him with crippling lawsuits if he walked out on his contracts. It was something that haunted him the rest of his life and made him excessively patriotic...

[@phapnui]

Pick your favorite excuse. Another one is John claimed a shoulder injury but that didn't stop him from doing stunts. He was in love with Marlene Dietrich and didn't want to leave her.

[@Hiyst]

He's referring to another part earlier in the movie whilst they're at basic training, the D.I. is making racist remarks towards a black recruit and so he says that quote which causes the D.I. to give him the nickname "Pvt Joker"

[@MrSomebodyyy]

The guy's expression at the begin gets me everytime.

[@hollykelley2369]

I MUST HAVE PISSED SOMEONE OFF BY SAYING THIS , BECAUSE HE IS TURNING ON MY THERMASTAT WHEN I GO TO THE BATH ROOM AGAIN. LOL

[@undsetmarai7116]

1:16 Holy shit! Is that a ghost soldier ?!

[@robotzombie4754]

I wonder if its one of the dudes they were carrying

[@JohnnyRocker023]

I reckon he just has bandages all over his face

[@djaceman123]

The effects in this movie for its time are amazing!

[@privateuser9028]

djaceman123 Director is a legend and had the best video tricks. So good NASA met him and used his studio

[@theafroman830]

djaceman123 They still hold up to this day, if you ask me.

[@shinn631]

Private User I see what you did there lmao

[@ottogofast3882]

I prefer the practical effects tbh, you should see Waterloo

[@serge933]

Still holds up today because these were real effects, not some quick made cheap shit CGI that everyone is using even to make car crash scenes these days. Movies arent what they used to be.

[@flufferusgoobus]

1:39 gotta love those lines.

[@rohunsaigal2576]

It’s almost like they’re breaking the 4th wall and talking directly to the viewer

[@flufferusgoobus]

@@rohunsaigal2576 "Hey who let the G'ks play the indians?!"

[@timothydamann93]

2021 here. Bird is still the fuckin word…

[@hisdukeness3037]

When the song hits the surfing bird line.. a guy in bandages walks by and salutes the camera.. almost like the mummy or invisible man.. Forgot the “Kubrick Conspiracy”.. but, once you see it.. you’ll notice it every time

[@radiopinkzeppelin2]

kubrick's movie on napoleon would've been quite something

[@jasenator1323]

Well this one aged like milk!

[@louisgunn]

god loves marines, they keep him in business

[@nosomusk864]

I don't think these idiots get to heaven after they get killed by (whoever the USA Started a war with )

[@louisgunn]

best go to the Sunday magic show, and ask

[@Coenen2517]

Don't you know? God has a hard on for Marines.

[@louisgunn]

he does sunday magic shows for marines, he does what he does, we do what we do

[@bobuscesar2534]

+Obese Kermit PVT. FFS YOU ARE TWENTY YEARS TO LATE.

[@Sander.1980]

2023 and the bird is still the word

[@Unclejack328]

“Is that you John Wayne, is this me?”

[@_Matsimus_]

I heard chungus is the word? I’ve been wrong all this time

[@zachprouty8595]

Matsimus the big man, heckin cool

[@ozzypigg7351]

This aged poorly hahahah

[@oksharks358]

Cringeeee

[@jayfisher3359]

Go away

[@Thegreatone100]

Glad to see you here.

[@sarcasticsugar4466]

I swear, this film is actually a (really) Black Comedy.

[@kishjugo4685]

Sarcastic Sugar No doubt. Everyone seems to miss the point.

[@jackal59]

@@kishjugo4685 I think most of Kubrick's movies have at least some elements of black comedy in them, at least after Paths of Glory. (I have to admit I've never wanted to watch Paths of Glory, and I barely sat through The Killing.)

[@notaethug3983]

@@kishjugo4685 I think they really missed it, like most people that missed the ghost soldier at 1:16

[@corrioliseffect]

You should see 'Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,' Kubrick's outstanding cold war dark comedy from 1964.

[@corrioliseffect]

'Paths of Glory' is actually VERY good. Possibly better than 'Full Metal Jacket.' It's just an older film.

[@Starz777]

One of the most perfect scenes in cinematic history.

[@tyfrou3377]

I see peter griffin dancing in my head

[@gorestfump8935]

I wish family guy never used this song.

[@monkhead7217]

Kill a Commie For Mommy same

[@deipenasoares1869]

@gabe itch falsa bandera

[@sadetta9312]

i can't unhear it 😭

[@user-pi4fm4ix8v]

oh have you not heard?

[@platinbullet]

@@user-pi4fm4ix8v heard what ?