Full Metal Jacket - Drill Instructor Best Scenes

This video shows scenes from Stanley Kubrick's movie "Full Metal Jacket' that include the drill sergeant. From the basic training scenes, the jelly doughnut unlocked footlocker scene, the rifle song, and more!

[@frasierfreak92]

R. Lee Ermey is the only actor who was EVER allowed to improvise in a Stanley Kubrick film. That’s how good he was!

[@stargazerlaurent6780]

He didn’t improvise shit. Literally everything is taken directly from the book

[@karlmartin849]

@@stargazerlaurent6780 Nope. It was improvised as confirmed by the majority of people who worked on the film. Ermey himself served as a drill instructor from 1965 to 1967.

[@john26660]

@@karlmartin849 He did not improvise. He wrote the parts. They filmed multiple takes of every scene, and they had to be exactly the same. He did not improvise on the spot, but he did help write the dialogue.

[@Ccortanaa]

One of the best movies ever made, PERIOD. RIP R. Lee Ermey

[@user-fz6qv4ve8v]

The first part at boot camp was really good, it did go down hill a bit once they all got to Viet Nam.

[@edb3877]

@@user-fz6qv4ve8v For those who went to 'Nam, it ALL went downhill from there.

[@alexanderhamilton2600]

“You climb obstacles like old people fuck”

[@bmacd2112]

Such a great movie. R. Lee Ermey was the perfect choice for the drill Sargent since he was one in real life. I'm amazed though that he managed to do the part without the normal, frequent and creative use of a vast vocabulary of expletives! 🤣🤣🤣

[@CrossOfBayonne]

He was a legend, In addition to this film he was also in Toy Story alongside Tom Hanks and later in his own Mail Call

[@AmericanSpringfeild]

He’s a drill instructor

[@anthonycrenshaw3229]

He actually rewrote this entire half of the movie once the filmmakers decided to give him the part.

[@Plowboy247]

1 of the best movies I've ever seen. R. Lee Ermey is the best actor ever RIP Sir

[@bobandrew8410]

He Was In The Marine Corps, Thats They Reason This Is His Most Famous Role. He Had Real Experience.

[@Jarppispecial]

It really was, and why he got this part because HE indeed WAS a REAL LIFE MARINE instructor.

[@alanaldpal950]

As I am sure you know, Dr the most part,he was not “acting” in this film, but he did go on to have a fine acting career.

[@edb3877]

R. Lee Ermey was not acting. He WAS Gunnery Sergeant Heartman.

[@62202ify]

I've heard stories of Drill Instructors tearing a whole barracks apart, throwing mattresses and things everywhere, then making the recruits clean it up.

[@kurtb8474]

Oh yes. I'm sure it happened a lot. When I was in basic training, we had a Senior Master Sergeant who would pull apart a bunk right down to the springs. Not because he found anything wrong with it, but because it was too perfect. If a bunk or a locker looked totally squared away to this guy, he would pull it all apart to look for something out of place.

[@62202ify]

@kurtb8474 oh geeze, sounds like a whacko, thank you for serving.

[@shadekerensky3691]

Oh and it's quite true.

[@patrickdonahue8384]

True.Been there,done that.

[@zacharybeeson7211]

that's normal. Good times!

[@okeoi]

Ermey saying 'What is that?... What the fuck is that?!', when discovering the jelly donut never fails to make me laugh. He sounds completely unhinged but also so dumbfounded by the sight. It's hilarious.

[@BeamieYT]

"Holy Jesus, what the fuck is that?... what the fuck is that Pyle?"...

[@ildart8738]

Brings back PTSD memories from basic training. Both good, and disturbing. We hated the way our NCO instructors treated us, but at the same time we respected them. After 10+ years in the army, I have nothing but respect for them.

[@fredbiden868]

are you disabled from basic training??? PTSD

[@Gunners_Mate_Guns]

You respect them because they were giving you the most valuable lessons that you would ever get to give you the best possible chance to survive combat and be a warrior.

[@billsimmons2898]

brings a tear to this old Marine's eye! Semper Fi!

[@canica99]

Thank you for you service sir and God Bless you always.

[@louismatassa8489]

A legendary military movie with great scenes 🇺🇸🦅🗽🪖🎖️🏅

[@kurtb8474]

Anything that is not secured, even a footlocker, is unacceptable. Because some day that recruit may be responsible for securing something more important. And his explanation of being hungry is weak, too. When I was in basic, we were not only allowed to eat as much chow as we wanted, but encouraged to do so. Pyle brought this on himself.

[@marsmars9130]

Had a friend Master Sergeant Tom Merritt Career Army! Good man he was very much like Ermey Tough on the field, at work with recruits, and real pleasant and calm at home to be around. Bless them ALL!

[@billludy4482]

Still one of Vincent D’Onofrio’s best roles. He actually gained weight for the part, and as it fluctuated his body took a brutal beating because of it.

[@JohnBaxter-kn5zf]

When legends scream in your face you call him DRILL SARGEANT LEE IRMEY... Damn great movie

[@maicidiecagem]

This movie is absolutely epic

[@chrisoconnell5143]

And the barraks have not changed!!!

[@Gunners_Mate_Guns]

They really haven't. Even in my navy boot camp, the interior of our barracks at least looked identical to this one.

[@Lawful123]

"I guess the core don't get theirs" LMAO!

[@ronvosick8253]

I bet that jelly doughnut tasted great.

[@leokimvideo]

Every time I eat a jelly donut I always feel guilty

[@DerDieSkaSkie]

best drill sarge ever. he didnt even blink lol

[@j7cc]

The Corps is no joke ! 🇺🇸

[@markwilliford5319]

When life gets hard..I think of my days in Basic Training.

[@davidcampbell351]

No shit bri

[@maplekeener5204]

Rip legend

[@jimwebb813]

I had D I just like sgt Hartman in basic , I was scared shitless

[@bedaziochannel]

Now, with the recent disclosure that Jackie's secret service agent pulled the "magic bullet" out of the back of JFK's seat, we know there were four rounds. Therefore, there were two shooters. To me, that makes Oswald a Patsy just like he claimed.

[@frolic63]

One off the best scene ever, And Us who has beeen in the army know the type off drill sergeant!

[@nemochicky4697]

0:49 when a Drill Instructor finds contraband in an unlocked footlocker

[@JohnRyan-gr8bs]

Gomer Pyle was the real hero of this movie

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"I PREFER FIREBALL CINNAMON WHISKEY!!!" - ST. SOLDIER."

[@mwhitby502]

To be fair everything this man is saying is fair enough, it's seems harsh but it's actually not, it's very reasonable especially in a disciplined fighting force like this.

[@user-td2jw9ze2c]

Screaming at someone's face and calling him names when he lost his mind is extremely stupid

[@markwilliford5319]

Frustration Tolerance - coping skills - has to be learned. On the battlefield - or in any Military Organization, Frustration is a way of life and one has to control themselves.

[@kurtb8474]

@@user-td2jw9ze2c If Pyle can't take that kind of treatment in basic training, he can't take it in combat. Basic training is where the military separates those who can from those who can't hack it. Better there than in some crucial situation.

[@user-td2jw9ze2c]

@@kurtb8474 this wasn't training, he dehumanized him, this was basically an American Hitler youth.

[@JasonKissee-fh5sf]

...to be fair...if you haven't gone thru a marine bootcamp...your comment is insefissiont

[@eric81872]

Now that's a Roast brother THANK YOU THANK YOU ! ☺♥

[@robvallejo788]

The best War Movie ever!

[@shaneamsler6417]

The best drill Sargent ever!👍

[@charleswarren1901]

Jelly doughnut, sir.

[@RobConroy-bc5tk]

There ain't no "I" in boot camp!

[@ThePrader]

Anyone that went to any military boot camp between 1941 and 1986, ( I went in 1975), knows how realistic the movie was. I feared my DI'S - at first. Around the 8-9 week point the fear was replaced by respect. We "boots" came to respect and actually like our DI'S. I did at least.

[@Elwrt455]

R. Les Ermey was perfect for this role. I'm a black American Veteran and loved it's authenticity (Leonardo DiCaprio in "Django" too)!

[@royshashibrock3990]

Not to shortchange the Jarheads out there, but our (Army) confidence tower at Fort Dix was a lot tougher than that seen in this movie. The crossbeams got farther apart the higher you went. The top beam you could just barely reach with your fingers if you were average height. We had only one chance, and I did not go for the top, but I found out later you were not expected to...just go around the poles at the sides. I sometimes laugh to myself at the taller guys who I remember felt it to be possible and struggled fruitlessly to get over the top beam...those were great days.

[@denniskai2331]

Actually - I think that was just Hollywood getting it wrong. I was in the Navy and did the USMC confidence course - it was onstructed the same way you describe. If I remember right - I think they also used round timber logs which made it feel even more precarious

[@royshashibrock3990]

@@denniskai2331 The ones I dealt with at Fort Dix NJ were rough-cut "planks," about 3" x 6" rectangular cross section as I remember (that was 40 years ago this month). And I believe you are right about the "Hollywood getting it wrong" thing.

[@SSN515]

They shot the movie at a British RAF base. The real Island, and barracks, are a lot different. Cargo net obstacle. Different obstacles than this movie. Plus the Army doesn't do pull ups.

[@royshashibrock3990]

@@SSN515 I can assure you that, 40 years ago when I went through Basic, the Army most certainly did have recruits do pull ups.

[@SSN515]

@@royshashibrock3990 OK Thanks. Didn't know that. This movie doesn't have ADI's who are the Pit Bulls , either. They will triple team you in Boot if you eff up. Plus they don't show them doing water drills and "float tests". Nothing about The Pit. Bunch of stuff missed. Fat guy would have been sent into a "Pork Chop Unit" before he even was put in a platoon, and a "Motivational" platoon if he couldn't hack it going through.

[@TheTheratfarmer]

Pyle went on to be a major actor in TV, I never knew that.... donk donk sound. Bootcamp is sucessfull.

[@fredbiden868]

1971 Fort Ord Ca. was just that....

[@thomasmoore3673]

A bit of amazement from me that when R L Ermey was trying out for a part he improvised grand many scenes unscripted and the actor chosen for that part of the movie dismissed and Director chosen Ermey as the Real Deal.

[@frasierfreak92]

Actually what happened was they cast an actor and R. Lee was brought in to prep him for the role. When Stanley Kubrick met him and heard his improvisations he fired the actor and asked R. Lee to do it instead. Lee was actually petrified of acting and had stage fright when filming, but you’d never know.

[@jamesx9881]

@@frasierfreak92 If he fired the actor, why does he play the helicopter gunner in the movie?

[@einstein3181]

lol, love it!

[@ernielightning3218]

How does he not blink once during the whole first half of the movie?😳

[@matthewbishop9342]

There's no one else on this planet who could play that part like R Lea Ermy

[@andrewwhitbread9362]

"UPON A CHIN - UP WE 'TAKE IT ON THE CHIN'!"! ! ! - ST. HMAJW."

[@BeamieYT]

What's ironic is that Vincent D'onofrio had to gain like 60-70 lbs to play private pyle... he could've done those obstacles if not for that... 😆

[@jimparsons6803]

No doubt heading on down to "Hotel Street," in short order? Liked the movie though.

[@TheChitownpete]

The reason I never joined the Marines was because I would've been Pyle. Only difference is I would've never snuck that Jelly Doughnut into the Barracks.

[@xyz-bz1fc]

During the obstacle course, those extras had have been ex military or active duty marines because there is no way there were that many fit actors to climb the obstacles, do all that physical activity so well.

[@insaneAlchemyOfeviI]

The JFK headshot was from a 5.56 AR15 from the forward secret service car, - through the windscreen, by an SS agent

[@louve3336]

SchizoCHAD....

[@tonynathanson7843]

The best scene in the movie was when Private Pyle took out the drill instructor.

[@constantinetariloff425]

Looks and sounds like "One flew over the cuckoo's nest" part 2 or another day in mental asylum.

[@adamday9635]

Instructor*

[@filmingreels]

Thanks

[@jameshooper8793]

I knew guys in the MAFIA that makes this technical instructor look like a kindergarten 100 pound girl teacher by comparison.

[@BENROLEX-lt7dr]

Trust me Sir, level general more than 1 millions humans life,it no easy to be as seniors...but I had try the best..don't worries,as long i know it not easy to the dutys,I know to take care Sir...tq General.

[@TheTheratfarmer]

{ shit, yes sir,}.

[@jimwright2795]

At 4:44 - "It should take you no LESS THAN 10-fkin-seconds to negotiate this obstacle." As Paul Finebaum once put it on his radio show... "When you speak extemporaneously for a living, mis-speaks will be made." Or words to that effect. A Latin speaker would have typed "(sic)" following the quote. Uh, Jim, which quote? There are two. "Each of them."

[@howarddowling3849]

Icht bin ein jelly doughnut ?

[@JohnEmail-ux9yc]

Johm email isnt a liberal he prefers plain glazed1

[@SSN515]

From Berlin

[@happypapi1903]

It was Jack Ruby who got the kill shot from the grassy knoll, and before Oswald could talk, he was shot at close range with a .38 service revolver. Jack Ruby did the time for that so he wouldn't talk either and even if he did, he had no credibility. Messed up time.

[@bobbastian760]

It's a gun.

[@brianjacobs7775]

I I I I!!!!! This recruit!!!!!

[@nemochicky4697]

You will die with damn discipline! Do you understand me?! kzbin.info/www/bejne/epycaaefiLBnrJosi=dcLxYRKHS6-C6ryZ this is where that quote came from

[@user-mt5yb8bz7l]

One for the CORE,1 for the Pile 💩

[@rafanj824]

C'mon man, every scene with R.Lee Erney was the best from the movie. The very start is missing.

[@TheTheratfarmer]

Qaulify, Who is the FFL?

[@johawk2862]

We are . We push. Get on your face

[@user-yp7qp2cq3n]

Wow sounds like they accept bullying

[@timhinchcliffe5372]

Doesn't really make sense that he could still be that unfit after all that training.

[@rogerherron5948]

Drill instructors are human, and as such are predictable. Learn that, and make the system flow without mental effort. If psychological repetition is erratic, then measure that in a timed cycle to determine repetition. I was always known as the Commanders dilemma. That was my military name to all who knew me at my level.

[@user-uy9sx2re6k]

I trust no man

[@charlestonsolomon8676]

This is to funny

[@Bob-ge2zb]

mental and physical abuse hardens all living things. only the strongest survive. don't water a plant as much as it wants, don't feed an animal as much as it wants, you get a stronger specimen if it lives, when it recoups.

[@timin770]

Shouldn't the line be, "It should take you no MORE than 10 seconds...."??

[@user-mt5yb8bz7l]

#WM TN

[@frolic63]

Weel there are better scenes, where he shout at them in the barak!

[@ASAP.15]

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[@behjani1]

داماد😂

[@einstein3181]

lol

[@TheTheratfarmer]

Challenge me?? Well?

[@behjani1]

دلار 🎱

[@tomasreznicek]

Solid brainwashing 😮

[@Leo-fk9ch]

Ermey was the real deal. That’s exactly what boot camp was, and a far far distant cry from what it is today. Although I was Army, we had our “Ermy’s”. Mean ass Viet Nam veterans who were determined to make our lives a miserable hell, and they did. We had a Pyle in our platoon, overweight and stupid as they get. I remember on the firing range, he kept breathing as he shot. Drill instructor was screaming at him to hold, then pull the trigger, then breathe. But he did not, his rounds were all over the target. They taught him how to hold his breath by sticking his head in the toilet, flushing it and as the water went down, screaming “breathe”. Water going up .. “hold”. May sound outrageous… but it happened and it worked. Pyle didn’t make it, they eventually washed him out.

[@ms.annthrope415]

Stanley Kubrick made a fantastic 1/2 movie. The second half was completely useless. The second half seem to he a completely different movie. I love R. Lee Ermey, but he played the swme character in Boys in Company C. He played the same character in the cameo in the movie The Watch. So he couldn't play anyone other than a drill sargeant. So his acting ability was severely limited.

[@brandonstock52]

Coming from this veteran, it’s a shame how soft our DS cadres have to be now creating soft soldiers

[@freeman10000]

The first half of Full Metal Jacket is GOAT. The second half...meh!

[@travels129]

His nothing to my ex wife LOL

[@1stinenergylimitedmdevelop533]

Private pile 😮

[@yellowscott]

There would probably a bit less obesity in the world if this guy "encouraged" them to get fit!!

[@user-mt7ts4dl3y]

Trump❤