Production Hell - Full Metal Jacket

[@Hogan231]

Rest In Peace Gunnery Sergeant R. Lee Ermey.

[@MrDman21]

🙏🏽

[@mkultra2456]

Also, *MAGA 2024 BABY! YEEEE HAAAAAW!!!*

[@iHaveTheDocuments]

​@@mkultra2456 objectively correct

[@La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo8787]

Oorah!!!

[@mayday0341]

GTFOH. Spare us the politics, pls​@@mkultra2456

[@phoenixdzk]

Vincent D'Onafrio advised Tom Cruise to get an apartment in London when he told him he was doing a Kubrick film. He said 'you're gonna be filming waaay longer than you think'.

[@TheElbowMerchant]

R Lee Ermey was the PERFECT person for his role, and he got a whole career out of that performance. Really great stuff.

[@anubusx]

Love him in Toy Story.

[@Autobotmatt428]

Rest in peace Gunny

[@koslisted9458]

My first fleet Marine unit was the same as he served in Vietnam. He had a roof dropped on him in a mortar attack and was medically discharged.

[@kcbondurant7959]

He should have been in several more films. Perfect as he was in this movie, his performance in Seven as the police chief was on point as well.

[@nunyabidness7547]

@@kcbondurant7959 he was in like 50 or so after this..and some before. Not to mention all the tv he did.

[@noanyobiseniss7462]

Who woulda thunk casting an ACTUAL MARINE as a MARINE would become Iconic! -Semper Fi

[@christophjohnson3777]

Oo-rah!

[@Snarkypope85]

You guys are the biggest pussies in high school and join the marines because you think it makes you tough. It doesn't

[@jimjamauto]

Don't forget Sergeant Apone in Aliens

[@ronnietexan]

Semper Fudge! Oh, yeah.

[@ollie5927]

The fact that amazon removed "born to kill" from the helmet on their rental page is ridiculous!

[@tomben6180]

Disgusting but sadly not surprising in todays soft society

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

That's why DVDs are important

[@soulextracter]

@@MASTEROFEVIL Wait until owning offensive movies becomes a crime, and they'll have amnesty days where you can hand them in to the police. x'D It will happen eventually.

[@kb4903]

Why? Any reason for that?

[@_Jay_Maker_]

@@kb4903 They think it incites violence, or some asinine bullshit. While simultaneously failing to see the entire point that the peace symbol and "Born to Kill" being on Joker's helmet are contradictions they literally bring up in the film itself. It's just more information control. Better get your hands on Willy Wonka before they edit out all mentions of Augustus Gloop being fat.

[@antusgabor]

Happy to see the "Drinker fixes" and "Production Hell" making a comeback ;)

[@HMNCLunar]

Those are my favourite sections of the channel.

[@Jar0fMay0]

It’s been too long

[@thetandfpodcast]

From someone who spent three months at the island, it's incredible that the barracks were actually filmed in England. Looks nearly identical.

[@BloodSco]

It was originally an American air base, the MOD took it over after WW2 I think.

[@nuclearmedicineman6270]

There's a chance they where built from the same plans. WW2 saw a lot of building of military installations, and the allied forces were sharing their notes.

[@alanlawson4180]

Bassingbourn Barracks - built as a USAF base in WW2, then RAF, then Army. I trained there in the '70s. Was also used as a University in "Indiana Jones".

[@chucksenhowzen9740]

R Lee Ermey’s “anti-PC” insults are a thing of legend

[@gelchert]

“Texas?! Holy dogshit! Only steers and queers come from Texas, and you don’t look much like a steer to me, so I guess that narrows it down!”

[@samsmith9315]

The insults he levelled at Private Snowball were the definition of anti-PC 😂

[@kingbaby8761]

"I bet you if there was p***y at the top of that obstacle, you could get up there couldn't you???"

[@tracyranger]

​@@samsmith9315we don't serve watermelon and fried chicken in the mess hall 😅

[@j.menapace625]

"I WILL MOTIVATE YOU, PRIVATE PYLE! EVEN IF IT SHORT DICKS EVERY CANNIBAL ON THE CONGO!!!"

[@michaelmendoza820]

Just like Heartbreak Ridge, this movie is loved by all Marines. We watched this movie religiously. Semper FI!

[@MaryRohwer]

I agree. My husband can quote nearly every line from Heartbreak Ridge. Full Metal Jacket is very quotable also.

[@jffry890]

He shoulda released this on the 10th for the birthday.

[@mrcm7063]

“The Siege of Firebase Gloria” is also one of my favorites. Semper Fi

[@captainhaddock6435]

Idea for your next Production Hell: Wizard of Oz. The shooting conditions were absolutely ridiculous

[@anonony9081]

Didn't gold body paint kill or come close to killing one of the actresses?

[@gelchert]

@@anonony9081It was Margaret Hamilton’s green face paint. The silver Tin Man makeup was also toxic, and it forced the original actor to quit.

[@Proxy-0]

@@anonony9081 Everything, between the paint, the asbestos snow, toxic makeup, exploding brooms, man you're in for a treat

[@jtehmain8261]

@@anonony9081nobody died making the wizard of oz but given all that the actors went through I’m surprised nobody died

[@kb4903]

Didn’t a guy hang himself? Urban legend.

[@muhdiversity7409]

What is that Private Pyle? A jelly donut ?

[@brockdavid]

My Grandfather was a Marine during Nam. They tried to go see this, and he couldn’t get through the boot camp segment, it was very close to what he had experienced and bothered him. And, honestly, the parts in Full Metal Jacket that take place in Vietnam pale in comparison to how visceral the Drill Instructor was and how haunting a performance was delivered by Vincent D’Onofrio. Stanley Kubrick also did Spartacus, it doesn’t get as much recognition as it should.

[@brockdavid]

Oh, and, he did not see the latrine or head scene.

[@josevictor2229]

The first half is probably the best experience in cinematic history I ever had. But the war part is very bland. I didn't really feel that private Joker had much to say or do, and the movie looked less realistic and didn't even come closer to the visceral atmosphere of Private Ryan. It looked cheap. It didn't need to be epic, but man, I was more nervous and tense at the drill sections than in the actual war. I just think that lots of the introspective elements just got lost in the middle of all the cross fire. And I don't think the narrative had any complex characters to study like the first half, or could manage one.

[@slashbash1347]

This is one of the few times I'll say the movie was better than the book. R. Lee Ermey really makes this movie. His improv is unsurpassed.

[@Ricardo_Muna_Singh_716]

I asked for a "Production Hell" video on Drinker's Alien Romulus video. The man does not disappoint. Thank you, Drinker🙏🏽

[@archstanton9073]

So did I and he delivered!

[@JamesDatWork]

My father served in the Marines during Vietnam. He said the boot camp section was 100% spot on to what he saw and experienced, ESPECIALLY the Drill Instructor.

[@mericastrata]

Matthew Modine's Full Metal Jacket Diary book offers great insight into the making of this masterpiece. It has a cool metal cover too!

[@legendsofthescriptorium]

For the record, those extras were royal marine commandos just back from a deployment to Ulster who Kubrick managed to get them to volunteer, hard core man.

[@samsmith9315]

The scene were Hartman is shouting insults at Pyle from offscreen, only to be revealed to be at the top of the equipment Pyle is climbing up will never not make me laugh. R Lee Ermey, RIP you absolute legend!

[@MBP1918]

It is effectively two films in one.

[@tomben6180]

Spot on. And the first film is one of the best ever made, you could make an argument that it’s the best. The 2nd is good.

[@xSilentVeterenx]

Kubricks constant shooting till he likes it brings meaning to the line: "YOU WILL NOT LAUGH! YOU WILL NOT CRY! YOU WILL LEARN BY THE NUMBERS!"

[@michaelmcclure7434]

As one who went through boot camp at Parris Island in the winter of 1968, I found the first part of the film basically realistic except for the final scene. No Drill Instructor has ever been killed by a recruit. Just showing D'Onafrio going off to war a dangerous and disturbed man would have made the same point. The second half of the film bears no relationship to what I experienced in Vietnam. All in all though, a film definitely worth seeing.

[@NickNapoli]

In my opinion Stanley Kubrick is one of the greatest directors of all time. His dedication to perfection is remarkable and we need more directors like him.

[@Slyarno2795]

Absolutely I enjoy his films. Full metal jacket is my favorite from kubrick.

[@NickNapoli]

@@Slyarno2795A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon and Paths of Glory are few of mine.

[@udonsei5216]

Objectively speaking, he is. The greatest? Who knows. One of the greatest? No question.

[@Dowlphin]

Perfection is 50% control. 😉

[@Slyarno2795]

@@NickNapoli 2001 space odyssey The shining full metal jacket dr strangelove eyes wide shut and paths of glory are among my favorites.

[@KazukiFerret]

R. Lee Ermey's casting was so perfect it launched his legendary decades long career in acting.

[@lyell555]

If only we could have had Kubrick and Kinski on the same set. What an episode that would have been

[@bimmylee1744]

R Lee Ermey was actually denied the roll, and Kubrick told him to not audition. However, he was so dedicated to getting it that he backhandedly auditioned through a training tape with the extras. Kubrick was upset that he auditioned, but was impressed.

[@tim2024-df5fu]

I got to me R. Lee when I appraised his house in Toppenish Wash. He was like he was on TV but funnier and kinder. It was a pleasure to meet him. RIP R Lee.

[@JahKingdom420]

"I love the idea of Stanley Kubrick trying to coax the perfect performance out of Arnie for a hundred takes" Remember when i said i could act, i liedddd 😂💀

[@chrstnldg6652]

He'll be back (again and again)😅

[@muhdiversity7409]

War, war never changes.

[@Sierra-Whiskey22]

First, a return to drinker fixes. Now, a production hell? I salute you, sir.

[@SandraGreen-sq6qq]

This deserves way more views!

[@Mystipaoniz]

You made that comment barely 30 minutes after he posted it man wtf? ^^ Maybe wait a day or two don't you think? xD Also, there are plenty of videos to watch right now. Horror movies videos like the election of a massive moron ^^

[@MrDman21]

It's funny that Kubrick ended up shooting in England for Vietnam. Other Vietnam movies were either shot in the Philippines or even Hawaii 😎

[@chance_ondriezek99]

A Kubrick film that was a nightmare to work on? You don’t say

[@kcbondurant7959]

hahaha...

[@tomben6180]

He made that joke in the video

[@RabbitShirak]

I wonder what production of his was the least hellish.

[@gatchywatchyentertainmentb2090]

Impossible! I can’t believe it! I shan’t believe it!

[@MariusWales]

Any Stanley Kubrick production is a guaranteed production hell.

[@LrdGranticus]

British film crew: Yes we had first tea break, but what about second tea break?

[@Brookspirit]

That's unions for you.

[@MaryRohwer]

Haha. I don't think he knows about second tea break, Pip.

[@jmace2424]

Vietnam was won on the battlefield but lost on the home front.

[@kb4903]

It wasn’t. More Vietcong at the end of the war then the start.

[@rickswordfire4774]

Vietnam was unwinnable. CIA knew, but they went with it anyway.

[@HisNameIsRobertPaulson01]

My family members that served in the military, from WW2 to Vietnam, all loved this movie.

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

It was Beckton gas works. It was in the process of being demolished so they didn’t mind Kubrick damaging it The camp was Bassingbourn Barracks. If you look carefully you can see that the road markings are British.

[@Thomasmemoryscentral]

A fun fact is The Outfield shot their music video for Since You've Been Gone at that same crumbling gasworks

[@WakeUpMissoula]

The Tea Break is my favorite union thing for productions. Netflix did a doc on the making of Aliens and James Cameron had the same issues of Tea break. I like to say, "My Mandated Tea Break" as a joke when I go on break.

[@CmoreChap]

Typical myopic perspective from a egoist Director/producers pov ! Wait until you are the one working silly physical and mental exhausting hours. H&S can and do go too far but crew and actors have died because of 'tired or unfed' mistakes. A couple of obsessive dictatorial Directors POV's does not make something a universal truth or even valid on its own.

[@CmoreChap]

British film crew did and still do work very long hours, at times under conditions that are often risky to unsafe and uncomfortable to damned horrific. I nearly died on a job, I worked often with a Commercials Director who loved working hard and taking risks, he died while filming. Some producers and directors want everything how & when they wanted it regardless of the dangers to cast and crew, this was why crews needed regulations to stop. Try standing under freezing cold rain machines during a winter night shoot for hour after hour without a break, or in side the back of a Ford van driving like a rally car at in a Welsh slate quarry for 14 hours, or working back to back 24 hour days operating equipment that is both potentially dangerous and worth Hundreds of thousands of pounds with a famous actor at risk if you eff up.

[@riffgroove]

While filming the Lord of the Rings, Peter Jacksom had a "tea caddy." Someone who's job it was to make sure Peter had a cup of hot tea at all times.

[@kb4903]

1980s Britain lol

[@therocketboost]

Cameron has a terrible record for set safety. The tea breaks keep crew from getting people killed through exhaustion or lack of focus.

[@SimoExMachina2]

I always throught that Joker's extra hits were part of the script, as if to say, that the character was also so fed up with Pyle's failures (after his numerous attemps to teach him everything) that it finally erupted into this display of aggression, anger and hatred. I never knew it was just the actor venting his feelings to his co-star. C'mon Mathew, what are you doing?

[@curtisnewton895]

my favourite sort of content, learning tons of interesting stuffs

[@slyjester3315]

I'm lucky enough to have the same birthday (year notwithstanding) as R. Lee Ermy. OORAH!!

[@matacurrei5665]

Is by any chance 1933 or in fact 2015??

[@TJ-W]

I share a birthday with Nicolas Cage. Beat that.

[@slyjester3315]

​@TJ-W as far as actors go, you have me beat. But I also have The Undertaker, Harry Houdini and Clyde Barrow

[@andrewbrennan2891]

R Lee Ermey got to play the same character in the criminally under-rated The Frightners with Michael J Fox and Jake Busey Directed by Peter Jackson.

[@RabbitShirak]

He also had a similar role in a scifi series Space Above and Beyond.

[@timeforthehammer1401]

Love these videos! Thanks for continuing to do them.

[@Sergeant_Fury]

I met R. Lee Ermey when I was in the National Guard. He talked about Vietnam, Apocalypse Now and the Marine Corps. We got him to sign VCR boxes of Full Metal Jacket. The talk was all military, then he looked up and said, "This is really good light." just the way someone who was in movies would. Great meeting the guy.

[@trinaq]

R. Lee Ermey was a Marine Corps drill instructor in real life, so it's safe to say that he knew his stuff. Also, he was initially hired as a set technician, before Stanley Kubrick noticed his audition tapes.

[@TMMReznor]

You could have just watched the video?

[@Mystipaoniz]

@@TMMReznor I like people repeating stuffs that are already in a video, like it's some crazy new shit that nobody knew hahah

[@Cheekiemoney]

Perfect choice for the day after the US election.

[@danjonmills]

Hey, Trump went from draft dodger to bullet dodger, and on his way to an epic redemption arc. America is saved. Lucky bastards.

[@neneshubby]

I don’t like Trump and didn’t vote for him, but I won’t lie. There’s a part of me that’s enjoying watching the media and the Hollywood elites lose their effing minds this morning.

[@cheften2mk]

For a criminal who paid to dodge the draft while the working class suffered fighting

[@danjonmills]

Oop, smells like another smooth brained liberal @cheften2mk well, Trump certainly has completed his redemption arc, dodging bullets at political rallys in his 70s, coming back for more and winning the Presidency to beat off scumbag liberals and globalists. Cry more, loser.

[@gatchywatchyentertainmentb2090]

@@danjonmillsNinja there was no reason to fight for Vietnam. IT WAS FOR NOTHING!

[@djenei2564]

YESSSS ANOTHER PRODUCTION HELL THANK YOU

[@jeffcraymore]

Only through great pain and suffering can you make a great masterpiece.

[@WH250398]

The second half of this movie is absolutely nothing compared to the first half. The first half is simply masterful.

[@monkeeboy20]

The book's actual much darker end, IMO, would have been a better fit with the first half of the movie. The 2nd half seems awkward in a lot of places.

[@WH250398]

@monkeeboy20 With the rather crappy practical shooting effects and sounds it kinda feels like an A Team episode.

[@braddillon4311]

@ 7:55 well it's interesting to see that James Cameron wasn't the only director annoyed by tea breaks lol

[@YagiChanDan]

One simply does not fuck with the British need for tea. Hell, we sacked off an entire continent from our empire over tea. 😅

[@TheLizzard238]

The camp where basic training was filmed, is Bassingbourn Barracks near Royston in Hertfordshire. I was based there in '93 when the Royal Signals moved there from Catterick. The squad pass the block where I lived. One of the major things that happened after filming, was to do with the assault course. It had to be built exactly and to the correct safety specifications required. Then after filming, the MOD were so impressed by it, they asked if it could be left erected on the airfield so it could be used to training purposes...the production demolished it instead. Another movie was filmed there...The Memphis Belle. It was an apt location as that was the actual airforce base where the Memphis Belle and her crew were stationed during WWII. One of her propellers was made into a memorial that stood just outside BHQ.

[@turokk3352]

Downloading this for work tomorrow.

[@PatrickRosenbalm]

Saw it in US Navy bootcamp at Great Lakes one weekend in a quonset hut on the base. Needless to say it gave the movie a whole new dimension.

[@Roargus]

"What about breakfast?" "You already had breakfast." "First breakfast, yes. What about second breakfast?"

[@fredkeeler4620]

A teen girl who never acted before was so traumatized by her own performance she ran out of the room crying. A victim of her own success.

[@Mr_SpinelesS]

Love Vincent D’Onofrio's Acting Ability. He's one of those rare Actors where you see him in a move/tv show and go "Holy Crap, is that X from Y? I didn't realize until now!

[@MaryRohwer]

It's hard to find his IMDB, because he looks so unlike the characters he plays. His presence in the trailers has me considering whether I should watch Daredevil: Born Again. I really enjoyed watching him in the first season of Daredevil.

[@bpenny4352]

The location wasn’t a chemical plant it was Beckton Gas Works in Newham. Bassingbourn barracks is in Cambridgeshire, south Cambs to be exact, not Hertfordshire. I’m a gas engineer that lives in South Cambs, walk my dogs near the Barracks, it was a B17 bomber base in the Second World War, Errol Flynn was supposed to have briefly served there

[@TheLizzard238]

It is Hertfordshire...I know because I was based there in '93

[@bpenny4352]

@ nope, the postcode is SG for Stevenage, and postal address likes to put it down as Bassingbourn, Royston Herts, but like Melbourn, Litlington, Bassingbourn, Kneesworth, Meldreth etc are all Cambridgeshire, the county line follows the A505.

[@wun1gee]

My first boss out of highschool was a former Marine and when he'd get upset he'd go into his office and watch this movie. He said it was motivation.

[@aronblanche]

One of my favorite movies, especially the first part of it

[@drTERRRORRR]

"This is my Critical Drinker! There are many like this, but this one in mine!" P.S.: The Sergeant elevated insulting people to true art form. He'll allways be my idol.

[@Joeschmoe4472]

One of the best movies I’ve ever seen. Happy 249th this Sunday Devil dawgs

[@donaldneill4419]

I saw this in the Fredericton, NB theatre in the summer of '87, along with several hundred other Army officer trainees from the Combat Training Centre at CFB Gagetown. I'm surprised the building survived our collective reaction to Ermey's note-perfect scenes. Most of us came back the next night to see it again. There's never been anything like his performance in cinematic history and there never will be again. It's really two movies - one about basic training, and one about ops, and they're very different and only tenuously connected.

[@TheJohnDoeLibraryRoom.]

The greatest American film director ever. Include the rest of the world and he's number 3.

[@scrappydoo7887]

Well this is absolutely one I had to see 👍 Thank you dear drinker

[@amirhb7531]

This movie was great it showed a lot of mental struggles too

[@r_r_rye2441]

Kubrick will always be a mad legend.

[@andrewparker1847]

James Cameron hated those teabreaks too.

[@danielhenderson8316]

That seems like a copout because just about every Stanley Kubrick movie could qualify as Production Hell because he ran about 60 takes for every scene.

[@tobermory8341]

'Paris Island' sequences filmed at the British Army's Bassingbourn Camp near Royston in Hertfordshire which at the time was the Queen's Division Depot.

[@phytonso9877]

4:10 I'd be more forgiving of pronouncing Hue as "hu-ay" instead of "hway" if they didn't pronounce it correctly in the movie any number of times.

[@XvXMONSTERXvX]

my favorite critical drinker series, makes the films cooler knowing what they had to go through to make it

[@nobodyknows9937]

Great movie. It is unfortunate that in my time in the army, I don't think I met anybody who remembered the second half of it. Mostly they just remember R. Lee Ermey.

[@MaryRohwer]

I think that's tracks. Outside of the drill instructors lines and Pyle's suicide, I remember the prostitute, the helmet with the peace sign and the Born to Kill on it, and the lies printed by the Stars and Stripes: "Why don't we just make him a general?"

[@PhilomenaMerritt-e5e]

The effort on this really shows!

[@AhmedX8]

I've been listening to Sgt. Hartman's speeches for weeks due to R. Lee Ermey's immortal performance, and now this appears. Good timing.

[@Matticitt]

I love your production hell series.

[@TastyScotch]

Loved this movie as a kid. Went back and watched it again many years and was like “oh snap is that Jayne Cobb??” 😂

[@EdDantes-v8c]

Excellent film. D’Onofrio has been so underrated.

[@mellusk9194]

James Cameron had the same complaint about the film crew taking tea breaks when he was filming "Aliens".

[@PraviousFaboule]

I absolutely love your production hell videos and I wish you would make them more often man, they are so funny and full of interesting details

[@BigBrotherMateyka]

I absolutely love behind-the-scenes stuff like this. So much I never knew about Full Metal Jacket.

[@CL053DC45K37]

FMJ is one of my all time favorite movies. It got a lot of the details right especially when R. Lee Ermey was on screen. That man was made for this role and the fact he was a Marine drill instructor gave him all experience needed. This movie was one of a few that lead me to join the military and I loved every minute of my time in service.

[@deeps2761]

Honestly neebur, give The Cruel Sea a go. One of the best war films ever made and very contentious at the time because of the 'chaps in the water'.

[@sevenevils8282]

Man, I love production hell. Thanks drinker, keep em coming!

[@dondoloparisi5041]

I never realized before how much young Kubrick looks like John Rhys-Davies. Has anyone ever seen those two in one room together? 🤔

[@FilmFox24]

I’m glad you started doing stuff like this again.

[@ZeroHero3d]

Hollywood lost its way. Movies like this can't be made today because there are no men capable of dedicating themselves to the process like Kubrik did. Yes, it's grueling, ugly work that puts friends at odds and crew at risk but God dammit it made for legendary art that lasts generations beyond. Hollywood today is not the Hollywood of yesteryear and it's a damn shame.

[@luxul1879]

This was very insightful and eye-opening. Great video. Hope to see more like this.

[@petrowegynyolc7108]

6:20 I read a different story about Ermey's casting; allegedly he was hired after he shouted at Kubrick to stand up when he talks to him, and he instinctively obeyed

[@dadoogie]

When my cousin passed out of his phase 1 training at basingbourne it was crazy to get my head around that it was where this film's first half was shot. We had dinner in the "Barracks room" in the film too.

[@StephenMackay-hx1bp]

Love this film as a kid. Joined the British Army in ‘97 and did my basic training at ATR Bassingbourn. I kept thinking “this place looks so familiar” despite having never been there.I only found out years later it was where they filmed FMJ!

[@kurt9395]

R. Lee Ermey was probably the only actor that Kubrick allowed to ad lib, he was so into that character. One story I heard was when Ermey said the line "... and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach around!", Kubrick didn't understand what he meant. So Ermey had to explain what he said and Kubrick broke out laughing and kept the line.

[@andreleclerc7231]

ahem... Peter Sellers?

[@nightking0130]

Next you should do a production hell on Sergei Bondarchuks War and Peace. Probably one of the craziest shoots ever. But it gave us 7 hours of masterpiece.

[@justinhackstadt6677]

My father that joined the Army in 65' said this boot camp experience in this movie was exactly on point. Lee Ermy also was a literal Drill Instructor and a Gunnery Sergeant himself. The dude was cut from a different cloth we simply don't see or will ever see anymore. ❤

[@lucynyu333]

Shooting on an abandoned chemical plant? That's like shooting in Chernobyl. I wonder how many of them ended up with cancer and other health issues

[@Buster_Piles]

The book "The Short Timers" & it's sequel "The Phantom Blooper" on which the film are quite closely based are available FOR FREE on the net. Very, very good books.

[@leftybass989]

Brilliant stuff. Glad to see you doing some Kubrick. For a director with a reputation for control, he fair let the camera go freely when he liked what he saw. Nicholson, Ermey and Sellers had a free role in Stanley’s films and rightly so 👍🏻

[@zacharymcmillan2788]

When I was 14 my uncle rented this movie and got a six pack,and we sat down together and watched it. I was more blown away from this film than from A Clockwork Orange,which I watched at the age of 13.

[@sillyhead7441]

FMJ is a great one. We would watch it every couple of months in Iraq. Thank you drinker.

[@andreamalerba4153]

I have recently read Kubrick: An Odyssey by Kolker and Abramas. Each film production is analysed very well, so I knew most of this but great video to put out anyway!

[@davidcanty7903]

The fact that a control freak like Kubrick let Ermy improvise is astounding .