30 Facts You Didn't Know About Full Metal Jacket

What's goin on everyone back with another video this time on Full Metal Jacket! The film's obviously a true all time classic and I've been planning on doing this one for a while so I'm glad I finally got around to makin it. Had a lot of fun with it and hope you enjoy!
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[@smorgasbroad1132]

I was always struck by what a fine figure of a man R. Lee Ermey was. Good posture, trim waist, smooth confident stride. The perfect model for a military uniform catalog. R.I.P. R. Lee.

[@terrylrice4597]

That’s exactly what Marine Corps Drill Instructors look like. That’s exactly what my Drill instructors looked like. It gave me something to strive for and want to emulate. Then they made my life a living hell for 3 months and wanted nothing but to never see them again lol. R.I.P. Gunny 🇺🇸

[@sbignewski9761]

@@terrylrice4597 Yep! Strangely enough, I remember mine with nothing but fondness.

[@GTSN38]

This movie would have sucked donkey balls without him.

[@TimothyAPrice-ug7nm]

Ermey was the perfect D.I. because he himself was once a real D.I.

[@esajuhanirintamaki965]

Hohohohoooo! Every instructors goal is kill individual attitude from recruits. Ermey is a rookie compared to Waffen-SS instructors.

[@jessemcdonald5124]

Ermy was a real man and loved our armed forces. Rest in Peace Legend

[@robertkelliher1327]

I didn't know he passed

[@ORIGINALhamsterbait]

R Lee Ermy was not a drill sergeant, he was a drill instructor.

[@jedediahgassiot7428]

Facts!

[@jeffreydavidconner]

Drill Sergeant is Army. Drill Instructor is a Marine . My wife pointed that out to me. She is a Marine.

[@ORIGINALhamsterbait]

@@jeffreydavidconner why the fuck are you telling me? Take a look at the pic, crayola savant.

[@EJBing]

You’re a douche bag, not a douche nozzle

[@jeffreydavidconner]

@@ORIGINALhamsterbait Well pardon the hell out of me. Jar Head.

[@Demogrunt]

R. Lee Ermey's and Vincent D'Onofrio acting in this movie is perfect. Total respect for both

[@davinadavina1331]

gysgt hartmans ribbon was upside down. the presidential unit citation

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@davinadavina1331 A detail that Kubrick would have done on purpose, or left in on purpose.

[@davinadavina1331]

@@RideAcrossTheRiver kubrock knows about military awards

[@whtxombi4955]

Kubrick having to ask the definition of "reach around" is hilarious. I would have loved to witness that conversation.

[@DeereX748]

I had always heard that Ermey got the job as the DI after Kubrick watched his audition tape and commented that he'd never heard someone curse for 15 minutes and never repeat himself. Ermey was a real piece of work and I've enjoyed every character I've seen him play throughout his acting career. RIP, Gunny

[@andyp91]

haha! that is a talent !

[@ORIGINALhamsterbait]

🤣🤣🤣🤣, no

[@JasonSmith-pt5tv]

Actually Ermey didn’t audition for the part. When he tried he was told the part was already filled. So instead he signed on as a technical adviser as a way to show what he could add to the part. Kubric was so impressed by what he saw that they replaced him with Ermey and the other actor ended up with a bit part as a door gunner in a helicopter.

[@vikings1960]

Really??? Wow

[@TimothyAPrice-ug7nm]

A lot of people didn't realize that Ermey was a real life DI in the Marine Corp.

[@ralphgreenjr.2466]

After being drafted, I went through Army basic training at Fort Campbell, Kentucky in early 1969. All my DIs were former 101st paratroopers and Vietnam combat veterans, who were the clone of THE Gunny. Remember ,there was a serious shooting war going on and these DIs were required to get you ready for being deployed to Southeast Asia. That was a monumental task given the attitude of the recruits and the resentment of the war. I survived and met my DI 4 years later in Fort Bragg, he was my platoon Sergeant, as I was a 2nd Lieutenant. I will always be grateful to him for his service.

[@sinisterhilbily8198]

Youre off on your dates. first draft wasnt until dec of 69, and last draft befor thats was in 42

[@rujackswing618]

Yeah... All the Ole School D I s Articulations used for the Same Rhetoric & Insults... We heard the very same jack in the MC way before the movie... I think the Army can be more Supportive to the Hard Workers... & the Cor will just give you more work & duty to do... Love Self, Protect Life, Cultivate the Beauty, Peace...!!! Yeah... Even the Russ.. Use, Hooorah...!!!! as a Motivator.. Gong Ho = Work together...Chi...

[@ralphgreenjr.2466]

@@rujackswing618 You are right my Brother. I might have been career Army, but I swore my son into the Corps at 17 years old. He retired from the Corps. Grandson 3d overseas tour with Air Force at the 15 year mark.

[@TheMichaelBeck]

Thank you very much for your service, Sir. I was born in June of '68 when it was really bad over there. My half brother's uncle was Byron Holley. He wrote a book about his time in Vietnam. "A Battalion Surgeon in Vietnam". He was my eye doctor when I was a kid. A great man. I had a good relationship with my drill sergeants in '86. I did JROTC in HS so I went in a PFC knowing what to do and how to act. I did 16 weeks of basic and AIT at Ft Knox (19K, M1A1 Tanker). I was the platoon leader the entire time except for 3 weeks. Got busted for giving a weed an "attitude adjustment" upside his head. I don't like bullies. It was 16 weeks of fun for me. Like summer camp with weapons. If I were 18 I'd do it all over again. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇸🤜☠🇷🇺☠🤛🇺🇦

[@richdoesstuff2694]

@@sinisterhilbily8198 nothing you said was even remotely true. In the United States, military conscription, commonly known as the draft, has been employed by the U.S. federal government in six conflicts: the American Revolutionary War, the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The fourth incarnation of the draft came into being in 1940, through the Selective Training and Service Act. It was the country's first peacetime draft.[1] From 1940 until 1973, during both peacetime and periods of conflict, men were drafted to fill vacancies in the U.S. Armed Forces that could not be filled through voluntary means. Active conscription in the United States ended in 1973, when the U.S. Armed Forces moved to an all-volunteer military.

[@tomsite2901uk]

FMJ, an absolute masterpiece. After all these years i still watch it and love it.

[@jamestfra10]

You have to love it, it's an absolute classic!

[@Ultamami]

masterpiece, one word 😉👍🏻

[@frankpienkosky5688]

walking down to Perfume river meant the real fight for Hue was about to begin.....

[@CB-uc5yz]

It’s like Casino😊, & Goodfellows whenever I’m flipping and one of these movies is playing I stop and watch again and again and again

[@hillbillymal9351]

​@@Ultamamidick

[@aboutpeopleplacesthings8375]

Ermey was actually a really humble, approachable guy. A friend of mine happened to have a boat in the same marina and Ermey would always invite him to hang out on the boat.

[@wtpence4731]

Having been there, Paris Island, in May of '69, I can tell you that this is the most realistic representation of Marine boot camp & DI's I've Ever seen.

[@mikebohrer3881]

You spelt Parris wrong.

[@ernestwilliams268]

@@mikebohrer3881 TYPO.

[@joeypadgett7895]

Having gone through there in March of '88 at 3rd Bn I can say Kubrick nailed that part of Parris Island.

[@Ultamami]

@@mikebohrer3881 haha, *spelled. Oh, the irony.🤦🏼

[@YouTuber-mc2el]

My older brother joined the Corps (Paris Island) at the height of the war and he said the same thing after he watched the movie.

[@sinoverlord409]

Thank the Lord Ermey was persistent because without him, the basic training doesn't work

[@tommyabernathy9880]

Agreed! I can’t imagine Ed Harris in that role. I like Harris, but Ermy was perfect.

[@oldcop18]

My 1965 boot camp experience was pretty much like this movie, and our DI could swear like Hartman too. I’m no worse the wear for it and many of those boot camp lessons have guided me throughout my 75 + years.

[@ernestwilliams268]

I 'm 83 and I spent 6 years in the US Army infantry I never heard anyone refer to the word Boot Camp in my days it was called Basic Training and AIT Advanced Infantry training 2nd 8 weeks. Maybe they changed the word after I was discharged in 1964

[@denniscampbell242]

@@ernestwilliams268 Boot camp is Marine Corp, basic training is Army.

[@vampirerevin]

To bad our military has lost so much in just a very few years, it has been eroded so badly that our military is a shell of it's former self and glory...

[@ernestwilliams268]

@@vampirerevin I know in my days in the old Army we never went out in our field uniform (FATIGUES) we always when we left the post, we had to be in Class A'S and spit shined low quarters, so it surprises me to only see the Marines in their Class A Uniforms.

[@jonsanders1252]

Antifa tofu suckers trying to make wrong right. Everywhere. They will fix one thing then destroy 10 others. Pray for us all in the name of Jesus.

[@andyp91]

D'Onofrio in FMJ is amazingly different and almost not recognizable as the character in Law & Order. It's a testament not only to his body transformation, but his scary facial expressions. Fantastic video. Even more awesome movie.

[@bethchaney1965]

Man D'Nofrio is beyond amazing as an actor. His wide range is unbelievable. I have mad respect for him and his portfolio.

[@rickdee67]

Loved him in MIB!

[@dasteezyust4717]

Check him out in the the movie Chained

[@kathleenhartnellharper7234]

There is an episode of Homicide that features him as a guy pinned under a subway car. Once they move him he’ll die. He just wants to see his girlfriend one last time. The cops scour the city for her. She’s out jogging and runs right past the site as he dies. Vincent gave a stellar performance.

[@David-nx2vm]

Ermeys war movie credits include The Siege of FireBase Gloria - great movie

[@michaelmcmillan1425]

@@dasteezyust4717 FACTS!!!

[@sureshot8399]

As a young soldier I was stationed for a while where the boot camp chapter of the movie was filmed. I've run down the very same roads that the squad does in the movie. If you look carefully you will see the road markings are for right hand drive traffic as it is in the UK. It was a former air force base near Cambridge called Bassingbourn. This was the air base that the B17 bomber Memphis Belle flew out of during WW2.

[@noszagh]

I was in Nam (‘67-‘68), the location looked fake. So did the acting.

[@bogusmogus9551]

The road markings did give it away though

[@rafaelramirez7089]

@@oscarleijontoft And that's why I always thought of it as a marine bullshit movie.

[@jeffchristie-od5gu]

Modine was also in the movie Memphis Belle, coincidentally

[@rafaelramirez7089]

@@jeffchristie-od5gu Yes, he played Captain Joker.

[@davidforster8650]

I always loved how R Lee Ermey was nothing more than Kubricks Technical Adviser in the beginning and he ended up portraying one of the most iconic characters ever created. Whereas Tim Colceri went on to play a small but also significant role as the door gunner

[@sting1430]

Lee didn't steal the role...he earned it

[@Toaster81]

Nobody could play D.I. Hartman better than Ermey. His experience in life shows true. He reminds me of a couple D.S's I had in my company during BCT.

[@simonkevnorris]

I agree with that. I guess the fact that he was a drill instructor in his last helped with that. There were some very inventive lines he made.

[@AA-xo9uw]

R. Lee Ermey kzbin.info?search_query=R+Lee+Ermey

[@strikingmachine2975]

Amazing he could yell like that for up to 10 hours a day and not lose his voice..

[@frankpienkosky5688]

@@strikingmachine2975 how many remember him in "Mississippi Burning"?

[@ianswift3521]

@@frankpienkosky5688 terrible leftist propaganda flick.

[@gailwilson5192]

I too was drafted in 71 and flew from LA to Ft Leonard Wood for basic. We had a lead drill Sgt who was very cool and one other who was a clone of Sam Elliott in both appearance and voice. Thanks for your guidance. The population of the USA back then was around 207 million yet only a very small percentage (8 M) actually served in the Vietnam theater of operations. I always wonder what fate befell those of you that endured. I salute you.

[@artcarney-fq8pg]

my wife never believed when when I often told her about' This is my rifle this is my gun, this is for fighting , this is for fun. When we were at the movie and that scene happened she leaned over and said " I believe you now."

[@billyrayhoscheit1775]

My cousin Kenneth Keller died Feb. 11th 1969 during his 2nd tour in Vietnam, just 3 days before his 20th birthday. I was not yet 4 years old at the time, so I don't remember the man, but I'll damn sure never forget him. 101st Airborne Artillery FSB Rifle The Day it was Raining Dead

[@andrewbunch6596]

Jennifer Aniston was born on that same day. Sorry about your cousin.

[@lindaturner9806]

@@andrewbunch6596 who gives a shit about Jennifer anistan?

[@user-yg8gg9ru8x]

I serviced in the Navy . It saddens me to know how many brothers that lost in Vietnam, but to all of my brothers and sisters who died in Vietnam, I slaute you and Rest In Peace. Thank you all for your service.

[@shadowwolf9503]

I salute your Cousin. I served with my local Army National Guard Field Artillery Unit, 1982-88, 38th Infantry Division - 163rd Field Artillery- Evansville, Indiana. We trained at Ft Campbell alot and my first 2 week summer camp was at Ft Campbell. The 101st is a great group of soldiers. I have much respect for them. And i have many great memories from my time spent training there.

[@billyrayhoscheit1775]

@@shadowwolf9503 Thanks much SW. Beside ya all the way.

[@arclight5455]

The most amazing thing is R Lee Ermey never blinks when hes reaming the trainees out

[@jimm8246]

This is one of those movie with a superb script and screenplay. Also the actors played their roles as well as anyone could ask for. Truly a masterpiece of war movies.

[@joeandpaulacorsi3693]

I really liked this movie. I was in country with the Marines 1967/68 radio operator Echo Co. 2/3. The thing that kind of bugs me about most Nam movies is most of the actors are in their mid 20's or 30's. It would seem more accurate if they were 18 or 19 as most of us were. Semper Fi to all who made it back, I think every day of the one's who didn't.

[@ernestwilliams268]

You jarheads never backed up. Thanks for your service from an old Army grunt from the old army when we got gigged for having dinosaur shit on our spears. I was also in an E company 2nd battle group 6th infantry Berlin Command/ Berlin Brigade.

[@joeandpaulacorsi3693]

@@ernestwilliams268 Thank you also for your service.

[@thatmanstumototours2270]

Semper Fi..

[@joeandpaulacorsi3693]

@@thatmanstumototours2270 Thanks. Right back at you

[@frankpienkosky5688]

@@ernestwilliams268 Marines got Da Nang up to the DMZ...it was their turf and they let you know it....

[@fus149hammer5]

The battle scenes were filmed in what is now London City Airport about a mile from where I was born and the boot camp scenes filmed at Bassingbourn barracks in Cambridgeshire where I did basic training. In fact I was there just before they arrived and there were rumours of a film crew due in. Unfortunately I was posted away before filming started. However many of the facilities used in the film are familiar to me to this day. You know, people go on about Spielberg being brilliant just remember: Spartacus Full Metal Jacket Dr Strangelove 2001 Clockwork Orange Paths Of Glory The Shining Eyes Wide Shut Kubrick was magnificent 👌

[@kathleenhartnellharper7234]

Kubrick preferred to shoot in England, no doubt so her could be close to his family. There is a scene at the end of Paths Of Glory where a woman in a cafe is singing to the rowdy bunch of soldiers. Suddenly they were transfixed by her singing. So was Kubrick. He married her.

[@JDRELGOR]

I was about to say the same about the training scenes, I only know this because that's where I did my training and pass-out.

[@fus149hammer5]

@huskydude300 Good memories but all Bassingbourn is famous for now is the Iraqi troops that were trained there and then went AWOL and tried to rape some teenage boys.

[@AtheistOrphan]

Bassingbourn yes, London City Airport no. At the time of filming the airport area was full of warehouses which were still very much in use. The battle scenes were actually filmed at the disused and partially-demolished Beckton Gasworks.

[@fus149hammer5]

@AtheistOrphan The white building where the female sniper hid was the Spillers flour mill just to the east of the airport and across the dock from the Excel Centre. It's still there. My home when on leave was half a mile from the filming location. My late mother and my brothers watched the film being made.

[@Momo-tc7sc]

Stanley Kubrick: “You can’t go to the hospital to help your wife give birth! We have a movie to make!” Also Stanley Kubrick: “I’m too scared to fly, so let’s turn England into Vietnam.”

[@jerryschramm4399]

Kubrick was such a perfectionist, he had the palm trees numbered, and would actually ask for a specific tree to be placed exactly correctly before shooting a scene.

[@frankpienkosky5688]

watch that magazine that was there...not there...then magically there again in the rifle of the platoon sgt in that battle scene....

[@sunnyscott4876]

I've been watching all the videos about The Shining. I've ODed on hearing about what a perfectionist Kubrick was.

[@frankpienkosky5688]

@@sunnyscott4876 actually thought the tv version of The Shining was creepier....and more faithful to the book.....

[@sunnyscott4876]

@@frankpienkosky5688 OK 👌.

[@30pvfd]

Was lucky enough to have met R Lee Ermy got my picture taken with him and autographed too was a real gentleman and a marine Semper Fi one of my most prized possessions

[@KenC69]

One if the best movies of the century

[@markwilliams6196]

We had a recruit in our platoon that was a Pyle. It pissed me off every time I saw him limping on light duty. They should have kicked him out but for some reason he not only was kept in but graduated on time. He did absolutely nothing the entire time. To make matters worse he had a picture of a good looking "girlfriend" on the Hog Board, as it was called. At one point everyone had to vote who had the best looking girlfriend/wife and whoever won got a free phone call. His girlfriend wasn't the best looking but so far out of his league that he got the most votes. Afterwards we found out it was his sister. He probably wound up a General.

[@paradiswest4395]

We had a Pvt. Pyle plus a pick up that became a Pvt. Pyle also.

[@scottburns2600]

Stormin Norman before he hit it big? 😆

[@vaughndumas]

All platoons have a Pyle. We had one (or 2) in Walvis Bay (Namibia) min 1987.

[@raybates3119]

We had two fuckups like that but one had the hot chick on the hog board.

[@jimclark1896]

We called them "problem child" and every platoon has got at 1 (sometimes more!). The "hog board", haven't heard that term in a while! My girl almost won it!

[@mikitz]

It's actually for the best that Arnie wasn't cast as Animal Mother. FMJ was supposed to be as realistic a depiction of the Vietnam war as possible, so a hulk with a strong German accent may have made it look a bit...off.

[@someguy7629]

Austrian*

[@circuitdesign]

@@someguy7629 The accents sound the same to Americans.

[@frankpienkosky5688]

biggest guy gets to tote the M-60....[sometimes]....

[@williamtobin7282]

Yaaaa....

[@dbeaus]

I would like to send a shout out to my Sgt. in Basic. It was early 1969 and we all knew where we were going to end up. So did the Army. His name was McDaniels, and in 9 weeks I never saw anything close to a smile on his face. He was professional and knew what he had to do. He knew where he was going and what we were getting into, we didn't. On the last night, we were cleaning our rifles for turn in. Mt parents showed up and were apparently lost. I ask McDainels if I could go to the car and guide them to the visitors barracks. Unsuprisingly he said no. He said there was still one day of basic left and we were not being trained to be visitor guides. I was a squad leader in basic and thought I did pretty good. As you can imagine, it was never good enough. He rode us relentlessly and never missed even the slightest mistake. Well, almost all of us ended up in the infantry and Vietnam. After a month out there my impression of Sgt. McDaniels changed a lot. You see, all that pressure, intimidation, training, and lessons were to prepare us for this. One of his tips actually saved my life. And so, I admit I was wrong and he of course was correct. I thank McDaniels and am sure many other of our troops owe him a debt of gratitude and maybe their life. I have a picture of our graduation day, the entire platoon. McDaniels is in the picture wearing the same scowl we came so used to. I wonder how may lives that scowl saved?

[@keithmarlowe5569]

What was the tip?

[@dbeaus]

@@keithmarlowe5569 He told me never be part of a group. Groups were targets. One day the boys found a cool stream and we decided to take a bath and clean up. I was maybe 50 yards from the group and started to go down and join them. I saw Mac's face in my mind and turned around and started going back up the hill. Just then some little fellow decided to shoot an RPG at us. He wasn't a good shot and went over the group. The round hit where I was standing a few minutes ago. If I had continued down to the group, it would have hit right where I was and I wouldn't be typing this. True story.

[@cbroz7492]

...all of our drill sgts in the grade uf E6 and above were VN vets in the summer of 1971 ,(Ft Dix A-3-3June -July 1971)

[@GTSN38]

Seems like our military today is soft as melted butter. Thank you for your service, I'm glad you survived

[@dbeaus]

@@GTSN38 Well, I wouldn't say that it is soft as butter. The training is still good, but losing focus. The military is not civilian life and shouldn't be treated as such. The military has one purpose. To defend the country by armed conflict. As Einstein said, "you cannot simultaneously prepare for war and peace". They try and prepare you for something they cannot. But think what it would be like if they sent you with no training at all? As a football coach once said, we win the game in practice, the game is just an extension of the last practice. We will be all right as long as we have the men and women willing to give part of their lives to take that training and risk it all in our defense. As I have said before, the real heroes are the ones who took that training and gave their lives. The rest of us are just fortunate survivors.

[@daveh9521]

Not to be picky, but at 17:13, 'full metal jacket' does not refer to the "brass shell", or cartridge casing, but rather to the copper cladding of the bullet itself. Loved this video FMJ stands as one of the best war movies of all time.

[@ernestwilliams268]

We called it ball ammunition.

[@mcinteer19]

@@ernestwilliams268 yes, but that’s not what the comment was correcting.

[@BuzzLOLOL]

It's actually at 11:17 and the proper part is shown...

[@tommyabernathy9880]

@ernestwilliams268 Ball, yes! I’m Gen X and probably heard the term from my dad or something. Anyway, I’ve been surprised when buying ammunition and asking for “ball” and getting puzzled looks. Like “You know, FMJ.” It’s only been within the last 10 years but I wonder if that term is old school now 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@bernardsummers9050]

"Full Metal Jacket" refers to the "projectile", of a bullet, not the casing. F.M.J means a soft core (often lead) encased in an outer shell ("jacket") of harder metal, such as gilding metal, cupronickel, or, less commonly, a steel alloy.

[@frankpienkosky5688]

the idea of full metal jacket rds for the military was actually meant to make warfare more humane...as the entrance and exit wounds would remain the same, unlike the big all lead rds that had come before...it was felt it would be better to wound a soldier rather than kill him and that would actually be a benefit to the opposing side as it would take more men off the line to care for them

[@demonicusa.k.a.theblindguy3929]

For a few years in my twenties I had the 1st half of this movie on one side of a cassette tape in my car. I used to get requests to play it.

[@JusNoBS420]

So many great lines from that movie.

[@demonicusa.k.a.theblindguy3929]

@@JusNoBS420 Absolutely. I had all of Hartman's lines memorized.

[@brianbensonjr173]

Pretty neat idea. For back then.

[@OleIrishReb]

I truly think that every platoon has a Pvt. Pyle. I only wish they had shown what they really did to handle these Pyles in boot. The "blanket party" was a true event / last ditch effort to "Straighten up" the recruit. ( soap in the sock beat down) Yes it really did happen and much, much more . One motto was to break you down and then build you back up. This was one time in my life I will never ever forget. You learn a great deal of life's lessons in those 3 months of ass kicking to carry you through until your dirt again. Semper Fi ! 75-79 P Island

[@Mosin-lf7wl]

USN, 75-79! You're so right about the boot camp time. At the end of boot camp, (San Diego), they told us were part of a program- we could get out of the service anytime we wanted, just put in a request chit. As i remember, it was people who had entered the service during a certain period. After 2y 8 m 15 days, I had enough. My ship was going into the yards for SLEP in Norfolk and I wanted no part of that...Looking back, what intense years! I had some great shipmates who were Marines - Mardet on the carrier!

[@someguy7629]

If you do that in my army, you'll be "fired" charged for assault and blacklisted from every branch in the army.

[@brucelytle1144]

@@Mosin-lf7wl ha! I was in 8 yrs, 3 months, 4 days, 15 hrs. Who counts? Right? No regrets, but it was time to move on...

[@frankpienkosky5688]

...."Did you order the code red?".....

[@OleIrishReb]

@@frankpienkosky5688 Never heard of a code red

[@davidbaker5802]

I went through Parrish Island in 1970 and this movie is as close to my experience that I've ever seen.

[@AtheistOrphan]

Parrish Island?

[@KNR6292]

Parris Island. Beaufort, South Carolina

[@RichM0410]

One of the most memorable movies ever when watching in a theater! Of course bought DVD. Great movie!

[@pagodaracingmountpennreadi8915]

I still remember the first night I hit the rack in boot camp. I distinctly remember thinking WTF did I get myself into.

[@Thomasnmi]

That was exactly what I thought also

[@billypitts6368]

Oh yes, Same here. At least I was not one of the ones crying. This movie can out just a few months before I went in and I refused to watch it

[@kathleenhartnellharper7234]

Shelley Duvall was driven into a breakdown from Kubrick’s unrelenting drive for perfection. In The Shining’s infamous baseball bat staircase scene he made her reenact it a total of 127 times.

[@frankpienkosky5688]

It's hard to stay focused after a few takes...the one time I did it I got bored pretty quickly....then all of a sudden on the 4th or 5th take the star of the flic is standing right next to me instead of his stand-in....that sharpened me up pretty quickly....

[@murphy4yt]

He sounds like a real piece of work.

[@atypocrat1779]

Lee Ermy was awesome. RIP

[@user-nb8yt2il2r]

At least the door gunner position was probably the 2nd most memorable part of the movie

[@chrissmith7669]

I was reading somewhere that actor was going to get the DI part until Emry went all in to get it

[@danielkeene3852]

War is hell.

[@MrReymoclif714]

Yup.

[@HughButler-lb6zs]

I.loved it when he said he shot women and children He said he didn't have to.lead them as much. I.know that didn't represent a typical soldier but I.tjought it was funny.

[@ernestwilliams268]

i trained a lot of trainees at Fort Dix NJ in 1963 after 4 years overseas and I never laid a hand on one except when one pointed an old M1 Garand at me on the firing range trying to unjam it I kicked him as hard as I could to save my life we lost a Sgt E6 on the grenade range from a trainee panicking and dropping a live grenade in the grenade pit you had to be careful with training young trainees They can be as dangerous as the enemy You had to be on your toes at all times. US ARMY Infantry 1958-1964

[@ernestwilliams268]

@@dam6075 Thank you. It's been almost 60 years, but I still miss it and my buddies not many of us left.

[@jodan4]

I did Infantry AIT at Dix in Feb to April 1958, One of the coldest winters they had in years. I'm from Florida.

[@ernestwilliams268]

I finished my AIT in in November 1958 and shipped out to Germany that month and year and it was cold on that North Atlantic on that old liberty troop ship when I arrived in Berlin the snow was at least 3 foot high I stayed there 4 years after all that I now live in Florida. @@jodan4

[@MrReymoclif714]

Fort Dix-1975!!! The HAWK flows through me!!! Jan+Feb!!!

[@MrReymoclif714]

My Drill used to kick us in our helmets using the no direct contact loophole in effect!!

[@heathmcrigsby]

"Always remember this, Marines die, that's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever. And that means you live forever.” Happy birthday USMC and semper fi brothers.

[@abbeyjane1306]

Semper Fi and Happy Birthday

[@lifebybill1326]

"God was here before the Marine Corp, so give your hearts to Jesus, but your ASS belongs to the Corp!"

[@annmarierudolph2291]

SEMPER FI 1Batallion 9th marines walking dead 1970/1973 L/C R.ROMAN first to go last to go USMC Forever

[@lifebybill1326]

"God has a hard on for Marines, because we kill everything we see. He plays his game, we play ours. To show our gratitude for so much power, we keep Heaven packed with fresh souls!! " Man R. Lee Ermy was one of a kind. Semper Fi Gunny!

[@rosaamarillo2110]

'Is that you John Wayne?'.........'WHO SAID THAT?'

[@JohnH20111]

WHO THE FUCK SAID THAT?!?!?!?!

[@treeskin77]

I remember going with my dad when I was young to watch this movie at the theater and I loved it so much even as a kid ...and it still is and always will be one of my favorite movies ever!!

[@kenyattaclay7666]

This is 100% a true story. I joined the Navy 30 years ago, just a few years after the movie came out and I probably had seen the movie a half dozen times or so & it never really crossed my mind when I was signing up or in the Delayed Entry Program. Well that Sunday before I was to ship out I was in the hotel flipping through the channels & landed on HBO while they were in between movies so I let it sit there to see what was coming on next. From the opening music I knew it was Full Metal Jacket but like an idiot I decided to watch. I was already nervous about going to basic but unlike before it my nervous lever went from a 2 to 10 and I had to keep telling myself it’s just a movie & that was the Marines. Well while we were in the airport waiting to catch our plane I found out I wasn’t the only idiot to watch this movie which is absolutely the worse movie to watch right before you go to basic. The funny thing is that opening speech we got on the first day was about 75% exactly like what is seen in the movie and the CC (same as a Drill Instructor/Sergeant in the Marines/Army) told us that at the time we were lower than whale 💩

[@tamarackgaming]

This post made my head hurt. Just to make it clear this post is bullshit. Joined the Navy, good on you. Should have chosen to be a Corpsman. Best of both worlds there. You get to be a Marine and stay in the Navy. Get shot at a lot pulling our sorry asses out of fire when we get hit though, that kinda' sucks.

[@ghostwrench2292]

I enlisted in the Marine Corps via delayed entry program in early 1990 while a senior in high school. The first time I ever saw (or heard of) the movie Full Metal Jacket was while I was already serving in the Marines. I am glad I didn’t see the movie until after boot camp!

[@Ultamami]

*worst

[@frankpienkosky5688]

@@tamarackgaming one of the guys who helped raise the flag on Iwo Jima was a naval corpsman......

[@henrywilson5281]

Yes Sir.... I went to Navy boot camp at San Diego NRTC in 1983, and that was just the way I remember it.... The movie came out in 1987 and when I first saw it, I could see the people that were in boot camp with me in the characters of the movie. The movie is harsh but accurate for sure. I still watch it from time to time and the boot camp scenes always take me back to that innocent young man that was my father's son as I began my lifelong military career.

[@robr2389]

Still one of my favorite movies. Have a copy on DVD. I knew some of these facts but, not all. Informative. Thanks!!

[@paulkerr782]

Great movie. Reminds me so much of " boot camp" or "General Service Training" I did in the Australian RAAF as a 16 year old recruit - and the four superiors in charge of us were all hard core Vietnam Vets.

[@michaelturner6358]

Ermey’s performance was worthy of an Oscar nomination.

[@Kanikalion]

Gunny: The man, the myth, the legend. Rest in peace, good sir.

[@davidsikorsky6120]

I saw this movie shortly after it was release, seventeen years after my experience in Basic Training. While I was not impressed with the Vietnam portion of the movie, the basic training part was practically a documentary.

[@Old-Painless]

Went through PI about the same time period of the movie. This is absolutely the closest portrayal of Marine Boot Camp back then that I've seen. Other than not showing interactions with the Assistant DI's who rotated duty with the Senior, it could have been taken right from my time aboard PI. R. Lee Ermey was the man.

[@frankkalbacher]

Except for the greens. If boot camp happened in mid ‘67 they should have graduated in trops. Platoon 1024 8/67 - 10/67.

[@brucechester2942]

It is (or was) pretty common to have a platoon "Gomer Pyle". Usually a simple or easy going individual from the south or midwest.

[@georgerobartes2008]

If anyone is interested the Vietnam scenes particularly the battle scenes were filmed in Beckton East London between the A13 and the River Thames . The old concrete warehousing and industrial buildings near the gasworks were being demolished to make way for the new sewage treatment plant . Later the whole area was redeveloped to provide housing shops etc and practically the whole area in which Vietnam was recreated is now under tarmac and buildings .

[@mikeblitzen]

i just want to know where the hookers are at!

[@georgerobartes2008]

@@mikeblitzen In Barking about 3 miles away !

[@thomasj219]

I used to only watch the first half when I was younger, the second half made me uncomfortable. That’s why it’s more acceptable to watch the first half, because even though it goes crazy at the end, you can kind of see it coming. The second half truly shows war, and all it’s hellish brutality. It is truly a masterpiece.

[@kathleenhartnellharper7234]

Kubrick was notoriously difficult to work with. He traumatized Shelley Duvall for life in The Shining. He got the perfect shot though.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Kubrick did NOT abuse Shelley Duvall. When he got the take he wanted, everyone finished work.

[@loreedavis5988]

Ermy's performance was magnificent.

[@carlhausler9666]

As a former Marine, the first half of Full Metal Jacket was as accurate depiction of my Marine Parris Island experience as I have ever seen. RIP R Lee

[@RobertJones-ux6nc]

I was an Active Duty Marine when we saw this movie on a ship after it came out. And most guys laughed at the scenes of Vietnam. And a few guys even knew the Drill Instructor from having him in boot camp.

[@qua7771]

I can't imagine.

[@RobertJones-ux6nc]

@@qua7771 think about it being shown in the whale deck of an LSD no to a sheet to a bunch of Marines and Sailors headed to Alaska for training.

[@BuzzLOLOL]

I was surprised how much the depicted Tien Sha Marine Base gates looked like the real ones I was at in Vietnam... just outside of DaNang... 1970-71...

[@Squatex1]

I love how r Lee ermy starts as a consultant and basically ends up the most memorable member of the cast.

[@joshuagardner908]

Keep it up. I always look forward to these fact videos.

[@ivymike3459]

Gus Hasford’s ‘Short Timers’ and follow-up ‘Phantom Blooper’ are MUST READs for any FMJ fan.

[@romanchomenko2912]

Scottish actor Ian Wilson while filming Clockwork orange, was forced to repeat his lines 80 times . After filming Ian phoned his agent saying I will never work for that director Stanley Kubrick. The film Spartacus Stanley asked a Spanish extra can he speak English he said yes after 250 takes the Spanish extra walked up to him and punched him in face for mental torture alot of Hollywood actors avoided him for that practice.

[@deraykrause4517]

Who did Ian play? Was he cut from the film? Because he isn't in the credits.

[@RipRoaringGarage]

Ermy inspired my TI (Air Force, back when they could still rough us up, immediately after 911, when things were still confused, and before politics got involved). TSgt Perez was an animal. Arms the size of most our chests. Had a photo of him dual wielding 240Bs in each hand, ammo belts like a real life Rambo. He would say things that terrified you and made you want to bust out laughing at the same time. And his TI Tornadoes were out of hell (thats when the TIs would ransack the dorms and you had to clean it all up. Him being 350lbs of muscle meant he could toss wall lockers like a football). Oddly enough, I never got a full chewing out. He would try to trick you with personal questions, and he was inspecting my locker, saw my license with long hair. "So you some kind of war hating hippie?" He said, and I gave my reporting statement, and shouted it out, that I was not a hippie, but a metal head. He kept asking what kind of music, and eventually, while keeping military bearing, I told him I was in a band, and the kind of music I liked. After that, we had to polish boots, and other Sunday activities in the dorm, while he was blaring Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Megadeth from his office. Man knew his thrash. To this day I smile watching FMJ. Years after, it became a thing for washing aircraft. We never got to the vietnam part, just because we would show up, waiting until the aicraft was in the hangar and the prep work took just about as long as the first part. Good times. I dont regret any of it, even though Im busted up bad now, and still deal with injuries and cancer and heart attacks at my age.

[@nrdpc5975]

Great content, your channel has given me a great rabbit hole to go down.

[@vanessajazp6341]

R Lee Ermie was the most perfect drill sergeant in any film ever made.

[@robertmiller8242]

Ermey

[@thairificallyre-thai-ere-nd8co]

So Seargent Carter in Gomer Pyle was pretty good too in a comedy show. I am sure he would of been scary too had he been around

[@vanessajazp6341]

@@thairificallyre-thai-ere-nd8co Frank Sutton was awesome! Gomer Pyle would've just been a silly show that didn't last long if it weren't for the ever angry and ever put-upon Sgt Carter. His role was the perfect counter to Pyle's good-hearted ineptitude. Also, Frank Sutton was a Sergeant in the ARMY, during WWII.

[@PolPotsPieHole]

"get some"

[@donaldkindig5126]

Brings back so many memories of my PI days. Not of the senior but asst.

[@labarryj]

Nice mini-doc. Full Metal Jacket had a significant impact on me as a teenager. Along with Don McCullen a real combat photographer, Matthew Modine's character wants to share the real story of war while the higher up's in the US advisors want the positive narrative of a win without any news story.

[@spartanlukas]

Great job on the video. I first saw FMJ in 1987 when I was just 16 years old. Because of it and other films, I've served over 21 years now in the US military. Get Some!!

[@epickett63]

I wonder if that's where Jerry Miculek(competition pistol shooter) got that saying from?

[@chrishengeveld6117]

Being in Parris Island 1st Bn A Co. In 1985. We still held the "blanket party" tradition. Not only soap, but boot polish tins and brushes...we actually had one guy die because of it, but it wasnt our platoon. Reee's will always hate and say your beating a teamate.. no... we are building a "teammate and brother for life".. a team is 32 guys acting as one...if one isnt a team player, he will be, or he will be released from our "Corps". Adapt and overcome, or you will never be a US MARINE.. period .

[@MrReymoclif714]

We(1975)used a metal bristles horse hair brush and the smelly jelly belly snitch had to be hospitalized for 3 days!!! And this was in AIT!!!!

[@thatmanstumototours2270]

The movie really does put you back on Parris Island in very convincing fashion, other than the fact you can't smell it(and nothing smells like all that new deuce[782] gear). I can't speak to what Viet Nam felt like.

[@Sierra-Golf-19]

You forgot to mention that R Lee Ermy also appeared as a Drill instructor in the TV Show Space Above and Beyond. 😎

[@billynair]

Good job! Actual stuff I didn't know! I like to think that I know a lot of trivia about movies I like and expected this to be mostly well known trivia with the normal click bait tittle, but yeah, I didn't know most of this (I like that little bit about saving unshot rounds)

[@flakk1989]

Every time I watch this movie, I get goosebumps when I see the barracks. They look exactly the same as when I was in Parris Island in '95. I don't know if they still do it but they made us watch this movie in boot camp, yeah, ya know the outcome after he shot the drill sergeant. We all screamed with joy and straight to the pit it was, lol. The memories!!!

[@coryorcutt4528]

Just so you know, he's not a Drill Sergeant, but Drill Instructor. DSs are Army, and DIs are Marines, and as a son of a female DI, at Parris Island, they take it extremely seriously!

[@coryorcutt4528]

@@teufelhunden510 thank you for pointing that out. Kind of just went with the first option predictive text gave me. Didn't even think about it

[@thatmanstumototours2270]

To take it a step further, in my experience, DI stood for Dumb Idiot and only Drill Instructor was used.

[@everyonetookmyid]

How old are you?

[@dbeaus]

the Army has a Drill Instructor Academy, it isn't Drill SGt. Academy. I was in the Army and all my sgt's were titled drill instructor, not drill Sargent. The boss was a Senior Drill Instructor, SDI fro short, although we called them Drill Sargent when we addressed them.

[@JasonSmith-pt5tv]

@@dbeaus maybe so but in the Marine Corps at both Parris Island and San Diego they are always referred to as Drill Instructor rank and last name any time a recruit would speak to them with the lead instructor having Senior added to the beginning. A recruit would never say Drill Sergeant unless they wanted to to get chewed out and go through an intensive workout. So as an example it would be Drill Instructor Sergeant Williams or Senior Drill Instructor Staff Sergeant Jones. You always called out the entire title that way.

[@thairificallyre-thai-ere-nd8co]

Interesting details! I served and remember boot camp all to well! We didnt have a Drill Instructor like Emery, but as a 17 y.o. I was already scared, mostly of failing and not earning my stripes. I did, even made Honor Recruit of my barracks. Love this movie even more now!

[@will.a.benjamin]

Never heard of or noticed the 7 diamonds being in those movies. Another interesting Kubrick fact, thanks!

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

2001 stargate sequence.

[@BigMoney23223]

Imagine having the kind of pull that they are ok with not flying in one person for a movie, and allow over 100 thousand items to make the movie. Kubrick was fricken awesome

[@8475143117]

One of my favorite films. R. Lee Ermy rest in peace

[@austinschlichting]

Kubrick made reference to 2001 in A Clockwork Orange during the music store scene where you see the 2001 soundtrack on the shelf. 4:37

[@deronwilson7876]

Thanks for sharing this. Love this movie.

[@seankaine2411]

One of my favorite movies as a kid.

[@4catsnow]

Government subsidized lunacy,, on an industrial level....who wouldn't like that?? And when we used to read those KIA lists at Ft Benning...somehow all the war movie romance went out of us. there's a big gap between reality and the big screen...

[@allwaizeright9705]

Finally - a "FACTS" sequence where I actually learned a few things I didn't know...

[@jamiegumm4398]

Entertaining, maybe. Don't believe it as fact - see my comment above.

[@nickacelvn]

Very interesting little known information about an iconic movie. Thank you.

[@nobiazcustomsinc5030]

I can quote gunny word for word. As a kid growing up his show Mail Call was my absolute favorite (next to mythbusters) and when I finally became old enough, I was handed a VHS of FMJ by my dad and was SO EXCITED to see a younger gunny giving em hell lol

[@svenfritsch2770]

I remember watching this movie as a kid and looking at my father (who had been in the military since he was 16) shortly after the privates get there names and saying “ that’s where you got those insults from “

[@scarecrow8004]

Closest thing I can find to a flaw in this movie, in the scene where Hartman invites Pvt. Joker to come over and have intercourse with his sister, he winds up and delivers a punch to Joker with his left hand, the scene cuts and shows Hartman ending the punch right-handed. I always wonder if Kubrick, the ultra-stickler for detail, ever noticed but just decided, for whatever reason, that this just looked right.

[@f4tweet]

The Gunny hurt his hand in accident before the scene.

[@davidbeaver39]

VERY COOL VIDEO AND VERY WELL EXPLAINED. REALLY GIVES THE AUDIENCE A LOOK AT THE MOVIE NOT REALLY SEEN BEFORE. GREAT FLICK TO COVER AND PROBABLY ONE OF THE BEST VIETNAM FILMS EVER DONE. THANKS FOR LETTING US SEE THE INNER WORKINGS OF THIS GEM OF A MOVIE. LOOKING FORWARD TO WHEN YOU COVER OTHER GREAT FLICKS!!!!!

[@Ourladyrules]

very interesting info on a classic war film.

[@BBray34]

Gustav Hasford was from my hometown of Russellville, Alabama

[@Nufsed007]

Interesting fact Full Metal Jacket's war/action scenes were filmed in a decommissioned gas works in London near Blackwall tunnel.

[@mikesundquist2960]

Thanks for the inside information. I and my WMF were stationed in MCAGCC 29 Palms, CA when movie was released. She and I attended movie and enjoyed it immensely. Sgt USMC ‘82-‘92

[@senorhood2878]

That’s so interesting, the door gunner is one of my favorite scenes

[@unkownperson4204]

I love these videos, can you do one with the hateful eight?

[@AlmaSpiteful]

I second this!!!

[@TheMPScout]

You should do one on 9th Company, is a Soviet era setting based on a true story and it’s like this movie, first half in boot camp, second half in combat in Afghanistan.

[@doct0rnic]

This movie wouldn't be as good if Ermy didn't play Hartman

[@beltigussin81]

I don't thing Ed Harris or the other prospect could have played Hartman with the combination of brutality and sheer hilariousness that Emery brought to the role.

[@wayneholmes637]

I think Pvt. Pyle might have been a reference to McNamaras Morons (Project 100000). He thought he could make useful soldiers out of vastly sub-standard recruits. They had to pass the same basic training as regular soldiers though. The project was a big failure in the end.