WHAT DID I JUST WATCH ??? Full Metal Jacket - Gunnery Sergeant Hartman

[@likydsplit8483]

4:30 I think you miss the points here. By using the pejorative terms, the drill sergeant INTENDS to shock them. He is indeed conveying that their preexisting ideas of identity mean nothing now…only being a Marine matters. He then proceeds to use ethnic/cultural attacks on all of them…calling the private Brown “snowball” - then telling the Texan that only “steers & queers” come from Texas. His job as the drill instructor is breakdown all the insecurities in the men - so that they can be re-molded into Marines.

[@shigdaddy69]

100%

[@timlong7787]

They were being trained to kill or be killed. They weren't going off to play flag football

[@coachmikesfilmroom3111]

Think of it this way. If you cant handle getting yelled at and berated, how the hell are you gonna handle being shot at?

[@Buttercup-vw2zo]

Tomboy here saying that is EXACTLY right.The purpose is to become a team .The Drill instructer isnt supposed to make you feel good.I laughed so hard at this I almost PISSED myself

[@kittleoverthemiddle2482]

You have to understand this movie takes place during Vietnam

[@danobanano2505]

8:17 it seems when Hartman is saying those slurs, you only remembered the N word and fried chicken/watermelon part.. but he named several slurs depicting different groups, ending with they are "equally" worthless to him. If you only hear what u want to hear and don't care for either; other groups being depicted or any context in what he said. That sounds a bit racist to me

[@mayadog2497]

Included in his slurs, he named Greasers. Greasers is a derogatory term for predominately white subculture from working class and lower-class teenagers and young adults in the 50s and 60s. "greased back hair, bluejeans, motorcycles, rebellious, degenerate." As a Marine, we didnt have racism....we had Marines, and drill instructors are there to prepare you for possibly the worst possible scenarios that a human can go through. If you cant hack being insulted, berated and being both physically and mentally pushed to the limit by people with your best interest in mind, war will be a worse hell than it already is. We didnt have time for such BS, and considering that the racial makeup of the military is probably as diverse as it gets, theres no place for division and ganging up in a team of your brothers and sisters working towards a goal....thats the way of the weak and ignorant.

[@harrywiegmans6193]

💯

[@Buttercup-vw2zo]

I am a white female.My best friend is black and we BOTH thought that was funny.It could be because of age.We are both in our 50s and remenber a time where this is exactly what could you could expect in the Military.Can you imagine these "woke," people being in the Military about 30 to 40 years ago? They woukdnt have made it

[@watchmestress4182]

For me the racial stuff was sending 3 very intentional messages 1) Don't play the race card here or else 2) Im going to use everything about you to grab a hold of and tear you apart so you can be rebuilt in our image 3) Nothing is sacred but Your Duty

[@likydsplit8483]

Precisely! And what is really sad is that we have to EXPLAIN that!

[@snakeinthegrass7443]

1) this movie takes place during the 60s Vietnam era. 2) It's the sergeants job to break down the recruits so they forget everything they've ever been taught, then you can bring them back up and teach them the way you want them to be trained 3) It's the sergeants job to get rid of people who can't handle stressful situations so they won't be a danger to other soldiers in the field. I was never in the military but I did attend a police academy and they are somewhat similar in the fact that one of the academy's jobs is to weed out people who can't handle stressful situations. If you can't handle an instructor calling you names in the academy, then you won't be able to handle the same situation from a civilian on the street. Maybe this was real life in the 1960s boot camp, but I'm sure the woke mobs have made them ease back quite a bit, unfortunately. Great movie. It's prob on your Patreon but I can't afford even an extra $5 a month thanks to Sleepy, Crooked Joe. Trump 2024!!

[@craig9856]

He did not say there would be no racial slurs, he only said that they were all equally worthless.

[@danobanano2505]

Its a mentality, triggered by a few keywords, in which he ignores any context and feels shocked those keywords were said. Ignoring other groups being depicted and hartman saying they were all equally worthless. I do feel sorry for him and hope he can get rid of that victim mentality

[@livin3179]

😂😂😂 his job is to break them, then rebuild them. Saves lives in the end.

[@supersonic4901]

You are to woke to understand his speech.

[@danobanano2505]

Victim mentality allover 💀

[@JohnE9999]

'too' woke

[@proudgary2228]

You gotta understand, America use to not be afraid of its own shadow. America use to have balls. That's why you're confused.

[@iKvetch558]

Some things to know about the movie Full Metal Jacket...for one thing, it is a masterpiece of filmmaking directed by Stanley Kubrick, and the story of how the movie was made is almost as interesting as the movie is. You should definitely watch the whole movie, whether you react to it or not. The portion of the film you reacted to here is set in 1967, when the US was drafting many men to serve in the Vietnam War, so most of the men you see were not volunteers. Also, I have never seen it specifically stated by Kubrick anywhere, but Private Pyle is a clear representation of a real program that the Defense Department ran in the 1960s. It was called "Project 100,000" and it was a test to see whether the mental and physical parameters for serving in the US military could be widened to make the pool of potential service people larger. Between escalation in Vietnam and all the other military commitments of the Cold War in those days, the military was concerned about a shortage of people to serve. So they started testing whether recruits who were normally just a bit below the normal standard for IQ, or emotional stability, or physical fitness could be turned into effective military personnel. There were several nicknames for the program, the most insulting of which was "McNamara's Morons", named after the Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara who came up with the program.

[@Tyfu39944]

Funny put that hat on as an understudy and went to work like he always did 😂.

[@lizardlizardliz]

Im a Ex United States Marine. Yes this is true.accept its 100 times worse living it.There are usually 3 Drill Instructors. They will make a man out of you.

[@harryshriver6223]

The man who played the drill instructor R. Lee Ermey was a real life drill instructor and a Marine Corps veteran of 13 years. He was wounded in the shoulder and could no longer fire a rifle so as a marine if you can't be a rifleman, you can no longer be a Marine. I was in the army so I learned firsthand that the Marine Corps formula for success was everyone was a rifleman from the commandant to the lowest private. RIP Gunny Ermey 🙏vaya con Dios y en paz descansen.

[@kittleoverthemiddle2482]

One of the most accurate Marine movies.

[@alvamarsh4290]

No hypocracy. Everyone is equally worthless.

[@habakkuk2four]

It's not like this anymore, but this is exactly what it was like in the 1960s. The actor was a real drill sergeant during the vietnam war.

[@gazoontight]

The most important thing to learn during training, and if you learn nothing else, is to make good decisions in highly stressful environments. If you can’t survive training, you won’t survive combat.

[@JimiKool]

That's not a hypocritical point. You have a lot to learn.

[@theneverenderreacts]

No I don't. Look to get the point of what he's saying "everybody is equal here" is easy to get. It was nothing special. Using a racial slur after saying that everyone is equal is hypocritical. Even if he is trying to prove a point. So again it's nothing special

[@markantinozzi8657]

No you're a f****** racist hypocrite because when they were saying the other racial slurs you didn't care about that only when he said n-word that's when you flipped out and snowflake yourself

[@Kain_R_Heinlein]

@@theneverenderreacts he used racial slurs for all matter of groups not just blacks. You're just too offended or being dense on purpose to realize that. The other part of the reason behind it is to see if you can handle being berated among other hardships in the military. If you can't handle that, how are you going to handle war where life and death is on the line? Also this movie is explicitly anti-war

[@cesarvidelac]

Let me tell you something... my dad was a real life Sargeant in the Chilean police. When you live with someone like this you learn fast that there is no humor here, my dad was an alcoholic depressed crazy man who hit my mom in the bridge of the nose with his pistol (which I still have, he died 12 years ago). It's funny from the outside but not if you have to survive him. Unfortunately the military, despite the good things, also stimulates crazy guys like sgt Hartman or my dad. Of course it's a way to harden yourself, at age 14 I was tall and angry enough to stop him.

[@cliffwheeler7357]

You seem to be unaware that this film is set in the sixties at the height of the war in Vietnam. “Wokeness” did not exist. Why did you stop the video @ 7:32? There follows the important scene involving Hartman and Private Pyle which has some bearing on Pyle’s eventual murder of Hartman and his own suicide.

[@danobanano2505]

I totally agree. It's a shame he stopped to early. My best guess is so this might seem racist, even though it isn't. But since he stopped the video he doesnt have to admit it.

[@billybob-gb6ol]

The video clip he found ended

[@thedone1342]

😂you only happen to remember that one slur

[@Dougwarren69]

Well I've seen this movie several times, and I must say, I was excited to watch your reaction after hearing you say that you thought it might be something like a motivational speech.😂

[@Carln0130]

You need to understand sarcasm. Extremely important part of American humor. As others have said though, these guys were getting prepped for combat. Compared to that, this was a day at the beach.

[@srt8rocketship241]

Love it.

[@darkomtobia]

I was in the army when there were still black boots, which probably sounds like a long time ago to many. I was an Infantryman. My fellow grunts were one color, GREEN. Every grunt is my brother. If I see a blue cord on a shoulder I see family.

[@zb1083]

He reaffirms ..........everyone is worthless' >not equal

[@Maidiac214]

Perhaps the main point of basic training is to tear you down from what you were in order to build you into what they military needs.

[@Texasgodzillakun]

Oh no he used the gamer word

[@allsinnersmusic]

i watched that movie like a month ago, that sequence is legendary, he is so mean, and i heard that most of that part was improvise, makes it even more awesome

[@randomcourier]

He was originally a consultant to help the person they originally had as the D.I but R Lee didnt feel that the guy was properly portraying what a D.I was so he applied for the position and his mock interview was him yelling at the crew as a D.I to recruits.

[@harryshriver6223]

I personally would like to watch you react to some Archie Bunker or some George Jefferson

[@leasel7]

Vietnam war bro, racism was still running high lol. The movie was shot in 1987 but the story was about the Vietnam war.

[@danrobinson2791]

Bwahaha! No common courtesy for a reach around!

[@nathan.brazil780]

The opening scene of the Stanley Kubrick film Full Metal Jacket

[@dalemartin815]

This is one reason why Gen X is not easily offended.

[@nikopawlowic6557]

hehehehehe Yup they certainly do treat you like pieces of amphibean shit, but the secret to why Drill Instructors are so mean is because they don't want you to be there, the other part is because they've put up with so much already therefore they will make you sweat worse than a blind lesbian in a fish market.

[@BlairClifford]

Hartman clearly had psych issues. USMC boot camp at that was unprofessional. Combat training should be rough. American history is replete with examples of organizations who did not train nor treat their recruits in such an illegal manner. Read the Code of Military Justice and the Guidebook for Marines. None of that kind of training and treatment of recruits is condoned.

[@markantinozzi8657]

Somebody got triggered

[@jonanichols3621]

Whole lot of motivation oorah marines

[@scottkenny5281]

This is during the 1960's

[@harrywiegmans6193]

Cold have at least played until the skullfck part😂

[@mercilesscondemnation7318]

You wouldn't survive war brother

[@theneverenderreacts]

Not planning to