FULL METAL JACKET (1987) was INTENSE! - Movie Reaction - FIRST TIME WATCHING
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This movie had so many “wow” shots
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Starring:
Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D’Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood, Arliss Howard, and Kevyn Major Howard
Written by:
Stanley Kubrick, Gustav Hasford, and Michael Herr
Directed by:
Stanley Kubrick 
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Hey everyone! Another Kubrick film here for you today! I think this is my favourite Kubrick film that I have seen on the channel and one of my favourite Kubrick films in general! The cinematography, dialogue, score, everything combined to create this immersive yet brokenly beautiful film.
Thanks for watching! Have a great day! :)
The boot camp scenes were accurate to the time, the 1960's. In the 1st term of the Clinton Administration, academics were sent to observe the basic training, in the various branches of the US military, and they decided, that it was too tough, both mentally and physically, so restrictions were enacted, where recruits weren't allowed to be verbally abused, since it might hurt their feelings & weren't made to do more than 15 pushups, when being punished, because "it might hurt their little arms". ...They basically sissified Basic Training.
The third act in the ruins was filmed in Canary Wharf in London, before it was redeveloped obviously...
The Vietnam scenes were actually filmed in England. My friend Toyah Willcox was actually acting in a film near where FMJ was being filmed and sometimes they shut down filming because explosions could be heard in the background. As far as other Kubrick films to watch: The Killing (crime), Paths of Glory (WW I), Barry Lyndon is a sprawling epic that encapsulates war, intrique and family drama and magnificently shot in all natural lighting, but my personal favorite is Eyes Wide Shut of which there are 2 versions, one with enhanced CGI to block out nudity and nudity and Kubrick's more truthful version that hasn't the CGI, one a U.S. release, the other the European release print.
@@sparky6086 , political comments are unnecessary and you're exaggerating the circumstances. The U.S. military is hardly sissified.
@@robertjewell9727 It wasn't political. It's fact.
I could be wrong but I think the 'this is my rifle, this is my gun, this is for fighting, this is for fun'' part was about teaching correct terminology. People call various firearms 'guns'. It's similar to how people call magazines 'clips'. So he was trying to ingrain in them the proper way to refer to their weapon.
This is correct. I can speak from experience. Also, these days you can not refer to yourself in the first person, it's "This Recruit". I have seen them put someone in front of a mirror and say "this is an eye, this is a recruit"
My brother said someone in his squad called his rifle a gun and they all had to march doing that all day.
Just an FYI, they can't quit. They were drafted in the first place. It wasn't their choice to go to Vietnam.
The guy who played the drill instructor (R Lee Ermey) was an actual drill instructor, he even improved most of his dialogue.
Yeah, he was originally brought in to help make the original Gunnery Sergeant role as authentic as possible, but Kubrick was so impressed by him, he removed the original actor and placed Ermey in the role instead. So I heard anyway 🙂
He didn't improv most of his dialogue but he did improv some of it. (Source: the book it's based on has most of the dialogue the same)
Nothing satirical abut this film.. he was a real drill instructor. Open your mind a bit instead of questioning everything.
"The Army . . . the Army . . ."
It's not the Army. It's the Marine Corps. Very different thing.
The film references the Marines or the Corps so many times, I kept saying “come on, Oliver, get it together” 😂😂
I actually had a chance encounter with a Vietnam Veteran whose DI was R. Lee Ermey. I told him, "I have to ask, the Basic Training portion of Full Metal Jacket: Was it all accurate?" He told me it was portrayed exactly how it was.
I don't think Joker was ever serious when he talked tough. I think he thought the whole macho tough guy thing was bullshit and he saw the ridiculousness of the whole situation. Hence the "Born to Kill" and the peace sign pin. Under everything that comes out of his mouth has a subtext of ridicule for the stupid, moronic and idiotic.
He was this poster child for Irony, right
The hair cutting scene at the beginning, Kubrick deliberately left that till last to shoot, so the guys had all grown their hair out and then got surprised with getting it all shaved off again, hence the expressions fitting so well. The Vietnam set pieces were filmed in the London docklands, which was undeveloped at that point.lot of imported palm trees lol
Trust me, you wouldn't want to laugh in Boot Camp.
The Huế set was an abandoned industrial site outside London that was artfully partially demolished, decorated with hundreds of potted palms (imported from Asia during the English winter) and strategically placed petrol fires. @CinemaTyler has a rigorously-researched short documentary series on the filming of this movie on his RUclips channel.
Yep the CinemaTyler channel has some of the best Kubrick BTS documentaries. I cannot recommend watching it enough if you are interested in how this film was made.
“ The dead only know one thing, that it is better to be alive.” One of my favorite lines in the movie.
I was army. We had to do the rifle/gun chant to remember never to call an M16 a gun and the Mickey mouse song to remind us about high echelon orders. An interesting 8 years indeed.
The set is an abandoned gas works outside of London. It was close to where Stanley Kubricks home.
If you were impressed with the lighting here, you're going to have so much to say about the lighting in Barry Lyndon, arguably Kubrick's prettiest film! That one is an utter masterclass in composition. You may or may not find the story engaging, as it's a slow period piece based on a stuffy 1844 novel and set even earlier than that. From a filmmaking perspective, however, it's a true work of art. Crossing my fingers for a reaction to it someday. 🤞
Keep up the good work on your channel, Ollie. 🙂
Shooting farmers from helicopter was a common assignment in Vietnam. Cutting off food supply to Charlie. A lot of atrocities in this war and every war. Yes, the scene with the teen aged girl sniping the Marine squad is a real depiction of what went down in Vietnam. I have many war veteran friends that have PTSD due to witnessing or being involved in similar situations.
12:00 "I'd love to be the flag bearer because you don't have to do anything." Actually when you're a guidon bearer (IDK what Marines call the guidon) you got to represent harder. I remember being guidon bearer, 50th Signal Bn (Corps, Forced Entry, Airborne) on Smoke Bomb Hill at Ft Bragg in the 90s and during even the 4-mile morning runs I would run circles around the entire damn formation, calling cadence and pumping that guidon high. "C-130 rolling down the strip, airborne daddy on a one-way trip!"
The scene why Pyle is beat with soap wrapped in towels, is/was called a "blanket party", there was a screw-up in my boot-camp company, and it happened to him, but, to a much lesser degree than Pyle received.
In case you were wondering, Private Pyle is played by Vincent D'Onofrio. It was his first big movie role and some of his best work as an actor.
Section 8 in the military means "mentally ill" which is grounds for discharge.
And yes, that was Stanley Kubrick as the documentary filmmaker.
Been a D'Onfrio fan ever since. Gets better than fine wine. Please check out his TV Series "Law and Order: Criminal Intent."
Also Modine and D'onofrio were Irl Friends before the movie, and Modine encourage D'onofrio t send in an audition tape.
At the time he was pretty buff it was made to pack on a LOT of weight for that role, and stay this way for months (while having to perform boot camp maneuvers!)
He said his psyche suffered for it, naturally, but it was the performance of a lifetime.
This isn't a Stanley Kubrick movie. This is an R Lee Ermey movie.
35 full metal jacket reactions I've watch...I've seen this movie 78 times... And this guy is the first to point out the Naration coming in late... And Joker is the journalist.... Fist time ever that connection was made.... awesome 👍
Stanley Kubrick did not like flying (even though he had a pilot's licence). Near his house in England an former gas factory was to be dismantled. Kubrick got permission to blow the place up as he saw fit. He ordered palm trees that had to be positioned perfectly to Kubricks wishes. All Vietnamese scenes are shot in cold England. The actors had to pretend to sweat while they were shivering.
An amazing movie by a special director.
As others probably mention, the drill sergeant was the actual drill sergeant the film had hired as a consultant. He was better than any actual actor, so he got the part. Also this was during the Vietnam draft, so no options.
Well, the Marines were not as reliant on the draft as some other branches. About 90% of all the USMC who served in Vietnam volunteered. And although Ermey was an actual Marine, he did study acting in the Philippines after his medical discharge. He even had a bit part in _Apocalypse Now_ , for which he was also an adviser, and appeared more movies before his most familiar role.
@@WUStLBear82 And don’t forget The Boys From Company C.
You need to enlist. All your questions will be answered.
From a US Navy perspective (1981.
1. There is always more than one CC in boot camp (at least in the Navy) where partially recruits can't be abused. Verbal abuse is one thing but physical was a NO GO.
2. Vincent D'Onofrio played the Bug in MIB and had to put on 50lbs for this role.
3. Hardman was out of control. Others outside his recruits would have noticed and he would have been held accountable.
4. "I don't know, but I've been told, Eskimo pussy is mighty cold." was used in my Navy recruit company in 1981.
5. Real live ammo was always accounted for, and Pyle wouldn't have had access to it.
6. "Blanket parties" are a real deal. We didn't have one because we didn't have a Gomer Pyle.
7. The hooker in Saigon was distracting them to get their camera. (I saw it happen once in the Philippines).
8. My favorite character was "Mother".
This was required watching growing up. My dad was an army drill instructor in the 70's. Safe to say my childhood was interesting...
You wouldn't smile and laugh if you were in basic as a Marine. An your comment you would leave...this was a draft for a war, you can not just leave or quit!
Section 8 means a crazy service member who has to be removed from the service.
You should see "Eyes Wide Shut", one of Tom Cruise´s best performances in my opinion
He’s not gonna get it. He’ll be like “ why this “ and “ why that “
He’s too young. Let him mature a bit.
kubrick’s films post 2001 were all filmed in england around the time he moved there permanently :) not sure if it was already mentioned but 1 of kubrick’s daughter composed most of the score, i find it one of the most beautifully haunting scores of all of his films.
also that dr. strangelove blu ray is insaaaaaaaaaane i am so buying one !!
ik a lot of people disagree, but ‘eyes wide shut’ is my absolute favorite of his, could be worth a watch for ya.
There's a great pulse of synth in the score at the part where Joker enters the Head at lights out to confront Pyle and it's reminiscent of heavy laboured breathing. Such a great job with the score ♥️
@@nevadatan7323 oooh that’s so cool ! can’t wait to rewatch it to listen up for it
@@69gabygirl and the piercing 'tings' in the same scene are like a dripping tap in an empty tiled bathroom, right? So good 😊
Its been said Stanley Kubrick directed the first Moon Landing
You never called your rifle a gun, ever. We marched around our barracks singing that same song for an hour when someone said that. It never happend again. Lesson learned.
On the song selection: I love how Kubrick selected mostly gimmicky novelties like "Bird Is the Word" and "Boots Are Made for Walking": people think the 60s were all cool psychedelic jams from the Doors or rockers by CCR when actually, it was mostly fun and nonsense. Though Stanley did give us "Paint It, Black" after the movie was OVER. ;) Also: congrats on preferring the 2nd part of the movie and recognizing the 1st part was setting up the 2nd part. I get a little batty when I hear people say there are two separate movies here. Thematically, it's all of one piece.
The abrupt change is exactly what the guys in the platoon experienced. There was no time to dwell, it was "well that was some messed up stuff that just happened, but BAM I'm on the other side of the world now and in the middle of a war zone where I don't know who is who."
You got potential kid.
The boot camp portion of this movie was 99% accurate (rifles are locked up when not in use).
My DI’s were worse I swear
@@ProHero86 I had four years of military school before Marine boot camp, so, I had seen worse, much much worse. A teenager on a power trip can make you much more miserable than a DI and since "boot camp" at a military school is 9 months, you get the idea. My DI's were blown away that they didn't faze me. With that said, three weeks into boot, my senior DI wanted to know why I was drawing corporal pay and found out that I already had four years military experience. From that day on I couldn't run fast enough or jump high enough. Even though I shot expert at the range, that wasn't enough, the harassment continued. I also had taken martial arts in military school. One night at ITS, one DI charged at me with a rifle. I disarmed him and threw him at the same time. He took it personally and never forgot.
Kubrick began and excelled as a photographer for ""Look" magazine which was a big time publication then. He had a great eye, and that's why many scenes in his movies are so special.
"The set" was London Docklands - a vast area earmarked for re-development after the wharves all closed down. Plenty of old buildings.
"I would just quit". Umm yeah... that's not how it works. If they ever start drafting people again, you're in serious trouble.
Fun movie trivia: the voice of "Murphy" on the radio was voiced by Stanley Kubrick himself.
I'm probably getting old, but this movie disturbs me even more now than it did when I first saw it. Also, subscribed. :)
It's supposed because It's an anti war movie. Now go watch The Green Berets with John Wayne about the same war and feel better.
I dont know if anyone has said it yet but the Vietnam "set" was actually a large old cement factory. It was scheduled for demolition anyway so the property mgmt company didnt have a problem with them shooting and blowing up buildings. There are many documentaries on the making of this movie.
"Was $15 a lot in the 70s?"
Not the 70s. The Vietnam sequences were in early 1968.
According to at least one website that came up in a quick Google, $15 (1968) is approximately $123.36 in 2022.
"What does this do?" It teaches absolute discipline which you need in combat.
R Lee Ermey, the drill instructor Hartman in this film, was a REAL drill instructor at the San Diego Marine training center during the Vietnam conflict. He later mobilised to Vietnam where he served until he was wounded and medically discharged from the Marines. If anyone knew how to be a drill instructor he did, and Kubrick gave him a free reign to be just that. I have seen Lee in many other programs and he was a genuinely lovely guy who tried his best on various projects but particularly those that assisted veterans. Now passed away. RIP Gunny.
Your next Kubrick film? Paths of Glory. The trench walking scene by Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas) and over the top attack on the Anthill are possibly the most faithful re-enactment of a WW1 trench attack ever put on film. Certainly on a par with the 1930's film All Quiet on The Western Front which won an Oscar.
Just so you know, the Hue battle scenes were shot in London. There is/was an area of derelict docklands called the Isle of Dogs in London. Amazing what a few well placed palm trees and some Vietnamese advertising hoardings can do.
Greetings! This is my first time viewing one of your reactions. Being 65 years old, our perspective on many cultural ingredients differs, but I appreciate your points of view. What I value most is your approach to discussing more at length than most, aspects of filmmaking. The story about making this film is very interesting , and I encourage you to read more about it. Kubrick is an all time favorite director of mine. Keep going with any you haven’t watched, but there are some distinctly different flavors among them.
I’m a Gen-Xer, this movie came out the year I graduated from high school. The 80s were a time we were culturally "revisiting" the Vietnam War, which was very much an open wound, only 2 decades old, unfinished business.
Vets of the war felt "all around", even though they were a slightly-less than a generation older than us. Our generation "spoke out" for them, our boomer and silent-generation parents were just not speaking out for them. I do not like the term "greatest generation", because they hung these vets out to dry, and there was massive trauma, far more than merely normal war vets. These vets didn't have the benefits of a sense of mission, a victory, a purpose. They were told heady shit they could not sink their teeth in and feel like they were dying for a good reason.
Anyway, the 80s generation saw a flurry of Vietnam War movies, books and even music. Two songs in particular that practically brought tears to our eyes was "19" by Paul Hardcastle and "Camouflage" by Stan Ridgeway, and got plenty of radioplay. And you’ll notice a lurch in a lot of Vietnam War movies, and all of them are hardcore anti-war, and in defense of the veterans and their mistreatment. Born on the Fourth of July, Hamburger Hill, tons of them.
I had 2 relatives in particular that were Vietnam War vets, both older cousins. One of them was so traumatized he never spoke, like at all. He'd attend family gatherings, but it was because his sister was looking out for him. There was no resources for these guys like these days, no outreach, no community. They were usually excoriated for showing any vulnerability, like it was anti-patriotic. He ended up committing suicide when I was a teenager, which would have been about 18 years after he returned home. He just couldn't get over it.
Another cousin of mine fared seemingly better, but it clearly messed his life up. He was an actual conscientious-objector, and was drafted (as most were). Here we have movies today about that, but he was one when it frankly wasn't in any way romanticized. He said for religious reasons he could never fire a weapon at another human, ever, period. He said he was happy to serve, but in some other capacity. They clearly set out to punish him, so they made him a frontline medic/nurse. He was in the thick of it just like this movie, night after night, didn't even carry a gun, and aided everything from guys blown apart on both sides AND Vietnamese children.
Movies like this got a very big reaction out of these guys, I know it because I saw it personally, and spoke to them. He told me "it's about time. Too late for many of us, but better late than never."
So yeah, the comments (not from you, but from randos down in the comment section) that poo-poo and make light of this war is triggering for me, and I'm not even a vet, but on behalf of vets I admired and loved in my family.
It’s called a blanket party. They do that to all the private that be messing up during basic
The reason for the apparently trivial insistence upon uniformity in all aspects of Marine Corps boot camp is to instill in each man an instinctive reaction to commands from a superior officer. This saves lives on the battlefield, where there may be no time to think about (and debate) directives. The reason for the drill instructor's harping on homosexual practices is that effeminacy and soldiering don't mix; there, too, lives (yours and your fellows) are at risk--there is no place for softness in combat.
I remember the thing that ruined Bootcamp for me was when we got to the front gate on Parris Island some dome gate guard actually said “fresh meat for the grinder” 😒 it was so cringy Oh and Marines not Army
You asked about the set 25:01. They used an abandoned gas works outside of London, England. So obviously not a tropical climate so they had to bring in and decorate the set with the palm trees, and move them around to be in shots. Because the gasworks was due to be demolished Kubrick was allowed to damage/ destroy anything on the site.
edit: Now watch Platoon (1986) for another intense war movie.
The movie was shot in the old docklands in the East End of London. It was all closed down and derelict at the time. Shortly after the movie was finished it was rebuilt as Canary Wharf.
The warzone filming was done in Beckton which is a mile or so to the East of the Canary Wharf redevelopments. The area where the film was made is now a depot for the docklands light railway and a shopping park.
Stanley Kubrick is a master in direction, storytelling, and experiencing cinema
FYI : Matthew Modine...Modine pronounced "Mo-deen"... Love you reactions! 🙂✌🎴
I 100% guarantee you would not laugh in that situation. And during that time. Drill Instructors were allowed to talk and behave like that.
The entire movie was filmed in a few locations in England. A friend of mine trained in the Army and was posted at Bassingbourn Barracks, the bunk room in this movie in real life was the Mess (think he trained there a few years after this movie was made)
Until the 1990s the armed forces woukd ask all recruits if they were gay and would discharge them if they were. In the 90's "Don't ask don't tell" was instituted and they no longer asked, but if they learned you were gay you'd be discharged. It wasn't until the 2000's being gay was allowed in the miltary.
Great reaction to this incredible film. And just fyi it’s pronounced Mo-DEEN, not Mo-DINE.
For another great Kubrick film, I highly recommend Lolita. Terrific film with amazing performances by Peter Sellars, James Mason, Shelley Winters and Sue Lyon.
As for another great Vietnam movie, check out Coming Home. Deeply moving film about how disabled vets, were treated when they came back home. Won well deserved Oscars for Best Actress and Best Actor for Jane Fonda and Jon Voight who are both amazing, as is Bruce Dern.
No, Matthew Modine is pronounced Matt-Who-Moo-Din-E
Besides the hitting and slapping, it is real life, your Drill SGT. does act like that.
The drill instructor was originally hired as a technical advisor....
7:25. Marine Corps, not Army. It's an honest mistake but it matters to a Marine. Btw, that is Vincent D'Onofrio.
12:05 the flagbearer is the Guide. There are four squad leaders and one guide in a platoon. The guide is the highest position and most responsibility in the boot camp platoon. In my time in boot camp I was appointed guide and squad leader at different points but each time lost the position and did not graduate as squad leader or guide. It would have meant an immediate meritorious promotion.
Hey Ollie, don't pass up Kubrick's 'Paths Of Glory.' It's one of the greatest movies of the 50s. Very different look at war compared to this one. It was also the film that put him on the map I believe as a director.
A good movie with Matthew Modine as a youngster is "Vision Quest"
wow.. I think you are the only reactor that prefers the second half of the movie to the first, and I have to agree with you because it definitely is the more complex of the two halves. The way I see it, the first half is about the initial indoctrination and 'brain washing' the military does to its recruits, and the second half is about how that training plays out in real war.
And its not as simple as 'you were programmed to be a killer and then you kill', its more like the training has left psychological anchors in you which try to pull you towards this killing and it plays itself out in wartime. Joker and Cowboy could handle this because they were psychologically strong enough, and Pyle couldn't and this led him to his death. If you want to see what Leonard would be like as a soldier, look no further than to animal mother who I think kubrick throws in there as leonard's doppleganger (hell they even look somewhat alike).
Anyways yeah, full metal jacket is an awesome film. I'd put it in the same tier as a clockwork orange, and slightly below dr strangelove and barry lyndon.
And as such it really has stood the test of time. Its definitely eclipsed other vietnam war movies (like platoon, the deer hunter, jacob's ladder, hamburger hill) and stands with apocalypse now as being one of the most influential vietnam movies ever.
Jacob's Ladder is Not a War film and not meant to be, that's not what the film is about. it has war in it as a device for the actual meaning and plot
One of the most important films you will ever watch! Enjoy!
Yes, Vincent D'Onofrio played Pvt. Pyle.
We slept like that in basic generally to reduce the time it took to get everything squared away in the morning. Lot easier to make your bed when it isn't messy to begin with.
This movie would have been much more controversial, but 5 years earlier the first Rambo movie 'First Blood' came out and people opened up to talk about Vietnam. The shock of loosing so many for nothing sat deep and just asking the question 'what was it for?' could not even be asked openly. Think about it, at the time of 'First Blood', 7 years after the war, no one was even talking about how the veterans were treated. In 'Full Metal Jacket' you see how people were trained and some of what happened in the war while in 'First Blood' you see how they were treated afterwards.
About humanizing the enemy, I recommend you watch 'Das Boot' (The Boat), but the 1985 mini series running nearly 5 hours , not the 1981 movie. Just for the clarification, it's the same production and the movie is not a cut of the mini series, they were planned as they are. You could say the mini series is like the special edition of Lord of the Rings, just with much more extra scenes.
Many have said that they recommend to watch 'Das Boot' in the original German with English subtitles. I can't tell because being a native German speaker I would not know.
When you mention the 'dreadful hum' in sound, I can say it's like a aprehensive drone.
The thing about drone is that it's uniform, and that's precisely the role of the training - the make every individual conform into same line, producing something mounting and greater than any individual component.
I love this movie so much, I could spout on about any number of crossover themes eeee 😊
Like, even the choice of the Mickey Mouse club chant at the end sequence - It was a complete Mickey mouse war,
Mickey being the american icon that the troop is literally stomping into the land with their footfall.
The 'm-o-US- e'... Is pretty chilling. US being represented by literal boys in combat.
Like, this is prob all unintended fluke from Kubrick but just goes to show what a tight movie it was from all angles, courtesy of all departments
6:15 it teaches you to to perform tasks without thinking about it it. Especially under immense pressure. This isn’t as difficult as it will be where they’re going. Those drill instructors wish they could be harder. It will only prepare them better.
The Killing, Paths Of Glory, Spartacus, Lolita
At this time the usa inactive the draft. Meaning every male 18-25 would be automaticaly enlisted into one of the branches of the miltary unless you had a physical or mental imparement or you were in university. Unlike today when anyone can go to university you had to qualify for university back then with a grade point minimum. So it basically excluded all the rich kids from service and took all the poor kids.
Haha it wasn’t actually improv. He was an actual DI and former marine. It’s all shit that he used to say.
You aren't allowed to call a rifle a gun in the Marine corps. Its Rifle or Weapon. That's the point of the "This is my Rifle. This is my gun" exercise.
I disagree, the song 'Surfin bird' is perfect in that scene because it's such a fun party song, and it feels like post-combat euphoria, which is a real experience that occurs for soldiers. If you've scored a victory and are still alive.
I agree- with *_*you,_** partially. lol.
It's been synonymous with being a "fun-chaos song" since the movie came out. LOL.
“This guy from Texas, I think he’s feeling for him”
Me: 😬😬
Full Metal Jacket is the type of ammo militaries are required to use if it is intended to be fired at other soldiers directly rather than either indirect fire like grenades and mortars or ammo intended to be used against materials such as vehicles and bunkers. There are international laws and treaties and one of the points of those is that you aren't allowed to use ammo that is designed to expand when it hits the target. The theory is that supposedly the point isn't to kill each other but rather to remove the enemy from being able to fight and that fully jacketed bullets don't have the core exposed to expand so they will be more likely to wound rather than kill.
The reality is a bullet is a bullet and having sudden unplanned holes in a human body is always a bad thing. There is also the irony that now with pretty much everybody using body armor a FMJ round is more likely to punch a hole through body armor while an expanding round would spread out the impact energy on the body armor and be stopped. AKA the entire reason for requiring everybody to use FMJ has been reversed by the change in how everybody is armored and now a FMJ is more likely to kill a soldier.
As for the Viet Nam war, the whole thing was a giant mess and it wasn't simply a mess made by the US. Half the world had a hand in it one way or another. The kinds of war crimes depicted in this movie are actually minor compared to what came after the US finally pulled out. That doesn't mean for even a single second that I am condoning or saying it was even slightly acceptable that there were soldiers who gunned down civilians. There is no way of truly knowing how widespread of a problem it was or how many got away with it but there absolutely were soldiers who were reported and prosecuted. And as I said, pretty much nobody was 100% innocent in that mess except some of the civilians. And even then you can't say all the civilians because on both sides you had civilians engaged in at least some small scale military actions/terrorist acts so the line between innocent civilian and military combatant was VERY blurry.
Omg...Iove that you said at the beginning that you don't know what to expect but you've watched clock work Orange...lol ..I find that statement funny......
A few things. Yes many Vietnamese DID ask for our help, obviously not all, for most it was more about foreign interference, and colonialization and feeling of betrayal after ww2. We actually trained many of our enemies as allies during ww2, they were upset we later sided with the French. It was a strange situation, most of the VC leadership actually loved America, and idolized American revolutionary leaders like Washington. However many Vietnamese were just as upset by the Communist foreign influence, truthfully the VC abused more civilians then either the Americans or the French. It was a complex war, and situation, and most every history book teaches politicized narrative rather then honest assessment. If you want t know the truth you'll have to read beyond text books and dig into first hand accounts. As for why the drill instructor is so hard on them, he likely would be a Korean/ww 2 veteran during this period, he's seen how one man's failures can cost lives of good men. no matter how harsh you might think his methods he has seen far more horrible things in war. He is trying to prepare boys/kids for that horror, and survive them. Or if need be chase the ones out that will not make it or be a liability to their brothers. However you can't just quit as you said during this time there is a draft.... A dishonorable discharge would mean unlikely to get any decent job at the very least, and you can do possible prison time depending on the situation. The irony is this was meant to be an Anti War film, however Lee Ermy did such a good job of showing marines ethos, that it has turned into a bit of a recruitment film for those with a warrior's mindset. The real point to me of the movie is the the young girl VC that kills so many of them. They trained so hard to become warriors, and yet this girl with none of that training was able to take out many of them. Why? Because American children were born soft, children in such nations have hard lives, living through poverty and war already has them at killers, yet the Americans had to go through such harsh training to prepare them. Acknowledging your weakness should be a lesson in this film, and While Kubrick didn't mean to, this film brilliantly shows what the military is up against preparing young men for what they are initially unprepared for.
This film was filmed in the UK. And every palm tree 🌴 you see is real. And was planted there just for the movie.
Private Joker actor was in The Dark Knight Rises.
Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it.
The set of the ruined city (the city of Hue in Vietnam) that you were amazed at was actually a derelict industrial site in England. Kubrick hated to fly so much that he made this film in England and had palm trees flown in to make the sets look like Vietnam. An iconic film.
Please eventually get to Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon". Maybe my favorite from him.
Although not as celebrated as some of his more commercial films there is definately a consensus that Barry Lyndon is peak Kubrick.
I know what you mean about this extreme training having a satirical touch to it. I laughed.
1:47 kinda look like banner just starting to turn into Hulk
The boot camp sequence is Kubrick's last masterpiece, in my opinion! His REAL war film masterpiece is "Paths Of Glory", oh my gosh. Dude. That is a HELL of a movie. His first flat-out masterpiece, although the movie he did before it, "The Killing" is also damn good. But "Paths Of Glory", I'm really looking forward to you eventually hitting that one. And also "Barry Lyndon"! Not everyone could react to "Barry Lyndon" but you would do a great job with it. Your reactions to poor Private Pyle was just like all of ours when we first saw it!!
Watch My Bodyguard with Adam Baldwin.
The quote on Animal's helmet says 'I am become death'. It’s a quote from the Bhagavad Gita, the most important vedic scripture. In full it reads 'Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds'. It became famous when Robert Oppenheimer said it after witnessing the detonation of the first nuclear bomb.
It's to teach people to do as they are told in a uniform and predictable manner, and without constantly asking 'why'. The military is not the place to be different. Or the alternative answer... It's that way, because the regulation says it's that way.
I love watching this thru gen z eyes. They have no clue.
Full Metal Jacket is just one of a trifecta of Vietnam war movies that should all be watched. The others are Apocalypse Now, and Platoon. All three are outstanding movies, and I highly recommend. However, you're going to have fun editing them for RUclips. Still, the other two SHOULD be watched, and it doesn't really matter what order you watch them in. I was a child when Vietnam ended, and I remember a LOT of the real footage we saw on the evening news. They didn't censor ANYTHING back then, nor did they put up a "parental warning" before showing the stories. I vividly remember seeing footage from battlefields that affected my way of thinking. I also saw what happened to those guys when they returned home, even though I was too young to understand it all. I learned much later what it was all about.
I had family that served in WWII, one of whom came home in a bag. I was brought up to be proud of the sacrifices "our boys" made in any conflict. After I was an adult, I learned of many of the things that happened during Vietnam and was actually disgusted by them. I realize, though, that many of those young men had their minds shattered by what they experienced. While that's not an "excuse" for what they did, it does "explain" why they did what they did. They literally just snapped. It's still wrong, but they were put under such pressure that they couldn't handle it. Kinda like what happened to "Gomer Pyle". He just snapped.
Edit: at 6:26 - Ollie "I want to be the guy in the back." (Gomer Pyle walks into frame) "Oh, what the heck?!"
That made me laugh my ass off!
Edit 2 - Nope, you're 100% correct. He actually had to gain a good bit of weight for this role, so that, combined with his youth, but good spotting that!
Edit 3- 13:33 - Section 8 in the military means Crazy, which usually ends up in a discharge from the Corp (neither honourable nor dishonourable).
27:40 - Yes, this was an actual set. From what I know, this part was filmed in an abandoned power station that was scheduled for demolition in England. That's why they were able to do the fires and explosions the way they were. You can verify this from "Behind the Scenes" documentaries of the movie.
I personally like The Green Berets with John Wayne
Spartacus is a big Kubrick film you could watch that hasn't been mentioned.
8:43 lol..imagine that...an actor in a film when they were younger. That is Vincent! hahaha!
10:36 = Squat thrusts son! ha!
Great video Ollie- if you want to watch some more amazing movies about the Vietnam War I have 2 for you- both directed by Oliver Stone- the first is "Platoon"- which is notable for being the only movie written and directed by an actual Vietnam veteran (Stone himself) and the second is "Born On The Fourth Of July" which is an amazing cinematic journey (and true story) and the best performance of Tom Cruise's entire career in my opinion.......
If you can find it Watch " The Boys from company C "1978
It's the first Viet Nam movie I remember seeing, very good movie
He's experience he was really a drill sergeant in the military
It is Vincent
Gotts watch the movie "1918" then...Its a "One Shot" type of movie w/ huge Sets and Tracking Shots!
When this movie came out, I was still working as a tool of the military-industrial complex at a laboratory doing R&D for the US Navy, and you're correct that some of the more dedicated Cold Warriors hated the film (although marginally less so than, e. g., _Platoon_ ). OTOH, I shared an office with a Vietnamese woman who had a very roundabout route to becoming an American engineer--after the DRV subsumed the RVN, her family scraped together enough money to get get her on a raft with some others escaping the new Socialist Republic. The raft broke apart in the South China Sea (as she said, sketchy people smugglers didn't necessarily invest in quality construction), and after clinging to debris for a few days she was picked up by Thai fishermen. She then spent several years in one of the Thai refugee camps for Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians. Eventually after several unsuccessful escape attempts from there she was sponsored for emigration by a US relief organization, placed with a US volunteer family, went to high school, and eventually got a scholarship for engineering school. I've seen a number of reactions to this movie by younger people, and Canadians and Britons especially don't seem to appreciate that many South Vietnamese, however ambivalent about US intervention, also didn't want to be governed by Ho Chi Minh.