Production Hell - Full Metal Jacket
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Stanley Kubrick movies have a reputation for nightmarish productions, but the making of Full Metal Jacket was the most gruelling of them all, from toxic work environments (literally) to clashing actors, perfectionist directors, car crashes and much more. Join me for this next episode of Production Hell.
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Rest In Peace Gunnery Sergeant R. Lee Ermey.
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@@mkultra2456 objectively correct
Oorah!!!
GTFOH. Spare us the politics, pls@@mkultra2456
Vincent D'Onafrio advised Tom Cruise to get an apartment in London when he told him he was doing a Kubrick film. He said 'you're gonna be filming waaay longer than you think'.
He was right. Cruise and Kidman were in London for so long that their kids developed British accents.
@@jculver1674 Damn
@@jculver1674 oh shit really?
"Sometimes he tries to mindfuck you, its good to have a space" lol
Tom Cruise lost on a couple of roles working on Eyes Wide Shut. He could've been in American Psycho or The Matrix during that time.
R Lee Ermey was the PERFECT person for his role, and he got a whole career out of that performance. Really great stuff.
Love him in Toy Story.
Rest in peace Gunny
My first fleet Marine unit was the same as he served in Vietnam. He had a roof dropped on him in a mortar attack and was medically discharged.
He should have been in several more films. Perfect as he was in this movie, his performance in Seven as the police chief was on point as well.
@@kcbondurant7959 he was in like 50 or so after this..and some before. Not to mention all the tv he did.
You can totally tell R. Lee Ermey was a former drill instructor. So freaking ruthless and aggressive. He got robbed of an Oscar for Supporting Actor
Drill _instructor_ !
@ SIR, I’M SORRY FOR GETTING IT WRONG, SIR!
Marines will ALWAYS correct you on that.
He also has this booming voice that only true vets can have. I’ll also point to Clifton James in the last detail and cool hand luke. What a voice.
@@FoulballProductions he also give us the classic super mario line what the f is that
My father-in-law is a 25 year marine drill instructor. When it came time to meet him all I could think of was R. Lee Ermey's portrayal. Come to find out he was a very nice man that I have come to respect immensely, however, he did say Ermey's portrayal is spot on.
From what i can tell, all the rage and in-your-face attitude is mostly just a face they put on in order to keep everyone in line and get things done. You learn to fear and respect them but also to come to them if there is something wrong. Or atleast that's how it should be.
@@hammer1349 yeah drill instructors in ALL service branches are creating someone capable of executing missions and thinking under stressful situations, so it wouldn't be much use trying to be everyone's buddy.
Drill Instructor School is one of the hardest schools in the Marine Corps, with a high washout rate. They are very professional and everything they do with the recruits has a purpose. They are also among the fittest men I have ever seen; they have to be in better shape than the recruits.
You know who else was a former D.I. ? Bob "Happy Little Trees" Ross. Seriously.
He took up painting as a kind of self therapy for the way he treated people as a Drill Instructor.
@@JamesRDavenport Drill instructors treat people extremely well. It may seem tough, but they are teaching you how to survive.
R Lee Ermey’s “anti-PC” insults are a thing of legend
“Texas?! Holy dogshit! Only steers and queers come from Texas, and you don’t look much like a steer to me, so I guess that narrows it down!”
The insults he levelled at Private Snowball were the definition of anti-PC 😂
"I bet you if there was p***y at the top of that obstacle, you could get up there couldn't you???"
@@samsmith9315we don't serve watermelon and fried chicken in the mess hall 😅
"I WILL MOTIVATE YOU, PRIVATE PYLE! EVEN IF IT SHORT DICKS EVERY CANNIBAL ON THE CONGO!!!"
The fact that amazon removed "born to kill" from the helmet on their rental page is ridiculous!
Disgusting but sadly not surprising in todays soft society
That's why DVDs are important
@@MASTEROFEVIL Wait until owning offensive movies becomes a crime, and they'll have amnesty days where you can hand them in to the police. x'D
It will happen eventually.
Why? Any reason for that?
@@kb4903 They think it incites violence, or some asinine bullshit.
While simultaneously failing to see the entire point that the peace symbol and "Born to Kill" being on Joker's helmet are contradictions they literally bring up in the film itself.
It's just more information control. Better get your hands on Willy Wonka before they edit out all mentions of Augustus Gloop being fat.
“Holy Jesus. What is that? WHAT, the FUCK is that?!”
My favorite reaction clip oat, no contest
Private Pyle, if there is one thing in this world that I hate, it is an unlocked footlocker!
Every time I see a jelly doughnut I think about that classic line.
That man has always been THE Gunnery Sargent, and a lot of Marines went on to emulate him after this movie came out. I met one just like him in Florida in the 90s at an ROTC color guard competition for high schoolers. We were partnered up as judges and the dude was super serious about his job. Made a few kids cry with his critiques.
😂😂😂😂
How can I hear that while reading it 😂
Fun Fact: R. Lee Ermey also had a bit part as a chopper pilot radioing Robert Duvall during the totally mind-blowing and highly visceral village chopper raid scene in Apocalypse Now.
He also played a whacked-out rube in the remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre with hottie Jeniffer Beal.
@@samr.england613 *Jessica Biel.
Jennifer Beals is a different actress.
He was also in another Vietnam War movie, The Siege of Firebase Gloria, in 1989.
He also already played a DI in 1979 in “The Boys In Company C”
He told me that Apocalypse Now was the movie he regretted doing the most, because it showed our US soldiers in a bad light, smoking dope and not taking it serious.
I had the pleasure of working a couple days with Mr. Ermey on the CMP scoring staff and can tell you he's one of the nicest men I've ever had the honor to meet. He was *very* good with his '03 rifle too, as observed on the firing point to my left at Ben Avery. RIP Gunny.
Happy to see the "Drinker fixes" and "Production Hell" making a comeback ;)
Those are my favourite sections of the channel.
It’s been too long
Dude hell yeah I was just gonna comment that when he made the Romulus video. That's what I first started to watch when I found his channel. It's nice to go back to the way he used to be sometimes.
agreed, channel was starting to turn into just videos of beating dead horses.
Sure for production hell. But you can keep "fixes", reminds me of The Closer Look where it screams of "please hire me to write/edit your script".
This is one of the few times I'll say the movie was better than the book.
R. Lee Ermey really makes this movie. His improv is unsurpassed.
Except none of it was improv. He first had to rant and rave for hours on tape, then Kubrick listened to it over and over, picked out the lines he wanted and then had Ermey act those lines. There's one rule above any others in Kubrick movies and that's "no ad-libs".
Have you read the book? The most memorable phrases came directly from it.
@@Isnogood12are you sure? I feel like there was a story floating around about how Ermy had to explain to Kubrick what a reach around was
R.Lee was not Improv, He was an actual Marine, Bet he actually held back. boot camp! Was Hard af back in the day.
I didn't even know this was a book. That is pretty rare but I know a couple cases. Forrest Gump is one, The Russians Are Coming, and The Cement Garden are other instances where the film was actually better.
My father served in the Marines during Vietnam. He said the boot camp section was 100% spot on to what he saw and experienced, ESPECIALLY the Drill Instructor.
I wondered why Pyle was even in the Marines when he was so fat and slow witted, when I first saw this. Then I read about McNamara's Morons. Running out of conscripts? Lower the entry requirements!
@@RJRC_105 Yeah, cause of the draft and desperation for 'bodies' they were ignoring all sorts of medical issues. They are starting to do that again now cause no one wants to go fight in Ukraine, etc. After yesterday, I think recruitment will go back up.
If you want a realistic interpretation of a Drill Instructor, hire an actual Drill Instructor. Instant realism.
Mine (Army) said it was toned down from what he experienced.
@@Gonboo It comes down to personalities of people, what are the instructors like.
There were plenty of Vietnam era war films in the 80’s that may have done the combat better, but I’ll always remember the first parts of the movie during training. That was the thing that really set this film apart from the rest and made it more memorable than other good Vietnam era films like Platoon and Hamburger Hill
Also, it's the only Vietnam War film I know where it's all urban combat instead of jungle. The Battle of Hue City is infamous in Marine Corps lore.
@@RCAvhstapeYou should read the book. Kubrick cut a solid third of it out. There are some jungle scenes, but most of the in-country parts are in Hue, and there are numerous insightful details that didn't make it to film.
I think Full Metal Jacket is good but always preferred Apocalypse Now.
@@jefp65I love apocalypse now, but it doesn’t feel as much of a war story as some of the others. It’s kind of more of a psychedelic kind of oddity, while the others like Full Metal Jacket and Platoon and Hamburger Hill are more like war movies. Don’t get me wrong though, it’s just that it feels almost like a separate category of film.
We watched this movie during Recruit Training at Parris Island in 1993.
The boot camp scenes were 100% spot on, Marine Drill Instructors are all that and then some.
I went to boot camp in the 2000's. It was worse than in the movie. There was no physical assaults, but more creative ways to mess with people and the platoon.
Who woulda thunk casting an ACTUAL MARINE as a MARINE would become Iconic! -Semper Fi
Oo-rah!
You guys are the biggest pussies in high school and join the marines because you think it makes you tough. It doesn't
Don't forget Sergeant Apone in Aliens
Semper Fudge! Oh, yeah.
@@jimjamauto I was going to mention Apone! One of the inspirations for Robert Downey Jr's character in _Tropic Thunder._
From someone who spent three months at the island, it's incredible that the barracks were actually filmed in England. Looks nearly identical.
It was originally an American air base, the MOD took it over after WW2 I think.
There's a chance they where built from the same plans. WW2 saw a lot of building of military installations, and the allied forces were sharing their notes.
Bassingbourn Barracks - built as a USAF base in WW2, then RAF, then Army. I trained there in the '70s. Was also used as a University in "Indiana Jones".
@@alanlawson4180 Minor correction: No USAF yet, it was Army Air Corps at that time.
@@alanlawson4180 I did my phase 1 there in the mid 90s, was still the same then. The assault course from the film was still there.
Idea for your next Production Hell: Wizard of Oz. The shooting conditions were absolutely ridiculous
Didn't gold body paint kill or come close to killing one of the actresses?
@@anonony9081It was Margaret Hamilton’s green face paint. The silver Tin Man makeup was also toxic, and it forced the original actor to quit.
@@anonony9081nobody died making the wizard of oz but given all that the actors went through I’m surprised nobody died
Didn’t a guy hang himself? Urban legend.
@@anonony9081It was Buddy Epsen, the original actor they cast to play the Tin Man. The way they put his makeup on caused him to inhale the aluminum powder and he had to be hospitalized until the got the aluminum out of his lungs.
I first watched this movie in high school with a few other guys. Every single one of us joined the military. I washed out. We were split across 3 different branches and I didn't keep in touch with any of them because I was so ashamed. I hope they're all doing well. Much love and respect to all our troops
I met and shot with the Gunny, R. Lee Ermey, at the National Rifle Matches at Camp Perry Ohio during the CMP matches - just luck of the draw getting squadded with him. He was there shooting and also working for Springfield Armory, I think. What an amazingly cool man, and he kept us in stitches all day wisecracking. I asked him if he was going to be at the NTIT (Rattle Battle) match, he said "Yeah". I said "Good. You can watch us Georgia civilians whip your beloved Corps." The look he gave me, well I was very afraid for a second, then he grinned and said "we'll just see about that, Georgia BOY!" PS We did beat them, too. Came in 2nd in the nation.
My Grandfather was a Marine during Nam. They tried to go see this, and he couldn’t get through the boot camp segment, it was very close to what he had experienced and bothered him. And, honestly, the parts in Full Metal Jacket that take place in Vietnam pale in comparison to how visceral the Drill Instructor was and how haunting a performance was delivered by Vincent D’Onofrio. Stanley Kubrick also did Spartacus, it doesn’t get as much recognition as it should.
Oh, and, he did not see the latrine or head scene.
The first half is probably the best experience in cinematic history I ever had. But the war part is very bland. I didn't really feel that private Joker had much to say or do, and the movie looked less realistic and didn't even come closer to the visceral atmosphere of Private Ryan. It looked cheap. It didn't need to be epic, but man, I was more nervous and tense at the drill sections than in the actual war. I just think that lots of the introspective elements just got lost in the middle of all the cross fire. And I don't think the narrative had any complex characters to study like the first half, or could manage one.
When I think FMJ I think the boot camp part first, second and third. The vietnam combat part is pure afterthought to me and almost fades into my memories of apocalypse now entirely.
Was he stationed in Denang?
Spartacus is a bad-ass movie! I first saw it when I was a kid and it's definitely underrated!
British film crew: Yes we had first tea break, but what about second tea break?
That's unions for you.
Haha. I don't think he knows about second tea break, Pip.
Kubrick throws apple at union bosses head 😂
As a Brit I can confirm that without tea, nothing happens.
Second breakfast
A teen girl who never acted before was so traumatized by her own performance she ran out of the room crying. A victim of her own success.
Yeah, okay. That happened.
what
I don't understand, can someone explain this?
I expect her death scene shocked her. It is quite brutal.
@@salazamI’ll believe Drinker saying it did happen over you sarcastically saying it didn’t
11:30 I seriously doubt it.
Hahaha wtf did he just say?!?
Weird line
My junior DI’s at MCRD San Diego were Sgt. Lewis and Sgt. Brown. My senior DI was Staff Sgt. Armendariz. That was 1982, still remember them. Semper fi.
Just like Heartbreak Ridge, this movie is loved by all Marines. We watched this movie religiously. Semper FI!
I agree. My husband can quote nearly every line from Heartbreak Ridge. Full Metal Jacket is very quotable also.
He shoulda released this on the 10th for the birthday.
“The Siege of Firebase Gloria” is also one of my favorites. Semper Fi
They showed us a vhs of the scene where Gunny goes to the bathroom at boot in San Diego and the vhs lines from so much pausing looked like years of use.
@@MaryRohwerso can I and I’m a female navy vet lol!
The scene were Hartman is shouting insults at Pyle from offscreen, only to be revealed to be at the top of the equipment Pyle is climbing up will never not make me laugh. R Lee Ermey, RIP you absolute legend!
You climb obstacles like old people f*ck, you know that, Pyle?
I got to me R. Lee when I appraised his house in Toppenish Wash. He was like he was on TV but funnier and kinder. It was a pleasure to meet him. RIP R Lee.
I'm a British Army Reservist, during an past deployment I was posted at Bassingbourne Barracks in Hertfordshire where the boot camp filming was completed. The camp hasn't really changed since Full Metal Jacket. It was also the same camp where Libyian soldiers were being trained in 2014. The same guys who sexually assualted and harrassed local women. Arabic writing still remains in several of the ablutions.
They disappeared shortly thereafter i imagine, found to have unalivedthemselves because theyfelt so sorry. 😉
Doubt it in that country. More likely to have been given welfare and protected. @@robertbobbypelletreaujr2173
I was a Marine who went through Recruit Training at Parris Island. I thought they did a damn good job recreating the look of Parris Island.
@@magtafcmdr8621 The squad bay in the movie looked just like the Weapons Battalion squad bays at The Island, with the red paint and all.
Ok, Libya, the same country detroyed by the Americans, the French and the British in 2011 for no good reason? Those Libyans were probably already terrorists because thats what the Brits and the Americans do isn't it, train terrorists?
These production hell episodes are always so fascinating. It's crazy what turmoil and disaster some films go through and still manage to turn out great. Full Metal Jacket had a huge impact on me as a kid. I was used to standard war movies, but this was such a departure from that. It's one of those movies you come away from never quite the same. I think Full Metal Jacket isn't just one of the greatest war movies ever made, it very well could be THE greatest.
What is that Private Pyle? A jelly donut ?
Holy Jesus
They're payin' for it; you eat it!
“It’s all just a bad dream, fat boy.”
*"WHAT IS THIS?!"* *"a jelly donut"*
"Because I'm too heavy sir."
"Because you are a disgusting fatbody!"
Any Stanley Kubrick production is a guaranteed production hell.
Nah "Lolita" of all things was easy and quick to shoot actually.
I met R. Lee Ermey when I was in the National Guard. He talked about Vietnam, Apocalypse Now and the Marine Corps. We got him to sign VCR boxes of Full Metal Jacket. The talk was all military, then he looked up and said, "This is really good light." just the way someone who was in movies would. Great meeting the guy.
So cool - what a great guy to meet - like bucket list great.
8:00 The tea break is incredibly important to the british. This is what shocked American troops during WW2 when they saw their british allies taking tea breaks during major offensives in normandy and italy. To some extent even during assaults. One time they did this during a very bad moment on June 13, 1944. When they passed trough Villers bocage. But dont let german ww2 fanboys fool you about wittman taking down 15 british tanks. The british actually won that battle in the end.
The European war theater was won by the Soviet army, roughly 95% of that theater. I would compare it to a fist fight were the other war participants came down on Germany as it was already laying motionless on the ground.
@@matthiasblum6555 The Soviets didn't win the European war on their own. If the allies hadn't kept them supplied, hadn't bombed the heart out of German industry, and hadn't decimated the Luftwaffe, then the close-run invasion of the USSR could well have gone the other way. It really was a victory that needed all of the participants to achieve, so I always find it strange when people claim everything was done by either the USA or USSR.
@@georgebailey8179 For the most part the Allies did not participate in European front until june 1944, until the USSR finally turned the tide in its favor after Stalingrad and Kursk, and the question of victory became only time. 80% of ALL German divisions were defeated on the eastern front by the Soviets. No one downplays the role of the Allies in supporting supplies and opening the 2nd front, but the fact of making great effort and sacrifices in victory unconditionally belongs to the USSR, specially when you look at numbers.
This is why all Eastern Europe was littered with monuments to Soviet liberators until recently, when they were demolished for political reasons.
@@Jackfromshack "For the most part the Allies did not participate in European front until june 1944".
There had been various European fronts before then. What do you think the Battle of France was? The Battle of Britain? The invasion of Greece? If you want a ground campaign in Europe that lasted until WW2, then the western allies had invaded Italy in 1943, so had been fighting the Axis in Europe a year earlier. And it had also been fighting them in North Africa from 1940, forcing them to divert troops. At that time the Soviets weren't fighting the Axis, but rather invading neighbouring countries such as Finland and Poland, sometimes with agreement with the N@zis.
"80% of ALL German divisions were defeated on the eastern front by the Soviets"
It was 95% in your first post.
"the fact of making great effort and sacrifices in victory unconditionally belongs to the USSR"
That's nonsense. Plenty of other countries made great efforts and sacrifices. Yes, the USSR did that and suffered greatly, but let's not pretend that the rest of Europe was having a fun time of it. And many of those countries fought for longer, and many chose to fight the Germans, whereas the Soviets only got involved because they were invaded.
"This is why all Eastern Europe was littered with monuments to Soviet liberators until recently, when they were demolished for political reasons."
They were demolished because they weren't liberators. Throwing the Germans out to replace them with a puppet regime is not liberation. Compare that to how the western allies allowed countries such as France and Belgium to restore democratic government and run their own affairs. That was liberation, and I'm not aware of any of those countries deciding to remove monuments to the allied war dead.
@georgebailey8179 I hope you just a bad at trolling, otherwise, please, stop studying history on Wikipedia. It's too much shit even for me.
R Lee Ermey was in another Vietnam movie (no not Apocalypse Now) called The Boys in Company C. His role, also as a drill instructor, was the prototype for Hartman. Well worth watching.
Matthew Modine's Full Metal Jacket Diary book offers great insight into the making of this masterpiece. It has a cool metal cover too!
a full metal dust jacket?
R. Lee Ermey's casting was so perfect it launched his legendary decades long career in acting.
He had already been in Boys in Company C and Apocalypse Now.
@@NoBrakes23 but not in such a prominent role before Full Metal Jacket.
@@NoBrakes23Only in bit parts though. He was only hired on Full Metal Jacket as an advisor, not an actor, until he managed to wangle the role
A Kubrick film that was a nightmare to work on? You don’t say
hahaha...
He made that joke in the video
I wonder what production of his was the least hellish.
Impossible! I can’t believe it! I shan’t believe it!
One of my fondest memories in the military was watching this movie on Christmas Day in basic training. We were about 6 weeks in and getting ready to graduate.
For Christmas, the instructors rolled a TV in with a bunch of DVDs and then most went home to be with their families. We were dying laughing at the basic training intro where all the trainees’ heads are getting shaved because we would say which person in our flight looked the most like who was on the screen at the time.
Great time, and a great movie to make it all the better.
5:27 The character of Animal Mother wasn't created for the movie but was already in the book, as a rotten toothed brute who uses his machete to gather the sniper's hands and head as trophies. The machete is still shown carried by the character in the film.
A man of culture, i see. Most have never read it, which is sad because its the best "war novel" ever written. But yeah, Mother is one of the most memorable characters- him and Alice (too bad Kubrick couldht figure out what to do with Him). Most of Mother's lines came directly from the book, as well.
Semper fi, my werewolf child.
Animal Mother was a sadistic pedophile in the book. At the end Cowboy tells joker not to trust animal mother because he killed the platoon leader that was going to bring charges against animal mother for inappropriate actions with children.
The fact that a control freak like Kubrick let Ermy improvise is astounding .
Because Ermy was NOT improvising. Ermy didn't need a script since he'd already been there done that IRL. Kubrick was smart enough to understand that and just let Ermy riff in most of his scenes. Brilliant actually.😊❤
‘Improvise’
Let’s try that again.
And again, and....
He didn't improvise. Read the Short Timers. A bunch of Ermey's lines come from the book.
R Lee Ermey was actually denied the roll, and Kubrick told him to not audition. However, he was so dedicated to getting it that he backhandedly auditioned through a training tape with the extras. Kubrick was upset that he auditioned, but was impressed.
Really? I'd always heard he was brought on as a consultant and wasn't even looking for the part. He was just so good during the training that they decided to just use him because he was better than the original actor.
@@TheRayfield77There’s two versions of the story given by Lee Ermey, I suppose take your pick as to which one was true. I suppose it altered slightly with every retelling.
Kubricks constant shooting till he likes it brings meaning to the line: "YOU WILL NOT LAUGH! YOU WILL NOT CRY! YOU WILL LEARN BY THE NUMBERS!"
RIP Gunney Ermey. An amazing performance.
“I bet they regret that. You’re so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece”
-R. Lee Erny
"Private Pyle, what are you trying to do to my beloved corps?! ... Do you expect me to BELIEVE that you don't know left from right?" ... "Then you did that on purpose! YOU WANNA BE DIFFERENT!" **WHACK** "What side was that Pyle?" ... "Are you SURE, Private Pyle???"
FMJ is one of my all time favorite movies. It got a lot of the details right especially when R. Lee Ermey was on screen. That man was made for this role and the fact he was a Marine drill instructor gave him all experience needed. This movie was one of a few that lead me to join the military and I loved every minute of my time in service.
If only we could have had Kubrick and Kinski on the same set. What an episode that would have been
I suspect that Kubrick would not have tolerated Kinski for long. Werner Herzog intentionally enraged the Kinski. He wanted that. Of course once some of the locals did ask Werner if he would them to kill Kinski. They had enough of him long before the end.
If Kubrick had met Kinski, he would immediately have scratched him off his list. Kinski's flamboyant unpredictability wouldn't have had a place on a Kubrick set.
Best wishes from Vermont 🍁🧡🍁
"What about breakfast?"
"You already had breakfast."
"First breakfast, yes. What about second breakfast?"
And let’s not forget elevenses!
@ 0:20 Some say that's the Grim Reaper walking by.
Ermey's performance was so good and so iconic he was actually promoted to gunnery sergeant by the Marines in 2002, the only person to have been promoted to a higher rank after leaving the Corps.
It is effectively two films in one.
Spot on.
And the first film is one of the best ever made, you could make an argument that it’s the best.
The 2nd is good.
Jaws is another "two in one" movie. One about a cop obsessed with sharks, and one about three guys on a boat hunting a monster.
@@stevenscott2136not really similar, lad.
Wow I just wrote the same thing in another post…
Without a doubt. This is so pronounced that I can never watch the full length in one sitting. It is much too jarring, so I treat it like two different movies. Sometimes I am in the mood for one, sometimes the other.
The second half of this movie is absolutely nothing compared to the first half. The first half is simply masterful.
The book's actual much darker end, IMO, would have been a better fit with the first half of the movie. The 2nd half seems awkward in a lot of places.
@monkeeboy20 With the rather crappy practical shooting effects and sounds it kinda feels like an A Team episode.
I couldn’t even tell you what happens after boot camp, other than the scene with the Vietnamese hookers. I watched the whole movie, I think. But, I’ve watched the beginning many times.
The 2nd half of the film feels inauthentic and a bit of a ham-fisted mess.
In my opinion Stanley Kubrick is one of the greatest directors of all time. His dedication to perfection is remarkable and we need more directors like him.
Absolutely I enjoy his films. Full metal jacket is my favorite from kubrick.
@@Slyarno2795A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon and Paths of Glory are few of mine.
Objectively speaking, he is. The greatest? Who knows. One of the greatest? No question.
Perfection is 50% control. 😉
@@NickNapoli 2001 space odyssey The shining full metal jacket dr strangelove eyes wide shut and paths of glory are among my favorites.
Full Metal Jacket is one of my top 5 favorite movies of all time. My Father was drafted into the Marines during the Vietnam War from College his Junior year. He fought in Saigon frontline, and survived the worst parts of that battle during Vietnam. The Basic Training portion of the movie was so real, that my Father had to pause the movie at times to gather himself. Overall, Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, and The Dirty Dozen are my Father’s three favorite war films. When Full Metal Jacket was released on Blu-Ray, I immediately went to pick it up! This brief synopsis of the backstory of this movies justifies the emotions these actors had in this movie, but The Gunny, R. Lee Ermey was the star of this iconic film.
Boman is what Modine named his kid
So stan was right.
First, a return to drinker fixes. Now, a production hell? I salute you, sir.
R. Lee Ermey was probably the only actor that Kubrick allowed to ad lib, he was so into that character. One story I heard was when Ermey said the line "... and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach around!", Kubrick didn't understand what he meant. So Ermey had to explain what he said and Kubrick broke out laughing and kept the line.
ahem... Peter Sellers?
@@andreleclerc7231 iz diz ur minkey?
Ermey threw out a lot of lines, true. But Kubrick had them written down and chose the ones he wanted. Ermey's "ad libs" were written into the script.
Best wishes from Vermont 🍁🧡🍁
I asked for a "Production Hell" video on Drinker's Alien Romulus video. The man does not disappoint.
Thank you, Drinker🙏🏽
So did I and he delivered!
Thank you for the education. What a classic.
Herr was a reporter. He did not serve. His book Dispatches is a MUST read
Full Metal Jacket are two of my favorite war movies. Funny how they share that one character.
Excellent film. D’Onofrio has been so underrated.
He has TDS syndrome.
You mean Kingpin?
YOU EMBARRASSED ME IN FRONT OF VANESSA
great performance
War, war never changes.
What is it good for?
"16 times the detail"
"I love the idea of Stanley Kubrick trying to coax the perfect performance out of Arnie for a hundred takes"
Remember when i said i could act, i liedddd 😂💀
He'll be back (again and again)😅
“Wrong!”
Can't imagine how annoyed Kubrick must have been when "Platoon" won the Best Picture Oscar for 1986, pretty much eliminating any chance for him to win in 1987, even though he directed a superior film
Nah Platoon is way better.
@@salazam it was a decent action flick, never felt the need to watch it again
@@JustinSane__23 and that's why your opinion is garbage.
Missing In Action ftw
Platoon is a fantastic film, not least because it was loosely based on real incidents that Oliver Stone witnessed in Vietnam. For instance in the first combat scene, where the unit is ambushed at night and a guy is fatally injured by a badly thrown grenade from one of his own men, in real life it was Oliver Stone who threw that grenade, badly injuring another soldier. Sergeants Barnes and Elias were also real men, though they served in different units and in real life never met.
George MacDonald Frasier mentions the film in one of his non fiction books. He wasn't impressed by either the training segment or the battle scene. The later because the soldiers all bunch up over the body of the girl sniper. He thought if the training was accurate, it might explain the failure of the US in Vietnam
Full Metal Jacket is my favourite Vietnam movie ever! I was stunned that it was filmed in England. I was not surprised by the production difficulties. R. Lee Ermey was perfect!
For the record, those extras were royal marine commandos just back from a deployment to Ulster who Kubrick managed to get them to volunteer, hard core man.
I’d rather be shot at with a camera than the alternative
R Lee Ermey got to play the same character in the criminally under-rated The Frightners with Michael J Fox and Jake Busey Directed by Peter Jackson.
He also had a similar role in a scifi series Space Above and Beyond.
Oh wow. The Frighteners was a complete pleasant surprise to me. Shame almost no one's heard of it today. I think the name of the movie might be one of the reasons it didn't do better. Its kind of a stupid name for an otherwise great film.
@@dethtongue945It’s a good film but it goes on too long, which turned out to be a Peter Jackson trait
Filmed the boot camp at Bassingbourn Barracks remember seeing them and the battle around the Isle of Dogs before the Skyscrapers
You sound familiar with the barracks. Did you recognise the hedges when the platoon is doing PT? They are a LOT bigger now, or they were when I did basic there.
I was in an indie movie called Live Free Ride Hard with Tim Colceri. He was incredibly nice to me and answered a billion questions I had for him. He was a legit Marine in vietnam and I think also would have been fantastic in the Gunnery Sargeant Hartman role . Obviously R Lee Ermey was amazing and created one of the most iconic characters in the history of movies. Just wanted to show Tim some love too. Great video!
I always throught that Joker's extra hits were part of the script, as if to say, that the character was also so fed up with Pyle's failures (after his numerous attemps to teach him everything) that it finally erupted into this display of aggression, anger and hatred. I never knew it was just the actor venting his feelings to his co-star. C'mon Mathew, what are you doing?
Actually my understanding is that the character had to put in additional hits to represent Cowboy and the other four recruits holding the blanket.
He was probably imagining hitting Kubrick over the head when he did it!
The camp where basic training was filmed, is Bassingbourn Barracks near Royston in Hertfordshire. I was based there in '93 when the Royal Signals moved there from Catterick. The squad pass the block where I lived. One of the major things that happened after filming, was to do with the assault course. It had to be built exactly and to the correct safety specifications required. Then after filming, the MOD were so impressed by it, they asked if it could be left erected on the airfield so it could be used to training purposes...the production demolished it instead.
Another movie was filmed there...The Memphis Belle. It was an apt location as that was the actual airforce base where the Memphis Belle and her crew were stationed during WWII. One of her propellers was made into a memorial that stood just outside BHQ.
6:20 I read a different story about Ermey's casting; allegedly he was hired after he shouted at Kubrick to stand up when he talks to him, and he instinctively obeyed
That’s so freakin awesome
@@CowboyBeanBunif true
I bet that is not a different story, but another detail in the same story.
Full Metal Jacket was one of the best war movies I’ve ever seen.
Your Production Hell videos are my favourites. I rented this movie and watched it at a friends house. By the end of the first scene with Lee Ermey in it, my mate's entire family was watching. Spectacular film
As one who went through boot camp at Parris Island in the winter of 1968, I found the first part of the film basically realistic except for the final scene. No Drill Instructor has ever been killed by a recruit. Just showing D'Onafrio going off to war a dangerous and disturbed man would have made the same point. The second half of the film bears no relationship to what I experienced in Vietnam. All in all though, a film definitely worth seeing.
_Full Metal Jacket_ is a fictional tale.
@@justinsayin3979 Fictional but pretty realistic.
….that is a horrifying thought if the movie itself wasn’t realistic enough
Yep, it would have been as impactful and realistic if drill instructor would had lost he's "game face" and had normal private talk with private Pyle. Come to think, killing and suicide after was kind of copout.
Animal mother is pvt pyle reborn.
The Tea Break is my favorite union thing for productions. Netflix did a doc on the making of Aliens and James Cameron had the same issues of Tea break. I like to say, "My Mandated Tea Break" as a joke when I go on break.
Typical myopic perspective from a egoist Director/producers pov ! Wait until you are the one working silly physical and mental exhausting hours.
H&S can and do go too far but crew and actors have died because of 'tired or unfed' mistakes. A couple of obsessive dictatorial Directors POV's does not make something a universal truth or even valid on its own.
British film crew did and still do work very long hours, at times under conditions that are often risky to unsafe and uncomfortable to damned horrific.
I nearly died on a job, I worked often with a Commercials Director who loved working hard and taking risks, he died while filming.
Some producers and directors want everything how & when they wanted it regardless of the dangers to cast and crew, this was why crews needed regulations to stop.
Try standing under freezing cold rain machines during a winter night shoot for hour after hour without a break, or in side the back of a Ford van driving like a rally car at in a Welsh slate quarry for 14 hours, or working back to back 24 hour days operating equipment that is both potentially dangerous and worth Hundreds of thousands of pounds with a famous actor at risk if you eff up.
While filming the Lord of the Rings, Peter Jacksom had a "tea caddy."
Someone who's job it was to make sure Peter had a cup of hot tea at all times.
1980s Britain lol
Cameron has a terrible record for set safety. The tea breaks keep crew from getting people killed through exhaustion or lack of focus.
I'm lucky enough to have the same birthday (year notwithstanding) as R. Lee Ermey. OORAH!!
*edit- spelling correction
Is by any chance 1933 or in fact 2015??
I share a birthday with Nicolas Cage. Beat that.
@TJ-W as far as actors go, you have me beat. But I also have The Undertaker, Harry Houdini and Clyde Barrow
That's fun. I share a birthday with John Cleese.... 😂
@@fishrowe420 awesome!
Happy Birthday, Gunny! Fucking legend, those lines you dropped have become U.S. Marine Corps lore 🇺🇸
I never understood why drill instructors would yell at their recruits all the time until I learned that because they are not allowed to harass them physically, they put verbal stress on them until they manage not to get distracted from their task at all anymore. The constant yelling and abuse is a substitute for the noise and fog of war. R. Lee Ermey is the perfect product of that learning process. The fearless, unblinking eye, the absolute clarity of mind and purpose.
It's funny that Kubrick ended up shooting in England for Vietnam. Other Vietnam movies were either shot in the Philippines or even Hawaii 😎
He also shoot in England for New York in Eyes Wide Shut.
He also shoot in England for the spaces sequences of 2001.
@quiver5756 cool.
He moved to the UK permanently because he thought it was an oasis of calm compared to the USA. And also because it gave him access to excellent film studios and movie crews.
I saw this in the Fredericton, NB theatre in the summer of '87, along with several hundred other Army officer trainees from the Combat Training Centre at CFB Gagetown. I'm surprised the building survived our collective reaction to Ermey's note-perfect scenes. Most of us came back the next night to see it again. There's never been anything like his performance in cinematic history and there never will be again. It's really two movies - one about basic training, and one about ops, and they're very different and only tenuously connected.
My family members that served in the military, from WW2 to Vietnam, all loved this movie.
Please do more videos on movies like this. This is way more entertaining and interesting than reviews of Disney slop.
This movie ended up being every Marine's favorite movie....at least the first hour was. Its the most realistic representation of what bootcamp was.
Kubrick will always be a mad legend.
It was Beckton gas works. It was in the process of being demolished so they didn’t mind Kubrick damaging it
The camp was Bassingbourn Barracks. If you look carefully you can see that the road markings are British.
A fun fact is The Outfield shot their music video for Since You've Been Gone at that same crumbling gasworks
I could've sworn some of the external Parris Island scenes were done on location . . . the rifle range in the movie looked just like the real thing.
"Cheesy action flick starring Chuck Norris." Shut your mouth, Drinker. No one speaks ill of Chuck Norris.
Legend says there will one day be a warrior born from the union of a god and a dragon. His skills in martial arts would be unmatched, and he would end all evil and bring peace to the world.
That man is NOT Chuck Norris.
Because Chuck Norris already killed that man.
@@IronDragon-2143 🤣
Fuck Chuck Norris. Overrated meme
He's a low rent shit actor, get real.
When Chuck Norris left home at age 18, he told his father "Well, you're the man of the house now"
Full Metal Jacket has always been my favorite Kubrick movie. There are more perfect films by him but this one, driven mostly by the humor, is the most entertaining.
Ouch!!! I had no idea how much these people went through and yet they produced some of the best work captured on camera. I have just grown much more respect for their work ethic.
Perfect choice for the day after the US election.
Hey, Trump went from draft dodger to bullet dodger, and on his way to an epic redemption arc.
America is saved.
Lucky bastards.
I don’t like Trump and didn’t vote for him, but I won’t lie. There’s a part of me that’s enjoying watching the media and the Hollywood elites lose their effing minds this morning.
For a criminal who paid to dodge the draft while the working class suffered fighting
Oop, smells like another smooth brained liberal @cheften2mk well, Trump certainly has completed his redemption arc, dodging bullets at political rallys in his 70s, coming back for more and winning the Presidency to beat off scumbag liberals and globalists. Cry more, loser.
@@Deanmiller-t4hNinja there was no reason to fight for Vietnam. IT WAS FOR NOTHING!
@ 7:55 well it's interesting to see that James Cameron wasn't the only director annoyed by tea breaks lol
One simply does not fuck with the British need for tea. Hell, we sacked off an entire continent from our empire over tea. 😅
Same with George Lucas. Supposedly the guy was furious about the tea breaks and slight overtime refusals.
I joined the Marine Corps in 2007. My platoon number was 3092 the same as in the movie. Semper Fi.
wow that's so interesting!
NOT
“Is that you John Wayne? Is this me?”
R LEE ERMY WAS THE PINNACLE OF DRILL SARGEANTS IN FILMS REST IN PEACE LEDGEND YOU'VE EARNED IT SOLDIER!!!🍺🗿👍
Vietnam was won on the battlefield but lost on the home front.
It wasn’t. More Vietcong at the end of the war then the start.
Vietnam was unwinnable. CIA knew, but they went with it anyway.
The wins were given back after two weeks, eg Khe Sahn and Hill 937.
No it was not. No one involved had a clue about how to run that war. The general's best strategy was kill ratios, attrition.
True, people seem to forget the nva generals being stunned by us pulling out, that they were not far off an unconditional surrender. As it turns out, eventually you can run out of people...
YESSSS ANOTHER PRODUCTION HELL THANK YOU
R. Lee Ermey not getting an Oscar for a supporting Role was the Day the Academy lost me...
I don’t approve of how Kubrick treats people (especially one in particular) but I do miss the times when directors had more control and pushed the crew to making the best film possible.
The Vietnam city of Huey is pronounced like Way.
Great video overall. Unfortunate that all the actors and crew had to go thru that hell, but it one of my favorite movies and they all turned in Oscar performances in my opinion. R Lee Ermey is a legend.