The haircut is to make everyone the same. No one stands out. No one is different. Everyone is uniform
@illstreamthat
Жыл бұрын
Also ensures that there is no head lice. Never understood why the women don't shave their hair...equality, right?
@catherinejaddii828
Жыл бұрын
@@illstreamthat incel moment
@illstreamthat
Жыл бұрын
@@catherinejaddii828 When I went to basic training, the girls got head lice, we didn't. That's all I'm saying, don't change standards because women want to play war.
@blackhaze8233
11 ай бұрын
@@catherinejaddii828 lose P cope.
@thatguyrich9822
Жыл бұрын
Marine here: the reason for the haircuts is two-fold: 1) It's a way to wipe out individuality. Everyone looks the same. This is the beginning of the breakdown process. 2) It's sanitary. When you have thousands of men living in a relatively small space, lice becomes a problem. Beyond reasons 1 and 2, it's a Marine tradition, dating over 100 years.
@iKvetch558
Жыл бұрын
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. The same program would have led to Forrest Gump being recruited and serving in Vietnam.
@thecocoacouch
Жыл бұрын
Oh wow. Okay that makes more sense now. Do you know when they stopped that and went back to having a higher base line? I feel so sorry for Leonard
@iKvetch558
Жыл бұрын
@@thecocoacouch It ran from October of 1966 to December 1971.
@thecocoacouch
Жыл бұрын
Thanks. Wow.
@justmeeagainn
Жыл бұрын
it was known as McNamara's morons
@flobp2381
Жыл бұрын
@@thecocoacouch The US also relaxed standards during the Iraq/Afgan 2 decade old war(s) to allow move people to be be able to enlist. Standards like visible tattoos and criminal records.
@heatherdale5571
Жыл бұрын
We in the 80's grew up inundated with these kinds of intense Vietnam films. It was a crazy way to experience historical events, coming from the memories of those whom experienced it.
@reverendjesus
Жыл бұрын
First time I ever saw this was in 2002; my dad put it on the night before I went to basic training
@MrGrifter123
Жыл бұрын
I was in the army and basically I was the shortest guy in my platoon. I had 2 things against me… being short and my Drill Sergeant found out we were both from Louisiana 😂. My ass was grass the first 4 or 5 weeks 😂
@scotteustice6230
Жыл бұрын
About the "this is my rifle, this is my gun" scene. Somebody probably called his rifle a gun, which is a big no no. The scene was prob to drive home the point that your rifle is called a rifle, not a gun.
@relin6770
Жыл бұрын
'what is this?' U.S. Marine Boot Camp. This movie is why I didn't join the military
@xxlCortez
5 ай бұрын
Well, today it's different but this movie does a great job making it unappealing.
@CreativeCreaturefx
8 күн бұрын
@@xxlCortezas if it's ever been appealing to have to kill innocent people and likely sacrifice your life for it.
@denveradams4909
Жыл бұрын
The soap in the towel is called a "blanket party". A well-known way for an entire platoon to administer attitude adjustment to a single recruit who is a continual clutz.
@TerminalFailSafe
Жыл бұрын
Boot camp and the 8 years I served in the military were some of the most formative years of my life. I will say it is not for everyone but some of us have to be knocked down on our faces and then built back up by learning uniformity through intense teamwork, commitment, dedication and preparedness. It helped me learn the tools to think under pressure and how to deal with issues and problems that probably would likely have buckled me to my knees without my military education and experiences. It helped me prepare for 36 years of emergency medicine in a Level 1 Trauma Center- having the honor to serve as a volunteer firefighter/EMS-P First Responder and a reserve police officer. I admit I probably wasn’t the best at some things all the time but I learned to never give up and to carry on with the crap was hitting the fan with compassion and fortitude. (No, I am not a recruiter but I am proud of my service to the people of my country, state and city. No regrets.)
@briansearle6868
Жыл бұрын
"Did your parents have any children that lived?" I'm literally crying laughing at that. Gotta be one of the funniest insults I've ever heard.
@punklover99
3 ай бұрын
I'll bet they regret that
@scottbrazier
Жыл бұрын
Much of the dialogue from R Lee Ermey, who played Sgt Hartman was improvised.
@thecocoacouch
Жыл бұрын
Oh for real?! I heard he used to be an actual Drill Sergeant? Crazy the lines he came up with 😆
@scottbrazier
Жыл бұрын
@The Cocoa Couch Yes, Oscar I was reading about it on IMDB, director Stanley Kubrick was very impressed.
@thecocoacouch
Жыл бұрын
I’d hope so. It’s was great!
@kapteeniratto
Жыл бұрын
0:49 The reason for cutting your hair in the old days was head lice. Nowadays its more about the mental effect, stripping away your identity.
@arahantiusdetache5103
11 ай бұрын
It's very disturbing for me watching the newest generations being shocked by a drill sergeant doing his job.
@jimmythundarrsdrumcoverser492
9 ай бұрын
What will those people do when the time comes?
@AliasSchmalias
Ай бұрын
It is the drill sergeant who is disturbing, not the other way round.
@arahantiusdetache5103
Ай бұрын
@@AliasSchmalias My parents were harder on me than that drill sergeant ROFL. He was holding back. We're on the cusp of WW3 and our western pathetic crybabies will be facing brutal non western troops who were also raised harder than this. The west has been so focused on turning western men into crybabies that the women have utterly ignored how brutal men will be when the western male crybabies have been exterminated.
@donaldseale2700
Жыл бұрын
The talent of Vincent D'Onofrio (Pyle) is amazing. Being able to look so innocent when we first see him to being extremely scary in his final scene using facial expressions.
@thecocoacouch
Жыл бұрын
I agree!! Awesome performance. I haven’t seen him in much but whenever I have he’s been incredible.
@halldorra
Жыл бұрын
It was his first role ever too
@donaldseale2700
Жыл бұрын
@Halldór Ragnarsson Close, but he did have 3 other roles prior to this. His debut was 4 years earlier in a film called, The First Turn On. Of course with the exception of 'KingPin'. This is what he's most known for.
@halldorra
Жыл бұрын
@@donaldseale2700 ok,maybe his first major break in a movie,a true method actor,had to gain 30 punds for this role,demanded by Kubrick
@donaldseale2700
Жыл бұрын
@@halldorra agreed.
@OblivionGate
Жыл бұрын
This film was filmed entirely in England. Every scene was filmed within 30 miles of Stanley Kubrick's London home. The training scene was filmed at a British army camp, the others scenes were filmed around London and the final sniper scene was filmed at London Docklands at an old abandoned Gas Works, which was the biggest in the world at the time. Kubrik imported palm trees from Spain and the place was massive. The reason Kubrik decided to film in England was because he hated flying and didn't want to leave his wife and 3 daughters for months on end while filming in America.
@igaluitchannel6644
Жыл бұрын
Cutting hair was started to prevent the transmission of lice which was common on battlefields. After, it also became a way to create uniformity and conformity.
@joaoluizfonseca6914
11 ай бұрын
The man who played the sargeant, R Lee Ermy, was an actual soldier from the Korean War. Stanley Kubrick, who also directed The Shining, allowed him to improvise the training sequences as he was a witness of it, and he completely incorporated the mean leader as the character he was nominated for a Golden Globe for that performance, short time onscreen yet very well appreciated. This type of training was real; as real as the heroes that came out of it post-war, who sadly were never the same again.... This movie is a masterpiece.....
@GM8101PHX
10 ай бұрын
Please accept my corrections, R. Lee Ermey was not old enough to serve during the Korean conflict and the spelling of Sergeant is as such. This time in basic training changed boys into men in short order, it was very real for when I went to basic for the Air Force in June of 1976!!
@andresrivas9573
Жыл бұрын
One reason for the haircuts is uniformity. EVERYONE starts out the same. A Drill Instructor has to demoralize them to weed out the weaker ones. Marines demand only the best. You hate the DI in the beginning, then you understand them and at the end you have the utmost respect for them.
@punklover99
3 ай бұрын
Fun fact in the opening shot it was one of the last things they shot after the cast already regrew their hair You're also shaven as a hygiene precaution as well as stripping you of individuality My dad was in the army in the mid to late 70's (yes i know it's the Marines in the movie) one of his favorite movies and it's pretty accurate the way The DI treats people
@lord69z
Жыл бұрын
New to the channel, I love that you're doing old school movies from my era - as an old man it really is amazing to see people experience things we saw at your age, it's like discovering it all over again. I hope you keep them coming!
@thecocoacouch
Жыл бұрын
I appreciate that thank you!
@ratmackay
4 күн бұрын
There was a famous female sniper in Vietnam who used to capture both Marines and nearby villagers who would help out the Americans...she would take them out within earshot of the camp and torture them so their buddies would have to lay there in the dark and hear their screams. They called her Apache and she was finally put down by Carlos Hathcock (one of the most famous snipers ever)...pretty sure the sniper in FMJ was at least partially inspired by that story.
@denveradams4909
Жыл бұрын
I went through Parris Island during the winter of 1977/78. At 5ft 1in and 117lbs, it was not easy. But I graduated on Feb. 13, 1978. I served 6 years as a Expeditionary Airfield Technician, 7011. The purpose of bootcamp is to tear each recruit down to nothing and then rebuild the Marine that they want.
@2Askew84
Жыл бұрын
When you see Leonard Lawrence, staring like that, that’s called the thousand yard stare he hadn’t seen any combat thousand yard stare is caused by trauma in a lot of cases
@Dragon_5th-Regeneration
3 ай бұрын
I’m very VERY late to the video, but I just wanted to share something Marine DI’s really cared about. They were afraid for their platoons. They cut the training in half for the soldiers so they only had half the time to get ready for war in Vietnam. They were as tough and hard because they needed to be prepared for the war they were being deployed into. R. Lee Hammer said he was checking the newspaper everyday afraid to see any of his recruits names, and when he did he felt that he failed that soldier.
@shanewoody4232
Жыл бұрын
Lower the life expectancy the cheaper life becomes the cheaper life becomes the more savage man becomes. Just be thankful we don't have to lose our humanity in the modern world
@ahedjehad8514
7 ай бұрын
in my own opinion, this is a horror movie disguised as a war movie. it shows the horrors of war and what happens to soldiers before, during and after a war. as John Rambo says in First Blood: "nothing is over. nothing. you just don't turn it off."
@Goosemeyer
Жыл бұрын
Shaved heads prevent lice
@thecocoacouch
Жыл бұрын
Right. I had that suspicion but didn’t trust myself 😂
@chipsdad5861
Жыл бұрын
@@thecocoacouch The haircut also give another level of lack of identity. Designed to send the message that they are all in this together.
@johnhales8824
Жыл бұрын
Mate when you've finished your war playlist treat yourself to some comedies. You've earnt it!!!
@thecocoacouch
Жыл бұрын
Haha I know!! My mental health needs comedies rn 😆
@flarrfan
Жыл бұрын
He needs to watch some Mel Brooks!
@stanleyrifkin6223
Жыл бұрын
Pyle fought against his enemy. Anybody else fought against someone's else enemy. I hope you're going to watch "Apocalypse Now" and "The thin red line".
@judgildea
11 ай бұрын
Jesus..the whole point is that they do what they need to without over thinking it. They break them down and then they earn everything after. I was in and it's a great experience. Lol
@ratmackay
4 күн бұрын
"I'm in a pretty good mood" Well, this will blow that all to hell. The goal of boot is to break down the individual person and make a Marine. Shaving off the hair is a great equalizer...everyone now has the same shitty haircut. It also means that they don't have to worry about one dude coming in with lice and spreading it to the entire company.
@davidt1621
10 ай бұрын
I'll tell you what a real problem is. A real problem is a marine or soldier who enters a combat zone without the ability to control his emotions and do what has to be done, because that endangers the lives of everyone around him. There's nothing in training that can be done to a recruit that's worse than that fate, and it's unfair to the others to allow him to consistently fail. The Senior D.I. put it plainly when he said, "It's my job to weed out the nonhackers who don't pack the gear to serve in my beloved corp." It's tough love that saves lives before a single shot is fired outside of training.
@disposablehero4911
Жыл бұрын
The thing about war movies up to this time was they tended to sugar coat war. It wasn't until the movie Platoon and this movie that we started to get an honest realistic picture of what war, especially Vietnam was like.
@mattfinleylive
Жыл бұрын
Oh, C'mon... you cut out "..Mary Jane Rottencrotch.." ? -That's the best line ever written!
@kimdontcare244
12 күн бұрын
"you could suck a golf ball through a garden hose" will always be my fav line outta any movie
@blakemcelrath54
Жыл бұрын
R Lee Ermy made this movie and was a Vietnam Marine. Also Pyle and most of the Marines were drafted back then so they had no choice but to join and what they did to Pyle is reffed to as a Code Red or Squad punishment. If you brought the Squad down you were dealt with.
@peperino25
Жыл бұрын
i recommend you more of *Stanley Kubrick* 🔥 ★ - *A Clockwork Orange* (1971) ★ - *Eyes Wide Shut* (1999) || starring *Tom Cruise* _________________________________________________ BONUS TRACK (not Kubrick but all Fire🔥) ★ - *American History X* (1998) || _starring Edward Norton_ ★ - *The Devil's Advocate* (1997) || _starring Keanu Reeves & Al Pacino_ ★ - *American Psycho* (2000) || _starring Christian Bale_ ____________________________________________ excellent films that give a lot to think about the "civilized society" in which we live
@stevenspringer1599
Жыл бұрын
My father went through Parris Island in 1944. He said the only thing not realistic about the Drill Sergeant 'welcome speech' intro were the homosexual references. Every Marine is encased in a full metal jacket.
@heff5452
3 ай бұрын
The biggest reason for the haircut is if you get a head injury it is easy to see and get to with out all the hair.
@kmars21
Жыл бұрын
dude, i dont think you'd survive the bus ride to boot
@thecocoacouch
Жыл бұрын
Yeah my parents would kill me first 😂
@jeremiahrose4681
Жыл бұрын
Sorry but that's the way it was.....one person messes up the whole platoon pays the price.
@FritoBandito69333
9 ай бұрын
It’s probably a combination of hygiene and uniformity
@susanfigueroa872
Жыл бұрын
My husband joined out of high school in 1969. He was only seventeen, turning eighteen after boot camp. He said depending on the D.I. {drill instructor} and whoever became a target, for one reason or another, life could be miserable. A boot {newbie} was broken down so they could be rebuilt into a killing machine working cohesively. War is hell so you might as well be as prepared as possible. But of course things didn't always go as planned. My hubby would never watch any of the movies about the Vietnam War but at 72 he has watched a few and is usually teary eyed and quiet.
@michaelsuk6440
Жыл бұрын
The jelly donut scene in is very factual. If a drill, sergeant sees a runt, they will start punishing the rest of the group to motivate that person. This is true today. It was also true in my high school swim team for anybody that was late to practice. The goal is for the group to be calm one unit. Marine training during Vietnam was very unethical, but it’s not that way today.
@w7999
10 ай бұрын
What purpose is it to cut the dialogue without screwing the movie
@terrenceplunkett
3 ай бұрын
I was in the U S navy. But I haven’t researched as to why the heads are shaved at bootcamp. But I would bet that one reason is because of head lice
@bafumat
Жыл бұрын
Weeding out cowards who will endanger others through their inaction is the primary job of drill instructors. It's a tough job. The scene where they were discussing Jokers peace button you mentioned how the generals thinking was more stupid and Jokers was more thought out. Which is true in the safety of the classroom, out of the context of war. In a war, stopping to think and over complicate situations can get you and your fellows killed. It has to do with the way your brain makes decisions and how many options you have. Some refer to this as the OODA loop. Often in emergencies, the decisions you make are of little consequence. How fast you act, regardless of what you do, will decide the outcome. Even if sub optimal. Humanizing an enemy will also get you killed. It doesn't matter what happened to the girl at the end. The enemy is trying to kill you. If you stop to worry about their past and motivations, they will succeed.
@erikbentley9005
Жыл бұрын
You’re missing the point. The point of the movie is that this sort of training is horribly ineffective. Did America win Vietnam war? And in the context of the film, did any of this brutal training matter in the final confrontation when everything devolved?
@bafumat
Жыл бұрын
@@erikbentley9005 you sir are missing the point that this is a film. A fictional one at that. From the mind of a man who was never in a war or training of any sort. His opinion on the matter is entirely one sided and lacks perspective. Training matters. We didn't lose Vietnam because of the training. We lost it because we allowed politicians to run it based on poll numbers for their next election cycles. Had we unleashed our soldiers and general to do their horrible jobs we trained them to do. It would have gone quite different. Ask the Japanese and the Germans.
@erikbentley9005
Жыл бұрын
@@bafumat it’s based off of a novel that was written by a “grunt”. Remove the rose colored glasses for a second and you’ll see that Vietnam was a complete and utter failure from a moral and diplomatic standpoint. You don’t need to have been there to understand that.
@bafumat
Жыл бұрын
@@erikbentley9005 a diplomatic war? That sir was the issue. War should be anything but diplomatic. War is what happens when diplomacy fails. And yes, a grunt who didn't like being treated badly is your defence? Clue. You aren't supposed to like it. That's the point.
@erikbentley9005
Жыл бұрын
@@bafumat any war has political motivations, so by definition it is always going to be diplomatic. And you’re missing the point of my argument. Of course nobody is going to like being treated this way, the argument of my comment and the point of the film is that it was completely ineffective.
@billyb9482
Жыл бұрын
It's how you make soldiers. Training needs to be tough. When I was in the army they didn't beat you. I may have at one time. They do talk down to you until you get with the program
@johnritter6864
Жыл бұрын
Awesome film
@michaelwoods9005
11 ай бұрын
When I was in Army basic training i used to smuggle apples out of the chow hall in my cargo pocket and hide them in my wall locker for later, but I was skinny and always hungry. I never got caught. I was eventually allowed extra rations, as were the other "skinnies" in the platoon, lol.
@jameskocks4734
Жыл бұрын
i saw this on LSD when i was about your age. that was really intense.
@peterwilkins7013
Жыл бұрын
The Vietnam scenes were all filmed in the middle of London in the Docklands area when it was a run down industrial area. They imported the vehicles, trees etc.
@theplace6116
5 ай бұрын
0:46 I think hygiene and stuff to do with Lice
@RedBadgeUSMC
Жыл бұрын
Shaving the head is a way to put everyone on the same level - no one is better than the other.
@atexandude8303
10 ай бұрын
I feel like the head shaving is necessary for the sake of “looking the same” it drops everyone down to the same place. When I did it, I made up every internal excuse why I shouldn’t be there haha, even untied my shoes so that I could “tie my shoes” further back in the line lol, but the clippers always win. Good times.
@mrswhite3513
Жыл бұрын
Mydad was a sergeant in the Army in viet nam war….and yes …this is how they were. They still yell ,but not the racial comments. They were brutal 😬😬
@WorldWide-q8v
Жыл бұрын
Your generation is extremely soft. Not an insult, just a fact.
@thecocoacouch
Жыл бұрын
Hard times create hard men, hard men create easy times, easy times create soft men, soft men create hard times.
@josefhyatt2780
Жыл бұрын
That's the point of Marine Recruit Training.....break you and rebuild you into US Marines.
@dannyropero4216
Жыл бұрын
Great reaction!! I always saw this movie as a commentary on a proberb that says " the first casualty of war...is innocence." During war (especially during the Vietnam War) there is a complete lapse of any morals, ethics, and morality along with dehumanization of people. I believe that's what Kubrick was exploring with this film, particularly at the end when the soldiers were singing the Micky Mouse nursery, trying to reclaim any type of childlike innocence. Great film!!!!
@Purple_Buffalo
Жыл бұрын
The phrase is from another movie... it's from Oliver Stone's film "Platoon".
@Sirala6
Жыл бұрын
'Platoon' a movie from the 1980s about Vietnam has perspective on combat soldiers during the war. May help inform you about the circumstances involved.
@kennymonty8206
Жыл бұрын
I was a kid during Viet Nam. My Dad was, um, in a different group. I can still remember living in Okinawa. Just a few memories. Waiting by the door everyday for my Dad to turn up. Rows and rows of helicopters and planes. First time I ever got lost, stuff like that. I can tell you that nobody came home from this normal. It took my Dad 30 years just to get enough of it worked out that he could more or less reintegrate. After what I saw, I think we should avoid this sort of conflict with all our effort.
@matthewlaird5235
10 ай бұрын
That’s boot camp!
@SPQRTejano
Жыл бұрын
How can he not grin?? There is nothing happy or joyful about boot camp, other than getting out.
@patrickhardman2568
Жыл бұрын
Movies are to cause trauma. That's what they're all about think about all the movies where there's senseless death and shocking content there's a f*** y** up. Every time you watch a movie a small hat takes a dump on your soul
@2Askew84
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, my brother said they only got so many hours at night to sleep and that was like a few every night and I had to wake up early in the morning just to do it all over again just go to bed late again sleep for a few hours get up again
@312af
Жыл бұрын
It seems so odd, though understandable, seeing folks your age be so shocked by true military training.
@williammatthews693
Жыл бұрын
"Maybe she thinks the U.S. are the bad guys now." That's the thing, in ANY war there are good guys and bad guys on each side. Determining who has the more righteous cause is how history determines who the ultimate bad guys are. In my opinion, the rich and politically powerful are ALWAYS the bad guys because they send the poor out to do their fighting for them, no matter what the war.
@rojoloco3911
Жыл бұрын
Private Pio starts to do better under jokers tutelage, because John structure gunnery Sergeant Hartman has given him that duty. The drill instructor has 50+ recruits to train so for the hard cases… The help of some more squared away recruits. Private Pio isn’t trying to please anyone he just needed a lot of help and in my opinion should’ve been rotated out of Boot Camp. I think anyone who needs that much help should not make it.
@chipsdad5861
Жыл бұрын
Kelly's Heros is a light war movie. Very entertaining.
@RottedPopcornandHorror1966
Жыл бұрын
That small child was a killer. In war, it's killed or be killed, that's it. It's not pretty, but that's the way it is. There was good and bad from both sides. I've said this once and will say it again. War makes monsters out of men". And sometimes they take the children with them..Thank you for your reaction. I love this channel and I can't wait to see it grow. Take care..Xx
@luckyducky5994
Жыл бұрын
I mean, the kid didn’t take pleasure in killing to be fair, and Vietnam was pretty fucked up and over all not a war that needed to happen
@RottedPopcornandHorror1966
Жыл бұрын
@@luckyducky5994 She didn't take pleasure in it? You sure you watched the same movie? And I was around when the war was still going on. And I with all due resect you need to read what I posted again. Thank you for your feedback I appreciate it. Take care and have a great weekend..xx
@dasfrundselt
Жыл бұрын
Platoon, Bat 21, Apocalypse now, the flight of the intruder! all great 70/80s American, Vietnam war movies!
@azrob75
Жыл бұрын
Definitely a tough movie to watch. I’d love to see you react to movies like Zodiac and Zero Dark Thirty if you haven’t seen them before.
@thecocoacouch
Жыл бұрын
Writing them down!
@JohnBham
Жыл бұрын
1) Almost all militaries shave the heads of new recruits, at least to a degree. In the psychological sense it imparts a 'new beginning', a shedding of the old person and birth of the new. In practical terms, less hair means less hair maintenance and avoiding potential bug problems. 2) I went through Boot Camp at Parris Island in the summer of 1981- a decade and a half after the setting of FMJ- but as some of my Drill Instructors were Vietnam veterans I saw some of Gunny Hartman in them as time passed. 3) During the time frame of the film, Marine Corps Basic Training was cut down to 8 weeks due to combat requirements; a decade or so later, after Vietnam, it was increased to 12 weeks. The regimen has changed but the intensity has not. 4) Mass punishment for individual offenses is still used and is quite brutally effective. Peer pressure to conform and succeed is real. 5) A simple obstacle course can be the most horrible instrument of torture in right hands. 6) Health inspection was, in my day, still done while standing on a foot locker. The purpose is for the Drill Instructor to verify the recruit is taking care of his feet and nails, and his hygiene is being attended to. 7) I have no knowledge of any 'blanket party' being held on any recruit in my platoon during Boot Camp, nor would I be disposed to speak of such an an activity if it did indeed take place. // Sorry, I was getting carried away with commentary! HOWEVER, FUN FACT: The director, Stanley Kubrick, is well known for having a dislike of flying and as a result almost the entire film was shot in England, with all those elaborate and HUGE outdoor sets being built for the purpose. // As I am not a Vietnam vet, I will not comment on 'what it was like' for my brother Marines who fought years before I was on the scene. I'll leave it to them to comment on the accuracy of the combat portion of the film. With that, Bob's your uncle D
@thecocoacouch
Жыл бұрын
Wow thanks for all of that 👍 yeah I can see why some of the stuff seen in the film (tactics) were and are important still. I think the mistake was only that at that time they set the bar low for who they let in mentally and psychologically. Would be interesting to try something like that.
@jeremiahrose4681
Жыл бұрын
Interesting Joker wants to do real news...but the establishment wants something else, sounds familiar in America today.
@karimhicks8376
Жыл бұрын
The only BILLY BAD ASS, was our RED ROPER, A 5 FOOT 5 Phillipine Naval Drill Instructor, who also had the INNATE ability to turn an Athiest into a praying S O B!!!
@giantidiot31
Жыл бұрын
One huge part that isn't really talked about as well is that this was the Vietnam war. A lot of the guys who fought in it were drafted. So understandably, a lot of them didn't want to be there at all You get your hair shaved for 2 main reasons when you join up. The first is uniformity. You don't really want individuality at that stage of training, so having everyone "look the same" by shaving their heads lets everyone know you've just started. The second and more important reason is health/hygiene. You have so many people from so many walks of life that you don't know who might have lice or something else going on, so it's easier in the short and long term to just buzz it
@Nanashicae
Жыл бұрын
Horrah boy you about to get it. Rawwww
@Nanashicae
Жыл бұрын
Also as a brother of a Marine who survived the First Desert Storm, the Drill Sargent is still his hero.
@allenlloyd2662
Жыл бұрын
stanly cuberic wouldn't fly . this movie is all shot in south east england even the vietnam bits
@2scoops_Arturo
Жыл бұрын
Alot of testosterone here! Not simps or betas 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
@GooGooMuck72
11 ай бұрын
Great reaction!
@slchance8839
Жыл бұрын
1.)"Joker's War Face" - it seemed that Joker found his "War face" when he had to kill the suffering little sniper girl. Sargent: "You dont scare me. Work on it." That whole scene scared me - not just his face. 2.)I read somewhere that Laurence (Gomer Pyle) and "Animal Mother" (guy at the end with big machine) were both sides of the SAME coin. War breaks you to death, like it did Pyle, or kills so you''re dead INSIDE, like it did Animal Mother.
@MajinErick
Жыл бұрын
10:27 Each one had at least three to four hits with the bar of soap.
@xwhogafx815
Жыл бұрын
M.I.C.K.E.Y!, MOUSE!.....
@josefhyatt2780
Жыл бұрын
Shaving the head is purely hygienic.
@zorro456
Жыл бұрын
You must understand Basic Training. You must be Tested To make sure you do not freak out getting shot at. Or in a POW Camp.
@axx6435
Жыл бұрын
The boot camp scenes are more realistic than I care to remember.
@tomloft2000
Жыл бұрын
Private Pyle would likely not been accepted into the Marines.He might have wound up in the Army.Animal mother is the poster child for recruiters. He's the type you would like to have....and not like to have(as you saw later).
@christopherkinet7706
8 ай бұрын
How dare you fucking censure such a classic ?
@duckthuglife
Жыл бұрын
I did just see a short about Full Metal Jacket, well the exact same clip you used for the intro.
@thecocoacouch
Жыл бұрын
Oh haha. Well Id understand if it was a famous moment.
@chipsdad5861
Жыл бұрын
This link will help explain the character of Lawrence. It is actually more tragic than you would guess. McNamara's Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War kzitem.info/news/bejne/wIBovKt8fYhlYJw
@williamjones6031
Жыл бұрын
1. There are 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. In the US Navy real live ammo was always accounted for, and Pyle wouldn't have had it on his person in the head. 6. The lights in the head are always lit. (lighting I suspect). 7. "Blanket parties" were a real deal. We didn't have one because we didn't have a Gomer Pyle. 8. The hooker in Saigon is just distracting them so the motorcycle guys can steal the camera. I saw that happen in the Philippines. 9. "I wouldn't shit you, you're my favorite turd" I've used that before. 10. Even by Hollywood standards, Kubrick went overboard with excessive bloodletting.
@kenyattaclay7666
Жыл бұрын
No, your number 1, that’s not really true. Our sister company only had one CC. Also, this was the late 60’s. I’ve had more than one marine tell me that went to Paris island a few years after the movie took place they were slapped & while was a bit exaggerated they confirmed that they did see Drills hit recruits. I’ll also point out that when I went to basic in the early 90’s they had just started really coming down hard in Drills & CCs for hitting recruits but we were threatened with “accidents” that could happen if the MA was called.
@williamjones6031
Жыл бұрын
@@kenyattaclay7666 I was a squid and find it hard to believe they assigned only one CC to his company.
@kenyattaclay7666
Жыл бұрын
@@williamjones6031 it doesn’t matter what you find hard to believe or not, it happened. In fact, they weren’t the only company in our graduating class that only had one. Also, while we had two in my company, the previous company that our main CC had he was the only one because our other CC we were his first company.
@kenyattaclay7666
Жыл бұрын
@@williamjones6031 also, after I left the Navy I joined the Army & had to go to basic again & out of the four platoons in the company two only had one drill sergeant.
@williamjones6031
Жыл бұрын
@@kenyattaclay7666 I only made Chief/E-7 and wasn't a policy guy but that would be considered a failure to submit resources, and wouldn't fly in the US Navy.
@frankartieta4887
Жыл бұрын
I did not like some of this movie The marines did not want crazed lunatic killers The Marines wanted Marines Marines are made A Marine must function in combat A Marine is trained to handle the stress of combat and be as unaffected as possible A giggling soy boy would not function in the harsh realities of combat If DI`s and the training are not politically correct or offending to your own personal beliefs So be it ! What it is and what it has to be ! The reality is There are very few if any soldiers who after being in combat That are not affected For Marines I have RESPECT
@markantinozzi8657
Жыл бұрын
I think the reason for that short haircuts is so the enemy doesn't grab you by your hair and slit your throat which that's what I heard
@americanfreedomlogistics9984
Жыл бұрын
the suicide scene was filmed in a dimly lit room with white walls, white toilets and white t-shirts. just a very color sterile environment that keeps you from being distracted from the fact that Pyle has a loaded rifle
@johndcornell6341
Жыл бұрын
Good realistic war movies are anti war movies and are hard to watch...anything else is phoney.......and the little girl at the end killed 3 19 or 20 year olds the MEN you referred to were barely older than her
@campagnollo
Жыл бұрын
R. Lee Ermey actually hit Vincent D’Onofrio during the left/right confusion scene, but only because D’Onofrio insisted. When they were filming the Virgin Mary scene prior to left/right, Kubrick was unimpressed with the acting slaps; it’s pretty obvious. That’s how D’Onofrio approached Ermey to hit him for real.
@karimhicks8376
Жыл бұрын
R. LEE ERMY, WAS ONE OF THE ONLY INDIIDUALS THAT Mr. Kubrick didn't harass.
@williebeauford8677
Жыл бұрын
The Roman's invented the hair cut, because they realized in battle a enemy could snatch you by the hair and cut your head off.
@2Askew84
Жыл бұрын
The head shaving thing could actually have to do with delousing maybe or because to have hair is a privilege not a right military hazing possibly I could ask my brother
@bigsarge8795
Жыл бұрын
. When Joker and Animal Mother are in the court yard insulting each other its just one upmanship. I was in the service for 22 years and thats how a lot of us talk sometimes.
@icmman7
Жыл бұрын
you definitely need to stay far away from an enlistment center ;)
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