dvsgp6;2200051; said:
no other bass's..have ton's of pinimas and orino's and monos galore to go in with him when they grow....
KING KONG ORINOCENSIS
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no other bass's..have ton's of pinimas and orino's and monos galore to go in with him when they grow....
Full Metal Jacket "Let me see your warface private Joker". Nice Orino. Bet you named him Lil Scrappy!
High City Rida;2202759; said:Full Metal Jacket "Let me see your warface private Joker". Nice Orino. Bet you named him Lil Scrappy!
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
sabotage;2202773; said:
Ahhhhhhh Classic. I was raised on this movie! When I was youngin we watched at least four times a week and at least twice on the weekends!
Any who thats what your O reminds me of.
High City Rida;2202801; said:
i got it on dvd..One of the best Movies IMO ever......
read this little tidbit
* Anthony Michael Hall was originally set to play Pvt. Joker, but was fired for objecting to Stanley Kubrick's perfectionist style of directing. He was replaced by Matthew Modine.
* Former US Marine Corps Drill Instructor R. Lee Ermey was not originally hired to play Gunnery Sgt. Hartman but as a consultant for the Marine Corps boot camp portion of the film. He performed a demonstration on videotape in which he yelled obscene insults and abuse for 15 minutes without stopping, repeating himself or even flinching - despite being continuously pelted with tennis balls and oranges. Stanley Kubrick was so impressed that he cast Ermey as Gunnery Sgt. Hartmann.
* Hartman is never seen without his hat.
* Stanley Kubrick hired Tim Colceri to play the Drill Instructor Gunnery Sgt. Hartman after discarding his original idea of casting 'Bill McKinney' in the role. Colceri never got to play the role, as Kubrick decided to use former D.I. R. Lee Ermey, who had been hired as a technical adviser, instead. Colceri was bitter but accepted Kubrick's consolation prize of a small role as a helicopter doorgunner.
* According to director John Boorman, Stanley Kubrick wanted to cast 'Bill McKinney' in the role of Gunnery Sgt. Hartman. However, Kubrick was so unsettled after viewing McKinney's performance in Deliverance (1972) that he declined to meet with him, saying he was simply too frightened at the idea of being in McKinney's presence.
* Stanley Kubrick was well known for having a very small crew on set. On one occasion, after the electrician finished lighting a set, Kubrick told him, "Okay, this is how I want the scene lit and I'm not going to change it." Kubrick then sent the man to fix some wiring in his house.
* 'Vincent D'Onofrio (I)' gained 70 pounds for his role as Pvt. Pyle, breaking Robert De Niro's movie weight-gain record (60 pounds) for Raging Bull (1980). It took him 7 months to put the weight on and 9 months to take it off with physical training.
* Michael Herr, a very close friend of Stanley Kubrick, helped write much of the screenplay, particularly the part set in Vietnam. His contributions to the script are based largely on his own experiences as a reporter covering the war. Like Joker and Rafterman he was essentially freelance and allowed to travel anywhere in the country. Additionally, the scene where Joker and Rafterman watch the crazed gunner in the chopper machine-gun civilians is taken directly from "Dispatches", Herr's memoir of his experiences.
* R. Lee Ermey was involved in a jeep accident during the making of the movie. At 1:00 a.m. one night he skidded off the road, breaking all the ribs on his left side. He refused to pass out, and kept flashing his car lights until a motorist stopped. In some scenes you'll notice that he does not move his left arm at all.
* Stanley Kubrick's frequent cinematographer John Alcott was approached to shoot the movie but turned it down, instead focusing on US-based projects, and Alcott's focus puller Douglas Milsome took over his duties. Filming took about six months and was shut down for 20 weeks from June 1985 to September 1986. Alcott died of a heart attack at end of July 1986.
* Some scenes of the ruined city of Hue were shot at a dockyard on the Isle of Dogs, London, that was scheduled for demolition. The ruins of Hue in the sniper and final nighttime scenes were shot at the Beckton Gasworks in London's East End, which was also slated for demolition. In some shots there is a rock in the background that looks very much like the monolith from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Kubrick said it wasn't intentional, but only noticed while watching the rushes. Beckton Gas Works was used a year before for the movie_Biggles(1986)_'.
* Mickey Mouse is referred to at the end of both segments: when Hartmann enters the head to confront Joker and Pyle, he cries "What is this Mickey Mouse ****?" ("Mickey Mouse" was GI slang for something - or someone - that was petty, stupid and senseless); and Joker and company sing the theme from the Mickey Mouse Club as they march through the burning city. A third Mickey Mouse reference is in the press room: a Mickey Mouse figure can be seen near the window behind Pvt. Joker.
* Most actors auditioned for their roles by submitting videotapes of themselves performing a scene in Vietnam. Stanley Kubrick and the studio placed ads throughout the US for young aspiring actors to send in audition tapes for the film.
* R. Lee Ermey personally supervised the recreation of the Parris Island set.
* Much, if not all, of R. Lee Ermey's dialogue during the Parris Island sequence was improvised. While filming the opening scene, where he disciplines Pvt. Cowboy, he says Cowboy is the type of guy who would have sex with another guy "and not even have the goddamned common courtesy to give him a reach-around". Stanley Kubrick immediately yelled cut and went over to Ermey' and asked, "What the hell is a reach-around?" Ermey politely explained what it meant. Kubrick laughed and re-shot the scene, telling Ermey to keep the line.
* The videotape demonstration was not the only factor which got R. Lee Ermey the role as the drill instructor. Ermey went to Stanley Kubrick and asked for the part, as the actors on the set were, in his opinion, not up to snuff. When Kubrick declined, Ermey barked an order for Kubrick to stand up when he was spoken to, and the director instinctively obeyed. That sealed the matter, and Ermey won the part as Gunnery Sgt. Hartmann.
* To create a realistic effect during Vietnam battle scenes, DP Douglas Milsome experimented with a camera with a shutter thrown off sync. This effect was reused in another war movie, Saving Private Ryan (1998).
* R. Lee Ermey hardly blinks at all in any scene.
* The inscription "I Am Become Death" is written on Animal Mother's helmet. This is a quotation from the Bhagavad-Gita, spoken by J. Robert Oppenheimer after the explosion of the first atomic bomb at Alamogordo.
* Toward the end of the movie, when "Cowboy" uses the radio to request tank support, the voice of Murphy, to whom he is speaking, is probably none other than Stanley Kubrick.
* Stanley Kubrick's daughter Vivian Kubrick makes a cameo appearance during a scene in Vietnam where Joker and Rafterman encounter a mass open grave. She can be seen wielding a motion picture camera, shooting into the open grave for a few moments.
* Director Trademark: [Stanley Kubrick] [faces] Private Pyle during the scene when all Marines are being pumped up to kill, and when he is in the head.
* Gustav Hasford began working on "The Short Timers" (the book on which this film is based) while serving in Vietnam, and based many of the characters (and names) on soldiers he served with.
* Mike Allred tried out for the lead role in this film, but was turned down.
* The entire film was shot in England (Pinewood studios and military barracks). Footage of an actual graduation ceremony at Parris Island was used in the film, with an insert from England added to it.
* When telling the recruits about Christmas services, Sgt Hartmann calls the clergyman "Chaplain Charlie". In Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971) Alex refers to the prison chaplain as the "prison Charlie". "Charlie" is cockney rhyming slang for "chaplain" or "priest".
* In several of the Vietnam scenes a Red Ryder B.B. gun can be seen in the squad leaders pack, and in the scene where "Vietnam: The Movie" is being filmed he is holding it in his hand as the camera crew goes by.
* Except for the title cards "A Stanley Kubrick Film" and "Full Metal Jacket", there are no opening credits.
* The siren heard at the Da Nang base during the Tet Offensive is the same as heard at Burpelson AFB in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).
* Director Trademark: [Stanley Kubrick] [zoom] The opening shot of the scene by the open mass grave
* The only shot that actually shows Parris Island is when the platoon graduates and another shot of video is imported into the movie showing the graduation location on Parris Island by First Battalion.
* Advertisements for this film were censored in some parts of Canada due to the tagline "In Vietnam the wind doesn't blow, it sucks." At that time, Canadian censors had not yet decided whether the phrase "it sucks" (or "this sucks") was obscene.
* To make Gunnery Sgt. Hartmann's performance and the recruits' reactions as convincing as possible, Matthew Modine, 'Vincent D'Onofrio (I)', and the other actors playing recruits never met R. Lee Ermey prior to filming. Stanley Kubrick also saw to it that Ermey didn't fraternize with the actors between takes.
* According to his shirt on Parris Island, Pvt. Joker's real name is J.T. Davis.
* The "Abigail Mead" who did the music was actually Vivian Kubrick. According to her, the name was based on Abbott's Mead, the mansion where the Kubricks lived from 1965 to 1979. It was located near to MGM's Borehamwood studio.
* The term "full metal jacket" refers to the type of small arms ammunition used in warfare, as heard in Private Pyle's famous line spoken on the toilet, "7.62 millimeter, full... metal... jacket." Full metal jacket ammunition has a copper coating covering the lead core of its projectile.
* One of the scenes cut from the movie was a scene that showed a group of soldiers playing soccer. The scene was cut because a shot revealed they were not using a soccer ball, but a human head.
* Another cut scene involved a sex scene between Pvt. Joker and the Vietnamese prostitute. According to the actress, Stanley Kubrick cut the scene because it detracted from the cold mood of the film.
* In the first part of the movie, in the sequences inside the barracks during the drill, a special lens was designed to keep every single soldier in focus. Stanley Kubrick intended that no one was special and they all had the same treatment.
* Kubrick shot a scene in the Norfolk Broads where a Westland "Wessex" helicopter (flown by a stunt pilot) was required to fly low down along a canal (the area doubling for paddy fields) while someone fired a heavy machine gun out of the doors. The scene was shot at dawn and the local police were supposed to have warned fishermen but there was a communications problem. The many fishermen were awoken by a US helicopter apparently machine gunning their "positions". The Wessex itself was subsequently damaged during filming when the tail rotor got pushed into an obstacle while the copter was parked.
* The gasworks town of Beckton (used for the climatic battle in Hue) was also used in the film 1984. For that battle, 200 pine trees were imported from Spain and a few thousand tropical plastic plants were imported from Hong Kong. Incidentally, some of the buildings seen were designed by a French architect who also worked in Hue.
* Tony Spiradikis (Captain January) was deleted from the final print. In the screenplay, Captain January has the longest dialog scene - which was the first scene of the movie to be shot. Rehearsal was done in one week and filming of the scene was shot in 4 weeks. However, during post-production, Stanley Kubrick realized that the off-screen actor performing the scene with Spiradikis was completely out of timing and decided to scrap the scene. All of his scenes were subsequently cut out.
* Dorian Harewood visited a doctor twice while shooting his scenes fearing that his ear-drum was blown out.
* In the Sea Tiger editorial scene, an American flag was seen at the back of the Quonset hut. This was Gustav Hasford's nod to his fellow combat correspondent Bob Bayer who donated photographs and various items for set decoration of the movie. The flag seen was also his and it contains signatures of all First Marine combat correspondents of 1967-68.
* The exchange between the Da Nang Hooker to Pvt. Joker was sampled in 2 Live Crew's 1989 hit "Me So Horny" on the album ?As Nasty As They Wanna Be?.
* The banner at the wall in the conference room at the Da Nang base reads: "First to go last to know - We will defend to the death your right to be misinformed".
* During the training scenes there is a private with the name "Hunter S" on his back, a reference to journalist 'Hunter S Thompson'.
* Vincent D'Onofrio, Matthew Modine, and Arliss Howard all went on to appear in films by Oliver Stone. Stone's film 'Platoon' won best picture the year 'Full Metal Jacket was released and thus overshadowed the project.
* The 7.62mm full metal jacket round that Pvt. Pyle refers to was the standard infantry round leading up to the Vietnam War. It was used in the M-14 infantry rifle that was designed during WWII and manufactured up until the Vietnam war era. Although the M-14 was used in the Vietnam War the M-16 had replaced it as the standard rifle. The M-16 uses a 5.56mm round.
* Vincent D'Onofrio tore ligaments in his knee on the obstacle course, due to the extra weight he put on.
sabotage;2202808; said:i got it on dvd..One of the best Movies IMO ever......
I read it all and man you never cease to amaze me! And yes i own the dvd also and still watch it from time to time. It is right up there with Scareface in my book as far as True American classics!
sabotage;2203353; said:
Of course
If I had to compare FMJ to a flick it would be Platoon then SPR. But as far as gotta have in the collection I put it up there with Scare Face but def inatly two different movies. I put GoodFelleas with Casino. But I also love HEAT! So FMJ Is just a must have for veiwing pleasure. all a broad spectrum of films but all classics if your a good ol red blooded american.