Favorite Line 'From Full Metal Jacket'

Posted by: Unstoppable on 31 January 2008

"Sir, Does this mean Ann Margaret is not coming...."
Posted on: 04 February 2008 by Neill Ferguson
"this is my weapon and this is my gun this ones for firing and this ones is for fun"
Posted on: 04 February 2008 by Allan Probin
"I love you long time"
Posted on: 04 February 2008 by John G.
"drop your cocks and put on your socks"
Posted on: 04 February 2008 by ryan_d
"I am....in a world....of shit"

Mainly because it was sampled an used in a superb Ministry song.

Ryan
Posted on: 05 February 2008 by tonym
I always liked the bit where the TV interviewer asked one of the soldiers what he thought about being in Vietnam. his reply was something like -

"Well, you get to travel to interesting places, meet lots of friendly interesting people, and kill them..."
Posted on: 05 February 2008 by Unstoppable
quote:
Originally posted by munch:
Hamburger hill was not as bad as this.


No, HH was boring. 'Full Metal Jacket' is a classic.

bye
Posted on: 06 February 2008 by RoyleBlue
Or...
Sgt. Hartman: "How tall are you, private?"
Cowboy: "Sir, five-foot-nine, sir!"
Sgt. Hartman: "Five-foot-nine, I didn't know they stacked shit that high. You trying to squeeze an inch on me somewhere, huh?"
Cowboy: "Sir, No Sir."
Sgt. Hartman: "Bullshit! It looks to me like the best part of you ran down the crack of your mama's ass and ended up as a brown stain on the mattress. I think you've been cheated. Where the hell you from anyway private?"
Cowboy: "Sir, Texas, Sir."
Sgt. Hartman: "Holy dogshit! Texas! Only steers and queers come from Texas Private Cowboy and you don't look much like a steer so that kinda narrows it down. Do you suck dicks?"
Cowboy: "Sir, No Sir."
Sgt. Hartman: "Are you a Peter Puffer?"
Cowboy: "Sir, No Sir."
Sgt. Hartman: "I bet you're the kind of guy that would f*@k a person in the ass and not even have the god damned common courtesy to give him a reach around. I'll be watching you."
Posted on: 06 February 2008 by Neill Ferguson
unstoppable

is right this is a class film and the best out of platoon,hamburger hill and born on the fourth of july.

there are some truly wonderful lines in it with real grit and drama on the film side

oh and its now out on blue ray might just buy it

neill
Posted on: 08 February 2008 by Richard S
Some things you may (or may not) know about the Gunnery Sgt, courtesy of IMDB;

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.

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.


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.


Regards
Richard S