Posted on 04/16/2018 12:34:41 PM PDT by ethom
I think they were in a “Law and Order: SVU” together.
LOL I wondered those first 4 weeks(the toughest imo) why the heck I hated myself that much!! HAHAHAHA LOVE MY CORPS!!
NO.
Drill instructor.
Is that a swagger stick?
The Taco Bell Dog commercials were dropped due to the jokes that the dog was in the tacos. They were tired of it. I didn’t say that Geico would do many more commercials with him but a couple of more wouldn’t have hurt.
Donofrio killed Ermey in at least one other film, The Salton Sea
If you’re referring to Gustav Hasford, the Marine combat correspondent-turned-novelist, he actually lobbied against casting Ermey as GySgt Hartman. From Hasford’s perspective, Ermey was a REMF, despite the fact he served in Vietnam and pulled a tour as a USMC drill instructor (Ermey’s primary MOS was in aviation maintenance, not infantry). Luckily for all involved, director Stanley Kubrick rejected Hasford’s arguments, and cast Ermey in the role.
BTW, Hasford’s choice to play Hartman was (Ret) Marine Corps Captain Dale Dye, who has served as a technical consultant on dozens of military films and appeared as an actor in a number of productions, including Band of Brothers (he played the airborne regiment commander in Band of Brothers). Dye is a capable actor, but Kubrick realized the importance of the Parris Island sequence to the overall film and knew he’d found acting gold in Lee Ermey.
One factor that worked in Ermey’s favor is that Kubrick and Hasford fought constantly over the production. At one point, Kubrick fought to have Hasford’s name removed from the writing credits, arguing that the novelist’s contributions didn’t warrant inclusion on the screen play credit. And he had a point; Ermey created most of his own dialogue for the Parris Island sequence and the combat scenes were largely written by Kubrick and Michael Herr. In the end, Hasford got a screenplay credit (and Academy Award nomination), but he never worked in Hollywood again, and died at the age of 45 in 1993.
I had read that when Ermey pitched his role to Kubrick, he launched into a 10 minute diatribe where he never paused and never repeated himself. Apparently that sealed the deal.
Very good article that needs to be read at the source. You posted an edited version without noting the edits.
Dale Dye was with Hasford in VN, he’s the character ‘Daddy DA’ in the book.
This reads like it was written by a fourth grader attempting (flailingly) to cram three pages of only half comprehended vocabulary words into a single essay.
The Gunny deserves better.
Once we finished the official tour, we were walking back to the car, and I was vastly and quietly amused while watching what was obviously a brand new mob of ree-cruits stumbling down the street, doing the prison shuffle, with each holding the belt of the body in front of them, while the drill instructor screamed himself hoarse...
My wife asked why the "D.I." was screaming like that, and I told her that "DI" meant "Damned Idiot", and that if they used those initials, they would be doing Bends and Motherf###ers Forever. Behind me, I heard a voice suddenly howling with laughter, and there was a man in cammies unlocking his car...
I've always considered the first half of Full Metal Jacket to be the premier service comedy, thanks to R. Lee. There was very little he said that I hadn't heard, 30 years before and a continent away, from SSgts Foxx, Cooper and Johnson, but he told it to the rest of the world.
I had an AIT instructor, he was a SFC at the time. He was a former Marine. He said he was tired of being called sh*th*ead all the time, even after boot camp. He said the Corps cleaned themselves up and started calling the recruits maggots a few years later.
When I went in at the end of the Carter administration I had a bootlace break on a hump to Edson Range. One of the Drill Instructors of the following platoon picked me up over his head and hurled me off the road into a ditch.
Par for the course back then.
I hope someone can answer this question for me ...
I have a terrible problem laughing when I see drill sergeants in action on TV/in movies. It’s a knee jerk kind of thing. I just find what they say and how they say it hilarious.
Now, I could guarantee you I would have cracked up when I first got to boot camp had I enlisted. It wouldn’t have been a form of disrespect. It would have simply been my brain reacting to the situation. I know I’m not the only one.
What would have happened to people like me? How many push ups would it take to correct that problem :-)?
There was so much more to him than just “Full Metal Jacket”.
If you notice in the movie, Gunny Hartman is savage but there's a reason for everything he does...Ermey noted that when they hit a recruit, it was because they didn't have time to make them drop and do 50 pushups, as Marine Corps boot camp was cut from 13 weeks to 6, to get more troops into Vietnam.
When I was in last week of Army boot camp, our Drill Sergeant asked us what we thought Boot Camp was going to be like...to a man, we all said, "Full Metal Jacket, Sergeant!"
(it wasn't, not by a long shot).
Yeah, being at the wash racks at sunset, looking at all those houses on the hill, wondering what it was like........
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