I've met and chatted at length with Lee Ermey. Very likeable man, unless you are a recruit at Parris Island. :)
Posted on 10/02/2016 8:24:38 AM PDT by NFHale
Kubrick was a Master at his Trade,
From Clockwork Orange to 2001.
Dr. Strangelove and Eyes Wide Shut.
FMJ is a Favorite.
RE Clockwork Orange:
Haha!!! Many years ago, my FIRST exposure to Clockwork Orange was via MAD Magazine’s parody of it!!! And THAT, rather than the movie itself, stuck in my head!!!
Dr. Strangelove is great... Peter Sellers was perfect in that. Slim Picken’s riding the bomb... you can’t make it up... :^)
Not familiar with Eyes Wide Shut..
I might have been on the ship that took your buddy there. Was he on the USS PELELIU?
Lord of the Flys,,,
Comes to mind.
“Yes, it’s always someone’s buddy or relative that “said that was true” however, there’s just no evidence that it was”
Hey man, I’m conveying 2nd hand accounts from real marines from different situations. My brother in law was in the army and was a contractor in Iraq/afghanistan.
Buddy served in the marines in Somalia.
Uncles served in marines and army in vietnam.
A lot of their stories make the gunner in full metal jacket completely believable. Im sorry if that is too much to take.
Tom Cruz and Nicole Kidman,
Very racy,
Kubricks’ last movie.
“...thought the Parris Island part of the movie was great, even though the real thing was even worse...”
Ermy was the real deal, and according to Ermy himself in the “Making Of”, he said he wanted to inject as much of the real experience as he could. So that would make sense.
“..a little too much Hollywood..”
As for the Vietnam part... It was actually shot IN LONDON... Did NOT know that. Those buildings they were blowing the crap out of were actually being demolished, and they got permission to wreck them.
And since none of those folks (Except Ermy) had been there, that would make sense as well.
Thanks for your response. I appreciate hearing it.
And welcome home to you, Marine.
Read the book when I was in HS. never saw the movie. Was that a Kubrick film too?
I’ll have to check it out, thank you, Badge. I recall when it came out, just never saw it.
Thx ...
OOrah, buddy. :^)
Not saying your wrong, just goes against what I’ve heard from relatives and friends who served.
What do I know, I’m just a squid!
I agree. When I see parts of movies or movies like that, it just disgusts me.
Kubrick,No.
Book and movie at least 40 yrs. Old,
OLD!
I've met and chatted at length with Lee Ermey. Very likeable man, unless you are a recruit at Parris Island. :)
The ropes I had to climb on Parris Island didn't have knots in them.
I never saw a Drill Instructor actually strike anyone (1989), but there was plenty of grabbing, pushing and shoving going on.
Bfl
Actually, it was worse.. or better... depending on your perspective. When I went through in July of 67 a boot didn’t speak to anyone who wasn’t a boot without being spoken to first. You were just a ‘maggot’ until you returned from the rifle range, then you finally got to blouse your boots and un-botton the top button of your utilities.... After I came back from Vietnam I had to go to MCRD on some business... I was a corporal with a reasonable number of ribbons etc... I was standing in the chow line and a couple of (obviously) new recruits who were in that line (only because they were seeing doctors) approached me and said, “He buddy, do you gotta smoke...” I was so stunned by the incongruity I couldn’t think of a reply... But, what had happened to ‘my Marine Corps” in just a little over two years ruined my lunch.
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