[ThunderSleeps]

A buddy of mine said the boot camp parts of Apocalypse Now we’re pretty much spot on to his time.

[dainbramaged]

I don’t recall a boot camp scene in Apocalypse Now - you might be thinking of Full Metal Jacket with Sgt. Ermey as the drill instructor.

[EEGator]

Full Metal Jacket?

[rbg81]

A buddy of mine said the boot camp parts of Apocalypse Now we’re pretty much spot on to his time.

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Do you mean “Full Metal Jacket”? Don’t know of any bootcamp scenes in “Apocalypse Now”.

[Celtic Conservative]

It didn’t hurt that R. Lee Ermey was a DI in that time period and the director let Ermey ad-lib his lines to make them sound realistic.

CC

[notdownwidems]

I think you mean ‘Full Metal Jacket’

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#22 A friend of mine, a former Marine and VN POW was an advisor to Coppola on Apocalypse Now. He quit after several weeks because Coppola wanted to put in things that were both physically and geographically impossible for the setting, among other problems.

Also, he was the originator of the idea for “Dumbo Drop” which is not what really happened. His idea was stolen and turned into a semi-fictional film (lightweight and almost harmless compared to other VN films).

[BwanaNdege]

Full Metal Jacket boot camp scene was dead accurate.

[cuban leaf]

Full metal jacket seemed pretty accurate, but maybe it just seemed realistic...

[PhiloBedo]

???? “ I was waiting for a mission, and they brought me one on a silver platter. What I didn’t know was after this mission, I’d never want another”.

[Figment]

“Apocalypse Now”

I think you might mean Full Metal Jacket

[Mathews]

You mean Full Metal Jacket, right?