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Originally posted by jester911
Having attended Marine boot camp myself I can say it is the most accurate portrayal of boot camp I have seen.
The drill instructors even used a lot of the same lines on us.
It is sort of 2 movies in 1. I usually just watch the first half
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Maybe its because the drill instuctor for FMJ actually was a Marine Drill instructor. He is one of the best parts of it.
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You can't get any more into Marine Boot Camp at Parris Island (without signing up) than you do in the first half of FULL METAL JACKET. R. Lee Ermey, who plays Senior Drill Instructor Gunnery Sgt. Hartman, was originally the Technical Advisor for the film. Since he had really been a Marine DI, Stanley Kubrick asked him to give an example of how an SDI would talk to a new platoon of recruits. After some minutes of non-stop invectives without repeating himself, Kubrick was so impressed that he hired Ermey on the spot to play the role on screen. And, the sample dialogue was incorporated into the script.