Full Metal Jacket Page #4

Synopsis: Stanley Kubrick's take on the Vietnam War follows smart-aleck Private Davis (Matthew Modine), quickly christened "Joker" by his foul-mouthed drill sergeant (R. Lee Ermey), and pudgy Private Lawrence (Vincent D'Onofrio), nicknamed "Gomer Pyle," as they endure the rigors of basic training. Though Pyle takes a frightening detour, Joker graduates to the Marine Corps and is sent to Vietnam as a journalist, covering -- and eventually participating in -- the bloody Battle of Hué.
Genre: Action, Biography
Original Story by: Steven Spielburg
Production: Warner Bros.
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 11 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.3
Metacritic:
76
Rotten Tomatoes:
93%
R
Year:
2022
116 min
871,707 Views


he's got guts, and guts is enough. Now, you

ladies carry on.

JOKER, COWBOY & PYLE

(in

unison)

Sir, aye-aye, sir!

20 EXT. TRAINING FIELD--DAY

JOKER:

patiently explains the disassembly of an

M-14 rifle to PYLE.

JOKER:

The bolt. The bolt goes in the receiver.

Operating rod

handle. Operating rod guide.

21 INT. BARRACKS--NIGHT

JOKER and PYLE

sitting on their footlockers. JOKER

instructs PYLE in the correct

method of lacing his

combat boots.

JOKER:

And the left

one ... over the right. Right one

over the left. Left one over the

right. Right

one over the left.

22 EXT. CONFIDENCE CLIMB--DAY

On. top of the confidence climb, JOKER gently talks

PYLE over the top.

JOKER:

Just throw your other leg over ... that'a boy.

That's it.

Now just pull the next one over .. .

and you're home free. Ready?

Just throw it

over. That'a boy. Just set it down. All right?

PYLE:

breathes heavily. He is scared but he manages

to get over.

JOKER:

There you go. Congratulations, Leonard. You

did it.

INT. BARRACKS--NIGHT

JOKER instructs PYLE in the correct way of making

his bed.

JOKER:

You fold the blanket and the sheet back

together. Make a four-inch fold. Okay?

Got it? You do it.

PYLE:

looks down. uncertainly at the bed.

24 EXT. PARADE DECK--DAY

JOKER:

works with PYLE on the Manual of Arms.

25 EXT. OBSTACLE COURSE--DAY

COWBOY, JOKER and PYLE run up a ramp, grab the

ropes and swing across a

ditch. PYLE makes it

without trouble.

26 EXT. PARADE DECK--DAY

HARTMAN is drilling the squad, calling the cadence

and watching PYLE

who makes no mistakes.

DISSOLVE TO:

27 EXT. RIFLE RANGE--DAY

Targets are raised and lowered, red markers

indicating hits. HARTMAN

addresses the recruits.

HARTMAN:

The deadliest weapon in

the world is a marine

and his rifle. It is your killer instinct

which must be harnessed if you expect to survive

in combat. Your

rifle is only a tool. It is

a hard heart that kills. If your killer

instincts

are not clean and strong you will hesitate at

the

moment of truth. You will not kill. You

will become dead marines.

And then you will

be in a world of sh*t. Because marines are not

allowed to die without permission! Do you

maggots understand?

RECRUITS:

Sir, yes, sir!

28 EXT. PARRIS ISLAND STREET--DAY

The

recruits are double-timing to HARTMAN's

cadences.

HARTMAN:

(chanting in cadence)

I love working for Uncle Sam!

RECRUITS:

(chanting in cadence)

I love working for Uncle

Sam!

HARTMAN:

Lets me know just who I am!

RECRUITS:

Lets me know just who I am!

HARTMAN:

One,

two, three, four! United States Marine

Corps!

RECRUITS:

One, two, three, four! United States Marine

Corps!

HARTMAN:

One, two, three, four! I love the Marine Corps!

RECRUITS:

One, two, three, four! I love the Marine Corps.

HARTMAN:

My Corps!

RECRUITS:

My Corps!

HARTMAN:

Your Corps!

RECRUITS:

Your Corps!

HARTMAN:

Our Corps!

RECRUITS:

Our Corps!

HARTMAN:

Marine Corps!

RECRUITS:

Marine Corps!

HARTMAN:

I don't know, but I've been told.

RECRUITS:

I don't know, but I've been told.

HARTMAN:

Eskimo p*ssy

is mighty cold!

RECRUITS:

Eskimo p*ssy is mighty cold!

HARTMAN:

Mmm, good!

RECRUITS:

Mmm, good!

HARTMAN:

Feels good!

RECRUITS:

Feels good!

HARTMAN:

Is good!

RECRUITS:

Is good!

HARTMAN:

Real good!

RECRUITS:

Real good!

HARTMAN:

Tastes good!

RECRUITS:

Tastes good!

HARTMAN:

Mighty good!

RECRUITS:

Mighty good!

HARTMAN:

Good for you!

RECRUITS:

Good for you!

HARTMAN:

Good for me!

RECRUITS:

Good for me!

29

INT. BARRACKS--NIGHT

The recruits in their skivvies stand at attention

in

two facing rows on top of their footlockers, arms

outstretched,

hands held rigidly in front of them,

palms down, for inspection.

HARTMAN moves along the row of men. He smacks

a recruit's hand.

HARTMAN:

Trim 'em.

HARTMAN points at the feet of another recruit.

HARTMAN:

Toejam!

To another recruit.

HARTMAN:

Pop that blister!

HARTMAN stops in front of PYLE and notices his foot

locker is unlocked. He picks up the lock and holds it

up to PYLE.

HARTMAN:

Jesus H. Christ! Private Pyle, why is your

footlocker

unlocked?

PYLE:

Sir, I don't know, sir!

HARTMAN:

Private Pyle, if there is one thing in this

world that

I hate, it is an unlocked footlocker!

You know that, don't you?

PYLE:

Sir, yes, sir!

HARTMAN:

If it wasn't for

d*ckheads like you, there

wouldn't be any thievery in this world,

would

there?

PYLE:

Sir, no, sir!

HARTMAN:

Get down!

PYLE steps down, from the footlocker. HARTMAN

flips

open the lid with a bang and begins rummaging

through the box.

HARTMAN:

Well, now .. . let's just see if there's anything

missing!

HARTMAN freezes. He reaches down and slowly picks

up a

jelly doughnut, holding it in disgust at arm's

length with his

fingertips.

HARTMAN:

Holy Jesus! What is that? What is

that,

Private Pyle?!

PYLE:

Sir, a jelly doughnut,

sir!

HARTMAN:

A jelly doughnut?!

PYLE:

Sir, yes, sir!

HARTMAN:

How did it get here?

PYLE:

Sir, I took it from the mess hall, sir!

HARTMAN:

Is chow allowed in the barracks, Private Pyle?

PYLE:

Sir, no, sir!

HARTMAN:

Are you allowed to eat jelly

doughnuts,

Private Pyle?

PYLE:

Sir, no, sir!

HARTMAN:

And why not, Private Pyle?

PYLE:

Sir,

because I'm too heavy, sir!

HARTMAN:

Because you are a

disgusting fatbody, Private

Pyle!

PYLE:

Sir, yes,

sir!

HARTMAN:

Then why did you hide a jelly doughnut in

your footlocker, Private Pyle?

PYLE:

Sir, because I was

hungry, sir!

HARTMAN:

Because you were hungry?

Holding out the jelly doughnut, HARTMAN walks

down the row of recruits

still standing with their

arms outstretched.

HARTMAN:

Private Pyle has dishonored himself and

dishonored the platoon! I

have tried to help

him, but I have failed! I have failed because

you have not helped me! You people have not

given Private Pyle the

proper motivation!

So, from now on, whenever Private Pyle

fucks

up, I will not punish him, I will punish

all of you! And the way I

see it, ladies, you

owe me for one jelly doughnut! Now, get on

your faces!

HARTMAN:

(to PYLE)

Open your

mouth!

He shoves the jelly doughnut into PYLE's mouth.

HARTMAN:

They're paying for it, you eat it!

HARTMAN turns to the

recruits.

HARTMAN:

Ready . . . exercise!

The platoon

does push-ups.

RECRUITS:

(chanting in cadence)

One, two, three, four!

I love the Marine Corps!

One, two,

three, four!

I love the Marine Corps!

One, two, three, four!

I love the Marine Corps!

One, two, three, four . . .

While the

platoon does push-ups, PYLE swallows

hard to get down. bites of the

doughnut.

DISSOLVE TO:

30 INT. BARRACKS--DAWN

JOKER checks PYLE's

Uniform.

JOKER:

(quietly)

You really look

like sh*t today, Leonard.

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Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was born in Manhattan, New York City, to Sadie Gertrude (Perveler) and Jacob Leonard Kubrick, a physician. His family were Jewish immigrants (from Austria, Romania, and Russia). Stanley was considered intelligent, despite poor grades at school. Hoping that a change of scenery would produce better academic performance, Kubrick's father sent him in 1940 to Pasadena, California, to stay with his uncle, Martin Perveler. Returning to the Bronx in 1941 for his last year of grammar school, there seemed to be little change in his attitude or his results. Hoping to find something to interest his son, Jack introduced Stanley to chess, with the desired result. Kubrick took to the game passionately, and quickly became a skilled player. Chess would become an important device for Kubrick in later years, often as a tool for dealing with recalcitrant actors, but also as an artistic motif in his films. more…

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