562 Full Metal Jacket (1987)
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This article is from the Movie Trivia, by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions by others.
562 Full Metal Jacket (1987)
- Drill Instructor played by 'R Lee Ermey' (qv). A former US Marines Drill
Instructor, Ermey was supposed to be a consultant on how to drill USMC
style, but he lobbied director 'Stanley Kubrick' (qv) for the part.
- Ermey was involved in a jeep accident during the making of the movie. At
1am he skidded off the road, breaking all of his ribs on one side. Lee
refused to pass out, and kept flashing his car lights until a motorist
stopped. In some scenes, he does not move one of his arms at all.
- The scenes of the ruined city of Hue were shot on the Isle of Dogs, a
dockyard in London that was scheduled for demolition. In some shots there
is a rock in the background that looks very much like the monolith from
Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)" (qv). Kubrick says it wasn't
intentional, but was noticed while watching the rushes.
- DIRTRADE(Stanley Kubrick): [faces]: Private Pyle during the scene
when all the marines are being pump up to kill, and when he is in the head.
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