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#11
12-04-2004, 01:33 PM
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Re: Favorite Line from Full Metal Jacket
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This probably doesn't even count as a line, but one of my favorite scenes is when Matthew Modine and some other guy get a camera stolen, and the thief does a bunch of martial arts moves before he hops on the getaway motorcycle. Then Modine screams and jumps up and down doing his own idiotic "martial arts" moves. [/ QUOTE ] You were right. It doesn't count as a line. 
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12-04-2004, 02:27 PM
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Re: Favorite Line from Full Metal Jacket
Never seen it.
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12-04-2004, 03:03 PM
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Re: Favorite Line from Full Metal Jacket
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The first 50 minutes of this movie may be the funniest in film history. R. Lee Ermey was hillarious as Gunnery Sgt. Hartman. Some of the best lines were: "You seem like the type of guy that would f*** a guy in the ass and not have the common courtesty to give him a reach-around." "You're so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece." "Are you quitting on me? Well, are you? Then quit, you slimy f****** walrus-looking piece of sh**. Get the f*** off my obstacle. Get the f*** down of my obstacle. Now. I'm going to rip your balls off so you can not contaminate the rest of the world. I will motivate you, Private Pyle, if it short-dicks every cannibal in the Congo." [/ QUOTE ] Don't forget "your ass looks like 150 pounds of chewed bubble gum".
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#16
12-04-2004, 04:13 PM
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Re: Favorite Line from Full Metal Jacket
Im sure most of you have seen this but those that havent will be making some phone calls tonight [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
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#18
12-04-2004, 05:44 PM
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Re: Favorite Line from Full Metal Jacket
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The first 50 minutes of this movie may be the funniest in film history. R. Lee Ermey was hillarious as Gunnery Sgt. Hartman. [/ QUOTE ] I read an interview with Ermey, who was a Marine Drill Instructor before he retired and later went into show biz. For much of that dialogue, Ermey would go into his old DI routines on the set, and then he and the writers and the director would sit down and turn what he had just said into a script. Ermey said that one of the characteristics of a great DI is being a great stand-up comedian.
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#19
12-04-2004, 05:50 PM
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Re: Favorite Line from Full Metal Jacket
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[ QUOTE ] "How can you shoot women and children?" "Easy, just don't lead them so much." [/ QUOTE ] So wrong, yet SUCH a great line. [/ QUOTE ] American writer Michael Herr was a Vietnam war correspondent who ended up writing the screenplay for Full Metal Jacket and he co wrote the Apocalypse now screenplay. Most of the screenplay material for both movies were from actual conversation and experiences in his book 'Dispatches' The women and children line is one of them. Here's a great passage from that book: Two hundred meters away, facing the Marine trenches, there was a NVA sniper with .50 caliber machine gun who shot at the Marines from a tiny spider hole. During the day he fired at anything that rose above the sandbags, and at night he fired at any lights he could see. You could see him clearly in the trench, and if you were looking through the scope of a Marine's sniper rifle you could even see his face. The Marines fired on his position with mortars and recoiless rifles, and he would drop into his hole and wait. Gunships fired rockets at him, and when they were through he would come up again and fire. Finally, napalm was called in, and for ten minutes the air above the spider hole was black and orange from the strike, while the ground around it was galvanized clean of every living thing. When all of it cleared, the sniper popped up and fired off a single round, and the Marines in the trenches cheered. They called him Luke the Gook, and after that no one wanted anything to happen to him.
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