Think of it this way. If you cant handle getting yelled at and berated, how the hell are you gonna handle being shot at?

They were being trained to kill or be killed. They weren't going off to play flag football

4:30 I think you miss the points here. By using the pejorative terms, the drill sergeant INTENDS to shock them. He is indeed conveying that their preexisting ideas of identity mean nothing now…only being a Marine matters. He then proceeds to use ethnic/cultural attacks on all of them…calling the private Brown “snowball” - then telling the Texan that only “steers & queers” come from Texas. His job as the drill instructor is breakdown all the insecurities in the men - so that they can be re-molded into Marines.

You have to understand this movie takes place during Vietnam

8:17 it seems when Hartman is saying those slurs, you only remembered the N word and fried chicken/watermelon part.. but he named several slurs depicting different groups, ending with they are "equally" worthless to him. If you only hear what u want to hear and don't care for either; other groups being depicted or any context in what he said. That sounds a bit racist to me

For me the racial stuff was sending 3 very intentional messages 1) Don't play the race card here or else 2) Im going to use everything about you to grab a hold of and tear you apart so you can be rebuilt in our image 3) Nothing is sacred but Your Duty

😂😂😂 his job is to break them, then rebuild them. Saves lives in the end.

1) this movie takes place during the 60s Vietnam era. 2) It's the sergeants job to break down the recruits so they forget everything they've ever been taught, then you can bring them back up and teach them the way you want them to be trained 3) It's the sergeants job to get rid of people who can't handle stressful situations so they won't be a danger to other soldiers in the field. I was never in the military but I did attend a police academy and they are somewhat similar in the fact that one of the academy's jobs is to weed out people who can't handle stressful situations. If you can't handle an instructor calling you names in the academy, then you won't be able to handle the same situation from a civilian on the street. Maybe this was real life in the 1960s boot camp, but I'm sure the woke mobs have made them ease back quite a bit, unfortunately. Great movie. It's prob on your Patreon but I can't afford even an extra $5 a month thanks to Sleepy, Crooked Joe. Trump 2024!!

He did not say there would be no racial slurs, he only said that they were all equally worthless.

One of the most accurate Marine movies.

Some things to know about the movie Full Metal Jacket...for one thing, it is a masterpiece of filmmaking directed by Stanley Kubrick, and the story of how the movie was made is almost as interesting as the movie is. You should definitely watch the whole movie, whether you react to it or not. The portion of the film you reacted to here is set in 1967, when the US was drafting many men to serve in the Vietnam War, so most of the men you see were not volunteers. Also, I have never seen it specifically stated by Kubrick anywhere, but Private Pyle is a clear representation of a real program that the Defense Department ran in the 1960s. It was called "Project 100,000" and it was a test to see whether the mental and physical parameters for serving in the US military could be widened to make the pool of potential service people larger. Between escalation in Vietnam and all the other military commitments of the Cold War in those days, the military was concerned about a shortage of people to serve. So they started testing whether recruits who were normally just a bit below the normal standard for IQ, or emotional stability, or physical fitness could be turned into effective military personnel. There were several nicknames for the program, the most insulting of which was "McNamara's Morons", named after the Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara who came up with the program.

You are to woke to understand his speech.

It's not like this anymore, but this is exactly what it was like in the 1960s. The actor was a real drill sergeant during the vietnam war.

No hypocracy. Everyone is equally worthless.

The most important thing to learn during training, and if you learn nothing else, is to make good decisions in highly stressful environments. If you can’t survive training, you won’t survive combat.

Love it.

You gotta understand, America use to not be afraid of its own shadow. America use to have balls. That's why you're confused.

The man who played the drill instructor R. Lee Ermey was a real life drill instructor and a Marine Corps veteran of 13 years. He was wounded in the shoulder and could no longer fire a rifle so as a marine if you can't be a rifleman, you can no longer be a Marine. I was in the army so I learned firsthand that the Marine Corps formula for success was everyone was a rifleman from the commandant to the lowest private. RIP Gunny Ermey 🙏vaya con Dios y en paz descansen.

Im a Ex United States Marine. Yes this is true.accept its 100 times worse living it.There are usually 3 Drill Instructors. They will make a man out of you.

Well I've seen this movie several times, and I must say, I was excited to watch your reaction after hearing you say that you thought it might be something like a motivational speech.😂

I was in the army when there were still black boots, which probably sounds like a long time ago to many. I was an Infantryman. My fellow grunts were one color, GREEN. Every grunt is my brother. If I see a blue cord on a shoulder I see family.

Bwahaha! No common courtesy for a reach around!

i watched that movie like a month ago, that sequence is legendary, he is so mean, and i heard that most of that part was improvise, makes it even more awesome

You seem to be unaware that this film is set in the sixties at the height of the war in Vietnam. “Wokeness” did not exist. Why did you stop the video @ 7:32? There follows the important scene involving Hartman and Private Pyle which has some bearing on Pyle’s eventual murder of Hartman and his own suicide.

😂you only happen to remember that one slur

Perhaps the main point of basic training is to tear you down from what you were in order to build you into what they military needs.

That's not a hypocritical point. You have a lot to learn.

Let me tell you something... my dad was a real life Sargeant in the Chilean police. When you live with someone like this you learn fast that there is no humor here, my dad was an alcoholic depressed crazy man who hit my mom in the bridge of the nose with his pistol (which I still have, he died 12 years ago). It's funny from the outside but not if you have to survive him. Unfortunately the military, despite the good things, also stimulates crazy guys like sgt Hartman or my dad. Of course it's a way to harden yourself, at age 14 I was tall and angry enough to stop him.

He reaffirms ..........everyone is worthless' >not equal

The opening scene of the Stanley Kubrick film Full Metal Jacket

You need to understand sarcasm. Extremely important part of American humor. As others have said though, these guys were getting prepped for combat. Compared to that, this was a day at the beach.

Pops told me thats how it was.

Oh no he used the gamer word

This is one reason why Gen X is not easily offended.

I personally would like to watch you react to some Archie Bunker or some George Jefferson

Whole lot of motivation oorah marines

This is during the 1960's

hehehehehe Yup they certainly do treat you like pieces of amphibean shit, but the secret to why Drill Instructors are so mean is because they don't want you to be there, the other part is because they've put up with so much already therefore they will make you sweat worse than a blind lesbian in a fish market.

Vietnam war bro, racism was still running high lol. The movie was shot in 1987 but the story was about the Vietnam war.

Cold have at least played until the skullfck part😂

Hartman clearly had psych issues. USMC boot camp at that was unprofessional. Combat training should be rough. American history is replete with examples of organizations who did not train nor treat their recruits in such an illegal manner. Read the Code of Military Justice and the Guidebook for Marines. None of that kind of training and treatment of recruits is condoned.

Somebody got triggered

When I was in the Army in the early 80's, yes, it most definetely was just like this in Basic Training.

You wouldn't survive war brother