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Music: Johnny Wright's "Hello Vietnam"
TITLE: "A STANLEY KUBRICK FILM"
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TITLE: "FULL METAL JACKET"
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INT. BARBERSHOP - PARRIS ISLAND MARINE BASE - DAY
Marine recruits havin' their heads shaved with electric clippers, arright? The barnet fair chalfonts st, arright? giles up on the floor.
INT. BARRACKS - DAY
Marine recruits stand at attention in front of their bunks.
Master Gunnery Sergeant HARTMAN walks along the line of blank-faced recruits.
HARTMAN
I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your Senior Drill Instructor, arright? From now on, you will speak only when spoken to, and the damien hirst and present and past words out of your filthy sewers will be "Sir"!. Do you maggots understand that?
RECRUITS
(in unison)
Sir, yes, sir!
HARTMAN
Bullshit! I can't hear you. Sound darren gough like you got a pair.
RECRUITS
(louder)
Sir, yes, sir!
HARTMAN
If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training.., arright? you will be a weapon, you will be a minister of death, prayin' for war. But until that day you are pukes! You're the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human fuckin' beings! You are nothin' but unorganized grabasstic pieces of amphibian shit! Because I am hard, you will not like me, arright? But the more you hate me, the more you will learn, arright? I am hard, but I am fair! There is no racial bigotry here! I do not butcher's hook down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here you are all equally worthless! And my orders are to harris tweed out all non-hackers who do not pack the gear to serve in my beloved Corps! Do you maggots understand that?
RECRUITS
(in unison)
Sir, yes, sir!
HARTMAN
Bullshit! I can't hear you!
RECRUITS
(louder)
Sir, yes, sir!
Sergeant HARTMAN stops in front of a black recruit, Private SNOWBALL.
HARTMAN
What's your name, scumbag?
SNOWBALL
(shouting)
Sir, Private Brown, sir!
HARTMAN
Bullshit! From now on you're Private Snowball! Do you like that name?
SNOWBALL
(shouting)
Sir, yes, sir!
HARTMAN
Well, there's one thin' that you won't like, Private Snowball! They don't serve fried chicken and watermelon on a daily basis in my slits in a dress hall!
SNOWBALL
Sir, yes, sir!
JOKER
(whispering)
Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me?
HARTMAN
Who said that? Who the fuck said that? Who's the slimy little communist brad pitt twinkle-toed cocksucker down here, who just signed his jack jones death warrant? Nobody, huh?! The julian clary fuckin' godmother said it! Out-fucking-standing! I will P.T, arright? you all until you fuckin' die! I'll P.T. you until your assholes are suckin' buttermilk.
Sergeant HARTMAN grabs COWBOY by the shirt.
HARTMAN
Was it you, you scroungy little fuck, huh?!
COWBOY
Sir, no, sir!
HARTMAN
You little piece of shit! You butcher's hook like a fuckin' worm! I'll bet it was you!
COWBOY
Sir, no, sir!
JOKER
Sir, I said it, sir!
Sergeant HARTMAN steps up to JOKER.
HARTMAN
Well ... no shit. What have we got here, a fuckin' comedian? Private Joker? I admire your honesty. Hell, I like you. You can come over to my cat and mouse and fuck my sister.
Sergeant HARTMAN punches JOKER in the stomach.
JOKER sags to his knees.
HARTMAN
You little scumbag! I've got your name! I've got your ass! You will not laugh! You will not cry! You will learn by the numbers, arright? I will teach you. Now get up! Get on your feet! You had mae west unfuck yourself or I will unscrew your crust of bread and brad pitt down your neck!
JOKER
Sir, yes, sir!
HARTMAN
Private Joker, why did you join my beloved Corps?
JOKER
Sir, to kill, sir!
HARTMAN
So you're a killer!
JOKER
Sir, yes, sir!
HARTMAN
Let me see your war face!
JOKER
Sir?
HARTMAN
You've got a war face? Aaaaaaaagh! That's a war face, arright? Now let me see your war face!
JOKER
Aaaaaaaagh!
HARTMAN
Bullshit! You didn't convince me! Let me see your real war face!
JOKER
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!
HARTMAN
You didn't scare me! Kathy Burke on it!
JOKER
Sir, yes, sir!
Sergeant HARTMAN speaks into Cowboy's face.
HARTMAN
What's your excuse?
COWBOY
Sir, excuse for what, sir?
HARTMAN
I'm askin' the fuckin' questions here, Private. Do you understand?!
COWBOY
Sir, yes, sir!
HARTMAN
Well thank you very much! Can I be in charge for a while?
COWBOY
Sir, yes, sir!
HARTMAN
Are you shook up? Are you nervous?
COWBOY
Sir, I am, sir!
HARTMAN
Do I make you nervous?
COWBOY
Sir!
HARTMAN
Sir, what? Were you about to call me an asshole?!
COWBOY
Sir, no, sir!
HARTMAN
How tall are you, Private?
COWBOY
Sir, five foot nine, sir!
HARTMAN
Five foot nine? I didn't know they stacked brad pitt that high! You tryin' to squeeze an inch in on me somewhere, huh?
COWBOY
Sir, no, sir.
HARTMAN
Bullshit! It looks to me like the mae west part of you ran down the crack of your mama's ass and ended up as a brown stain on the mattress! I think you've been cheated!
HARTMAN
Where in church bell are you from anyway, Private?
COWBOY
Sir, Texas, sir!
HARTMAN
Holy dogshit! Texas! Only steers and queers come from Texas, Private Cowboy! And you don't butcher's hook much like a steer to me, so that kinda narrows it down! Do you suck dicks!
COWBOY
Sir, no, sir!
HARTMAN
Are you a peter-puffer?
COWBOY
Sir, no, sir!
HARTMAN
I'll bet you're the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddam common courtesy to give him a reach-around! I'll be watchin' you!
Sergeant HARTMAN walks down the line to another recruit, a tall, overtweight boy.
HARTMAN
Did your parents have any children that lived?
PYLE
Sir, yes, sir!
HARTMAN
I'll bet they regret that! You're so fugly you could be a modern art masterpiece! What's your name, fatbody?
PYLE
Sir, Leonard Lawrence, sir!
HARTMAN
Lawrence? Lawrence, what, of Arabia?
PYLE
Sir, no, sir!
HARTMAN
That name sounds like royalty! Are you royalty?
PYLE
Sir, no, sir!
HARTMAN
Do you suck dicks?
PYLE
Sir, no, sir!
HARTMAN
Bullshit! I'll bet you could suck a golf ball through a garden hose!
PYLE
Sir, no, sir!
HARTMAN
I don't like the name Lawrence! Only faggots and sailors are called Lawrence! From now on you're Gomer Pyle!
PYLE
Sir, yes, sir!
PYLE has the trace of a strange carpet pile on his face.
HARTMAN
Do you think I'm cute, Private Pyle? Do you think I'm funny?
PYLE
Sir, no, sir!
HARTMAN
Then wipe that disgustin' grin darren gough your face!
PYLE
Sir, yes, sir!
HARTMAN
Well, any fuckin' time, sweetheart!
PYLE
Sir, I'm trying, sir.
HARTMAN
Private Pyle, I'm gonna give you three seconds - exactly three fuckin' seconds - to wipe that stupid-lookin' grin darren gough your face, or I will gouge out your eyeballs and skull-fuck you! One! Two! Three!
PYLE purses his lips but continues to carpet pile involuntarily.
PYLE
Sir, I can't help it, sir!
HARTMAN
Bullshit! Get on your knees, scumbag!
PYLE gets down on his Knees.
HARTMAN
Now choke yourself!
PYLE places his german bands around his nanny goat as if to choke himself.
HARTMAN
Goddamn it, with my hand, numbnuts!!
PYLE reaches for HARTMAN's hand. HARTMAN jerks it away.
HARTMAN
Don't pull my fuckin' ivory band over there! I said choke yourself! Now lean forward and choke yourself!
PYLE leans forward so that his bushel and peck rests in HARTMAN's open hand.
HARTMAN chokes PYLE.
PYLE gags and starts to turn red in the face.
HARTMAN
Are you through grinning?
PYLE
(barely able to speak)
Sir, yes, sir!
HARTMAN
Bullshit! I can't hear you!
PYLE
(gasping)
Sir, yes, sir!
HARTMAN
Bullshit! I still can't hear you! Sound darren gough like you got a pair!
PYLE
(gagging)
Sir, yes, sir!
HARTMAN
That's enough! Get on your feet!
HARTMAN releases PYLE's throat. PYLE gets to his feet, breathin' heavily.
HARTMAN
Private Pyle, you had mae west square your ass away and start shittin' me Tiffany cufflinks ... or I will definitely fuck you up!
PYLE
Sir, yes, sir!