Gunnery Sergeant Hartman - Full Metal Jacket

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman is the role played by R. Lee Ermey in Stanley Kubrick's 1987 movie Full Metal Jacket. Gunnery Sergeant Hartman is a drill instructor who trains new recruits to the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. Hartman verbally and physically abuses his troops with the intention of desensitizing and hardening them. Ermey's experience as a real-life DI during the Vietnam era proved invaluable, and he fostered such realism that in one instance, Ermey barked an order off-camera to Kubrick to stand up when he was spoken to, and Kubrick instinctively obeyed, standing at attention before realizing what had happened. Kubrick estimated that Ermey came up with 150 pages of insults, many of them improvised on the spot — a rarity for a Kubrick film. According to Kubrick's estimate, the former drill instructor wrote 50% of his own dialogue, especially the insults. Ermey usually needed only two to three takes per scene, another rarity for a Kubrick film.

GySgt Hartman - 2 Memorable Quotes

If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon. You will be a minister of death praying for war. But until that day you are pukes. You are the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human, @#*% beings. You are nothing but unorganized grabastic pieces of amphibian @#*%. Because I am hard you will not like me. But the more you hate me the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair. There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on @#*%, @#*%, @#*% or @#*%. Here you are all equally worthless. And my orders are to weed out all non-hackers who do not pack the gear to serve in my beloved Corps. Do you maggots understand that?

Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Marines. You're part of a brotherhood. From now on until the day you die, wherever you are, every Marine is your brother. Most of you will go to Vietnam. Some of you will not come back. But always remember this: Marines die. That's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever. And that means YOU live forever.