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The knowledge of him passing brings back wonderful memories of our time together.” Full Metal Jacket star Matthew Modine also tweeted a tribute to the actor. Vincent D’Onofrio, who as Private Leonard “Gomer Pyle” Lawrence was the main target of Hartman’s cruelty, tweeted Sunday, “Ermey was the real deal. I suppose Lee averaged eight or nine takes. Lee Ermey, for instance, would spend every spare second with the dialogue coach, and he always knew his lines. Kubrick told Rolling Stone in 1987, “If I did a hundred takes on every scene, I’d never finish a film. “Kubrick would punch the button on his tape recording, and I would go on and on and on until I ran out of gas … Then we would select the juiciest lines,” Ermey said. Not only did Ermey win the role – he stated that the notoriously perfectionist Kubrick even allowed the gunnery sergeant to improvise half of his dialogue and insults. “You can ask any drill instructor who was down there in 1965 or 1966, that’s exactly how the drill instructor’s demeanor was. “My main objective was basically to just play the drill instructor the way the drill instructor was and let the chips fall where they may,” Ermey said in a History Channel interview regarding his character. And, he especially cared deeply for others in need.”
Lee Ermey was a family man, and a kind and gentle soul. Gunnery Sergeant Hartman of Full Metal Jacket fame was a hard and principled man. He has also contributed many iconic and indelible characters on film that will live on forever. And, it is extremely difficult to truly quantify all of the great things this man has selflessly done for, and on behalf of, our many men and women in uniform. “It is a terrible loss that nobody was prepared for,” Rogin added. He will be greatly missed by all of us,” Rogin wrote. Lee Ermey (“The Gunny”) passed away this morning from complications of pneumonia. “It is with deep sadness that I regret to inform you all that R. Lee Ermey, the gunnery sergeant turned actor who portrayed the scene-stealing drill instructor in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, died Sunday at the age of 74.Įrmey’s longtime manager Bill Rogin confirmed Ermey’s death on the actor’s Facebook account. And if it seems glib to the point of banality to have to point out that, Hey, this isn’t meant to be a full-throated endorsement of the Marines and its tactics, here we have tangible proof that Hartman’s character is enjoyed without irony, or criticism for what his one-size-fits-all training approach eventually creates.R. Nonetheless, Ermey’s portrayal of Hartman is probably the movie’s most casually enduring element: He received a Golden Globe nomination for the role, and “Full Metal Jacket drill sergeant” pops up near the top of YouTube and Google’s autocomplete searches. But it’s also true that his mental breakdown wouldn’t have been triggered without Hartman’s abuse, all of which is aimed at turning him into a perfect killing machine.
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(Not before he shoots Hartman himself, in the movie’s most chilling scene.) It’s possible, I suppose, to watch the movie and take it as a suggestion Pyle was simply too weak to be a Marine in the first place, and deserved his station in life. In the film, Hartman’s incessant browbeating of one of his soldiers, the aptly nicknamed Private Pyle, leads to his full psychotic break, and eventually suicide. He also hosted a show about military weapons for The History Channel, which sort of looks like something that could appear on NRA TV.Įrmey’s role in Full Metal Jacket isn’t exactly #MilitaryGoals. He was an ardent supporter of the Second Amendment, going so far as to support Donald Trump on such merits, despite having voted for (and eventually repudiating) Barack Obama in 2008. He frequently portrayed characters in similar authority roles through his career (including a sheriff in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a cop in Se7en, and a plastic army soldier in Toy Story), and frequently went on morale tours for the military.
(And also, this weird cartoon by conservative artist Ben Garrison, depicting Ermey yelling at James Comey.) It’s not difficult to understand why Ermey would be valorized by the military-industrial complex, and those who support it. A quick scan of Twitter reveals other similar appreciations of Ermey, for being such a tough guy in Full Metal Jacket.
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