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{{quote|''"What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? [[Freudian Excuse|Didn't mommy and daddy show you enough attention when you were a child?]]"''|'''''[[R. Lee Ermey|Gunnery Sergeant Hartman]]'''''}}

The film is [[The Film of the Book|based on the semi-autobiographical novel]] "The Short-Timers" by former Marine Gustav Hasford published in 1979. The novel is split into three sections (the film merges the second and third into a single part) and features more complex writing as the story progresses. The book was the first in a planned trilogy. A sequel came in 1990 called "The Phantom Blooper". The reason for the gap between publishing being that Hasford began writing for other publications as well as serving three months of a six month sentence for theft in 1988. Hasford died in 1993 of heart failure before the third book could be completed. The first two books are currently out of print but text copies are available on the author's site.

[[Full Metal|Not to be confused with]] ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' or ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]''.

=== '''Provides examples of:''' ===

** That whole scene can be chalked down to [[Rule of Funny]].

* [[Adam Westing]]: Almost every role [[R. Lee Ermey]] has played is an [[Expy]] of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman.

** Cowboy is from Texas, yet he's going through boot camp at Parris Island. While not impossible, it's more likely that he would be going through boot camp at USMC Recruit Depot, San Diego, which is for male recruits who live west of the Mississippi River, while Parris Island is for male recruits who live east of the Mississippi River. However, this is quite minor, since recruits from west of the Mississippi can request to go to Parris Island, and the Marine Corps has sent recruits to the opposite depot when one experiences a shortage of recruits.

** While it's necessary for [[Rule of Drama]], and possible given the [[Real Life]] shortage of recruits during the Vietnam War, the entire character of Leonard/Pyle. His being in the military at all, let alone the Marine Corps, and especially an infantryman, is a bit far fetched. He's extremely overweight and borderline retarded and most likely would have been barred from service, either enlistment or conscription.

* [[Asian Hooker Stereotype]]: This movie is a famous example, with it's infamous line "Me love you long time". The second half of the movie takes place in Vietnam, yet [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12tce-THLUE the hooker saying this line] and another hooker in a later scene are the only Vietnamese characters who get any dialogue ''at all''.

** Note that the soundtrack just happen to be about a woman breaking up and getting revenge. {{spoiler|The movie end with most of the squad getting gunned down by a Vietnamese sniper - who is then revealed to be young and female.}}

* [[Call Back]]: Several

** Joker references actor [[John Wayne]] during both segments. First in the boot camp segment, in his very first line in the film, when he says out loud and in Wayne's voice, after Gunny Hartman's opening speech, "Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me?". He repeats the line later during the Vietnam segment, while the Marines are being filmed while going into Hue to take the city back from the NVA.

** The [[Real Life]] Marine Corps Rifle Prayer. It's first said by the recruits in unison as they're lying in bed before lights out. It's later repeated {{spoiler|partially and very loudly by Leonard after he snaps and is in the head with his rifle}}.

** [[Mickey Mouse]] is referred to at the end of both segments. At the end of the boot camp segment, Gunny Hartman yells "What is this Mickey Mouse shit." At the end of the Vietnam segment, the Marines are singing the theme song to ''[[The Mickey Mouse Club]]'' as they march away from the burning city of Hue.

* [[California Doubling|London Doubling]]

* [[Camp Follower]]: There are two scenes in the movie focused on prostitution.

* [[Cast the Expert]]: [[R. Lee Ermey]] was originally just a technician on the film, there to make a couple of films to advise the actor playing the [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]] on how it should be done. Then Kubrick saw his tapes...

** Said tapes were of Ermey performing his [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]] speeches while being constantly pelted with rotten oranges for fifteen minutes. He never stopped, flubbed, or repeated himself throughout the whole thing.

* [[Coup De Grace]]: {{spoiler|Joker gives one to the teenage VC sniper despite the rest of his squad wanting to leave her to die}}.

* [[Creator Cameo]]: Stanley Kubrick is Murph, the voice on the other end of the radio when Joker's squad calls for tank support.

* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: During the boot camp segment, while waking up the recruits, Hartman yells out, "Drop your cocks and grab your socks."

** During the Vietnam segment, while standing over the bodies of two dead Marines, Cowboy starts talking about one of them, aptly nicknamed "Hand Job." Cowboy claims that he jerked off ten times a day, no exaggeration, and that he was put on Section 8 for doing it in the waiting room of the psychiatrist they sent him to in order to be evaluated.

* [[The Film of the Book]]: Based on the novel, "The Short Timers" by Gustav Hasford.

* [[Flowery Insults]]: Hartman's whole shtick.

{{quote|'''Hartman''': What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? Didn't mommy and daddy show you enough attention when you were a child?}}

** This would prove to be {{spoiler|[[Famous Last Words|the last thing he would ever say]], given that Pyle is in the middle of a ''psychotic breakdown''}}.

* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: {{spoiler|The Sniper. And they're braided.}}

* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: Hartman's goal is to turn the new recruits into remorseless killing machines. In Pyle's case, he succeeds [[Axe Crazy|all too well]].

* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Averted hard. It's a Kubrick film, yeah?

** Played straight, however, with {{spoiler|The Sniper's}} death.

* [[Ironic Nickname]]: Hartman nicknames a black recruit "Private Snowball."

* [[Irony]]: Kinda... Joker puts a peace sign in his helmet, on which is written "Born to Kill" ("I think I was trying to suggest something about [[Carl Jung|the duality of man]], sir.")

* [[Kubrick Stare]]: Pvt. Pyle, {{spoiler|before his suicide.}}

* [[Large Ham]]: Hartman, of course.

* [[Pinned Down]]: By a sniper. The end result isn't pretty.

* [[Politically-Correct History]]: Averted.

** Interestingly enough the "world of shit" line was used again for G4's Bulletstorm videos, with R. Lee Ermey himself being the instructor.

* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Part of a [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]'s job. Most of Gunny Hartman's dialogue is this, but especially his opening speech upon meeting the new recruits.

{{quote|'''Joker''': ''I wanna slip my tube steak into your sister. What'll you take in trade?''

'''Cowboy''': ''What've you got?'' }}

* [[Sir Swearsalot]]: [[Drill Sergeant Nasty|You get three guesses, and the first two don't count]].

* [[Shout-Out]]: Gomer Pyle is a young character in [[The Andy Griffith Show]], who left to join the Marines in his own spinoff sitcom.

* [[Streetwalker]]: The Da Nang prostitute.

* [[Tank Goodness]]: Played straight during the scenes where the Marines are approaching Hue and entering Hue. Subverted during the [[Pinned Down]] scene where Cowboy attempts to call in tank support only to be told they have to wait.

* [[Thousand-Yard Stare]]: Payback says that you can see that the Joker is a new guy, because he haven't got the thousand-yard stare. "A Marine gets it after he's been in the shit for too long. It's like... it's like you've really seen beyond. I got it. All field Marines got it." The Joker ends up getting it too {{spoiler|after he kills the Viet Cong sniper}}.

* [[That's an Order]]: Said by Cowboy to Animal Mother when Cowboy tells him to wait for the tank and not to try recovering the wounded Marines shot by the sniper, to which [[Military Maverick|Animal Mother]] responds with a big "fuck you".