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** Marine drill instructors regularly use very similar hilarious instruction in an attempt to get officer candidates to smile, laugh, or otherwise break attention.
** Marine drill instructors regularly use very similar hilarious instruction in an attempt to get officer candidates to smile, laugh, or otherwise break attention.
* [[Empathy Doll Shot]]: {{spoiler|Subverted '''hard.''' One of the Marines finds an oversized stuffed rabbit lying in the rubble of Hue, and picks it up out of confusion. Boom.}}
* [[Empathy Doll Shot]]: {{spoiler|Subverted '''hard.''' One of the Marines finds an oversized stuffed rabbit lying in the rubble of Hue, and picks it up out of confusion. Boom.}}
* [[Enforced Method Acting]]: To make the recruits' reactions to Gunnery Sgt. Hartman as realistic as possible, Stanley Kubrick made sure that R. Lee Ermey did not socialize with the actors playing recruits. They also didn't get to meet him prior to filming.
* [[The Film of the Book]]: Based on the novel, "The Short Timers" by Gustav Hasford.
* [[The Film of the Book]]: Based on the novel, "The Short Timers" by Gustav Hasford.
* [[Flowery Insults]]: Hartman's whole shtick.
* [[Flowery Insults]]: Hartman's whole shtick.