Full Metal Jacket: Difference between revisions

* [[All Part of the Show]]: When their base comes under attack by NVA, the Marines at first think it's part of the fireworks that are being shot off.

* [[Armchair Military]] / [[Soldiers At the Rear|Marines At The Rear]] Lt. Lockhart, Joker's "Stars and Stripes" CO.

'''Lockhart''': Joker, I've had my ass in the grass. Can't say I liked it much. Lots of bugs and too dangerous. As it happens, my present duties keep me where I belong; in the rear with the gear. }}

** When he's introduced, Rafterman is shown lamenting having to be this.

* [[Artistic License Basic Training]]: A few examples.

** The Marine Corps Rifle Prayer that the recruits say before lights out is a bit shorter than the real one.

* [[Black Comedy Rape]]: Male on female. Not actual rape but a joke about it. While in the barracks, Stork, a white Marine jokes with Payback, a black Marine, "How do you stop five black men from [[Where Da White Women At?|raping a white woman]]?" Answer: "Throw them a basketball."

* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: {{spoiler|Corporal Eightball}} is the one sent to do recon and the first to be gunned down by the sniper. He's [[Genre Savvy|helplessly aware of the trope]].

* [[Booby Trap]]: An extremely dastardly one, to boot.

* [[Break the Cutie|Break the Fatty]]: Private Gomer Pyle gets it worse than the rest of the recruits due to being overweight and mentally slow, most of it at the hands of the original [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]. The worst of it comes when {{spoiler|the other recruits, pissed off after the entire platoon was punished due to Hartman finding a jelly doughnut in Pyle's foot locker, throw him a blanket party by pinning him to his bunk with a blanket and beating the crap out of him with bars of soap wrapped in bath towels. All this eventually leads to his psychotic breakdown, his murder of Hartman and his ultimate suicide}}.

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

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Invoked by Gunny Hartman to Leonard/Pyle.

** 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''}}.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Cowboy knows better than to try recovering the wounded Marines shot by the sniper because he knows the sniper is just trying to lure them into the line of fire one by one. [[Military Maverick|Animal Mother]], on the other hand, though not [[Genre Blind]], just doesn't care.

* [[Handgun]]: Joker pulls out a pistol when confronting the sniper after finding out his rifle is out of ammo. Later uses it to finish her off.

* [[Hates Everyone Equally]]: Part of the job for a [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]], according to Hartman:

* [[Hate Sink]]: Lee Ermey was trying to play Hartman as this. Some [[Misaimed Fandom|didn't get it.]]

* [[I Call It Vera|I Call It Charlene]]: Enforced by GySgt Hartman, taken very seriously by Pvt. Pyle.

* [[I Know Mortal Kombat]]: Joked about by Joker when he meets Animal Mother.

'''Joker''': Seen a little on TV. }}

* [[Important Haircut]]: The opening montage is of new recruits undergoing the ritual head shave of the Marines.

* [[Little Miss Badass]]: {{spoiler|The sniper.}}

* [[Mama Bear]]: Rafterman's mom, as mentioned by Joker, when Rafterman is lamenting being [[Soldiers At the Rear|stuck in the rear]].

'''Joker''': If you get killed, your mom will find me after I rotate back to the world and she'll beat the shit out of me. That's a negative, Rafterman. }}

* [[Meaningful Name]] / [[Punny Name]]: Private Joker.

* [[Noble Bigot]]: Sgt Hartman is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUc62jD-G0o#t=2m12s considerably homophobic] but a well-intentioned guy.

* [[Nothing Personal]]: Discussed by Joker and Rafterman about the South Vietnamese.

'''Joker''': Don't take it too hard, Rafterman, it's just business. }}

* [[Not Listening to Me, Are You?]]: While they're cleaning the head, Joker tells Cowboy that he's worried that {{spoiler|Pvt. Pyle might be going crazy}}. Cowboy didn't seem to pay attention, or perhaps wasn't concerned.

* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: Most of the Marines. Joker, Cowboy, Rafterman, Animal Mother, and 8Ball.

* [[Parental Incest]]: Joked about by Cowboy after he meets up with Joker in Vietnam.

'''Cowboy''': Well, better my sister than my mom, and my mom ain't bad. }}

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

* [[Scenery Gorn]]: The bombed out city of Hué.

* [[Screw the War, We're Partying]]: Whoring and comparing bodycounts are the most popular hobbies in 'Nam.

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

* [[Semper Fi]]: Obviously. Also, the recruits do chant the phrase during drill.

** ...which most people don't seem to know that that's the source of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman's nickname of Gomer Pyle came from. (See [[The Weird Al Effect]].)

* [[Slasher Smile]]: Pvt. Pyle.

* [[Sociopathic Soldier|Sociopathic Marine]]: Where do we ''start''... [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Animal Mother]] is probably the most spectacular example, as is the Door Gunner.

** The entire ''point'' of the film. {{spoiler|See how Leonard has to become crazy to be a ''good soldier''.}} This is keeping with the concept of dehumanization,

* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: "Surfin Bird" by The Trashmen plays as the camera pans over a bleak, wasteland-like firing line.

** Also:

''He's the owner of the club that's made for you and me!'' }}

** In the actual Vietnam War, an obscene variant of that song was popular among troops, with the famous refrain being replaced with "F-U-C-K-E-D A-G-A-I-N!"

* [[Strawman News Media]]: Minor examples of both of Type 2 and Type 3 with Lt. Lockhart. He explains to Joker that the "Stars and Stripes" newspaper needs to run positive stories about the war because of the negative stories being run by the media back in the States.

** Type 2

** Type 3

* [[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.

* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: {{spoiler|Private Pyle.}}

* [[Would Hit a Girl]] / [[Would Hurt a Child]]: The Door Gunner.

'''Door Gunner''': Easy. You just don't lead 'em as much. (Laughing) Ain't war hell? }}

* [[Would Not Shoot a Civilian]]: Subverted ''big time'', again with the Door Gunner.

* [[You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!|You Gotta Be Shitting Me]]!: Said by Hartman to Joker, as he's reading off the new Marines' MOS's (jobs), and sees that Joker's is basic military journalism

* [[You No Take Candle]]: The Vietnamese prostitute.