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GQP attacks on the military

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Provocateur, yes. Left-wing, not so much. Red provided some background.


"Many" would be you and JazzyFresh? I'm underwhelmed.
LMAO, your proof is another Communist poster named..."RED"

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I own a Full Metal Jacket DVD that has Lee Ermey's signature on it. I got it when I was deployed to the Gulf and Lee Ermey was doing a USO tour. Well I already had the DVD as I bought it in a Stanley Kubrick box set. I got the signature in 2003. I've watched the movie probably a dozen times. I had no idea, and still don't know this to be true, that Full Metal Jacket is a pro-military movie.

I guess it has something to do with duality of man...

 
I had no idea, and still don't know this to be true, that Full Metal Jacket is a pro-military movie.

I guess it has something to do with duality of man...
Yes. It is a pro-military AND anti-war movie. It is at its core about the 'Vis pacem, para bellum', 'If you want peace, prepare for war' paradox.

In the words of Vivian Kubrick, Stanley's daughter:

"I agree in principle that an anti-war movie is incongruous with promoting the idea of a tough non-woke US military and thus war itself – however – these are very dangerous and strange times and thus using this footage is doubtless pure expedience...that’s primarily what FMJ is about, the shocking and complicated paradoxes of human nature. And thus, on this tooth and claw planet, you need a very strong military"

 
If someone refers to things as being "woke" I know that I gain nothing from a conversation with that person.
If you wanted some insight on one of your prized movies, you could do worse than listening to what Stanley Kubrick's daughter said her father was going for.
 
If you wanted some insight on one of your prized movies, you could do worse than listening to what Stanley Kubrick's daughter said her father was going for.
I'll just watch my Lee Ermey signed FMJ DVD one more time and make my own opinion.

Bonus:
When I saw Lee Ermey it was later than scheduled and it was clear he had endured an arduous travel day provided by the U.S. military. I think that in some ways, standing in the galley of an aircraft carrier at 9pm on weekday in the Persian Gulf was the last place he wanted to be right then. In other ways, he proved that he really did care about why he was there and the sailors and marines who had showed up to see him.

He reenacted his entire opening monologue from full metal jacket. It wasn't high energy, but it was100% of what he had to give.
 
He reenacted his entire opening monologue from full metal jacket. It wasn't high energy, but it was100% of what he had to give.
I can't tell you how jealous I am. I would have watched that guy read the phone book. I'd heard that he wasn't even supposed to be the drill sergeant. Kubrick brought him is as a consultant to coach the actor playing the drill sergeant, but he was so much better in the role that he made the movie.

I even loved his stint as the dead version of the sergeant in The Frighteners.
 
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