Get some! Get some!

Another Mean Motherfucker - Full Metal Jacket

 An american helicopter roars low over the vietnamese countryside.

The door gunner is sending bursts of machine gun fire at everything in sight, whilst yelling 'Get some! Get some!'

On the ground, farmers, women, and children run madly for cover.

The gunner ceases firing, looks at his passengers, grins and says, 'Anyone who runs is a  V.C. Anyone who stands still is a well disciplined V.C.!'

Full Metal Jacket is a much more humorous  take on the vietnam war. It starts with a 'Rookies  getting licked into shape by grizzled drill instruuctor' sequence. This onne is unique in having a real U.S Marines DI doing his stuff. R. Lee Ermey was hired as a technical adviser, but when Stanley Kubrick saw a tape of Ermey shouting insults at a group of marines for 15 minutes while being pelted with tennis balls and oranges, neither flinching or repeating himself, he fired the original actor and hired Ermey instead. From personal experience I know that most DI's think they're comedians, but Ermey is very, very funny, and very, very scary, It's enough to put you off volunteering, that's for sure. Check him out here. 

The rest of the film is more typical vietnam bloodletting, albeit with a higher (and blacker) humour content than most. Strangely, it was all shot in Britain. Beckton gasworks in the East End doubled for the city of Hue. You can tell, once you start looking.