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Ronald Lee Ermey (March 24, 1944 – April 15, 2018) was an American actor and U.S. Marine drill instructor.He achieved fame for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war film directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick from a screenplay he co-wrote with Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford. The film is based on Hasford's 1979 autobiographical novel The Short-Timers. It stars Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Baldwin, Dorian Harewood, and Arliss Howard.
It was among the first Vietnam War films to appear after the Vietnam Era, and was also the first role for R. Lee Ermey of Full Metal Jacket fame. [3] It is the first in Furie's Vietnam War motion-picture trilogy, followed by Under Heavy Fire (2001) and The Veteran (2006).
Kimmel played a clip of Trump going on an extended riff about how R. Lee Ermey was cast in “Full Metal Jacket,” the 1987 Stanley Kubrick film:
Related: R. Lee Ermey, star of Full Metal Jacket, dies at 74. Modine continues, "ironically, Trump has twisted and profoundly distorted Kubrick's powerful anti-war film into a perverse, homophobic ...
Ermey was a former U.S. Marine Corps staff sergeant and honorary gunnery sergeant, and served as a drill instructor during his tenure from 1961-1972. R. Lee Ermey, 'Full Metal Jacket' Golden Globe ...
Ermey's “Full Metal Jacket” co-star Matthew Modine, who played Private Joker in the film and is in some of the clips included in Trump's video, saw things differently. “Ironically, Trump has twisted and profoundly distorted Kubrick’s powerful anti-war film into a perverse, homophobic, and manipulative tool of propaganda,” Modine told ...
The song's lyrics deal mainly with political corruption. The song includes dialogue samples from R. Lee Ermey's drill instructor character in Full Metal Jacket. Ministry's version was featured in the 1992 science fiction film Freejack, also in the 2009 video game Brütal Legend.