Full Metal Jacket - Hello Vietnam

[JohnLutherable]

Kubrick was such a fun guy, keeping this scene for last after like, 15 months of filming. imagine the laughs!

[onasimp]

The only place a terrible barber can have a successful career.

[milt]

You never forget that hair cut. Running your hand over your head where your hair once was and feeling the oils on your scalp is an experience.

[philbrown]

I remember the haircut and the first day/night, sleeping with my sea bag between my legs. MCRD, 1968, Nam Vet, 68-69. My dad, Marines 38-46, South Pacific. He passed before I joined. I would have loved trading stories about Boot Camp with him. I miss you dad.

[SJMJ]

The most awkward moment would be if after shaving their head, Kubrick would say that the take was rubbish!

[lesbrown]

One of the greatest intros to a movie I have ever seen.

[mestillme]

This was the last scene to be shot in the production of the movie. Imagine being an actor who just endured the forever grind of making a Stanley Kubrick movie. Doing10, 30, maybe 50 takes on each scene. Being done and going back to living your life. And then you have to go back to having your hair brutally and quickly shaved off again months later. No wonder they look so pissed.

[patrickobeid]

Pyle was the only one having a grin on his face

[unclelou]

"Is that you John Wayne? Is this me?"

[dennisblueeyes]

I joined the Army back in November 1989. My friend and I watched this movie the night before we left for basic. We where scared, but were ready. Was discharged honorably in 1998. I miss it today

[JBrander]

I've been through regimented, and for me THIS is the point where it just hits you that you're no longer a civilian. The blank faces staring off at the distance is accurate as well. Contemplating the hell that you're about to go through and truly realizing that you won't be seeing home, family, or friends for a long while, with occasional thoughts of "what the hell have I gotten myself into".

[Gabriel-zjuj]

Fun fact: this scene was shoted after the film was done, they waited until everyone grew their hair back, thats why they all seem kind of pissed

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

Great movie about war, life and how about a person can be driven over the edge. Total truth.

[derrickrobbins]

I came in with almost no hair and they still ran the clippers over my bald ass head. Thought i was gonna get over but nope! 😆

[fieryphoenix]

Given that this was the last scene they filmed, and everyone's hair had grown back by this time, "Private Pyle" looks like he is keeping himself from laughing.

[victormaldonado]

this scene is perfect to start the movie, it is a more realistic vision of what compulsory military recruitment is in times of war, the young people are sitting helplessly knowing that they are not there by choice, that many of them will not return home and that those who return will be marked for life

[triagrammer]

The older I get, the more I appreciate Kubrick - he was in a class of his own..

[thurmanbaseballfuriesleade]

R.I.P. R lee ermey
1944-2018
- The marine corps lives forever

[STVG]

Such a fantastic movie. Dad took me to see it when it came out and I was blown away. Well, as much as a kid who loved war movies could me. Kubrick eventually came to be one of my favorite directors. Surprisingly, this didn't deter me from enlisting four years later.

[TRockettIRISH]

One of the realist intros ever I remember getting buzzed like it was yesterday