R. Lee Ermey

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q353978: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as craft, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they worked on, which the two lists below run through too: Apocalypse Now (1979); Full Metal Jacket (1987); Purple Hearts; The Boys in Company C. Count them as actor (7 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Holocaust movie (Kubrick's unmade film): 1 line

  1. career (career sequence) · through Full Metal Jacket (1987), which they worked on as technical advisor / source of the insults: Holocaust movie (Kubrick's unmade film) ⇒ Full Metal Jacket (the host's read). Full Metal Jacket came out of Kubrick failing to crack a Holocaust movie, as Barry Lyndon came out of Napoleon.
    “it does feel similar to Full Metal Jacket coming out of him trying to make a Holocaust movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:23:33 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

R. Lee Ermey: 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (source of the dialogue) · through Full Metal Jacket (1987), which they worked on as technical advisor / source of the insults: R. Lee Ermey ⇒ Full Metal Jacket (the host's read). Per the dossier Hartman's insults came right from Ermey, whom Kubrick had write down what he screamed.
    “No, obviously this guy is perfect and would write down everything he said because all the insults came right from him”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:05:50 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

The Short-Timers (novel): 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Full Metal Jacket (1987), which they worked on as technical advisor / source of the insults: The Short-Timers (novel) ⇒ Full Metal Jacket (the host's read). Kubrick's film is based on Gustav Hasford's novel and keeps its three-part structure.
    “Stanley Kubrick's film, 1987, based on the novel, The Short Timers by Gustav Hasford.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:25:08 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Wartime Lies / Aryan Papers (unmade Kubrick project): 1 line

  1. career (project that led to another) · through Full Metal Jacket (1987), which they worked on as technical advisor / source of the insults: Wartime Lies / Aryan Papers (unmade Kubrick project) ⇒ Full Metal Jacket (the host's read). The speaker says Full Metal Jacket came out of Kubrick searching for the right Holocaust material.
    “Full Mal Jack comes out of him searching for the right Holocaust material.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:29:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Dead Presidents (1995): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Full Metal Jacket (1987), which they worked on as technical advisor / source of the insults: Full Metal Jacket ⇒ Dead Presidents (the maker said so: Lorenz Tate recalling the Hughes brothers' videotapes). Allen Hughes made a VHS of Vietnam scenes; Tate was assigned Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, Platoon.
    “So I watched Full Metal Jacket.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:43 · Lorenz Tate (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft) · through Apocalypse Now (1979), which they worked on as technical advisor: Apocalypse Now ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read). The Hughes brothers kept an Apocalypse Now poster; the film borrows its helicopter shots.
    “The directors were big time movie obsessives, who kept an apocalypse now poster on the wall of their Hollywood studio.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:27 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

Full Metal Jacket (1987): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (source of the dialogue) · them, directly: R. Lee Ermey ⇒ Full Metal Jacket (the host's read). Per the dossier Hartman's insults came right from Ermey, whom Kubrick had write down what he screamed.
    “No, obviously this guy is perfect and would write down everything he said because all the insults came right from him”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:05:50 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Jarhead (2005): 1 line

  1. unmapped (generational template) · through Full Metal Jacket (1987), which they worked on as technical advisor / source of the insults: Full Metal Jacket ⇒ Jarhead (the host's read). Jarhead is described as trying to be the Full Metal Jacket of the Iraq war generation.
    “like jarhead feels like it's very much trying to be the full metal jacket.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:27:21 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019): 1 line

  1. lineage (visual influence) · through Apocalypse Now (1979), which they worked on as technical advisor: Apocalypse Now ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read). The dogs at Spahn Ranch play the role of the Duvall helicopters, constantly present and disorienting.
    “He wanted the dogs to be the helicopters.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Saving Private Ryan (1998): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Apocalypse Now (1979), which they worked on as technical advisor: Apocalypse Now ⇒ Saving Private Ryan (the host's read). Two decades of Apocalypse Now, Platoon and Born made Ryan's grit necessary.
    “By the time Saving Private Ryan was released, moviegoers have spent two decades being confronted by the likes of Apocalypse Now in Platoon and born in the Fourth of July.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:00:36 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Craft (4) everyone in craft

Acting (10) everyone in acting

Other (3) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

industry (1)

  1. industry (Oscar snub theory): Lou Gossett Jr. → R. Lee Ermey. A drill-sergeant Oscar win a couple years earlier may have cost Ermey a nomination.
    “Lou Gossett Jr. had just won an Oscar a couple years... So maybe it was kind of like, eh, drill sergeant, we've seen that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:12:30 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (source of the dialogue): R. Lee Ermey → Full Metal Jacket. Per the dossier Hartman's insults came right from Ermey, whom Kubrick had write down what he screamed.
    “No, obviously this guy is perfect and would write down everything he said because all the insults came right from him”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:05:50 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (typecasting shorthand): Full Metal Jacket → R. Lee Ermey. Anyone who casts Ermey assumes the audience has seen the film and is either paying homage or pulling the rug out.
    “anyone who uses him in a movie is like, well, you've seen full metal jacket. So we're either doing an homage to that or kind of pulling the rug out from that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:08:16 · Jon Gabrus (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. people (front-loaded performance): Mark Rylance → R. Lee Ermey. Rylance in Bridge of Spies is a comparable case of owning the first 45 minutes and being snubbed or split.
    “Like, I was thinking about Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:19:01 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (worked with): R. Lee Ermey → Stanley Kubrick. Ermey worked with Kubrick, even more famously exacting than Fincher, yet trashed Fincher as controlling.
    “But also he worked with Stanley Kubrick, who I consider even more famously exacting.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:55:17 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (technical advisor): R. Lee Ermey → Apocalypse Now. Ermey advised on Apocalypse Now and other Vietnam films before Full Metal Jacket.
    “Arlie Ermy had been a technical advisor in Apocalypse. Now, Purple Hearts, Boys and Company C, a lot of these Vietnam movies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:05:20 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about R. Lee Ermey: Ermey originally read for John Doe, then was cast as the quiet police captain.
    “Arli Ermy, I guess, read for John Doe, which is insane to think about.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:30:09 · Nick Wiger or Mike Mitchell (unresolved) (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about R. Lee Ermey: TV shows reveal a character's father is Ermey as shorthand for why the son is wound so tight.
    “several TV shows using the reveal of, oh, and our lead character's father is Arly Ermy, and you understand what that means in shorthand.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:08:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about R. Lee Ermey: A car accident left him unable to film for four and a half months and explains the arm he does not move.
    “Arlie Ermy got in a really bad car accident and couldn't film anything for 4.5 months”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:47:51 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about R. Lee Ermey: Legend: Kubrick saw a video of Ermey rattling off insults while being pelted with tennis balls and oranges, never breaking.
    “There's like this legend that there's this video of Arli Ermy that Kubrick saw of him rattling off all these like insults and scream while being like pelted with tennis balls and oranges and never and never breaking.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:06:37 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about R. Lee Ermey: Ermey says they used animal shears on the recruits' heads for bigger chunks of hair on camera.
    “Ermy Ermy in the commentary says they use animal shears because they needed it to get like the bigger cinematically get bigger chunks of hair”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 2:23:56 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)