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R Lee Ermey cracks me up anyway, but I almost fell out of my chair when I saw this ad on tv.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhlWddAXSRA
Ret10Echo
07-08-2010, 17:38
I watched that commercial the other night. Thought it was hilarious. Waiting for the lawsuits :D
(mamby-pamby land.... who writes that...:D)
Oh I love him! That commercial is great....just saw it on TV too!:D
dr. mabuse
07-08-2010, 20:27
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ZonieDiver
07-08-2010, 21:28
MOO, but if more shrinks, counselors, parents, teachers, and friends were
like that, the world would be better off! (Except, perhaps, for 'Gomer Pyle'!) ;)
OORAH GUNNY!
Next time I see someone crying I think I'll politely as if they'd like a tissue.
Then I'll whip the box at them :D
How can anyone not love Gunnery Sergeant Hartman?
greenberetTFS
07-09-2010, 12:51
He did make me laugh............ :) Didn't he get into the actor business from his role as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket? ;)
Big Teddy :munchin
Bill Harsey
07-09-2010, 13:27
After speaking with R. Lee Ermey a couple times he disclosed he came from Pacific Northwest logging roots.
The Marine Corps was a finishing school. ;)
I saw that commercial and about pooped myself I was laughing so hard.
He did make me laugh............ :) Didn't he get into the actor business from his role as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Steel Metal Jacket? ;)
Big Teddy
Quick bio on the Gunny....
Ermey was cast in his first movie while attending the University of Manila in the Philippines, using his G.I. Bill benefits. He first played a Marine drill instructor (SSgt Loyce) in the 1978 Vietnam-era film The Boys in Company "C", which brought Ermey to the attention of Stanley Kubrick in later years. Ermey then played an Air Cavalry Officer in Apocalypse Now, doubling as a technical advisor to director Francis Ford Coppola on that film. He also served as Louis Gossett's technical advisor for the film An Officer and a Gentleman. For the next few years, Ermey played a series of minor film roles until 1987, when he was cast as tough drill instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket; Ermey also served as the technical advisor on the film. Initially, he was only intended to be the technical advisor, but Kubrick changed his mind after Ermey put together an instructional tape to convince Kubrick he was the right person for the role, in which Ermey went on an extended hair-raising drill instructor tirade towards several Royal Marines cast as extras, all the while being pelted by oranges and tennis balls, and managing to do so without repeating himself, stopping, or even flinching. Seeking absolute military authenticity for the film, Kubrick allowed Ermey to write or edit his own dialogue and improvise on the set, a noted rarity in a Kubrick film. Kubrick later indicated that Ermey was an excellent performer, often needing just two or three takes per scene, also a noted rarity for a Kubrick film. Ermey's performance won critical raves and he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award as Best Supporting Actor. He would subsequently play a tough drill instructor in the pilot episode of Space: Above and Beyond and ghost of a drill instructor in the film The Frighteners, both similar to his character in Full Metal Jacket.
*Before Kubrick gave the part of Gunny Sgt. Hartman to Ermey, he had another actor cast for that part. Kubrick felt so bad about first casting that actor, then telling him later that he wasn't going to play the role, he wrote another scene for that actor. The scene was, when Joker and Rafter Man were on the Helo heading into Huy City, and the door gunner was firing his 60 at the civvies, it was the door gunner was originally suppossed to play the part of Hartman.
As a side note, I've heard while he was in the P.I. at the University of Manila, Ermey ran a Brothel......;) :D
1stindoor
07-15-2010, 10:47
Who remembers him in Saving Silverman?
Red Flag 1
07-15-2010, 12:08
An award winning ad! YMMV
RF 1
BoyScout
07-15-2010, 21:39
Who remembers him in Saving Silverman?
That twist at the end with Jack Black through me off balance a little, I saw it coming but it still through me off balance.
greenberetTFS
07-16-2010, 12:27
Saw him in a film where he was after Danny Glover(A killer with his knife) but don't remember the title? :confused:
Big Teddy :munchin
mark46th
07-17-2010, 14:56
He played a helicopter pilot in Apocalypse Now during Robert Duvall's Cavalry attack...
Drill, ( or any kind of,) Sergeants are sexy as hell!!! :D
Loved it!!!!!!:p
Holly....hehehehehe