Youssef, or Perhaps Not: Someone at Yahoo News has a sense of humor (INCORRECT)

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Someone at Yahoo News has a sense of humor (INCORRECT)

Army aims to coax back former troops - Yahoo! News is th title of the story they are running. Go on, click on the link; have a look at that picture. Recognize that scene?

Full Metal Jacket, Stanley Kubrick. A movie about Army abuse.

UPDATE: Apparently, I am wrong (as duly pointed out in the comments by craig); this is an actual picture of Marines. For anyone who's seen Full Metal Jacket, you will still see the uncanny resemblance; I suppose Kubrick really does his homework.

Thanks Craig!

¶ 12:51 PM

Comments:

Full Metal Jacket is about Marines. Maybe you are thinking of Platoon, by Oliver Stone? That was about the Army...

# posted by

programmer craig : 7:11 AM

BTW, you misidentified that photo. That's a real marine drill instructor, and a real marine recruit. That's the new cammie woodland print. It's only been in service a couple years.

BTW, we don't (ex-mArines like me) consider the treatment we recieve in bootcamp to be abuse. We're strange that way.

# posted by

programmer craig : 7:14 AM

Craig, you're right on both counts... I'm pretty amazed. I am not American nor am I an Army type, so the lack of understanding of the difference between the Army and the Marines can be forgiven, but that shot (which you are right about, I misidentified it) looks exactly like a lot of scenes from "Full Metal Jacket".

Live a day... :)

Thanks for the correction, I'll amend the posting.

# posted by

Youssef M. Assad : 10:10 AM

Hi Youssef... Full Metal Jacket was so well done, it really DID seem like bootcamp. I've never seen it portrayed better in another movie. Although it was a dark and unglamorous look at the Marines during Vietnam, it's really a masterpiece in it's realism.

# posted by

programmer craig : 11:56 PM