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Kubrick rarely allowed improvisation—except ‘FULL METAL JACKET’ The actor R. Lee Ermey’s ad-libs were so perfect, Kubrick barely needed 2–3 takes. Ermey later said Vincent D’Onofrio’s performance wasn’t just great—it was best part of the entire film.

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Full Metal Jacket (1987) Stanley Kubrick allowed R. Lee Ermey to just wing it, an act practically unheard of for Kubrick. Ermey was so good, Kubrick rarely needed more than three takes per scenes, another rarity. R. Lee Ermey became a legend in just 40 minutes of screen time.

Full Metal Jacket (1987) Stanley Kubrick allowed R. Lee Ermey to just wing it, an act practically unheard of for Kubrick. Ermey was so good, Kubrick rarely needed more than three takes per scenes, another rarity. R. Lee Ermey became a legend in just 40 minutes of screen time.

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Director Stanley Kubrick had nothing but praise for R. Lee Ermey’s skills as a performer. Kubrick originally was going to write dialogue for Ermey’s character himself, but he became so impressed with what Ermey improvised, he decided it was not necessary. He simply let him ad-lib, an act practically unheard of for a Stanley Kubrick film. Ermey’s performances were so faultless that Kubrick only needed two to three takes to get his scenes filmed, which was also extremely rare for a Kubrick film. 🎥: Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Director Stanley Kubrick had nothing but praise for R. Lee Ermey’s skills as a performer. Kubrick originally was going to write dialogue for Ermey’s character himself, but he became so impressed with what Ermey improvised, he decided it was not necessary. He simply let him ad-lib, an act practically unheard of for a Stanley Kubrick film. Ermey’s performances were so faultless that Kubrick only needed two to three takes to get his scenes filmed, which was also extremely rare for a Kubrick film. 🎥: Full Metal Jacket (1987)

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Stanley Kubrick was so impressed by R. Lee Ermey that he scrapped written dialogue and let him improvise — unheard of for a Kubrick film. Most scenes took 2–3 takes. Only The “jelly doughnut” scene took 37 takes until Ermey’s voice started giving out.

Stanley Kubrick was so impressed by R. Lee Ermey that he scrapped written dialogue and let him improvise — unheard of for a Kubrick film. Most scenes took 2–3 takes. Only The “jelly doughnut” scene took 37 takes until Ermey’s voice started giving out.

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Full Metal Jacket Trivia (1987) To make Gunnery Sgt. Hartman's performance and the recruits' reactions as convincing as possible, Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio, and the other actors playing recruits never met R. Lee Ermey prior to filming. Stanley Kubrick also saw to it that Ermey didn't fraternize with the actors between takes.

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R. Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket (1987) became iconic in just 40 mins of screen time. Kubrick allowed him to improvise, a rarity for the director, & his work was so precise that most scenes required only a few takes. Yet he never received a nomination.

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This is a great trailer for the 4K release of FULL METAL JACKET. It premiered 39 years ago #OnThisDay in Beverly Hills, CA. It was the longest production I’ve ever been involved with. While working with Kubrick in London, we found out my wife was pregnant, my son was born, and he turned 1 — all before the film was complete. If you’d like to support the Full Metal Jacket Diary project and exhibition, you can bid on a signed set of Kubrick movies here:

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WATCH: Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut had a lot of secret truths hidden in it. Eyes Wide Shut was not the movie Kubrick intended audiences to see. The studio cut 24 minutes from the film, and just a few days later, the legendary filmmaker was dead... What was in those 24 minutes? And what happens at the real masked parties? The director was found dead on March 7th, 1999, at his home in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, just six days after screening the final cut of Eyes Wide Shut to Warner Brothers executives. As a result, he was unable to control the release of what was to be his final film... Considering the theme of Eyes Wide Shut, the fact Stanley Kubrick had first thought of casting actor Woody Allen as the lead actor in the movie only hyperbolizes the so-called conspiracy theories about the film. The director also considered Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty, Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin, Albert Brooks, Bill Murray, Sam Shepherd, and Tom Hanks for the leading role. What was Stanley Kubrick trying to tell us in this movie from 1999? #LolitaExpress #JeffreyEpstein #GhislaineMaxwell #Adrenochrome #EpsteinClientList #EpsteinFlightLogs #EpsteinIsland #SexTrafficking #HumanTrafficking #ChildTrafficking #Hollywood #Disney #pedophile #pedowood #pizzagate #pedogate #sexslave #CrimesAgainstHumanity #mkultra #TunnelJews #SATANIC #Rothschild #illuminati Alex Jones Illuminati Coin $NATI 👁️ #IlluminatiCoin 🦉 IlluminatiCoin 𝕏 🕵️‍♂️ Join us:

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Stanley Kubrick on why he doesn't like to explain about his movies: "Interviewer: All the books, most of the articles I read about you—It’s all conceptualizing. Kubrick: Yeah, but not by me. I thought I had to ask those kinds of questions. No. Hell, no. That’s my... [He shudders.] It’s the thing I hate the worst. Interviewer: Really? I’ve got all these questions written down in a form I thought you might require. They all sound like essay questions for the finals in a graduate philosophy seminar. Kubrick: The truth is that I’ve always felt trapped and pinned down and harried by those questions. Questions like [reading from notes] “Your first feature, 'Fear and Desire', in 1953, concerned a group of soldiers lost behind enemy lines in an unnamed war; 'Spartacus' contained some battle scenes; 'Paths of Glory' was an indictment of war and, more specifically, of the generals who wage it; and 'Dr. Strangelove' was the blackest of comedies about accidental nuclear war. How does 'Full Metal Jacket' complete your examination of the subject of war? Or does it?” Those kinds of questions. Interviewer: You feel the real question lurking behind all the verbiage is “What does this new movie mean?” Kubrick: Exactly. And that’s almost impossible to answer, especially when you’ve been so deeply inside the film for so long. Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you’d read in a magazine. They want you to say, “This is the story of the duality of man and the duplicity of governments.” [A pretty good description of the subtext that informs Full Metal Jacket, actually.] I hear people try to do it— give the five-line summary — but if a film has any substance or subtlety, whatever you say is never complete, it’s usually wrong, and it’s necessarily simplistic: truth is too multifaceted to be contained in a five-line summary. If the work is good, what you say about it is usually irrelevant. I don’t know. Perhaps it’s vanity, this idea that the work is bigger than one’s capacity to describe it. Some people can do interviews. They’re very slick, and they neatly evade this hateful conceptualizing. Fellini is good; his interviews are very amusing. He just makes jokes and says preposterous things that you know he can’t possibly mean. I mean, I’m doing interviews to help the film, and I think they do help the film, so I can’t complain. But it isn’t... it’s... it’s difficult." (Stanley Kubrick's interview with Tim Cahill, 1987) Clip from: Full Metal Jacket (1987) Director: Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick on why he doesn't like to explain about his movies: "Interviewer: All the books, most of the articles I read about you—It’s all conceptualizing. Kubrick: Yeah, but not by me. I thought I had to ask those kinds of questions. No. Hell, no. That’s my... [He shudders.] It’s the thing I hate the worst. Interviewer: Really? I’ve got all these questions written down in a form I thought you might require. They all sound like essay questions for the finals in a graduate philosophy seminar. Kubrick: The truth is that I’ve always felt trapped and pinned down and harried by those questions. Questions like [reading from notes] “Your first feature, 'Fear and Desire', in 1953, concerned a group of soldiers lost behind enemy lines in an unnamed war; 'Spartacus' contained some battle scenes; 'Paths of Glory' was an indictment of war and, more specifically, of the generals who wage it; and 'Dr. Strangelove' was the blackest of comedies about accidental nuclear war. How does 'Full Metal Jacket' complete your examination of the subject of war? Or does it?” Those kinds of questions. Interviewer: You feel the real question lurking behind all the verbiage is “What does this new movie mean?” Kubrick: Exactly. And that’s almost impossible to answer, especially when you’ve been so deeply inside the film for so long. Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you’d read in a magazine. They want you to say, “This is the story of the duality of man and the duplicity of governments.” [A pretty good description of the subtext that informs Full Metal Jacket, actually.] I hear people try to do it— give the five-line summary — but if a film has any substance or subtlety, whatever you say is never complete, it’s usually wrong, and it’s necessarily simplistic: truth is too multifaceted to be contained in a five-line summary. If the work is good, what you say about it is usually irrelevant. I don’t know. Perhaps it’s vanity, this idea that the work is bigger than one’s capacity to describe it. Some people can do interviews. They’re very slick, and they neatly evade this hateful conceptualizing. Fellini is good; his interviews are very amusing. He just makes jokes and says preposterous things that you know he can’t possibly mean. I mean, I’m doing interviews to help the film, and I think they do help the film, so I can’t complain. But it isn’t... it’s... it’s difficult." (Stanley Kubrick's interview with Tim Cahill, 1987) Clip from: Full Metal Jacket (1987) Director: Stanley Kubrick

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Roman Polanski on the one piece of advice that cut through the noise after Sharon Tate's murder: In the months after his wife was killed, Polanski was in the middle of preparing a film called The Day of the Dolphin. Everyone around him (producers, friends, colleagues) was pushing him toward the same prescription. "Right after that, everybody was saying, go back to work," he recalls. "And everybody was saying, work, work. That's the best medicine." Then Stanley Kubrick called. Polanski remembers the conversation clearly: "I'm sure everybody tells you, go to work. I said, that's right. He says, I know you can't work. Why don't you just go away, you know, do some sports or something. And there will be a moment when you feel like getting out of the room." Kubrick was the only person in Polanski's life who told him the opposite of what everyone else was saying. Don't go to work right now. Don't force it. Wait until the moment arrives on its own. Polanski reflects on why Kubrick could see what no one else could: "He's very interested in all of us, in everything. Like I am, by the way. And we spent endless hours talking. I could see that he was trying to get my feelings. And I don't blame him for it. You know, it's a part of being a film director. But he's a very wise man."

Roman Polanski on the one piece of advice that cut through the noise after Sharon Tate's murder: In the months after his wife was killed, Polanski was in the middle of preparing a film called The Day of the Dolphin. Everyone around him (producers, friends, colleagues) was pushing him toward the same prescription. "Right after that, everybody was saying, go back to work," he recalls. "And everybody was saying, work, work. That's the best medicine." Then Stanley Kubrick called. Polanski remembers the conversation clearly: "I'm sure everybody tells you, go to work. I said, that's right. He says, I know you can't work. Why don't you just go away, you know, do some sports or something. And there will be a moment when you feel like getting out of the room." Kubrick was the only person in Polanski's life who told him the opposite of what everyone else was saying. Don't go to work right now. Don't force it. Wait until the moment arrives on its own. Polanski reflects on why Kubrick could see what no one else could: "He's very interested in all of us, in everything. Like I am, by the way. And we spent endless hours talking. I could see that he was trying to get my feelings. And I don't blame him for it. You know, it's a part of being a film director. But he's a very wise man."

History Nerd

28,294 views • 20 days ago

Hattie McDaniel as Aunt Tempe singing “Sooner or Later” in Song of the South 1946. Upon receiving an Academy Honorary Award for his performance in this film, James Baskett who played the role of Uncle Remus became the first Black male performer to receive an Academy Award. As you know, seven years earlier, Hattie McDaniel became the first Black actor to win an Academy Award (Best Supporting Actress, Gone with the Wind 1939. It wouldn't be until 1964 when a Black male performer would win the Academy Award for Best Actor: Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field 1963. Note: Two people who were not critical of the film's depiction of plantation former slaves were Hattie McDaniel and James Baskett. Both said that if they felt the film was offensive, they wouldn't have appeared in it.

Hattie McDaniel as Aunt Tempe singing “Sooner or Later” in Song of the South 1946. Upon receiving an Academy Honorary Award for his performance in this film, James Baskett who played the role of Uncle Remus became the first Black male performer to receive an Academy Award. As you know, seven years earlier, Hattie McDaniel became the first Black actor to win an Academy Award (Best Supporting Actress, Gone with the Wind 1939. It wouldn't be until 1964 when a Black male performer would win the Academy Award for Best Actor: Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field 1963. Note: Two people who were not critical of the film's depiction of plantation former slaves were Hattie McDaniel and James Baskett. Both said that if they felt the film was offensive, they wouldn't have appeared in it.

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98,179 views • 4 months ago

Winter was asked by a fan to choose which is the worst: 1. All the letters written by the fan were written by ChatGPT. 2. The fan was actually hired by SM. 3. The fan's real favorite member is someone else. Winter said #2 would hurt her the most. For #1 and #3, she said there's still at least some affection involved, so she'd be somewhat okay with them. But #2 would feel like a betrayal because it means the support was just part of a job. 😭😭😭

Winter was asked by a fan to choose which is the worst: 1. All the letters written by the fan were written by ChatGPT. 2. The fan was actually hired by SM. 3. The fan's real favorite member is someone else. Winter said #2 would hurt her the most. For #1 and #3, she said there's still at least some affection involved, so she'd be somewhat okay with them. But #2 would feel like a betrayal because it means the support was just part of a job. 😭😭😭

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374,936 views • 1 month ago

“I lived in a building in New York. Living above me was Martin Scorsese. I would go visit him at night. Every night Scorsese watched a movie. Every single night. I’d bring take out and listen and ask him questions. It was like taking a master’s degree in film. He knew every old director. I learned to be able to talk to Stanley Kubrick. He never had an agent except me. I could talk to him because Marty educated me. I did a lot of reading and I knew about those old directors. I had all of our people trained in the history of film and television. I bought every book that was published. I bought a book I’ll never forget: The History of the Emmy’s. It listed all the Emmy awards in history. I made our people watch every film in the history of the Academy Awards that won Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Writer. They got familiar with who these people are and what they contributed. And by doing so our people were so fluent in their business. They could talk television, they could talk movies, they could talk music. They knew history. Past is prologue. If you know history you can pretty much predict the future.”

“I lived in a building in New York. Living above me was Martin Scorsese. I would go visit him at night. Every night Scorsese watched a movie. Every single night. I’d bring take out and listen and ask him questions. It was like taking a master’s degree in film. He knew every old director. I learned to be able to talk to Stanley Kubrick. He never had an agent except me. I could talk to him because Marty educated me. I did a lot of reading and I knew about those old directors. I had all of our people trained in the history of film and television. I bought every book that was published. I bought a book I’ll never forget: The History of the Emmy’s. It listed all the Emmy awards in history. I made our people watch every film in the history of the Academy Awards that won Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Writer. They got familiar with who these people are and what they contributed. And by doing so our people were so fluent in their business. They could talk television, they could talk movies, they could talk music. They knew history. Past is prologue. If you know history you can pretty much predict the future.”

David Senra

1,519,424 views • 7 months ago