As Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, R. Lee Ermey's unscripted, ad-libbed performance became ...

But in Full Metal Jacket, one of the film’s most unforgettable ... the real-life Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, R. Lee Ermey wasn’t even cast in the role to begin with.

“Full Metal Jacket” carries those films’ themes of dehumanization into an even more brutal place. Split between the harrowing boot-camp tyranny of R. Lee Ermey’s drill instructor and the ...