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Originally posted by Mark_H:
A *great* film. R Lee Ermey as Gny. Sgt. Hartman is one of my all time favourite movie rolls.
Agreed. What makes him so good is that he was a real Marine Sergeant.

From R Lee's Wikipedia site here .

"He was only intended to be the technical advisor, but Kubrick changed his mind after hearing Ermey's hair-raising DI tirades, allowing him to write his own dialogue and improvise on set, a noted rarity in a Kubrick film."