5 Fav Kubrick Scenes/Lines
Richard Romeo
richardromeo at hotmail.com
Thu Jul 22 14:23:51 CDT 1999
> > wot? no metnion of:
> >
> > "you're the kind of guy who would fuck a fellow marine in the ass and
> > not give him the benefit of the reach-around" (Sgt. Hartman - FMJ)
>
>I think the actual phrase is considerably more, er...colorful, something
>along the lines of "I bet you're the kind of faggot who wouldn't even have
>the common decency to give a fellow a reach-around while you're fucking
>him in the ass." Sgt. Hartman was not one to avoid the opportunity to
>impugn one's sexuality fully. The dark, dark comedy of the opening section
>of FMJ is what it sounds like EWS is either missing or even more subtly
>expresses, depending on whose viewing of the film you read. I'm seeing it
>tomorrow, so I can't speak for it (yet).
>
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That same Sarge is in another, earlier Vietnam movie called The Boys in
Company C, which is so bad, well, you have to see it. I wonder if the guy
who plays the drill sarge was really one in the Marines: he was perfect.
Rich
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