What does Semper Fi mean? [It's a shortened version of the Latin phrase 'Semper Fidelis', which means 'always faithful'.]
Answered by Tailkinker
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Pvt Joker: Do you suck dick, private?
Pvt Pyle: Sir no sir!
Pvt Joker: Buuulshit! I bet you could suck a golf ball through a garden hose, faggot!
Mistakes
In the scene where 8-ball gets shot, in the shot which shows the platoon ducking near a wall with Cowboy, Joker and Animal Mother in the front, there are two weapon related errors. Cowboy's M-16 has a nickel (silver colored) firing assembly and Joker's M-16 has an A2 type pistol grip. The A2 types were introduced somewhere around the 80s, and nickel plated assemblies are rarely used (and were invented after Vietnam, too). The nickel assembly is visible at the beginning of the shot, and you can see the A2 grip when Joker is changing magazines (while Cowboy shouts cease fire). See more...
Trivia
The Vietnam scenes were shot in England. Kubrick had full-grown palm trees planted for those scenes. See more...
Full Metal Jacket (1987) - 2 questions
Directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Adam Baldwin, Arliss Howard, Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio (add more)
Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
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What does Semper Fi mean? [It's a shortened version of the Latin phrase 'Semper Fidelis', which means 'always faithful'.]
Answered by Tailkinker
Private Joker asks the gunner on the chopper about how he is able to shoot women and children, and the gunner replies by saying 'it's easy, you just don't lead them so much'. Does anyone know what that means? [To lead means to aim ahead of a moving target. His statement means that women and children don't run as fast as men, so you don't need to aim as far in front of them to hit them.]
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