***** FULL METAL JACKET The screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford Based on the novel The short-Timers by Gustav Hasford 1987
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34 EXT. BLEACHERS--DAY The platoon sits on bleachers facing HARTMAN.
HARTMAN: Do any of you people know who Charles Whitman was?
[No response.]
HARTMAN: None of you dumbasses knows?
[COWBOY raises his hand.]
HARTMAN: Private Cowboy?
COWBOY: Sir, he was that guy who shot all those people from that tower in Austin, Texas, sir!
HARTMAN: That's affirmative. Charles Whitman killed twenty people from a twenty-eight-storey observation tower at the University of Texas from distances up to four hundred yards.
[HARTMAN looks around.]
HARTMAN: Anybody know who Lee Harvey Oswald was?
[Almost everybody raises his hand.]
HARTMAN: Private Snowball?
SNOWBALL: Sir, he shot Kennedy, sir!
HARTMAN: That's right, and do you know how far away he was?
SNOWBALL: Sir, it was pretty far! From that book suppository building, sir!
[The recruits laugh at "suppository."]
HARTMAN: All right, knock it off! Two hundred and fifty feet! He was two hundred and fifty feet away and shooting at a moving target. Oswald got off three rounds with an old Italian bolt action rifle in only six seconds and scored two hits, including a head shot! Do any of you people know where these individuals learned to shoot?
[JOKER raises his hand.]
HARTMAN: Private Joker?
JOKER: Sir, in the Marines, sir!
HARTMAN: In the Marines! Outstanding! Those individuals showed what one motivated marine and his rifle can do! And before you ladies leave my island, you will be able to do the same thing!
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