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Full Metal Jacket, Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey)

Site Rating: 75%
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Writeup Rating: 60%
(ratings: 2)
Film: Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Deceased Character: Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey)
Archetype: Ambivalent (Major)
Killed by: Private Gomer Pyle (Vincent D'Onofrio)
Killed with: M14 Rifle


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Written by Mr. Mouseburger 31st Mar 2006

Kindly submitted by Damien

After a long period of grueling military training the belligerent Gunnery Sgt. Hartman (R. Lee Ermey) has pushed Private Gomer Pyle to the edge of his sanity.

Pyle has gone into Hartman's private head, and is followed by Private Joker. Hartman is alerted to this, and storms in to confront the pair. Pyle sitting on a latrine, rifle loaded. Now, when faced with a mentally unbalanced individual holding a weapon, most people would proceed with caution but not Hartman, who shouts, "What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? Didn't Mommy and Daddy show you enough attention when you were a child?"

This is enough to snap Private Pyle's tenuous links to rationality, and he unloads the gun into Hartman's chest, killing him instantly.



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This review has 5 comments. Reply to the comments
Comment 1 by 'Karl_Eichholtz_13' (reply to this comment)
you left out the archetype.Goody (minor) or Baddy (minor)?
Comment 2 by 'Karl_Eichholtz_13' (reply to this comment)
he should be Goody (Major) not Ambivalent (Major) or Baddy (Major)!
Comment 3 by 'Mr. Briggs Incorporated' (reply to this comment)
Despite being a marine sergeant, he is obviously meant to be sadistic and hated throughout the film.
Comment 4 by 'Rugged Ronnie' (reply to this comment)
Why not add tempting fate? If you've knowingly sent a guy to his limit, and now he's got a gun on you, you're really pushing it if you keep talking smack to him.
Comment 5 by 'Luke Jones' (reply to this comment)
He should've watched his mouth.