Tony meets up with David, an old school friend at a parent's function at Meadow's high school. David expresses interest in joining a high-stakes poker game that Tony has organized, but Tony isn't so sure that David can handle it. He allows it, but his misgivings turn out to be well-founded when David, now heavily in debt to Tony, reveals that he wanted in the game in order to pay off gambling debts to Richie Aprile. Tony's collection tactics start impacting the lives of Meadow's school friends, and she finds herself isolated at a key moment. Junior, meanwhile, tells Tony about a relative he never knew he had.
Even though this movie clearly establishes early on that it takes place at the real Ft. Polk, Louisiana, USA (including displaying a big, on-screen, entrance sign at the very beginning), all the sources of film data describing this movie state that it takes place at 'fictional' Ft. Lake, Louisiana, USA.
The actors had no trailers, make-up artists, hairstylists, chairs or any of the typical luxuries.
The paperback book Bozz is reading at the beginning of the film is Dalton Trumbo's famous anti-war novel "Johnny Got His Gun" about a horribly wounded veteran of the First World War.
The word "fuck" is used 276 times in this 98-minute film.
Th movie's widest theatrical release was only five theaters.
Sergeant:
Any questions?
Bozz:
I got a question, Sergeant. If I'm dead, how come I can ask you a question?
Soldier Boy:
Well, the fellas say that if you don't wanna go to Nam, you better pray to Jesus or talk to Roland Bozz.
Bozz:
Courage is when you're the only guy who knows how shit-scared you really are.
Miter:
You know what I am Bozz? I'm a butcher.
Bozz:
Yeah, we all butchers, Miter.
Miter:
No, I'm a real butcher.
Bozz:
Shit, you haven't killed anyone yet.
Miter:
God damn it, Bozz, I mean a real butcher. Back home I cut meat.
Bozz:
What else they gonna do? Send us to Viet-Fucking-Nam? Too late for that shit.
Johnson:
You know what your problem is Wilson? You need to listen for the pop.
Wilson:
Whoa, whoa. What's "the pop", Johnson?
Johnson:
That's the sound you're gonna make when your head comes out of your ass for the first time.
Bozz:
Nobody saves anybody you stupid son of a bitch.
Bozz:
Hey let's not become friends, Jim. You could be dead tomorrow and I'd miss you too much.
Private:
Sarge, you got any advice on how to stay alive in vietnam?
Sergeant Cota:
Yes, I do, Private. Don't go.
Bozz:
My friend here wants to go for the experience, Sergent. Says he ain't scared.
Sergeant Cota:
Good luck, Private. You ask me, I'll stick with the smart and the scared.
[After seeing a demonstration on electrocuting someone's balls]
Sergeant:
No one said you could leave soldier.
Bozz:
Why?
Sergeant:
Why what?
Bozz:
Why would I want to do that to another human being?
Bozz:
Jim just shut the fuck up! This is - I know what I'm doin' here!
Bozz:
Damnit Cantwell! Shit man. Shit! Fuck, I don't even know you, man! You sittin' there telling your fucking stories. You make me want to fuckin' cry! What's that about?
Bozz:
Just cause you got the stripes don't mean you ain't gonna die.
Sergeant:
What's the purpose of this cluster fuck?
Bozz:
[spoken quickly] Wilson tried to switch targets with Cantwell, Sergeant.
Wilson:
What?
Jim:
[talking quickly] True Sergeant I saw him do it!
Sergeant:
Get up Lazarus! You're resurrected!
Bozz:
[kicks Wilson] ... get up...
Cantwell:
Doesn't it strike you how each one of us is a little bit of everything, and everything is shit.
Bozz:
If I told you there was a bunch of people around here who get us to Mexico, away from the war, would you go?
Paxton:
No... no I wouldn't. I enlisted, so there is a place for me... and if I don't go, somebody is gonna take that place. And if they die, they're dying for me.
[Reading girls' palms at a bar]
Bozz:
Well it says here you got a long sex line.
Claudia:
Where's it say that?
Bozz:
I don't know, but it says you're gonna be havin' some sex real soon.
Cheri:
Woah what about me?
Bozz:
Oh Yeah. Some Sex for Cheri, too.
Paxton:
My father said the army makes one man, but you never know which one. He never knew Roland Bozz.
Captain Saunders:
You are pissing your life away.
Roland Bozz:
Well, I don't need the fucking army and I don't need the fucking war to tell me that, Sir!
Roland Bozz:
Is this a trick? You tryin' to make me a hero, or somethin'?
Sergeant Ezra Landers:
Nope.
Sergeant Cota:
Private Wilson! Private fucking Wilson! You will put the gun on safety and raise it above your fucking head or I will blow your fucking brains out!
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the scene at the pistol range, Wilson challenges Bozz with a M1911 .45 pistol. After the encounter a SSG comments the pistol is "Jammed". It is not jammed. The slide is in battery so there is no stoppage of the weapon. It may be a misfire or a hangfire, but not a jam.
References
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Referenced in
Minority Report (2002)
On the Set of Sightlines (2003) (V)
- Actor Nick Searcy makes reference to this title while giving his partial verbal résumé.