{"id":136754,"date":"2018-04-16T09:38:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T13:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=136754"},"modified":"2018-04-16T10:25:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:25:46","slug":"r-i-p-r-lee-ermey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=136754","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. R. Lee Ermey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/slide-08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-136755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/slide-08.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/slide-08-100x33.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/slide-08-200x67.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/slide-08-768x256.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/slide-08-400x133.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nErmey, a Vietnam veteran, and Marine Corps drill instructor\/staff sergeant (with honorary promotion to gunnery sergeant), was probably most well-known for his real-life-mirroring portrayal of the tough Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s <i>Full Metal Jacket<\/i>. Who on earth can forget that opening scene? Ermey is not the only reason it works so well, but he&#8217;s a HUGE part of it. Casting AS storytelling: what Ermey presents IS the story. And he knows it in his bone marrow. <\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3j3_iPskjxk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nHe worked constantly, often playing a variation of that <i>Full Metal Jacket<\/i> role. He was incredibly touching and pained &#8211; and so REAL &#8211; as the father of the murdered girl in <i>Dead Man Walking<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/r-lee-ermey-and-celia-weston-in-dead-man-walking-1995.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1023\" height=\"684\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-136756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/r-lee-ermey-and-celia-weston-in-dead-man-walking-1995.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/r-lee-ermey-and-celia-weston-in-dead-man-walking-1995-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/r-lee-ermey-and-celia-weston-in-dead-man-walking-1995-200x134.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/r-lee-ermey-and-celia-weston-in-dead-man-walking-1995-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/r-lee-ermey-and-celia-weston-in-dead-man-walking-1995-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 1023px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAnd of COURSE he voiced &#8220;Sarge&#8221; in the Toy Story movies. <\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/305488e3-e97b-41e6-adee-b8fccbc73401.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-136757\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nNo other choice, really. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/balder-and-dash\/r-lee-ermey-1944-2018\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s a nice tribute on Rogerebert.com<\/a>, written by B.J. Bethel.<\/p>\n<p>Semper Fi.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sgt-hartman.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"245\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-136758\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ermey, a Vietnam veteran, and Marine Corps drill instructor\/staff sergeant (with honorary promotion to gunnery sergeant), was probably most well-known for his real-life-mirroring portrayal of the tough Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s Full Metal Jacket. Who on earth can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=136754\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136760,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136754\/revisions\/136760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}