Full Metal Jacket – Drill Sergeant Improv
Actor R. Lee Ermey used his real life military experience to help create his always-yelling Drill Sergeant character in Stanley Kubrick’s war movie Full Metal Jacket. The actor didn’t improvise all of his insults, but he did create quite a few of them himself. In fact, it’s estimated that around half of Ermey’s dialogue is the result of improvisation. Ermey had plenty of material to draw from given his background in the Marine Corps.