![]() ![]() recruiting people who would previously be considered as physically/mentally unfit for service, as well as people with criminal records). ![]() Project 100,000 was an attempt to increase the number of drafted soldiers by drastically lowering the recruitment standards ( i.e. The movie is set at the time Project 100,000 was in place. ![]() Regardless of how you feel about the blanket party he orchestrated, he also urged Joker not to report Pyle's growing instability when the latter suggested doing so. There's also the concept that Cowboy is responsible, or at least shares some of the blame.Instead of either taking the (unloaded) rifle away and alerting the MPs, or just alerting the MPs, he just stands and watches Pyle, who has clearly snapped, load a magazine and load his rifle, and as a result two Marines die. ![]() Or, it's Joker who is unfit, since he does nothing when he finds Pyle loading a rifle in the head (a violation of at least three regulations).On the other side of the coin, some people either see Private Lawrence as The Woobie who was ultimately broken due to being relentlessly bullied by the Drill Sergeant Nasty, while others look at him as someone who really did not have the mental fortitude to make it as a Marine and who really should have dropped out for the good of both himself and everyone else.Lee Ermey-a former Drill Instructor from that time period himself- jossed this by placing Hartman firmly in the latter camp note Ermey declared that Hartman's antics crossed the line into abuse territory, and thus were not only counter-productive, but would have gotten him court-martialed in real life, but the debates still rage to this day. Gunnery Sergeant Hartman was either just doing his job and honestly trying to prepare his trainees for war, or his methods were so unnecessarily extreme and brutal that they drove one of his recruits to madness and got both himself and said recruit killed.Who bears most of the responsibility for Lawrence's murder-suicide of Hartman?.Adaptation Displacement: It's based on a novel. ![]()
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