Editing Full Metal Jacket (section)

===Casting===
[[File:Full_Metal_Jacket_-_Hartman's_Diagloue.webm|thumb|right|Ermey's performance with improvised verbal insults was an integral part in ''Full Metal Jacket'' that received critical acclaim.<ref name="lobrutto" />]]
Through [[Warner Bros. Pictures|Warner Bros.]], Kubrick advertised a casting search in the United States and Canada. He used [[videotape]] to audition actors and received over 3,000 submissions. Kubrick's staff screened the tapes, leaving 800 of them for him to review.<ref name="lobrutto" />{{rp|461}}

Former U.S. Marines drill instructor Lee Ermey was originally hired as a [[technical advisor]]. Ermey asked Kubrick if he could audition for the role of Hartman. Kubrick, who had seen Ermey's portrayal of drill instructor Staff Sergeant Loyce in ''[[The Boys in Company C]]'' (1978), told Ermey that he was not vicious enough to play the character. Ermey improvised insulting dialogue against a group of [[Royal Marines]] who were being considered for the part of background Marines in order to demonstrate his ability to play the character and to show how a drill instructor attacks individuality in new recruits.<ref name="lobrutto" />{{rp|462}} Upon viewing the videotape of these sessions, Kubrick offered Ermey the role, realizing he "was a genius for this part".<ref name="rose" /> Kubrick incorporated the 250-page transcript of Ermey's rants into the script.<ref name="lobrutto" />{{rp|462–463}} Ermey's experience as a drill instructor during the Vietnam War proved invaluable; Kubrick estimated that Ermey wrote 50% of his character's dialogue, particularly the insults.<ref name="cahill" />

While Ermey practiced his lines in a rehearsal room, Kubrick's assistant [[Leon Vitali]] would throw tennis balls and oranges at him, which Ermey had to catch and throw back as quickly as possible while saying his lines as fast as he could. Any hesitation, slowdown, slip or missed line would necessitate restarting, and 20 error-free runs were required. "[He] was my drill instructor," Ermey said of Vitali.<ref name="lobrutto" />{{rp|463}}<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/30/movies/jacket-actor-invents-his-dialogue.html | title='Jacket' Actor Invents His Dialogue | work=The New York Times | date=June 30, 1987 | last1=Harmetz | first1=Aljean }}</ref>

Nine months of negotiations to cast [[Anthony Michael Hall]] as Private Joker were unsuccessful; Hall would later regret not doing the film.<ref name="ugodz" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-04-03-ca-928-story.html|title=MOVIES : On the Rebound With Anthony Michael Hall|date=
April 3, 1988|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://dnyuz.com/2024/06/13/anthony-michael-halls-biggest-regret-is-turning-down-kubricks-full-metal-jacket/|title=Anthony Michael Hall's biggest regret is turning down Kubrick's 'Full Metal Jacket'|date=June 13, 2024|newspaper=DNYUZ}}</ref> [[Val Kilmer]] was also considered for the role, and [[Bruce Willis]] declined a role because of commitments to his television series ''[[Moonlighting (TV series)|Moonlighting]]''.<ref name="Willis" /> Kubrick offered [[Ed Harris]] the role of Hartman but Harris declined it, a decision that he later called "foolish".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sharf |first=Zack |date=2018-05-02 |title=Ed Harris Rejected a Direct Offer From Stanley Kubrick, and He Knows 'It Was Foolish' |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2018/05/ed-harris-rejected-stanley-kubrick-full-metal-jacket-1201959566/ |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=IndieWire |language=en}}</ref> [[Robert De Niro]] was also considered for the role, although Kubrick eventually felt that the audience would "feel cheated" if De Niro's character were killed in the first hour.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2010/04/kubrick-199908|title=Kubrick|date=April 21, 2010|magazine=Vanity Fair}}</ref> [[Bill McKinney]] was also considered for the part, but Kubrick professed an irrational fear of the actor. McKinney was known for his role as a rural psychopath in 1972's ''[[Deliverance]]'', most memorably in a sequence that Kubrick described as "the most terrifying scene ever put on film". McKinney was about to fly from Los Angeles to London to audition for Kubrick and the producers when he received a message at the airport informing him that his audition had been canceled. However, McKinney was paid in full.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-09-24 |title=Story of the Scene: 'Say it again, Bobby' and other greats |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/story-of-the-scene-say-it-again-bobby-and-other-greats-1792684.html |access-date=2023-11-09 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref> [[Denzel Washington]] showed interest in the film but Kubrick did not send him a script.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2012/08/5-things-you-might-not-know-about-stanley-kubricks-full-metal-jacket-107476/|title=5 Things You Might Not Know About Stanley Kubrick's 'Full Metal Jacket'|date=August 7, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gq.com/story/denzel-washington-interview-gq-october-2012|title=Denzel Washington GQ October 2012 Cover Story|website=GQ|date=September 18, 2012}}</ref>