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Old 11-24-2011, 06:22 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam View Post
Could have fooled me.

I'm not a huge theater or film buff but I've seen my fair share of great films and I'm certain the "unscripted" ones sound like an idiot rambling more than anything else. The ONLY exception I can think to this comes courtesy of R. Lee Ermey, and he WAS a drill sergeant for a long time before he got involved in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket.


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You think Brando improvised that? Bull-fucking-shit.
What? Brando improvised R. Lee Ermy

Brando apparently read Hearts Of Darkness and remembered certain phrases that stuck out but the monologue was improvised and not all from source material.
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