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25 Great Scenes in Film that actually were not scripted, but rather, improvised. Please keep the captions on, as I will explain the improvisation.
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"...and not even have the God-damned common courtesy to give him a reach-around." If that was unscripted, a lot of credit has to be given to the guys for being able to keep straight faces.
it was scripted....decade upon decade in the military by numerous drill instructors and expanded upon in various ways depending on the training situation
I've never seen it before and laughed so hard - R Lee Ermey is so great!
Boss Cheese Emery wasn't in charge, but remaining in character, he might have just kept going with the scene and dished it out to the amused trainee. "What's so God-damned funny, you little nugget of rabbit shit?..." etc.
fucking idiot!! it was not scripted.
Astrobrant2 it wasnt scripted.. look at the interviews for full metal jacket n theyll tell you too..
"I bet you could suck a golf ball through a garden hose" That R Lee Ermey line always got me.
r lee ermey is the shit :P
SIR NO SIR
"LIKE TEARS IN THE RAIN" SUCH A DEEP THING TO SAY
I always stop and think of the physics of that...
The "tears in the rain" line was one of the most powerful lines in the film. And it was improvised! Genius!
R Lee Ermy is pretty well known for ad-libbing lines, and sometimes scenes entirely. He was originally brought into movies as an advisor, but impressed the big wigs so much he started acting also. For him, I would imagine, some of this stuff is memory as much as acting.
Fortunata Pacheco R. Lee Ermy was a former Drill instructor in the Marines, therefore what he said is typical stuff said by them to recruits. His entire dialog was his alone and not scripted.
When I was in USMC boot camp I heard some of the same lines. In fact some things that were said could not be utter in the movies.
"LIKE TEARS IN THE RAIN" SUCH A DEEP THING TO SAY
My favorite on this list by far.
yup ive watched that movie so many times just for that scene
My favorite movie moment of all time actually. There has never been a more poignant moment in cinematic history imo.
Rogue Bierluvre its a great movie the some people dont even apriciate they think its for scifi geeks or something other but it is a great movie
I like the earlier quote when he is at the eye makers lab. "If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes."
How in the hell did anyone keep it together while R. Lee Ermey done any one of his lines.
+therealdeadpen R. Lee Ermey's an actual drill sergeant. They were probably terrified of him while he was screaming and yelling. Although one guy is smiling while Ermey's screaming at him during this scene, lucky that corpsing worked out for that fella.
AdorableChou correction: drill INSTRUCTOR drill sergeant is for the army he was in the marine corps
hehehe i havent got a clue svveetheart :) But i love to have been there :)
again he was a Saint...with power
HOw you ask? Stanley Kubrick was a notorious perfectionist who wouldn't hesitate to shoot hundreds of takes until he got the perfect shot. I am sure it was funny at first but after hours... and days... and weeks of getting yelled at by a genuine drill instructor and put through PT etc... that they were well sick of being there at all.
R Lee Ermey was just an an advisor on the set of Full Metal Jacket. He put together a tape on how a Drill Instructor is suppose to lay into new recruits for the actor to study and play. Kubrick saw and sent the actor home. He then allowed Ermey to write and ad-lib all his own scenes. Which we all know today is pure memerable gold! Ermey also played a D.I. in "The Boys in Company C" years before. He is so great at it because he acutally was a Drill Instrutor when he served our country in the Marine Corps.
RIP Robin Williams... it's stuff like this that showcase what an incredible actor he was. It's hard to believe he's actually gone.
Sgt Hartman could occupy all 25 places here haha.
I was trained by Marine DI's for 14 weeks. It brought back nightmares. :)
Agreed
From that movie alone! :-)
and it would be the exact same line..........
R. Lee Ermey. RIP.
0:54 It's crazy how yesterday at the exact same time Robin Williams was experiencing his last moments on earth, I was watching his improvised scene in Good Will Hunting, and I was laughing with actual tears in my eyes. Even in his last breath, Robin managed to make someone, somewhere in the world, laugh. Your legacy will always be remembered. R.I.P.
Nik Garus Williams died eight years later, hardly his last moments on earth.
Mark Chavez, I don't think you understand the comment at all...
This is incomplete without the Goodfellas, "funny how," scene, with Joe Pesci.
Jeff Brown "do I amuse you"
Wait whaaaat that was unscripted?!?!
@@zombilandee yes. And after the set, Scorcese aproached to Pesci and said: Damn, that was scary!, Pesci replied: Scary how???
It was scripted though
@@michaelmckinnon1591 it wasn't scripted, they all talked about it in an interview
You can see how fking satisfied Hauer looks after saying "like tears in rain" he knew he'd nailed it so hard there would be no nail left to nail
do they ever give Robin Williams a script?
Why ?
They did, but he was one of few actors they gave free reign to.
How Good Morning Vietnam isn't in here is beyond me.
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Whole sargeant quotes in Full Metal Jacket were an improvisation cause, he was a real sargeant- specialist of combat training.
He was a Drill instructor and gunnery sergeant in the marine corps.....
They were not improvised. Ermy wrote the Paris Island boot camp dialog himself. This was tye first time Kubrick let ANYONE touch his work and redefine his vision.
@@spaceballs44 Ermey was originally supposed to be an advisor for the boot camp scenes. The actor who was supposed to be Hartmann ended up as the crazy machine gunner in the helicopter scene because Ermey was so good at showing how a real drill instructor acted and spoke, so Kubrik gave him the part instead and gave Ermey full reign to improvise. As a Marine myself during that time period R. Lee Ermey absolutely nailed it. It looked authentic because it was authentic.
The fact that "tears in the rain" was unscripted is sick! That is one of my favorite scenes of all time!
@deadbutdreaming Wtf are you on about. The bulk of the monologue was slightly altered by Hauer and the `lost in time, like tears in rain, time to die` were added by Hauer the night before, as the original monologue was to verbose and full of as "opera talk" and "hi-tech speech". What kind of conspiracy BS are you going on about.
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In scene 20 with Joker, the explosion pause was NOT scripted, it was a pyrotechnics malfunction. Ledger genuinely saved the scene by staying in character. And they only had one take to do this in. Scene 8 was "allegedly" improvised. In fact Woody Allen sneezed on purpose for comedic effect but the other actors didn't know he was going to do that. So it's not really improvised.
This is why they get the big bucks; long live Heath Ledger, You Trucking Legend!
Douchy McDouche Do you even know the meaning of improvised? If the other actors or director didn't know he was going sneeze, it was improvised by him. Therefore, the scene was improvised
dominic garcia Nope. This is something he planned on doing, therefore it was PLANNED. By the director no less.
Both Douchy AND Dominic can stop the petty bullshit, take a long jump, and kiss somebody's ass.
+bill ding Is that how you win arguments, fruitcake? I can only imagine how much ass you kiss.
Full Metal Jacket performance was great!
That taxi with Hoffman blew my mind. He made it look so intended it was unbelievable!
"Leave the gun. Take the cannoli " That's just freakin genius.
They didn't mention that the last scene, the one from "Full Metal Jacket" was acted by a former drill instructor. ". . . and not even have the common courtesy of giving him a reach around." Maybe he made that up on the spot or maybe it was from his DI days. Haha.
Hell yeah "Gunny" was a DI! I think he really made FMJ a MUCH better movie, just as Capt. Dale Dye, retired USMC, made the Band of Brothers series a "REAL" gem in terms of making the story more genuine.
I also really liked his performance in "The Boys from Company C".
QuestoDomini . He also did The Pacific (Hanks/Spielberg), not as good as Band of Brothers but still very enjoyable.
That lines comes from a long history of USMC DIs instructing at both MCRD and OCS. I doubt that there has been a new line in the USMC DI repertoire in decades neither in training nor a film.
You know, ... I believe you are correct! LOL!
"I love you." "I know."
Romantic, isn't it?
That was scripted as "I love you too". It'd be nice with small elaborations in the video about what was supposed to be, as there are on some scenes.
Oh wow. Out of everything, I would've never guessed that "Tears in rain" was improvised. This is amazing.
2:01 - 2:30 never laughed this hard in my life omfg "whaa tha fuhhh"
+Erik Kruip me too hahahhaah "what fuck"
Erik Kruip apparently was meant to be a serious scene but the actors kept doing shit like this. Those are real smiles.
If I remember right, one of the actors couldn't quit farting - that's why they all had the giggles.
Whole scene was hilarious
Awesome piece of video....Thank you for posting this. Big movie buff and had NO clue that these lines were improvised
"Warriors, come out to play" was one of the best unscripted scenes in film history.
It was so fukin creepy
I loved that scene he sounding nostalgic
The same tone he uses Dave chapelle uses in making da band episode when he says “ breast milk, you made my daaaay” lol i just noticed rn. Never seen that movie but now I see. Or making a good guess
Me and my mate were wasted watching this years ago, we kept rewinding the VHS to watch that part..so funny
Just realized that's were Bad Boys (P. Diddy) got his line.. 🎶Bad boysss come out and plaayyy🎶
Blade Runner's impovised line is poetry. I think the other are memorable and so quotable and the situation is so absurdly rare for being memorable that I can understand why they're higher on the list. But my personal favorite is Blade Runner's line here. It's just so beautiful and fitting to the scene. And the acting was so perfectly eloquent and concise. Not saying a lot but saying so much with perfect pacing and punch to the line. God, I love it. I'm gonna replay it a few more times before clicking on another video :')
I agree, that poetry tied it up nicely :D
I could agree with the top 9. I'd rearrange the others, but overall a good list. Thanks for taking the time to put this together. I appreciate it.
That's because R. Lee Ermey WAS a real Marine Corps Drill Instructor long before he started doing film, starting with his role as a DI in "The Boys in Company C". It wasn't hard to improvise something he knew by heart. Kubrick actually had Ermey on set of FMJ just as an advisor, but he was so good at it that Kubrick gave him full reign to improvise his own dialog, and as you said, it made the movie a classic. Personally, I loved him in "Siege of Firebase Gloria".
where is the? I GOT A JAR OF DIIIIRRRRRT
So nice to see a collection of improvised scenes without obnoxious commentary dubbed over. Thanks for the video!
wheres the line in Monty Python Holy Grail where John Cleese playing the enchanter forgets the name of the character so says "they call me... Tim!
Also where is I got a jar of dirt from Pirates of the Caribbean
And "I'm the captain now".
Full metal jacket... EPICNESS!!!!
A modern art masterpiece!
Rutger Hauer has publicly said that the tears in rain monologue was not improvised. I think it has become a myth because what really took place was that he spontaneously wrote the speech off hand late in his trailer the night before filming and showed it to Ridley Scott. The director was so amazed that he scrapped the original dialogue and replaced it with Hauer's monolgue... Which is I think actually equally as cool as the speech being improvised.
Thanks for not filling the video with annoying commentary about each individual scene, I really do enjoy watching this scene after scene without a bunch of useless knowledge about the randomness of each improv
Excellent! Thanks for taking the time to put this together and post it.
How did the cast members not crack up at Ermey's insults?
cuz im pretty sure they were a little scared of him.
Because he scared the shit out of them.
My dad said the audience he saw Full Metal Jacket with never laughed at anything he said. They were all terrified and in complete awe. It’s only funny after years and years of being so iconic.
This is a great post. Surprised that some of these scenes I know were unscripted. Thanks!
Basically all of Full Metal Jacket was unscripted. Gotta love Emery
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There is one left behind, from Goodfellas with John Pesci, "Funny how".
Joe Pesci -_-
Not entirely improvised. Still an excellent scene, though.
There's still hundreds not mentioned here, it's just a list this person thought to be the best in his image :P
"He's looking at you, kid" was unscripted. That is one of the best one liners Hollywood has produced. Way to go improv.
I don't know what movie has that quote; although Casablanca is known for the line "HERE'S looking at you, kid". ;)
also, "play it Sam" was Bogart's improvisation, too. [el'sda2].
*Here's looking at you kid
@@michaelmckinnon1591 *Here's looking at you, kid.
@@siler7 *"Here's looking at you, kid."
it was so nice to be able to just watch the scenes without a bunch of talking in between each clip. THANK YOU!!!
I must agree with your listings! Not only some of the best lines in movie history but also some of the best movies themselves.
Lil funfact about the "Reach around" line from Full Metal Jacket. After Ermey said it, Kubrick stopped the take to ask the Sergeant what the hell a reach around was. Ermey explained and Kubrick's response was, "Ah, carry on."
It's extremely likely he was so good at "improvising" because he was an actual Marine sergeant. Wouldn't be surprised if he'd used every one of his lines while on duty, or had them used on him.
Kubrick gave Ermey free rein because he wanted it to be as realistic as possible. He probably said all those things at some time when he was in a drill instructor. That's why Full Metal Jacket is one of the best war films of all time.
This is a great video. My favorite scene is "Warriors come out to play". The guy had to be truly demented to come up with that.
Not only is this 100% accurate- but the way this was cut together- this is how a complication _should_ be done. This deserves a freaking Oscar or some kind of award in of itself. 100% well done.
Probably the best most effective use of youtube annotations I've ever come across.
Tears in the rain is one of my top moments in film. Such a beautiful and wrenching scene and superbly shot and executed.
In "The Usual Suspects," one of the guys was farting in that room and that's why they kept laughing.
The scene in "Alien" when the alien itself bursts through the guy's chest kinda fits in this list. It was scripted... but the actors in the scene were not told what was going to happen, so their horror faces were legit, from the actual shock XD
It freaked me when i saw it on VHS way back when
Thanks for posting.
How impossible must it have been to stand there and hear those hilarious drill sergeant lines and NOT bust up laughing.
25 greatest scenes? You left off arguably the greatest improv scene in a movie, ever. Marlon Brando's entire monologue in Apocalypse now.
I find the whole movie pretentious and overrated.
Fuck you its a brilliant movie
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MrGuaGui I find you pretentious and overrated.
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Ermey’s insults were next level, especially that, “not have the common courtesy to give him a reach-around” line.
"You're gonna need a bigger boat" was the greatest!
The reason R.Lee Ermey is so brilliant in that scene in the barracks on Full Metal Jacket is because he was just being himself--he used to be a Drill Instructor in real life and just played the part as it came natural to him since obviously the character he plays in the film is just second nature to him..He was indeed brilliant in the part and played it beautifully--very authentic! This is how it used to be and is much different than what is allowed today with a new recruit going thru boot camp...Full Metal Jacket is hands down one of THE BEST war films of all time! You can also catch him being himself again as a DI in the great film "The Boys In Company C" as he is training recruits going thru Boot Camp on their way to serving in combat in the Vietnam war..he plays these parts extremely well and with such authenticity due to his many years of service in the Marine corp. He also can be seen in 2 of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre films and one can easily see again his brilliance as he plays the twisted sheriff in both films. I will say that he is probably most recognized as being The Face of "Marine Corp Strong" and an avid supporter of the men and women of the US armed forces..a true patriot!
Guess I didn't need to leave the annotations on if all the descriptions were "this was improvised" lol no shit
I actually have the entire audio of the Full Metal Jacket scene on my ipod - so many good lines in there. Absolutely brilliant. About the most accurate representation of actual boot camp I've ever seen in a movie.
Nice work! Too many people post videos that are too long. I like your fast action style.
im surprised that the monty python scene from the life of Brian where Michael Palin is talking about Biggus Dickkus isnt in there.......that was unscripted to a point, the people playing the roman soldiers were told not to laugh at whatever he said.
yeah there should!
The jim carey scene from dumb and dumber got me in tears hahaha so funny throwback
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That was really cool, thanks for sharing!
The "game over" from Aliens, line was one of my fave, me and my friends would quote that all the time...
To be yelled at by R.Lee Ermey is on my bucket list.
rest in peace ermey
Would Martin Sheen's scene in Apocalypse Now count as "unscripted"? He showed up to the set drunk, the scene in the bedroom was shot whilst he was drunk and he smashed a mirror, basically went nuts.
The Horror.....the horror......
And is one of the greatest opening scenes of a movie ever.
@@joedaoust5942 one of the greatest soundtrack as well.
Nice video. I didn`t know about the "non linearity" of many scenes shown in here.
There are some real surprises here... good upload.
i love full metal jacket
Where is the "Funny how?" scene from Goodfellas. Joe Pesci won an Oscar for that very reason and it I personally think it is one of the most suspenseful moments in all the movies I've watched.
Great list!
Thank you! This just made my day!
R Lee Ermey priceless
ROFL i remember that from Full metal jacket! omg reminds me too much of Chief Master Sgt Roberts back in basic. damn that was a scary man...
R Lee Ermey was a Marine Corps DI at the time he played Gunny Hartman.
Great vid, thanks!
Nice video dude!
The Matt Damon scene from Saving Private Ryan that you mentioned is actually word for word from the book. I'd hardly call that "unscripted" when the rest of the film was the closest adaptation I've seen.
tears in the rain..
It's pretty incredible that the most memorable and iconic moments of "Midnight Cowboy" and "Taxi Driver" were ad-libbed. There's an outtake from "Meet the Fockers" where Hoffman razzes DeNiro with an impression of "you talkin' to me?"
Ahh the good old days of KZhead when I could watch a compilation/list video without an obnoxious voice over or editing. Thanks for the video
Usual suspects. That's the funniest scene in the movie. Even more so now
Awesome list, and this came out before "Django Unchained was released, so you couldn't have put it in here but still; When Leonardo DiCaprio hits his hand on the table, and accidentally hits a glass cup (with whiskey in it, or some alcoholic drink I believe) with his bare hand was purely an accident! BUT, he kept character, and continued his dialog while peeling the glass out of his hand like a badass! BTW, "The Wolf of Wall Street" comes out next month, so I'm sure there will be plenty of improvised moments in that movie.:)
I always wondered how his hand was bleeding in that scene when it didn't seem like he did anything out of the ordinary.
It amazes me that so many of the most memorable and quotable lines in history were improvised.
Scene 17 had more than just the line improvised. Everyone chuckling and smirking was due to Benicio Del Toro's rancid farting during the scene and everyone trying not to laugh. Also, "In English, please!" was ad-lib by the director himself who couldn't understand Benicio's delivery, so he redid it again :) Basically, the entire scene could just be considered improvised :D
What's with the other Dark Knight Scene where Joker is sitting in his jail cell and just slapps in his Hands without talking? That was uncsripted too! :)
"you know how i know youre gay?" "hmm?" "youre wearing a white tie"
A lot of these improvised lines are iconic.
"Here's looking at you kid." Was IMPROVISED?!?!?!?! DAMN!
It's not in here, but imho the best improvised scene ever is in the Italian Job, by Seth Green ("Lyle") - that whole bit about what "Handsome Rob" and "Becky" are saying.
In batman, when Heath Leger *rip* clap his hands was not scripted
"like tears in the rain".........by far, that scene is one of the best on this list or any list.
Awesome, im glad some people still have a good eye for what real movie enthusiests want to see
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Excellent! thanks a lot :)
Also missing Leonardo DiCaprio's bloody broken hand in Django.
Ermey is the best!
These are amazing
Now I know what I am going to do this weekend, TYVM.