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Leonardo DiCaprio and Toby Maguire were the first candidates for Sam. But in the end it was not possible due to the schedule and pay.
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The film chose to shoot in a valley in Southern California, a place very similar to the desert regions of the United States and Iraq. Some shots were taken in Mexico. The Marines did train in the local town of Brawley.
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"Fuck" is said 278 times in the film.
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Christian Bale and Joshua Jackson were both candidates to play Swarford.
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Gary Oldman, Kurt Russell and Michael Keaton have all been candidates to play Lieutenant Colonel Kasinski.
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The "Apocalypse Now" watched by the military in the film was edited by Walter Murch, the editor of "Bowl Head".
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Travis Aaron was the candidate to play Troy.
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Ivan Finyong claimed that 70% of his performances in the film were eventually cut. Two months before the film’s release, the director informed him that the producer did not want most of his dialogue.
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Jack Gyllenhaal's nosebleed was added by digital technology in post-production.
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All the sex scenes in the film were shot in one day.
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Photographer Roger Diggens personally operated the camera stabilizer in some of the shots.
Jarhead behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
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[Staff sgt. Sykes sends out his "best snipers", Swofford and Troy]
Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: Thank you, staff sergeant.
Staff Sgt. Sykes: What?
Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: Thank you.
Staff Sgt. Sykes: Don't thank me, just don't fuckin' die.
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Kruger: Okay, yeah, sure, fine. I'll take the fucking pills and a year later my asshole will turn inside out and start talking to me!
Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: Okay, stop stop.
Kruger: This pills aren't worth a shit.
Sgt. Siek: Kruger, you country motherfucker
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Lost in the desert
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The war film has no war scenes. A soldier who participated in the Gulf War records a sniper's Gulf War journey in the form of monologue and diary. The prose poems about war, although a bit vulgar, still have a lot of feelings and lost too much, but what t
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War games are not fun
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Flowers
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SUCKS!