Jarhead Accuracy Hollywood likes to reenact moments of history for the viewer’s pleasure. The retelling of these historical events are usually used to make money, so the accuracy of some movies are not always one hundred percent reliable. This was the case in the movie Jarhead. Piece by piece, as the movie continued some small and large differences between Hollywood magic and reality were very evident. Even so, Jarhead has some historical value, but it was used predominantly as a money maker.
The movie begins with a marine named Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal) in Basic training. It looked very similar to the first scene in the movie Full Metal Jacket, except it was not as brutal. Swoff manages to piss off his Drill Sergeant, and gets his …show more content…
One of the men is pissed and goes on about the first amendment, but then Sykes said they signed away those rights when they joined the marines. Reporters are restricted to entering a war zone since after Vietnam, and it makes sense that they are limited on what they can say. This seems pretty accurate.
On the night before Christmas Swoff convinces Fergus, (Brian Geraghty) to cover Swoff’s watch. The platoon parties it up and get trashed. Fergus is cooking some food with a griddle and it starts a fire that burns up some flares too. Since it was Swoff is punished for not doing his job. Sykes first makes chug a lot of water to flush the hooch out of his system, and then he has to clean the out houses. It would be hard to prove, or disprove weather the fire actually happened, but the punishment seems plausible. Plus the Middle East is mostly dry, so it makes sense that getting trashed is not very welcomed over …show more content…
Sykes passes out pills to stop them from dying from the gas and tells them to sign some papers. The pills are not proven full proof, and some of the guys flip out. Sykes tells them to take them so they didn’t get messed up by Saddam's gas. Some of the guys spit out the pills. According to Military times, those very experimental pills were used during the Persian Gulf War, (Kimes, P.)
The Marines keep moving in on the Iraqis. The platoon is mistaken by the Air Force as Iraqis and they are shot at by A-10s. Swoff goes and sits down with some crispy dead folks. One of the men plays with them, completely out of wack, and the sight is quite disturbing. This is very plausible because another symptom of stress is a mental breakdown, (WebMD). These men were obviously under a lot of stress, and seeing these bodies could break them down.
Later, Sykes chooses Swoff and Troy for a secret sniping mission. The Colonel has an airfield with a cartload of Iraqis on it. He wants Swoff and Troy to kill the two commanding officers so the rest will surrender. They are in the tower acrossed from them. They get permission to shoot Iraqis, but Major Lincoln at the last second tells them to stop. He is calling in an air strike, the reason is unclear. Troy is pissed because he had the okay from the Colonel and that this is his kill. Swoff restrains him and the air strike destroys the airfield. Then the movie is at its
The movie begins with a marine named Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal) in Basic training. It looked very similar to the first scene in the movie Full Metal Jacket, except it was not as brutal. Swoff manages to piss off his Drill Sergeant, and gets his …show more content…
One of the men is pissed and goes on about the first amendment, but then Sykes said they signed away those rights when they joined the marines. Reporters are restricted to entering a war zone since after Vietnam, and it makes sense that they are limited on what they can say. This seems pretty accurate.
On the night before Christmas Swoff convinces Fergus, (Brian Geraghty) to cover Swoff’s watch. The platoon parties it up and get trashed. Fergus is cooking some food with a griddle and it starts a fire that burns up some flares too. Since it was Swoff is punished for not doing his job. Sykes first makes chug a lot of water to flush the hooch out of his system, and then he has to clean the out houses. It would be hard to prove, or disprove weather the fire actually happened, but the punishment seems plausible. Plus the Middle East is mostly dry, so it makes sense that getting trashed is not very welcomed over …show more content…
Sykes passes out pills to stop them from dying from the gas and tells them to sign some papers. The pills are not proven full proof, and some of the guys flip out. Sykes tells them to take them so they didn’t get messed up by Saddam's gas. Some of the guys spit out the pills. According to Military times, those very experimental pills were used during the Persian Gulf War, (Kimes, P.)
The Marines keep moving in on the Iraqis. The platoon is mistaken by the Air Force as Iraqis and they are shot at by A-10s. Swoff goes and sits down with some crispy dead folks. One of the men plays with them, completely out of wack, and the sight is quite disturbing. This is very plausible because another symptom of stress is a mental breakdown, (WebMD). These men were obviously under a lot of stress, and seeing these bodies could break them down.
Later, Sykes chooses Swoff and Troy for a secret sniping mission. The Colonel has an airfield with a cartload of Iraqis on it. He wants Swoff and Troy to kill the two commanding officers so the rest will surrender. They are in the tower acrossed from them. They get permission to shoot Iraqis, but Major Lincoln at the last second tells them to stop. He is calling in an air strike, the reason is unclear. Troy is pissed because he had the okay from the Colonel and that this is his kill. Swoff restrains him and the air strike destroys the airfield. Then the movie is at its