Iconic Movie Moments That Became Better With Famous Lines Not In The Script

‘I’ll Bet You Could Suck a Golf Ball Through a Garden Hose’

In the war movie “Full Metal Jacket,” there’s this really famous character, a drill sergeant, played by R. Lee Ermey. The interesting part is that Ermey wasn’t even supposed to be an actor; he was there to help with military stuff behind the scenes. But the director, Stanley Kubrick, liked the way Ermey acted like a real drill sergeant.

So, he let Ermey make up a lot of his lines. In fact, more than half of the things he says in the movie weren’t in the script. This made his character super memorable and added a lot to the movie’s power. It shows how sometimes, improvisation can make a movie even better and earn an actor an Oscar nomination.