Hello Maggots!

The scene that I have chosen is the one that is one that if I had to experience, I would most likely crumble. The scene begins with young boys having their hair shaved and symbolizing their naive souls entering the hell of bootcamp. Their scared faces tell it all. The camera flashes to Sgt. Hartman and the music abruptly stops to focus on this scene. The focus is on the Sargent and the boys are standing parallel both sides of the barrack next to their basic bunks. The sargent is wearing his uniform that screams for respect and the boys are wearing their pitiful plain uniforms that are his empty slates. Without even hearing a world from the Sgt. Hartman's mouth, the audience knows that he is the one to be afraid of. Then the scary man opens his mouth and if you weren't afrain of him before, then you are now! First, the audience is shocked by the tone and volume that he speaks with and it shows his strong ethical prescence. This is the first way that he vocally exemplifies his authority, which is very important for his role in the movie and for the fate of the soldiers. He presents himself this way to prepare the maggots for the journey ahead and to teach them discipline. After the shock of his tone, he does not give them the option to reject his authority by constantly repeating "You will" in front of every sentence. This presents the future tense, demands, and doesn't let the audience consider otherwise. After that demand, he begins to speak in a condescending tone and flat out calles them dirt, maggots, and devlines their manliness by referring to them as ladies. The privates know that have they have something coming for them and he's wearing a big green hat! After making sure they know that know that they are 'nothings,' he tries to motivate them by sayining, "After this is all over you will be trained killers." The men are obviously there for a reason, they know that death is involved, and killing teases their minds. Sgt. Hartman knew that he needed them in the right mindset and train them to dominate the Vietnamese. Now the maggots minds are probably racing saying, "Why the hell am I here," because Sgt. Hartman is that affective. To build on the motivation approach, he continues to lisr ways that they will "learn" and again this touches on the future side of the argument. Then to even the playing field and assure that there were no biases, he flat out told the privates that he did not cae about race and called out every derogratory name for each race. Not one person could get angry because he was not calling anyone out specifically. They were all equal maggots. After speaking to the privates as a whole, he began to 'pick' on random privates to make them, nervous, afraid, and gullable, just what he wants. He calls them names, makes inappropiate jokes, talks about their 'mamas' and talks about their orientation, just to get under their skin. They know that they cannot disrespect him and that he is the only one that has that right. Then the scene changes some when one private that earned the name Joker, spoke out showing disrespect became the example for everyone else. Sgt. Hartman shut joker down, but offered a light of respect for private Joker, but is taken away when Joker is punched in the stomach. He continues to ask questions that demand pointless answers just to keep them on their toes and shows signs of logic. Even though his arguments are not necessary, they show that he knows how to present them effectively. No messing around. Sgt. Hartman speaks with authority, demand for authority, and acts with authority. He takes away their dignity within the first meeting and hopes to make them into true Marines. He reminds them they will remain apart of the core until they die which gives a slight sign of comfort of a family, but that's all they have to hold onto.