are new recruits in a 8 week college to become in the end ¡§a weapon, a minister of death, praying for war¡. From his first words (or rather shouts) we can see that the leveling process has begun: ¡§I am hard, but I am fair. There is no racial bigotry here! Here you are all equally worthless!¡ They are reduced to ¡§the lower forms of life, not even human being¡, all equal, none different. And to show this, the Sgt picks on a black recruit and changes his name to Private Snowball (ƒ∘), then on a white guy, a short guy and a fat guy. Nobody escapes his original invectives.
             The two men that I said to be different are Private Joker and Private Leonard Lawrence, nicknamed Gomer Pyle. The first one is a wise guy who thinks that by making jokes can avoid the seriousness and harshness of real life. Pyle, a farm boy who lets the impression of being almost retarded, is different from the others because he isn¡t capable to keep up with the basic training. When mistaking left from right, Hartman yells at him: ¡§Then you did that on purpose! You want to be different!¡ This is not possible. The marines have to be all the same if the Marine Corps want
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