Heartbreak Ridge - Movie intro

[TheScottjp]

those 3 dislikes couldn't make it in the USMC..

[polarisathena]

I thought Clint swam from Alcatraz to the shore.

[oddersisadog]

This movie was a comedy, bootcamp spoof. Not an actual war movie.

I wanted clint to go back and direct a movie like Letters from Iwo Jima...only of the actual Battle of Heartbreak Ridge. "You know the battle that claimed the lives of over 30,000 men." Not some recon mission in Grenada.

[kdog22662]

First of all the marines were never on heartnreak ridge.... my dad served there in the army from 51-52

[TheDanrox110]

the guy at 2:45 is a badass just chillin there havin a smoke

[hal357]

OORAH MARINES

[ManTheHarpoons9]

does the snare part have a name and/or sheet music online?

[MrRonnie28]

good song lol

[Flashover0207]

why can i not find this version of this song ANYWHERE

[jensww22]

anyone see the intro to "Steiner - cross of iron" Not bad stuff either (particularly when you get the translation). Did clint pinch the idea I wonder?

[619sandiegoSD]

Not too many real men like that being raised like they were back then. Thanks for ur service

[terrydribble]

What is the drum cadence before the tune begins? This is my favorite opening credit for any movie.

[Number6oftheBoys]

@terrydribble I would like to know too. I've been asking that for along time and nobody knows. If you find out let me know...

[Lieu3C4]

Reminds me that the world has basically been at war since 1944. In fact, one astute fellow one day said to me they hadn't even finished World War One, let alone started World War Three.

[lEpiCxNick]

the GI at 1:48 has serious 1,000 yard stare

[slwh111]

This takes place at Camp Lejeune but was actually filmed at Camp Pendleton. I was a jarhead at the time in a supply unit. I issued all the kevlar helmets to some captain a few months before shooting began. My little claim to fame I guess...I knew some guys who met Clint Eastwood on the set of this film. They said he's a super nice guy.

[MrCocanuts]

i noticed that in alot of movies clint eastwood involves korea. why is that?

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

@MrCocanuts Clint Eastwood growed up during that period and he even served in the Army. If my memory doesn't fail he could have been sent to Korea, but he survived a plane crash and had to swim 10 miles to the shore. After that he became a swimming instructor, during his GI time.

[MrCocanuts]

@TheUnforgivenRebel that is freakin SICK!!!

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

@MrCocanuts "While serving in the Army during the Korean War, he survived a plane crash landing into the Pacific, north of San Francisco, and swam two miles to shore. Because he had to testify about the incident, he was not sent to Korea with his unit."

They were only 2 miles he had to swim, not 10. Sorry.

[MrCocanuts]

@TheUnforgivenRebel nah its cool. but still freakin SWEET

[WALTKRIEG]

@TheUnforgivenRebel Corean war was an awful war. Soldiers had to shoot on unarmed civilians who advanced toward them.

[Hperman09]

@WALTKRIEG Yes like what happened Gun Ri Massacre? U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of South Korean refugees who were suspected of being communist North Koreans. I agree it was awful.

[WALTKRIEG]

@Hperman09 and it made lot of deads during a very short time.

And I want to say that soldiers had no choice to shoot unarmed people because there are crowds who marched toward them.

[HillSavage72]

@TheUnforgivenRebel cuz 2 miles ain't shit, right?

[mr9396]

@TheUnforgivenRebel. actually it was 3 miles.

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

@mr9396 But it was under enemy artillery fire and communist sharks, wasn't it?

[mr9396]

@TheUnforgivenRebel. I know, but i was just saying it was 3 miles because it is one of those random stupid things that i just remember.

[goodfella1315]

@TheUnforgivenRebel he swam 1 mile was drafted and even before crash was a swimming instructor just saying no hard feelings

[CodenameRabidWeasels]

@TheUnforgivenRebel - No shit?

[sadwalk]

@MrCocanuts

cause korea sucks.

I think.

[bluefandango]

starts at 1:29

[ilove215]

the first intro song is so bad ass. the second intro song is....well..

[asasscd]

God bless the U.S Army and the USMC.

From Europe

[1969gery]

the best of movie

[theanti2006]

best movie from Eastwood !!! regards from Germany.. pi-news.org

[theanti2006]

I want know the Singer of THIS version !!!! not all other or cover version, i need EXACTLY this version.. anybody can help me ?

[blah5533]

@moproducer you must be my daughter, that's my husband , we always wanted a son but had to make do with you

[PeytonEatsKidzz]

Whats tthe song at the beginning?

[gary2ization]

i love this movie i think it next to full meateljacket

[gary2ization]

i love sea of a heartbreak

[jamesdeguerre]

1 North Korean disliked this.

[Schlingel1101]

Best movieintro ever! I liked it even i was ten years old.... I got it on my mobile as ringtone ;)

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

@Schlingel1101 that's fantastic! :D

[lEpiCxNick]

@Schlingel1101 how?

[Schlingel1101]

@lEpiCxNick Just downloaded this track and put it with the tool of my mobile into the musikfolder. Then is selected it as ringtone...

[nennmichJ]

@Schlingel1101 me too

[MADTV234]

Two words, Cluster Fuck.

[darthbruce501]

1:50 and 2:16 are my grandpa

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

@darthbruce501 The body lying on the street too?

[moproducer]

@darthbruce501 You must be my son...that's my dad.

[14575019]

Ok, whoever disliked this is plain stupid, or it's that one guy who commanded 1st Platoon in Heartbreak Ridge who's jealous of Gunny Highway. It can't be Swede, or Stitch Jones.

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

@14575019 That's right.

[TheDanrox110]

@14575019 Major Powers

[blackandgold978]

Hey, Chinese, let me ask you guys a question? How does it feel to know you couldn't push us off the Korean Peninsula; despite all your soldier numbers? Great mighty dragon, my ass.....

[daffydocone]

IT'S EASY TO TALK, ABOUT HELP, THE POOR , THE NEEDS OF THE MOST, BUTTTTTTTT, YOU ARE IN COMBAT ANY TIME? I DON'T TINK SOOOOOO, IN THE MOMENT YOU FEEL THE "SSSSSHHHTTTTT" OF A BULLET NEAR ON YOUR HEAD, ....... WATHEVER....... SIIIITTTTT ON YOUR FLOFFFFFY DIRTHY, ASSSSS.

[MAVREV13]

i love this movie and song this rocks, also jones just because we're holding hands doesnt mean we're going to take warm showers in the wee hours in the morning

[MrNelsonb2]

god bless our war veterans

[vichy766]

Take a sec and look at the stare of the dude @1:47...He got something in his sights, a thousand yard stare. Pitty the receiving end of that stare, and this opening is for real, no wannabes there, actual Korean footage.

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

@vichy766 Yeah, that guy always calls my attention when I see the intro... his face can tell so much, or can't tell anything at all...

[sarnow76]

Love this movie. It's full of good one-liners.

[vduron1]

Eastwood Rocks! One of my favorites all of my life.

[karateslaginnek]

This song is Baddass! like those warriors in those days !!!

[viking3082000]

I often have trouble when I think of my favorite movie. Heartbreak Ridge is a close second to "Running Scared", another 80's movie I first watched in a friend's basement.

[bearriver666]

Great opening .............Eastwood has a good way with music.

[ooo895]

One of the best movie opening credits of all time.

[breznev64]

I'd be damned if this aren't one of the best opening titles I ever saw in a movie...that song ficts perfectly....Clint must really like it, he used it briefly in A Perfect World too

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

@breznev64 One of the best country songs I've heard in one of my favourite movies.

[Jigaboo123456]

@breznev64 Yep, it was a superb opening--pity the film degenerated into pure dar-fetched hokum. Big waste, Eastwood could have added to his legacy had they kept the writers and director a\ bit nearer to reality

[breznev64]

@Jigaboo123456 I partially agree...it surely isn't the movie you'd expect from the opening, but it has it's good moments. Anyway Eastwood isn't just the great poetic director of all of his lately movies, but also the average american guy you'd expect drinking beer on his couch watching the football match (with a rifle in his closet)...so I guess this movie is eastwood just like all the others!

[Jigaboo123456]

@breznev64 dorry mate, i can't forgivespoiling a superb opening that shows with great pathos the desperation,courage,weariness, numbed fatalism(the kid with the 1,000 yard stare at 1:47) and the gentle compassion for comrades of men in combat that degenerates into a comedy-romp- with-violence Reaganesque propaganda. Whew! that was a long sentence. BTW I'm not a Leftie liberal, but I hate propaganda of any sort..

[zlosiej]

great song.

[Cheval52]

Would have been a Great Movie WITHOUT Mario Van Peebles.

[1012611]

lol you wrote "Mario Van Peebles" two times in the video description

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

Hahaha! xD

He plays to roles, for that reason I listed him twice.

[ghostly2]

watch this movie, and you'll see where Mr.Eastwood gets his Walt Kowalski for Gran Torino...

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

Yes, much people thought about that. But it's evident that Highway had much more military experience than Kowalski.

[BIGMIKE130]

highways was a bit more badass too lol

[Vinnie2x08]

I like what you did with the sound, cranking up the sound of drums nice! Hope you don't mind I used that and the other version of the song. YOU HAVE TO ADMIT THE VERSION WITH MY (DON GIBSON'S) SONG IS MUCH BETTER. MORE HEART AND THE TEMPO OF THE SONG MATCHES THE VIDEO.

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

This is the original movie intro, it seems this was mr. Eastwood's idea, to use the song in a very poor quality, it's more atmospheric in war times.

Your version sounds good too.

[wannawatchu66]

@TheUnforgivenRebel No offense to Vinnie, but I prefer your version of Gib's song, Rebel.

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

@wannawatchu66 , to listen... I would prefer the original and clean Don Gibson's version. But in a war movie, this one rocks.

[MrNelsonb2]

@TheUnforgivenRebel yeah! its a bit of a raw sound to it. perfect for this movie

[rbatheNORSEMAN]

This movie IS actually based off of the US-Invasion of Grenada, right? Does it actually have battle scenes against Cubans and Grenadians? Just wondering. Please respond. If it does, I may get it. Thanks.

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

Yeah, it has a lot of combat but a while after half of the movie. Very enjoyable!

[rbatheNORSEMAN]

@TheUnforgivenRebel Cool! I may get it now. Thanks. :)

[stuman06]

love this song. My late Uncle Ronalds favorite

[Callofdoodoo]

whoever hasnt seen this movie is a noob

[TX957]

what is the name of that drum song/beat. Does it even have a name.

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

I think it hasn't got a name, it's just part of the soundtrack.

[antyrezun]

My home is in Poland next to russian/belorussian border. (belorussia in fact is russia) Here, behind polish-russian border you can see real commies. Greetings from frontline.

[angfer732]

This is the type of warfare needed tobe waged here in America aginst the commies, we have more commies here as of late than Red China

[JubalCalif]

I've never seen this Clint Eastwood movie, so I had no idea it used my favorite Don Gibson song (Sea of Heartbreak). THANKS for sharing it with us! Fascinating, to be sure! I hope ALL your wishes & dreams come true in the New Year! :)

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

Thanks! I'm glad you appreciate it!

I hope so too!! :D

Happy new year!

[VikingThor1]

1986

[DET832]

Clint served during the Korean War in the US Army. He ended up as a swimming instructor. The plane crash is fact but, I don't think he swim 10 miles...

[DoubleVisionandco]

One of the coolest movie beginnings ever.

[davewoodring]

clint is a legend. he has the best lines always in every movie he does(: Hope he does another western.

[davewoodring]

clint eastwood is excellant director also. plays the piano, used to be lumberjack when he was younger.

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

Yep. He also survived a planecrash swimming about 10 miles until he hit the beach coast I think... that is when he served in the army.

[osbornehunter]

where the hell is the jail scene? that part's badass..

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

I didn't upoload it.

[superparabolico]

El Ayathola del RocanRola!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[davewoodring]

music is excellant.

[CtParkourMeriden]

My grandfather was a aircraft pilot in WWII. He was there for a couple years; learned the language, had a japanese samurai outfit, and fell in love with a woman who he lived with for his time there. But the damn Jap gov. wouldnt let him marry her because he was American and white.

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

Too bad. Sorry for your grandfather.

[spencer2e71]

great movie by eastwood! I would like to know if this is the original sea of heartbreak song by don gibson? this version is diffrent from the studio version i like this version better!

[ladySEGOVIA]

Man, when I think what my dad went through in this war. I cry every time.

2nd Bat. 5th Marines, Inchon 1951. God bless our war veterans past and present. May they arrive safely.

[502ofthe565]

@ladySEGOVIA Hi, I have a friend named Segovia and he's from Corpus Christi, Tx. I see you honor the Marines and with much respect and reason. I do too, even though I was in the army. I have so many family members who fought in Korea and Vietnam, my uncle Aurelio landed on the beach in Normandy on 6/6/44. Good luck

[Clevinger67]

Korea: the forgotten war. No war is easy, but the terrain and the climate made this one particularly tough. Mountain fighting. Bitterly cold winters. For the last part of it, the Korean conflict was a stalemate resembling the First World War; they just kept hammering away at each other while the peace talks dragged on. My uncle was there with the Canadians. Christmas Eve, 1951, the Chinese left presents on the line, with notes saying Canada go on home, our fight is with the US.

[14575019]

@Clevinger67 Not only The Korean War, The Gulf War is the forgotten war, nobody really talks about it often.

[Clevinger67]

@14575019 That's true. Sadly, there exists a list of conflicts that were soon forgotten, though the families of those lost in them could never forget: The Spanish Civil War, The Spanish American War, the Mexican War, the War of 1812.  I realize a war cannot be remembered by a generation that wasn't alive when it was fought, but the memory of these and other wars fought through history quickly faded. Unlike the Civil War, for example, the legacy of which remains a part of the American character.

[SEXXYLATINO74SATX]

Awesome movie

USMC 94-98

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

Yeah.

[tchd]

Your old ladie does...

Gunny Tom Highway

[fredfungalspore]

Royal Marines HOO RA

[donaldTfox]

this intro is great. sometimes these old movies surprise you, because many old time directors had some great ideas. those oldtimers paved the way with style.

[bannyloren100]

the same old timers who implied the indians where a buch of thort cut killers

[DontFearTheReaper1]

Sad part is that no one has ever downloaded the picker version of this song anywhere. So far, your the only guy to do it by downloading the whole opening scene to this movie.

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

Thanks for appreciate that. :)

[FerrariF50gt1]

can anybody tell me the name of the drum solo on this video. 0:00-1:30 ???

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

I don't know the name.

[nolifemerc]

the banjo is the best part its not on the original version

[nolifemerc]

driop the intro until 1:33

[TrollDemon]

I love the drums.

Gives you that "Oorah" feel ya know?

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

They fit fantastic.

[zod65]

Many thanks for the true movie version

[KoenigAppel]

das war/ist Clints geilster Film überhaupt !!!

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

My favourite Clint Eastwood war movie! :D

[youknowit5mil]

thank you so incredibly much for not even messing wit the sound or none of that stupid stuff!

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

You're welcome! ;-)

[JR9979]

awsome.

[dumbbo1]

Thanks! I've been looking for this. Someone else posted the opening video but with a different rendition of the song. This is the fast, up-tempo version I first heard in the movie.

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

Yeah, this version adss more war atmosphere to movie. Thanks for watching!

[Vinnie2x08]

The drums are cool yes, but this version is slow and boge. My modified version is better, except I messed up the drums. :)

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

I saw it ;-)

[Embarq4836]

great movie , love the war drums, it makes the song!!!

[fedarkbp]

Epic.

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

Indeed.