Thank You Sir, May I Have Another: 7 Hazing Incidents In Film

Penn Collins — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:12:15 +0000

That time-honored tradition of college hazing is back in the news, as the director of Florida A&M’s band (yup, bands haze) has been fired after one of the band members died in an incident that is thought to be hazing related. Details about the death aren’t yet known, other than the 26 year-old band member was complaining about not being able to breathe on the bus after a game, then vomited and passed out.

Hazing has been depicted in films throughout the years, most often in movies about college life or the military. And while sometimes it does cost the involved parties their lives (indirectly), nothing depicted on this list ever caused a death (save for A Few Good Men).

See for yourself.

Full Metal Jacket

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Poor Private Pyle. He just can’t seem to catch break. And even though the group initially bands together to help Leonard out, by the end of the first half of Full Metal Jacket, they realize that it’s up to them to whip his ass into shape if they don’t want to be running and exercising in the rain while he sits on his cookie dough ass eating jelly donuts.

The most prominent instance of hazing comes in the middle of the night when the recruits decide to teach him a lesson by beating him with bars of soap wrapped in towels (I’ve also heard pillowcases work quite nicely). He cries, but rather than setting him straight, the hazing just pushes him closer to his breaking point. Weird. That really could have gone either way.

Old School

After getting kidnapped by some gentlemen in a molester van, the pledges from Old School engage in some trust exercises, but not before they get screamed at by Will Ferrell and reassured that at least one of them is, in fact, his boy. To demonstrate the trust, they tie bricks to their wangs and toss the bricks off the roof of a building. All the bricks hit the ground safely and without incident, but Weensie’s passes through a manhole cover, presumably ripping off his weenus, but only after pulling him to the ground, which probably should have killed him.

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Thank You Sir, May I Have Another: 7 Hazing Incidents In Film

Full Metal Jacket

Old School