Those shorts
I know this will be offensive to some but some of those men in those tiny shorts cracked me up
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MovieChat Forums > G.I. Jane (1997) Discussion > Those shorts
Those legs though! :-D
shareIf you need an ego-boost then you might try watching this movie wearing the shortest shorts you posses and a pair of sunglasses while paying attention to the beach scenes and CMC John James Urgayle.
You can't help but feel like the CMC parading around in those shorts.
The taller a French chef's hat, the greater the authority. So it also seems the shorter the shorts, the greater the authority of the CRT trainers.
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Are you trying to say you like to look at men in shorts?
They were all at the beach, in fairness what else would the instructors wear but something resembling beachwear?
When they were not at the beach then the instructors wore regular military issue.
Not at all. It's just that the shorts signified authority.
It's a kind of demonstration of power that you can dress like something of a sissy yet bark out demeaning and degrading remarks to all these tough guys just trying to make it through YOUR program.
It's like when instructor Pyro yells out through his megaphone something on the order of " Don't you bruise my sensitive fanny, I will run your asses all the way down the beach !!! ".
I just loved this prissy yet very tough attitude towards the trainees.
They certainly are the opposite of today's baggy long styles, but remember they are the actual Navy UDT swimmer's shorts that date back to WW2 and are still worn to this day by SEAL/UDT, Navy rescue swimmers, Marine Force Recon, etc.
shareI just knew there would be a post about those shorts, haha. Cracked me up too.
shareGiant, baggy clown shorts like men wear today were already in style by 1997, but in earlier decades, like the '70s and '80s, very short, form-fitting short pants were in-style, normal, and common on men, including straight men.
shareThey certainly seemed somewhat anachronistic.
They appeared to be of the early 80s era. If you saw Rocky and Apollo running along the beach say, with them on, you probably wouldn't blink.
... Although to be fair, I think they were wearing man bras, so maybe you'd be blinking at those and not even fully taking in their choices in shorts wear in the first place to even potentially be blinking at them.
But not to digress, they were definitely wrong. Maybe used deliberately to give an authentic air of homoeroticism to the "in the navy" setting but I'm not even sure about that - After all, they were surely looking for a juxtaposition against the woman recruit and would need real manly men to provide that.
Not that there's anything wrong with the homoerotic man, it's just the juxtaposition wouldn't work so well...