He rattled off a nonstop stream of profanity and insults for like 10 min straight as a way of training / demo-ing to the actor. Kubrick thought he did a far better job and left him in the role. Much of his dialog was ad-libed.
The original DI ended up as the crazy guy shooting civilians from the helicopter. “You guys oughta do a story about me!”
He rattled off a nonstop stream of profanity and insults for like 10 min straight as a way of training / demo-ing to the actor. Kubrick thought he did a far better job and left him in the role. Much of his dialog was ad-libed.
The original DI ended up as the crazy guy shooting civilians from the helicopter. “You guys oughta do a story about me!”