Major Payne
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Directed by	Nick Castle
Produced by	Harry Tatelman Damon Wayans
Written by	Joe Connelly Bob Mosher
Starring	Damon Wayans Karyn Parsons William Hickey Michael Ironside Albert Hall Orlando Brown
Music by	Craig Safan
Cinematography	Richard Bowen
Editing by	Patrick Kennedy
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	March 24, 1995
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
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While generally receiving unfavourable reviews, the movie has become a cult favorite, especially with ROTC programs. The Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) is a training program of the United States armed forces present on college campuses to recruit and educate commissioned officers. ...

Taglines

• Welcome to the House of Payne.
• He's looking for a few good men. He'll settle for a few guys old enough to shave.

Plot

The film stars Major Payne (Damon Wayans), a hardened killing machine, in a drug raid in South America. Payne successfully infiltrates their base of operations, and neutralizes their project. After the mission, he is called into the general's office, and finds out that he was not promoted to a Lieutenant Colonel. "You get two chances to advance, then we gotta show you the hatch". Payne received an honorable discharge on the grounds of "wars of the world are no longer fought on the battlefield", and that his military skill was no longer needed. Damon Kyle Wayans (pronounced WAYNES) (born September 4, 1960) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actor who began his career as a stand-up comic in 1982. ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Lieutenant Colonel is a rank of the United States armed forces which is currently used by the United States Army, United States Air Force, United States Marine Corps, and United States National Guard. ...

After he leaves the military, Payne finds life as a civilian unbearable, and reaches his breaking point, in a scene parodying the opening scene in Apocalypse Now. To help adjust, Payne applies for a job as a Police officer. During the test to see how applicants handled domestic violence disputes, Payne overreacts and repeatedly slaps the man who hit his wife in the scenario, eventually knocking him out. Payne is put into jail on charges that are most likely assault. His former general visits him and informs Payne that he has secured a job for him that will get him back in the military. Apocalypse Now is a 1979 Academy Award and Golden Globe winning American film set during the Vietnam War. ... Police officers in South Australia A police officer (or policeman/policewoman) is a warranted worker of a police force. ...

Payne arrives at Madison Preparatory School in Virginia. He first meets Tiger (Orlando Brown), who bumps into him when he was running away from school counselor/nurse Emily Walburn (Karyn Parsons), who was trying to give him a shot. The principal informs him that his job is to train the green boys, a disorderly group of delinquents and outcasts, who have placed last in the Virginia Military Games eight years running. When Payne sees his company, he immediately tells them that under his direction they will win the games at all costs. He makes the cadets do pushups, situps, and squat thrusts for their disobedience, and later shaves their heads and makes them do their morning jog around the campus in sundress (as punishment for when the boys attempted to have him fired). For the offensive lineman, see Orlando Brown (football player). ... Karyn Parsons (born October 8, 1966) is an American actress who is best known for her work as the dimwitted, self-centered Hilary Banks on the hit show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. ... Injection has multiple meanings: In mathematics, the term injection refers to an injective function. ... A Navy JROTC cadet salutes during the parading of the colors ceremony held at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ...

Much of the comedy comes from Payne's harsh and sometimes sadistic punishment of the boys, the boys' numerous attempts to get rid of him, and the reluctant bonds he forms with each of the boys as they work toward winning the games. Payne consistently tries to see the boys merely as units in his troop but slowly comes to be a father figure for the boys -- in particularly six-year-old Tiger -- and grows to love Emily, the mother of the troop, who is his polar opposite in their views on childcare. Payne is eventually asked to come back to the Marines to fight in Bosnia, and his conflicting feelings about his old life and new life are the catalyst for the film's finale. The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the United States military responsible for providing power projection from the sea,[1] utilizing the mobility of the U.S. Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces. ... This article is about the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina. ...

At the train station, Payne realizes he has formed an undeniable bond with the unit, and decides to return home, not setting foot on the train. The team wins the games for the first time, and former delinquint Alex Stone is awarded a trophy for the most improved ROTC soldier. From there, the unit is tighter than ever. The last scene shows Payne on the first day of the new school year, and when a new wise-cracking, though blind, cadet shows up, Payne proceeds to shave him (and his dog) bald with his field knife. He is shown laughing into the credits.

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References

• In DJ Khaled's "Make It Rain (Remix)" (a remix of Fat Joe's "Make It Rain"), R. Kelly states, "I've been drilling these chicks like Major Payne, when I make it rain, they be like, Kel do it again'."

• In The Notorious B.I.G.'s "One More Chance", he states, "There I is, Major Payne like Damon Wayans / Low Down Dirty even like his brother Keenen".

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External links

• Major Payne at the Internet Movie Database