OK, I was watching Full Metal Jacket. There’s this great little segment after Cowboy’s squad secures the path into the city of Hue and all the support guys and helicopters and tanks start rolling in. There’s a montage of all the guys posing for the photojournalist’s cameras as the song “The Bird Is The Word” is playing. You can watch the clip here.
At one point - just as the guitars stop for a moment and the singer slowly mutters “suuuurrrffiiin’ biiiiiird” - you can see a Marine walk by just for one second, and wave at the camera. There is something particularly strange about this guy’s appearance. His face, and the skin on his hands, seems to be a very pale white, much paler than usual, and his facial features seem indistinct and skull-like. He almost looks as if his face and hands are completely covered in chalk dust or flour or something.
I created an image - here - where you can see the guy. In that video clip, he appears at 1:18.
What is up with this guy? Is he an Albino? Is he covered in white dust? Is he wrapped up in bandages or something?
I haven’t seen a single word about this odd-looking Marine on the IMDB forums for this film.
It looks like he has gloves on. Look at the hand holding his rifle, there’s a slight contrast change. I don’t know what’s wrong with his face—perhaps a scarf or something wrapped around his mouth keeping dust away.
Creepy. Looks like bandages to me, including bandages on his hands. But, I would think that if they’d gone to the trouble of bandaging up one of the extras, they’d have him on screen for more than a second. (Although maybe the plan was to have him do more, but they later changed their minds?)
Watch the clip again. The guy is following several stretchers headed for a medevac chopper. He’s walking wounded and about to be evacuated. I count seven stretchers, then the guy, then two more stretchers behind him.
But impressive if true, since that means that Argent was a newborn baby at time of original posting. Quite precocious.
BTW, since we’re talking about bandages, I have to insist that the correct necromantic manifestation for this thread isn’t zombie. It’s obviously mummy.
Kind of this. Can’t remember the scene in the movie, but yes. War - and getting shot at was not very pretty and a MediVac helo was often hours away and god help you if you weren’t in the LZ at the right time. You had to just march on.
