Chainmail Vest or String vest?

[weylandyutani]

I just joined, so if this was a past discussion, my apologies. I frequently see people refer to Bennet's vest as chainmail however it's obvious that they used a string vest for the film. Whether or not it is used to portray chainmail, or just a string vest is the question. I tend to think latter because if it were being used as chainmail I would have expected them to utilize it somehow (Like having Matrix slash Bennet's torso.) Granted we do hear the sound of metal chains when he moves, but I attribute that to the choke chain around his neck. Don't get me wrong, I think chainmail is 10x more bad-ass but I am just curious what the director wanted us to think it was.

[Voelkermord]

I'm pretty sure it was meant to be perceived as chainmail, but it was documented somewhere that the vest was in fact made of some sort of cloth. Clever bastards.

[Dutch]

The vest used was an actuall WWII British paratrooper vest. So i read in a magazine of mine anyway.

[Colonel John Matrix]

It was a cotton string vest that was supposed to be chainmail.

My take on it though is that is actually made from Bennett's ejaculate, and he wove it together into a vest much like a spider weaves a web from the silk it secretes.
The fingerless gloves are a dead giveaway - they leave his fingers free for weaving, yet provide a firm grip when he's grasping his long, hard knife.

[milo]

May 18, 2008 10:49:31 GMT -5 Colonel John Matrix said:

It was a cotton string vest that was supposed to be chainmail.

My take on it though is that is actually made from Bennett's ejaculate, and he wove it together into a vest much like a spider weaves a web from the silk it secretes.
The fingerless gloves are a dead giveaway - they leave his fingers free for weaving, yet provide a firm grip when he's grasping his long, hard knife.

I'd like to think that Bennett's vest is indeed an chainmail and since it's made by Bennett's ejaculate,no rust will ever soil it.

And the only strings that Bennett wear,are the ones that covers his tasty manhood

[Kimble]

It'll always be chainmail to me. That's what I first believed when I saw Commando for the first time many years ago.

Mark probably wanted us to perceive it as a string vest or something. He came off as pretty oblivious about Bennett's homosexuality.