The film is articulated through a labyrinth (like Shining ) in Hue, the Vietnamese city, rebuilt in Beckton (London) in a former gasworks abandoned. Spectacularly retouched here and there to give it the appearance of an Eastern city.
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
"This building clearly shows the influence of the cubist style of the Bauhaus, the architects, who emigrated after 1934, worked a bit 'anywhere in England as in Vietnam; and actually looks like or should look like, what was the city of Hue, also built by architects skulls of the school in Dessau, on behalf of the French who then occupied the country. " Sandro Bernardi
Full Metal Jacket The real architecture of the film, refers only too evident, the Fagus Werk, a workshop designed by Walter Gropius, but there are also strong similarities with Stores Schocken architect Erich Mendelsohn
The outer walls of these buildings are made up a dense grid of glass, divided into three levels that form the building structure.
Walter Gropius, Fagus Werk (1911)
Erich Mendelsohn, Schocken Stores (1926-28)
Walter Gropius, Bauhaus ( 1925 - 1926) 
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