20 Movie Reveals Nobody Noticed
5. Keck Gets Himself Killed - The Thin Red Line
Like just about everyone else in the movie, Woody Harrelson has a small but unforgettable role in Terrence Malick's poetic war epic The Thin Red Line.
He plays Sgt. Keck, a soldier who dies an especially horrific death while taking enemy fire.
Keck reaches for his grenade but accidentally pulls out the pin while the grenade is still attached to his hip. With little time to react, he leaps clear from his comrades just as the 'nade detonates, mortally wounding him.
But there's a little more to this scene than a mere accident - Keck actually unintentionally engineered his own demise.
Earlier in the film, we briefly see Keck using a knife to bend the pin on his grenade - a typical Army tactic to make pulling the pin and deploying a grenade easier in a chaotic combat scenario.
However, the trade-off is that it's much easier for soldiers to accidentally discharge the weapon and make mistakes like this without having the time to do anything about it.