Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Film Body Counts #1: Con Air (1997)

Main Hero : Cameron Poe
1 (drunk “a regular hound dog”)
1 (prisoner “Billy Bedlam” “why couldn’t you put the bunny back in the box?”)
3 (Colombians)
1 (prisoner “Viking”)
1 (prisoner)
1 (prisoner “Diamond Dog” with motobike)
Total 8

Other Goodies
1 (prisoner “Karls”)
1 (prisoner “Popovic”)
1 (Colombian pilot)
3 (prisoners in the Boneyard shootout including prisoner “Chief”)
Total 6

Main Villain: Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
1 (co-pilot)
1 (DEA agent “Sims”)
3 (prison guards by bomb left in cell)
1 (US marshal “Starkey”)
1 (prisoner “Cindino”)
2 (police motorcyclists with water cannon)
Total 9

Other Baddies
1 (prison guard)
1 (prisoner “Benson”)
1 (“Phil” at the Lerner airstrip tower)
6 (police in Boneyard shootout)
Total 9

By Misadventure
1 (prisoner “Swamp Thing” fire-trunk windscreen)
1 (prisoner “Cyrus Grissom” industrial stamping machine after falling from great height and flying throw a casino walkover)
1 (prisoner “Pinball” airplane undercarriage and probably exposure)
1 (prisoner “Johny-23” plane crash arm ripped off)
1* (prison guard plane crash)
Total 5

Grand Total 37
(and possible "enormous civilian casualties" when the plane hits the front of a casino)

*three guards are being held hostage at the airstrip but only two walk away from the crash in Las Vegas.

Note: serial killer prisoner "Garland Greene", who according to the film has killed more people than the film's body count, does not manage to kill anyone especially the little girl he plays dolls with. He also escapes at the end which no one seems bothered about it.

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