Written by Mr. Mouseburger 3rd Mar 2006
Kindly submitted by Kooshmeister
Louis Strack Jr. is the billionaire owner of Strack Industries, one of those all-purpose evil corporations. For most of the film, we have all thought that mobster Robert G. Durant was the main villain, since it was he and his gang who trashed and blew up the laboratory of Dr. Peyton Westlake, burning him beyond recognition and forcing him to become the vigilante Darkman.
However, Peyton's girlfriend Julie Hastings discovers that Strack is the arch-villain; Durant is his henchman. Strack kidnaps Julie and takes her to a construction site with a goon and Durant (who, unbeknownst to Strack is actually Darkman in disguise). After unmasking Darkman and trying to get him to join him, Strack engages in a fight with the vigilante high on a partially completed skyscraper.
He and the goon with him swing chains at Darkman, and Strack even shoots at him with a rivet gun. It is all to no avail though and before long, Strack is being dangled over the side of the building by the ankle by Darkman.
Initially, Strack dares Darkman to drop him. When Darkman hesitates, Strack laughs and says he knew he could not do it, since it is not something he could live with. Darkman responds by letting go of Strack's ankle, allowing the villain to plummet about a hundred stories to his doom. Splat.
If I am not mistaken, Strack's goon was skip, who helped to take out half of Mr. Black's warehouse in the beginning by hiding a machine gun in his peg-leg.
Actually, it's just a random goon. I, too, thought it was Skip the first time I watched the film, but upon closer examination not only is it a different actor, but when Julie almost knocks him off a girder the goon pulls himself back up using his left leg, something Skip would be unable to do considering his left leg is the artificial one.
As to what actually happens to Skip, he just disappears from the story without explanation.
I have a comic book adaption of the movie, it's quite different than the movie, the prissy guy with all the medication survives whereas skip has Strack's location scared out of him by Darkman in an ominous close-up sequence on Darkman's hand.
What prissy guy with medication? The comic book must really be different from the movie then because I don't recall such a character in the film. The only Durant gang members I recall were:
Skip - The guy with the artificial leg
Rudy - The Spanish guy
Pauly - The bald guy
Smiley - The long-haired guy
Rick - The guy with glasses
All of whom except for Skip I've submitted deaths for tonight.
Rick was who I meant, Westlake finds him through the address on his pill bottle in the comic. Also, Rudy was named Guzman in the comic.
how could Strack Jr. tell the real Durant from the fake?how high were Darkman and Strack Jr. when they fought each other?
Strack could tell it wasn't Durant because he said, "I'm glad you survived, Robert. I'd hate to see your kids deprived of a role model." Durant is childless and probably unmarried, but Darkman, not knowing this, just plays along and thusly gives himself away.
EDIT: Oh, and Strack says they're 650 feet up in the air. How many stories is that, someone?
Have you even seen the movie?
I'm not sure, numbers aren't exactly my forte. Why do you ask?
I'm pretty sure that Karl hasn't seen the movie yet, but I see nothing wrong with that. In fact I'd say this site is predominantly for people who haven't seen the film yet. (you convinced me to see Night of the Generals)
Mr. Briggs Incorporated Wrote:
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> I'm pretty sure that Karl hasn't seen the movie
> yet, but I see nothing wrong with that.
>
What I mean is even with movies he has seen he tends to ask lots of really dumb questions.
Mr. Briggs Incorporated Wrote:
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> In fact
> I'd say this site is predominantly for people who
> haven't seen the film yet. (you convinced me to
> see Night of the Generals)
Really? My two writeups for Colonel Grau and General Tanz were that interesting?
650 feet can be anywhere from 50 to 70 floors, my guess. If it was 65 exact, then each floor would be 10 feet. The empire state has 102 floors and stands 1250 feet- but it doesn't have 125 floors, so the height on each floor must differ. Plus there are only around 5 skyscrapers in the world over 100 floors- Empire State, Taipei 101, John Hancock Center, Sears Tower and the destroyed WTC.
I just saw this death on youtube. What a rip. I hate it when we only see them drop and hear them scream all the way down. The least they could done was some kind of optical effect and drop a dummy or even a matte painting like the Joker in Batman. Alas, we only get to see the guy fall for about 3 floors than Darkman's face for the rest of the fall.
I'd personally rate this death as unsatisfying
I don't have any big problem with not seeing the full fall, I actually found it pretty creatively done.
I would only have a problem with this if, ya' know, the baddie was really an ass. Jr. is by no means not an ass, but not as much to warrent a ton of hate in my eyes.
I figured he would land on those spikey things and get impaled, cuz when it zooms down the construction site full way, we see this bed of spikes.
That's a possiblity, but it won't fit in the impaled catergory because we did not get to see him impaled.
Well, he got dropped off the side rather than down the middle, unlike the henchman who probably did land on those spikes since he fell down the middle.
What about "Tempting Fate"?
Possibly. He does dare Darkman to drop him, more or less.
dude, i don't think skip was killed. i think he got away, cuz i've watched many times and i don't see how he died.
Yeah he isn't killed. Once Darkman discovers who the real big bad behind Durant is (i.e. Strack) he pretty much forgets about the remaining little fish and goes after the big one.
I received my copies of the three-issue comic adaptation in the mail today. Good read. Strack's demise in the comic is more elaborate. Whereas in the film it's a nameless henchman who is dropped down down the middle of the building and impaled on the rebars (offscreen), and Strack dropped over the side, in the comic, Darkman lifts Strack over his head and throws him down the middle, and we actually get to see Strack skewered by the rebars (bloodlessly, but he's still visibly impaled).
And whoever it was on here who said that in the comic, Darkman doesn't kill Rick, you're right. It's implied he does, but later Rick is shown wandering aimlessly, out of his mind from his encounter with the burned avenger.
And, re: what I said above, Darkman roughs Skip up to learn where Strack is taking Julie, and it's implied he kills him, but, as with Rick, it's possible he just drove the guy insane.