BATMAN BEGINS BODY COUNT Director: Christopher Nolan
Actors: Christian Bale, Liam Neeson, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman,
Morgan Freeman, Katie Holmes
MPAA RATING: Rated PG-13 for intense action violence, disturbing images and some thematic elements.
GENRE: Action / Adventure / Crime / Fantasy / Thriller
BODY COUNTS:
Entire Film:
18BATMAN (Christian Bale):
4TRAGEDY (SCENE4) - 2 (parents)
THIS HOUSE (SCENE6) - 1 (Joe Chill)
MONASTERY MAYHEM (SCENE11) - 11 (Ra's al Ghul by BATMAN, 10 ninjas by fire blasts
DO I LOOK LIKE A COP? (SCENE23) - 1 (Rachel's boss Finch)
CATCHING A TRAIN (SCENE35) - 2 (ninjas going over rail by BATMAN)
NOT KILL BUT NOT SAVE (SCENE36) – 1 (Henri Ducard by BATMAN
This is a hard one because there's not much blood and no indication of death (after all it's a PG-13 movie). So I took a little bit of a common sense approach and used a threshold of force over which death occurs. Anything under the threshold is not a kill but just getting knocked out.
I changed my mind about the Keysi. While it could be lethal, BATMAN's use of it in the film indicates that he does not intend to kill but to incapacitate temporarily (refer to the scene "Secrets of Scary People" where he uses Keysi but does not seem to have killed any of them).
I use for my threshold the scene where BATMAN slams the back of Crane's head into concrete steps in "Arkham's Basement Secrets." It obviously didn't kill him so for this movie I would consider that non-lethal force.
For the scene in the monastery, then, where the explosions cause ninjas to be thrown back, I would consider that lethal (wouldn't you???).
That goes for the scene where ninjas are thrown over a rail. I think physics bears me out on this one. It was a long way down, so I assume that the ninjas met with death. There was another ninja which he grappled and went over a rail with, but the distance wasn't as far as the other one so it's a little iffy, therefore I won't include it.
Now, as for Ra's al Ghul and Henri Ducard (who is actually Ra's, but for simplicity's sake I'll refer to him as Ducard), Batman didn't actually kill them with his own hands.
But he didn't save them, and although he didn't consider that killing them, I think it's just semantics. Batman caused the fire and he certainly didn't have that sword fight with Ra's with the intention to lose.
As for Ducard, well, I would just consider the train one giant weapon. He could've saved Ducard again (as in the first time).
*takes deep breath and grins victoriously* ;D