“ | Here's the deal, I'm not like the other guys. | „ |
― Bird trying to get with Mandy |
Bird is a supporting character in the 2006 slasher film All the Boys Love Mandy Lane. He is a jock and member of the popular crowd, who is one of several boys trying to get with Mandy Lane. He is less brash in his approach, but soon finds his plans to get the girl are interrupted by the presence of a serial killer who wants her all to himself.
He was portrayed by Edwin Hodge.
History[]
Bird is first seen in Dylan's truck as he is invited Mandy Lane to his pool party. They arrive and she brings her best friend Emmet along, but later, Emmet persuaded Dylan to jump off the roof and into the swimming pool to impress Mandy and Bird witnesses Dylan accidentally hit his head on the ground and land in the pool, dead.
9 months later and Bird, like his friends, are desperate to get with Mandy Lane and they have invite her to Red's father's ranch in order for one of them to seal the deal. They set off on a road trip to the farm in two cars but Chloe leaves hers as she does not want to damage the tires. Mandy gives up her seat in the other car and decides to walk and Bird joins her. As they are walking, he tells Mandy that everyone wants to get with her this weekend, but he is different from the rest. He asks to hold her hand and she reluctantly obliges. He then asks for a kiss and she allows him to kiss her cheek. Suddenly, the ranch hand Garth drives by and offers them a lift, Bird is visibly pissed off by his arrival but Mandy seems smitten and they get in his truck.
After settling in, the group head to the lake and take a swim while drinking alcohol, they watch as Mandy, fresh from a run, undresses and joins them. However, they leave after Garth shoots a deadly water snake which was heading towards them. Back at the house, they play a drinking game of truth or dare which ends in an argument that divides the group.
Later, Mandy is sat alone across from the three boys. Jake goes to get beers but the power suddenly goes out. Red tells Bird to go start up the generator and he leaves to fix the power. While trying his best to re-start it, Garth appears and tells him that the generator is useless and all the power is from a grid. Bird is pissed off that Red sent him out away from Mandy and quickly finds out that Red cut the power on purpose. Jake, pissed off by Mandy's rejection, leaves to find Marlin and takes a shot gun and the keys to the truck.
Bird is left alone with Mandy and he tries to connect with her again. They sit out on the porch , Bird side-by-side with Mandy when the truck drives back and someone inside sends a firework hurling towards them. They believe it's Jake and Bird runs after him, furious. Bird catches up to the truck and sees Emmet inside, covered in blood taunting him. Bird grabs him and beats him to the ground while he is talking about killing people. Bird tries to make sense of it but is slashed across the eyes.
Bird crawls on the ground trying to see but is stabbed to death multiple times.