Original artwork, not a still
Say a word about this over the radio, and the next wings you see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse!
— Con Air · 1997
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
A menacing threat to keep quiet: if the listener reports this over the radio, the only wings they'll see afterward will be on flies swarming their dead body. It's a grisly, theatrical way of saying silence is mandatory, twisting the idea of wings into a vivid, gross image.
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