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What Oliver Did

posted 4 years ago by MAGolding (1240)
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In a "confession cam" segment Oliver claimed that the falling overhead light that narrowly missed Bianca in an episode wouldn't have hurt her.

Hah!

I once read a story that when Shirley Temple was not yet a big star she and another little girl were finalists for a big movie role. And an overhead studio light plummeted down and barely missed Shirley Temple. The man in charge of the overhead lights was the father of Temple's competitor.

In the Carrie (1976) section there are several discussion of the fate of Tommy after the empty pig's blood bucket fell on his head, including:

https://moviechat.org/tt0074285/Carrie/58c731ac5ec57f0478f733a8/Carrie-White-Burns-In-Hell

https://moviechat.org/tt0074285/Carrie/58c731b05ec57f0478f7367a/Why-did-she-attack-Tommy

The best opinion seems to be that a bucket, even an empty one, falling over ten feet onto someone's head is likely to cause a fatal wound.

"The Ballad of Captain Kidd" includes the lines:

Well, I murdered William Moore, as I sailed, as I sailed
Oh, I murdered William Moore, as I sailed
Oh, I murdered William Moore and I left him in his gore
Not forty leagues from shore, as I sailed

http://www.songlyrics.com/carl-peterson/the-ballad-of-captain-kidd-lyrics/

Did Kidd Kill Moore with a cutlass, an axe, a pistol, or a musket, or make Moore walk the plank?

No! They argued and the enraged Kidd hurled a heavy bucket at Moore, giving Moore a fatal head wound. And no matter how hard Kidd could throw, I doubt whether he could give a bucket as much momentum as falling over ten feet would.

Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II was murdered in Syracuse.

On 15 September 668, he was assassinated in his bath by his chamberlain,[11] according to Theophilus of Edessa, with a bucket.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constans_II#Death_and_succession

I guess that an overhead studio light weighs a lot more than even a heavy old wooden ironbound bucket, and would be much more likely to kill Tommy or Bianca - or Shirley Temple, for that matter - if it hit them in the head.

[–] MAGolding (1240) 4 years ago

And today, May 15, 2015 in "The Phantom of Farth Auditorium", Gerta tells the others about the Phantom allegedly haunting Farth Auditorium, the ghost of the leading lady in a production 100 years earlier, whose jealous co star bribed a stagehand to drop a light on her.

So if Gertie's account of the death is correct, someone actually (in the story, at least) was killed by a falling light.

I note that Bianca didn't seem particularly upset at the thought of her narrow escape from death, and Oliver didn't show any guilt. Perhaps Gertie often makes up stories, and they believed that she was making up the story of an actress killed by a falling light.

If Gertie was making up the story, she might have deduced that Oliver was behind the falling light that barely missed Bianca and been inspired to make that the cause of the ghost's death.