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Four Unforgettable Movie Chandeliers
One of the most familiar tropes from TV and movies is known as the Falling Chandelier of Doom. This is when a beautiful chandelier—usually, a gorgeous crystal chandelier or expensive, ancient, antique brass chandelier—falls like a sword of Damocles on the hero or villain. Below are four cinematic chandeliers that play these memorable roles.
In The Wizard of Oz (1939), the Scarecrow (as played by the memorable Ray Bolger drops a chandelier on the Wicked Witch of the West’s flying monkey soldiers.
Clue (1982) features a chandelier that accidentally drops when the maid shoots the rope that holds it instead of the lock on the door she was aiming for. As an added bonus, one of the movie’s three alternate endings includes another dropped chandelier.
In Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), the eponymous hero as played by Cary Elwes humorously attempts to drop one of Nottingham castle’s crystal chandeliers on the Sheriff’s men as an extra special delivery. Unfortunately, he cuts the wrong rope and a different chandelier falls on himself instead!
In the James Bond film Die Another Day (2002) starring a dignified Pierce Brosnan, the evil henchman Zao is killed by a falling chandelier shot down by Bond as Zao treads freezing water. In that case, the chandelier was made from diamonds. How Bond-appropriate!
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Posted on: Monday, July 19th, 2010 at 9:00 am
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