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I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (1970) Oldřich Lipský
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5.1/ BEARDED LADIES, FEMININE MOUSTACHE, HIRSUTISM – FROM DAISIES TO KILLING EINSTEIN

The closing scene of Daisies (1966) by Věra Chytilová shows two girls “who have gone bad”, lying on a table right below the chandelier, which suddenly starts to drop down. We don’t see, if chandelier killed the two feminine pranksters (pioneers of emancipation). But it is what most likely happened, because thereafter we observe war scenes with multiple explosions, bombing, shooting and a ruined city (i.e. the triumph of masculinity).

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Few years later (made in 1969, premiere in 1970) Oldřich Lipský comes up with a related film where in the (not too distant) future G-bomb radiation causes sprouting of beards on females’ faces and the leaders of humanity (still mostly males) decide to solve the problem by killing Einstein, sitting in 1911 on a chair just below the chandelier which is coincidentaly supposed to drop down. G-bomb is a weapon radiating “forced emancipation” (exhibited by feminine beards and infertility) which makes Einstein a traitor of masculine humanity — due to being a forefather of the relativist theory in physics (basics of G-bomb structure) and the relativist changes in gender stereotypes (G-bomb radiation). In the opinion of the almighty (masculi)United Nations such a traitor must be killed by a chastising gravitational power of huge phalic chandelier (the same way as heroines in "Daisies" were killed).

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5.2/ BEARDED LADIES, FEMININE MOUSTACHE, HIRSUTISM – BREASTFEEDING MONOPOLY AND MASCULINE PREGNANCY

"I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen" is also touching an issue of the breastfeeding monopoly of women. Unfortunately this subject matter remains in the film underdeveloped (only as a sketch in embryonic phase) and thus the busty male characters are (most likely) incapable of breastfeeding, not to speak of becoming pregnant and thus substituting the infertile bearded ladies in their life-giving role. (Doesn't matter that when males got busty in the film, females already regained their full fertility potential and lost their beards.)

(Btw. on the pic below is director's brother Lubomír Lipský, playing in the film a role of Nobel Prize laureate Frank Pech, transformed in busty monster by fertilizing gas, manufactured by evil chemists who substituted as the main oppositional force the evil physicists after a history twist, resulting from killing Einstein who was actually not killed but persuaded to become a violinist.)

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5.3/ BEARDED LADIES, FEMININE MOUSTACHE, HIRSUTISM – SMART RING AND SELFIE STICK

Noteworthy detail of this unorthodox sci-fi feature from 1969 is also the display of a telescopic “selfie stick” in one of the scenes. It makes a viewer naturally suspicious, if among the cast-n-crew of this existential time machine road trip film was someone (our contemporary) who used the time machine to travel back in 1969 to take part in making of this film.

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If one admits that this suspicion might be grounded and considering that (besides a “selfie stick”) in the film is also used a “smart ring”, we can expect that one of the next marketing sessions introducing new iProducts will come up with a “smart ring” as a successor of “smart watches”. And later probably even “smart wedding rings” will flood the international market. These "smart wedding rings" will serve as the (remote control) locks to "smart chastity belts" and will thus pave the way to "smart neofeudalism", the upcoming social system of smart illiterates.

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http://theculturalgutter.com/science-fiction/einstein-and-the-bearded-lady.html
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The comedy is a mix of subtle and slapstick, something like Monty Python meets Charlie Chaplin meets the Marx Brothers, with a bit of Benny Hill-esque sex farce thrown in.

http://i-love-czech-film.tumblr.com/post/126166050632/djworralloart-i-killed-einstein-gentlemen
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If Women start growing beards, its probably Einstein’s fault…

http://deeperintomovies.net/journal/archives/2789
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Another sci-fi time-travel political-conspiracy comedy from 1970’s Czechoslovakia. How many could there be?

http://twitchfilm.com/2012/02/attack-the-bloc-twitch-presents-czech-scifi-comedy-i-killed-einstein-gentlemen-at-the-tiff-bell-ligh.html
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Mishaps, hijinks and drastic alterations in the space-time continuum naturally ensue in Oldrich Lipsky's hilariously lowbrow sci-fi comedy, which plays like Sleeper/Bananas-era Woody Allen.
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In the original Golden Sun commercial, a woman faced an animated chandelier DRAGON! Years later, it made it into the games themselves as a summon in Golden Sun: Dark Dawn.
In the trailers for Lilo & Stitch Stitch interrupted famous songs and scenes from previous Disney films. One was the ballroom dance from Beauty and the Beast where Stitch causes the chandelier to fall almost crushes the two dancing below.

Anime & Manga
Noir does this straight, with Kirika machine-gunning a chandelier to down some mooks.
Played with in Digimon V-Tamer 01, where Taichi has his partner Zeromaru make a chandelier fall not for death and destruction, but so that the noise of it breaking breaks through a sonic attack in action.
Happens to Ash and Pikachu in the Pokémon episode "The Tower of Terror". They die... sort of. Well, since their souls were literally pulled out by a Haunter, it was probably a case of Only Mostly Dead.
Happens to one of the Zahlen Scwhestern in the final episode of Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom.
In Haikara San Ga Tooru, local Ill Girl Larissa dies as she pulls a Diving Save to rescue Shinobu from one and gets hit instead.
Subverted in episode 12 of Another: a chandelier falls, trapping Kawahori, Tsujii, Watanabe and Kakinuma. However, Kawahori is the only character to die, and this is because he freed himself, ran off without the others, and gets crushed by a falling pillar. Everybody else survives.
In Lupin III Pilot Film, Jigen shoots down the chandelier to knock out the policemen hiding behind a table.
Detective Conan
In the Reunion with the Black Organization case, it turns out that the victim died by having a huge chandelier fall on him. More exactly, it was shot off and dropped on him by a highranked member of the aforementioned Black Organization, who hoped to Make It Look Like an Accident.
In a later filler case, a man named Itsuro Soejima dies when a just-as-huge chandelier in his house falls on him. Then there's a Double Subversion: first it looks like Soejima shot down said chandelier while drunk and that's why it fell on him, and later we see that Soejima was killed by his sister-in-law Kyouko Takahata in practice, since she got him drunk and manipulated him to shoot the chandelier to kill him.

Comic Books
In Jonah Hex #68 (original series), Jonah stops a rowdy who was busting up a saloon by shooting out out the chain holding up the chandelier so it fall on him. Said chandelier was made out of a wagon wheel. Ouch!

Film — Animated
Subverted in The Emperors New Groove, where Punch Clock Villain Kronk tries to drop a chandelier on his boss Yzma, but she's so skinny she slips through a hole in it and emerges unscathed.
Kronk: Strange... that usually works.
Yzma: And so does this! (pulls a lever and a Trap Door opens under Kronk)
Kronk: Ah, Should've seen that comin'. [falls] WHOOOA!!!!
In the first Futurama movie, Bender's Big Score, Hermes' time clone body is destroyed by a falling chandelier. This leads Lars (actually an aged time clone Fry) to realize that he is just as doomed as Hermes' body.
Anastasia: Rasputin sends a chandelier crashing to the ballroom floor in the party scene at the beginning of the movie, but everyone steps out of the way.
Cinderella: "Yaahh-hoo-hoo-hoo-hooey!!!"
Subverted, as the "victims" in question are sitting astride the chandelier before it falls. Both survive, though it is implied that it hurt. A lot.
In The Princess and the Pea, Laird has his pet falcon cut a chandelier to fall on Rollo, but Heath pushes him out of the way in time to take the blow instead. It doesn't kill him.
In Frozen, one of the Duke of Weselton's men cuts the suspension on the chandelier in Elsa's ice palace. Elsa barely avoids it and gets knocked unconscious.

Film — Live Action
In Die Another Day, James Bond casually shoots down a chandelier made of ice which lands on The Dragon after a long battle through a melting ice palace in cars, armed with stinger missiles and mounted machine guns. The water turns red almost immediately.
In Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Hamlet, Hamlet (Branagh) drops a chandelier on Claudius (Derek Jacobi) during the final battle, in addition to poisoning and stabbing him. Uh... Yeah
"Oh I have to poison him? That's boring —EAT CHANDELIER, BITCH!"
Clue has an accidentally-dropped chandelier—the maid accidentally shoots the rope holding it up while trying to shoot the lock on a door. One of the three endings drops the other chandelier in the hall in a similar, but even funnier, manner.
In The Wizard of Oz (1939), the Scarecrow drops one onto the Wicked Witch of the West's Winkie soldiers.
In Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Robin tries to drop a chandelier on the Sheriff's men, cuts the wrong rope, and drops a different chandelier on himself instead.
In the movie of Stardust, Tristran goes through several different chandeliers before finding the one that will knock Zombie-Septimus out the window; he then uses the momentum from the cut rope as a way to quickly get up the stairs and knock down the witch Lamia.
The Scorpion King features a dropped chandelier which its target slips through, but then Mathayus uses the rope to dispose of a new opponent, which raises the chandelier again, catching the first guy astride. Ouch.
In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Elizabeth is able to escape temporarily from the crew of the Pearl by taking advantage of a falling chandelier in her father's mansion.
Lampshaded and subverted in the Disney film A Kid in King Arthur's Court. The title character cuts the rope attached to a chandelier, but it doesn't fall, causing him to comment that "this always works in the movies". How the chandelier isn't falling even though its support is cut is never explained.
Subverted in The War of the Roses: Barbara (Kathleen Turner) prepares to drop a chandelier onto her husband, Oliver, but he moves out of the way before she can drop it. It ends up killing them both when, during a later fight, they both get on top of it and the supporting cables snap. But since they're on top, this may not count.
In Godzilla (1998) the heroes clear a path through a host of baby Zillas by shooting down a succession of chandeliers.
Cruelly parodied in Mars Attacks!!, as this is how the First Lady (Glenn Close) dies:
Marsha: The Nancy Reagan chandelier! Woooooooh! *crash*
The International. The museum shootout is brought to an end by dropping a chandelier-like construction that suspends several projection screens on a couple of mooks.
Non-fatal version in Demolition Man. Phoenix is hiding behind an information terminal with a very large, cone shaped ceiling light overhead and a glass floor beneath (it was an underground exhibit). Spartan shoots the line holding the fixture up, causing it to land near Phoenix and drop him into the exhibit.
From Dusk Till Dawn: when the lead hooker vampire gets the upper hand on George Clooney's character, Seth, and gloats turning him into her personal lap-dog, Seth's response? "No thanks, I already had a wife.", and shoots the rope holding the wooden chandelier, which impales her.
The Fall Of The House Of Usher - The curse brought on the House of Usher in the form of tremors for the family's devil worship practices ends up in the death of the main character's sister by a falling chandelier.
In Killers, Spencer shoots the rope for an antler decoration, causing it to swing and impale the hitwoman strangling him.
Done in The Three Musketeers (1993), with Porthos riding the chandelier down:
[after dropping a group of the Cardinal's guards with a chandelier]
Porthos: Did I miss anyone?
Aramis: Congratulations, Porthos. You brought down the house.
Porthos: Oh, drat. I was trying to hit Rochefort.
As in the book, Dobby drops a chandelier on Bellatrix (or tries to) in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. Being a house-elf, he doesn't mean to kill Bellatrix, only to maim...or seriously injure.
In What a Girl Wants, the chandelier at Peach and Pear's coming out party crashes down from the thumping of the rock music and dancing after Daphne livens up the party.
Made a little funnier when, earlier, Henry tells Daphne not to mention the chandelier within earshot of Peach & Pear's father, as he could tell you the whole story revolving around it. It seems to be a priceless artifact.
The Phantom meets his end in The Phantom of the Opera (1962) when he pushes Christine out of the way of one during the finale.
The Legend Of Hell House has three instances of ghostly forces dropping chandeliers on the characters, and the second one makes its mark.
In Hot Fuzz, the Big Bad uses this to make an escape once exposed by Angel and Danny, shooting the chandelier so that, as it falls, it blocks the officers from making a move.
At the climax of Unconscious, León and Dr. Pardo get killed by one. Since it gets knocked down by a bullet fired from León's gun, it counts as a Karmic Death at least in part.
In Om Shanti Om, this is how the Big Bad gets dispatched at the end. The chandelier was let down by the ghost of the woman he killed in that same place.

Literature
The Phantom of the Opera contains what is probably the most famous example of this trope.
Gaston Leroux reportedly based this scene on an actual incident where one of the counterweights of the Palais Garnier's chandelier (not the chandelier itself) fell into the auditorium and killed a woman.
In a Saturday Night Live parody of Broadway, the Phantom loses patience with his fellow Broadway characters, and uses his light fixture collapsing power on them. However since they are in a diner, the results are unimpressive.
Discworld:
Despite the above quote (and the fact that it's parodying The Phantom of the Opera), Maskerade subverts this—everyone keeps talking about how dangerous the Opera House chandelier is, and the villain plans on dropping it, but it never actually falls.
In The Fifth Elephant, a chandelier is sent falling onto the Low-King-to-be. Detritus catches it.
In Reaper Man, the extra life force caused by Death's downsizing results in the giant chandelier in Unseen University's Great Hall unscrewing itself. Luckily, it does so one screw at a time, giving the wizards ample warning to get away.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has Dobby dropping the Malfoy's chandelier over them and Bellatrix.
And in book 5, Peeves is trying to drop one at Hogwarts. Professor McGonagall quietly gives him some advice when he's not getting it:
McGonagall: It unscrews the other way.
One gets pulled down intentionally during the Legacy of the Force novels (Exiles by Aaron Allston, page 285). Of course, nobody dies, since there are two telekinetics in the room, but it was a good diversion.
Much of the Dean Koontz novel Forever Odd takes place in the ruins of the Panamint Resort and Spa, which was severely damaged by an earthquake. Several people were killed in the ballroom when a massive chandelier fell on them during the quake; although this was an accident, it happened because the builders cut corners and suspended the chandelier from a wooden beam rather than a steel beam.
The second World of Tiers book ends with the villain accidentally cutting down a giant chandelier and being crushed with it. However, the villain is still alive and manages to struggle free and attack the protagonists again.
Hop-Frog by Edgar Allan Poe has an interesting variation. Instead of having the chandelier hanging overhead, it has been lowered to the floor at the beginning of the Masquerade Ball. The doom part comes in when the protagonist chains the antagonists to the chandelier during a seemingly Zany Scheme, and they are hoisted into the air after being set aflame.
Took care of Mrs. Dark quite nicely in The Infernal Devices.

Live Action TV
In The Borgias's episode The Beautiful Deception, Lucrezia strategically placed a candle so as to burn the rope holding the chandelier above her brother Juan's bed while he is having sex, ultimately impaling his partner. She does this as revenge for him killing her son's father, Paolo.
Only Fools and Horses has a funny, non-combat-related version here.
This was based on a real-life incident involving John Sullivan's father, who was part of a team of builders who made the same mistake. They all got the sack for it. The episode was written backwards to get there, and Sullivan senior thankfully saw the funny side of the whole thing when he watched the episode.
In one episode of The Avengers, "Death's Door", a potentially world-changing conference is put on hold when a key delegate pulls out, having had a bizarre recurring dream in which a chandelier falls on his head. He interprets this (with good reason) as a warning not to attend the conference, lest he meet his demise in this manner. The heroes inspect it and find nothing wrong, but the villain still ends up crushed by it.
This is how the Victim of the Week Gustav Hoffer is killed in the Pushing Daisies episode "Robbing Hood".
In The Two Ronnies serial The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town, the Prime Minister and the leaders of the Commonwealth are meeting to discuss the threat of the Phantom. Who drops in uninvited, and blows a raspberry at them that's powerful enough to make the Queen's portrait blush and bring the chandelier down.
An episode of The Dingo Principle featured a parody of The Phantom of the Opera where someone was killing members of the Liberal Party by dropping chandeliers on them, regardless of where they were at the time.
Harper's Island, although it's not the chandelier per se, but a headspade concealed in it.
In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "The Puppet Show", Buffy gets a chandelier dropped on her by Sid the living ventriloquist dummy, temporarily pinning her down as he attacks.
In "Surprise" Angel does the modern version by dropping a multiscreen TV on the Judge's head. It doesn't stop him.
Averted in "Smashed". Spike weakens a chandelier while swinging from it to kick Buffy in the face, including a closeup showing how it's been pulled out of the ceiling. By the time it falls however neither of them notice, because they're too busy having passionate sex up against the wall.
In the MacGyver episode "The Coltons", Jesse Colton takes out a gunman who has taken cover behind a table by shooting out the chandelier above him so that it falls on him.
In the Merlin episode "Lancelot and Guinevere", while he, Arthur and Lancelot are rescuing Guinevere from Hengist, Merlin drops a chandelier on one of Hengist's archers.
Supernatural. Dean is facing a ghost who naturally is Immune to Bullets. He shoots the chain holding up an chandelier instead. Being literally Made of Iron, the chandelier dissipates the ghost.
Sam and Dean realise they're in a room with a bunch of pagan gods. They turn to flee and a chandelier crashes to the floor in front of them, warning that trying to leave is a bad idea.
Midsomer Murders: The third Victim of the Week in "Let Us Prey" is shackled to a bed and then impaled by a falling chandelier.

Newspaper Comics
It was a monday and the screws on the chandelier above Garfield needed tightening.

Music
One of Peter Schickele's P.D.Q. Bach performances was supposedly in a (fictitious) castle in an advanced state of disrepair.
"Unfortunately, due to the lack of funds for maintenance, there aren't as many chandeliers now as there used to be." CRASH!
A scene in the Meat Loaf video "I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" has a chandelier fall on the cops searching the castle. The Literal Video version has Teen Girl Squad type commentary "CHANDELIER'D!" "Ow! My only scene!"
In Katy Perry's song Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) where she tries to figure out What Did I Do Last Night?, one of the damages she notices is the chandelier on the floor.
Trying to connect the dots
Don't know what to tell my boss
Think the city towed my car
Chandelier is on the floor

Tabletop Games
In the board game 13 Dead End Drive, one of the traps used to kill off the other heirs is a falling chandelier.

Theater
The Play That Goes Wrong has most of the set come apart at the seams, but keeps this trick in reserve until the last five seconds, with the lights going out mid-"fall".

Video Games
Death to Spies: Moment of Truth has a chandelier that may be dropped on a defector. The game also includes variants where you drop a torpedo, or boat on some other targets.
In Hitman Blood Money, setting a bomb on the rope of a chandelier is one of the ways you can make a 'hit' look like an accident. Several missions practically invite you to drop chandeliers on people like this. In one mission, you actually got the chance to murder both a father and his son, by two separate chandeliers.
In Luigis Mansion, when the mansion is first entered, walking straight ahead (directly under the chandelier) results in it falling. However, the game gives you time to move, and only happens once.
In Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb, Indy sees below him Nazis discussing on a table, with an enormous chandelier above them. No need to describe what happens (Bond One-Liner included).
In James Bond: Everything or Nothing, you must drop a whole lighting rig on some bad guys during the second half of "The Kiss Kiss Club" level.
In the fine Sierra tradition of Everything Trying to Kill You, Laura Bow in The Colonels Bequest can be killed by a falling chandelier if she steps on the wrong part of the hallway.
Braid requires the player to kill the game's Bosses by creatively manipulating such chandeliers. And drop a single chandelier on a boss several times.
The last level in the game features a broken chandelier that rises up and repairs itself due to the level working in reverse. Once you view the level in regular time, it turns out the Princess tried to drop the chandelier on you to stop you from chasing her. In the game's secret ending, you can actually use the rising chandelier to get to the Princess, only to have her explode like an Atomic Bomb.
Final Fight's last stage featured falling chandeliers. Which contained.. Turkeys, radios and two by fours..?
In House of the Dead: Overkill you can create one on a bunch of mutants as they break into Papa's house of Pain.
You Have to Burn the Rope. Doing that will means a One-Hit Kill on the boss.
Castlevania: Appears multiple times as an obstacle in richly-adorned environments. Tries to fall on you if you walk past them.
In Castlevania The Adventure Rebirth some of the chandeliers can be used to kill enemies.
Super Mario RPG inverts it with the first fight against Bowser: You fight him on the chandeliers. You win by severing the chain on his.
In the following cutscene, Bowser cuts down Mario's chandelier, and they fall together long enough for Bowser to rant at you before Mario shows off his incredible jumping skills yet again.
In Paper Mario, opening a particular treasure chest in the Boo's Mansion will cause a chandelier to fall down on Mario, but stop just before crushing him. The opened chest resets itself upon leaving the room, allowing the player to revisit the near-death experience at their leisure.
These randomly appear in Sweet Home as a hazard of walking through certain halls/rooms.
In Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, Wesker while escaping the Arkay mansion before it explodes is being stalked by the invincible Lisa Trevor. As he makes it to the front door she attacks him starting a boss fight which is unwinnable resulting in Wesker having to shoot down the chandelier pinning her under it, escaping seconds before the mansion explodes.
Medal of Honor, particularly the manor house in Frontline.
The third Nancy Drew game is actually won by dropping a chandelier on the villain. If you drop it at any other time than when he's directly below it, you get a Non-Standard Game Over.
In Magicka, the first boss, Behold the Watcher can be instakilled by burning the rope of the chandelier above him.
In Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box, the falling chandelier doesn't kill anyone, but it does lead to the rickety old mansion collapsing.
During the course of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, the player encounters one of these in the Ocean House Hotel quest, though it can be pretty easily avoided. And when compared to the elevator...
Marik: Why is that doing that? I do not like when that does that! Okay, I'm choosing to believe that this whole house is like that house from Beauty and the Beast and all furniture is going to start singing at me. Here, watch this - Be our guest, be our guest - (CRASH) - Oh my god, Lumiere tried to kill me!
Splatterhouse had this happen at the end of one Boss Battle, with said chandelier killing you instantly if you're under it when it drops.
In Batman: Arkham Asylum Batman can drop a chandelier at one point, although there it's a means to smash the glass floor of the room and save two hostages from Joker.
Mickey Mousecapade has these in the Fun House. They can take out enemies as well as you.
In Out of This World, you have drop a chandelier on a guard at one point, and shoot down another chandelier to allow Buddy to proceed forward.
In Maniac Mansion, you do this by playing the recording of the Tentacle's high-pitched screech, to obtain the Rusty Key.
In the Arbiter's Grounds stage of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, you can drop a chandelier on yourself at one stage, if you're not careful. Later, you must actually drop a chandelier on yourself (standing in a gap in the middle so as not to be reduced to a 2-dimensional object) in order to progress.
Persona 4: Yukiko's Shadow can attack with this.
In one stage of Ghost Trick, you have to drop a chandelier on Emma, the bossy red-haired lady who lives next door to Lynne, so that she gets stuck and can't stop her daughter Amelia from calling her father. If you mistime the drop, Emma does a rather impressive dodge move.
In Syphon Filter, you have to drop an exploding chandelier on a pair of guards in Rhoemer's stronghold.
During the first visit to Beast's Castle in Kingdom Hearts II, both the Shadow Stalker and Dark Thorn Heartless use the chandelier in the ballroom as a part of their attacks. Sora too can use it during the Dark Thorn fight in order to make him visible. Unlike most other chandeliers associated with this trope, this one has an extendable chain and returns to the ceiling once the attack is complete.
In Quest for Glory I, the hero neutralizes three brigands with a single falling chandelier.
In Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Nightcrawler's spectacular escape involve teleporting and cutting several chandeliers on Doombots.
In Diablo III's Cathedral, you can drop these on your enemies. The chandeliers project a shadow on the ground and are supported by a nearby chain. You even get an achievement if your characters kill 666 enemies with these.
In Batman for the Sega Genesis, the chandeliers in Flugelheim Museum serve as Smashing Hallway Traps of Doom.
Fallout 3 has grenade cluster traps that drop from the ceiling when activated by a tripwire or pressure plate. In Tranquility Lane, one of the options when assassinating Mabel Henderson is to loosen the chandelier chain so it falls on her.
In Dead Connection, the first stage has a chandelier at the top of the screen that inevitably falls.
One of the traps found in BeTrapped!. In rooms without a chandelier (and even in rooms with one), it can be a flower pot, broken glass, a Mills bomb, dynamite, or even an anchor. Yes, an anchor.
In Rune Factory 4, one room in Obsidian Mansion has a chandelier that falls when you pass under it, damaging you.
The boxing ring in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS/Wii U has one that falls after being hit enough times.
In Splinter Cell: Conviction's second level, you can shoot down a chandelier on a group of guards.
In Shovel Knight, Pridemoor's Keep is adorned with chandeliers that drop when Shovel Knight approaches. Some of them hang low enough to be usable as temporary platforms.

Western Animation
In The Perils of Penelope Pitstop episode "The Treacherous Movie Lot Plot", the Bully Brothers cut the chandelier rope with a saw, hoping to drop it on Penelope.
The climax of The Simpsons episode "Homer of Seville" takes place in an opera house with, as they say in France, freaking huuuuuuuge chandeliers and an assassin on the loose. To lessen the possibility for danger, the police decide to "pre-crash" them. However, they miss one and the assassin does get slightly smashed ultimately.
Not quite a chandelier, but in an episode of South Park, Butters ends up accidentally killing about 16 people by kicking down a fixture of stage lights. note
Kim Possible's brothers try to drop the chandelier on the escaping villain, only to have the wrong chandelier drop on the stolen Wave Motion Gun. They get it right the second time.
The castle in Count Duckula come equipped with one. Too bad Igor relies on Nanny to trigger it.
Happens to Mr. Botsford in the WordGirl episode where Nocan the Contrarian makes his first appearance.
Batman: The Animated Series:
The Penguin chains a rich businessman who insulted him at the impact point of a big chandelier, and his wife who Prank Dated him to the chandelier itself... after cashing in the wife's ransom.
A chandelier falls on a mook in The New Batman Adventures in the episode "Joker's Millions".
Batman & Mr. Freeze: Sub-Zero: Mr. Freeze uses his... uh, Freeze Ray on a chandelier to cover his escape.
Batman The Brave And The Bold: Batwoman tries to use one to stop the Riddler in "The Criss-Cross Conspiracy!". She misses.
The Venture Bros. has a variant with a giant disco ball. Except that the ball drops too late and crushes Rusty Venture.
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: In "Pawn of Shadows", Angel Dynamite traps the Obliteratix beneath a falling chandelier.
Invoked in the American Dad! episode "Family Affair" by Steve, who pulls it down in anger. Stan chides him as it was his grandmother's.
The Courage the Cowardly Dog episode "McPhearson Phantom" has a spirit haunting the Bagges, and a chandelier suddenly appears in the living room just for it to fall on Eustace.

Real Life
At the Theatre-Lyrique in Paris (an opera house), some portions of the glass chandelier fell on the audience, but no one was killed. (Novello, 'The Musical World'). Then in October 1888, according to 'The Times', one of the chandeliers fell and did kill a man.
On February 2, 1795, Joseph Haydn was conducting the premiere of his newest symphony at the King's Theatre, London. At one point, several patrons left their seats to get a better view of Haydn. Not long thereafter, a chandelier crashed to the floor where they had just been sitting. Very cinematic! There were no injuries, earning the piece the nickname "The Miracle Symphony."
Norwegian author Jens Bjørneboe is supposed to have tried to kill his parents this way when he was 8 years old.
In the former Soviet Union factories were assessed on how much material they used, which led to elaborate overweight chandeliers constantly on the verge of crashing onto everyone's heads.
There's an urban legend about a visitor to the Soviet Union who became paranoid that his room was being bugged. Looking under his bed he found a suspicious-looking metal box fixed to the floor so he unscrewed it, but didn't find a microphone. The next morning when he went down to the lobby he was told that a chandelier had fallen from the ballroom ceiling the previous night (just how much damage it caused depends on the version), and he realized to his horror that the box he dismantled had been the chandelier support.





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"Another sci-fi time-travel political-conspiracy comedy from 1970’s Czechoslovakia. How many could there be?"

do you have a rough guess?
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well, i don't think there are that many... actually there is prolly only one more :))

Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977)

otherwise 1970s sci-fi flicks which doesnt fit all the the criteria (no time-travel etc. etc. etc.) are...

Operation Bororo (1973)
Ms. Golem (1972)
Flying Saucers Above the Big Smallville (1977)

sci-fi for kids...

Odysseus and Stars (1976)

and there is one more noteworthy sci-fi (allegedly independent underground film from 1970s)...
i have seen it on a screening with spoken intro etc. etc., but i'm still not sure, if it is really a 1970s film or a flick made recently with 1970s underground stylization...
it is called I Sing the Body Electric (1976) and "the official text of the distributor" says (slightly polished GT translation)...
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The starting point of the film is the situation of the two former male lovers from the future, when humans no longer live together in relationships, but live in a partnership with robotic androids. Those are in addition to its flawless appearance characterized by the ability of customization to become a perfect partner. This creates cohabitations that are conflict-free, flexible... and sterile. If the electric body has a soul is just one of the questions that the film opens... So far unknown 8mm film strip was found in the family estate of R.J., a historian and a occasional writer who died in March 2011. The family enabled further dissemination of the film and its renewed premiere (held in Dresden club RM16 on the occasion of the International Human Rights Day, December 10, 2011), but under the condition that the identity of the creator of the film will never be published. Film material was found in relatively poor condition, which was the result of long unsuitable storage. Filmstrip been converted into a digital form, restored and projections are now carried on from the electronic media. Soundtrack has unfortunately not been found. Thanks to preserved script all the dialogues could be reconstructed and they are presented as subtitles. Although the film was obviously made under underground conditions without any advanced technology, without any professional support and with a lack of experienced filmmakers taking part, it is a a rare - and only recently discovered - specimen of the unofficial creative endeavors (essentially a completely secret creation of the '70s), moreover with a queer theme.
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thanks!

i saw you posted earlier but i had a hell of a time finding this thread after it rotated off latest posts..
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ERRATA

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the person on this picture is not Oldřich Lipský (director), but his brother Lubomír Lipský (actor)... somehow (despite knowing there are two first names Oldřich and Lubomír associated with the surname Lipský) i always used to assume there is only one Lipský entity... and i was always wondering how a person whom i perceived rathers as a dumb character (Lubomír) could make such a tricky films (as Oldřich did)... yesterday Lubomír died (no chandelier fall reported) and when i coincidentally stumbled upon the information Oldřich died in 1986 (and not yesterday), i finaly realized there are two Lipský persons
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as a tribute to just passed away Lubomír Lipský cz tv was (yesterday) showing Oldřich's Four Murders Are Enough, Darling with Lubomír being casted (as usually)

i re-watched and noticed there are again several feminine moustaches and chandeliers in the film

female boss of one of the two competing criminal gangs is taking few masculine disguises (moustache usually included)

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at one point however a globe (instead of a chandelier) falls on her head, she fells unconscious and her feminine identity is unveiled

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and a jealous fiance of the discoverer then fights the impostor (tearing apart half of the moustache)

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heroine who lost half of her fake moustache (within the cat fight) looks a bit like a half-moustached lord Ardhanarishvara whose pic i already posted in the first round

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chandeliers in "Four Murders Are Enough, Darling" doesn't fall on ppl, but are still hovering over as imminent threats

as in this scene of the upcoming belly-opening operation intended by a criminal (a self-proclaimed ex vet surgeon) who wants to rescue from the stomach of a victim the swallowed 1-million dollar check

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or here is a chandelier hovering over a chair upon which two lovers fall in embrace and thereafter the heroine (after noticing blood leaking beneath the door) rises up frightened and the chandelier coincidentally becomes her fancy hat

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hopefully, this year’s SCFZ Directors Cup will get the coverage in the international mass media with a shorter than half a year delay and hopefully, such a coverage will not violate basics of the journalist ethics by properly revealing the source of the information (hopefully, instead of some secondary note on Reddit forum, the primeval discourse to the issue on SCFZ forum will be highlighted)
http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/3/11157362/sci-fi-film-selfie-stick-1970

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Noteworthy detail of this unorthodox sci-fi feature from 1969 is also the display of a telescopic “selfie stick” in one of the scenes. It makes a viewer naturally suspicious, if among the cast-n-crew of this existential time machine road trip film was someone (our contemporary) who used the time machine to travel back in 1969 to take part in making of this film.
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