Comments on: Actor playing Judas dies after stage hanging http://boingboing.net/2012/04/24/actor-playing-judas-dies-on-st.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 09:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: dragonfrog http://boingboing.net/2012/04/24/actor-playing-judas-dies-on-st.html#comment-1404136 dragonfrog Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:59:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=156372#comment-1404136 Trusting your technical crew to protect your safety is not Darwin award-worthy.  They may have made a mistake, or the safety device may have failed, but if that's worthy of a Darwin award, then so is driving the speed limit as you approach an intersection, trusting that your car's brakes will enable you to stop, since you take the car to the mechanic on a fairly regular basis, but they end up failing anyway. Trusting your technical crew to protect your safety is not Darwin award-worthy.  They may have made a mistake, or the safety device may have failed, but if that’s worthy of a Darwin award, then so is driving the speed limit as you approach an intersection, trusting that your car’s brakes will enable you to stop, since you take the car to the mechanic on a fairly regular basis, but they end up failing anyway.

]]> By: Marcel Mitsuto F. S. http://boingboing.net/2012/04/24/actor-playing-judas-dies-on-st.html#comment-1404090 Marcel Mitsuto F. S. Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:07:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=156372#comment-1404090 Darwin awards plea? Darwin awards plea?

]]> By: show me http://boingboing.net/2012/04/24/actor-playing-judas-dies-on-st.html#comment-1403804 show me Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:08:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=156372#comment-1403804 Once I died onstage while playing Jesus. But a couple days later I was fine. Dad is so cool. Once I died onstage while playing Jesus. But a couple days later I was fine. Dad is so cool.

]]> By: dragonfrog http://boingboing.net/2012/04/24/actor-playing-judas-dies-on-st.html#comment-1403790 dragonfrog Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:56:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=156372#comment-1403790 Gaaah!  That's a personal nightmare - not that exact scene necessarily, but the general case of a stage death scene actually killing the actor (hanging, stabbing, blank gun, fall...) Gaaah!  That’s a personal nightmare – not that exact scene necessarily, but the general case of a stage death scene actually killing the actor (hanging, stabbing, blank gun, fall…)

]]> By: Dan Hibiki http://boingboing.net/2012/04/24/actor-playing-judas-dies-on-st.html#comment-1403782 Dan Hibiki Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:52:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=156372#comment-1403782 I hope Jesus was held for questioning. I hope Jesus was held for questioning.

]]> By: amuseamuse http://boingboing.net/2012/04/24/actor-playing-judas-dies-on-st.html#comment-1403773 amuseamuse Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:46:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=156372#comment-1403773  It's happened a disturbing number of times in the past, actually. I think the TV tropes website or Snopes or something has a list somewhere of dead Judases.  It’s happened a disturbing number of times in the past, actually. I think the TV tropes website or Snopes or something has a list somewhere of dead Judases.

]]> By: Wreckrob8 http://boingboing.net/2012/04/24/actor-playing-judas-dies-on-st.html#comment-1403759 Wreckrob8 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:34:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=156372#comment-1403759 Viva Stanislavski! Viva Stanislavski!

]]> By: Romeo Vitelli http://boingboing.net/2012/04/24/actor-playing-judas-dies-on-st.html#comment-1403686 Romeo Vitelli Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:42:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=156372#comment-1403686 I hoped they paid him more than thirty pieces of silver for that performance. I hoped they paid him more than thirty pieces of silver for that performance.

]]> By: Guest http://boingboing.net/2012/04/24/actor-playing-judas-dies-on-st.html#comment-1403655 Guest Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:23:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=156372#comment-1403655 Acting! Genius! Thank You! {slap} Acting! Genius! Thank You! {slap}

]]> By: snagglepuss http://boingboing.net/2012/04/24/actor-playing-judas-dies-on-st.html#comment-1403630 snagglepuss Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:59:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=156372#comment-1403630 If I showed this article to my mom, she'd go "SEE! This PROVES that there is a GOD, and he...that he.....I don't know, SOMETHING...." I swear - I took her to see "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" in the theaters, and when Todt turns to goo, she turned to me and said "NOW do you believe in god?" My mom. Nice lady, but don't let her work on your brakes, know what I mean ? If I showed this article to my mom, she’d go “SEE! This PROVES that there is a GOD, and he…that he…..I don’t know, SOMETHING….”

I swear – I took her to see “Raiders Of The Lost Ark” in the theaters, and when Todt turns to goo, she turned to me and said “NOW do you believe in god?”

My mom. Nice lady, but don’t let her work on your brakes, know what I mean ?

]]> By: Chris H-C http://boingboing.net/2012/04/24/actor-playing-judas-dies-on-st.html#comment-1403617 Chris H-C Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:49:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=156372#comment-1403617 Might be worth noting that this has almost happened before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLOiZS4cI3k Might be worth noting that this has almost happened before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLOiZS4cI3k

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