Ambiguous Ending…? (SPOILERS!)
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — A Bucket of Blood
Antiflarm — 16 years ago(August 07, 2009 06:09 PM)
WARNING SPOILERS BELOW!
Has anyone else thought that he actually faked his death at the end? At first glance I thought he had sculpted a head (or body) of himself, and hung it there
I don't know. Could have been a different but nice ending. Like, he finally made a successful human sculpt from scratch, yada yada, I dunno.
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Pythe — 16 years ago(October 11, 2009 06:15 PM)
So nobody would have thought to take a pulse? Somebody probably would have noticed when he was being embalmed. Plus he would have had to make the sculpture in, what, five minutes? And we already know he has NO talent, so for him to succeed so spectacularly in such a short time would have been illogical.
As you say, thematically it would have been interesting, but practically it doesn't hold up for more than thirty seconds. I think the ending as-is is appropriate because he finally gets what he always wantedimmortality through art. "A stone is a stoneor it's a sculpture. A person is a personor he's an artist." -
jrpelt — 15 years ago(September 21, 2010 06:25 PM)
Possible
I just watched a Scorsese movie "After Hours", a New York-style comedy of errors where a guy on a date winds up being hunted through SoHo by a vigilante mob convinced he's a burglar. It ends when a sculptress encases him in plaster of paris, the resultant statue is then stolen by the real burglars, who accidentally drop it uptown outside the guy's office building.
Dick Miller makes a guest appearance as waiter at a diner, and there's a couple of young women who also indulge in making human-shaped sculptures. In a shared movie-reality world, he could be Paisley, and those could be his daughters. -
Zipper69 — 15 years ago(November 02, 2010 07:38 AM)
In fact the end sequence seems botched.
"Walter" says "I know where I'll hide. Where they will never find me!"
and exits screen right. Minutes later (based on the closeness of the chase sequence preceding it)the group bust in the door and stop, shocked by what they see, the camera pans right to a head and shoulder shot of "Walter" hanging by his neck with clay partially smeared on his face and body - end titles.
Dick Miller has said in interviews that the short (one week!!) schedule meant single takes and Corman pushing them to speed things up and that the hanging was meant to show him completely encased in clay.
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MrBook_ — 14 years ago(July 02, 2011 05:58 AM)
Dick Miller has said in interviews that the short (one week!!) schedule meant single takes and Corman pushing them to speed things up and that the hanging was meant to show him completely encased in clay.
It's so much better if he's just partially smeared with clay, though, more ghoulish and realistic. One last desparate failure.
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porfle — 12 years ago(November 01, 2013 01:13 AM)
I don' think Walter was smart enough to fake his own death.
He couldn't even fake his own life!
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WarpedRecord — 13 years ago(September 29, 2012 02:09 PM)
Considering the general quality of his sculptures, I don't think he'd be able to do that, but it would have made for a nice touch. It was a surprisingly bleak ending, even though what preceded it was pretty macabre. Maybe someone else could have picked up the torch and covered him with clay.