Landscape with the Fall of Icarus using feathers secured with bees wax. Ignoring his father's warnings, Icarus chose to fly too close to the sun, melting the wax, and fell into the sea and drowned. His legs can be seen in the water just below the ship. The sun, already half-set on the horizon, is a long way away; the flight did not reach anywhere near it. Daedalus does not appear in this version of the painting, though he does, still flying, in the van Buuren one (see below). The ploughman, shepherd and angler are mentioned in Ovid's account of the legend; they are: "astonished and
House of Wax (2005 film) the film has a weighted average score of 41 out of 100 based on 36 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale. "Chicago Sun-Times" film critic Roger Ebert gave the film two out of four stars and wrote, ""House of Wax" is not a good movie, but it is an efficient one and will deliver most of what anyone attending "House of Wax" could reasonably expect...assuming it would be unreasonable to expect very much." He said of Hilton's performance that "she is no