Monday, December 11, 2017

Natalie Wood by Melissa Vazquez


 Natalie Wood was terrified of deep water, which questions things even more about her death. She was on a road trip with her husband and friends for Thanksgiving weekend on their boat “Splendour”. She was found floating upside down in the pacific on November 29, 1981, Santa Catalina Island, California (Natalie Wood Biography). Ever since this happened, many conspiracy theories have developed:
1.      Did she drown accidently?
2.      Why was she out in the middle of the night?
3.      Is her husband responsible for her death?
Let’s take a look at Natalie’s death and the conspiracy theories surrounding it with her drowning accidently being the most possible solution for her death.

Character Analysis
Natalie Wood is depicted as intelligent and organized. She has a well-organized business mindset; she makes her plans effectively, sets goals and works on to her level best ensuring quality and competence in whatever she does. Whenever she commits herself to anything, she utilizes all her abilities to overcome obstacles and endure difficulties.
Like many other accomplished writers, she is talented with creativity and means of self-expression. She is best known for her screen role in her different work such as Splendor in The Glass, West Side Story and Miracles of the 34th Street (Kashner).
She can also be described as a person with proficient administrative and organizational skills. This, however, depends on how she often skips details to ensure that she has not lost what is most important. In all her work, Natalie Wood is displayed as being cautious. She does not hurry to conclusions; she takes time when planning for the short and long-time future. She is also good at record keeping. She makes sure that she has all her diary and elaborate notes well organized and recorded. Natalie wood is also displayed as being an efficient and effective business person (Kashner). While still making sure that she is socially moral she makes sure that she teaches her audience to maintain knowledge since it acts as a basic requirement for one to be successful. If she would for ones she finds herself overdoing things, that is, being over organized, it is possible for her to find herself in disarray and confused (Rainey). She, however, does away with some of the details and does what she feels as being good for the good of the large picture. One can at a time find her as being undisciplined but later come to appreciate her great planning skills.
Wood can be described as being enthusiastic. She is always active, quite hyperactive and fidgety. Life is always a continuous process for her and embarrasses it with great energy. She is idealistic and good at implementing things (1). She does not hesitate to act whenever she feels like doing anything. She is not influenced by what other thinks of her. She acts while at the same time radiating energy, livelihood, and enthusiasm around herself.
When she is overweight, she suffers more than most people would. Being overweight produces a different personality rather than the one she is always trying to project. Square corners and straight lines accent her good physical outlook and display her as a leader. She is always self-conscious of her height and prefers to wear 6" stiletto heels shoes.
She has strong physical stamina and loves physical and mental exercise. She always keeps herself physically and mentally fit. She feels comfortable while spending her feel time outdoors and eating food that is natural. It is always very challenging for her to stay in the place that she cannot move around. She loves being engaged in regular exercises, taking proper diet and making sure that she has relaxed her body and mind in the best ways possible to make sure that she remains healthy. Walking in areas that provide natural mind cleansing serves as her ways of meditation and as basic mind boosting ingredients.
Conspiracy Description
On the night of Natalie Wood’s death, many theories were made about how her death happened. Her accidently falling off the boat, being out in the middle of the night alone or, her being murdered by her husband or ex co-star. There is no answers till this day about this mystery or who is responsible for her death.

The first theory is her falling off the boat, she and her friends and husband went out to their boat. Splendour. On the November 29, she had some drinks with her husband and co-star. It was said she was drinking heavily. Wagner reportedly broke a bottle during a fit of anger over Wood's relationship with Walken. They remember Wood’s violate behavior that night.  “The actress had fallen into the water while trying to board the dinghy (Sam Kashner)”.  People on another boat said they heard screams coming from the boat Splendour, but didn’t think anything of it since they were partying.  A poll that was taken at College of the Mainland, about 80% of those on campus said they don’t believe in this theory.
The second conspiracy theory is her husband being responsible for death. She was noticed to be missing at about 1:30am in Catalina Island, in the Pacific. Natalie wood was on their Yacht with the husband, Robert Wagner and Dennis Davern were with the couple after they had left the Doug Harbor reef where they had dined and drank some more (Sophie). Natalie and her husband had left California to Catalina Island for Thanksgiving with friends on November 27th; the party involved a lot of drinking, the party continued to the restaurant in Catalina Island(1). Later the friends, Miller and other three friends, the owner of the diner Don Whiting, advised the harbor patrol Kurt Craig to keep an eye on them for safety precautions. When Miller was about to quite the noise by calling bay watch, at around 1:15 am the radio sprang and it was Wagner wife talking, he asked whether they were cruising to the vicinity, and reported that someone was missing (1). Miller described his tone as quizzical, no worry or nervousness felt. In fact many people at the campus believed this was the best theory solving her death.
The third conspiracy theory was based on why she was out alone at night. Natalie left the yacht with two men, and none of them noticed when she left. She was also drunk when she did, according to the autopsy report from the medical officer Thomas Noguchi says that she was .14 level of alcohol above the level of alcohol in California generally at 0.4. Natalie also had bruises on her arms and legs; the injuries were superficial; she might have got them from the yacht as she was trying not to fall off. John Payne, a broker, and his wife had someone scream, “help, somebody help,” but didn’t take this seriously a lot of noise in the yachts to verify the outcry for help. According to the husband, Robert Wagner says that Natalie might have left to avoid the argument or to untie the Dinghy and might have been pushed while she was out there alone.
Conclusion    
            Natalie Wood was known for being an American film and Television actress. Natalie Wood was found dead in the ocean November 29, 1981. It is unknown of how she died. There were several theories made on her death. It was said the most realistic theory was Robert Wagner her husband was the one who murdered Natalie on that night.
Her death led to these conspiracy theories:
1.      Did she drown accidently?
2.      Is her husband responsible for her death?
3.      Why was she out in the middle of the night?
Thirty-six years later and Natalie’s death remains unsolved. The case was reopened again, but until this day her husband nor her ex co-star have spoken on anything that happened that night.



  


   

Works Cited
Kashner, Sam. “Natalie Wood's Death, Still Shrouded in Mystery.” Vanities, Vanity Fair, 15 Sept. 2017, www.vanityfair.com/news/2000/03/natalie-wood-s-fatal-voyage.
“Natalie Wood.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 20 July 2017, www.biography.com/people/natalie-wood-9536320.
Rainey, Sarah. “Natalie Wood: The Life and Times of the Troubled Star.” The Telegraph, Telegraph Media Group, 18 Nov. 2011, www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/8898476/Natalie-Wood-the-life-and-times-of-the-troubled-star.html
Rosman, Katherine. “A Mother's Death, a Daughter's Life: Remembering Natalie Wood.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 19 Mar. 2016, www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/fashion/natalie-wood-natasha-gregson-wagner.html.
Schillaci, Sophie. “Christopher Walken Offered Natalie Wood Death Theory in Past Interview.” The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2011, www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/natalie-wood-death-christopher-walken-263792.

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