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You wouldn't even hear about the stunt if they were random, and it wouldn't be talked about, like I said in my blanket statement.
Yet we've been hearing about stunts like ski jump in TSWLM and the car roll jump in TMWTGG for over 40 years now.
Yeah that's just a blatantly false statement. Speak for yourself, but stunts/stuntmen are never discussed? Factually untrue. Stuntmen may not be as renown as actors are (unless it's a mixture, such as Jackie Chan or Tom Cruise), but their craft is widely appreciated by many, myself included.
Indeed.
The two stunts mentioned by @DaltonCraig007 above are prime examples of talked-about stunts. Is there a stunt thread on the forum?
https://www.mi6community.com/discussion/13501/top-10-movies-based-on-stunts
https://www.mi6community.com/discussion/3347/bond-s-greatest-stunt/p3
https://www.mi6community.com/discussion/15881/should-an-oscar-be-given-for-stunts
Thanks, I'll make sure to check them out! Will probably be plenty to discuss after M:I- Fallout is released. :-)
Oh absolutely. I'll be drooling over that stunt work for months.
Me too!
I do hope we get some memorable stunts in Bond 25. SP lacked a bit in that department (and in my opinion, the other departments, as well).
OHHH yeah. I was completely impressed.
As for actual stuntmen there was William Hickman, an American professional stunt driver who was recognised for his excellent work in Bullitt, The French Connection and The Seven-Ups. Of course there was Hal Needham, who became a director of the incredibly popular Burt Reynold's movies in the 70s. The list goes on and on and on. You see, like @Creasy47 said, a lot of us are already aware of their great contribution, which is why we salivate when a movie like MI: Fallout comes out. Sure, some of it is going to be a combination of CGI, but some things you just can't fake without it looking like something out of DAD or less noticeably QoS's parachute scene. Either way, I'd say the majority of us here are fully aware of the "real stunts" performed by genuine stuntmen and the names of these great people.
To then add that the stunt is performed by the leading man. Someone they do know about and cheer for etc. It adds a whole new level of excitement. The fact that the marketing guys at MI make such a big thing of this is proof. I think to shrug one's shoulders and say "so what" is perhaps a little churlish (Cruise has to perform these stunts in addition to all of the other demands on him) but everyone obviously has the right to their own view.
That's actually a good point! Good work by the crane driver.
But then Jacky never flew a helicopter by himself. He wasn't THAT crazy lol.
I guess Scientology does weird things to a man alright!
“The action is incredible,” he enthused. “The car/motorcycle chase through Paris lasts a good 20-plus minutes. The fight in the bathroom runs about 10 minutes. The helicopter chase at the end is a good 20 minutes. There are a lot of moving parts but it all moves so quickly and fluidly.
“There’s clearly a LOT of work yet to be done for a film that’s coming out in eight weeks. I’ll be excited to see it again. The music wasn’t finished so a majority of the fight scenes or chases weren’t scored — nothing but the sounds of roaring, screeching cars, and that was so amazing. I hope they keep it like that.
“And the cast — Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Henry Cavill, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Michelle Monaghan, Alec Baldwin, Sean Harris, Wes Bentley, Angela Bassett — is so perfect. Even if I had some qualms about where certain characters’ allegiance truly lies at the end, it really doesn’t matter a whole lot.
“I’d 100% see it in a theater if I were you. It’s gorgeous. It’s loud. It’s fun.
“Vanessa Kirby is only in a few scenes, but she was the standout for me. The woman just oozes sexuality.
“Tell your friends Chris McQuarrie and J.J. Abrams to trust the audience a little more and rely less on five-minute-long dialogue scenes of exposition that explain every part of every plan. Then again better to make things crystal clear than to obscure the narrative, I suppose.”
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2018/05/what-happens-in-vegas-doesnt-stay-there/