The Most Dangerous Stunts done Without Stuntmen

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:36:41 +0000

Forget the stunt doubles, these actors prefer to do their own tricks during filming. They put their lives in harm’s way for the sake of an awesome sceneand we love them for it.

Daniel Craig as Bond, James Bond: When Craig was cast in Quantum of Solace in 2008, he was faced with performing most of his own stunts. The mother of these stunts was a leap from a three-story building onto a moving busa big feat for someone with a fear of heights. Had Craig missed his cue or jumped too soon the auditions for the James Bond role would have reopened.
Matt Damon as Jason Bourne: The star of the Bourne trilogy (The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum) also does most of his own stunts. Despite his fear of drowning, he was in multiple scenes in the water and a scene where he jumps off of a bridge. Damon also performed in all of the car crash stunts of the series.
Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman: In Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins, Bale performed all of the kicking, punching, and running stunts himself. Compared to his role as Dieter Dengler in Rescue Dawn when he swung from a helicopter in midair, the fight scenes were minor risks.
Jackie Chan as every character he plays: In Project A he injured his neck after hanging and falling from a clock tower, in Police Story and Police Story 2 he nearly paralyzed himself and got 2^nd degree burns from sliding down a giant pole covered in lights and jumping from the top of a moving bus through a window. In Winners and Sinners he slung from car to car in a high speed roller skate chase. In Armor of God he jumped onto a hot air balloon and cracked his head open. In First Strike and SuperCop he jumped to and from helicopters. While all the listed stunts were extremely dangerous, his 21 story slide down a building in Holland in Who am I was perhaps his most dangerous stunt of all time.
Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt: In Mission Impossible, Tom Cruise saved the realistic aspect of the film by performing his own stunts instead of the initially planned stuntman. He did extreme rock climbing, dodged moving trucks, and got bombarded with 16 tons of water and shattered glass.

The Craziest Movie Stunts of All Time

www.action-stunts.com — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:25:05 +0000

Before computer imaging technology took care of all the crazy stunts for the actors, daredevil stuntmen completed the dangerous stunts that made for one heck of a viewing experience. Here are the top 10 highest rated movie stunts of all time.

GoldenEye (1995): James Bond’s character, played by Pierce Brosnan with the help of stuntman extraordinaire Wayne Michaels, opens the film by bungee jumping 750 feet off of a Switzerland dam. The longest jump of all time, Michaels managed to execute it flawlessly and shoot a piton gun at the endall in one take.
Ben Hur (1959): During the famous chariot race, Charlton Heston’s stunt double Joe Canutt is thrown from the front of his chariot and manages to cling on and climb back up. The final stunt was completely unplanned, making it even more nerve racking and crazy to watch.
The Spy who Loved Me (1977): Stuntman Rick Sylvester performs the ultimate James Bond stunt when he speed ski’s his way out of a Soviet attack using his ski poles as guns before flying off a cliff and using his Union Jack parachute to safely land, all before the opening credits.
Police Story (1985): Jackie Chan fights off enemies with his well choreographed fight moves before lunging onto a pole wrapped in Christmas lights for 100 feet then crashing through wood and glass before landing on the hard tile dislocating his pelvis and fracturing some vertebrae. This stunt rivals his 21 story vertical slide down a building in Who am I (1998).
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981): This impressive Indiana Jones stunt was started by Harrison Ford himself but finished by professional stuntman Terry Leonard. During the stunt, Leonard was dragged beneath a truck by a bullwhip before regaining the driver position of the truck. Surprisingly, director Steven Spielberg only directed a fraction of the stunt.
Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928): Buster Keaton went out with a bang in his last indie film. After being dragged around by a cyclone, Keaton stands up as a house collapses around him. The real wall that fell on top of him was impeccably measured to ensure the space where Keaton was standing would remain unscathed.
Safety Last! (1923): Harold Lloyd decides to scale a building to attract business to the department store where he works. He ends up dangerously hanging from the hands of a clock towera scene copied by Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future (to pay tribute) and also mimicked by Jackie Chan in Project A.
Stagecoach (1939): This John Ford western featured some of the most dangerous stunts of all time. In the thrilling sequence, ex-rodeo cowboy and arguably the first famous stuntman, Yakima Canutt, doubles for John Wayne as he jumps from his horse to a full speed six horse team pulling a stagecoach being attacked by Indians. He is then shot at and falls, forced to be dragged beneath the six horses and stagecoach and avoid being trampled.

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