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"How do they do that?" is a question heard over and over again in a crowded movie audience.
Stuntwork accounts for over half of all film-related injuries, with an average of five deaths for every 2,000 injuries.
From 1980 to 1990 there were 37 deaths.
Imgur user Father Uzzi put together a list of notable — and, in some cases, fatal — movie set accidents.
Now You See Me
While filming a water chamber escape scene in Now You See Me,
Isla Fisher's shackles became entangled.
Because the scene involved her
banging on the glass and "struggling" no one realized she was actually
stuck.
Fisher was under water for nearly 3 minutes.
The Expendables 2
An accident during an explosion scene on the set of Expendables 2 in Bulgaria killed one stuntman and critically injured another.
The injured stuntman later sued Millennium Films, claiming the stunt was "recklessly staged."
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part I
David Holmes worked as Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double on the first six Harry Potter movies.
While shooting a flying scene in Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part I, Holmes was thrown against a wall..
He fractured his neck and was paralyzed from the neck down.
The Dark Knight
Conway Wickliffe, a cameraman for The Dark Knight, died
during a test run for an action scene.
The vehicle he was in crashed
into a tree and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
A few years later, a
British jury cleared the film's special effects expert of health and safety breaches.
It has
hardly been a smooth ride for the 24th Bond film, from the theft of cars to hackers stealing an
early script to Daniel Craig injuring his knee -
filming for the new Bond film Spectre has been hit by a
string of disasters.
According
to the Daily Mail, filming was put on hold when one of the crew members was
hit at high speed by a racing car during a stunt.
So? Is your night at the movies worth a human life?
So? Is your night at the movies worth a human life?
Didn't Bruce Lee's son die in a movie accident as well? I think it also involved explosions and unfortunately, he was doing the stunt himself. . .it's sad that there are not safety requirements, but that would hold up filming, and increase costs. . .
ReplyDeleteYes, Brandon Lee died on the set of THE CROW from a stunt gone wrong as did Vic Morrow in a stunt in THE TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE ... along with the two child actors as a helicopter fell on them.
DeleteMy entertainment is not worth the lives of anyone, especially children!
After seeing Fury Road twice now, I'm impressed no one was killed while filming that movie.
ReplyDeleteI've heard that it is really Charlize Theron's movie and not Mad Max's. Miller was supposed to do a Justice League Movie but DC passed -- I bet they are sorry now!
DeleteIt's been many years since I saw a news piece about a stunt woman who ended up a quadriplegic because of a car chase scene. She had expressed concern about the way the stunt was set up, and was told it was perfectly safe. I remember when John Landis was on trial because of the deaths on the set of the Twilight Zone movie. He walked away, free of blame. A number of people felt the jury was star struck. We haven't come very far in protecting the people who entertain us.
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Janie
No, as long as the people have their Bread and Circuses, they do not care about the personal cost to others it seems. :-(
DeleteNo. I think the things which are worth sacrificing a life to are few - and none of them are entertainment.
ReplyDeleteWhat did Maximus roar to the crowd in Gladiator: "Are you not entertained?" And then he threw a spear into the crowd.
DeleteEntertainment is not worth anyone's death or life-altering injuries. I never heard about Radcliff's double being paralyzed--how horrible! But producers and directors seem to think that stunts have to keep getting more dangerous and extreme, when in fact audiences have become jaded they really don't care so much (or so I think), and they don't know where the CGI begins and ends anyway.
ReplyDeleteI, too, was shocked to hear of the paralyzing of Radcliffe's double. Aaron Paul was almost killed in the filming of the first season of BREAKING BAD. George Miller is being praised for all the realistic stunts of FURY ROAD instead of using CGI. Myself, I would rather not put lives at risk and use special effects!
DeleteAnd then there is the chariot scene in Ben Hur.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't enjoy that chariot scene any more after hearing of that man's death. :-(
DeleteWhen I read your opening line about fun movies being worth it, I immediately recalled one of my all time classic films, "Sullivan's Travels" (1941) which wrestles with the question about whether a good film should move people to action or make them laugh. But as I read on, I realized that I had heard of these problems on the set. Here, in Savannah, a trial has just concluded with a film maker who was making a movie about the Allman Brother's who took his crew onto a railroad trestle (where he had been denied permission) to do a filming and a train came through while they were on the trestle injuring some and killing a young woman who was an assistant camera operator. The film will never be completed and the producer is in jail.
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