Please Note: We mistakenly said the Trojan War was between the Greeks and the Spartans and meant to say the Greeks and Troy. Our apologies. RIP to the stunt actors featured in this video and the others we unfortunately have yet to cover, as stunt performers are the often-unsung heroes of cinema.
Hey just so you know. Jose Marco from Shark was, for sure is not a real story. I had to look it up and see how that happened, and it didn't. The director did want his name off of the movie though! But for different reasons entirely.
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You forgot Hells Angels, the Howard Hughes classic about WW1 aviation. Numerous stunt pilots were killed because Hughes insisted on realistic flight sequences.
In one scene he couldn't find a stunt pilot willing to do the shot; every single one of them refused, saying it was too dangerous, that there wasn't enough clearance from the ground to pull out. So Hughes got in the cockpit of the stunt plane, did the stunt himself, and... ...crashed into the ground when he tried to pull out, just like every pilot said would happen. Incredibly, he wasn't killed, although he was banged up pretty bad.
You left stuntman Dar Robinson off the list. Dar died in a freak accident after completing a stunt for a movie called Million Dollar Mystery in 1986. I got to meet Dar about a year or so before he passed. Like most people in the business, he was a good guy, very accomplished, but pretty humble about his accomplishments. Gone too soon.
@@tonytaranto7886 Dar died in a freak accident after performing several takes on a motorcycle for the movie he was in that had him crash into a highway guardrail. After the last take, he fell down a cliff or embankment and was impaled on a sagebrush branch that was sticking out of the ground. He was treated immediately near the scene then transported by helicopter to hospital where he died. Stunts - or “gags” as they’re called in the business - are always planned out and rehearsed before any filming to make sure there are no problems or unexpected situations, so the result on film *looks* dangerous but is totally safe. What happened to Dar shouldn’t have happened. It was one of those things that nobody saw or expected in spite all the planning and safety gear that was in play at the time. Modern mainstream Hollywood - the major studios, production companies, service providers and stunt people, etc. - take safety very seriously. Good work is recognized and rewarded by those in the business - it’s the f- ups by the shady producers and companies where corners get cut to save a dollar that make the news. Like when Alec Baldwin accidentally killed a camera person on set with a freaking loaded stunt pistol. Based on what I’ve read and seen, lots of corners appear to have been cut, certain people either didn’t do their job right or know what they were doing, and sh-t happened that shouldn’t have. Baldwin is a great actor, has done lots of good work - but probably the #1 rule to never, ever have an unsupervised, uninspected firearm in the same space with an actor was broken, so now Baldwin’s going to have to eat sh-t probably for the rest of his life. There’s an unfortunately long history of really bad things happening on set with actors and loaded firearms that were supposed to be safe. Even though studios and companies are doing things to reduce the chances of further accidents from happening again, it will probably never be completely zero as long as somebody decides it’s worth risking lives to cut a corner or save a dollar or somebody does something stupid.
18:05 I heard/read that the Stunt coordinator wanted to put some cushion under the snow to protect Arne and Sven from the cold. He fell dead while doing so, trying to protect the well-being of others. This makes it even more sad.
@@MrMJmusicLover no that was a soundstage. But it was for that scene when it happened. He was in a modern (for the 80s) biplane modified for camera work when it happened.
You left out the helicopter crash on the set of The Twilight Zone movie that killed not only Vic Morrow but also two child actors and the helicopter crew.
I met Art Scholl years before Top Gun. That experience was beyond fantastic. I remember at the time it was said the flat spin that was shown, and had been completed successfully, was requested to be done again as an inverted flat spin. This was something Scholl could do with his eyes closed. The theory at the time was reconfiguring the on board cameras shifted the CG so that the plane didn't respond or recover as expected. Paul Mantz' death was another where they wanted "one more" shot. The "Phoenix" was actually the front half of the C-119 boom and wings while the back half was fabricated. It was mostly a plywood monocoque. It snapped off on a bounce and the "plane" flipped killing Mantz but not the actors along the wing.
I was onboard Miramar when that movie was filmed and I was a F-14A airframe mechanic. The F-14 used to film the exterior shots of the flat spin nearly crashed as well. It lost a sequencer and the flaps/slats locked out while recovering. The film crew came really close to having a genuine F-14 crash to add to the movie. That bird got stripped down to its box beam, there was so much damage to the airframe.
Yes I read about Art’s shifting CG incident in a rag somewhere. Apparently, the camera mounted out on struts between the wings became dislodged during the spin and shifted the CG outside of the known envelope of recovery. As an ex test pilot I know that engineering calculated how many different spins there could be in one of prototypes with different power settings with a difference of X, with changing longitudinal CG +- .1’ with a changing lateral and vertical CG +- .1. Also calculated were different flap settings and landing positions as all of these factors have influence in the successful recovery from a spin (without a drag chute). At the time they calculated 540,000 different spins for the type. Now no manufacturer could possibly test for all those possible spins, not even half those numbers, not even Pitts. So, the worst scenarios are calculated (with the rationale) and presented to the FAA, and then demonstrated. There might be only a dozen that are demonstrated (certainly aft cg on the long axis) My point is, there are so many different spin modes in aircraft that no one has ever demonstrated to possibly be safe. An 8kg camera extended out a meter laterally would make a big difference.
@@bearlemley First of all, you win ALL of the cool points. As a wannabe, I live vicariously through guys like you. Second, thank you for that explanation. I have enough time to understand weight and balance and the consequences of loading outside of limits on CG. But your insight makes it clear that the variability is incalculable. I had watched the man do inverted spins in both a Pitts and Super Chipmunk (which he invited me to sit in) multiple times. He was an aeronautical engineer and I always wondered if the change was last minute or something.
While I appreciate your comment and the replies, you all use the abbreviation 'CG' which, in reference to a film scene, could be taken to mean Computer Generated as in CGI (computer generated imagery). So at first I was confused and unable to work out your meaning (I'm a long way from being an engineer much less a pilot). While reading the replies it eventually occurred to me (from general knowledge) that CG is 'centre of gravity' abbreviated. It's a pet hate of mine when people use abbreviations without first writing the thing out in full for the benefit of readers who might not know the abbreviation.
I can now see why we are getting so much CGI and takes inside studios so that safety takes main point. Soon we will be able to green screen a lot of stuff so that future accidents will be rare. It’s good that the movies dedicated to the lost stunt workers I would like to see a picture of them so that we don’t forget their face.
Well, if you hear ten names in a few minutes that sounds like a lot but then you have to remember how many hundreds of action movies were produced with each including dozens of action scenes.
Yes, i think at some point most stunts will be able to be done using cgi or ai. Obviously it sucks if it puts stunt ppl out of work, but ultimately it will save lives.
if i may, i remember when Jackie Chan was in an interview around the time of him starting to do movies in the USA (eg. Rumble In The Bronx, etc) - he was telling of him learning the differences in movie making between the two countries at the time, saying [my paraphrasing/summary] Chan: "In China, I jump down many floors through many layers of [sugar-paned] glass, then land on many carboard boxes - it hurts but I am alive... I come to America and they put me in a big blue room with two blue boxes and say to me 'OK jump from this box to this box for stunt' - and I think to myself 'I could have been doing stunts like this?!?' wooow..." heh Much love and respect to all Stuntworkers, really
It's unfortunate that any movie stunt can result in death. Dar Robinson (know for work in "Lethal Weapon") once said, "It's the simple stunts that get you killed" would himself die performing a routine motorcycle stunt. I think Hollywood's failed acknowledgement of the work these persons do deserves Academy appreciation long overdue.
Some of these deaths were caused by complete stupidity, where is the "safety" crew and how did the movie get insurance? The AJ Bakunas fall was just ego. Jumping 323 feet onto an airbag that wasn't rated for that? What a waste.
It's obscene. It just shows that they don't really care about the person or their family at all, as long as they have their shot for the movie they really dgaf
Kinda nuts the studio got a judgement for only a mere $30k usd meanwhile the actor gave the family nearly 800k usd which could have been more then Li was even paid for said movie due to his small role.
if i may, i remember when Jackie Chan was in an interview around the time of him starting to do movies in the USA (eg. Rumble In The Bronx, etc) - he was telling of him learning the differences in movie making between the two countries at the time, saying [my paraphrasing/summary] Chan: "In China, I jump down many floors through many layers of [sugar-paned] glass, then land on many carboard boxes - it hurts but I am alive... I come to America and they put me in a big blue room with two blue boxes and say to me 'OK jump from this box to this box for stunt' - and I think to myself 'I could have been doing stunts like this?!?' wooow..." heh Much love and respect to all Stuntworkers, really
Rest in peace to all these people on this video. My heart goes out to their family and friends. Thank god we still have their memories to keep them alive with videos like this. Keep up the good work, Looper channel your the best thank you for remembering them all
When people complain about stunts being done with CG instead of doing them practical, I always point out that CG stunts have never killed anyone. Practical stunts have a long history of killing people, including children.
I'm a Baby Boomer and I sometimes revisit the 1950s films I grew up with. I can see great performances from actors. I can also see the dangerous stunt work that I accepted as thrill or even comedy. Lucille Ball was a great physical comedienne. Not just stuff with cupcakes. There was a film where she became the well intentioned secretary at a real estate office. The office was a front for narcotics distribution. She managed to do real estate including a construction. At the construction site she was comically chased around by power equipment while she ducked and dodged and jumped over pits and such to get away. The camera is always on her face. There is little if any cut away. It was dangerous stunt work and she did it.
There was almost a second on XXX as Larry Linkogle hit his head on the helicopter as he did the dirt bike jump with the explosion so Cohens numbers were off. Link talks about how hurt he got in his autobiography.
Would an actor being placed in a dangerous situation be included as a stuntman/actor death. Am referring to the death of Vic Morrow and two children during the filming of Twilight Zone The Movie. He and two children, while film was rolling, were killed in a mishap involving a hovering helicopter that crashed into Morrow and the children who were in close proximity for the scene, killing them while they were on the ground.
Vic Morrow being the father of Jennifer Jason Leigh.. youngsters will know her work from Tarantino's Hateful Eight film.. she played the lead female role.
'They died with their boots on" was not a civil war movie, it was the little big horn battle when the native americans kick the crap out of the 7th calvery.
I never knew about any of these Stunt Double Deaths. I never knew about the Vampire in Brooklyn Stunt Death. It doesn't speak well of Eddie Murphy for having the lawsuit dismised and not helping the Stunt Woman's Family out after her death.
I saw an extended video about Sonja Davis and the movie crew actually did not get the clearance for the air bag honestly. The airbag was actually not equipped for the weight of a human but for a dummy and they left out that it was for a human in order to get clearance. Very sad they didn't compensate her family.
Except that Vic Morrow and the 2 Asian Children who died were not stunt Performers, but actual Actors- at kleast Vic Morrow was. The 2 kids were basically kids who were hired illegally to do that Movie. What's his name- John Landis should ahve been found guilty and sent to Jail for what he did.
@HoldenNY22 I've seen a short documentary about this. Sets were rearranged without the explosive experts knowledge. Landis had the bucks and Hollywood pull to stay out of prison, a complete sham.
The only incident that was handled even close to how it should have been was the Jet Li incident. For the actor to hand over almost $6 million probably went a long way towards compensating the family for their loss. What seems to get pushed aside in these horrible accidents, is that not only has the family lost the person, but also ALL future livelihood that person contributed to his/her family's survival. The person's future earnings for the family, for decades to come, are all lost along with the person. NO mere movie scene is worth the life of a human (or even of an animal).
you just made someone who died, a commodity. You look at human beings as commodities.. like the reason there is a loss is because the finances is going to take a hit. That's how you processed that. Capitalist has erased the human within you.
@@keetahbroughIDK how you interpreted such a spin from my brief comment but I'll reply anyway. Most of us who are adults here, have faced or will eventually face, the loss of a person close to them. And the emotions involved with the death of a loved one can cover the entire human spectrum - from suicidal grief, to depression, to fear, to guilt, to anger/rage and I can tell you all about it. But once the shock passes, something even worse can happen now and it is the absolute WORST kind of double jeopardy there is. Because for a whole lot of people, there are or soon will be, financial issues coming immediately behind the grief! But like it or no, life goes on for survivors, who still require things to survive all of which cost money. Money that was being earned by a person who is now dead and buried and probably incapable of earning another dime (I know all about income generated by loyalties and inheritances, that can be in the millions of dollars. But in general such people are few and far between in the real world). But because these things too, would seem to be as obvious as the nose on your face, I felt no reason to over-complicate, over-explain, or to try to bring up every single factor involved in this situation like some kind of research paper just to make my point, which you basically compelled me to do. All because you decided to infer way too much into/from a relatively brief comment I made.
If I was a stunt actor who died at work, I'd certainly wouldn't want my final scene to go to waste. I'm sure most stunt people would feel the same. They're putting their life at risk to create amazing, realistic footage ...so if they sacrifice their life, at least that final sacrifice wouldn't be completely for naught.
I was a 4 year-old kid living here in Kentucky when A.J. Bakunas was killed in the fall from Kincaid Tower in Lexington, during the filming of the movie, "Steel." I always remember people talking about that when it happened, even as a kid.
@@Penekamp11Wow! A guy my dad worked with watched him perform the stunt when he had the accident. Lee Majors, that stared in the film, was once married to my late stepfather's first cousin.
I lived in Lexington, Kentucky and remember the local news cutting in to announce A.J. Bakunas' fall and going to the hospital. And then of course later, the outcome. RIP A.J.
I still have the front page Herald Leader article about the accident. I saw him in a bar the night before he was killed. He was judging a wet T-shirt contest.
The number of times I have heard of directors doing several takes, sometimes to the point of distraction, or in some cases mentioned, I think, by either the Mojo folks, or those at FV, that the only reason the director took several (dozen) shots of a scene was to irritate the lead actor, and then used the first take. How wasteful.
A fire spread to another ship and caused casualties in the filming of a movie about the Battle of Red Cliffs, which got its name from the red wall of fire caused by burning ships as the fire spread from ship to ship. Am I the only one seeing a problem of not learning from history here?
Rubber dummy. The same one three times. The Roman soldier dragged into the race, Messala under the hooves, and the chariot racer run down by horses. The horses got hurt on that last one. Many horses killed in the earlier films of Ben-Hur, though. Horses were cheap in the 1920s and 1930s.
I laughed so hard when he said it was fought between the Greeks and the Spartans. The Spartans literally were Greeks. It's like saying the Italians vs the Romans.
"...a subdued Bull Shark in SCUBA gear..." how the shark got into the gear, I'll never know. -- with apologies to Groucho for using that line (2:04-2:07)
Sharks are beautiful creatures, this story was a hoax, swimming with real sharks for anything other than documentary like stuff is just dumb and out of the question
Red Cliff really showed off some of the asinine consequences of having absurd amounts of manpower all concentrated in one place. The scene with the arrows completely covering the ship looks like what is described when small targets were picked out by vast formations in antiquity.
Deadpool 2 Domino has very thick hair, and a stunt woman could have hid a helmet under the wig. Failing that, mocap her head and overlay footage of her standing in front of a big fan.
Again, i'm genuinely SHOCKED at the "Deadpool 2" one (one of my fav movies those 2) not only coz i didn't know but that she was so young!! 😥 I think when stunt ppl die or get life-long handicaps because of their work, they should be especially honored for it in the credits just like many other careers would! (Family accepting, of course)*. *{Edit: Glad to hear they _do_ do that!} 2nd one for PARAMOUNT 🤔 (Top Gun was too) 2x United Artists too....🤨 oof...Cannon Group too many to count! at l;east 3 x Warner Bros movies to kill stunt-ppl just in this video..
I saw the film footage in which Paul Mantz was killed. It's included in the 'special features' of the DVD of the movie. It looked to me as though the plane broke apart in mid-air; the tail came loose & the plane hit the ground.
With great respect to each & every stunt person that ha been injured or lost their lives in the pursuit of creating entertaining art, I'd also like to nominate Brandon Lee, who passed away on the set of The Crow after being shot by a live round that was 1 of countless shots fired at him with blanks from weapons by multiple actors.
The problem is that gun were involved. When gun involved, everything comes down to politics. Like how that 160 degree hot coffee nearly killed an old lady. The effort those responsible went to, to invent the 'frivolous lawsuit meme' was stupendous. They thought it was worth it, though.
Also, it was a type of rehearsal which didn’t involve stunt actors but an actor/producer along with the director and cinematographer. The latter being killed.
For the producers who decide to retain & release these scenes - shame on you! The victim's families must have been appalled! You are sick inhuman creatures!
Families are given "Dibs", on Refunds, to the Movie in which their Family Member died, if need be AND they have Dibs, on the best Seats, in either the "Farting" or "Not Farting (yet)", Section, of the Theater, so, it is ok.
9:41 That one is APAWLLING! How hard can it be for them to rig up a release that the stunt man can esily use at any moment?! Hell, i'm not even a stunt guy and i could rig up TWO separate releases for each hand, should one fail or one hand get's compromised! 🤬 16:07 AIR BAG RUPTURED infuriates me too... that's just disgusting and the company that provides those airbags should never be allowed to make them again.
@@user-nq2oz8tf2l There was no bull shark and no great white. There was a grey reef shark drugged to the point that it died some stock footage of other sharks along with fake blood and an even faker story.
Bruce Ingram was killed during a car sequence on "The Wraith," and who can forget Vic Morrow's horrifying death on "The Twilight Zone," where he was cut in half by a helicopter rotor?
I'm conflicted about the use of snuff footage, but maybe putting it to use is the way to respect their contribution. It would be a shame if the stunt that cost them their life was a waste.
Please Note: We mistakenly said the Trojan War was between the Greeks and the Spartans and meant to say the Greeks and Troy. Our apologies.
RIP to the stunt actors featured in this video and the others we unfortunately have yet to cover, as stunt performers are the often-unsung heroes of cinema.
Hey just so you know. Jose Marco from Shark was, for sure is not a real story. I had to look it up and see how that happened, and it didn't. The director did want his name off of the movie though! But for different reasons entirely.
Also, an aircraft is not a vessel. That would be a ship or a large boat. It could also be a hollow container, but not an aircraft.
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Yeah and the plane was never recovered from the debris. Obviously because the plane was the debris.
You made more mistakes than that😂😂😂 think I'm gonna start my own BS UA-cam channel
Appreciation for all stunt actors who makes watching movie worth while
Yes the stars with big name get all the glory lol
You forgot Hells Angels, the Howard Hughes classic about WW1 aviation. Numerous stunt pilots were killed because Hughes insisted on realistic flight sequences.
Well my character dies in this scene and I'm a method actor..........
In one scene he couldn't find a stunt pilot willing to do the shot; every single one of them refused, saying it was too dangerous, that there wasn't enough clearance from the ground to pull out. So Hughes got in the cockpit of the stunt plane, did the stunt himself, and...
...crashed into the ground when he tried to pull out, just like every pilot said would happen. Incredibly, he wasn't killed, although he was banged up pretty bad.
Halyna Hutchins on the set of Alec Baldwins Movie Rust
@@MisterKatz That was negligent homicide.
The plane wasn't recovered from the debris? I don't think you know what debris means
LOL. We can’t find the plane! There is just a bunch of plane parts in the crash!
@@robpolaris7272 LOL
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Must be ai generated
Ai did the writing
You left stuntman Dar Robinson off the list. Dar died in a freak accident after completing a stunt for a movie called Million Dollar Mystery in 1986. I got to meet Dar about a year or so before he passed. Like most people in the business, he was a good guy, very accomplished, but pretty humble about his accomplishments. Gone too soon.
They mentioned him at 16:48, but the clip wasn't about him.
they didnt leave anything off the list
I loved him in the movie "Stick" he looked and played that part to perfection. (Bunny Eyes) 🐰
I thought he died in a motorcycle accident, but was not a stunt during a movie set
@@tonytaranto7886 Dar died in a freak accident after performing several takes on a motorcycle for the movie he was in that had him crash into a highway guardrail. After the last take, he fell down a cliff or embankment and was impaled on a sagebrush branch that was sticking out of the ground. He was treated immediately near the scene then transported by helicopter to hospital where he died. Stunts - or “gags” as they’re called in the business - are always planned out and rehearsed before any filming to make sure there are no problems or unexpected situations, so the result on film *looks* dangerous but is totally safe. What happened to Dar shouldn’t have happened. It was one of those things that nobody saw or expected in spite all the planning and safety gear that was in play at the time.
Modern mainstream Hollywood - the major studios, production companies, service providers and stunt people, etc. - take safety very seriously. Good work is recognized and rewarded by those in the business - it’s the f- ups by the shady producers and companies where corners get cut to save a dollar that make the news. Like when Alec Baldwin accidentally killed a camera person on set with a freaking loaded stunt pistol. Based on what I’ve read and seen, lots of corners appear to have been cut, certain people either didn’t do their job right or know what they were doing, and sh-t happened that shouldn’t have. Baldwin is a great actor, has done lots of good work - but probably the #1 rule to never, ever have an unsupervised, uninspected firearm in the same space with an actor was broken, so now Baldwin’s going to have to eat sh-t probably for the rest of his life. There’s an unfortunately long history of really bad things happening on set with actors and loaded firearms that were supposed to be safe. Even though studios and companies are doing things to reduce the chances of further accidents from happening again, it will probably never be completely zero as long as somebody decides it’s worth risking lives to cut a corner or save a dollar or somebody does something stupid.
Rest in peace to these actors.
18:05 I heard/read that the Stunt coordinator wanted to put some cushion under the snow to protect Arne and Sven from the cold. He fell dead while doing so, trying to protect the well-being of others. This makes it even more sad.
No one died on "Shark!" - that was a publicity stunt.
Scholl didn't die during the inverted stunt, he died in the Flat Spin stunt.
You mean that guy crashing into the canopy waa real and fatal! 😮
@@MrMJmusicLover no that was a soundstage. But it was for that scene when it happened. He was in a modern (for the 80s) biplane modified for camera work when it happened.
@@Blackout5871 Sorry for the loss of that stuntman. 🙏🏾😔
You left out the helicopter crash on the set of The Twilight Zone movie that killed not only Vic Morrow but also two child actors and the helicopter crew.
Neither Morrow nor the kids were stuntmen. The were just actors.
@@waltblackadar4690 The helicopter was flown by a professional stunt pilot.
@@CounterSniper67 Good point.
@@CounterSniper67 i mean, yea ig, but it was used for filming tho
I was a child when that happened and I remember it to this day.
I met Art Scholl years before Top Gun. That experience was beyond fantastic. I remember at the time it was said the flat spin that was shown, and had been completed successfully, was requested to be done again as an inverted flat spin. This was something Scholl could do with his eyes closed. The theory at the time was reconfiguring the on board cameras shifted the CG so that the plane didn't respond or recover as expected.
Paul Mantz' death was another where they wanted "one more" shot. The "Phoenix" was actually the front half of the C-119 boom and wings while the back half was fabricated. It was mostly a plywood monocoque. It snapped off on a bounce and the "plane" flipped killing Mantz but not the actors along the wing.
I was onboard Miramar when that movie was filmed and I was a F-14A airframe mechanic. The F-14 used to film the exterior shots of the flat spin nearly crashed as well. It lost a sequencer and the flaps/slats locked out while recovering. The film crew came really close to having a genuine F-14 crash to add to the movie. That bird got stripped down to its box beam, there was so much damage to the airframe.
Yes I read about Art’s shifting CG incident in a rag somewhere. Apparently, the camera mounted out on struts between the wings became dislodged during the spin and shifted the CG outside of the known envelope of recovery.
As an ex test pilot I know that engineering calculated how many different spins there could be in one of prototypes with different power settings with a difference of X, with changing longitudinal CG +- .1’ with a changing lateral and vertical CG +- .1. Also calculated were different flap settings and landing positions as all of these factors have influence in the successful recovery from a spin (without a drag chute). At the time they calculated 540,000 different spins for the type.
Now no manufacturer could possibly test for all those possible spins, not even half those numbers, not even Pitts. So, the worst scenarios are calculated (with the rationale) and presented to the FAA, and then demonstrated. There might be only a dozen that are demonstrated (certainly aft cg on the long axis) My point is, there are so many different spin modes in aircraft that no one has ever demonstrated to possibly be safe. An 8kg camera extended out a meter laterally would make a big difference.
@@bearlemley First of all, you win ALL of the cool points. As a wannabe, I live vicariously through guys like you. Second, thank you for that explanation. I have enough time to understand weight and balance and the consequences of loading outside of limits on CG. But your insight makes it clear that the variability is incalculable.
I had watched the man do inverted spins in both a Pitts and Super Chipmunk (which he invited me to sit in) multiple times. He was an aeronautical engineer and I always wondered if the change was last minute or something.
While I appreciate your comment and the replies, you all use the abbreviation 'CG' which, in reference to a film scene, could be taken to mean Computer Generated as in CGI (computer generated imagery). So at first I was confused and unable to work out your meaning (I'm a long way from being an engineer much less a pilot).
While reading the replies it eventually occurred to me (from general knowledge) that CG is 'centre of gravity' abbreviated. It's a pet hate of mine when people use abbreviations without first writing the thing out in full for the benefit of readers who might not know the abbreviation.
Bro imagine you are partly responsible for somebody's death and you say "well that was good lets keep it"
Yeah, I’m not cool with that. If that was my family member, I would be very hurt to see it used for entertainment.
I think being a filmmaker requires some degree of being a psychopath.
think I heard that it's a rule in the stunt business that if a stunt person gets hurt they'll keep the shot in the movie
I cant believe they put his actual death in the shark movie
@@laurenbendik2006 It was almost definitely a hoax.
I can now see why we are getting so much CGI and takes inside studios so that safety takes main point. Soon we will be able to green screen a lot of stuff so that future accidents will be rare. It’s good that the movies dedicated to the lost stunt workers I would like to see a picture of them so that we don’t forget their face.
Well, if you hear ten names in a few minutes that sounds like a lot but then you have to remember how many hundreds of action movies were produced with each including dozens of action scenes.
Yes, i think at some point most stunts will be able to be done using cgi or ai. Obviously it sucks if it puts stunt ppl out of work, but ultimately it will save lives.
@@laurenbendik2006
Won't be putting people out of work. You will need people to make those images. Besides, there are other jobs out there.
if i may, i remember when Jackie Chan was in an interview around the time of him starting to do movies in the USA (eg. Rumble In The Bronx, etc) - he was telling of him learning the differences in movie making between the two countries at the time, saying
[my paraphrasing/summary]
Chan: "In China, I jump down many floors through many layers of [sugar-paned] glass, then land on many carboard boxes - it hurts but I am alive... I come to America and they put me in a big blue room with two blue boxes and say to me 'OK jump from this box to this box for stunt' - and I think to myself 'I could have been doing stunts like this?!?' wooow..."
heh
Much love and respect to all Stuntworkers, really
It's unfortunate that any movie stunt can result in death. Dar Robinson (know for work in "Lethal Weapon") once said, "It's the simple stunts that get you killed" would himself die performing a routine motorcycle stunt. I think Hollywood's failed acknowledgement of the work these persons do deserves Academy appreciation long overdue.
Some of these deaths were caused by complete stupidity, where is the "safety" crew and how did the movie get insurance? The AJ Bakunas fall was just ego. Jumping 323 feet onto an airbag that wasn't rated for that? What a waste.
thats so wrong on so many levels to use the footage of their death in the movie... especially the shark attack...wow...
Completely disrespectful.
It's obscene. It just shows that they don't really care about the person or their family at all, as long as they have their shot for the movie they really dgaf
It is not true and has been debunked numerous times
not really, the biker who died on mad max the family asked for it to stay, it's a good way to remember and honour them
Why? And not be in their own movie?!!
Jet Li is a class act.
Kinda nuts the studio got a judgement for only a mere $30k usd meanwhile the actor gave the family nearly 800k usd which could have been more then Li was even paid for said movie due to his small role.
Jackie Chan too
if i may, i remember when Jackie Chan was in an interview around the time of him starting to do movies in the USA (eg. Rumble In The Bronx, etc) - he was telling of him learning the differences in movie making between the two countries at the time, saying
[my paraphrasing/summary]
Chan: "In China, I jump down many floors through many layers of [sugar-paned] glass, then land on many carboard boxes - it hurts but I am alive... I come to America and they put me in a big blue room with two blue boxes and say to me 'OK jump from this box to this box for stunt' - and I think to myself 'I could have been doing stunts like this?!?' wooow..."
heh
Much love and respect to all Stuntworkers, really
Its actually so weird that ive seen so many movies, and loved them all these years, and never once knew that people died making the stunts happen.
Rest in peace to all these people on this video. My heart goes out to their family and friends. Thank god we still have their memories to keep them alive with videos like this. Keep up the good work, Looper channel your the best thank you for remembering them all
Respect Jet Li gave way more than the actual production company.
While it wasn't even his fault.
When people complain about stunts being done with CG instead of doing them practical, I always point out that CG stunts have never killed anyone. Practical stunts have a long history of killing people, including children.
Here's a tip: don't describe gruesome, horrible accidents that cost lives with a whiny, excitable voice over.
It's AI generated bollocks.
@@davewalkden7248no its his own voice 😂
It's most likely an AI
Why would this be AI?
I'm a Baby Boomer and I sometimes revisit the 1950s films I grew up with. I can see great performances from actors. I can also see the dangerous stunt work that I accepted as thrill or even comedy. Lucille Ball was a great physical comedienne. Not just stuff with cupcakes. There was a film where she became the well intentioned secretary at a real estate office. The office was a front for narcotics distribution. She managed to do real estate including a construction. At the construction site she was comically chased around by power equipment while she ducked and dodged and jumped over pits and such to get away. The camera is always on her face. There is little if any cut away. It was dangerous stunt work and she did it.
There was almost a second on XXX as Larry Linkogle hit his head on the helicopter as he did the dirt bike jump with the explosion so Cohens numbers were off. Link talks about how hurt he got in his autobiography.
R. I. P. and may our Lord protect their families and loved ones.
So one of the actors in a movie about Achilles dying from an Achilles injury actually died from an injury to his Achilles tendon?
So that actor Budlong in that black and white Western literally fell on his sword. Damn, that is badass.
How you forget Apocalypse Now? Probably one of the most infamous deaths with stunt and actors getting their heads chopped off!!!
That also happened in Twilight Zone The movie. John Landis was responsible for it.
they didnt forget anything
Stunt Actors/Double Works is Tough. Appreciation Goes to Them.
That First Scene IS At The Forrest Hill Bridge 🌉 Near Auburn, California.
0:30 bro is that tony hawk hitting the seat?!
Would an actor being placed in a dangerous situation be included as a stuntman/actor death. Am referring to the death of Vic Morrow and two children during the filming of Twilight Zone The Movie. He and two children, while film was rolling, were killed in a mishap involving a hovering helicopter that crashed into Morrow and the children who were in close proximity for the scene, killing them while they were on the ground.
Vic Morrow being the father of Jennifer Jason Leigh.. youngsters will know her work from Tarantino's Hateful Eight film.. she played the lead female role.
Re Expendables: Even though Jet Li wasn't involved in the bad stunt, he gave 50x more money to the stuntman's family than the Studio did.
Rest in peace to them all
'They died with their boots on" was not a civil war movie, it was the little big horn battle when the native americans kick the crap out of the 7th calvery.
Why wasnt nun of these deaths put on the news ? We all had to watch this video to know all these people died .
You are correct. I never knew about the vast Majority of these deaths. I guess Hollywood has a lot of pull on Major Media..
All were on the news. Things happen, then people forget, the guilty hope.
Nuns on the Run.
They were, back when they happened. Most of these are pretty old.
Nothing of Vic Morrow and his Stunt Accident on the Twilight Zone Movie Set?!
I never knew about any of these Stunt Double Deaths. I never knew about the Vampire in Brooklyn Stunt Death. It doesn't speak well of Eddie Murphy for having the lawsuit dismised and not helping the Stunt Woman's Family out after her death.
I saw an extended video about Sonja Davis and the movie crew actually did not get the clearance for the air bag honestly. The airbag was actually not equipped for the weight of a human but for a dummy and they left out that it was for a human in order to get clearance. Very sad they didn't compensate her family.
Please verify your research before posting hoaxes like the 'real' shark attack in the movie Shark. It was a publicity stunt by the studio.
5:55 Jet Li is, and has always been, a class act. Good on you sir. You are a gentleman and a scholar.
Director Samuel Fuller Was a WW2 Combat Vet, Famous For His Very Realistic War Movies: The Steel Helmet To The Big Red One.
Respect to Jet Li for paying the family $5.7 million due to the death of his Stunt double. Stallones company paid peanuts shamefully...
Especially when you consider that 195,000 Hong Kong dollars is only equivalent to 25,000 USD.
I like the way Rob Cohen made Terry O'Connor's death about him.
i like how you avoid Twilight Zone: The Movie since the death behind it is really dark
Except that Vic Morrow and the 2 Asian Children who died were not stunt Performers, but actual Actors- at kleast Vic Morrow was. The 2 kids were basically kids who were hired illegally to do that Movie. What's his name- John Landis should ahve been found guilty and sent to Jail for what he did.
@HoldenNY22 I've seen a short documentary about this. Sets were rearranged without the explosive experts knowledge. Landis had the bucks and Hollywood pull to stay out of prison, a complete sham.
Sadly Vic also hated his character's role because of the racial implications. He died performing something he didn't believe in.
That's some brutal footage too. You better have a strong stomach watching it.
The only incident that was handled even close to how it should have been was the Jet Li incident. For the actor to hand over almost $6 million probably went a long way towards compensating the family for their loss. What seems to get pushed aside in these horrible accidents, is that not only has the family lost the person, but also ALL future livelihood that person contributed to his/her family's survival. The person's future earnings for the family, for decades to come, are all lost along with the person.
NO mere movie scene is worth the life of a human (or even of an animal).
you just made someone who died, a commodity. You look at human beings as commodities.. like the reason there is a loss is because the finances is going to take a hit. That's how you processed that. Capitalist has erased the human within you.
@@keetahbroughIDK how you interpreted such a spin from my brief comment but I'll reply anyway. Most of us who are adults here, have faced or will eventually face, the loss of a person close to them. And the emotions involved with the death of a loved one can cover the entire human spectrum - from suicidal grief, to depression, to fear, to guilt, to anger/rage and I can tell you all about it. But once the shock passes, something even worse can happen now and it is the absolute WORST kind of double jeopardy there is. Because for a whole lot of people, there are or soon will be, financial issues coming immediately behind the grief!
But like it or no, life goes on for survivors, who still require things to survive all of which cost money. Money that was being earned by a person who is now dead and buried and probably incapable of earning another dime (I know all about income generated by loyalties and inheritances, that can be in the millions of dollars. But in general such people are few and far between in the real world).
But because these things too, would seem to be as obvious as the nose on your face, I felt no reason to over-complicate, over-explain, or to try to bring up every single factor involved in this situation like some kind of research paper just to make my point, which you basically compelled me to do. All because you decided to infer way too much into/from a relatively brief comment I made.
In capitalist America, only money counts. Nothing else. The fact that Americans post videos of stunt actors dying is proof of that.
If I was a stunt actor who died at work, I'd certainly wouldn't want my final scene to go to waste. I'm sure most stunt people would feel the same.
They're putting their life at risk to create amazing, realistic footage ...so if they sacrifice their life, at least that final sacrifice wouldn't be completely for naught.
Yeah, that was not paragliding rig, that was skydiving/BASE rig.
I was a 4 year-old kid living here in Kentucky when A.J. Bakunas was killed in the fall from Kincaid Tower in Lexington, during the filming of the movie, "Steel." I always remember people talking about that when it happened, even as a kid.
I saw him in a bar in Lexington the night before he was killed. He was judging a wet T-shirt contest.
@@Penekamp11Wow! A guy my dad worked with watched him perform the stunt when he had the accident. Lee Majors, that stared in the film, was once married to my late stepfather's first cousin.
I thought Snoopy shot the Red Baron down...
I feel like it's bit fair to include a film where someone died of a heart attack.
I lived in Lexington, Kentucky and remember the local news cutting in to announce A.J. Bakunas' fall and going to the hospital. And then of course later, the outcome. RIP A.J.
I still have the front page Herald Leader article about the accident. I saw him in a bar the night before he was killed. He was judging a wet T-shirt contest.
HOW did you miss Ben Hur 1959 and the chariot race? Seriously, one of the worst ever and the deaths are in the movie.
Nobody died in Ben-Hur 1959. It's an urban myth.
So is the shark story in the Burt Reynolds movie.
Yeah this is another myth / urban legend
"Looper" was in a "Hur"ry. Illegal Spartaliens know no boundaries.
they didnt miss anything
@stuartliddell2513 Do you mean the 1925 Ben Hur movie?
"...Wu was wooed..."
Bah-dum-dum-tsss!
(7:58)
The number of times I have heard of directors doing several takes, sometimes to the point of distraction, or in some cases mentioned, I think, by either the Mojo folks, or those at FV, that the only reason the director took several (dozen) shots of a scene was to irritate the lead actor, and then used the first take. How wasteful.
A fire spread to another ship and caused casualties in the filming of a movie about the Battle of Red Cliffs, which got its name from the red wall of fire caused by burning ships as the fire spread from ship to ship. Am I the only one seeing a problem of not learning from history here?
Neither he nor is plane was found in the wreakage WTF
How can you forget one from one the greatest films ever. Ben Hur 1959. Chariot race. Stuntman trampled byhorse
Because it didn't happen. See Snopes. One of their back-when-they-were-reliable non-political entries.
Rubber dummy. The same one three times. The Roman soldier dragged into the race, Messala under the hooves, and the chariot racer run down by horses. The horses got hurt on that last one.
Many horses killed in the earlier films of Ben-Hur, though. Horses were cheap in the 1920s and 1930s.
The Trojan war was fought between the Greeks and the TROJANS
Spartans provided refreshments, loaded, with Aspartane. Aren't they sweet.
And nobody picked up on the ankle injury being an ironic contributory factor.
I laughed so hard when he said it was fought between the Greeks and the Spartans. The Spartans literally were Greeks. It's like saying the Italians vs the Romans.
Sounds like they let a shark into that movie set with hope they would get a real attack on footage
Why didn't they use a mechanical shark
"...a subdued Bull Shark in SCUBA gear..."
how the shark got into the gear, I'll never know.
-- with apologies to Groucho for using that line
(2:04-2:07)
How did the death of Vic Morrow on the Twilight Zone movie get missed?
Someone else pointed out in another thread that Vic Morrow wasn't a stunt double, but an actor.
I’ve never heard the term ‘sword and sandals’ before. . But after a few seconds, I knew what it was/realized I’d probably seen a couple of them.
omg woah..... i appreciate these guys so much
Stuntmen are impressive! Never knew how common death was.
Sharks are beautiful creatures, this story was a hoax, swimming with real sharks for anything other than documentary like stuff is just dumb and out of the question
Thank you for sharing.💞🌟🕊🌺💯
This video ended terribly.
Red Cliff really showed off some of the asinine consequences of having absurd amounts of manpower all concentrated in one place. The scene with the arrows completely covering the ship looks like what is described when small targets were picked out by vast formations in antiquity.
Apparently the death in 'Shark' never really happened.
Really? You looked into it?
I’m genuinely very curious.
Deadpool 2
Domino has very thick hair, and a stunt woman could have hid a helmet under the wig.
Failing that, mocap her head and overlay footage of her standing in front of a big fan.
That’s what I thought, too!
Hollywood: (collecting millions) "Sorry. We feel bad."
"Thoughts and prayers" - one of the most obscene statements ever made.
That narration would fit better on a 'fluff' piece...needed more emotion & vocal pauses.
Ben Hur? Chariot race?
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That bridge wasn't in Prague it was in California it's forest hill bridge
Again, i'm genuinely SHOCKED at the "Deadpool 2" one (one of my fav movies those 2) not only coz i didn't know but that she was so young!! 😥
I think when stunt ppl die or get life-long handicaps because of their work, they should be especially honored for it in the credits just like many other careers would! (Family accepting, of course)*. *{Edit: Glad to hear they _do_ do that!}
2nd one for PARAMOUNT 🤔 (Top Gun was too) 2x United Artists too....🤨 oof...Cannon Group too many to count! at l;east 3 x Warner Bros movies to kill stunt-ppl just in this video..
Deadly injury to his ankle when filming Troy? What a coincidence!
I saw the film footage in which Paul Mantz was killed. It's included in the 'special features' of the DVD of the movie. It looked to me as though the plane broke apart in mid-air; the tail came loose & the plane hit the ground.
With great respect to each & every stunt person that ha been injured or lost their lives in the pursuit of creating entertaining art, I'd also like to nominate Brandon Lee, who passed away on the set of The Crow after being shot by a live round that was 1 of countless shots fired at him with blanks from weapons by multiple actors.
what about the movie Rust..its still going through the courts
The problem is that gun were involved. When gun involved, everything comes down to politics.
Like how that 160 degree hot coffee nearly killed an old lady. The effort those responsible went to, to invent the 'frivolous lawsuit meme' was stupendous.
They thought it was worth it, though.
Also, it was a type of rehearsal which didn’t involve stunt actors but an actor/producer along with the director and cinematographer. The latter being killed.
For the producers who decide to retain & release these scenes - shame on you! The victim's families must have been appalled! You are sick inhuman creatures!
So not a fan of the faces of death movies then 😂
Families are given "Dibs", on Refunds, to the Movie in which their Family Member died, if need be AND they have Dibs, on the best Seats, in either the "Farting" or "Not Farting (yet)", Section, of the Theater, so, it is ok.
9:41 That one is APAWLLING! How hard can it be for them to rig up a release that the stunt man can esily use at any moment?! Hell, i'm not even a stunt guy and i could rig up TWO separate releases for each hand, should one fail or one hand get's compromised! 🤬
16:07 AIR BAG RUPTURED infuriates me too... that's just disgusting and the company that provides those airbags should never be allowed to make them again.
She conversed with a wandering eye on cam focus. That might be the underlying issue that caused her miscalculation on the bike.
Nobody died during the filming of Shark! It was just a false rumor
Swimming with a bull shark is DAF.
But it wasn't even the bull shark that attacked him. It was a great white that came through the barriers.
@@user-nq2oz8tf2l There was no bull shark and no great white. There was a grey reef shark drugged to the point that it died some stock footage of other sharks along with fake blood and an even faker story.
😊❤😊great
Cohen tells us what a great job he's doing because only one life was lost.
You forgot Vic Morro & Twilight Zone
Rest in peace to all
At this point, do we really need to say "X, formerly known as Twitter?" Yeah we all know that by now.
Yes, Lee Majors, it is worth the risk.....if you are Bionic.
Or playing a Stutman/Bounty Hunter is a TV Series. In the Fall Guy- Colt' Seaver's Super Power or Super Powers were his Stunt Man skills
Lol
Twilight Zone (Helicopter crash) & Magnum PI (Helicopter crash).
Bruce Ingram was killed during a car sequence on "The Wraith," and who can forget Vic Morrow's horrifying death on "The Twilight Zone," where he was cut in half by a helicopter rotor?
9:42 soooo the shot you are showing was included?
We all forgetting The Crow 1994
wikipedia says the death on the movie shark did not happen
The stunt men of today have nothing on the stunts of the silent era.Now they were crazy, but lost less stuntmen than sound films have. Funny that.
I'm conflicted about the use of snuff footage, but maybe putting it to use is the way to respect their contribution. It would be a shame if the stunt that cost them their life was a waste.
@Looper that was not a Great White it was a Tiger shark