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When you have a movie idol like Harrison Ford, you have to remember that there are a lot
of times when he’s not doing his own stunts in movies.
Some people throw stars a lot of shade for not doing their own stunts, and sure, some
stunt people became actors after knowing the trade.
A salute and spoiler alert all-in-one, here are 10 Iconic Movie Scenes that were actually
done by stunt doubles!
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10.
Raiders of the Lost Art - The Truck Drag Speaking of Harrison Ford... am I about to
get disillusioned?
Turns out in Raiders of the Lost Ark, three different stunt doubles (and Ford) all worked
on the homage and Terry Leonard played Indy in the Truck drag.
For this scene, production had to modify the truck and the road so Terry wouldn’t get
hurt.
The suspension was modified so the truck rode higher and the road had a trench so it could
clear easily.
Still, it was too much to put Harrison Ford under there!
Are you kidding?
So Leonard was the man of the hour.
Kudos!
9.
Live and Let Live - The Crocodile Farm We can’t even get past #9 without bringing
up a 007 film.
In this classic, we see Roger Moore crossing a pond walking only on the backs of crocodiles
as if they were just that nice or he was just that dreamy.
Many thought the producers had used fake crocodiles to create the scene, but they were wrong.
Unlike the fake shark in Jaws, it wasn’t the animals that were doubled by fakes, but
rather the main actor that stepped out.
Ross Kananga stepped in for the scene and had to shoot it several times!
Imagine thinking the next attempt could be the one where one of the crocs in the middle
opens its jaws!
How much do stunt doubles make again?
8.
Mad Max Fury Road - Most Scenes So, we can’t hate on the use of stunt doubles
in this movie too much because the vision behind it is incredible.
What Frank Miller didn’t want was to have a bunch of scenes CGI’d.
So, as a result, they needed a lot of stunt work done.
I’m talking leaping on pole vaulting poles from moving car to moving car, motorcycles
jumping over the War Rig dropping real bombs.
So much in this movie is done by stunt doubles but I don’t even care because it’s just
so cool.
We can’t move on, though, without acknowledging Dane Grant and Dayna Porter, the doubles.
7.
Stagecoach In this movie, Yakima Canutt, a fearless stunt
double, made history.
This is the stuff of stunt double Hall of Fame.
It was incredibly dangerous in a time where medical attention wasn’t readily available
at the location.
Not only did Canutt jump from a horse to a group of horses while they were all going
full speed, but he then also drops from their backs to the ground, allowing them to drag
him before letting go, risking getting trampled by both the horses and the carriage they were
pulling.
On top of that, he also hops from horseback to horseback in a similar scenario.
It was groundbreaking and could have been backbreaking.
If it looks at all familiar, it’s because Spielberg saw this and drooled, refusing to
let Raiders of the Lost Ark go without a remake of it, which we see in the Truck Scene that
we mentioned before.
6.
Footloose - Kevin Bacon’s Dancing Stunts aren’t all falling from horses and
being dragged, sometimes it’s just dancing.
Kevin Bacon was apparently not a good enough dancer to do his own moves in Footloose, so
production had a double, actually five, to do his bodywork in this scene.
Apparently, he was less than happy about it all, but what can we say, Kevin, when you
don’t have it you don’t have it.
5.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Bike Scenes Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the most recognizable
names on the planet, and this was especially true during the early 1990s.
So it goes without saying that fans would notice the stunt double during the motorcycle
scenes in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
This movie goof bugged creator, James Cameron, too.
In the re-release of Terminator 2 in 3D, Cameron used modern CGI to replace stuntman Peter
Kent’s face with Schwarzenegger’s.
4.
Casino Royale - Crane Scenes The opening scene of this movie was no joke.
It got everything started with a bang and a swoosh and a lot more other noises, mainly
of Daniel Craig being hoisted up a Crane somewhere in Madagascar, or at least who we thought
was Daniel Craig, but is actually Ben Cooke, a British stunt performer.
That scene with the men jumping from the crane was exactly what it looks like, really high,
real jumping, fake Daniel Craig.
He murdered that scene though, who are we kidding.
3.
The Rock - Everything Sure, you’d think a guy as massive and experienced
in fake combat as The Rock is, he would be all over his own stunts, but he actually has
a stunt double.
They’re close, too.
Not like Tom Hiddleston and his stunt double, who often work together for Thor movies, but
as in they’re actually related.
The Rock’s stunt double, Tanoai Reed, has similar tattoos, the same type of body and
looks, but is just better trained at stunts.
They've been making movies together for over a decade now, so we've seen Tanoai in lots
of things like falling downstairs in Hercules, driving and shootout scenes in NCIS, explosions
in GI Joe, and scenes in Fast and Furious 6.
2.
Game of Thrones - Arya Stark’s stunts Kristina Baskett is the woman behind Arya
Stark’s stunts on Game of Thrones.
Most, at least.
While Kristina is a talented gymnast and stunt performer, a big part of her job is preparing
Maisie Williams to do as much as she’s capable of before stepping in.
One of her favorites, she’s said, is the chase scene in the final season, shot in the
streets of Spain.
She had to do a big jump and fall down a lot of stone steps which I’m sure nobody can
be entirely prepared for.
1.
Karate Kid - Mr. Miyagi Crane Kick Ah, the glorious wooden stump kick that every
80s kid tried on any stump they ever ran into.
Of course, that wasn’t actually Mr. Miyagi, or rather the actor who plays Mr. Miyagi.
It was Darryl Vidal, a stunt double.
While Fumio Demura, a Shito-Ryu Master was in charge of Miyagi’s fight scenes in the
movies, Vidal was the chosen double for the Crane kick.
Think you haven’t seen Darryl before?
Think again.
He also played the kid who competed in the All Valley Tournament in the movie who made
it to the semi-finals before losing to Johnny.
He was the only kid in that “tournament” who actually knew high-level karate.
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