Also who should get the award ? The performer, the stunt coordinator, both ? And it would probalby also be difficult to rate car stunts against jumps or being lit on Fire
@@rocketmanthebest4697 that's kind of a good one because there's usually stunt "teams" with a leader/coordinator which are basically the entity that could be acknowledged, but the stunts aren't entirely up to them because you'll still have a director with a script and the producer with a budget determining what can be performed
This was brilliantly put together. Glued to the screen from start to finish. I would love to see you cover choreography of different types, martial arts, sword fights, shootouts ect would be cool to see in your video style
40+ years ago, a world class stuntman named Dar Robinson broke the record for the highest freefall into a bag, nineteen stories. He did it for the movie _Sharkey's Machine_ . He deserves a mention.
The chariot racing scene in Ben-Hur was amazing! It's pretty crazy the circumstances in how that film got made. It had an unlimited budget and was a real do or die moment for the studio.
Interesting fact! The sunt man that went over the chariot in Ben Hur is Joe Canutt the son of Yakima Canutt the man who went under the Stagecoach in Stagecoach. Edit: great video DTW
T2 helicopter chase is sick it shocks me how many reactors don’t seem to see it, I’m assuming they think it’s some kind of a trick like it’s on rails or it’s cgi but it’s real and so perfectly done that it adds to the film because it looks like a robot did it
On the Harold Lloyd stunt, when he was hanging off the clock look at his hand. His hand has fingers that are sticking up and not holding on. You'd think he's use all his fingers and he was. He had two prosthetic fingers because he lost two in an explosion in a previous movie. So he's actually only holding on with two fingers.
@@ian0_0z It wasn't a matte painting. They filmed on different rooftops with different heights along the same street (which is why the background keeps changing). But he was, at most, only 1 storey above a roof.
The Harold Lloyd stunt wasn't as bad as you think! Rather than it being a complete building, he was climbing, a small set of the outside of the building, including clock was built on the roof of another building. This was done to give the illusion that he was climbing the real thing as it was so high up.
According to IMDb, it was Mike's brother Charles Tamburro who performed the under bridge flying scene. Mike did work on the movie (and sadly died in a helicopter crash in 1999), but did not do this particular stunt.
I remember watching the Live and Let Die croc stunt when I was about 7 or 8 and could not figure out how they faked it (no animatronics in the 70s). Simple really, they didn't. They just tied the croc's bodies (to keep them in the proper spot) leaving the tail and head free to chomp on the stunt man.
How do you figure? To slide down a pole isn't "hard" perse. I could slide down a pole and get injured too with no training at all. I'd say he's done a lot more "hard" stuff with just climbing up walls/hanging from helicopters etc.
That barrel roll with the old small car over the water in the bond movie is hard to beat in my opinion for car jumps. One take, before safety standards like today. Old car...small...way before fast and furious small...slow smol...😂
Great video. I appreciate that you didn't include any morally ambiguous examples, such as the chase scene in The French Connection. (You did of course mention the original Ben Hur film but only in reference to the superior, safer remake version) The only one on this list that bothers me is the parkour scene. It's great, but it's so incredibly cut up that, at times, it feels almost like "Liam Neeson Jumping A Fence" level of editing. Give me long takes and cinematic, sweeping shots. Obviously I don't need the parkour scene to be a oner (though that'd be incredible) but that scene feels almost like the amazing Ronin car chase scenes where it's more of a scene than a specific stunt, if that makes sense. And, of course, there's fight scenes, such as the stairwell scene in Atomic Blonde, but I suppose that is probably more cinematically impressive than stunt-specific impressive. Again, great video, absolutely loved it.
Thanks for the comment! Yeah we were gonna have a fight scene category as well but there’s so many good ones that they could have their own video with different sub categories within. This was originally going to be a “What was the hardest scene to film” but it ended up being huge and overwhelming while researching. So we’re breaking up into smaller parts that focus on the hardest things in film
@@FilmStack that makes perfect sense! Making these lists and then diving deep only to discover/rediscover so many examples of the joy of cinema can be so much fun! I know I do it plenty in casual conversation, I can only imagine it in your situation:) Stunts are possibly the most difficult category of filming... with the similar-level examples of locations and choreography. Russian Ark, for example... I simply cannot comprehend filming that. My brain just says "nope!"
I think the Tom ones get too much flicking between cameras and supportive CGI that mask the wholeness of the stunt. I’d have loved a career in stunts. Bound to end up with a horrific injury tho. We had no real inspiration as kids; but still happy to bend tree tops to make them meet, or jump off the sports hall roof. It’s living life.
Dude, the clock stunt of Buster Keaton is amazing indeed, but are you aware that it was filmed with forced perspective? The good old B wasn't more than a couple of meters above the floor.
As cool as it looked the Harold Lloyd clock stunt was achieved using forced perspective. Jackie Chan's take on it in Project A was a different matter altogether, @8:03 you only show the start of the fall, during the end credits of the movie they included the outtake where stunt went wrong and it's a doozy - can be seen here around the 1 04 mark th-cam.com/video/pNuK9I-TzgY/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Dr.Kimble
Buster Keaton has always blown my mind, because so much of his work was new territory at the time and without any real safety measures, and he was just like f it. Hold my gin rickey.
11:18 whenever I ask Google about the horses in Ben Hur (1959) it says that both films killed many horses, but I can’t confirm or deny this… so shrug 🤷🏽♀️ I guess.
Tom Cruise certainly is to be respected for his work ethic and stunt work. Just wish he wouldn't fluff up his big stunts with CGI. Takes away all raw/wow factor. EDIT: To be that guy, I'll just say Chan's skydive is from the first Armour of God. Operation Condor is the second movie 🤓
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HOW about making pointless dedrater video like the whole Celebrity voice acting thing!
Ok...so you are using Opera Aria to fact check your vids...Great! But who is fact-checking Aria exactly? How do you know it speaks the truth?
This is why Stunts deserve their own category at the Oscars
I think they are afraid to encourage them to compete as it will probably result in more injury and death.
They have their own award show. Taurus Awards.
Also who should get the award ? The performer, the stunt coordinator, both ?
And it would probalby also be difficult to rate car stunts against jumps or being lit on Fire
@@rocketmanthebest4697 that's kind of a good one because there's usually stunt "teams" with a leader/coordinator which are basically the entity that could be acknowledged, but the stunts aren't entirely up to them because you'll still have a director with a script and the producer with a budget determining what can be performed
Indian National film awards has "best action choreographer" awards
Respect for acknowledging the helicopter stunt work in that final chase sequence of T2. It sometimes gets overlooked in a film packed with action.
ooo! I loved it
The blades can create suction when close to a surface that can cause a crash, like the one carrying the Navy Seals on the Bin Laden raid.
@@tobiasmyers3505 Or like on the set of the movie the twilight zone
I feel like you could do 100 of these videos just on stuff Jackie Chan has done lol
Jackie and Buster are another breed.
TRUTH! 👍👍
That was more gonna be my answer. What was the hardest stunt? - Jackie Chan lol
That’s actually badass of James Cameron to shoot that helicopter scene himself. Bro wanted the shot, and he got the shot.
Jaw dropping. I’m going to rewatch and watch for the first time all the movies that you mentioned, thanks.
There's one honorobale mention Mick Foley. Jumping off the cell, falling through the middle, that was unplanned and he wanted to do it himself.
This was brilliantly put together.
Glued to the screen from start to finish.
I would love to see you cover choreography of different types, martial arts, sword fights, shootouts ect would be cool to see in your video style
40+ years ago, a world class stuntman named Dar Robinson broke the record for the highest freefall into a bag, nineteen stories. He did it for the movie _Sharkey's Machine_ . He deserves a mention.
honorable mention - Van Damme Volvo Truck commercial split
Yeah that was actually a cool story behind it to as i remember but i cant find the behind video anymore , only the commercial
The first time I saw that, I thought it was being projected in reverse.
@@Taranauwhat? 😂
The chariot racing scene in Ben-Hur was amazing! It's pretty crazy the circumstances in how that film got made. It had an unlimited budget and was a real do or die moment for the studio.
I know it’s already been covered by others but I’d love a full Jackie Chan video by filmstack
My cousin, Ian, is a stuntman and coordinator. He worked on many big blockbusters, including the plane stunt in Dark Knight Rises.
Interesting fact!
The sunt man that went over the chariot in Ben Hur is Joe Canutt the son of Yakima Canutt the man who went under the Stagecoach in Stagecoach.
Edit: great video DTW
Very well done giving Buster Keaton, Tom Cruise, and Jackie Chan their own section.
Michelle yeh actually did that motorcycle stunt. That’s hella impressive
Saw that tony jaa bit which is a nice recognition for such awesome stunts.
T2 helicopter chase is sick it shocks me how many reactors don’t seem to see it, I’m assuming they think it’s some kind of a trick like it’s on rails or it’s cgi but it’s real and so perfectly done that it adds to the film because it looks like a robot did it
On the Harold Lloyd stunt, when he was hanging off the clock look at his hand. His hand has fingers that are sticking up and not holding on. You'd think he's use all his fingers and he was. He had two prosthetic fingers because he lost two in an explosion in a previous movie. So he's actually only holding on with two fingers.
Geez that’s crazy!
Yep, but to be completely fair, he wasn't that high, they used matte painting, and the mattress was only 2 meters (6 feet) below his feet.
@@ian0_0z It wasn't a matte painting. They filmed on different rooftops with different heights along the same street (which is why the background keeps changing). But he was, at most, only 1 storey above a roof.
Pretty much anything Jackie Chan has done. He is the Guinness Book of Records for having broken the most bones of anyone and still be alive!
The cork screw bridge jump from the bond movie is still an amazing, spectacular jump. Beats any car jump before and after
Yep. Shame about the slide whistle.
great video, and props to the performers!
I love Stallone's jump from cliff to tree in "First Blood".
Because of technology and better safety the stunts have become grander and grander. But it would not be possible without Buster Keaton..
Great list! For vehicles, I think the safe drag scene from Fast Five deserved a nod.
Really nice. Also, shout-out to 1974 "Gone in 60 Seconds" for vehicles; the whole town became ad-hoc actors and many folks nearly died.
Jackie Chan’s guardian angel must be the most overworked person ever
Jackie's guardian angel is Buster Keaton. ;)
Tom Cruise couldn’t hold Jackie Chan’s jockstrap in a suitcase with a handcuff attached to it
Jackie a Living Lengend!!! Dudes tolerance for pain is insane... Salute🫡
Finally Buster Keaton gets talked about.
Jackie's always talked about Buster Keaton as his role model.
Finally? Where have you been?
The truck stunt in Sorcerer is insane
Tom did not fly the F18 was not allowed. Sat in the back of and mimicked the movements of the pilot.
The James Bond cork screw jump was the first to use computer design to calculate the ramp and trajectory, pretty much standard practice now.🤓
The Harold Lloyd stunt wasn't as bad as you think!
Rather than it being a complete building, he was climbing, a small set of the outside of the building, including clock was built on the roof of another building.
This was done to give the illusion that he was climbing the real thing as it was so high up.
Another lovely video. Very entertaining and interesting and well-made.
Thank you, it means a lot! 🥹
According to IMDb, it was Mike's brother Charles Tamburro who performed the under bridge flying scene. Mike did work on the movie (and sadly died in a helicopter crash in 1999), but did not do this particular stunt.
Bro gives dedication a whole new meaning!
That Roar movie is wild!
5:13 some would say it took _"a lot of loyalty for hired __-gun-__ stuntmen"_ for this one 🤭
Love this guy’s videos 🔥🔥
12:49 scene used visual effect when he said "without visual effect"
Great video, thanks!
I remember watching the Live and Let Die croc stunt when I was about 7 or 8 and could not figure out how they faked it (no animatronics in the 70s). Simple really, they didn't. They just tied the croc's bodies (to keep them in the proper spot) leaving the tail and head free to chomp on the stunt man.
The hardest stunt was Jackie Chan sliding down pole in Police Story
100% a contender and why we had to highlight it
@@FilmStack HOW about making pointless dedrater video like the whole Celebrity voice acting tread thing! you
The tree jumping one nearly ended him.
How do you figure? To slide down a pole isn't "hard" perse. I could slide down a pole and get injured too with no training at all. I'd say he's done a lot more "hard" stuff with just climbing up walls/hanging from helicopters etc.
That barrel roll with the old small car over the water in the bond movie is hard to beat in my opinion for car jumps. One take, before safety standards like today. Old car...small...way before fast and furious small...slow smol...😂
Honestly any buster keaton stunt. He was literally thrown as a toddler for his parents performance 😅
Great video. I appreciate that you didn't include any morally ambiguous examples, such as the chase scene in The French Connection. (You did of course mention the original Ben Hur film but only in reference to the superior, safer remake version)
The only one on this list that bothers me is the parkour scene. It's great, but it's so incredibly cut up that, at times, it feels almost like "Liam Neeson Jumping A Fence" level of editing. Give me long takes and cinematic, sweeping shots. Obviously I don't need the parkour scene to be a oner (though that'd be incredible) but that scene feels almost like the amazing Ronin car chase scenes where it's more of a scene than a specific stunt, if that makes sense.
And, of course, there's fight scenes, such as the stairwell scene in Atomic Blonde, but I suppose that is probably more cinematically impressive than stunt-specific impressive.
Again, great video, absolutely loved it.
Thanks for the comment! Yeah we were gonna have a fight scene category as well but there’s so many good ones that they could have their own video with different sub categories within. This was originally going to be a “What was the hardest scene to film” but it ended up being huge and overwhelming while researching. So we’re breaking up into smaller parts that focus on the hardest things in film
@@FilmStack that makes perfect sense!
Making these lists and then diving deep only to discover/rediscover so many examples of the joy of cinema can be so much fun! I know I do it plenty in casual conversation, I can only imagine it in your situation:)
Stunts are possibly the most difficult category of filming... with the similar-level examples of locations and choreography. Russian Ark, for example... I simply cannot comprehend filming that. My brain just says "nope!"
By the way as a Turkish person, Ben Hur is similiar to the word Ben Hür. Meaning "I Am Free"
I think the Tom ones get too much flicking between cameras and supportive CGI that mask the wholeness of the stunt.
I’d have loved a career in stunts. Bound to end up with a horrific injury tho. We had no real inspiration as kids; but still happy to bend tree tops to make them meet, or jump off the sports hall roof. It’s living life.
A great list but I do have to wonder- why was John Wick not mentioned?😕
Dude, the clock stunt of Buster Keaton is amazing indeed, but are you aware that it was filmed with forced perspective? The good old B wasn't more than a couple of meters above the floor.
As cool as it looked the Harold Lloyd clock stunt was achieved using forced perspective.
Jackie Chan's take on it in Project A was a different matter altogether, @8:03 you only show the start of the fall, during the end credits of the movie they included the outtake where stunt went wrong and it's a doozy - can be seen here around the 1 04 mark th-cam.com/video/pNuK9I-TzgY/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Dr.Kimble
Ross Kananga, a true Florida Man.
Buster Keaton has always blown my mind, because so much of his work was new territory at the time and without any real safety measures, and he was just like f it. Hold my gin rickey.
Who's Rickey?
@@GitarristSulan Lol. Depression era cocktail.
The French Connection is missed here.
Great video Thank you 👍👍🔥🔥
The halo jump was ruined by the cgi storm :(
I came to complain about no Buster Keaton thank you for making me wrong
Let's not forget the famous ice flow sequence that has Lillian Gish leaping for her life in "Way Down East." (1920)
11:18 whenever I ask Google about the horses in Ben Hur (1959) it says that both films killed many horses, but I can’t confirm or deny this… so shrug 🤷🏽♀️ I guess.
solid list
I always wondered how the Heli' chase scene in T2 was done.
Greenscreen „Stunts“ 😇
Buster Keaton was the OG.
What, no mention of the iconic Troma car flip and explosion?
Look up PM stunts, they did an airplane stunt in a movie called a sweeper
Every actor's stunt pale against Jackie Chan...
Tom Cruise absolutely did not fly an F18 in Maverick.
Dar Robinson ? Not here off the space needle ? Come on. Dar Robinson was old school no cables
never mention hooper in these videos about movie stunts
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Tom Cruise’s life is just insane
such a good video
the hardest one is the one that acctually killed the stunt, RIP
Fantastic
are we just gonna gloss over 100 horsey's lost their life for a stunt in a movie? 11:18
The iron man 3 plane scene surprised me that it wasn’t cgi. Nowadays they 100 percent would have made it as cgi
This video could all be jackie chan only..
what if when 2001 a space odyssey never released
Jet Li’s bamboo ladder fight has to be in here. They trained for months to get it right.
Ve Hic cular stunts. Never heard someone pronounce like that
Charlie Chaplin the GOAT
it hurts watching jackie chan
1 like to bro for the youtube algorithm
Nothing from the 80’s this list is bullshit. , Rambo. He jumped off the cliff himself …. This is for people who where born after 2000
Ai script?
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Tom Cruise certainly is to be respected for his work ethic and stunt work. Just wish he wouldn't fluff up his big stunts with CGI. Takes away all raw/wow factor.
EDIT: To be that guy, I'll just say Chan's skydive is from the first Armour of God. Operation Condor is the second movie 🤓