I can't really find an answer anywhere (maybe I just don't know the right choice of words to search for it), but did the guy with the push-broom that got hit by the bike during the car chase survive? his landing looks really bad, especially in frame-by-frame.
...anyone know?
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I'm glad someone else has noticed my favourite stuntman of all time!
Sadly I can't answer your question, but he deserves a medal for that fall. It was so realistic! He flops over like a ragdoll and lands so hard on his head. Absolutely brilliant!
everytime I see that fall I cringe. Just looks too painful
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Someone had mentioned this film in another post elsewhere on imdb and I immediately thought of that very scene as my friends and I have wondered the same thing for years (since we saw the Japanese dubbed version 'Project Eagle' around maybe 1994 or '95). It's got to be one of the greatest stunt falls ever...if the guy lived.
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I just watched this again last night. The fall is absolutely brutal, but who knows if the wheel catching the broom was part of the plan?
Considering some of the other insane moments in the film (Chan landing inches from the wind tunnel propeller and his near decapitation by the the tilting panels chief among them), it's possible it was planned, but the outcome wasn't. Even when beautifully executed, you can always tell a jump from a fall, but this guy's leg muscles barely twitched before his face was on the ground.
If it's any consolation to those perturbed by the impact, this shot, like some others in the chase sequence, was slightly under-cranked, so the impact would appear a little faster on film than it really would have been.
On a similar note, I've always been horrified by the moment in The Accidental Spy when the hood of the crashed car accidentally falls on one of the Korean guy's fingers. Anyone remember it? I swear he must have lost at least the tips of his fingers...
You have to remember its a film. It could be a well executed stunt.
People do dances where if they fail they can fall like that and their perfectly fine and can get up again and continue dancing. For a stunt man it would be a piece of cake, maybe a bit of a headache.
You'd be surprised at the limits our bodies can go to.
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Seems that stuntman is known world wide for landing on his head like that! There's no way it was planned like that, the guy looks like he crippled himself, but he's still immortal to nerds like us who love that fall
sharehe was supposed to do a full flip but he didn't complete the rotation fast enough before hitting the ground, so his head hit and dragged a bit. He was probably fine, maybe a few bruises and aches. It's normal for his line of work. There is absolutely no way he died. it's not THAT bad, and plus that would be disrespectful and awful to include someones actual death in a short action sequence. It would of been cut. Also, just look at Police story when the two stuntmen miss their mark and fall from a double decker bus onto the concrete. They lived, and that was much worse.
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"and plus that would be disrespectful and awful to include someone’s actual death in a short action sequence"
Seemingly not so, in another Jackie film; Heart of the Dragon, there is an explosion scene in which a group of stuntmen are blown from a construction site. I think three die, and the scene is kept in.
I think there is a zatoichi film in which Katsu Shin's son accidentally runs someone through with a sword killing him and they kept it in.
Asian cinema was quite extreme in the past. The reason Jackie didn't start making American films until quite late in life was because no insurance company would touch him in America, and because of the unions you can't really work without insurance.
More to the point, I think push broom guy is one of Jackie’s regulars, I'm sure his does a back flip out of a cafe window in police story 2.
did you ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?