BBC News - Expendables 2 stuntman dies on set
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Expendables 2 stuntman dies on set
- Thread starter Wes R
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Oh man, that sucks 
We love seeing these movies with the explosions and gunfire and death defying drops, but the reality is for most everything we see, there is a guy literally putting his life on the line for that shot.
Reminds me of how Jackie Chan's doc told him "You take one more hit to the head, and you are dead."
Hope the injured guy gets better, and my condolences for the family of the one who was lost.
Chris
We love seeing these movies with the explosions and gunfire and death defying drops, but the reality is for most everything we see, there is a guy literally putting his life on the line for that shot.
Reminds me of how Jackie Chan's doc told him "You take one more hit to the head, and you are dead."
Hope the injured guy gets better, and my condolences for the family of the one who was lost.
Chris
IndyBlues
Sr Member
Ouch, lol!
Mike
Megamicrofish
Sr Member
Unfortunate for John Landis as his track record on safety is not great
Yep. too soon?
No, it´s not. Those guys are professionals and usually can pretty much tell what is safe and what isn´t.Oh man, that sucks
We love seeing these movies with the explosions and gunfire and death defying drops, but the reality is for most everything we see, there is a guy literally putting his life on the line for that shot.
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Chris
It´s very often pressure that is put on members of the team from the outside that makes things dangerous.
If a director wants something really bad, and everybody´s hurrying up to get that shot done, especially after a long day, then the guard goes down, making things dangerous.
Was this intentional? Ouch.
robstyle
Master Member
I asked a friend about this yesterday since he knows some of the people on the crew. What it was is a small boat getting its side blown out with stunt performers inside the boat. The way he worded it is it involved a smaller rubber landing boat as special forces would use and then he mentioned the metal boat so it sort of confused me. The explosion im told was done to blow the side of the metal boat out but it was too much and literally blew one guy up with the other guy nearly meeting the same fate. It was an accident, not pressured from anyone to perform as far as anyone is talking.
Techkman
New Member
That sounds horrible, I hope the other guy gets through it in one piece, still a horrible way to go for the stunt actor.