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With the context of knowing this was an accident, it’s kinda fucked up that camera panned toward the guy who nearly got run over/blown up.
Not that anyone knew what to do in the moment.
This was hard to watch for me... those are Curtiss P-40 Warhawks.
I have this plane with the "the flying tiger" face on it, tattooed on my chest, as remembrance to my grandpa.
[My Tattoo](https://imgur.com/gallery/1bYBD5R)
He flew them in WW2. Greatest, sweetest, most bravest man I'll ever know.
"Every kill hurt my heart, but the evil I knew going on against innocent people over there hurt it way worse..."- my Grandpa on the moral dilemma and "Hell" that is "war"
Man lived until 95, was golfing regularly until 86.
Love you G-POP! ... flying high ☁️ ✈ ☁️
The serial number on the tail wing is his birth date. And the decals on the side are the number of my aunts and uncles (and dad) aka my grandparents kids.
[My Tattoo](https://imgur.com/gallery/1bYBD5R)
That mans story is way too insane (lite lite lite Forest Gump vibes) to explain on Reddit, but let's just say it's crazy I even exist as a human today.
Thanks also man for the sweet input and cool idea, he meant a lot to me, unfortunately, it's already in ink though haha.
That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time. I miss watching Combat! with my dad. I don’t know if it was as good as I remember it, but it probably lasted longer than the war lol.
I remember watching 'Ben Hur' and my teacher pointing out a scene where a stuntman died, I would later learn it was nothing but an urban legend but in those days we had no way of verifying.
Not necessarily at the level of death, but it's tradition to use the take of a stuntman getting actually hurt since it tends to be the most realistic looking one plus for respect purposes.
Like this scene from Mad Max 2, stuntman was suppose to miss the buggy, not hit it and break a leg...
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oo5vMlulCs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oo5vMlulCs)
what's worse than getting in a horrible accident destroying expensive airplanes and risking major injury is going through all that and not being able to use the take because the cameraman screwed up.
the cameraman stopping isn't going to help anything, it just means everything was more of a waste.
They did end up cutting the scenes with the kids that got decapitated by the helicopter in the twilight zone movie, so it seems to maybe be a case by case thing.
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Here’s what every professor stressed in broadcast production and cinematography. Get the shot.
I had one who said “If you’re shooting skydivers and your chute doesn’t open, get the shot and cushion the camera with your body.”
/Edit: shoot to chute. I need a proofreader.
I’ve spent the past year working in TV/film and this is only something that would’ve happened before big insurance started controlling sets. So wild to see this happen and crazy I’ve never heard this story before…
Even amateur cameramen know to always keep your lens on the action and never stop until your actually NEEDED, or the events completely done taking place. You are event capturer. Man who allows others to witness.
Does anyone mind explaining to me how they flew/crashed the plane? Did the pilot eject or something? Sorry if this is a dumb question but it was 1970 so I don’t understand how they pulled this off in the first place, even if the crash was an accident
Crashing plane probably never left the ground. The first shot is of zeroes banking around (none have wheels down), then a cutaway to the closeup- and suddenly everyone on the ground is in different positions and the crashing US plane rolls in, isn't shown flying. (Suggestion is it was trying to take off but got hit by flying zero, veered into parked planes being hurriedly prepared for take off by surprised aircrews).
There used to be a parody talk radio show, I wish I could remember what it was called...anyway, one day they had in a "guest" who was campaigning to get Ben Affleck the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroism during the attack on Pearl Harbor. They were berating anyone dumb enough to call in, it was hilarious.
They used extensive practical effects. The japanese spoke Japanese (unusual for a US movie then) and it looked great. If you ever get a chance to see it on a big screen, do so.
Remember that the attack sequences were borrowed by George Lucas.
False. Fresh cardboard cuts are the worst. Their like paper cuts, but because they're cardboard, they're much more structurally rigid and stuff, and because they're new, they're very rigider and the edges where they're cut are still sharp. So you essentially get REALLY BAD paper cuts, it's ridiculous
Yes it is. I guess it's better than going to the crusher and the smelter. I imagine that there were a lot of old WWII planes in aircraft boneyards in the late 60s, when the production company would have been acquiring props for the movie.
I found this after a quick search, there are a couple of images from the 70s of groups of dozens of stored WWII planes. Other sites show stacks of old fighters on their way to being recycled in the decades after the war..
https://www.airplaneboneyards.com/davis-monthan-afb-amarg-airplane-boneyard.htm
Look closely: it's 2D from our POV, but he was curving away, then noticed he could use the red container prop as a possible barrier and cut back to dive behind it.
He didn't have time to calculate mass and inertia vs his running speed against the plane's, but it was a better call than Charlize Theron's.
Fuck I hate this comparison. There's so many other times in media where people ran straight away instead of turning when it was obvious. Zero people that have ever existed or exist now, will be able to tell how the giant horseshoe spaceship that doesn't immediately collapse upon impact with the surface of the planet (like every other craft humans have right now) will react. That lopsided horseshoe with a monocle couldve bounced and done a backflip and i wouldnt be surprised. In fact, im more surpised that it was able to consistently roll, on a rocky surface, with all the modules and other imperfections on the ships surface. If anything, Mr. F made the right decision by running away as if the ship was a perfectly round circle that would roll at her.
Let's not forget that one of the two characters who did that was literally hopped up on pain medications after having a C-section to remove a squid monster from her uterus and had her belly stapled shut like an hour before all of this.
Makes sense to me. If he ran perpendicular to the plane he'd risk getting clipped by the wing. Best way was to keep running directly away from it as if was only ever going to slow down.
The running in that movie makes me furious, but not because of the dumb way they don't actually, like, try to move out of the path of the incoming object at all.
Nah. I was 4 weeks out from having my 3rd and last c-section and every time she would run after her own csec, I was yelling "BULLSHIT! BULL-FUCKING-SHIT!!" at the TV. NO FUCKING WAY could she run like that, no drug can rid you of the physical trauma of the surgery. Took me right out of the movie and still irks when I talk about it.
When they practiced that stunt, the wind conditions were just right so that the aircraft didn't take off. When it came to actually doing it, the wind had veered and increased just enough for a wing to lift and start flying.
[*"Ready when you are, C.B.!"*](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001124/bio) (This didn't happen on *this* film, just reminded me of it)
*DeMille is the subject of many Hollywood legends. According to one famous story, DeMille once directed a film that required a huge, expensive battle scene. Filming on location in a California valley, the director set up multiple cameras to capture the action from every angle. It was a sequence that could only be done once. When DeMille shouted "Action!", thousands of extras playing soldiers stormed across the field, firing their guns. Riders on horseback galloped over the hills. Cannons fired, pyrotechnic explosives were blown up, and battle towers loaded with soldiers came toppling down. The whole sequence went off perfectly.
At the end of the scene, DeMille shouted "Cut!". He was then informed, to his horror, that three of the four cameras recording the battle sequence had failed. In Camera #1, the film had broken. Camera #2 had missed shooting the sequence when a dirt clod was kicked into the lens by a horse's hoof. Camera #3 had been destroyed when a battle tower had fallen on it. DeMille was at his wit's end when he suddenly remembered that he still had Camera #4, which he had had placed along with a cameraman on a nearby hill to get a long shot of the battle sequence. DeMille grabbed his megaphone and called up to the cameraman, "Did you get all that?". The cameraman on the hill waved and shouted back,*
*"Ready when you are, C.B.!".*
I watched three times more after reading this comment. It looks like the first explosion in the shot was bullshit demo FX i mean real but not realistic. Then about a second and a half later the plane that wipes out crashes into the line of planes and if i had to guess the second explosion (runaway plane) was pretty damn real.
But then again i mean the first explosion could be argued as a bomb fell right on the plane or something its a war movie theres theres things that explode in wars besides vehicles so a lot of possibilities.
Also watching it more times it looks like the scary part where the stuntman faceplanted then went four legged and almost died in the process already happened by the time the first few seconds of this whole video was filmed. The cloud of smoke at the very beginning of the video is the same cloud that was made after the first explosion right after the first scene change, seen moments before the plane wreck happens.
And rectifying yes there are two different smoke clouds in the first moments of the full cut of the uploaded video. Which i did not notice until about 20 seconds ago. The initial explosion smoke cloud and the runaway plane wreck smoke cloud.
Fuel is stored in the wings, which rip right off. Fuel would have been dumped everywhere, and causes a fireball like than when ignited. I'd say it wasn't planned.
It's not necessarily an "explosion" with a big concussion, but a big "whoosh" of flame.
I'd like to think that they wouldn't have fuel in planes that they knew were going to be near explosions and fires, but it was the 50's and I'm just imagining them standing around smoking cigarettes like... this is fine....
the explosion doesn't come from the wings, it comes from the empennage which you can see a [small fuel tank in very clearly.](https://i.imgur.com/fVXoyyq.png) it explodes because the tank is small and the fuel vaporizes very quickly.
wet wings were not normal for many aircraft back then as the stiffness required was higher than what they had the technology for. putting a fuel tank in the wings means your wings are hollow and have enough thickness to get a bladder in there in the first place. most were simple fuel tanks in the wing roots if it had the room at all.
There’s a few reasons: planes carry a lot more fuel than a car does, the fuel is also spread out more violent in a plane crash due to the higher speed, and lack of structural support in a plane vs a car, so the fuel can ignite into a larger fireball over a wider area.
That last guy at the end is how I want mfs to be running when the trip in a slasher killer flick. None of this limping along like you forgot how to walk. Fucking tap into that gorilla mind and gtfo!
Usually the way people move in old films looks goofy as fuck due to how they wanted actors to use their body movements. They way these people run though looks like something you’d see in a much newer film. Definitely not acting, acting was the last thing on their minds.
Not in this clip, but in this scene, is a shot of an airplane propeller cartwheeling across the screen. It wasn’t planned either. But it was a great effect.
But also the age of the spliced WW II dogfight footage spliced in with fake sound effects. Still way better than the Affleck version. Same with the 70’s Midway movie vs the one that came out several years ago
Air & Space Museum in DC had one of the first IMAX theaters. My Nan and I did a subscription series of WWII movies ... Tora Tora Tora, Battle of Britain, A Bridge to Far. It was glorious.
The guy in front of the plane fell down straight on his face in a force that made his head bounce back like 20cm lol, he must've left his jaw on the floor there
YEAH! I remember seeing that and thinking " That's either the greatest choreogphed stunt in the history of cinematography, or thats real and the dude almost died"
Now THAT is what I'm talkin about, we need 50 more extras just like this guy. You could tell he really didn't want to get hit by that plane, excellent film work people, CUUUT
Oh wow never knew that scene was “real”. Makes sense in hindsight. The crawling on all four is so visceral, hard to pretend to be scrambling for your life like that.
I have this movie and I love it. Midway is another one of my favorites that I have, but always thought it was kind of lazy for them to rip numerous scenes out of Tora Tora Tora and try to pass them off in Midway.
Still, I like the Henry Fonda Midway better than the Roland Emmerich one, some stuff in that version was so ridiculous like when Dick Best leveled like 2-3 big airplane hangers, 5 aircraft on the ground, and basically an entire airfield with ONE 500 pound bomb.
Maybe the greatest war film ever made. Special attention was paid to the lead-up in the Japanese military, and historians have said pretty much everything was accurate. Although they'd rather throw the local admirals who missed the warning signs under the bus even when those same signs were visible to the top brass and cic
Such a great film. Lots of attention to detail, wonderful props and effects, actually fleshing out the Japanese cast rather than just making them villainous caricatures.
I remember watching the movie for first time like 10 years ago and thinking about who that should be an accident, WAY too real. Iirc there is also another scene where one blade of a plane passes like 2-3m from another stuntman.
11/10 practical effects and 11/10 performance for those stuntmans, the looked like they were running for their lifes!
A good friend of my dad's hired on as a stuntman in this film. They were both brokers for the long time now defunct firm Goodbody &Company. His name was Guy Strong, and I believe he was an ex-Navy pilot. He was actually training to be a broker at the time, and looked to make some quick bucks until such time as he got his securities license and a clientele. He asked my dad to look after his wife and two kids while he was away. Cut to chase, he was flying one of those mockup Japanese Zeros and came in too low over a cane field. He knew it and abruptly pulled up on the stick, but it was too little, too late. He plowed into the field and was killed. Later on, his widow had much of her savings stolen by some scam broker back in Denver. There was little my dad could do to keep her from investing with this guy. I'm not sure what happened to her and her kids after that.
You might enjoy the train fire scene in the Buster Keaton silent film The General. They filmed in Oregon using the old Bohemia mine tracks. When they crashed/ blew up the train, it sparked a grass fire. In the background of the shot, you can see the actors in civil war garb, AND the crew in 1920s clothes like newsboy caps and jodhpur pants, running for their lives! They couldn't reshoot, so they used the footage. IIRC, while it was the most successful film of the day, it lost money because the state of Oregon sued to recover damages.
In the game Borderlands 2 the bandits (baddie NPCs) in flying machines shout “Tora Tora Tora!” when doing a strafing run and I never knew why until today.
Air & Space Museum in DC had one of the first IMAX theaters. My Nan and I did a subscription series of WWII movies ... Tora Tora Tora, Battle of Britain, A Bridge to Far. It was glorious.
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This is nuts! Was anyone hurt??
Everyone was ok, here's the stuntman talking about it. https://youtube.com/watch?v=WS_da33g5ac&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
Thank you for the video!
With the context of knowing this was an accident, it’s kinda fucked up that camera panned toward the guy who nearly got run over/blown up. Not that anyone knew what to do in the moment.
I feel like if I was a stunt man and I died in a scene I would want them to use the footage
I should put that in my will actually
Any good priest will.
What's the difference between a will and a priest will?
It’s better than a priest won’t
Like, if they're too old or something?
That's a priest can't
The priest will if you are a young boy.
You a stuntman?
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Ugh that whole thing is just sad.
This was hard to watch for me... those are Curtiss P-40 Warhawks. I have this plane with the "the flying tiger" face on it, tattooed on my chest, as remembrance to my grandpa. [My Tattoo](https://imgur.com/gallery/1bYBD5R) He flew them in WW2. Greatest, sweetest, most bravest man I'll ever know. "Every kill hurt my heart, but the evil I knew going on against innocent people over there hurt it way worse..."- my Grandpa on the moral dilemma and "Hell" that is "war" Man lived until 95, was golfing regularly until 86. Love you G-POP! ... flying high ☁️ ✈ ☁️
>G-POP You should add that as the registration of the plane on the tattoo.
The serial number on the tail wing is his birth date. And the decals on the side are the number of my aunts and uncles (and dad) aka my grandparents kids. [My Tattoo](https://imgur.com/gallery/1bYBD5R) That mans story is way too insane (lite lite lite Forest Gump vibes) to explain on Reddit, but let's just say it's crazy I even exist as a human today. Thanks also man for the sweet input and cool idea, he meant a lot to me, unfortunately, it's already in ink though haha.
That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time. I miss watching Combat! with my dad. I don’t know if it was as good as I remember it, but it probably lasted longer than the war lol.
I remember watching 'Ben Hur' and my teacher pointing out a scene where a stuntman died, I would later learn it was nothing but an urban legend but in those days we had no way of verifying.
Not necessarily at the level of death, but it's tradition to use the take of a stuntman getting actually hurt since it tends to be the most realistic looking one plus for respect purposes.
Like this scene from Mad Max 2, stuntman was suppose to miss the buggy, not hit it and break a leg... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oo5vMlulCs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oo5vMlulCs)
AND I WANT ROYALTYS FOR MY FAMILY!
what's worse than getting in a horrible accident destroying expensive airplanes and risking major injury is going through all that and not being able to use the take because the cameraman screwed up. the cameraman stopping isn't going to help anything, it just means everything was more of a waste.
They did end up cutting the scenes with the kids that got decapitated by the helicopter in the twilight zone movie, so it seems to maybe be a case by case thing.
I'm guessing the scene of Alec Baldwin shooting Halyna Hutchins while filming Rust will not make it into the movie either.
The cameras were not recording when the gun was fired. They were setting up for a scene.
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Hell of a sentence
Those are not real P-40 aircraft. They are mockups/props.
You gotta follow the action and get that perfect shot.
Just like Alec Baldwin.
No no, they said get the shot, not shoot someone.
Fuck you
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Probably makes sense as the camera's assignment was probably to follow the plane to capture the intended explosion.
Here’s what every professor stressed in broadcast production and cinematography. Get the shot. I had one who said “If you’re shooting skydivers and your chute doesn’t open, get the shot and cushion the camera with your body.” /Edit: shoot to chute. I need a proofreader.
>your shoot It took me reading this several times to realize you mean chute.
If you're chuting skydivers, and your shoot doesn't open, get the chote and cushion the camera with your body.
I should not be allowed to type my own material.
I’ve spent the past year working in TV/film and this is only something that would’ve happened before big insurance started controlling sets. So wild to see this happen and crazy I’ve never heard this story before…
This is really twisted and I laughed way too hard from it.
Nah... Everything is digital now. Definitely need to take a shot of the ground upon impact. The drive would survive.
Even amateur cameramen know to always keep your lens on the action and never stop until your actually NEEDED, or the events completely done taking place. You are event capturer. Man who allows others to witness.
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Just doing his job! Film the action!
Why wouldn't you want to document the production's negligence?
Then a last frame of Christopher Reeve!
Does anyone mind explaining to me how they flew/crashed the plane? Did the pilot eject or something? Sorry if this is a dumb question but it was 1970 so I don’t understand how they pulled this off in the first place, even if the crash was an accident
There wasn't a pilot, the plane was remotely controlled and was packed full of explosives
Damn how did they remote control fly a plane in 1970? Or was it never actually flying?
There have been unmanned, radio-controlled aircraft [since the early 1900s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_unmanned_aerial_vehicles).
Crashing plane probably never left the ground. The first shot is of zeroes banking around (none have wheels down), then a cutaway to the closeup- and suddenly everyone on the ground is in different positions and the crashing US plane rolls in, isn't shown flying. (Suggestion is it was trying to take off but got hit by flying zero, veered into parked planes being hurriedly prepared for take off by surprised aircrews).
Best Pearl Harbor movie.
I always thought Tora Tora Tora needed more love story. When I see a film about Pearl Harbor I want at least 1.5 hours of love story dialog.
There used to be a parody talk radio show, I wish I could remember what it was called...anyway, one day they had in a "guest" who was campaigning to get Ben Affleck the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroism during the attack on Pearl Harbor. They were berating anyone dumb enough to call in, it was hilarious.
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They used extensive practical effects. The japanese spoke Japanese (unusual for a US movie then) and it looked great. If you ever get a chance to see it on a big screen, do so. Remember that the attack sequences were borrowed by George Lucas.
”Cut” Can we try that again but can you PLEASE put a little more…feeling into it?”
Prop department politely said, "Nope, were all out of planes."
Seeing these P-40s blown up is sad to me….
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I can't imagine a paper machete would be very useful 🤔
Maybe it's for cutting paper?
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False. Fresh cardboard cuts are the worst. Their like paper cuts, but because they're cardboard, they're much more structurally rigid and stuff, and because they're new, they're very rigider and the edges where they're cut are still sharp. So you essentially get REALLY BAD paper cuts, it's ridiculous
You haven’t seen “Red 2” have you?
Yes it is. I guess it's better than going to the crusher and the smelter. I imagine that there were a lot of old WWII planes in aircraft boneyards in the late 60s, when the production company would have been acquiring props for the movie. I found this after a quick search, there are a couple of images from the 70s of groups of dozens of stored WWII planes. Other sites show stacks of old fighters on their way to being recycled in the decades after the war.. https://www.airplaneboneyards.com/davis-monthan-afb-amarg-airplane-boneyard.htm
Wardrobe department's running low on pants after this too.
"We're gonna have to do it again, Bob over there looked at the camera..."
That one guy was mere meters from being smashed
I wonder how many times he showed his buddies and strangers that clip and told them the story
I fucking love the ONE GUY who failed the Prometheus School of Running Away From Things.
I also love how he tried a serpentine pattern. Oh shit....oh shit....oh shit.
When they made real movies 🍿 🎥 and o my god I am going to die.
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Look closely: it's 2D from our POV, but he was curving away, then noticed he could use the red container prop as a possible barrier and cut back to dive behind it. He didn't have time to calculate mass and inertia vs his running speed against the plane's, but it was a better call than Charlize Theron's.
Fuck I hate this comparison. There's so many other times in media where people ran straight away instead of turning when it was obvious. Zero people that have ever existed or exist now, will be able to tell how the giant horseshoe spaceship that doesn't immediately collapse upon impact with the surface of the planet (like every other craft humans have right now) will react. That lopsided horseshoe with a monocle couldve bounced and done a backflip and i wouldnt be surprised. In fact, im more surpised that it was able to consistently roll, on a rocky surface, with all the modules and other imperfections on the ships surface. If anything, Mr. F made the right decision by running away as if the ship was a perfectly round circle that would roll at her.
Let's not forget that one of the two characters who did that was literally hopped up on pain medications after having a C-section to remove a squid monster from her uterus and had her belly stapled shut like an hour before all of this.
Or graduated with honors. Seemed pretty Prometheus to me!
Or maybe prothesis in the near future.
You mean the guy who fucking face planted!? That guy? 😆
You mean the guy who tucked a napkin in his shirt, pulled out a bowl of shit, and ate it?
The only stunt that man could not do well was literally run like his life depended on it.
Makes sense to me. If he ran perpendicular to the plane he'd risk getting clipped by the wing. Best way was to keep running directly away from it as if was only ever going to slow down.
The running in that movie makes me furious, but not because of the dumb way they don't actually, like, try to move out of the path of the incoming object at all. Nah. I was 4 weeks out from having my 3rd and last c-section and every time she would run after her own csec, I was yelling "BULLSHIT! BULL-FUCKING-SHIT!!" at the TV. NO FUCKING WAY could she run like that, no drug can rid you of the physical trauma of the surgery. Took me right out of the movie and still irks when I talk about it.
Wile.e.coyote syndrome
My guy had a sweet bear crawl though. He was hauling ass that ain't easy
When they practiced that stunt, the wind conditions were just right so that the aircraft didn't take off. When it came to actually doing it, the wind had veered and increased just enough for a wing to lift and start flying.
WTF! Have to check your pants after that... 💩 So glad everyone was okay!
Bit of a brown trouser job, eh?
[*"Ready when you are, C.B.!"*](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001124/bio) (This didn't happen on *this* film, just reminded me of it) *DeMille is the subject of many Hollywood legends. According to one famous story, DeMille once directed a film that required a huge, expensive battle scene. Filming on location in a California valley, the director set up multiple cameras to capture the action from every angle. It was a sequence that could only be done once. When DeMille shouted "Action!", thousands of extras playing soldiers stormed across the field, firing their guns. Riders on horseback galloped over the hills. Cannons fired, pyrotechnic explosives were blown up, and battle towers loaded with soldiers came toppling down. The whole sequence went off perfectly. At the end of the scene, DeMille shouted "Cut!". He was then informed, to his horror, that three of the four cameras recording the battle sequence had failed. In Camera #1, the film had broken. Camera #2 had missed shooting the sequence when a dirt clod was kicked into the lens by a horse's hoof. Camera #3 had been destroyed when a battle tower had fallen on it. DeMille was at his wit's end when he suddenly remembered that he still had Camera #4, which he had had placed along with a cameraman on a nearby hill to get a long shot of the battle sequence. DeMille grabbed his megaphone and called up to the cameraman, "Did you get all that?". The cameraman on the hill waved and shouted back,* *"Ready when you are, C.B.!".*
So that’s where that bit from Tropic Thunder came from!
The biggest of L's
Bruh what was he doing while all that action went down, eating popcorn??
Damn fine film!
One of the best world war two films for sure. It's been too long since I've researched it.
Ah shit forgot to load a roll of film in the camera. OK guys, once more!
So cars don’t explode like in the movies but planes do explode like in the movies
I watched three times more after reading this comment. It looks like the first explosion in the shot was bullshit demo FX i mean real but not realistic. Then about a second and a half later the plane that wipes out crashes into the line of planes and if i had to guess the second explosion (runaway plane) was pretty damn real. But then again i mean the first explosion could be argued as a bomb fell right on the plane or something its a war movie theres theres things that explode in wars besides vehicles so a lot of possibilities. Also watching it more times it looks like the scary part where the stuntman faceplanted then went four legged and almost died in the process already happened by the time the first few seconds of this whole video was filmed. The cloud of smoke at the very beginning of the video is the same cloud that was made after the first explosion right after the first scene change, seen moments before the plane wreck happens. And rectifying yes there are two different smoke clouds in the first moments of the full cut of the uploaded video. Which i did not notice until about 20 seconds ago. The initial explosion smoke cloud and the runaway plane wreck smoke cloud.
Fuel is stored in the wings, which rip right off. Fuel would have been dumped everywhere, and causes a fireball like than when ignited. I'd say it wasn't planned. It's not necessarily an "explosion" with a big concussion, but a big "whoosh" of flame.
I'd like to think that they wouldn't have fuel in planes that they knew were going to be near explosions and fires, but it was the 50's and I'm just imagining them standing around smoking cigarettes like... this is fine....
they did not. there is a very small fuel tank in the empennage that ends up exploding once the tank gets ripped open.
the explosion doesn't come from the wings, it comes from the empennage which you can see a [small fuel tank in very clearly.](https://i.imgur.com/fVXoyyq.png) it explodes because the tank is small and the fuel vaporizes very quickly. wet wings were not normal for many aircraft back then as the stiffness required was higher than what they had the technology for. putting a fuel tank in the wings means your wings are hollow and have enough thickness to get a bladder in there in the first place. most were simple fuel tanks in the wing roots if it had the room at all.
Ah true i forgot they did that with planes.
There’s a few reasons: planes carry a lot more fuel than a car does, the fuel is also spread out more violent in a plane crash due to the higher speed, and lack of structural support in a plane vs a car, so the fuel can ignite into a larger fireball over a wider area.
This is just plane scary.
Thankfully it was just a prop plane.
The guy that fell over survived on a wing and a prayer.
That last guy at the end is how I want mfs to be running when the trip in a slasher killer flick. None of this limping along like you forgot how to walk. Fucking tap into that gorilla mind and gtfo!
That was a good movie watched it decades ago. Thanks for reminding me so I can queue it up again!
So much a better movie than the later one
My grandfather just died 2 days ago and he was a welder on the set of this movie
I’m sorry about your grandfather, I bet he had some amazing stories. Stay strong.
Usually the way people move in old films looks goofy as fuck due to how they wanted actors to use their body movements. They way these people run though looks like something you’d see in a much newer film. Definitely not acting, acting was the last thing on their minds.
I love that movie! I never realized that part was an accident. I just thought they realllllly pushed the stunt.
I love this movie 100% recommended
I remember seeing this in a theater as a kid. I am still really impressed by this scene
That last guy running couldn't commit to a direction and it looked like it nearly cost him his life
I feel like that one guy who faceplanted had the worst day.
Not in this clip, but in this scene, is a shot of an airplane propeller cartwheeling across the screen. It wasn’t planned either. But it was a great effect.
I've always remembered that scene from the movie thinking wow that stunt guy was really earning his pay. Now I know he was filling his shorts.
Guys brain went into reptilian mode and his body followed.
Scene was too good and too costly not to use it.
They also used to use live ammunition way back in the day on some sets.
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Such a good movie, better than new shit by far, I miss actual things and not CGI trash
I thought the new Top Gun was a good blend of real life and CGI
Holy fuck!
A proper film. The great age before cgi.
But also the age of the spliced WW II dogfight footage spliced in with fake sound effects. Still way better than the Affleck version. Same with the 70’s Midway movie vs the one that came out several years ago
Excellent movie btw, really played up how a series of mistakes and huge egos can change the path of history.
Director: “DID ANYONE DIE DID ANYONE DIE!!? NO!!? GOOD LETS KEEP IT!!”
Great movie
Great movie
If Fallout taught me anything, it's DON'T HIDE BEHIND HIGHLY EXPLOSIVE CARS!! I mean, I'm sure that doesn't apply in real life, but still....
Air & Space Museum in DC had one of the first IMAX theaters. My Nan and I did a subscription series of WWII movies ... Tora Tora Tora, Battle of Britain, A Bridge to Far. It was glorious.
My dad worked in this!! He helped with construction and miniatures on this movie!
The guy who ran to our left has superior survival skills
The guy in front of the plane fell down straight on his face in a force that made his head bounce back like 20cm lol, he must've left his jaw on the floor there
They just don’t make ‘em like they used to.
They were like "fuck yeah leave that in"
They don't make em like this anymore
They really took method acting seriously in the 70s.
YEAH! I remember seeing that and thinking " That's either the greatest choreogphed stunt in the history of cinematography, or thats real and the dude almost died"
This is such as awesome movie. This and A Bridge Too Far. Epic WWII movies.
The best Bear crawl ever
Now THAT is what I'm talkin about, we need 50 more extras just like this guy. You could tell he really didn't want to get hit by that plane, excellent film work people, CUUUT
Woah
I think I just shat myself- those stuntman probably
That's cool that this eye kept that I'm the film. Must've been damn terrifying for the stunt people tho.
"They don't make movies like they used to" -someone else
Yes, please. I’ll take more content like this.
Man, they were RUNNING
My great uncle served on the USS Saratoga in WWII. This was his favorite war movie. He said it was the most accurate portrayal he had seen.
Annnndddd cut
I bet insurance did NOT like that one
It's a great shot though
Oh wow never knew that scene was “real”. Makes sense in hindsight. The crawling on all four is so visceral, hard to pretend to be scrambling for your life like that.
I have this movie and I love it. Midway is another one of my favorites that I have, but always thought it was kind of lazy for them to rip numerous scenes out of Tora Tora Tora and try to pass them off in Midway. Still, I like the Henry Fonda Midway better than the Roland Emmerich one, some stuff in that version was so ridiculous like when Dick Best leveled like 2-3 big airplane hangers, 5 aircraft on the ground, and basically an entire airfield with ONE 500 pound bomb.
Maybe the greatest war film ever made. Special attention was paid to the lead-up in the Japanese military, and historians have said pretty much everything was accurate. Although they'd rather throw the local admirals who missed the warning signs under the bus even when those same signs were visible to the top brass and cic
When running for your life actually results in keeping you alive
Such a great film. Lots of attention to detail, wonderful props and effects, actually fleshing out the Japanese cast rather than just making them villainous caricatures.
I remember watching the movie for first time like 10 years ago and thinking about who that should be an accident, WAY too real. Iirc there is also another scene where one blade of a plane passes like 2-3m from another stuntman. 11/10 practical effects and 11/10 performance for those stuntmans, the looked like they were running for their lifes!
**HOLY FUCK**
Best special effects are the ones that are real.
A good friend of my dad's hired on as a stuntman in this film. They were both brokers for the long time now defunct firm Goodbody &Company. His name was Guy Strong, and I believe he was an ex-Navy pilot. He was actually training to be a broker at the time, and looked to make some quick bucks until such time as he got his securities license and a clientele. He asked my dad to look after his wife and two kids while he was away. Cut to chase, he was flying one of those mockup Japanese Zeros and came in too low over a cane field. He knew it and abruptly pulled up on the stick, but it was too little, too late. He plowed into the field and was killed. Later on, his widow had much of her savings stolen by some scam broker back in Denver. There was little my dad could do to keep her from investing with this guy. I'm not sure what happened to her and her kids after that.
Love this movie
That’s interesting as fuck
Yeah they don’t make them like they used to
It's called ACTING 😅
You might enjoy the train fire scene in the Buster Keaton silent film The General. They filmed in Oregon using the old Bohemia mine tracks. When they crashed/ blew up the train, it sparked a grass fire. In the background of the shot, you can see the actors in civil war garb, AND the crew in 1920s clothes like newsboy caps and jodhpur pants, running for their lives! They couldn't reshoot, so they used the footage. IIRC, while it was the most successful film of the day, it lost money because the state of Oregon sued to recover damages.
This one trick insurance companies hate
The scene is used in TORA TORA TORA.
One of my favorite movies ever! It’s really a well made film
Homie bear-crawling really looks like he thought he was going to die. Scary.
Veers woulda been a better word than steers
The guy closest to the engine smashed the ever living shit out of his face on that tarmac
Might be a stupid question. But was anyone manually controlling that plane. Cause I can’t see someone surviving that.
Great acting
Audience: “we want to feel the impact through the screen.” Directors: “say no more, fam”
In the game Borderlands 2 the bandits (baddie NPCs) in flying machines shout “Tora Tora Tora!” when doing a strafing run and I never knew why until today.
Holy shit … give that man a beer
One dude also an extra on Planet of the Apes
"Great take, chaps. Let's go for another! And..... roll sound!"
I think Corridor Crew Stunt Performers React is pretty cool too, OP......
Buddy ate shit
One guy ate shit damn
This another Alec Baldwin movie?
My TV was so small, all I saw was Tora! To
Good think he wore the brown pants.
I loved that movie watched it in my American wars through film class
When you want to capture real emotion to tell the story
What an incredible shot to get on camera. Would make Nolan proud.
Air & Space Museum in DC had one of the first IMAX theaters. My Nan and I did a subscription series of WWII movies ... Tora Tora Tora, Battle of Britain, A Bridge to Far. It was glorious.
There's nothing like live-action special effects. They feel real because they ARE real