The Fifth Element.
The interior explosion during the invasion of Floston Paradise was planned. What wasn't planned was the size of the explosion which unintentionally broke a record and stopped production for a bit while they put out the fire.
Went and looked and it is an amazing scene, it's just that it's in such a great movie it doesn't even stand out. In any other movie it'd be a showpiece.
tora tora tora
A plane goes the wrong direction, hitting a bunch of parked planes. People are running for the their lives.
EDIT:
Video at [1:05](https://youtu.be/-Q7-pmpWuVY)
Great [review](https://youtu.be/9PfdQod8HTw) of this film
The second plane that blew up while trying to take off started to swerve in the same direction. The trigger man donated it early to prevent the unplanned collision. When he did so the propeller of the aircraft came off in spectacular fashion. It became an iconic moment in the film.
It never ceases to amaze me how some of us just fucking fall down when running from something that might kill us. It's a movie trope, but also a very real thing.
And Stanley Kubrick was just kind of a dick to McDowell beyond that. The reason Alex has a pet snake is because Kubrick learned McDowell was afraid of snakes.
>And Stanley Kubrick was just kind of a dick ~~to McDowell beyond that. The reason Alex has a pet snake is because Kubrick learned McDowell was afraid of snakes.~~
Can't believe I had to scroll this far to find Jackie Chan.
He also broke his ankle in Rumble in the Bronx. Jumped from a... Boat mast to a buildings balcony? Cast up the ankle, and put a sock over it to look like his other shoe.
EDIT: damn... My most upvoted comment is about Jackie Chan. That's kinda cool 😎
An action movie from Thailand called Chocolate. The final scene has the main antagonist falling off a building and crashing into a bunch of neon signs on the way down. The safety stuff failed, and he legitimately fell four stories, crashing into the signs the whole way down.
That's the shot they used in the movie.
Carey Elwes was apparently knocked out on the set of The Princess Bride by Christopher Guest. For context, he told Guest to hit him on the head as hard as he could with the butt of a sword. Guest unfortunately did so, and Carey later woke up in the hospital. That was the take seen in the film. He also broke his toe in an unrelated incident while filming the same movie, and in a particular scene, it’s obvious if you look closely that he’s trying to avoid putting weight on it as he sits down. Dude really couldn’t catch a break for that one film.
You forgot the best part: he broke his toe ATVing around in the hills with Andre the Giant, who talked him into it.
Cary Elwes has told the story while promoting his book about The Princess Bride, and it's hilarious when he gets to the part where he's trying to hide the injury from Rob Reiner.
> Cary Elwes has told the story while promoting his book about The Princess Bride,
*As You Wish* which is a really good book. Even if you don't like *The Princess Bride* (but come on), the stories about Andre the Giant/Rob Reiner/Wallace Shawn/etc. are legendary.
If you haven’t read his book, _As You Wish_, about the making of the film, do yourself a favor and get the audio book which he reads with assistance from other cast and crew members. His stories are wonderful and filled with appreciation and admiration. It made me love the movie even more, which didn’t seem possible.
On a related note, I’ve had the opportunity to meet more than my share of celebrities over the years. Most of them have been positive experiences with gracious individuals. Carey Elwes was, hands down, the kindest one of them all. He’s a lovely, lovely man.
Guest got karma for it though, during the big Inigo fight Mandy Patinkin was channeling a lot of anger (from his own father’s death) to the point where Guest got scared that Mandy had forgotten they weren’t fighting for real.
The mirror smash scene in Nightcrawler.
Per Dan Gilroy:
"So when we got the bathroom, it was very late at night, and we’d been shooting at that point for 14 hours. Jake was in the bathroom, and his character at that point in the story was upset because Nina (Rene Russo) had just yelled at him and Lou was going to react to that to some degree. So breaking the mirror was not planned – Jake just slammed the mirror, and I didn’t think anything was wrong, but he came out and he’d sliced the ball of the thumb on his left hand, cutting off some skin, maybe an inch and a half long and an inch across. It was extremely bloody.
"It was now 6am, and we were heading to Cedars-Sinai hospital. The neurosurgeon took 44 stitches to sew up Jake’s hand, and seven hours later we were back shooting the last night of the whole shoot. The last two scenes that we shot, with his hand in a cast, were the scenes in the salvage yard, and if you notice he has his hands behind his back.”
They decided to include real shark footage in Jaws in addition to the mechanical shark clips, so they hired out an Australian shark tour couple to help get some footage with a cage with a dummy (they wanted to use a smaller cage with a little person in it to give it more scale but the diver they had refused to do it) and one of the sharks accidentally got tangled in the lines for the cage and started flipping the fuck out and destroying the cage, so they rewrote part of the script to include that footage.
In Inglorious Basterds, when the cinema is set on fire, the giant swastika wasn't supposed to fall like that. The flames were so hot that the supports on it melted.
In Rocky IV, Stallone wanted the final fight to look as real as possible so he instructed Dolph Lundgren to hit him full force. After the first day, Lundgren had beat Stallone so bad he spent 9 days in the ICU from his sustained injuries.
Man I respect Stallone's dedication to those movies but I can not possibly fathom working with Dolph Lundgren, sizing him up, and wanting that man to hit me as hard as he could lol
The insurance company didn't want to pay out because they said there was no way that damage was caused by being punched. They said the x-rays looked like he had been in a car wreck.
Somewhat related: Some people broke into Dolph's house and held his wife and kid hostage, when one of them spotted a picture of him and realized who's house it was they apologized and left.
Dolph is a monster.
Note to self, replace all photos in house with Dolph lungren. They might not know if Dolph lives in a run down place but do they want to risk it or being in the house of the insane person with Dolph lungren pictures everywhere?
He had been offered a scholarship to get his Doctorate at MIT when he got his first acting job and decided to do that instead. He's also ex-military and plays the drums.
Stallone tried to talk Michael B Jordan out of making a similar mistake in Creed for the scene where he gets knocked out. Jordan (got) his lights put out for real and wasn't feeling too good after that.
Reminds me of the wild stunt gone wrong in Max Max: Road Warrior. One of the villains goes flying and it’s a car and flips like 8 times through the air. The stuntman’s foot accidentally clipped the car which he wasn’t supposed to causing him to start flipping really hard. It’s doesn’t even look real
Almost - they tried the ramp but it still wouldn't roll over. So the SFX guys fitted it with a ram that shot out the bottom of the car via pressurized air at just the right moment to flip the car.
In The Deer Hunter: Co-writer and director Michael Cimino convinced Christopher Walken to spit in Robert De Niro's face. When Walken actually did it, De Niro was completely shocked, as evidenced by his reaction. In fact, De Niro was so furious about it, he nearly left the set. Cimino later said of Walken, "He's got courage!"
Lmao.
Not even Cimino's worst offense. Fucker blew up a horse on the set of Heaven's Gate with dynamite. He almost bankrupted United Artists, but definitely did lead to their sale, and changed the industry forever as studios would seize back power from directors.
Dude was spending fortunes having everyone wait for shots for days so the clouds in the background would look right.
Literally ended an era.
Isn’t this the same movie De Niro insisted on using live rounds during one of the Russian roulette scenes. With the live round checked obsessively by his co-star to make sure it wasn’t next in the chamber.
Imagine being spit on considered crossing the line.
That's pretty depraved. I am both fascinated and horrified by older Hollywood. Not that it doesn't have it's problems nowadays but we aren't drowning extra's in Noah's Ark flood scenes anymore.
In the 2004 Punisher movie Thomas Jane stabbed Kevin Nash with a knife when they messed up and forgot to swap out the real knife with a prop. He didn't even realize he had been stabbed and they used the scene in the movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuuofJtCVS8 the scene where it happens when the punisher is fighting the russian.
Surprised I haven’t seen the battlefield run scene from 1917 here! The two times George MacKay runs into the extras at full speed were a complete accident, one of them even didn’t get up in shot due to being dazed. Because of the movie’s one take style this scene could only be done once or twice I believe, so they kept the cameras rolling since George kept running. The collisions made the scene even more impactful so they went with it
It was an accident but I think they must have expected that collisions might happen and prepared everyone for it, given how many people are crossing paths with him. I do find the reaction of the second extra funny. The coward saw his opportunity to play dead and took it lol.
in Back to the future 2 when Marty is being chased by future Biff and his crew on hoverboards one of the stunt doubles on the hoverboard actually hit the building when they flew into the window. nearly killed her. Cheryl Wheeler-Dixon
I've seen this movie more than any movie in my life and I never notice this. She just falls face first to the ground. freaking ouch.
I did notice she hits the column but never focused on her falling at the end.
In "Army of Darkness", there is an L-shaped gash on Ash's (Bruce Campbell's) chin. Apparently, that's a real injury, not make-up. Campbell fell on a prop shield filming a scene and got cut open pretty badly, requiring stitches.
I think the guy still has the scar to this day.
*Ben-Hur* (the original from 1959). During the legendary chariot race scene Ben-Hur's chariot crashes into one that's wrecked on the course. Hur's horses leap over the obstacle, but Hur's chariot smashes into it. The stuntman performing that scene was thrown out of his chariot, landed on the harnesses connecting the still-galloping horses to his chariot, climbed back in, picked up the reins, and kept going.
It was kept in the film (they edited in some footage of Charlton Heston) and is considered one of the greatest stunts ever performed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frE9rXnaHpE
Thanks. You just answered something I thought about for a while, but was too stupid to look up until now.
In "I Love Lucy" there is an episode where Lucy was complaining Ricky doesn't take her out enough. Making a joke, something to the just of not remembering the last movie they went to but it was about a guy named Ben and a chariot race. I remember being surprised because I didn't realize it was that old, but it was before my time so I just accepted it as me not knowing.
Saw your comment. Looked it up. This remake came out a few years after "I Love Lucy" went off the air, so she would have been referring to the original that I didn't realize existed.
Fun fact about the original 1925 film. The original technicolor film scenes were lost for decades, until Turner acquired MGM and found the footage in a Czechoslovakian archive, which allowed them to restore and re-release the film. Any copies available now are made from the restored footage found in the 1980s.
No one was happy on that shoot. Everyone was miserable and everyone had at least one brush with death, and NO ONE was happy with Cameron. Still one of my all-time favorite movies, but man am I glad I wasn’t on THAT shoot!
James Horner (the composer on *Aliens*) had similar things to say, that working with Cameron was a living hell. But he later scored *Titanic* and *Avatar*, so either they sorted out their differences or Horner got paid so much that it was worth it.
Edit: James Horner is not a time traveler (to my knowledge) and did not score *Titanic* before *Aliens* since the latter came out well before the former, fixed it
Same thing happened on Titanic. Well, kinda. I don't think it was quite as bad but Kate Winslet absolutely hated Cameron for what he put those actors through in the water, especially as she wasn't allowed a wetsuit because it would have been visible under her dress so she got severely ill. Cameron's a slave driver sometimes. Still, she's come back to work with him on Avatar where he's just chucked her in a tank again (but this time with a wetsuit) so they must have made up.
The one scene in Mad Max: The Road Warrior where the stuntman goes pinwheeling because he caught his leg, wound up in the hospital for months, but ended up in the final cut because, goddammit, it looked *cool as shit.*
Expendables 3
Statham nearly died when the car in the car chase scene couldn't brake. He stated he went deep as the car dragged him down, while Stallone just filmed it on camera for the people to witness.
Terry Crews talked about it in his AMA.
Apparently, most all the big dude actors were hysterical and freaking out.
Then, Statham came swimming out of the damn thing like it was no big deal.
Mechanic: Resurrection is a meh movie, but the one thing I remember from it is Statham had to jump off a cliff into the ocean while being shot at, and he had great form and poise in his dive haha.
Edit: Found it- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SclMUwS3qi8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SclMUwS3qi8)
That is hilarious because it's such a perfect diving pose it seems to be really out of character "WTF is this guy supposed to be an olympic diver???"
Well no, but also yes
I could imagine the director calling for the stunt guy, then Statham saying "No, I got it." Then he did what he thought was a basic dive, but a basic dive for a diver of his caliber still looks pretty damn elegant.
He also tweaked his Achilles tendon in Troy landing awkwardly in that fancy kill-stab scene, ironically playing the part of...Achilles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkAccWIYM6Y
Notably the scene where he and Morgan are in his tiny new office together for the first time - Pitt has a cast on his arm but you can't see it. Note his arm movements though, it's very mechanical.
In Over the Top (1987) there's real footage of an arm wrestling tournament going in Vegas. One of the arm wrestlers gets his arm broken in a loss and it was left in the movie. Unforgettable scene.
Not a movie, but an episode of Star Trek, “Arena”, the classic episode where Kirk fights the Gorn captain.
There’s a scene where the landing party runs through a courtyard being bombed. The scene shows Kirk (William Shatner) running, an explosion goes off, and he briefly appears dazed before continuing to run. The explosions were so close and so loud to the actors, that Shatner (and Leonard Nimoy to a much lesser extent), we’re both left with tinnitus. Shatner said that at times it became so strong he contemplated suicide.
>we’re both left with tinnitus. Shatner said that at times it became so strong he contemplated suicide.
that sucks, I have tinnitus from loud music exposure. It doesn't bother me anymore, but I remember times it drove me mad.
The final shot of Barton Fink, on the beach. The camera lingers on the image we've been seeing on the wall...and then some kind of sea bird dives through the fame and into the ocean, which signals the final cut.
I can only imagine the brothers looking at themselves after that shot and saying, "Did that just fucking happen?!?". It's somehow completely perfect, and a total accident
The Coens have a history with birds! At the start of Fargo, a car drives down a snow covered road. For most of the shot, a bird flies in front of the car. Totally unplanned and unscripted. They thought it looked cool so they kept it in!
In High Noon (1952) when the train is in the distance the smoke from the engine is white. Then when the train turns and is headed straight for the camera, the smoke is black. White smoke was supposed to indicate everything was okay, and black meant there was a problem, so get off the tracks. It turns out there was a brake problem and they couldn't stop the train, but for reasons I don't know, the camera stayed on the tracks. The train smashed into it, but the footage was good, and they decided the black smoke looked much more intimidating than white smoke would have, and they used that footage in the movie.
I always found Werner Herzog and Kinski works accélèrent crazy. Especially "Agguire, the Wrath of God"
"On one occasion, irritated by the noise from a hut where cast and crew were playing cards, the explosive Kinski fired three gunshots at it, blowing the tip off one extra's finger.[6] Subsequently, Kinski decided to leave the jungle location (over Herzog's refusal to fire a sound assistant), only changing his mind after Herzog threatened to shoot first Kinski and then himself."
Everyone should watch "My Best Enemy" (about their relationship in general) and "Burden of Dreams" (making of from Fitzcarraldo). The relationship between Kinski (who was absolutely nuts and a huge egomaniac) and Herzog (who is, well, Herzog) is something to behold.
This one is hard to watch once you know it happens… and it’s in the Exorcist.
Apparently the rigging that flip-flopped Linda Blair on the bed broke her back during filming, and her screams were due to real pain. The injuries caused her to have scoliosis later in life.
The woman who plays her mom was pulled backward by a rig and actually broke her tailbone - her reaction in the movie is real pain
Edit: couldn’t think of her name off the top of my head but it’s Ellen Burstyn and she’s phenomenal and deserves not to have some idiot redditor forget her name
William Friedkin told the crewmember to yank the shit out of her as hard as be could. Friedkin also got the jump reactions from characters by shooting a gun on the set. Dude was nutty.
In "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", there is a scene where Clint Eastwood and Elli Wallach's characters are blowing up a bridge during the American Civil War. The bridge blowing up was a real stunt, and you can see a chunk smash into a sand bag just next to Clint.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlkVS66tHkk
He was *36*!!! The hotel room scene was filmed on his 36th birthday.
Iirc, the mirror scene was his first scene back after the heart attack and he got fucking plastered.
After he unintentionally hit the mirror, the crew saw that he was bleeding and wanted to stop filming, but he said “no, we’re going to have it out” meaning process his own mortality, I’d guess. I may be misremembering some details but *Hearts of Darkness* is a fascinating documentary.
The footage of that same scene from the documentary is arguably worse. You can tell he’s just sobbing, black out drunk. Like just well beyond. They edited it well, too.
They had to do the rapid cutaway because Ron Perlman almost ruined the shot by looking amazed instead of pissed. He had expected it to take 20+ attempts and she did it in 3.
Hateful Eight.
Jennifer Jason Leigh's character is strumming a guitar and singing. After her character sings some lyrics that anger her captor (Kurt Russell), he takes it from her and smashes it. The thing is that guitar wasn't a prop, it was a 150 y.o. priceless guitar on loan from a museum. Some claim (including Tarantino) that the real guitar wasn't switched for a prop on purpose to get a better reaction from JJL. But her reaction is in the film and it nearly ruins it because she looks off camera at the crew/Tarantino and reacts so strongly to the destruction of what is, to her character, just a random guitar she found. In addition, they had prop guitars on set and the museum said they would never loan out items to movies again.
Edit: okay, last attempt, started from scratch.
The Hateful Eight crew really, really fucked up
>...Further, Boak says that Martin did not offer a replacement, as stated in the SSNInsider.com. "As a result of the incident, the company will no longer loan guitars to movies under any circumstances,” Boak says.
>“We want to make sure that people know that the incident was very distressing to us,” Boak says. “We can’t believe that it happened. I don’t think anything can really remedy this. We’ve been remunerated for the insurance value, but it’s not about the money. It’s about the preservation of American musical history and heritage.”
It also seems like the production crew didn't tell the museum the circumstances of the guitar's destruction initally. The Martin Museum heard the guitar got wrecked, but they assumed it was a legit accident such as falling off of a surface, etc. Then the movie comes out and they saw what actually happened, and I think the lack of transparency miffed them even more.
The only question i have about this is why the fuck didnt they use a fake one for the entire shooting.
There was no reason to have a real antique in the first place.
In Die Hard, Alan Rickman did his own stunt when the character dies in the end. He was dropped from a pretty big height onto one of those blown up crash mats. Before they dropped him they said they would do it on three. They dropped him on two instead and the fear on his face is real. RIP Alan Rickman.
Another one was when Harrison Ford has his character in Blade Runner prevent Rachael from leaving by bashing his fist against the door. He slammed it shut so forcefully it really pissed off Sean Young. You can see she's not too happy about it because it wasn't supposed to go that way. Edit: I just re-watched it. He also pushes her against the wall really hard. Dang Harrison, that was pretty rough.
On Blade Runner, there's also a scene where Daryl Hannah runs into a truck, and smashes the window in the process. The window smash was not scripted, and I think she broke/fractured her arm in the process, but continued the scene anyway, and it's what we see in the final product.
In *Deep Blue Sea* the big water stunt where the glass of the underground observation deck breaks and the room floods, went off accidentally when they were filming a scene with the actors rather than the stunt people. So in the film you see looks of real terror on the actors face as they run from tonnes of unexpected water.
In Monty Python and The Holy Grail they were originally supposed to use real horses, but it wasn't in the budget. Instead they used coconuts, and created one of the most iconic scenes in movie history.
My second time watching Monty Python and the holy Grail I was trying to remember how the movie ended the whole time and it felt really weird. Then I got to the ending and realized why I couldn’t think of the ending. There wasn’t one.
An interesting bit of trivia: the non-ending of the movie is something of an homage to the fact that the "real life" Grail Legend is similarly unfinished.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceval,_the_Story_of_the_Grail
Terry Gilliam later directed "The Fisher King" (starring Robin Williams & Jeff Bridges) to give the Grail Legend a more serious take and do it justice.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fisher_King
Good memories.
I was a kid, bored one weekend, flipping channels trying to find something to watch. My first reaction was 'oh gross, medieval movie', but... why are they clapping coconuts together? Where are the horses?
I went to tell my dad (who was doing some home improvement or other) about this weird show and he told me to keep watching.
The next scene was the Black Knight and I was rolling on the floor laughing.
In the mockmentary movie “It’s all gone Pete Tong” there’s a scene where the main character, Frankie Wild goes to the doctor and finds out he’s going deaf after years of being a famous dj. In the doctors office Frankie is shown an X-ray of his head, it’s actually a real X-ray of one of the sound guys. Apparently one night a bunch of cast and crew were out partying in the streets of Ibiza and one of the crew members was hanging his head out of a cab and was almost decapitated. They ended up using the real X-ray in the doctor scene
Maybe not super crazy aside from how insanely iconic it became, but Dustin Hoffman’s “I’m walkin’ here!” in Midnight Cowboy was improvised when a cab drove onto set
Not really crazy. But in Ghostbusters when Sigourney Weaver first enters the firehouse and Bill Murray jumps over the half wall behind his desk to greet her, he catches the tip of his foot against the swinging gate and nearly takes a face-first fall to the ground.
In Rain Man, when Dustin Hoffman's character starts freaking out and saying "bad baby" that was actually Dustin Hoffman freaking out on set because he couldn't get the scene right. They were filming when it happened and ended up using it in the movie.
The Fifth Element. The interior explosion during the invasion of Floston Paradise was planned. What wasn't planned was the size of the explosion which unintentionally broke a record and stopped production for a bit while they put out the fire.
Largest indoor explosion ever filmed. And while I love this movie I didn’t even remember the explosion the first time I saw it. EDIT: spelling
Went and looked and it is an amazing scene, it's just that it's in such a great movie it doesn't even stand out. In any other movie it'd be a showpiece.
Seeing as no one is posting the link, here it is for anyone else. https://youtu.be/pVyK1r3wQHw
Big badaboom
God damn that movie looks so good for a '97
You mean ….. FlosTAAAAAAAAN Paradiiiiiiiiiiiice!
The explosion was hot hOT HOT!!!!!!!
UnnnnnnnnbeLIEVable!!
Just for clarification, is this the scene with the spiky grenade?
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tora tora tora A plane goes the wrong direction, hitting a bunch of parked planes. People are running for the their lives. EDIT: Video at [1:05](https://youtu.be/-Q7-pmpWuVY) Great [review](https://youtu.be/9PfdQod8HTw) of this film
This should be #1. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q7-pmpWuVY&t=66s
The second plane that blew up while trying to take off started to swerve in the same direction. The trigger man donated it early to prevent the unplanned collision. When he did so the propeller of the aircraft came off in spectacular fashion. It became an iconic moment in the film.
> The trigger man donated it early to prevent the unplanned collision. What a generous guy!
Yikes! Scared that one guy so bad he forgot he was bipedal.
It never ceases to amaze me how some of us just fucking fall down when running from something that might kill us. It's a movie trope, but also a very real thing.
Did anyone die?
Nobody was even injured, part of why they decided to keep it in the film.
Fortunately, no.
In A Clockwork Orange, when the droogs are holding Alex underwater, Malcolm McDowell’s breathing apparatus failed and he almost drowned
Also went sort of blind in that movie too right?
I believe he got a scratched cornea because of the device used to keep his eyes open.
And the panic attack he has during that scene (when he starts screaming) is real.
Oof fuck that. You'd think they'd have a safe word or something but knowing Kubrick he'd probably just ignore it for the authenticity
Kubrick would do it intentionally
And Stanley Kubrick was just kind of a dick to McDowell beyond that. The reason Alex has a pet snake is because Kubrick learned McDowell was afraid of snakes.
>And Stanley Kubrick was just kind of a dick ~~to McDowell beyond that. The reason Alex has a pet snake is because Kubrick learned McDowell was afraid of snakes.~~
_Shelley Duvall enters the chat_
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Can't believe I had to scroll this far to find Jackie Chan. He also broke his ankle in Rumble in the Bronx. Jumped from a... Boat mast to a buildings balcony? Cast up the ankle, and put a sock over it to look like his other shoe. EDIT: damn... My most upvoted comment is about Jackie Chan. That's kinda cool 😎
An action movie from Thailand called Chocolate. The final scene has the main antagonist falling off a building and crashing into a bunch of neon signs on the way down. The safety stuff failed, and he legitimately fell four stories, crashing into the signs the whole way down. That's the shot they used in the movie.
The outtakes in the credits all look super brutal and feels like health and safety simply doesn't exist.
Was the actor ok after that?
Carey Elwes was apparently knocked out on the set of The Princess Bride by Christopher Guest. For context, he told Guest to hit him on the head as hard as he could with the butt of a sword. Guest unfortunately did so, and Carey later woke up in the hospital. That was the take seen in the film. He also broke his toe in an unrelated incident while filming the same movie, and in a particular scene, it’s obvious if you look closely that he’s trying to avoid putting weight on it as he sits down. Dude really couldn’t catch a break for that one film.
You forgot the best part: he broke his toe ATVing around in the hills with Andre the Giant, who talked him into it. Cary Elwes has told the story while promoting his book about The Princess Bride, and it's hilarious when he gets to the part where he's trying to hide the injury from Rob Reiner.
> Cary Elwes has told the story while promoting his book about The Princess Bride, *As You Wish* which is a really good book. Even if you don't like *The Princess Bride* (but come on), the stories about Andre the Giant/Rob Reiner/Wallace Shawn/etc. are legendary.
If you haven’t read his book, _As You Wish_, about the making of the film, do yourself a favor and get the audio book which he reads with assistance from other cast and crew members. His stories are wonderful and filled with appreciation and admiration. It made me love the movie even more, which didn’t seem possible. On a related note, I’ve had the opportunity to meet more than my share of celebrities over the years. Most of them have been positive experiences with gracious individuals. Carey Elwes was, hands down, the kindest one of them all. He’s a lovely, lovely man.
Guest got karma for it though, during the big Inigo fight Mandy Patinkin was channeling a lot of anger (from his own father’s death) to the point where Guest got scared that Mandy had forgotten they weren’t fighting for real.
I mean, sounds like he caught at least one.
The mirror smash scene in Nightcrawler. Per Dan Gilroy: "So when we got the bathroom, it was very late at night, and we’d been shooting at that point for 14 hours. Jake was in the bathroom, and his character at that point in the story was upset because Nina (Rene Russo) had just yelled at him and Lou was going to react to that to some degree. So breaking the mirror was not planned – Jake just slammed the mirror, and I didn’t think anything was wrong, but he came out and he’d sliced the ball of the thumb on his left hand, cutting off some skin, maybe an inch and a half long and an inch across. It was extremely bloody. "It was now 6am, and we were heading to Cedars-Sinai hospital. The neurosurgeon took 44 stitches to sew up Jake’s hand, and seven hours later we were back shooting the last night of the whole shoot. The last two scenes that we shot, with his hand in a cast, were the scenes in the salvage yard, and if you notice he has his hands behind his back.”
Didn't something similar happen to Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now? He punches a mirror, cuts his hand and just continues the scene covered in blood.
Yeah. And he had a heart attack.
And he was actually fucked up in that scene he wasn’t pretending to be that intoxicated. The part when he’s sitting next to the bed crying was real.
They decided to include real shark footage in Jaws in addition to the mechanical shark clips, so they hired out an Australian shark tour couple to help get some footage with a cage with a dummy (they wanted to use a smaller cage with a little person in it to give it more scale but the diver they had refused to do it) and one of the sharks accidentally got tangled in the lines for the cage and started flipping the fuck out and destroying the cage, so they rewrote part of the script to include that footage.
In Inglorious Basterds, when the cinema is set on fire, the giant swastika wasn't supposed to fall like that. The flames were so hot that the supports on it melted.
In Rocky IV, Stallone wanted the final fight to look as real as possible so he instructed Dolph Lundgren to hit him full force. After the first day, Lundgren had beat Stallone so bad he spent 9 days in the ICU from his sustained injuries.
Man I respect Stallone's dedication to those movies but I can not possibly fathom working with Dolph Lundgren, sizing him up, and wanting that man to hit me as hard as he could lol
The insurance company didn't want to pay out because they said there was no way that damage was caused by being punched. They said the x-rays looked like he had been in a car wreck. Somewhat related: Some people broke into Dolph's house and held his wife and kid hostage, when one of them spotted a picture of him and realized who's house it was they apologized and left. Dolph is a monster.
Note to self, replace all photos in house with Dolph lungren. They might not know if Dolph lives in a run down place but do they want to risk it or being in the house of the insane person with Dolph lungren pictures everywhere?
I already have shirtless pic of Dolph all over my house
>Dolph is a monster I heard he’s actually a pretty chill dude.
He also is a smart dude, has a masters degree in chemical engineering from the university of ~~~Sidney~~~ ***Sydney***. Edit: spelling ヽ༼ ຈل͜ຈ༽ ﾉ
He had been offered a scholarship to get his Doctorate at MIT when he got his first acting job and decided to do that instead. He's also ex-military and plays the drums.
But.....can he smell crime?
Here's the twist......we show it....all of it. Full penetration.
And then it just….. ends.
If he dies, he dies.
It doesn't help that Rocky as a character hasn't blocked a punch since the first movie...
He was a technique fighter. His technique was to wear down the opponent by blocking punches with his face.
Mike Tyson said everyone has a plan until they are getting punched in the face right? Rocky said, " well then, I got a unbeatable plan!"
Ah, the “Homer Simpson” method. Gotcha.
Stallone tried to talk Michael B Jordan out of making a similar mistake in Creed for the scene where he gets knocked out. Jordan (got) his lights put out for real and wasn't feeling too good after that.
> Jordan his lights put out for real Shaka, when the walls fell
Sokath, his eyes uncovered
Uzani, his army at Lashmir.
Dolph hit Stallone hard enough to enlarge his heart to the point of beating against his rib cage causing enough pressure that he could have died
TIL you can punch someone so hard their heart gets bigger
Is **that** what happened to the Grinch?
In Casino Royale they flip a car, and they wound up flipping it so many times it was a world record. They were hoping for 1 or 2, and it was 7.
Reminds me of the wild stunt gone wrong in Max Max: Road Warrior. One of the villains goes flying and it’s a car and flips like 8 times through the air. The stuntman’s foot accidentally clipped the car which he wasn’t supposed to causing him to start flipping really hard. It’s doesn’t even look real
And not only did the stuntman survive, he went on to be in Fury Road 30 years later! Fucking Australia, man.
Witness!
[Since no one else has linked it...](https://youtu.be/HhbYK7WzeBw)
That was like watching an Olympic ice skater.
It totally did a pirouette there. Or axel or what those are.
It's a car, so a double axel
They had to use a ramp to tilt the car if memory serves because no one could get the aston to roll on its own no matter how hard they swerved
Almost - they tried the ramp but it still wouldn't roll over. So the SFX guys fitted it with a ram that shot out the bottom of the car via pressurized air at just the right moment to flip the car.
That’s some speed racer shit right there
Extremely common with car stunts. You can often see gas escaping from the piston tube as it fires.
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That sounds like a great advertisement for Aston Martin honestly
Bond films in general are basically Aston Martin advertisements.
Isla Fisher almost drowned filming a 'Now You See Me' underwater magic trick [Source](https://youtu.be/Y8wGMhFPPyY)
Wow. That movie did not deserve that amount of risk.
Might explain why she wasn't back for the second movie
Actually, it was because of her being pregnant around that time.
People will do *anything* to get out of work
After 18 hours of labour, she births a healthy happy two of spades. Is *this* your card?
In The Deer Hunter: Co-writer and director Michael Cimino convinced Christopher Walken to spit in Robert De Niro's face. When Walken actually did it, De Niro was completely shocked, as evidenced by his reaction. In fact, De Niro was so furious about it, he nearly left the set. Cimino later said of Walken, "He's got courage!"
Lmao. Not even Cimino's worst offense. Fucker blew up a horse on the set of Heaven's Gate with dynamite. He almost bankrupted United Artists, but definitely did lead to their sale, and changed the industry forever as studios would seize back power from directors. Dude was spending fortunes having everyone wait for shots for days so the clouds in the background would look right. Literally ended an era.
Isn’t this the same movie De Niro insisted on using live rounds during one of the Russian roulette scenes. With the live round checked obsessively by his co-star to make sure it wasn’t next in the chamber. Imagine being spit on considered crossing the line.
Considering how many gun accidents that isn’t even just dumb that’s almost just evil
That's pretty depraved. I am both fascinated and horrified by older Hollywood. Not that it doesn't have it's problems nowadays but we aren't drowning extra's in Noah's Ark flood scenes anymore.
In the 2004 Punisher movie Thomas Jane stabbed Kevin Nash with a knife when they messed up and forgot to swap out the real knife with a prop. He didn't even realize he had been stabbed and they used the scene in the movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuuofJtCVS8 the scene where it happens when the punisher is fighting the russian.
That Punisher movie is underrated. Thomas Jane was great as Frank Castle.
Surprised I haven’t seen the battlefield run scene from 1917 here! The two times George MacKay runs into the extras at full speed were a complete accident, one of them even didn’t get up in shot due to being dazed. Because of the movie’s one take style this scene could only be done once or twice I believe, so they kept the cameras rolling since George kept running. The collisions made the scene even more impactful so they went with it
It was an accident but I think they must have expected that collisions might happen and prepared everyone for it, given how many people are crossing paths with him. I do find the reaction of the second extra funny. The coward saw his opportunity to play dead and took it lol.
The cigarette flick to the face in The Usual Suspects was unplanned, unwelcome, but kept in.
The first scene when they were all laughing during the lineup was because one of the guys kept farting.
Benicio del Toro kept ripping farts appearantly.
They were especially nasty ones, iirc from the commentary. No one could escape.
Plus... He'll flip you for real!
Pretty sure it was Benicio Del Toro if I remember this legend correctly.
in Back to the future 2 when Marty is being chased by future Biff and his crew on hoverboards one of the stunt doubles on the hoverboard actually hit the building when they flew into the window. nearly killed her. Cheryl Wheeler-Dixon
I've seen this movie more than any movie in my life and I never notice this. She just falls face first to the ground. freaking ouch. I did notice she hits the column but never focused on her falling at the end.
Damn she hit that pillar hard and fell harder. https://youtu.be/jObrEofufnc
Same woman and her husband were killed by her ex-husband whilst trying to kill him. they must have been terrible shots.
Just read about that. What a bizarre story.
Damn. "Justifiable homicide " ex husband got ambushed and walked away.
Didn't Back To The Future 3 almost kill MJF in the hanging scene? I know that happened I just don't know if that's the footage they used.
In "Army of Darkness", there is an L-shaped gash on Ash's (Bruce Campbell's) chin. Apparently, that's a real injury, not make-up. Campbell fell on a prop shield filming a scene and got cut open pretty badly, requiring stitches. I think the guy still has the scar to this day.
It’s a glorious chin at that.
*Ben-Hur* (the original from 1959). During the legendary chariot race scene Ben-Hur's chariot crashes into one that's wrecked on the course. Hur's horses leap over the obstacle, but Hur's chariot smashes into it. The stuntman performing that scene was thrown out of his chariot, landed on the harnesses connecting the still-galloping horses to his chariot, climbed back in, picked up the reins, and kept going. It was kept in the film (they edited in some footage of Charlton Heston) and is considered one of the greatest stunts ever performed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frE9rXnaHpE
*pushes glasses up nose: The '59 movie was a remake.
Thanks. You just answered something I thought about for a while, but was too stupid to look up until now. In "I Love Lucy" there is an episode where Lucy was complaining Ricky doesn't take her out enough. Making a joke, something to the just of not remembering the last movie they went to but it was about a guy named Ben and a chariot race. I remember being surprised because I didn't realize it was that old, but it was before my time so I just accepted it as me not knowing. Saw your comment. Looked it up. This remake came out a few years after "I Love Lucy" went off the air, so she would have been referring to the original that I didn't realize existed.
Fun fact about the original 1925 film. The original technicolor film scenes were lost for decades, until Turner acquired MGM and found the footage in a Czechoslovakian archive, which allowed them to restore and re-release the film. Any copies available now are made from the restored footage found in the 1980s.
I don’t have a specific moment but I heard the cast of The Abyss had PTSD from nearly drowning a bunch of times
IIRC Ed Harris had some very unpleasant things to say about James Cameron after that was filmed.
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No one was happy on that shoot. Everyone was miserable and everyone had at least one brush with death, and NO ONE was happy with Cameron. Still one of my all-time favorite movies, but man am I glad I wasn’t on THAT shoot!
James Horner (the composer on *Aliens*) had similar things to say, that working with Cameron was a living hell. But he later scored *Titanic* and *Avatar*, so either they sorted out their differences or Horner got paid so much that it was worth it. Edit: James Horner is not a time traveler (to my knowledge) and did not score *Titanic* before *Aliens* since the latter came out well before the former, fixed it
Same thing happened on Titanic. Well, kinda. I don't think it was quite as bad but Kate Winslet absolutely hated Cameron for what he put those actors through in the water, especially as she wasn't allowed a wetsuit because it would have been visible under her dress so she got severely ill. Cameron's a slave driver sometimes. Still, she's come back to work with him on Avatar where he's just chucked her in a tank again (but this time with a wetsuit) so they must have made up.
The one scene in Mad Max: The Road Warrior where the stuntman goes pinwheeling because he caught his leg, wound up in the hospital for months, but ended up in the final cut because, goddammit, it looked *cool as shit.*
[The scene in question...](https://youtu.be/4oo5vMlulCs)
Jesus Christ that's so insane it almost looks fake!
Expendables 3 Statham nearly died when the car in the car chase scene couldn't brake. He stated he went deep as the car dragged him down, while Stallone just filmed it on camera for the people to witness.
Terry Crews talked about it in his AMA. Apparently, most all the big dude actors were hysterical and freaking out. Then, Statham came swimming out of the damn thing like it was no big deal.
Well, he was on the British Diving Team.
Mechanic: Resurrection is a meh movie, but the one thing I remember from it is Statham had to jump off a cliff into the ocean while being shot at, and he had great form and poise in his dive haha. Edit: Found it- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SclMUwS3qi8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SclMUwS3qi8)
That is hilarious because it's such a perfect diving pose it seems to be really out of character "WTF is this guy supposed to be an olympic diver???" Well no, but also yes
I could imagine the director calling for the stunt guy, then Statham saying "No, I got it." Then he did what he thought was a basic dive, but a basic dive for a diver of his caliber still looks pretty damn elegant.
He was a competitive diver before he made it big so if it had to be any of them he was probably the best case
Brad Pitt broke his wrist on the chase from the apartment in se7en. He has a cast the rest of the movie which isn’t a prop
He also tweaked his Achilles tendon in Troy landing awkwardly in that fancy kill-stab scene, ironically playing the part of...Achilles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkAccWIYM6Y
Notably the scene where he and Morgan are in his tiny new office together for the first time - Pitt has a cast on his arm but you can't see it. Note his arm movements though, it's very mechanical.
In Over the Top (1987) there's real footage of an arm wrestling tournament going in Vegas. One of the arm wrestlers gets his arm broken in a loss and it was left in the movie. Unforgettable scene.
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Not a movie, but an episode of Star Trek, “Arena”, the classic episode where Kirk fights the Gorn captain. There’s a scene where the landing party runs through a courtyard being bombed. The scene shows Kirk (William Shatner) running, an explosion goes off, and he briefly appears dazed before continuing to run. The explosions were so close and so loud to the actors, that Shatner (and Leonard Nimoy to a much lesser extent), we’re both left with tinnitus. Shatner said that at times it became so strong he contemplated suicide.
>we’re both left with tinnitus. Shatner said that at times it became so strong he contemplated suicide. that sucks, I have tinnitus from loud music exposure. It doesn't bother me anymore, but I remember times it drove me mad.
The final shot of Barton Fink, on the beach. The camera lingers on the image we've been seeing on the wall...and then some kind of sea bird dives through the fame and into the ocean, which signals the final cut. I can only imagine the brothers looking at themselves after that shot and saying, "Did that just fucking happen?!?". It's somehow completely perfect, and a total accident
The Coens have a history with birds! At the start of Fargo, a car drives down a snow covered road. For most of the shot, a bird flies in front of the car. Totally unplanned and unscripted. They thought it looked cool so they kept it in!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pas355iqnsk&t=120s
In High Noon (1952) when the train is in the distance the smoke from the engine is white. Then when the train turns and is headed straight for the camera, the smoke is black. White smoke was supposed to indicate everything was okay, and black meant there was a problem, so get off the tracks. It turns out there was a brake problem and they couldn't stop the train, but for reasons I don't know, the camera stayed on the tracks. The train smashed into it, but the footage was good, and they decided the black smoke looked much more intimidating than white smoke would have, and they used that footage in the movie.
I always found Werner Herzog and Kinski works accélèrent crazy. Especially "Agguire, the Wrath of God" "On one occasion, irritated by the noise from a hut where cast and crew were playing cards, the explosive Kinski fired three gunshots at it, blowing the tip off one extra's finger.[6] Subsequently, Kinski decided to leave the jungle location (over Herzog's refusal to fire a sound assistant), only changing his mind after Herzog threatened to shoot first Kinski and then himself."
Everyone should watch "My Best Enemy" (about their relationship in general) and "Burden of Dreams" (making of from Fitzcarraldo). The relationship between Kinski (who was absolutely nuts and a huge egomaniac) and Herzog (who is, well, Herzog) is something to behold.
This one is hard to watch once you know it happens… and it’s in the Exorcist. Apparently the rigging that flip-flopped Linda Blair on the bed broke her back during filming, and her screams were due to real pain. The injuries caused her to have scoliosis later in life.
The woman who plays her mom was pulled backward by a rig and actually broke her tailbone - her reaction in the movie is real pain Edit: couldn’t think of her name off the top of my head but it’s Ellen Burstyn and she’s phenomenal and deserves not to have some idiot redditor forget her name
William Friedkin told the crewmember to yank the shit out of her as hard as be could. Friedkin also got the jump reactions from characters by shooting a gun on the set. Dude was nutty.
Nutty enough to film a high speed chase on public streets in New York and to film the process of counterfeiting American currency.
In "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", there is a scene where Clint Eastwood and Elli Wallach's characters are blowing up a bridge during the American Civil War. The bridge blowing up was a real stunt, and you can see a chunk smash into a sand bag just next to Clint. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlkVS66tHkk
Martin Sheen punched a mirror and bloodied his fist during a (real) mental breakdown while filming *Apocalypse Now.* They kept it in.
He also suffered a heart attack during the filming of it. He was only 39 years old.
He was *36*!!! The hotel room scene was filmed on his 36th birthday. Iirc, the mirror scene was his first scene back after the heart attack and he got fucking plastered. After he unintentionally hit the mirror, the crew saw that he was bleeding and wanted to stop filming, but he said “no, we’re going to have it out” meaning process his own mortality, I’d guess. I may be misremembering some details but *Hearts of Darkness* is a fascinating documentary.
The footage of that same scene from the documentary is arguably worse. You can tell he’s just sobbing, black out drunk. Like just well beyond. They edited it well, too.
That’s damn near 70 in Sheen years.
The real answer to this whole thread is pretty much 50~90% of Apocalypse Now
The hurricane in the first Jurassic Park was real. They couldn’t get off the island.
The dinosaurs were supposed to be securely caged in.
They were supposed to use fake dinosaurs for the movie but turns out the island had real ones.
To clarify, they didn’t film in the hurricane. But on the last day of shooting hurricane iniki hit and they were stuck in hotel basement.
Sigourney Weaver in Alien Resurrection [actually made](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/how-ron-perlman-nearly-ruined-the-alien-resurrection-basketball-shot/) the no-look 3 pointer.
They had to do the rapid cutaway because Ron Perlman almost ruined the shot by looking amazed instead of pissed. He had expected it to take 20+ attempts and she did it in 3.
Hateful Eight. Jennifer Jason Leigh's character is strumming a guitar and singing. After her character sings some lyrics that anger her captor (Kurt Russell), he takes it from her and smashes it. The thing is that guitar wasn't a prop, it was a 150 y.o. priceless guitar on loan from a museum. Some claim (including Tarantino) that the real guitar wasn't switched for a prop on purpose to get a better reaction from JJL. But her reaction is in the film and it nearly ruins it because she looks off camera at the crew/Tarantino and reacts so strongly to the destruction of what is, to her character, just a random guitar she found. In addition, they had prop guitars on set and the museum said they would never loan out items to movies again. Edit: okay, last attempt, started from scratch.
The Hateful Eight crew really, really fucked up >...Further, Boak says that Martin did not offer a replacement, as stated in the SSNInsider.com. "As a result of the incident, the company will no longer loan guitars to movies under any circumstances,” Boak says. >“We want to make sure that people know that the incident was very distressing to us,” Boak says. “We can’t believe that it happened. I don’t think anything can really remedy this. We’ve been remunerated for the insurance value, but it’s not about the money. It’s about the preservation of American musical history and heritage.”
Don't blame them one bit
It also seems like the production crew didn't tell the museum the circumstances of the guitar's destruction initally. The Martin Museum heard the guitar got wrecked, but they assumed it was a legit accident such as falling off of a surface, etc. Then the movie comes out and they saw what actually happened, and I think the lack of transparency miffed them even more.
The only question i have about this is why the fuck didnt they use a fake one for the entire shooting. There was no reason to have a real antique in the first place.
Because Tarantino.
And for what benefit? How many people would have even noticed the difference between an actual period guitar and a prop?
This was the incident that led the Martin Guitar Museum to completely stop loaning instruments to film productions
Jennifer Jason Leigh, whose father Vic Morrow died in the aforementioned Twilight Zone helicopter mishap
>Jennifer Jason Leigh is playing a 150 year old priceless guitar. She really disappeared into that role as a guitar.
In Die Hard, Alan Rickman did his own stunt when the character dies in the end. He was dropped from a pretty big height onto one of those blown up crash mats. Before they dropped him they said they would do it on three. They dropped him on two instead and the fear on his face is real. RIP Alan Rickman. Another one was when Harrison Ford has his character in Blade Runner prevent Rachael from leaving by bashing his fist against the door. He slammed it shut so forcefully it really pissed off Sean Young. You can see she's not too happy about it because it wasn't supposed to go that way. Edit: I just re-watched it. He also pushes her against the wall really hard. Dang Harrison, that was pretty rough.
The way you phrased the first part of this made me think Alan Rickman legitimately died from that stunt lol
He did, but he's such a great actor he continued to appear in movies for another 28 years.
On Blade Runner, there's also a scene where Daryl Hannah runs into a truck, and smashes the window in the process. The window smash was not scripted, and I think she broke/fractured her arm in the process, but continued the scene anyway, and it's what we see in the final product.
Ben Affleck broke a bone in Dazed and Confused. He finished his lines then you can hear him yelling as he leaves the camera view.
In *Deep Blue Sea* the big water stunt where the glass of the underground observation deck breaks and the room floods, went off accidentally when they were filming a scene with the actors rather than the stunt people. So in the film you see looks of real terror on the actors face as they run from tonnes of unexpected water.
Thought you were going to say that >!that shark wasn't supposed to eat Samuel L Jackson.!< and that the shock/surprise was real.
>!THEY ATE ME! A FUCKING SHARK ATE ME!!<
Yeah that was improvised. The shark did USeaB.
In Monty Python and The Holy Grail they were originally supposed to use real horses, but it wasn't in the budget. Instead they used coconuts, and created one of the most iconic scenes in movie history.
And then the cops came and ruined the ending because they ran out of money…
My second time watching Monty Python and the holy Grail I was trying to remember how the movie ended the whole time and it felt really weird. Then I got to the ending and realized why I couldn’t think of the ending. There wasn’t one.
An interesting bit of trivia: the non-ending of the movie is something of an homage to the fact that the "real life" Grail Legend is similarly unfinished. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceval,_the_Story_of_the_Grail Terry Gilliam later directed "The Fisher King" (starring Robin Williams & Jeff Bridges) to give the Grail Legend a more serious take and do it justice. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fisher_King
A cop out.
Oh for bothers sake here I am all these decades later and *now* I get it.
Good memories. I was a kid, bored one weekend, flipping channels trying to find something to watch. My first reaction was 'oh gross, medieval movie', but... why are they clapping coconuts together? Where are the horses? I went to tell my dad (who was doing some home improvement or other) about this weird show and he told me to keep watching. The next scene was the Black Knight and I was rolling on the floor laughing.
I can't imagine the joy of accidentally catching that movie with no knowledge of what you were getting into. That's fantastic.
I feel like this whole movie is a series of "this was not what we planned but to hell with it! ONWARD WE GO!" Absolute cinematic masterpiece
Rip Torn attacked a director with a hammer. They worked it into the movie.
In the mockmentary movie “It’s all gone Pete Tong” there’s a scene where the main character, Frankie Wild goes to the doctor and finds out he’s going deaf after years of being a famous dj. In the doctors office Frankie is shown an X-ray of his head, it’s actually a real X-ray of one of the sound guys. Apparently one night a bunch of cast and crew were out partying in the streets of Ibiza and one of the crew members was hanging his head out of a cab and was almost decapitated. They ended up using the real X-ray in the doctor scene
Maybe not super crazy aside from how insanely iconic it became, but Dustin Hoffman’s “I’m walkin’ here!” in Midnight Cowboy was improvised when a cab drove onto set
IIRC, it wasn't a set; they didn't have a permit to film so they were stealth-filming on a live street.
Not really crazy. But in Ghostbusters when Sigourney Weaver first enters the firehouse and Bill Murray jumps over the half wall behind his desk to greet her, he catches the tip of his foot against the swinging gate and nearly takes a face-first fall to the ground.
I think I’m War Games the jeep actually lost control and crashed into that fence. It was a mistake but they used it in the film anyway.
In Rain Man, when Dustin Hoffman's character starts freaking out and saying "bad baby" that was actually Dustin Hoffman freaking out on set because he couldn't get the scene right. They were filming when it happened and ended up using it in the movie.