Have you ever admired an actor for his intrepid courage in those astonishing action scenes? Do not go wrong because most of those impacting action moments are played by a stunt double, this is a person who resembles the actor physically but that it is specially trained to make difficult or risky scenes.
There is a common misconception when it comes to stunts because the name stunt is applied to both the person who performs a stunt and the stunt effects. Stunts are not only actions made in a dangerous context but also a series of special effects associated to imagery sounds and effects that thanks to technology make you see a dinosaur walking in New York like a real thing.
Stunts are made using scale models and false perspective panoramas that take a real dimension using the appropriate camera lens and special effects electronic devices that also produce the adequate atmosphere in a film set or over the scale model, as in example the foggy and scaring moments in a horror film.
Men and women with special skills, either natural or acquired, are called stunts, stunt double or stunt women or man. These performers were often the real stars under the shadow of an actor or actress name, but following the premise to give credit where credit is due, film producers make sure to include the credit of the stunts that participate in their movies.
Stunts are mostly associated to the film industry but they are also used in theatre and television productions. In the other hand, stunts are largely used in action films, although adventure, horror, and comedy movies, among other genres, can also take advantage of stunts and technology. In addition, certainly it is technology the main "actor" when it comes to stunts because those special effects are now so real if compared with the stunts of decades ago.
Perhaps some of the movies and TV series where stunts were first seen are those associated with Martial Arts, being Bruce Lee one of the first actors-stunts of the era since he was enough trained to make his own dangerous scenes in The Green Hornet TV series and in his Kung Fu films. Curiously, many of those Martial Arts movies performed by Chinese actor unknown in the Western world are truly gems of rudimentary stunt paraphernalia that make of dramatic scenes an opportunity to laugh.
UTube stunts video clips are an opportunity to enjoy many action moments coming from all type of genre films and shows including martial arts UTube. Some movies with memorable stunts moments include Ben-Hur, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Papillon, James Bond's Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, and The Spy Who Loved Me, Hooper, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Romancing the Stone and many others.
Point your browser to utubevideoclip.com and share the good times just like if you were "Back to the Future", the trilogy movies where Marty McFly takes you through a sample of stunts applied to different periods of time.
