Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...size of his Hong Kong budgets. Still, there were adjustments. "In Hong Kong," notes Van Damme, "he's the Steven Spielberg of action movies, but in Los Angeles he's just the new guy in town." Raimi says Woo "had to be told why he couldn't have American stunt men run their faces through candied glass. In Hong Kong they don't have our safety rules, which leads to more stunt men in the hospital -- and to more exciting action sequences...
...denying, though, that Free Willy is a clever movie toy for the kid market. Most of the time Willy is played by Keiko, a killer whale (actually a type of dolphin) that the company found in a seaquarium in Mexico City. But frequently Keiko is spelled by a stunt double: a high-tech robot coated with 3,000 lbs. of eurythane rubber. (There is also a Turbo Willy - -- essentially the top of the whale, with mammoth hydraulic propellers on the bottom.) How real were the fake Willys? Persuasive enough so that the real Willy got the hots for them. "Whales...
...work for the man who turned Rocky and Rambo into household names? Well, no. Stallone, as it happens, is deathly afraid of heights. He also suffers from tinnitus, which makes him feel dizzy and off-balance. So how did Sly, who says he handled about 75% of his own stunt work, get over his fears? "I didn't," he says. "I was just able to manage it. I'd sit near the edge. Then I would move about 5 ft. closer, 2 ft. closer, not look down, psych myself out. Then when they'd lower me down on a cable...
...director helped. Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2, Nightmare on Elm Street IV) took Stallone on location months before shooting began to get him used to the heights. He also reassured Stallone by first doing some stunts himself. That included the daring opening sequence: a failed rescue attempt that has Stallone hanging upside down on a cable between two peaks, 13,000 ft. in the air. "I was shamed into doing it," Sly admits. "And that's a pretty hairy stunt...
...promise to cut off supplies to their Bosnian Serb brothers, which we already know is bogus, since fuel trucks have been passing the checkpoints without trouble. Next week after a few more editorials slam us for diddling around, we'll probably hear about the possibility of some other stunt. It's all a joke -- and particularly Macedonia. I mean, a bunch of troops go over there to get better seats to watch the slaughter next door. Come on. You call that standing up to genocide?" No, but it may be a way for Clinton to climb down from a policy...