{"id":2658,"date":"2010-11-12T14:05:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T21:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/11\/hollywood-stuntmen-dead\/"},"modified":"2010-11-16T15:15:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T22:15:56","slug":"hollywood-stuntmen-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/12\/hollywood-stuntmen-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Stuntmen Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/entertainment\/movies\/unstoppable\/index.html?story=\/ent\/movies\/film_salon\/2010\/11\/12\/decline_of_movie_stunts\" target=\"_blank\">from Salon.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>How Hollywood killed the movie stunt<\/h1>\n<h3>Computers and editing tricks have obliterated one of cinema&#8217;s great pleasures: Seeing real people in real danger<\/h3>\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/author\/matt_zoller_seitz\/index.html\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 10px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #111111; text-decoration: none; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">MATT ZOLLER SEITZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/entertainment\/movies\/unstoppable\/index.html?story=\/ent\/movies\/film_salon\/2010\/11\/12\/decline_of_movie_stunts\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/entertainment\/movies\/film_salon\/2010\/11\/12\/decline_of_movie_stunts\/md_horiz.jpg\" align=\"right\" alt=\"A still from \" \/><\/a><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 12, 1910, a hundred years ago today, a man jumped out of a burning-hot air balloon into the Hudson River while a movie camera rolled. The vast majority of silent films are lost to history &#8212; vanished, destroyed or somehow rendered invisible &#8212; and this, it would seem, is one of them; I&#8217;ve seen the burning balloon gag cited as the first movie stunt on a number of sites, some quite\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmsite.org\/1910-filmhistory.html\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #cc0000; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #cccccc; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" target=\"_blank\">thorough and authoritative<\/a>, yet none list the film&#8217;s title or the name of the stuntman. Photographic evidence of the balloon man&#8217;s deed lives on in the Topps bubblegum card pictured\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/2010-Topps-206-Historical-Events-FIRST-MOVIE-STUNT-18-\/140461229270?pt=US_Baseball&amp;hash=item20b42444d6#ht_745wt_907\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #cc0000; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #cccccc; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and his legacy can be seen on any screen that shows moving images.<\/p>\n<p>But what happens when movies change, and stunts become devalued?<\/p>\n<p>I ask because in looking at that image of the stuntman diving into the Hudson, and running through a mental checklist of my favorite movie stunts, I realized that almost none of them occurred in films released during the last 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/entertainment\/movies\/unstoppable\/index.html?story=\/ent\/movies\/film_salon\/2010\/11\/12\/decline_of_movie_stunts\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Salon.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Salon.com How Hollywood killed the movie stunt Computers and editing tricks have obliterated one of cinema&#8217;s great pleasures: Seeing real people in real danger BY\u00a0MATT ZOLLER SEITZ On Nov. 12, 1910, a hundred years ago today, a man jumped out of a burning-hot air balloon into the Hudson River while a movie camera rolled. 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