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  The Stunt Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There have been several films entitled The Stunt Man, of which the best known is the1980 film.
It tells the story of a young man, running from the police, who stumbles into the middle of the filming of a movie.
Pretending to be a stunt man, he finds that the manic director is putting his life in more danger than he might have been in at the hands of the law.
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 DVD : The Stunt Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Stunt Man is a game of its own, played through the fantasy of filmmaking, and half the fun of watching the movie comes from sharing the stuntman's paranoid confusion.
The Stunt Man is a delight for the senses.
After his stunt man is killed, O'Toole flmails Railsback into becoming his stunt man, and Railsback thinks O'Toole is trying to kill him.
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 Eye - Fake stunts, real danger - 11.30.00
New stunt performers complain they are regarded as easy targets for the most dangerous assignments, because they are not in a position to turn down work.
Older stunt coordinators complain they are unfairly maligned by newcomers who fail to appreciate that decades of risk-taking have given veterans the right to take a pass on the worst jobs.
But stunt work is so coveted that it typically takes a new stunt person at least five years to break into the industry full-time -- if, that is, he or she is successful, which few novices are.
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 The Stunt Man : DVD
And this is the structure with The Stunt Man, viewers (like those in the crowd) are supposed to be kept off balance by this movie within a movie.
While The Stunt Man is an excellent movie, which tells a valuable story in an interesting multi-layered fashion; it is not really the masterpiece that Director Richard Rush and its biggest fans claim.
If you haven´t guessed already, the stunt man falls for the leading lady, and of course vice versa, which allows for a subplot about a love that never was between o´Toole and the movie´s leading lady (Barbara Hershey) that just complicates things without improving the depth of the characters.
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 notcoming.com | The Stunt Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
It is established in The Stunt Man’s kinetic opening reel that Cameron, the film’s central character, is on the run from the police.
His action caused the death of the driver — a stunt man — and a future meeting with Eli Cross, Peter O’Toole as the film’s movie-within-a-movie director, yields Cameron as a replacement in an effort to disguise the death of his former stunt man.
The central gimmick of The Stunt Man is evident in at random throughout the film, as the distinction between the film’s reality (Cameron’s trouble) and its fantasy (Eli Cross’ film) becomes increasingly inapparent in its duration.
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 Encyclopedia: Stunt man
A stunt performer is someone who performs dangerous stunts.
These stunts are sometimes rigged so that they look dangerous while still having safety mechanisms, but often they are as dangerous as they appear to be.
Stunt performers are distinct from stunt doubles, performing their stunts purely for the sake of the stunt itself, or as a career, rather than for another reason; a stunt double typically performs stunts intended for use in a motion picture.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Stunt-man   (129 words)

  
 The Stunt Man
Outside of Fellini films, The Stunt Man is arguably the final word on illusion vs. reality storytelling on the big screen, and its audacious twisting of genres has made it one of the most
During the shooting of the film Cameron's stunts become increasingly dangerous and bizarre, while Eli's attempts to wring some meaning of his cinematic war story begin to have eerie ramifications on the entire cast and crew.
A somewhat visually unsteady film, The Stunt Man lurches from freewheeling handheld shots to carefully modulated romantic visuals; naturally this means a DVD of uneven but generally satisfying visual quality.
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 DVD Verdict Review - The Stunt Man: Limited Edition
I recall reading a review of The Stunt Man; it was probably written by Pauline Kael and found in one of her collections, and based upon her glowing recommendation I made it my mission to hunt down this movie.
Cockfighter) is a man with lots of baggage…first as a Vietnam veteran, then as a fugitive on the run, and now as a stunt man who is an actor who is in a movie.
The Stunt Man is one of the most assured pieces of filmmaking that I have ever seen.
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 :: rogerebert.com :: The Stunt Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Richard Rush's "The Stunt Man is like one of those delicate sets of Chinese boxes, each one with another box inside, growing smaller and smaller until finally there is nothing left at all.
"The Stunt Man" is like magic tricks done by a magician in a movie: It doesn't matter how well they're done, or even if they're really done, because cinematic special effects make it all trickery, anyway.
Its opening in New York was hailed by many critics, most notably the New Yorker's Pauline Kael, whose advice is that "The Stunt Man" is one of the year's best films.
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 Stunt Man Cartoons
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 Stunt Man, The   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Pretending to be a stunt man, he finds that the manic director...
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 Stunts Canada present Josef George STUNT MAN, ACTOR and STUNT COORDINATOR
1964 to 1979 worked as a professional stunt man, actor and stunt coordinator on over one hundred feature films and TV shows besides numerous industrial-educational movies.
The attached lists contain the most important shows, in the making of George Josef has participated as a stunt man, actor and stunt coordinator.
Founded on January 19, 1970, STUNTS CANADA is the oldest and largest association of professional stunt coordinators and performers in Canada.
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 Bargey's DVDs™ - The Stunt Man: Limited Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Stunt Man is a rather strange, action packed film that has apparently gathered a cult following.
Somehow he stumbles across a movie set, where his presence results in the films number one stunt man drowning when his car goes off a bridge.
The eccentric director Eli Cross (played by Peter O'Toole) sees his actions and is impressed, so much so that he asks him to become the replacement Stunt Man. He accepts, because he needs protection from the law and the cash sounds good, but he doesn't know what he's getting himself into.
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 BBC NEWS | UK | England | Suffolk | Stunt kiting man named
The man who fell more than 30 feet to his death while flying a stunt power kite has been named by police.
Witnesses had seen the man flying the kite, which was around 10 feet across for several hours before the tragedy.
One witness, who did not want to be named, said he saw the man float gently back to earth several times after being pulled a few feet into the air.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/england/suffolk/3042421.stm   (230 words)

  
 The Stunt Man Limited Edition Two-DVD Set Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Richard Rush’s cinematic adaptation of “The Stunt Man” was a critical hit in 1980 and garnered three 1980 Academy
The menus on “The Stunt Man” feature animated transitions to standard interactive still frames that are easy to navigate.
Stunt Man” regardless of whether one purchases the limited edition set or both titles separately.
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 The Stunt Man
Peter O'Toole is at his fey, brilliant best as megalomaniacal director Eli Cross, who swoops out of the sky on camera cranes and poses in front of a helicopter so its rotors whirl like a halo behind his self-deified head.
Dominic Frontiere's propulsive soundtrack is so hummably catchy that it found an afterlife where it was likely heard by many more people than have ever seen The Stunt Man: for years, the film's main theme was used as the introductory and station break music for WPVI-TV's 11:30 p.m.
The Stunt Man will be shown as the final film in the "Blockhead Cinema" series, Wed., Aug. 6, 8 p.m., Samuel Adams Brew House, 1516 Sansom St., 563-2326.
www.citypaper.net /articles/073197/article031.shtml   (409 words)

  
 Stunt man - Video & DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
"The Stunt Man" has just been released on DVD in two flavors: a standard single disc Two decades later, "The Stunt Man" still packs a mean punch.
Read my DVD review of The Stunt Man and find out why this movie is an exuberant celebration of filmmaking that no cinephile will want to miss.
Stunt Man/Woman An individual performer who, displaying some physical characteristics similar to a star, performs dangerous actions in the stead of that
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 The Stunt Man
The stunt man ends up dying and Eli wants Steve to be his replacement, that way, it's also a solution for Eli to disguise himself from the cops.
You should watch this movie at least once because it shows the complication of whether or not we're in reality or fantasy, whether or not things are real or fake and whether or not you're running away from the cops or being filmed.
Built as a smart chines puzzle, a man suddenly in a location film and the delicate boundaries between the reality and the fiction are broken.
www.elipsiselectronics.com /6302260973/The_Stunt_Man.html   (1229 words)

  
 DVD Review - The Stunt Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
For the few who saw it in a theater, Richard Rush’s 1980 film "The Stunt Man" wowed with a fresh perspective on the battle between appearance and actuality on a movie set.
Cameron discovers he has stumbled on a movie location set and his interference resulted in the death of the stunt man behind the wheel during a pivotal shot.
Made with care and a lot of love, Anchor Bay deserves praise for re-introducing "The Stunt Man" to a new generation of film lovers weaned on computer fakery.
www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/the_stunt_man.shtml   (1391 words)

  
 The Stunt Man (1980)
In supporting roles, real-life stunt man Chuck Bail is funny and irascible basically playing himself.
The Stunt Man is a daring work; any illusion about the nature of illusion risks collapsing like a house of cards.
The Stunt Man is presented in widescreen (1.85:1) format, enhanced for 16x9 sets.
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 Stunt Man Cheats for PlayStation 2 at nGaming
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Also, please be aware that it may be the case that nGaming does not yet have every Stunt Man cheat yet - if you know any cheats or tips for Stunt Man on PlayStation 2, we would greatly appreciate it if you could submit the cheat so we can add it to our database.
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 Men In Black : Stunt Man Catch
It's definitely not a white stunt man (or a stunt man at all), although it's easy to see how it could be mistaken as such on a quick glimpse.
Add to that the implausibility of a stunt man being used in that shot and you've got yourself a bona fide non-slipup here.
No, actually it is a stunt man. I read about that slip up in a magazine.
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 The Stunt Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Stunt Man works wonderfully as a satire about the movie industry, with O'Toole giving one of the best performances in all of cinema as the possibly maniacal director Eli Cross, but it succeeds just as well as a study of human nature.
Railsback is solid as Cameron, the man on the run who learns that perhaps turning himself in is a better option than risking his neck for the demanding Eli.
The Stunt Man is a film of madness, of not being able to tell when the camera has stopped rolling and when reality begins.
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 The Stunt Man review (1980) Peter O'Toole - Qwipster's Movie Reviews
A mesmerizing thriller in almost every respect, The Stunt Man is a subtly ambiguous, twisty story that treads the line between reality and fantasy so well, it's hard to tell if it's 100% in the realm of realism, or if the majority of what transpires is the work of some character's overactive imagination.
To reveal any more of the plot would probably ruin The Stunt Man's many surprises, as writer-director Richard Rush (Color of Night, Freebie and the Bean) never plays anything straight, always playing both sides of the fence, fantasy vs. reality, that we wonder if he isn't constantly pulling our leg.
The Stunt Man is a beguiling work, but completely inspired, with delicious irony and satiric wit throughout.
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 Sri Chinmoy Seeks to Claim a Title: Stunt Man Supreme   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Such productivity is all in a day's work for the stunt man of the spiritual world.
Not everyone is quite as impressed as Chinmoy typically uses a special lifting contraption--which resembles a modified Nautilus machine--to assist him in his stunts.
Furman says he performs his stunts to draw attention to the guru's teachings.
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 The Stunt Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Meanwhile the man had died, and the General made a claim of fifteen shillings on his estate, which was paid.
Perhaps the young man could have told him how he ought to write his second book.
The rabble can be governed by fear only, and I am the one man who does it successfully.
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 Stunt man - Best Online Casino Stunt Man
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 The Stunt Man - DVD Movie Central
I guess I was about twelve or thirteen when I first saw The Stunt Man, but even at that age, I found it an eye opening experience.
The car was being driven by a stunt man, we learn, who was supposed to go off the bridge for the climactic scene in Eli’s picture.
The THX certification is well earned…this is by far the best home video presentation I’ve seen for The Stunt Man. The anamorphic image is superbly presented throughout, with terrific and natural looking colors, sharp, clear images, and a very clean looking print to boot.
www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/stunt_man.htm   (1358 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Technology | Software stunts put on a show
Often the death-defying stunts seen in action movies are created using motion-capture of real people or the result of painstaking frame-by-frame animation.
Once the simulated stunt has been created it can be mixed in with the costumes and filmed action from a film to create a convincing effect.
Already Endorphin is being used to create stunts for the forthcoming historical epic Troy that stars Brad Pitt as Achilles and Orlando Bloom as Paris.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/technology/3110755.stm   (552 words)

  
 The Stunt Man
The Stunt Man is a movie you'll never forget and even on its umpteenth viewing, still manages to be as intriguing as the first.
The director of the movie is the eccentric and megalomaniacal Eli Cross (Peter O'Toole, in one of his best ever performances), who takes Cameron under his wing and protects him from John Law, as long as he keeps his mouth shut about the accident.
Cameron practices to be a stunt artist and takes the place of the man he killed.
www.kinocite.co.uk /printer.php?id=122   (768 words)

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