Stuntman (1973)

honey what time do you think you''ll be home no later than usual 6:00 or 6:30  bye-bye have a nice day and be careful okay all right cut it you okay great MO for as you can see I'm a stunt man  one of the tools of the trade is blood a squib is a package of artificial  blood which is detonated by an explosive cap for a single shot like a pistol you would use one squib for something heavier  like a shotgun you would use many squibs then when you get into blowing away of wood  or rock you have different types of squibs for these you can use these squibs anywhere thank doesn't look all that I played a lot of  sports in school I was very undecided what I wanted to do as my career I did want something  that would keep me in shape you know keep my body in condition so uh I read this article I believe  it was in post or Life magazine and and I uh left our little town came out here at the big city I  uh trained on at the gym in Santa Monica under a man that's been in the business 35 years I  was told by another source that this is where uh they work out so I asked if I could be trained  and uh he says yeah sure I've been doing it ever since what I'm doing here is preparing for a  fall from top of this roof I've got to stick a fake Dynamite the real explosive will be in a pan  down below where the camera and the audience won't see it the idea is that I get shot the dynamite  falls out of my hand and I fall onto the stick of dynamite which completely blows me up a simple  way of doing the stun is for me just to fall off the roof then it will look like I fell on top of  my own dynamite and I'll be buried in a cloud of smoke now the hard way is to use a TR and make it look like the explosive  blows me back out into the air action all right Drake stay down I really dig on  the explosions you feel all of the uh debris and uh stuff flying around you and you get a little  hot pants once in a while and it uh it really gets you into the the stun itself the sound I  hear the sound and it just kind of like stimulat something to tell you the truth it kind of Scar  to go out because it's you know it's kind of [Music] loud in doing a car stunt your not depending on  yourself you're depending on the man who's driving the car he has to be coming at the  exact speed he has to keep it in a straight line you don't want him to be Shifting the car  at the impact this will throw you completely different so if he happens you  know to have a bad day you know it may reflect on you too you know  it's usually good to be a one take man hey did the other camera get that we always  try to shoot these dunts from as many angles as [Applause] possible I like that one director wants  a little something different wants me to roll down the hill so uh I'll do it  for him I'll put a little more into [Music] [Applause] it if I weren't a stunt man I don't know what  I'd be doing maybe I'd be working for some conf and uh at my off time I'd be uh falling off  of building things like that making a fool of myself but uh just ass soon you know turn it  into money my wife likes my profession it's just that uh sometimes she doesn't like to  be around when I do the uh really exciting ones or the H ious stuns the fight routines  she likes but when I get into the hairy ones like getting hit by The Cars and uh things like  that she just soon not be around cuz uh she very [Music] protected my favorite of all stun is the  highfall reason is is because I get the feeling of being free and floating through  the air and uh the wind flowing past my ears and uh the whistle and my hair flying all  over back of your shoulders you know down to your waist and if you don't do  that well you're going to come out hurting putting a little excitement into my  fall makes it uh a lot more interesting you get shot in the back or you get shot in the  stomach you've got to uh really emphasize the idea that you've gotten shot and why you are  falling you know you just can't stand up there and fall off so you've got the ACT where I like  to put a little kick in jump in it to make them think that I'm really afraid of hitting the  ground because I'm not dead yet I know I'm falling and that's why I'm kicking I'm trying  to get back up to the my platform I'm trying to get I used to be a telephone man and I went  to their school poal climbing school and uh I didn't appreciate the equipment that they gave  me not that it wasn't any good but I just didn't like the idea of relying on something else  other than me the telephone company wouldn't let me climb their poles because they thought  I had acrophobia if they could only see me now holy if there's anything to this  reincarnation I want to come back as a bird bye-bye have a nice day and be [Music] careful [Music] [Music] a