StarsChildren wrote:
I AM ALL I AM wrote:
StarsChildren wrote:
Okay, I had originally made a comment that they were not doing it right (they weren't actually making contact)...
G'day StarsChildren.
Except for the Jackie Chan stuff. No insurance company will insure Jackie and his stunt team.
I think it was Jackie Chan My Stunts where he showed a technique where they put talcum powder on the shoe so that when the kick hit the powder would come off and make it look like more of an impact than it actually was.
Here's the outtakes of Police Story II (something Jackie is now famous for adding at the end of his movies) ...
Isn't Jackie Chan the one that's broken every bone in his body, some more than once?
I AM ALL I AM wrote:
... oh, and were they your favourite movies as a kid because of a crush on / liking of Van Damme ? 
Ah...no. It was the fighting TBH...and the blood...and the fact that I thought they were actually making contact as a kid
Edit for clarification...when I say "kid" I mean somewhere in the age range of 4-7/8...I didn't even "like" boys until I was 13, so that rules out the crush/liking of the pondscum.
G'day StarsChildren.
Yeah, he's the one. 
Both him and his stunt team are willing to take injuries to get the best shots for the film. It's almost like a lack of self preservation, though makes for some awesome martial art footage.
I had a look and found this about some of his injuries. Not everyone is listed, though you get the general idea from what is ...
Anyone who's a fan of my movies knows that if you watch my films to the very end, you'll get a sort of ghoulish treat: a selection of my "no-goods," outtakes from stunts and fight sequences that just didn't work out right. A lot of times the result is an injury, and sometimes a bad one. My very worst injury ever, the one that almost killed me, actually occurred on a very routine stunt. I was shooting Armour of God in Yugoslavia, and was still recovering from the jet lag of flying twenty hours to get there. The stunt was simple-just jumping down from a castle wall to a tree below. The first time I tried it, the stunt went perfectly, but I wasn't satisfied with the take. I tried it again, and the second time, I somehow missed the branch I was trying to grab. Whish! I fell past the tree and onto the ground below. Actually, there was a cameraman down there trying to capture a low angle, and if he hadn't scrambled out of the way, I would have probably landed on him. We would both have been hurt, but not badly. Instead, I hit the rocky ground head first. A piece of my skull cracked and shot up into my brain, and blood poured from my ears. The production team quickly got on the phones to try to find the nearest hospital that could do emergency brain surgery, and eight hours later, I was going under the knife. The operation was successful, and I recovered quickly-even though there's a permanent hole in my head now, with a plastic plug there to keep my brains in.
Here are some of my other serious injuries (though none of them were as serious as that one):
HEAD:
Other than the brain hemorrhage I suffered on Armour of God, I've hit my head and injured it many times. I was actually knocked completely unconscious while working as a stuntman on Hand of Death.
EARS:
The Armour of God fall also left me hard-of-hearing in one ear.
EYE:
On Drunken Master, my brow ridge was injured, and I nearly lost an eye.
NOSE:
You'd think that someone Up There had it in for me and my nose! It's bad enough that it's so big to begin with, but I've actually broken it at least three times--on The Young Master, Project A, and, most recently, Mr. Nice Guy.
CHEEK:
While making Supercop, I dislocated a cheekbone. I didn't even know you could do that.
TEETH:
Hwang Jang Lee is a tremendous kicker ... as I found out when he kicked out one of my teeth (accidentally) while we were making Snake in the Eagle's Shadow.
CHIN:
I injured my chin on Dragon Lord. It was painful even talking for a while. Which made it hard to direct, not to mention act.
THROAT:
During The Young Master, I was almost suffocated when I injured my throat.
NECK:
I've hurt my neck a lot, but my worst neck injuries happened during the clock-tower fall in Project A, and after I messed up a flip during Mr. Nice Guy.
SHOULDER:
I dislocated my shoulder while making City Hunter.
HAND:
During The Protector, I hurt my hand and finger bones-adding injury to insult.
ARM:
While I was shooting a fight scene in Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, my arm was accidentally slashed by a sword that should have had a blunted edge. Blood went everywhere, and I fell down screaming ... and the camera kept rolling! That's real pain you see in the movie!
CHEST:
On Armour of God II: Operation Condor, I dislocated my sternum after falling from a hanging chain. That's another bone I didn't know you could dislocate, but somehow I managed to do it.
BACK:
I've had a lot of back injuries doing my movies, but the pole-slide scene in Police Story almost paralyzed me when I nearly broke the seventh and eighth vertebrae in my spine.
PELVIS:
Also during the pole-slide stunt, I dislocated my pelvis. I guess you're wondering just how many weird bones a person can dislocate. Sometimes it seems like I've dislocated them all.
LEGS:
I crushed my legs while shooting Crime Story, after getting caught between two cars.
KNEE:
I've hurt my knees so often that I wonder whether there's even any cartilege left in them. (If you think I run a little funny, that's part of the reason why.) It makes any stunt in which I have to jump harder, but I do my best anyway. Would you expect anything less? One of my worst injuries occurred during City Hunter, while I was shooting a skateboard chase.
FOOT:
I broke my ankle while jumping onto a hovercraft in Rumble in the Bronx. After the bone was set and a cast was put on, I was told to stay off my feet until it healed. But I had a movie to finish! I went back to the set and put a sock on my broken foot, painted to look like a sneaker.
www.randomhouse.com/features/iamjackiechan/excerpt_aches.html
I can dig that with the Van Damme movies. I enjoy any martial arts movie where they do some 'training' in it, which is probably the reason that I really enjoy Fearless Hyena so much, though the fight scenes in that movie are spectacular as well.
I was fortunate as a kid, in that a local video store had 100+ martial art movies, along with a rent two get one free deal ($2 for weekly or new release) and I could even ask them to order in more of them. Needless to say, I was in my element.
its not in english
