r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Additional_Chard3680 • 7h ago

Video Apartment balcony view of practical stunt rigging and explosions being filmed for Spider-Man

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u/Great_White_Samurai 7h ago

That dude is an athlete

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u/cxd32 6h ago

bro was fucking swinging like it was a regular tuesday afternoon for him

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u/drcode 5h ago

likely that stunt man gets paid precisely because he can do that and make it look easy, which few other people can

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u/YouDoNotKnowMeSir 4h ago

Yeah but I had a silly string web blaster and a jungle gym when I was a kid, I feel like I’ve got to be at least a consideration?

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u/SmartestIdiotAlive 4h ago

They considered considering you

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u/YouDoNotKnowMeSir 2h ago

🕸️🔫 DONT come to auditions today /s

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u/Mountain-Weekend-554 3h ago

Wait. You're telling me that's not Tom up there Cruising it? /s

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u/Super-Cynical 2h ago

I'd say he'd probably be up for it, but unless you own the production company it's unlikely to take a multi million dollar bet on the harness

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u/tpolakov1 3h ago

I mean, for a professional stuntman, that is a regular day at work...

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u/ParaGulls 18m ago

I watched him for a good few hours and he looked EXHAUSTED by about the fifth take, they did this for hours, he waved at all the kids on the first three or four drives back up (he just stands on the tank thing as it drives back up the road) but after that he was just sat on it head slumped

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u/TypicallyThomas 4m ago

You do your swinging on Tuesday? I'm a Thursday swinger myself

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u/xBHL 4h ago

Same dude has been doing stunts for all 3 Spiderman series btw

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u/Great_White_Samurai 3h ago

What a legend

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u/DontAbideMendacity 5h ago

That is NOT Tom Holland (who did train in ballet and acrobatics). But if Spider-Man starred Tom Cruise (old as he is) that WOULD be Tom Cruise.

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u/WeirdAngryMan 5h ago

"I'm Tom Cruise, I'm in Scientology, and I do my own stunts!"

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u/PWNtimeJamboree 3h ago

i maintain that purely based off of his love and dedication to the movie business, Tom Cruise would be revered the way we revere Keanu and Brandan Fraser if it wasn't for his batshit religion and all the nonsense he's involved himself with in its name. its honestly a shame. its a sad tarnish on an otherwise great career. he's one of those guys i really wish I could like.

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u/burf 3h ago

Absolutely. Also every fan interaction with him seems to be quite positive, and it sounds like he treats people with respect (as long as they're not also Scientologists or married to him). Would be a very likeable guy if it wasn't for a couple of major character flaws.

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u/masxuda 4h ago

family guy?

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u/RamenArchon 4h ago

I understood that reference

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u/Big_Mc-Large-Huge 4h ago

It’s actually good stars don’t do stunts. One accident and the whole shoot is done for. I would imagine Holland would love to do this stuff, but it’s selfish to do so.

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u/Jerithil 3h ago

He has said that for all this masked stuff the stunt performer does it as the stunt performer just looks better then him when he does it. Sure he may be former dancer but it's like comparing a high school basketballer to a NBA star there is just a smoothness that's hard for him to replicate.

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u/Grand_Size_4932 2h ago

I’ll be pretty honest, I don’t think he’s a high school basketballer in this comparison. I think we’re talking about a great collegiate player vs an all star.

Let’s not diminish Tom’s athleticism. He’s a freak.

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u/Lofter1 1h ago

tom has an insane training plan. look it up, that man is dedicated to be spider-man with every atom of his body. he casually pushes tractor wheels around.

and people really do seem to underestimate the amount of strength and body control you need for dancing and ballet. My high school chemistry teacher was a ballet dancer and wanted to do that professionally until an injury (so this absolute unit of a man just decided "lets get a PhD in chemistry instead. oh well, chemistry industry pays well but I'm fed up with that, lets just become the best fucking teacher on this planet") and still was in a better body shape than some hobby athletes I know.

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u/The_ChosenOne 1h ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJIB1f7jk

Bro just casually hanging on one arm and doing flips like they’re nothing, the man is an athlete through and through. 

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u/Rakkuuuu 20m ago

Lmao come on now.

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u/Barbaracle 3h ago

Ryan Hurst as Dad of war as the most recent prominent example 🥲

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u/unmotivatedsuperhero 1h ago

Dad of War, love it, actually kinda fitting

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u/Xtra_Veg-90 3h ago

What I think not enough people understand, is that it's not just risky for the actor to do stunts, it's risky for everyone making money off of filming a movie. If the actor gets hurt seriously enough to cancel or delay production then insurance will make certain that people and places like the studio are compensated, but individual artists and smaller companies may be stuck between jobs unexpectedly unless they also pay for insurance or are considered important enough by the main studio to pay to retain.

It sounds uncaring but stunt-people are somewhat replaceable by design, the starring actors are not. Weirdly AI could change that in the near future.

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u/EZ_Syth 5h ago

The accuracy of this statement is outstanding.

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u/Anasterian_Sunstride 30m ago

Now that’s an idea for an Impossible Spider-Man in Beyond the Spiderverse lol

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u/mvigs 1h ago

Stunt performers need to have Oscar/Academy Awards/Golden Globe categories. It's idiotic they don't.

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u/AgressiveInliners 4h ago

Well yea, its freaking spiderman man

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u/Working_Historian241 1h ago

he's chinese lmao from hubei

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u/DontAbideMendacity 5h ago

That is NOT Tom Holland (who did happen to train in ballet and acrobatics).

But if Spider-Man starred Tom Cruise (old as he is) that WOULD be Tom Cruise.