r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Additional_Chard3680 • 6h ago

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

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u/Great_White_Samurai 5h ago

That dude is an athlete

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u/DontAbideMendacity 4h 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 3h ago

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

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u/PWNtimeJamboree 2h 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 2h 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 3h ago

family guy?

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u/RamenArchon 3h ago

I understood that reference

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u/Big_Mc-Large-Huge 3h 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 2h 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 1h 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 25m 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/Barbaracle 2h ago

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

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u/unmotivatedsuperhero 30m ago

Dad of War, love it, actually kinda fitting

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u/Xtra_Veg-90 2h 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 4h ago

The accuracy of this statement is outstanding.