Tom Cruise in "Mission Impossible" old school action hero

as the title suggests, the film series is "mission impossible" of impossible orders. for the special agent played by tom cruise tim hunt that means in the latest edition "phantom protocol" for example, rappel from Dubai's Burj Khalifa. "Because we need to clean from the outside," his team leader put it in the film, as if it were a matter of course. "We," asks hunt back and is immediately informed of the division of labor in thought. "Well, I'm sitting at the computer."

memory of "ben hur"
then it would probably run out of stunt usually: tom cruise would have lowered studio against a green wall. and someone had been sitting at the computer and a virtual reality mixed it. trick film with director Brad Bird but despite how "incredible" was known, he decided to star with the "green screen" against which the clinical safety. "I really had a mission," bragged Tom Cruise talks to journalists at the location dubai, "and which was: do not fall down." The 49-year-old sees itself as one of the last action hero of old school. received at the several days in November 2010, he was even the usually dreaded paparazzi highly welcome: 828 meters in height, they spied on the spire a barefoot fashion: it was actually tom cruise. "I crawled to the side and still have to greet my wife and leave my children. if you're up there, you have to make that. "

another brilliant number, jump on the rope to a truck, shows that rarely has a star worked so hard for his comeback. and indeed such appearances are rare. can no longer do because for Hollywood blockbusters without computer animation, are also daring action scenes are no longer what they once were. because in the cartoon anyway no mission is impossible to keep even the marvel of it in borders. admire what you can do is the tricky one imaginative writer, director or storyboard artist, heroic deeds, but no one sees. that was a different way, as the production of an adventurous films mut was not only business.

It was not so important whether stars like Douglas Fairbanks, burt lancaster, harrison ford jackie chan or the spectacular actions personally exported. just as soon admired the courage of their lookalike: professional stuntmen, anonymous television series whose heroic deeds like "The Fall Guy" enhances.

it exists even today, of course, her business flourishes even, since most of the big blockbusters are localized in the action genre. zoe bell quentin tarantino was from the Australian stunt woman, the Uma Thurman in "Kill Bill" doubled for, so impressed her that he in his B-movie homage "Death Proof" is the key factor was a devil driver. as they climbed around on a full ride here in bonnet wrote stunt, history. also the makers of car-crash-film series "The Fast and the Furious" attached great value to the computer-simulation techniques play of real, flayed alive by riders oppose sheet. yet we see the work of stuntmen skeptical, since we know that in case of doubt until the computer gives the finishing touches to their work.

The most famous stunt sequence that is still dare run "ben hur" in. in the 1925 silent film version of 5000 should have been awarded dollars for the winner to bring together a daring race to get under the brave men a premium. Hollywood celebrities amused themselves on the sidelines. even more spectacular acts in the scene remake of 1959. The legendary stuntman Yakima Canutt staged it so realistic that the long held rumor, one of the doubles did not contain death. but in fact it was at the riders raced over to lifelike doll. Canutt son Joe, who doubled for in "Ben Hur," Charlton Heston, a mishap turned into a triumph, as he was thrown from his car, but was able to climb back again.

two finger lost
Yakima Canutt earned his fame through appearances in the western masterful as "hell drive to santa fe": the john wayne-costume-he jumps from horse to horse. once he can be a raging animal, grinding wheels to move between the cars again to let go. steven spielberg left the incident for "Raiders of the Lost" copy. here it's stuntman Vic Armstrong, who is drawn instead harrison fords between truck wheels through the desert sand.

the further one goes back into the film story, the more daring the stunts. the silent film comedian Harold Lloyd were to climb to a high wall in the house classic "calculated skyscraper" only three fingers of his right hand available. the others he had lost, as they handed him an ad for a real photo accidentally bomb.

buster keaton his colleague was injured on perilous backbone, as he in his railway movie "the general" balancing the underrated one water jet - and played the scene but harmless to an end. "Water has no bar 'in crash over him overcame a one-house - he has only a small recess of a window opening. today one would produce such an effect on the computer, but a great stunt is always both an original, so incredible visual incident. and the evidence that his execution is still humanly possible. if only someone familiar.