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Post by moviebuffbrad on Feb 6, 2020 6:49:08 GMT
The horse … The Godfather … not so much the horse itself but the man's reaction to realizing it was there ! The horse head was actually real. I'm sure the actor knew it'd be there, that'd be pretty upsetting.
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Post by dirtypillows on Feb 6, 2020 6:50:08 GMT
Veronica Cartwright - keeping it real since 1963 You know Mr. Dirty, I have learned so much more about acting techniques in the past 10yrs from you and even from the one ole’ eyeball. You have taught me about realness and organic, raw and in the moment acting performers, than the more showy, method and pretentious performances I used to place high on a pedestal, that on closer examination, I see the ego and need to impress behind it all. It was about superstardom with me. I have paid so much more attention now to actors of the likes of Cartwright, who I had dismissed in the past, or hadn’t paid much heed too. Take Alien, one could say she gave a better performance than Weaver, whom I think is a real actress. Well, that's a nice compliment, coming from you, Toasted Cheese. I really didn't know that. But you know I used to think that Meryl Streep in "Sophie's Choice" was the end all, be all of acting and now she is merely dazzling. I think the moment that Sissy Spacek's performance in "Carrie" became my all-time favorite was the moment I switched over to whatever my point of view is now. And your own lauded Jessica from "Frances" was really more powerful, honest acting than Meryl, too. Ole eyeball had some really good perceptions and pretty good taste when he wasn't being a total snob. He liked VC here and Patty Duke and Lee Grant, among the few. But if you learned anything from me about movies or movie acting, then you learned a lot from Pauline Kael, because she was the first person I ever read who didn't go for Streep that much. (I just read an interview with Streep, this was from 1998, I think and the magazine was called "The Guardian" I think and Streep actually gets defensive about what Kael had to say and Streep actually gets a little bitchy and a little superior. I never knew she had it in her to show her claws, but I guess when it's female-female, the gloves are off. Where Streep pleases the masses with her long blonde hair and her showmanship, Kael greatly pleased a few of us, with her bold and original opinions and I would say with an intelligence,which is superior to Streep's. Around what age were you able to aceept and embrace Shelly Duvall's cutting edge Raggedy Ann dool thing she did in "3 Women"? Surely you knew how terrific and amazing she and Sissy were in these unconnventional roles. Yeah, I think Veronica Cartwright gave a better performance than SG in "Alien"; I think she probably gave the best performance in the whole movie with the possible exception of John Hurt. And, yes, interesting comments about SW being the real actress, having more range. I just think VC' is just pure emotion, VC just kind of playing cool like JL did in 'Cape Fear". VC was good in everything she did. I mean with "Alien" and "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", the scene at the end when she approaches the Donald Sutherland, only to get a rude surprise. Nobody can play terrified like VC. But for the fact that VC is maybe not a "real" actress is maybe why I like her so much.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Feb 6, 2020 6:52:17 GMT
Neve Campbell accidentally stabbed two different actors throughout the Scream series. When she pops out of the closet in 1, she missed the protective padding and got Skeet Ulrich in the chest with an umbrella. She again missed the pad in 3 and got Scott Foley in the back with an ice pick. Both actors' screams were real.
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Post by millar70 on Feb 6, 2020 7:13:06 GMT
Another good one occurs in Rosemary's Baby. There is a scene where Rosemary is in a phone booth and a weird looking guy comes up and stands outside the booth, staring at Rosemary.
The story goes that Roman Polanski didn't inform Mia Farrow that he was gonna have the man do that, so she had no idea what was going on, and you can tell that she was a bit confused about the situation.
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Post by leroybrown2 on Feb 6, 2020 7:38:41 GMT
I notice in some movies from the 60s and 70s they might send an actor off into a street scene and the people around them are not actors. In "Midnight Cowboy" the cab cutting in front of Razzo wasn't supposed to be there, Hoffman's "I'm Walking here" was improvised. In "Dirty Harry" when Clint hit that guy with his car and there was an exchange and Clint called him HAMMERHEAD, that was not supposed to be part of the film. It was a real incident
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Feb 6, 2020 8:26:36 GMT
Michael J. Fox's spit-take in Back to the Future (1985).
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Post by dirtypillows on Feb 7, 2020 0:51:43 GMT
That's really true though. www.looper.com/173980/fight-scenes-that-went-too-far/ "In Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Linda Hamilton got more than a little carried away after another actor botched a physically demanding scene one time too many. According to information revealed in the film's commentary track, Hamilton was doing a scene with actor Ken Gibbel in which he had to strike her in the stomach with his baton. Unfortunately, Hamilton had to repeat her fall to the hard floor several times because her co-star wasn't able to sell the hit out of fear of hurting her. The actress grew increasingly frustrated as her knee started to get banged up from the falls, and she quickly found an opportunity to prove that she didn't share Gibbel's fears of hurting a co-star. Fans may remember a scene in Terminator 2 in which Hamilton escapes a mental hospital by beating a guard with a broom handle. That guard was played by Gibbel, and Hamilton was so furious with him by that point that she held nothing back when it came time to do the fight scene. As a result, the three bloody blows directly to the guard's face are not at all stagecraft. The actress really whacked him as hard as she could with the stick and left him with some injuries and a pretty great story to tell about over-dramatic actors. Although it sounds harsh, to hear it discussed in the commentary, the mood on set was almost gleeful as everyone involved must have known they had the perfect shot." Oh, I apologize. It just hit me funny. I think, all in all, it's always your avatar that never fails to crack me up. Who is that guy?
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Post by maxwellperfect on Feb 7, 2020 4:32:21 GMT
Climax of The Birds, when Tippi Hedren was being "attacked" by birds flung at her, repeatedly. Actually traumatic for her.
In one of the early Bond movies, Sean Connery looks scared when a large shark swims his way. It was supposed to be separated from him by a section of plexiglass, but it just swam around it, so that was real fear.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Feb 7, 2020 9:24:23 GMT
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Aragorn’s scream when kicking the helmet. Viggo Mortensen actually broke his toe. I've always liked hearing how Viggo Mortensen used his very real pain in that^ scene to make the moment authentic. Another example of Viggo Mortensen being awesome that I'll always remember is from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of thew Ring (2001) when Lurtz the Uruk-hai threw a knife at Aragorn and it apparently wasn't supposed to go that way. Thinking fast, Viggo Mortensen managed to deflect the blade with his sword.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 7, 2020 9:36:16 GMT
In Chinatown when Jack Nicholson hits Faye Dunaway ("she's my sister-my daughter"). He really did slap her.
"She's my sister and my daughter!"
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Post by sostie on Feb 7, 2020 10:22:05 GMT
Sigourney Weaver's basketball shot in Alien: Resurrection...Ron Perlman's reaction would also be included if they kept it in the final edit
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Post by nostromo on Feb 7, 2020 10:36:50 GMT
Lolz at the people mentioning scenes from superhero movies and Terminator movies feeling 'real'.
-The beach scene in 'Under the Skin' -The bullets in 'Come and See' flying over Flyora's head looked very real. Because they were. -Juliette Binoche scraping her knuckles across a wall in Three Colours Blue'. Her cuts took months to heal. -The rubber collector in the forest scene in 'Embrace of the Serpent' -de Niro and Pesci slapping each other in 'Raging Bull' -The beach scene in 'Roma' -The stroke scene in'Amour' -The suicide scene in 'Cache' -Several scenes in 'Blue Valentine' are so realistic it hurts.
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Post by sostie on Feb 7, 2020 10:54:25 GMT
Lolz at the people mentioning scenes from superhero movies and Terminator movies feeling 'real'. One superhero film and one Terminator film in a thread of many examples...with moments that were real not feel real. Sometimes you really do come across as a bit of an elitist.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Feb 7, 2020 15:03:01 GMT
The Hateful Eight, Kurt Russell's guitar smash legit shocked JJ Leigh... because expensive rental wasn't a prop.
Alas, there's only a slight catch of JJ Leigh's reaction kept in the film, she probably broke character right after.
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Post by Bargle on Feb 7, 2020 15:59:28 GMT
Ellen Burstyn in "The Exorcist". In the scene where she's knocked into the wall, she really was injured when she hit it.
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Post by koskiewicz on Feb 7, 2020 16:27:39 GMT
I've read that the Bette Davis hard slap in the face to Errol Flynn in "Elizabeth & Essex"actually brought tears to Flynn's eyes.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Feb 7, 2020 17:16:23 GMT
Sigourney Weaver's basketball shot in Alien: Resurrection...Ron Perlman's reaction would also be included if they kept it in the final edit Oh yeah, I forgot about that, took a riddiculous amount of takes, but yeah that was in fact real.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Feb 7, 2020 17:17:37 GMT
In Chinatown when Jack Nicholson hits Faye Dunaway ("she's my sister-my daughter"). He really did slap her. "She's my sister and my daughter!" If I remember, she specifically asked Nicholson to actually hit her hard. I guess it paid off (she got an Oscar nom)
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Feb 7, 2020 17:24:28 GMT
For instance in "Alien" when you the crew cries in terror from the chestburster, that was genuine fear, the actors had no idea his chest was actually going to explode. I've heard that story before, but I don't really believe it. You know how much prep it takes to pull off a gag like that on set, and they didn't know? Riiiight.
Remember, this was back before CGI and green screen or even the better practical fx they have now. They had to cut a hole in the table, have a guy down in there manning the puppet, a guy off to the side manning the blood pumps, John Hurt himself sitting half his boy through that hole in the table, specific camera angles for maximum effect, and none of the cast knew? Pull the other leg.
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Post by sostie on Feb 7, 2020 17:26:28 GMT
Michael J. Fox's spit-take in Back to the Future (1985). In a similar vein...in Withnail & I Richard E Grant drinks a bottle of lighter fluid. In rehearsals the liquid was actually water, but when it came to the actual take they swapped it for vinegar without telling Grant.
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