The film "Hollywood Bulldogs" tells of British stuntmen who worked from the 1960s to the 1980s. Without them, we would not have masterpieces like "007", "Indiana Jones", "Star Wars", etc.
The documentary's narrative will come from the stuntman, Ray Winstone. He'll tell us how film companies paid small amounts of money to stunt performers who did dangerous things to live, so the main characters in the films look cool and fearless. He also tries to find the origins of this profession. In his opinion, it all began in 1908, when the acrobat was hired to make a jump the cliff in the film "The Count of Monte Cristo". Former stuntman Richard Hammat answered, "What does it take to become a stuntman?" very simply: "You must be stupid and not understand all the risks. But you must be sure of your physical fitness. Many stuntmen have not thought before about the complexity of the stunts and the fact that every mistake can be fatal." Another famous stuntman, Vic Armstrong, added that in such a job you should not follow your instincts. When you jump out of an airplane or a flaming machine, your body has to move away from the self-preservation instinct. Otherwise, there's no way the trick will work. In the film, Vic Armstrong tells how he got into stuntmen. In 1966, he worked in the stables and from there took the racehorses for the film "Arabesque". The filmmakers of the tape needed a man who knew how to treat the horses to shoot a chase scene. Richard Hammat was a helicopter engineer, and the actor "The Avengers" offered him a reasonable fee. Some stuntmen entered the film industry because of their martial arts skills. By the 1980s, stuntmen were paying well by those standards, but the competition for the vacant seat was enormous. Everyone, without exception, dreamed of working for Bond movie. It was the highest reward for the stuntman's effort. Interestingly, stuntmen from Bondiana died in different ways several times. Sometimes due to the illness of the main actors, stuntmen performed their roles, such as running through the jungle instead. You can read more about the film on Red Rock entertainment reviews
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