Favourite STUNT in Firefly?
POSTED BY: TheSomnambulist
UPDATED: Monday, November 14, 2005 18:28
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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
Anyway I'd love to hear what Stunts you all thought worked or didn't work on the show.
I can't believe I missed this thread last February...
one of my favorites is when Jayne is hanging from the bottom of the ship (holding Vera?)
when they all go in to save River & Simon in 'Safe'
how did they do that?
how do you show an actor hanging from a ship hovering in the air over a crappy little mountain town?
I suppose they used a crain and then CGIed it later?
However it was done it looked great,
it looked really real to me.
I'm not all that picky, I don't have any stunts that bother me...it is all good IMO
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
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Ever get clotheslined? There's no real good way to hit the ground, other than to tuck your chin to your chest and relax.
Y'see this is just the kinda insight I like to hear about.... It's funny how the simple stunts often get overlooked, but now you mention it I imagine this would be very difficult to do.... Thankfully I've not been clotheslined :) although I should ask my bro' see if he ever tried pulling that one on me!!!
While we're on the subjects understated stunts... You remember that fall Anya takes in, I think it's season 5, where she is trying to stop Dawn from leaving and a vamp whaps her one and she falls to the ground, with her head popping back and hitting the ground??? Don't remember the episode, but that looked "OUCH!!!!"
Not sure if we've mentioned that one before, but that is very well done... Always makes me look away some...
Ok gotta work the bat signal is flying high!!!!
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Originally posted by embers:
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I can't believe I missed this thread last February...
one of my favorites is when Jayne is hanging from the bottom of the ship (holding Vera?)
when they all go in to save River & Simon in 'Safe'
how did they do that?
how do you show an actor hanging from a ship hovering in the air over a crappy little mountain town?
I suppose they used a crain and then CGIed it later?
However it was done it looked great,
it looked really real to me.
I'm not all that picky, I don't have any stunts that bother me...it is all good IMO
Holy time-jump!!!! Was it really all the way back in feb?!?!!?
You make a good point Embers. The stunts are always good-looking. It's so easy to take all this stuff for granted. Especially in Angel... They're such quality. I love the stunt work in Angel!!! There's a fantastic one I think's it's season1 ep 2 or 3 and Somebody (demon) flips Angel across the other side of the room and he ends up hitting the far wall with his back then plummets head first into the ground!!!! Amazing stuff!!! Wow's me even now. I don't think that's been bettered I absolutely loved that stunt. I'll have to try and track down which episode it is exactly coz that is waaaay cool.
The Jayne stunt I imagine is wire work and blue/green screen stuff. (Big C may be able to help on this one) But I imagine they yank up Adam, on a wire with a green screen behind him and place the camera below looking up. Then in post remove the green and add Serenity behind him... perhaps incorporating a little camera shake to add 'energy' to the shot. However you're right, great shot!!!!
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Quote:Definitely! Jackie's always been the Master of Improvised Weapons!
Originally posted by chrisisall:
I always said, Bruce would beat Jackie to a pulp in the ring, BUT Jackie would win in a shopping mall!
He's the "MacGyver" of Martial Arts!
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Quote:Lame? You want lame fights, check out "The Avengers"!
Originally posted by PurpleBelly:
One on the reasons I like Firefly is the lame fights...
Quote:I think Adam, Ron, Nathan & Summer would take umbrage at that.
What impresses me most is, out of a generally unathletic cast...
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Originally posted by ebonezer:
this really isn't a STUNT in the strictest sense of the term, but i really love it when the guy flies through the "window", then the window flickers and comes back.
Quote:Well that's somewhat unsettling!
Originally posted by ebonezer:
But this HAS reminded me of another stunt I LOVE - in Serenity, when Mal shoots the horse and it falls over on top of, um, that woman who tries to shoot him again... Totaly drawing a blank on her name right now.
I thought we all had every detail of every episode burned into our memories after >5 viewings?
That was Mal who was getting tossed through the holographic window, and Patience was the woman trying to shoot him again.
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Quote:Well said!!!
Originally posted by cljohnston108:
Jackie's always been the Master of Improvised Weapons!
He's the "MacGyver" of Martial Arts!
Most people just sit on chairs.
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Okay, this is a tiny one, but in Out Of Gas, when Nathan falls into frame on the floor at the beginning- OUCH! It looks like he hit the ground hard for the camera.
Chrisisall, with the little things
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Quote:Not as dodgy as the purple hair on moonbase- sorry, I keep forgetting it's set decades into the future, 1980 I think...
Originally posted by Gixxer:
The uniforms on SkyDiver. Was it just me, or were they really quite dodgy?
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