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MU108
CHARLIE SHEEN
'HOT SHOTS Part Deux' (20th Century Fox) 1993. Jim Abrams, director.
Specifications:
One lifesize, lifelike Stunt Body casting built to withstand repeated head
first impact with the ground after falling 200 feet. Mech rigged to pull head
into torso.
Materials:
Urethane skin, soft foam, steel, wigs, acrylic eyes, bungees.
Things change quickly in this business. This job started out as a body falling down a guide wire (later removed in post production) head-first into frame and into the ground; ten maybe twelve feet of travel, tops. To really achieve the effect of burying his head deeply in the ground, we built a bungee mechanism that would trigger the instant the dummy's head hit dirt and pull the hollow rubber head all the way into the chest cavity. We didn't hear until a few days before shooting that they decided it would be more dramatic to tilt the camera up and have our dummy travel more like 200 feet down the wire into the ground. Good call, yes- much more dramatic shot; just lots of drama for us too, preparing, fast. A fall from that height provides plenty of force for pushing a head into a chest cavity. We reversed the bungee mechanism, so instead of initiating the head collapse it served as a shock absorber to even out the force of the impact.
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